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"The Faithful" gather at New Song for DBA/DBM

The Great Lakes Ancients-playing faithful gathered at New Song Community Church this April 14 for DBA and DBM Tournaments. Some came from as far away as Indiana, swelling the numbers to 15 DBA players and 4 (enough for a Round Robin) in DBM.

The format for DBA was the "scramble," or Frankie's Fire Drill method, with players matched up with another pair as soon as they're finished with their game. Thus, there are no set rounds, and the number of games you get in is dependent on the speed of your matches. GM Rich Hartley balances the DBA event by taking each player's best three scores, ignoring any beyond that, except as a tie breaker. Jenny Torbett was the winner of the DBA event, claiming a painted Later Carthaginian DBA army as first prize (many thanks to Rich and fellow GM Lowell Lufkin for their generosity with the numerous prizes). Also many thanks to Ron Holtz, whose church provided the spacious gaming area, and provided hot dogs, soft drinks and chips to the participants. It was many players' first time attending a New Song event, everyone was extremely pleased with the facility and the graciousness of the hosts.

Results of New Song Tournament

by Rich Hartley

Here are the Results of the New Song DBA scramble tournament held April 20, 2007. The scramble is kind of like a "Chinese Fire Drill" meets DBA. This format allows players to keep playing no matter what they have done in the early rounds. You can lose a few games and still come back to win the tournament. Also, it allows late comers to play and not lose any ground account of being late. I like to think that most players enjoy this format.

Thanks to Ron Holtz and Lowell Lufkin for putting on a good time for us all. Prizes were provided by the Ohio Valley Hoplites, the local NASAMW chapter.

1st Jenny Torbett, Later Hoplite Greek, 22 points (3-2 overall)

2nd Mike Demana, Albanian, 21 points (3-2 overall)

3rd (tie) Phillip Wells, Medieval German, 19 points (3-2 overall)

3rd (tie) Mike Stelzer, Caledonian, 19 points (6-0 overall)

5th (tie) John Loy, Fatimid Egyptian, 18 points (4-3 overall)

5th (tie) Aaron Mckibben, Medieval German, 18 points (4-1 overall)

5th (tie) Tim Ryan, Anglo-Norman, 18 points (4-1 overall)

5th (tie) Steve Cole, Later Hoplite Greek, 18 points (3-1 overall)

9th Andrew Lufkin, Patrician Roman East, 14 points (2-3 overall)

10th (tie) Lowell Lufkin III, Later Sargonid, 12 points (2-3 overall)

10th (tie) Jeff Chattin, Teutonic Order, 12 points (1-7 overall)

12th Jacob Bonaparte, War of Roses English, 11 points (1-4 overall)

13th Rich Hartley, Serbian Empire, 7 points (1-3 overall)

14th Derek Wagner, Alexandrian Macedonian, 7 points (0-4 overall)

15th Dennis Roeder, Later Hoplite Greek, 5 points, (1-3 overall)

Aaron McKibben, left, (here matched against Tim Ryan) and Jeff Chattin, center, drove from Indiana for the New Song event

Close up of Aaron's Medieval German army with its War Wagon and Knights

Jeff Chattin and Rich Hartley, center, help explain the finer points of DBA to new recruit Phillip Wells

Steve Cole's Thebans charge into Aaron's Medieval Germans

Tournament Champion Jenny Torbett plays another new face, Columbus resident Derek Wagener, who finally made it to his first GLADBAG event

Dennis Roeder, left, and Tim Ryan square off in a row of DBA action at New Song

And lest we forget -- DBA was not the only game going on! Here, Dave Perry watches as his opponent, Andy Swingle (right) gets ready to march his DBM army forward to engage.