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From: conventiondirector (conventiondirector boardgamers.org)
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| Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:58:34 -0700 (PDT) | |
June 2025 BPA Newsletter BAND OF FOOLS CAPTURE WBC 2024 TEAM TOURNAMENT TITLE: The last entry into the WBC 2024 Team Tournament, Band of Fools, emerged with two wins and a third to capture the Team Title for WBC 2024. Congratulations to Richard Beyma, Gary Dickson, Steve Dickson, and Tom Gregorio for topping the other 61 entrants in the tournament. Details on Band of Fools accomplish as well as the top 12 teams for 2024 can be found at https://www.boardgamers.org/wbc24/teamresults.html. LYNG TOPS BRACKET BUSTING CONTESTANTS: With expertise that has not been seen in recent years, Ted Lyng managed to correctly pick 5 of the top 10 teams edging out Michale Dauer and Nick Pei who both managed 4 wins. BOARD OF DIRECTORS VOTING ENDS JUNE 15: The voting for this year's Board of Directors ballot ends June 15, 2025, at midnight eastern Time The 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 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. WBC 2025 TEAM TOURNAMENT NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS: Submissions of Teams for the WBC 2025 Team tournament is now open. Team Members must be pre-registered for WBC. To submit your team, one member needs to send an email to conventiondirector [at] boardgamers.org <mailto:conventiondirector [at] boardgamers.org> with Team Tournament Submission in the Title of the email and it must include each members name and team game chosen, it may also include a team logo if desired. Team Submissions are due by July 1, 2025. More information on the team tournament can be found at http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc_teams.html. WBC 2025 SCHEDULE UPDATED: The Spreadsheet version of the WBC 2025 Schedule has been updated with change date on lines that changed. The Schedule can be downloaded, which has items changed highlighted, 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. JUNIORS EVENTS FOR WBC 2025: Coordinator Megan Byrd is working to fill in the Juniors Schedule. There are still 3 time slots open if you would like to run 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. AUCTION AND AUCTION STORE FULL: The Auction and Auction Store are full. No more submissions will be accepted for WBC 2025. Auction Store Lot numbers have been sent to sellers. Auction Staff is reviewing the Auction submissions for acceptance. MEMBERSHIP DRIVE ENDS ON JUNE 15: The annual BPA membership drive is coming to a close with 1,228 members so far. 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: GNECH WINS SAINT PETERSBURG TOURNAMENT: Fifty-six players participated in the 2025 Saint Petersburg PBEM tournament. In the last game of the final round, Lumin Sperling and Chris Gnech were in position to win the tournament with a victory. It came down to a tiebreaker, with Chris claiming the tournament win, his six leftover Rubles beating Lumin's four. The remaining laurelists were, in order, Chris Wildes, Lumin Sperling, Ryan Feathers, Rob Murray, Bill Masek. The Event Report can be found at https://www.boardgamers.org/pbem/pbem-spg.html. EMERICK CAPTURES FIRST TICKET TO RIDE PBEM WOOD: Andrew Emerick was the only player in the final round to win two games and emerged as the first BPA Ticket to Ride PBeM winner. The remaining laurelists, in order, were Chris Trimmer, Max DuBoff, Aaron Byrd, Yoni Weiss, and Dan Elkins. Visit https://www.boardgamers.org/pbem/pbem-ttr.html to read the Event Report. SCHOOSE TRIUMPHS IN WATERLOO TOURNAMENT: Bert Schoose defeats Ed Menzel to win the 2025 Waterloo email championship. The French and PAA each had only three units left on the 1 PM turn of the last day of the campaign. But the French were positioned so as to be able to march an infantry to Brussels on their 3 PM turn thereby eliminating the three remaining PAA units on the board to secure the win. Read the event report at https://www.boardgamers.org/pbem/pbem-wat.html. Sixteen players competed in a total of fifteen games. The remaining laurelists, in order, were Gary Dickson, Kevin Brown, Marcus Ranalli, and Meng Ong. Visit https://www.boardgamers.org/pbem/pbem-wat.html to read the Event Report. Starting Tournaments: CAN'T STOP TO BEGIN IN AUGUST: Chris Wildes will be the GM for the 2025 version of the BPA Can't Stop Tournament. The tournament will once again use the double elimination format. Email Chris at chriswildes [at] gmail.com <mailto:chriswildes [at] gmail.com> by August 15 to sign up. Details can be found at https://bgtournament.wordpress.com/cant-stop/. GREAT WESTERN TRAIL TO START IN SEPTEMBER: Rob Flowers will once again be hosting the next installment of the Great Western Trail PBeM tournament. Tournament details can be found at https://epworthian.wordpress.com/great-western-trail/tournament-format/. To sign-up, email Rob at epworthian1 [at] gmail.com <mailto:epworthian1 [at] gmail.com> by 6PM ET on September 1. NEXT RAILWAYS OF THE WORLD TO START IN SEPTEMBER: Chris Wildes will once again be running a BPA Railways of the World Tournament. Email Chris at chriswildes [at] gmail.com <mailto:chriswildes [at] gmail.com> by September 1 to register for the tournament. Details can be found at https://bgtournament.wordpress.com/railways-of-the-world/. 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 . WATERLOO TO START NEXT TOURNAMENT IN SEPTEMBER: GM Ed Menzel will start the next Waterloo tournament in September. Contact GM Ed Menzel (edmenzel [at] roadrunner.com <mailto:edmenzel [at] roadrunner.com> ) to sign up. It will be single elimination with auction bidding for sides. Round lengths will be 10 weeks with the same rules as at WBC. Details including past history are available on the tournament web site - http://watgame.com/. Ongoing Tournaments: BREAKOUT NORMANDY ENTERS ROUND 3: Six players have advanced to round 3 of the BKN PBeM tournament. Mark Gutfreund's Allies face Dan Leader's Germans, Kevin Hammond's Germans face Peter Brucken's Allies, and Nels Thompson's Germans face Scott Fenn's Allies. MARCH MADNESS ENTERS REACHES ELITE EIGHT: The BPA March Madness PBeM tournament is down to its Elite Eight. Paul Risner's 32B Villanova 1971 has already reached the championship game out of Bracket B and is waiting for the four players remaining to fight it out in Bracket A. PRO GOLF HEADS TO PEBBLE BEACH FOR FINAL ROUND: Round 2 ended with the cut line at 1 under par to advance 16 players to the Final round. 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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