So my Not Winner's Report:

So I came in 3rd at Council in my Gorn, going 3-1 in the patrol section, winning my Quarter Final match vs Jude's Lyran, and then getting a single die roll away from victory against Paul's Fed in the semi's.

Game 1: I lose vs Captain Ron's Shark. Ron was totally wise to all my tricks, and wasn't falling for any of my guff. I launched some plasma, he phasered and ate most of it losing a bunch of shields. By the end of turn 3, I'm cornered by him and 6 drones, about to take a massive phaser volley through my weak #4. I do a second HET to avoid instant death, succeed, and resign 2 impulses later, as he gets the phaser shot anyway. That was a bad game for me :-)

Game 2: I win vs Dave C's Hydran. Early, I chase him into the corner with an enveloper, kill his fighters a lot, and Dave calls my pseudo bluff to discover it wasn't a bluff, taking a handful of internals. It goes down hill from there for the Hydran.

Game 3: I win vs Andy Koch's Lyran. I chase him into a corner with an enveloper, and as he comes out, I launch 50 more, which ends up hitting. It goes down hill from there for the Lyran.

Game 4: I win vs Steve McCann's Klingon. I chase him into a corner with an enveloper (clearly a running theme here...), get a R5 centerline shot with 6xP1, 2xF bolts. Both bolts hit, Steve takes about 20 internals, and then needs to decel to avoid eating the pursuing S torp on the down shield. Things go down hill from there for the Klingon.

Game 5 (Quarter Finals): I win vs Jude Hornburg's Lyran. This was my longest game of the weekend, at 9 turns. I chase him around with various plasmas while he announces and cancels his ESGs 2 or 3 times. I lose some shields while whittling his down some with phasers, some plasma damage, and an F bolt. Eventually, I start looking for an anchor, but he starts moving weasel speeds to avoid that. We both take some internals from direct fire, but nothing horrible. At some point, he pre-emptively weasels to keep me from tractoring him. I kill the weasel and fire a desperation Bolt S at his 1 box #2, hit, and do some savage internals (something like an ESG, disruptor, and 3xP1 on the 15 in). After that, I wear him down a bit more with some plasma and phasers, and he resigns when I launch an enveloper that will either cause him to decel and let me get away scott free or mangle him. The major turning point in this game was on T4 as I'm cornered and about to get mugged by the Lyran with ESGs, I launch an S torp, and Jude plays conservative and turns off to avoid taking it in the face, which saves me from a serious drubbing in the corner and lets me regroup and get back on the offensive.

Game 6 (Semi Finals): I lose vs Paul Scott's Fed. My shortest game. T1, I push the Fed into the corner with an enveloper. T2, I plan on rushing him and anchoring him, taking his shot and trading even internals. I close in on him, going faster and with 6+ in tractors. At R2, Paul fires 4xOL and 6xP1, hits with 3xOL, and I take about 44 internals--brutal, but not devastating, hitting 4 phasers, a torp, and a tractor. Due to a timely speed change on Paul's part, I couldn't centerline him immediately, but I catch and tractor him. It will be a few impulses before I can turn my down shield away from him, but when I turn, I'll paste him with 70 points of plasma and a few phasers as a chaser. He fires his 2xP3 in my down shield, hitting a phaser or two, but nothing else important. An impulse later, Paul turns to get his last two P1's in arc, and fires in the hole for 8 damage. As we roll the internals, there is consternation over the lack of 10's. We get to his last roll, and he is like "Yeah, this is over. I'm doomed." He rolls the dice. Gets a 10. Paul says "Great. Here is the 10. Phaser hit. Woo," We look at my SSD. I have no more phasers in arc. My last tractor falls off the ship. Paul has enough movement to declare decel, avoid plasma death, and weasel anything I launch at him. Game over.

An excellent tournament with a lot of excellent opposition.

By Andrew J. Koch (Droid) on Monday, October 12, 2009 - 07:45 pm: Edit

Council of Five Nations!

It was fun as always, really great to meet some fellows from online, and have my ear talked off by Ron
Congrats to Paul, who played very well as usual, and had no inordinate bad luck in his Fed. A winning combination to be sure.

Thanks very much also to Dave who really works his diminutive butt off to make this a great experience each year for us. Dave, you are as they say, the man.

