Bpamail Mailing List: BPA March 2025 Newsletter

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March 2025 BPA Newsletter

 

MARTIN DETHRONES JIANG WINNING CAESAR AWARD: Chad Martin wins the 2024
Caesar award to end Jiang's 4 year hold on the award and joined his son,
Andrew (Consul winner) to keep the 2024 Awards in the family. Chad's 184
Laurels with 4 firsts, 2 seconds, 2 fourths, and a sixth edged out Andrew
Emerick who had 180 Laurels with 3 firsts, 2 seconds, 3 thirds, and 2
fifths. For more details on the Caesar Award for 2024 along with the Top 25
finishers, visit the 2024 Caesar page at
<https://www.boardgamers.org/history-caesar-2024.html>
https://www.boardgamers.org/history-caesar-2024.html.

 

WILDES NEW PRAETOR AWARD WINNER: Chris Wildes joins Allan Jiang and Michael
Swinson as winners of the Praetor Award to recognize the best PBeM
tournament player for 2024. Chris posted 118 Laurels in the PBeM tournaments
with 2 wins, 1 second, and 2 thirds. Allan Jiang finished second again with
90 Laurels. For more details on the 2024 Praetor results along with the Top
10 finishers visit the 2024 Praetor page at
https://www.boardgamers.org/history-praetor-2024.html.

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS NOMINATIONS: All BPA members are hereby notified of their
right to nominate members for the three Board seats whose terms expire at
the next WBC. To appear on the ballot, a member must be nominated in writing
by at least three members; one of which must be the nominee. Nominations
must be signed and received at BPA, 7766 Valley View Court, Hickory, NC
28602 no later than April 30, 2025, to be eligible to appear on the ballot
for the upcoming election (email of pdf copy to convention director is
allowed) NOTE: A Member cannot nominate more than one member for the Board.
When contemplating nominations, members should consider that the BPA
conducts most of its business by email/zoom and needs Board members who are
able and willing to offer their time and skills to the organization in a
timely manner. Besides forwarding a signed nomination, each nominee must
submit a statement not to exceed 150 words summarizing what they can
contribute in service to the Board of Directors of the BPA by April 30,
2025. The nomination form is online at
http://www.boardgamers.org/bpanom.html.

 

MEMBERSHIP RATES INCREASE APRIL 1: The BPA annual membership drive continues
but prices will increase on April 1, 2025. If you still want to get the
lowest rates, you must complete and submit the online application at
http://www.boardgamers.org/forms/MemberForm.shtml and submit payment via
PayPal or check.  To receive the price before it increases, the form and the
payment must be submitted before April 1 (PayPal payment sent or check
postmarked before April 1, 2025).

 

2025 EVENT LISTING UPDATED:  The current event listings for the Century
Group,  Trials,  Sponsored and Vendor events have been updated. We currently
need one GM's for Fishing (RGG). A complete listing of the events for WBC
2025 can be found on the event page at
http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc_preparation_pelorphans.html.

 

SEVEN SPRINGS RESERVATIONS FOR THREE NIGHT STAYS AT WBC 2025 OPENS SOON:
Reservations are now open for Condos and Chalets. Reservations for Hotel
rooms for stays of 4 or more nights are open. Reservations for 3 nights or
more will open at 9:00 am on March 19, 2025.

 

To make a reservation, call Vail Resorts Reservations. Our group code must
be provided when making reservations. The code is being provided in your
membership confirmation email from the Convention Director. It is NOT
available on the website for WBC 2025. Rooms and reservations are subject to
hotel availability. A minimum of a 2-night stay is required. Guests may only
reserve up to two (2) rooms under the same name and/or credit card number.

 

Room reservations will be available starting at 9:00 am on the following
dates:

*       Stays of 3 nights or more - Wednesday, March 19, 2025
*       Stays of 2 nights or more - Tuesday, April 16, 2025

 

For more information, please visit our lodging page at
http://www.boardgamers.org/wbclodging_7S.html .

 

BPA 2025 PREREGISTRATION STARTS STRONG:  BPA Membership for 2025 has started
strong. Visit the Preregistration page for details at
http://boardgamers.org/wbc_preparation_prereg.html .

 

There are currently 20 people who have sent in a membership form but have
not sent in payment. There are also 7 individuals who sent in payment but
have not submitted a membership application. In order to complete the
membership, both the application and payment must be received.

 

Online membership will remain open until June 15, 2025. Price Increases will
occur on April 1, and June 15, 2025. For details on the different levels of
membership, visit the BPA Membership Terms and Conditions Page at
http://boardgamers.org/about_terms.html.

