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From: conventiondirector (conventiondirector boardgamers.org)
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| Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 09:31:24 -0700 (PDT) | |
May 2025 BPA Newsletter WBC 2025 SCHEDULE POSTED: The Spreadsheet version of the WBC 2025 Schedule has been posted and can be downloaded from the WBC 2025 Scheduling Spreadsheet Page at https://www.boardgamers.org/wbc25/schedule-spreadsheet-2025.html. Other versions of the Schedule (iOS/Android/Calendar/Custom Scheduler/Program) are being developed and links will be posted as the development is completed. AUCTION AND AUCTION STORE NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS: Submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 WBC Auction and Auction Store. New Forms, updated for 2025, can be found at http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc_auction_overview.html. New Forms must be used as they include the item sheet pages that need to be attached to your items. Each member will be limited to submissions of 25 items for the Auction and 50 items for the Auction Store. Remember that space is limited so both will fill up quickly, especially the Auction. A reminder that the minimum number of lots for the auction and auction store is 10. Details on the Auction can be found at http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc_auction.html and the Auction Store at http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc_auctionstore.html. BOARD OF DIRECTORS VOTING CONTINUES THROUGH JUNE 15: Nine Members appear on the ballot for election to a three-year term on the BPA Board of Directors. The slate features three incumbents and six challengers. The list of candidates and their statements can be found at http://www.boardgamers.org/about_election2017.html . The voting for the Board of Directors candidates is now open. Members are encouraged to vote on who you believe would be the best candidates on your BPA Board of Directors. Voting will end on June 15, 2025. The vote requires 10% participation from our members per our By-laws. Currently, only 5% of our registered members have voted. Please take the time to submit your ballot for your preferred candidates for the Board of Directors. The winners will be announced at the BPA Annual Meeting on Tuesday July 29, 2025, at 11:15 am in the Grand Ballroom at Seven Springs. Voting is easy with an online ballot which can be found at http://www.boardgamers.org/forms/BoardBallot.shtml. JUNIORS UPDATES FOR WBC 2025: We're getting very excited to welcome our returning juniors back to the juniors room as well as meet any new friends coming for the first time! With the schedule now posted, Juniors Coordinator Megan Byrd is working to fill in the Juniors Schedule. If you are a returning GM or wish to become a GM for a Juniors Event, please reach out to Megan at juniors [at] boardgamers.org <mailto:juniors [at] boardgamers.org> ASAP to confirm if you would like to GM in 2025 with your game and time slot preferences. We are always open to new game suggestions and can try to be flexible with scheduling if need be. For the juniors themselves, we are happy to bring back the Juniors room t-shirts again this year and it is time for our Juniors to vote for their favorite. Please have your junior complete the form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfB73NlXFPQU11HDnfRczQ1USFN5OPaLxZu NI1Lpnp8CAhRGw/viewform to let us know their favorite design! To register your junior for WBC, please email conventiondirector [at] boardgamers.org <mailto:conventiondirector [at] boardgamers.org> with your name, your juniors name and their Shirt size (CS,CM,CL, AS) so we can order the size your child would like and can have their badge printed before arrival at WBC. A Junior Sportsmanship award will be presented at the BPA annual meeting on July 29, 2025, at 11:15 am in the Grand Ballroom. Stay tuned for more information on the winner of our first Junior Sportsmanship Award winner (based by input from the Juniors GMs and monitors) selected by the Juniors Coordinator and Monitors. We are hoping to run a couple of teen werewolf events again after the Juniors room closes for the day and do plan on hosting the movie night again on Tuesday evening immediately following Facts in Four. BPA BOARD TENTH SEAT FOR 1Q25 POSTED: The Tenth Seat for 1Q25 has been posted at http://www.boardgamers.org/tenthseat-1Q25.htm. Future quarterly updates are planned to be updated in the second month after the quarter ends (February, May, August, November). WBC 2025 SEMINAR AND DEMO SUBMISSIONS END IN 2 WEEKS: BPA Sustaining Members or higher may submit Demonstration Schedule Requests to provide a preview for a newly published game or playtesting for a game design. Demonstration schedule requests must be submitted by June 1, 2025. The Demo form can be found at <http://www.boardgamers.org/forms/DemoForm.htm> http://www.boardgamers.org/forms/DemoForm.htm. BPA Sustaining Members or higher may submit Seminar Schedule Requests for WBC and Gaming Related Topics. Seminar schedule requests must be submitted before June 1, 2025.The Seminar form can be found at http://www.boardgamers.org/forms/SeminarForm.htm. MEMBERSHIP DRIVE ENDS ON JUNE 15: The annual BPA membership drive continues with Daily membership now available. Memberships that include WBC admission ends on June 15, 2025. WBC admissions after that date will be on-site at WBC only. Associate memberships allowing participation in BPA Email Events will continue through November 20, 2025. If you still want to get the lower rates before