By Ken Lin (Old_School) on Saturday, March 27, 2010 - 06:03 pm: Edit

Need some help finding out who won RATs 2003Q1 and 2003 Q2 (websites are not up to date) - can anyone please help?

http://www.sfbonline.com/ra03q1.htm
http://www.sfbonline.com/ra03q2.htm

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Saturday, March 27, 2010 - 09:29 pm: Edit

Ken, info is in CL#27, p. 26. I'm not fast at typing, but if you need it, holler.

By Paul Franz (Andromedan) on Saturday, March 27, 2010 - 09:39 pm: Edit

RA03Q1 Norman Cruz (ISC)
RA03Q2 Bret O'Neil (WAX 1Bgg)

By Ken Lin (Old_School) on Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 08:41 am: Edit

Oh, cool thanks Jean and Paul... how did fiver get into a WAX? The webpage shows him as an ORI?

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 09:04 am: Edit

Ken, CL#27 shows Bret was in an Orion PPG1F. It agrees with the RA03Q1.

By Ken Lin (Old_School) on Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 09:05 am: Edit

Thanks Jean.

By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Saturday, August 28, 2010 - 10:47 pm: Edit

So we had the, like, 10th Annual Ithaca Cup Team Tournament in sunny Ithaca, New York today, a very casual team based tournament that pits the home team, Team Ithaca vs Scenechtady's Team SWA in tournament duels until some team gets to be declared winner.

This year, after a long cold season for Team SWA, they soundly beat Team Ithaca with a 4-2 record for the day.

We had a modest turn out, with 3 players for team SWA and 6 players for Team Ithaca, so we cycled Team Ithaca players through while entertaining the odd folks with a side game of Titan, played by committee.

The games and the players were:

R1:
-Dave Cheng (SWA/HYD) over Steve Wampler (ITH/KLI)
-Andy Koch (SWA/LYR) over Chris Proper (ITH/TKR)
-Brian Evans (SWA/NTC) over Courtenay Footman (ITH/GBS)

R2:
-Peter Bakija (ITH/GRN) over Brian Evans (SWA/NTC)

R3:
-Brian Evans (SWA/NTC) over Andrew Sackett (ITH/SEL)
-Peter Bakija (ITH/GRN) over Dave Cheng (SWA/HYD)

And thanks to Dave Cheng for playing a training game vs Ithaca's Ben Kalb who is getting up to speed in the game. A fine time was had by all, and congrats to Team SWA! Team Ithaca will present them with the freshly engraved Ithaca Cup trophy at Council of 5 Nations in October.

By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 03:49 pm: Edit

So just got back from Council of 5 Nations We had about 25 players, for the Star Fleet tournament, played a day of patrol, and then had a tree of Top 8 players.

The top 8 matches were:

-Peter Bakija (GRN) vs Andy Koch (LYR)
-Marcus Geigerich (HYD) vs Ed Slusarek (FED)
-Courtenay Footman (GBS bb) vs Andrew Sackett (SEL)
-Ben Kalb (HYD) vs Bill Schoeller (KLI)

Top 4:

-Peter Bakija (GRN) vs Ed Slusarek (FED)
-Courtenay Footman (GBS bb) vs Bill Schoeller (KLI)

Final:
-Ed Slusarek (FED) vs Bill Schoeller (KLI)

At press time, I don't know who won the final.

By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 04:12 pm: Edit

I didn't win, but in terms of matches for statistics:

I was a Gorn. I went 3-0 in the patrol portion of the tournament:

-Game 1 vs Marcus Geigerich's Hydran: He shoots me on T1 at R8, but misses with an OL HB, so I take no internals. T2 I chase him and he comes around, guesses wrong on a torp being a pseudo, takes about 30 in, I HET and fire more phasers in the hole, he resigns.

-Game 2 vs Ken Kaziniski's Gorn: Civil War! I open with a standard, he eats it after a bunch of phasers and launches a real and fake torp at me. I run his out, he runs away. We run around a bit, I chase him to the wall. About T4 I catch him by the wall at R0, tractor him. I get badly crippled by the feedback from 100 points of plasma through my now down #1, but he blows up as the 100 points go through his down shield.

-Game 3 vs Dave Cheng's LDR: LDR runs from an enveloper, I chase him in a corner, launch 50 plasma, get a phaser/bolt F shot for a few internals, he HETs out of the corner, eats the launched plasma for another dozen internals or so, I run, he chases me into the corner. He overruns me with phasers, doing about 30 internals, but he can't escape my phasers going through a down shield (his #3 and #5 are down), so he flies over me, allowing me to hit his #4 with a fast load F and more phasers for another bunch in. We end the turn with me behind him and him with no rear hemisphere shields. Impulse 1 of the next turn, he eats more phasers in, does a second HET, and breaks down.

