We received the following press release. --RL PELA, "HMGS Best Event" Award: S-148 Campaigning with Frederick (15mm SYW) Neal Smith PELA, Best Dark Ages Theme Event Award: **F-000 Battle of Hastings (25mm Dark Ages) Brad Winslow Friday AM Morning [Friday AM "GM Judge Team" headed by GM Fred Hubig.] **F-134 Burnside's Bridge (25mm ACW) Kim & Jerry Fraggie F-131 Barbarians vs. Rome (25mm Ancient) Mark Zaslavsky F-02 Barthelmy, August 1944 (15mm WWII) Peter Landry F-11 Grey on Grey (ACW Naval) Geoff Graff Friday - PM - Afternoon [Friday Afternoon "GM Judging Team" headed by GM David Bonk. ] **F-000 Battle of Hastings (25mm Dark Ages - THEME EVENT) Brad Winslow F-120 Berezina Bridgehead (15mm WWII) Tom Ballou F-96 Villers-Bretonneux 1870 (15mm FPW) Bruce Weigle F-98 Busting the Bocage (54mm WWII) Mike Fatovich F-43 The Mother of all Arab-Israeli Wars (1/285 AIW)Bryan Leshinskie and Barry Templin F-93 Ethel the Red, Are you Ready? (25mm Dark Ages THEME EVENT) John Lundberg F-50 Landscape Turned Red (15mm ACW) Mike Pierce F-38 Booty, Beauties, and Bovine 875 AD (25mm Dark Ages - THEME EVENT) Bob Giglio et al Friday PM - Evening [Friday Evening "GM Judging Team" headed by GM Jim Getz. ] **F-114 Campaigning with Frederick 1758 (15mm SYW) Neal Smith F-72 Hannibal Beneath the Walls of Saguntun (25mm Ancient)Phil Viverito F-118 Who Cut the Cheese? (20mm WWII)Sam Scott F-70 Red River Raid (25mm ACW) Dave Markley F-76 Poles Attack Utitsa (25mm Napoleonic) Fred Hubig F-51 Aerodrome (WW I Aircraft) Hal Dyson Saturday AM [Saturday AM "GM Judging Team" headed by GM Dave Waxtell. ] **S-135 Mayhem in Ancient Rome! (25mm Gladiators) Mike Vasile S-3 African Hell, and then the Supplies Ran Out! (25mm Colonial) Edward Watts S-31 EASY Company (15mm WWII) Ed Bates & Jim Shaw S-137 El Capitan Grande: 500th Anniversary of the Dawn of Modern Warfare (25mm P&S) Peter Hess & Cy Taylor Saturday PM - Afternoon [Saturday PM/Afternoon "GM Judging Team" headed by GM Mike Pierce. ] **S-69 Will Hans Hold? (25mm WWII) John Speiss S-148 Campaigning with Frederick (15mm SYW) Neal Smith S-191 Pyramid Scheme (Colonial 25mm) Kevin Kennelly S-75 Tarawa (15mm WWII) John Rigley Saturday PM - Evening [Saturday PM Evening "GM Judging Team" headed by GM John Stafford. ] **S-75 Tarawa (WWII 15mm) John Rigley S-113 Pointe du Hoc (WWII 25mm) Martin Baber S-157 Charleston Clamp Down (ACW Naval)Scott Landis S-158 Wild and Free (25mm Wild West)Leo Walsh S-91 In Search of the Lost City (25mm Colonial)Bob Beattie SUNDAY MORNING [Sunday Morning "GM Judging Team" headed by GM Bob Giglio.] Z- 24 Glider Assault Maleme Crete (20mm WWII) Tom Garnett Z-6 Kifaru River Valley (25mm Colonial) Tom Anderson Z-1 Flechettes at Borodino (25mm Napoleonic) Nigel Marsh Z-21 Raid on Sulaco (25mm Colonial) Richard Norton Z-3 Adriatic Jutland (1/6000 Naval) Gary Coyle Z-2 Battle of Capte Henry, 1781 Stanley Sunderwirth Z-5 Eagles over Leipzig (WWII Aircraft) Jeff Kimmel Z-22 St. Giles (WWII 1/285th) GM by EFN Gamers Z-00 Pursuit of the Goeben David Emdee "GAMER NOMINATED" STREAMERS F-1 "Dark Ages Game" (25mm Dark Ages - THEME EVENT) Del Stover F-26 "Battle of Hills' Grove" (15mm 7YW) Mike Hillsgrove F-33 "Rhodes Attacks (15mm ACW) Kurt Schlegel S-49 "Smolensk" (25mm Napoleonic) Bob Kerstetter S-46 "NIEMCZA" (25mm Dark Ages THEME EVENT) David Bonk S-68 "Rebs Come to Schlegel's Ferry" (25mm ACW) Eric Schlegel "GM SERVICE STREAMERS for GM HELP DESK and GM JUDGES" Jodie Panzeri, Pete Panzeri, Otto Schmidt, Bill Rutherford, Rick Egtvedt, Bill Moreno, Pete English, Martin Baber, James Mattes, John Stafford, Jim Mcgaughey, Gordon Bliss, Leo Cronin, Fred Hubig, Mike Lorenzo, Leo Murphy, David Bonk, Gordon Bliss, Paul Georgian, Jim Getz, Mark Dayton, Dave Waxtell, Pete English, Mike Pierce, Bob Giglio, Neil Brennan, others unsigned. Notes: ** Marks events judged to receive a PELA Blue Ribbon in addition to a GM Streamer/Certificate for that time slot. If we misspelled, mis-named, or omitted a GM, Judge, or second GM's name, forgive us the Fog of War was indeed heavy in the thick of battle. We didn't mean for any events to get two streamers, but the judges did this twice by mistake, and so we went ahead and honored the Streamer and Certificate a second time rather than discard a perfectly good certificate. All of the Streamers and Certificates for each GM time-slot were awarded at CW during that GM's games. The "GAMER Nominations" and "GM Service Streamers" were not presented on site. Best Event Awards were also determined after all events were over. HMGS BoD Member Bill Rutherford has this Award, and We understand can award on behalf of HMGS the Best Event PELA award to Neal Smith and Best Theme Event PELA award to Brad Winslow (if they are present) Over 20 experienced GM judges assisted in the awards process, and are awarded a "GM SERVICE STREAMER" for their sincere efforts. All were very fair, objective and gracious. Thanks to each! (If we left one off of the list, or got a name wrong I apologize, not all signed the sheet clearly.) Over 30 GM's also assisted the process by manning the GM Help Desk, and are also awarded a "GM SERVICE STREAMER" for their contributions. (And if we left anyone off of that list, or got a name wrong pleas let us know. Not every Gm signed the sheet. ) Some GM's earned "Triple Battle Star Streamers!" They Worked the GM Desk, Helped to Judge, and (at a different time slot) were Awarded a GM Battle Streamer by another team of Judges! Anyone who did not yet receive his streamer please email Pete Panzeri@yahoo.com and we'll arrange it. Back to 2nd Quarter 2002 List of News Items Back to Master List of News Items Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2002 by Coalition Web, Inc. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com