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Each year it is great fun to be
back in Essen. The Spiel organisation as well as the employees of the Essen
Fair were very helpful and supportive. On time of entering early in the
morning the tournament area was already set up according to our needs. This
saved a lot of stress...
Until a few minutes
before registration we were confronted with a drop-out. This is almost the
biggest nightmare for an organization. Luckily we had enough reserve players
from other teams to make an internationally reserve team (who did not so bad
in the overall ranking). And we only had to make minor changes to the
playing schedule on the fly. So in the end the preparations paid off.
This year we had
several goals. Of course we want to grow as tournament in size. A grow in
size gives us more opportunities and a better (financial) base to continue.
Unfortunately, due to some drop outs, we were not able to have 30 teams (120 players)
at the start of the tournament, but were able to add 2 new nationalities to
our list: Ireland and Hungaria.
Our other goal is to make EuropeMasters
more visible within the international gaming scene. For this we have
introduced "Gioco". A new bright coloured logo specially designed for
EuropeMasters. Gioco together with the PR stand has attracted additional
visitors as press. And increasing the PR value for EuropeMasters as well for
our current and future sponsors.
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Baron
Baron was the starter for today. After a small delay
to get the reserve players seated the battle over baronies begun...
A statistical analysis of the game results shows that
the starting player has significant higher chance to loose the game. This
has no effect on the championship as the team result counts. And for each
round 1 of the teammembers is a starting player.
For the other games the analysis shows that the result
is independent of the positions of players.
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Mesopotamia
Second game for the day was Mesopotamia from Phalanx
Games. Mesopotamia was nominated for the "Spiel des
Jahres" award and achieved a ranking (5) at the "Deutscher Spiele Preis".
At the second round the tournament was still open.
There were no teams who have clearly taken the lead after Baron...and this
would still be the same after completing Mesopotamia.
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Augsburg
After a short break it was time for
Augsburg. With Augsburg ALEA achieved a nice
ranking (9) for the "Deutscher Spiele Preis".
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Caylus
Caylus was saved for the last round. With over 10
teams in positions to become European Championship, Caylus would become a
decisive and nerve breaking game. Some tables were finishing up within the
hour while the last tables were still going down the road after 3 hours.
It is great to end a tournament with a game who has won
so many prizes and is decisive for the overall ranking. In fact is there a prize which Ystari didn't win with Caylus? Caylus is just a
international prize winning game. Besides winning the award of the "Deutscher
Spiele Preis" it also won a special award "Spiel des Jahres - Komplexes
Spiel" for the best complex game, but also won the Dutch "Spellenprijs", the
International Gamers Award and the Tric Trac 'or (2005). |
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The end...
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| Results of the teams |
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| The team results
show that it has been a challenging tournament where, until the last move
played, it was undecided who would be the European Champions of 2006. Note
that per each game a team can score between 4 to a maximum of 20 points (max
gradtotal for the tournament is 80 points).
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| Nationality |
name team |
score |
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UK |
SharkBait |
62,5 |
| UK |
The Uninspired |
59,333 |
| Germany |
Esch Treff |
57 |
| Germany |
Rauchende Wuerfel |
56,5 |
| Germany |
Eiswürfel 1 |
55,5 |
| Germany |
Braun´sche Spielebewegung |
52 |
| Belgium |
ILV Namur (In Ludo Veritas) |
52 |
| Germany |
Fried Eyes |
50,333 |
| UK |
nill nominatus |
50 |
| Netherlands |
Cannonfodder |
49,5 |
| Germany |
Die anonymen Spieler |
48,5 |
| France |
Lille Old Squad |
48 |
| UK |
The Subterranean Strategists |
47 |
| Czech Rep. |
Delfín |
44 |
| Czech Rep. |
Paluba |
43,5 |
| Netherlands |
NLTD |
42 |
| Italy |
Giocofollia |
41 |
| Switzerland |
les marmottes rieuses |
39 |
| Belgium |
Speelduivel Leuven |
38,5 |
| Netherlands |
Over the hill.com |
38,333 |
| Ireland |
GAOD |
36,5 |
| Italy |
Die Rettende Engeln (Reserve Team) |
35,5 |
| Czech Rep. |
Elysium |
34,5 |
| Hungary |
Knights of the Round Board |
34 |
| Netherlands |
Ik speel met groen |
33 |
| UK |
To Win Just Once |
28,5 |
| Italy |
Overtime |
28,5 |
| France |
Die Frischen Franzosen |
27 |
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Top 4 individual players |
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Germany |
Frank Lamprecht |
Esch Treff |
20 |
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Germany |
Sabine Pöhler
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Eiswürfel 1 |
18 |
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Belgium |
Xavier Georges |
In Ludo
Veritas Namur |
18 |
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UK |
Chris Boote |
The
Uninspired |
18 |
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| An incredible
achievement of Frank Lamprecht. Like last year he is again the best
individual player with a maximum score of 20 points!!! |
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| It has been an
exciting day. Months of preparation is bundled to a climax of a single day.
From the organisation we would like to thank the players for the
sportmanship and the very nice reactions, it is for us very awarding to see this behaviour and the fun
you have. Also we would like to thank our sponsors. It is great to see that
game manufacturers are willing to contribute to this event where players
from all over Europe are able to meet and play against eachother. And last
but not last I would like to thank my team for their support this year: Raoul for
his time as referee and my wife Marie-José for the
wonderful playing schedule (and reschedules), administrative tasks and being
referee.
Hope to see you all next year! With the reaction and
feedback received as well as the new contacts made and support given, we
hope to deliver even a bigger tournament next year. By the way 2007 will be
a special year, as it is 20 years ago that Intergame was organized for the
first time.
Good luck with the
qualification rounds.
Nice dice,
Ronald. |