-Top 8 round vs Andy Koch's Lyran: I arm an enveloper on the first turn. We close, I launch a pseudo, he runs from it, impulse 32 I launch my enveloper from the middle of the map. T2, we close, he eats the enveloper for some damage, he puts up ESGs, shoots me with 6xP1 at about R4 and HETs away from an F torp that is about to hit him in the face. I HET just to make sure I hit his ESGs, and hit him with phasers and miss with an F bolt, but he takes a couple in. I launch my last S torp to chase him into the corner. I run away, he runs from the plasma. Next turn, he eats the plasma for a couple points after phasers and I move off and to reload. Next turn, I have to turn towards him to get my armed enveloper in arc, but he has a 14/9/4 speed plot. I launch the enveloper and close, he weasels the plasma. My #2 and #5 are both at 1 or 2 boxes, so I'm stuck overrunning him. At R2 he blasts me for 30 internals, I shoot through his mostly down #6 for a dozen more in. I get another phaser in the hole the next impulse, and due to his inconvenient down shields, I end up getting another 4 phasers into his ship through another down shield. This blows off all but 1 of his shuttles, so Andy resigns, as the next turn we are close, slow, and I have 3 plasmas to hit him with and he only has 1 weasel.

-Top 4 vs Ed Slusarek's Fed: T1 I launch an enveloper, he runs from it. T2, I chase him into the corner to anchor him. He avoids this for a while. About impulse 25, I'm closing on him, and decide to accelerate from speed 26 to speed 31 with a battery so that I don't miss a move and might catch him. And also can't HET. Which I needed to be able to do. Impulse 32 he HETs into R1 off my #5 shield. Which isn't a winning spot for me. He hits me with 4xOL, 6xP1, 2xP3. I launch my 50 plasma and blast him with 5xP1 and a P3. With the feedback, Ed takes 14 in, I take 75 in. I'm down to 7 power, but have 50 plasma about to hit him. Next turn, he takes 50 internals, but TACs his #1 to face me. He kills a couple shuttles that I had on the map, and stops my last F torp with 20 reinforcement. I don't come back from this. If I had been moving 26 instead of 31 for those last few impulses, I can HET at him and probably win that exchange (hitting with 70 plasma through a down shield on impulse 1 instead of 50).

A fun tournament with a lot of good players.

By Jean Sexton (Jsexton) on Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 04:38 pm: Edit

Peter, thanks for the report! We're always glad when people have a good time at a tournament. Here's hoping that all return home safely.

By Nick G. Blank (Nickgb) on Sunday, October 10, 2010 - 10:24 pm: Edit

Fed/Klingon final, great!

By David Cheng (Davec) on Monday, October 11, 2010 - 12:21 pm: Edit

Bill Schoeller Wins the Council Cup 2010

Congrats to Bill for being the second seed in the Quarterfinals and climbing the tree to the top branch.

For me, the more interesting story is not Bill winning (probably the odds-on favorite going in to the weekend), but Ed Slusarek doing so well after his (10+)-year hiatus from the game. It looks like Ed's Council experience has brought back the SFB fever; I personally witnessed him buying every issue of Captain's Log that our dealer had at the booth (at least eight issues, and maybe more). Ed says he's coming back next year for sure.

We had twenty-seven players this year, and filled-up the SFB room very nicely.

By Marcus J. Giegerich (Marcusg) on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 12:24 pm: Edit

I had a great time as usual. My marginal 3-2 patrol record got me into the final rounds in the Hydran. I actually won the round 1 final against Ed Saturday night to make the final 4, but I decided to drop out of SFB to play Battleground: Fantasy Warfare the rest of the convention. I'll see if I can put together enough details to describe the games, but the summaries are thus:

Game 1 vs Bill Schoeller (Klingon) - Bill made a manuever gaffe at the end of turn 1 and wound up range 2 from my ship with the fighters in the same hex. He conceded after the 70 internals he received.

Game 2 vs Ed Slusarek (Fed) - We ran around the board lots until I had him cornered on turn 3 with Fighters a few hexes back. We exchanged at range 2 where he really helped out the Hydran cause by only hitting with 1 photon! It would have been different if he had hit with 3 or 4, but he still would not have been able to avoid some fighter love later on in the turn.