 

WBC 2025 PREVIEWS POSTED:  111 previews have been posted. Previews for WBC
2025 can be found at http://boardgamers.org/wbc25/previews-2025.html.

 

 

PBeM NEWS:

 

Completed Tournaments:

 

PBEM EVENT REPORTS POSTED:  PBEM Event Reports have been posted for the
following PBeM tournaments: 2024 Agricola, 2024 Breakout: Normandy, 2024 For
the People, and 2025 Great Western Trail. Reports can be found at
https://www.boardgamers.org/pbem_eventreports.html.

 

Starting Tournaments:

 

7 WONDERS DUEL PBEM TOURNAMENT TO START IN JUNE: Chris Wildes will be the GM
for the next 7 Wonders Duel tournament. The tournament is planning to start
in June. For more details on the tournament and how to sign-up, please visit
the tournament site at https://bgtournament.wordpress.com/7wonders-duel/.

 

CASTLES OF BURGUNDY TO BEGIN IN APRIL:  Castles of Burgundy has been a
tournament at WBC since 2013, allowing players to compete in building up
their provinces with a variety of tiles while balancing a limited number of
actions with dice and risk-taking. The tournament will be played on the
Board Game Arena online game portal and all entrants will play 4
simultaneous games for a chance to advance to further rounds. Visit
https://epworthian.wordpress.com/castles-of-burgundy/tournament-format/  to
view the tournament format, and email Rob Flowers at epworthian1 [at] gmail.com
<mailto:epworthian1 [at] gmail.com>  by April 15 to sign up.

 

ORLEANS PBEM TOURNAMENT TO START IN MAY: Chris Wildes will be the GM for the
upcoming Orleans tournament. The tournament is scheduled to start in May.
For more details on the tournament and how to sign-up, please visit the
tournament site at https://bgtournament.wordpress.com/orleans/.

 

PRO GOLF PBEM BEGINS IN APRIL:  Pro Golf will commence its sixteenth annual
BPA PBeM rendition on April 1, 2025. Once again, we shall play Augusta
during April, the month of the Masters. Round two in May we will play
Muirfield Village, as the Memorial is played then. Finally, during our third
round in June, we shall play Pebble Beach in honor of the U.S. Open. NEW IN
2025: A random golfer will be chosen from the five available golfers for
each player. For those playing in a group, each player in the group with be
assigned a different golfer. If you want to play this year, email Bruce
Monnin (bdmonnin [at] nktelco.net <mailto:bdmonnin [at] nktelco.net> ) to sign 
up. For
details visit the tournament webpage at
http://user.nktelco.net/bdmonnin/Pro_Golf_PBeM.html.

 

WINGSPAN PBEM TOURNAMENT TO START IN APRIL: Chris Wildes will be the GM for
the upcoming Wingspan tournament. The tournament is scheduled to start in
April. For more details on the tournament and how to sign-up, please visit
the tournament site at https://bgtournament.wordpress.com/wingspan/.

 

Ongoing Tournaments:

 

ALLIES HAVE STARTED NORMANDY INVASION:  Half the games of Round 2 have
completed D-Day with a few notable results putting their Germans on their
heels right out of the gate! Check out the D-Day maps posted on the website:
https://bknpbem.wixsite.com/home  <https://bknpbem.wixsite.com/home> and
feel free to follow the games on ACTS.

 

 

 

 

 

BPA PBeM Remember: ... all of the above PBeM fun is free to current BPA
members. 

Others may qualify with a $10 Email membership in the year the event starts.


 

BPA members who would like to see an email tournament for their favorite
game are encouraged to step forward as the GM of such an event. BPA does not
run tournaments. Rather, we are an organization of gamers lending support to
one another so such events can happen. No one cares as much about your hobby
as you do. Get involved. See the requirements to host a BPA email tournament
at http://www.boardgamers.org/pbem.html on the BPA website at
http://www.boardgamers.org .

 

SOCIAL NETWORKING: Keep up with WBC electronically by joining the World
Boardgaming Championships (WBC) Facebook group and the BPA_WBC Twitter Page.


You can also easily find us in the Boardgame Geek Forums under Gaming
Related/ Conventions/WBC and Consimworld under Conventions.

 

          . BGG: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/forum/970241/boardgamegeek/wbc

 

          . Twitter: https://twitter.com/BPA_WBC 

 

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          . Consimworld: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX/?14@@.1dd15816

 

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