Courier Dispatch

Ancient Tournament:
Historicon 2001

By Dick Bryant

Like last year, we again cracked the 250 person barrier in tournaments. As is usual every year, players doubled and tripled up on games and now we’re seeing a bit more cross-game play. Okay, there’s always been a lot of DBM-DBA cross play but now I’m seeing some Warrior-Medieval Warfare cross play and DBM-WAB. I’d estimate that at least half the DBM players doubled and tripled up on other DBM tourneys as well as DBA and of course 75% of the Warrior players triple up over the course of three days (daze). We’ve had three solid years of this and it seems to make players happy.

DBA amazes me. This year we had better coordination with the “other” DBA events run by Chief Umpire Bob Beattie plus I had a dedicated DBA section in the Lampeter Room.The Caliph theme was popular, with over 70 players participating.

Awardees of the “general overall sportsman in a game system”: DBM, Tom Ellsworth; Warrior, Josh Johnson; Warhammer, Mike Gatewood; Medieval Warfare, Paul Shnoder; Armati, Rick Parrish Big big big thanks to Scott Dickson, Bruce Meyer, and Darrell Smith for coordinating and setting up judging for an amazing slew of “esthetic” awards in almost each and every tournament bracket. These were for armies and camps. The press-ganged a couple of other people (I even think they had Phil and Sue Barker perusing stuff) to help out. The result was that NASAMW was able to flood people with lots of little prizes. Also, some of the specific rules umpires, Bob Beattie, Don Effinger and Terry Gore, also beat the bushes for sponsors. Finally, through the efforts of Bob, some of the DBA events were “joint” in that they were co-sponsored by The Courier Magazine. So, sponsors for the weekend were: Age of Glory (Foundry), Brigade Games, Harmony House, Brookhurst Hobbies, Castaway Arts, Colonial Connection, Eureka Miniatures, Falcon Miniatures, History in Miniature, London War Room, Old Glory, On Military Matters. The Quartermaster. Regal Miniatures, RLBPS, Simtac. Tactical Conflict Systems, Viking Forge and Wargames

Umpires were the “chiefs” for their respective rules sets, me in Warrior, John Shirey in DBM and Bob Beattie in DBA. Umpire for WAB was Don Effinger, Armati was Rob Robertson (with some help from Liam Hall), and Medieval Warfare obviously Terry Gore. As usual, Doug Mudd ran 25mm DBA and Mike McVeigh the Sunday morning period “open” DBA events. Rich Novak umped the DBM Theme like he always does and Bob Nedwich and myself split those duties for the DBM Mini. I ran DBA Midnight Madness because I like to start off the weekend sleep deprived.

TOURNAMENT RESULTS


DBM 15mm NICT Duncan Richards, Makkan
DBM 15mm “Other” NICT Brian Kennedy, Hindu Indian & Nan Chao
DBM 25mm NICT Tom Thomas, 100 YearsWar English
WARRIOR NICT Dave Markowitz, 100 Years War English
DBA NICT David Kuijt
DBM Open Don Kostello, Parthian
WARRIOR Open Bill Low, Ghaznavid
WAB Singles Paul Georgian, Crusader
WAB Doubles McClosky/Salvato, Indian
MW 25mm Jevon Garrett, Medieval Indian
MW 15mm Tony Marra, Early Normans
Armati Arena Chris Boland, East Late Roman & Saxon
DBM 15mm Theme Duncan Richards, Christian Nubian
DBM 15mm NICT Theme Harvey Harmon, Dynastic Bedouin
DBM 25mm Theme John Shirey, Kwarishmian
WARRIOR 15mm Theme Robert Turnball, Early Tang Chinese
WARRIOR 25mm Theme Mike Mallamaci, Nikephorian Byzantine
Armati Theme Chris Boland, E Late Roman
DBM 15mm Mini Richard Foster (with some help from Scott Dickson), Serbian
Warrior 15mm Mini Devin Low, Inca
Warrior 25mm Mini Todd Kaeser, Hellenistic Greek
DBA Midnight Madness David Schlanger, French Ordonnance
DBA 25mm Open Jeff Hady, Vikings
DBA Teen Patrick McMillen
DBA Biblical William Boardman, Hittite
DBA Classical Jim Spencer, Classical Indian
DBA Asia Rob Torres, Ghaznavid
DBA Dark Age Joe Coniglio, West Franks/Norman
DBA Medieval Art Hayes, Anglo-Norman
DBA Big Battles Mike Stelzer/Mark Pozniak, E Imperial Roman
DBA Duplicate Mike Stelzer
DBA League Vernon Jackson

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