Game 3 vs Peter Bakija (Gorn) - He launches an EPT on turn 1 which I run out to range 16 and gat it down a ton. He Kills my fighters with phaser fire. Next turn he peruses and I turn in to punish him. He launches 50 and I gamble that the S is fake and he's holding an EPT. We reach range 3 where all the impacting and other fun occurs. Alas it was not fake and the warhead damage plus phaser fire through the down shield did me in.

Game 4 vs Steve McCann (WYN AUX 11G1) - This was the first game I played on Saturday. He got drones out and followed them in. We wound up getting really close and I was able to do a few internals to him as he killed one of my fighters and also gave me a few internals through my #6. I HETed off to avoid drones as he turned off to avoid letting a fighter get ragne 2 on him somewhere. We looped around and made another pass 2 turns later. He tractored me at range 1 with a bunch of drones about to do me harm. I railed him good, hoping to knock both tractors off of his ship so that I could weasel. Unfortunately I only got 1 of the tractors on about 50 internals in 2 volleys, so I was toast. After the game I realized that I failed to roll for one of my gats on the initial volley! Regardless, I'm not sure if I would have gotten deep enough to get the last tractor as that would have been part of the first volley.

Game 5 vs Dave Cheng (LDR) - We had 2 hours before the end of patrol and we wrapped this one up pretty quickly. Dave fired some std disruptors at my fighters and only hit with 1 of them. He raised 1 R0 ESG and turned off. I fired 5 p1s at his #4 shield near the end of the turn. Het HET back at me, but the angles allowed me to get range 1 and I was able to pound him good even without the p1s. It ended early in turn 2.

Finals tree round of 8 vs Ed Slusarek (Fed) - this was the rematch that I wanted Ed to win since I was burned out on SFB and was really itching to get into the Battleground tournament. He killed one of my fighters and crippled the other one with phaser fire on turn 1, then turned off. He fired a couple p1s at my #1 while I held fire and I followed lazily. Turn 2 he looped around for an attack run and we both held fire til he achieved a range 1 centerline on my #6. We blew the snot out of each other, but I would have been able to turn into range 0 next impulse and feed him 2 more fusions and a gat. He conceded.

All of my opponents where super pleasant and win or lose I had a great time. Dave always puts on a class event.

By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Saturday, August 20, 2011 - 10:22 pm: Edit

So assuming my message from last year is correct, we just held the 11th Annual Ithaca Cup Team Tournament in Ithaca, NY, the yearly clash between Team Ithaca and Team SWA from Schenectady NY. A loose, fun, round robin tournament where the team with the best record gets to claim the coveted Ithaca Cup trophy for the year. Last year, Team SWA took the cup, but this year, Team Ithaca rallied and won the day, 7 wins to 4.

Team Ithaca:
-Peter Bakija (NTC), 3-0
-Ben Kalb (WAX, g111), 1-1
-Andrew Sackett (SEL), 1-1
-Courtenay Footman (GBS, bb), 1-1
-Brett Johnson (ISC), 1-0

Team SWA:
-Andy Koch (LYR), 2-1
-Dave Cheng (LDR), 1-1
-John Wrigley (WAX, ESG, F, F), 1-2
-Brett Johnson (ISC), 0-3

(As one might note, Brett defected from SWA for the last game, due to Brett on John wanting to play a game, so we lured him over to our side with promises of wealth and fame. But, ya know, fun team event, so no big deal).

Notably this year, everyone managed to win a game. I did remarkably well in the Neo Tholian which I don't know that I have played even one game with in the last 10 years, but I had reasonably favorable match ups, what with an ISC (plasma), the Bubble Pig WAX (a WAX with an ESG and 2 plasma Fs), and the LDR. A great day was had by all, and we managed to not get taken out by by a horde or rampaging co-eds, as it was the first day of Cornell Orientation, and we were in their way playing SFB.

For statistical purposes, the games and winners were:

-Peter (NTC) over Brett (ISC)
-Peter (NTC) over John (WAX)
-Peter (NTC) over Dave (LDR)

-Andy (LYR) over Courtenay (GBS)
-Andy (LYR) over Andrew (SEL)

-Brett (ISC) over John (WAX)

-Dave (LDR) over Ben (WAX)

-Ben (WAX) over Andy (LYR)

-Courtenay (GBS) over Brett (ISC)

-Andrew (SEL) over Brett (ISC)

-John (WAX) over Andrew (SEL)

Hope to see everyone at Council of 5 in October!