WBC, you must complete and submit the online application found at https://registration.boardgamers.org/. PBeM NEWS: Completed Tournaments: HELLER WINS AFRIKA KORPS PBEM: Randy Heller wins the 2025 Afrika Korps email tournament emerging on top of the field of 16. Two veteran Arika Korps players faced off in the championship game, Randy Heller and GM Ed Menzel. Ed took the Axis with no bid. The Allies were able to delay the Axis until they could deploy their June armor reinforcements around the immediate perimeter of Tobruk. After a series of attacks to drive the Allies into Tobruk, the Axis had suffered several soak off losses. Their first attack on a 4-4-7 armor resulted in an exchange severely reducing the Axis forces. Rommel launched a desperate 1-1 attack but were eliminated giving the victory to the Allies. The remaining laurelists, in order, were Mark Booth, Kevin Brown, Vince Meconi, and Jeff Linroth. View the complete event report at <https://www.boardgamers.org/pbem/pbem-afk.html> https://www.boardgamers.org/pbem/pbem-afk.html. MCSENN DOMINATES THREE ROUNDS TO CAPTURE STONE AGE TITLE: Fifty-four players participated in the return of the Stone Age PBEM tournament after a three year hiatus. Jon McSenn won a total of eight games and finished atop the standings in all three rounds to win the tournament. The remaining top six laurelists, in order, Eric Freeman, Carl Chauvin, Chad Martin, Ray Wolff, and Cary Morris. The event report can be found at https://www.boardgamers.org/pbem/pbem-sta.html. LORAM WINS 3RD THROUGH THE AGES PBEM TITLE: Galen outlasted 33 players to capture his 3rd BPA PBeM tournament. Galen scored a decisive victory in the Finals with 3 wins and 31 points. View the event report at https://www.boardgamers.org/pbem/pbem-age.html. MENZEL CPATURES VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIP: With total domination of the half of the globe that is the Pacific at stake, Ed Menzel, playing the options that bear his name, forces John Sharp's Allied fleets to surrender after bruising combat between the three largest navies in the world. Ed capitalizes on the entrance criteria change to become the second player (after Joe Dragan) to repeat as BPA Single-Elimination champion. Ed was champion after the 2001-2003 tournament! Ed has proven that both sides can and do win often with a zero bid using his modifications. Congratulations are due all-around but especially to the top laurelists with Ed and John, in order, by Dennis Nicholson, Gregory Smith, Philip Watkins, and Jim Bodenheimer. The event report can be found at https://www.boardgamers.org/pbem/pbem-vip.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/. LAS VEGAS TO BEGIN IN JUNE: Chris Wildes will be hosting the next installment of the BPA Las Vegas PBeM Tournament. For more details on the tournament and how to sign-up. Please visit the tournament site at https://bgtournament.wordpress.com/las-vegas/. THROUGH THE AGES TO START AGAIN IN AUGUST: Allan Jiang will once again be the GM for the next installment of the BPA Through The Ages PBeM tournament. This tournament will once again be played on the TTA app by Czech Games that launched in 2017 for iOS, Android, and Steam. You must own the app and the New Leaders and Wonders expansion in order to participate in the tournament. Visit the tournament website at https://www.meepleleague.com/through-the-ages-bpa-tournament-2025/ to register for the tournament. NEXT VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC PBEM TO START IN SEPTEMBER: Victory in the Pacific: Yamamoto was an amateur. Nimitz? A junior analyst compared to you. Take the reins of the world's biggest fleets and guide them to Victory in the Pacific! Single-elimination intensity allows quick domination over a sequence of four-month rounds. Get into the action today by contacting GM John Pack (john [at] gameaholics.com <mailto:john [at] gameaholics.com> ) before Pearl Harbor Day this September 15, 2025! Stay Calm, give orders like an Admiral, and fire salvos of thousands of dice! Don't miss it! See the format at: https://gameaholics.com/vitp_format/vitp_bpa_format.htm . Ongoing Tournaments: BREAKOUT NORMANDY NEARING ROUND 3: Two games remain in Round 2 and round 3 is expected to start later this month. Qualifiers for Round 3 so far are Scott Fenn, Mark Gutfreund, Kevin Hammond, and Nels Thompson. Visit https://bknpbem.wixsite.com/home to follow the progress of this tournament. PRO GOLF ROUND 2 PROGRESSES: Pro Golf is midway through May and the Muirfield Village round of our tournament. Fifteen players have completed their second rounds; 12 players are currently on the course and 5 players have yet to begin. Scott Nerney (using Justin Leonard) is our leader at 9 under par, three strokes ahead of Mark Mitchell (with John Daly), who is still on the front nine. The deadline for finishing the second round is 11:59 pm EDT, Saturday, May 31. For details, see the event webpage at http://user.nktelco.net/bdmonnin/Pro_Golf_PBeM.html. For the scorecard for this year, visit http://user.nktelco.net/bdmonnin/PBeM_Scoresheet.htm. 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 . Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2381468400/ . Consimworld: http://talk.consimworld.com/WebX/?14@@.1dd15816 ================================= If you are not already receiving our monthly newsletters, please subscribe by visiting http://lists.boardgamers.org/mailman/listinfo/bpamail to confirm your address. Subscribing is free, takes only a moment and ensures your privacy. We are unable to add you to our mailing list otherwise.
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