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Lakes Area
DBA Gamers
G.L.A.D.B.A.G.
32 players competed in the 10th running of the ATC 15mm
DBA Open
ATC Open repeats success in 2007 with 32 players
by Mike Demana
Once again, the main gaming hall at Advance the Colors was packed with
DBA players on Saturday morning. GMs John Lawitzke and John Loy ran their
DBA School in the hour before the tourney, as a refresher for those who've
been away from the game, or to teach new players the basics. And as always,
that netted us a few more participants, who the more experienced players
were happy to help along. We did have a repeat winner this year, as Keith
Finn took the Early Bracket again, this time with his Numidian army. Keith
brought a tub o' armies and made his choice on the fly that morning. He
won by slapping around and traumatizing Steve Smith and his dismounting
Trojans. Steve could be heard sniveling the rest of the convention about
Keith's pink dice. In the Later Bracket, Rich Baier came from being down
3 elements lost to none in the final round to steal away what would have
been Mike Cole's first tournament victory. Rich drove in from Pittsburgh
for the weekend of DBA and participated in all the events, playing strongly
in all.
Early
Bracket
- Keith Finn, Numidian, 4-0, 98 points
- John Meunier, Middle Imperial Roman, 3-1, 75 points
- Allen Sams, Classical Indian, 3-1, 74 points
- Steve Smith, Trojan, 3-1, 73 points
- Dylan Frasier, Sui Chinese, 2-2, 53 points
- Eric Luczaj, Later pre-Islamic Arab, 2-2, 53 points
- Brian Woolard, Hellenistic Greek-Spartan, 2-2, 53 points
- Michael Guenther, Early German, 2-2, 52 points
- Tom Graves, Etruscan League, 2-2, 52 points
- Phil Wells, Alexandrian Macedonian, 2-2, 50 points
- Jenny Torbett, Later Carthagenian, 2-2, 50 points
- Nick Wilson, Neo Assyrian, 1-3, 29 points
- Andy Swingle, Phoenician, 1-3, 29 points
- Steve Cole, Republican Indian, 1-3, 29 points
- Tim Ryan, Galatians, 1-3, 25 points
- Scott Wells, Later Carthagenian, 0-4, 2 points
Later Bracket
- Rich Baier, Anglo Norman, 4-0, 96 points
- Mike Demana, Epirote Byzantine, 3-1, 77 points
- Mike Cole, Low Countries, 3-1 , 76 points
- Greg Crane, Early Samurai, 3-1, 76 points
- Dan Joyce, Anglo Norman, 2-2, 56 points
- Ted Bender, Feudal English, 2-2, 55 points
- Eric Vang, Abbasid Arab, 2-2, 53 points
- Andrew Steingas, Norman, 2-2, 53 points
- Jim Randall, Georgian, 2-2, 51 points
- Jon Crane, Fanatic Berber, 2-2, 51 points
- Paul Potter, Blemmye, 2-2, 51 points
- Terry Hollern, Rus, 2-2, 50 points
- Jim Yencer, Komnenan Byzantine, 1-3, 29 points
- T.W. Hannaford, Viking, 1-3, 27 points
- Nick Gillespie, Early Muslim, 1-3, 27 points
- Bill Weber, Medieval Irish, 0-4, 9 points
A pensive Eric Vang, above, ponders his next move
Ted Bender watches as Eric Vang's Abbasid Egyptians
cross the hill towards his battleline
DBA players fill the main gaming hall at ATC 2007
John Meunier measure his move in the opening stages
of his match with Jenny Torbett