By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Sunday, October 09, 2011 - 04:24 pm: Edit

So just got back from Council of 5. Very solid tournament with, like, 25+ people.

The top 8 were:

-Peter Bakija (NTC) vs Ron Brimyer (GBS b1)
-Brook Villa (GRN) vs Brian Evans (FED)
-Steve McCann (ISC) vs Adam Brimyer (WAX Hg1b)
-Tim Sheehy (HYD) vs Andrew Sackett (SEL)

Top 4:
-Ron Brimyer (GBS b1) vs Brook Villa (GRN)
-Steve McCann (ISC) vs Tim Sheehy (HYD)

The FInal is:
-Steve McCann (ISC) vs Brook Villa (GRN)

I think the FInal is waiting to be played on SFBOL for various reasons.

By Peter D Bakija (Bakija) on Sunday, October 09, 2011 - 04:47 pm: Edit

I certainly didn't win at Council in a Neo Tholian, going 2-2 in patrol and getting totally killed in my first round of the finals vs Captain Ron's GBS. But I did discover a lot of things *not* to do in the Neo Tholian.

-Game 1 vs Troy Williams' LYR (I win): We exchange fire on T2, both doing roughly similar internals through our #6's. Troy then manages pull a pair of R2 ESGs that I end up inside of over me, taking out my #2 and doing a few more in but he keeps pursuing me and on impulse 32, I manage to HET so we end up at R2, my down #6 to his down #6. We savage each other on impulse 1 of the next turn, but I have an extra disruptor, the web fist, and a few more phasers, so he is more mangled than me. A good start.

-Game 2 vs Brian Evans's FED (I lose): I try to use a web on T2 to get an advantageous exchange (or at least a less disadvantages exchange than I could), but do a really bad job of that as Brian HETs into the (non breakdown strength) web to get to R1 of me, which I can either stay at R1 in a bad arc, or turn into him and centerline him at R0. So I do that. We both fire a lot. I do 72 internals followed by a SS for 90 into the Fed in two volleys; I discover that the Neo can take 105 internals in a single volley without blowing up. But after the smoke clears, Brian has 4 or 5 power and a couple photon tubes where I have 1 or 2 control and a couple of excess damage boxes left. Brian wins.

-Game 3 vs Adam "Son of Captain Ron" Brimyer (WAX Hg1b). We finagle for a T2 initial exchange, but rather than taking the conservative R3 or 4 shot on his likely reinforced #2 and leaving to reload, I decide to angle for a risky shot on his #3, but discover that this will get me killed when he launches 5 drones at me, so I come up with a newer, worser plan on the fly, which involves me HETing in to attack him and shoot him on his #2 anyway (which is reinforced), missing with 2 of 3 OL disruptors at R1, getting tractored, and unsurprisingly dying not long after.

-Game 4 vs Ben Kalb (HYD). Ben is my buddy who I drove there with, but late on Saturday we were the only two people still looking for a game, so gamely we played one out. A fun game with a lot of maneuver and shooting, which I manage to pull out mostly by virtue of me killing both of the Hydran's HBs in three moderate volleys of internals.

-Game 5 vs Ron Brimyer (GBS b1). Round of 8. I discover that, much like the Fed, the GBS can do very well vs the Neo simply by arming some guns, moving at moderate speeds, and firing. I try all sorts of tricksy maneuvers and snaggle a lot of drones in webs. I take a R4 shot, where I hit with 1 of 4 standards a bunch of phasers and leave his #2 at a couple boxes (eventually doing an internal with my offside phasers) and HET away, he hits my #4 with 2xOL and a bunch of phasers, doing a dozen in. Next turn I stop to weasel the 6 drones that have escaped the web, he closes in. I cleverly have a speed change up to 9 from 0 at a point when I figure we will already be done shooting, but really, it happens when the shark is at R1, which results in me eating 2xSS and two drones on the same shield. After we shoot each other with OLs and phasers. I'm killed in a very spectacular fashion.

So far, not so sold on the Neo :-)

It is fun, and interesting vs Plasma and the WAX (assuming I'm not dumb), but against some heavy DF ships (FED, GBS for example), the ship is really fighting an uphill battle.

In any case, Council, like always, was a great convention. Dave C and pals run an excellent event. Ken was a great judge. Steve Petrick was there as a special guest, which was fun, and we got to try out Star Fleet Marines, which is pretty entertaining and well put together.

