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Monday, March 3, 2008 Tom Gregorio's PrezCon Experience!PrezCon SummaryThe Third Annual PrezCon TRC event has just concluded and Bert Schoose is now on a roll as he added the crown for this tournament as a nice follow-up to his WBC win. There were eleven stalwart participants who got nineteen games of the TRC 5-turn scenario in. Games started on Wednesday and the finals took place on Saturday. Bert Schoose, Tom Gregorio, John Ohlin, and Forrest Paffenberg qualified for the semi-finals. The free-form format took the three best games each participant played to determine qualification; two semi-finalists qualified with 3 wins and two qualified with 2 wins. (“Strength of Schedule” was the tiebreaker.) I matched up against Bert in the finals and was rolled, Sep/Oct 41 saw my Russians risking a 1-2 against a stack of three surrounded Panzers and rolling the dreaded “Attacker Eliminated” which led to my resignation. Bert did a good job on providing the game details, I think he wants to surprise a few more folks before revealing the details of his new ‘approach’ to the game. Well done, Bert! Here are a few more anecdotes from PrezCon: Seemed a bit busier than last year, there always seemed to be something to do. I missed the auction entirely, not sure if that’s not really a good thing! Food selection was so-so but I did like the restaurant burgers, overpriced though they were. Accomodations were excellent, as they were the past few years, and I really had no reason to leave the premises. Managed to get in at least 6 hours of snoozing each night so I was in fine fettle throughout my stay. Justin runs a good event and I’ll be there again. Met a few new people and re-energized relationships with old gaming acquaintances. Bruno was getting more excited as the week wore on, I’m glad the weekend ended when it did. The John O. and John R. duo from Florida were there again and got in a ton of TRC games. (The professor scored some free drinks from some women, again, I’ll have to pay more attention to his technique.) Bill and I talked about day trading, Paul C. failed to convince me on the merits of having a 56k home internet connection, and the Schoose brothers were entertaining as always. Marty was as calm as ever and Rob B. also made an appearance. (I always seem to get in a game of ‘something’ with him that ends early, this year it was BWD.) Played Martin S., I thought I recognized the name but the ‘mental picture’ did not match the real life person. Despite never having played hold-em poker before, I surprisingly won the second heat to make it to the finals. (Where I got blown out, early.) Bert gave me a few tips going into the heat and I made good use of them. Before I play again, I’m going to have get a book or something to review poker stats because I had no clue as to what I was doing in terms of the hand probabilities. FAB: The Bulge, from GMT, seemed to very popular. Too popular, I felt obliged to buy a copy. It’s a block game, and probably not really suited to PBEM play, but my son loved Hammer of the Scots so figure this will be a good entre into the dark woods of the Ardennes. Top notch components, rules seem to be clean. Stay tuned. Bitter Woods had a good showing. Forrest Paffenburg, my gaming nemesis, spanked my Americans handily but I went undefeated otherwise. My decision to not participate in the finals, a team campaign game, was purely a result of my inability to work well in a team, I know I’d be hard pressed to relinquish any decision-making or cardboard caressing to a team-mate. Had a memorable match with Bill Morse. Another one of those games that I deserved to lose but Lady Luck bailed me out in the end. (Shades of the BWD WBC ’07 finals!) For next year, assuming I run TRC again, I’m going to really focus on bumping up the participant count. Given the folks who show, this really should be a 16+ event, I just need to figure out how to more effectively recruit for this regional event. |
The next Winter Nationals will be Feb. 25 - Mar. 1, 2009, in Charlottesville, VA
Only 286 days until PrezCon 2009! Future PrezCon Dates: 2009 : Feb. 25-Mar 1 2010 : Feb. 24-28 2011 : Feb. 22-27 2012 : Feb. 21-26
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