By Ken Lin (Old_School) on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 09:54 pm: Edit

OK, a couple of years ago in this thread, this group assembled a history of the Captains' and Patrol winners. I'd like to fill it out with the runner-up players and what ships they were flying. Can anyone help? I'm posting what I know of the winners here:

YEAR	FLEET CAPTAIN	SHIP	RUNNER-UP	SHIP
1984	William Chitwood	Federation
1985	Mark Schultz	Klingon
1986	Jon Van Caneghem	Romulan Firehawk
1987	Kevin Hillock	Orion (FFg1f/HHGBB)
1988	Sandy Hemenway	Kzinti
1989	John Viles	Romulan Firehawk
1990	Tom Carroll	Gorn
1991	Paul Paella	Romulan Firehawk
1992	Guy Chaney	Kzinti
1993	Hohn Cho	Kzinti
1994	Bill Schoeller	Federation
1995	Tom Carroll	Klingon
1996	Lee Larsen	Andromedan (old)
1997	Tom Carroll	GBS
1998	Tom Carroll	ArcheoTholian
1999	Tom Carroll	Andromedan (old)
2000	Paul Scott	Andromedan (old)
2001	Vince Weibert	Klingon
2002	Paul Scott	Orion (FFg1f/HHgBB)
2003	Paul Scott	WAX (g1g1)
2004	Paul Scott	ISC
2005	Ken Lin	Lyran
2006	Jason Gray	Gorn
2007	Tom Carroll	Hydran
2008	Paul Scott	LDR
2009	Bill Schoeller	Klingon
2010	Gregg Dieckhaus	Lyran
2011	Peter Bakija	Gorn

YEAR	WINNER	SHIP	RUNNER-UP	SHIP
1985	Frank Lyman	Wyn
1986	Jay Davis	Hydran
1987	John Viles	ISC
1988	Jay Clendenny	Wyn
1989	Don Clarke	Federation
1990	Ralph Wiazowski	Gorn
1991	Ron Spitzer	Orion
1992	Quentin Cantrell	Klingon
1993	Frank Gilson	Orion
1994	Jerome Bambrick	Federation
1995	David Beeson	Klingon
1996	Geoff Clark	ISC
1997	Bill Schoeller	ArcheoTholian
1998	Andrew Dederer	Hydran
1999	Stephen McCann	WynAux
2000	Kevin Block-Schwenk	Klingon
2001	Ken Lin	Hydran
2002	Tom Carroll	Lyran

By Mike Johnson (Akira) on Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 07:30 am: Edit

Ken- I was the runner up in 2010 versus Gregg. I was flying ISC.

By David Zimdars (Zimdarsdavid) on Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 10:20 am: Edit

FC
1984 not reported in CL13 summary, perhaps in Nexus
1985 not reported in CL13 summary, perhaps in Nexus
1986 not reported in CL13 summary, perhaps in Nexus
1987 Allen "California Cooler" Treschler, ORI?
1988 Eric Hyman,HYD
1989 Eric Hyman, HYD
1990 Origins, Bill Hyman (USAF, WAX)
1990 (GenCon) Frank "Slim" Gilson WAX over Ken (I can't rember) Lin RFH
1991 Ed Slusarek, FED
1992 Dr. Andrw Pundy WAX HB,P,G
1993 Ken Rotar, ORI
1994 Paul Kramer, RFH

Patrol
1984 No Patrol
1985 not reported in CL summary, perhaps in Nexus
1986 not reported in CL summary, perhaps in Nexus
1987 Robert Tweedy, ZIN
1988 Ken "the runner up" Lin, RFH
1989 Ken "Karate Plasma" AkA. "the forgetful Rom" Lin, RFH
1990 (GenCon) Bruce Graw RFH over Ron Spitzer AND
1991 Chuck Strong, GRN
1992 Tab Postlewait, THN
1993 Perry Carlson, AND
1994 Alex Pundy, WAX

FYI in 1986 there was an EW tournament, winner and runner need to look up in nexus or early CLs.

Trivia: In 1994 Elizabeth Weibert made it into the Patrol Finals, the first woman player to make it into any SFB finals.

By Paul Scott (The_Rock) on Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 01:04 pm: Edit

I was the runner up in 95 (ATC) and 2007 (TFH).

By Paul Scott (The_Rock) on Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 01:17 pm: Edit

Further, though these should all be in my various victory at reports, the runners up during the years I won were:

2000 - Andrew Pundy (WAX - I forget options, but he usually ran HB,Gatt,Drone, Dis).

2002 - Norm Cruise in a clone of my Orion
2003 - Steve McCann in a clone of my WAX(g1g1)
2004 - Tom Carroll (LDR)
2008 - Ted Fey (Kzinti)

By Ken Lin (Old_School) on Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 08:30 pm: Edit

Dave, are you sure I was the 1988 Patrol runner-up? You're probably right - I remember the game but for some reason I thought I lost in the semifinal or quarterfinal.

By Ken Lin (Old_School) on Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 08:32 pm: Edit

Thanks to all for helping out, I filled in with a few others I knew about. Only a few blanks left - can anyone help? Also, please feel free to point out errors if I've got anything wrong...

YEAR	FLEET CAPTAIN	SHIP	RUNNER-UP	SHIP
1984	William Chitwood	Federation
1985	Mark Schultz	Klingon
1986	Jon Van Caneghem	Romulan Firehawk
1987	Kevin Hillock	Orion (FFg1f/HHGBB)	Alan Traschler	Orion
1988	Sandy Hemenway	Kzinti	Eric Hyman	Hydran
1989	John Viles	Romulan Firehawk	Eric Hyman	Hydran
1990	Tom Carroll	Gorn	Bill Hyman	WAX
1990 GenCon	Frank Gilson	WAX (FFgg)	Ken Lin	Romulan Firehawk
1991	Paul Paella	Romulan Firehawk	Ed Slusarek	Federation
1992	Guy Chaney	Kzinti	Andrew Pundy	WAX
1993	Hohn Cho	Kzinti	Ken Rotar	Orion
1994	Bill Schoeller	Federation	Paul Kramer	Romulan Firehawk
1995	Tom Carroll	Klingon	Paul Scott	ArcheoTholian
1996	Lee Larsen	Andromedan (old)
1997	Tom Carroll	GBS
1998	Tom Carroll	ArcheoTholian	Vince Weibert	Klingon
1999	Tom Carroll	Andromedan (old)	Vince Weibert	Klingon
2000	Paul Scott	Andromedan (old)	Andrew Pundy	WAX
2001	Vince Weibert	Klingon	Norm Cruz	Kzinti
2002	Paul Scott	Orion (FFg1f/HHgBB)	Norm Cruz	Orion (FFg1f/HHgBB)
2003	Paul Scott	WAX (g1g1)	Steve McCann	WAX (g1g1)
2004	Paul Scott	ISC	Tom Carroll	LDR
2005	Ken Lin	Lyran	Tim Linden	Orion (HHgBB)
2006	Jason Gray	Gorn	Ken Lin	Seltorian
2007	Tom Carroll	Hydran	Paul Scott	Romulan Firehawk
2008	Paul Scott	LDR	Ted Fay	Kzinti
2009	Bill Schoeller	Klingon	Ken Lin	ArcheoTholian
2010	Gregg Dieckhaus	Lyran	Mike Johnson	ISC
2011	Peter Bakija	Gorn	Clayton Krueger	Romulan TKR

YEAR	WINNER	SHIP	RUNNER-UP	SHIP
1985	Frank Lyman	Wyn
1986	Jay Davis	Hydran
1987	John Viles	ISC	Robert Tweedy	Kzinti
1988	Jay Clendenny	Wyn	Ken Lin	Romulan Firehawk
1989	Don Clarke	Federation
1990	Ralph Wiazowski	Gorn	Ken Lin	Romulan Firehawk
1990 GenCon	Bruce Graw	Romulan Firehawk	Vince Weibert	Andromedan
1991	Ron Spitzer	Orion	Chuck Strong	Gorn
1992	Quentin Cantrell	Klingon	Tab Postlewait	NeoTholian
1993	Frank Gilson	Orion	Perry Carlson	Andromedan
1994	Jerome Bambrick	Federation	Alex Pundy	WAX
1995	David Beeson	Klingon
1996	Geoff Clark	ISC
1997	Bill Schoeller	ArcheoTholian
1998	Andrew Dederer	Hydran
1999	Stephen McCann	WynAux
2000	Kevin Block-Schwenk	Klingon	Lee Larsen	Klingon
2001	Ken Lin	Hydran	Tim Linden	Orion (HHgBB)
2002	Tom Carroll	Lyran	Frank Bradford	Kzinti