We had another all time high as far as participants at this year's convention. I had about 94 people involved in the three tournaments, Teams, Bronze Age, ant DBA. For once, we had enough room at the Penn Harris, only because of the lower table requirements when playing Teams.

Right, Top: 25mm Teams, 12 teams entered, 10 teams finished. Other groupings below.

Still, it was snug. The Bronze Age tourney has much more popular than I expected, We actually had as many people playing in 25mm as in 15mm, the first time that has ever happened in recent years. I guess people showed up using all those New Assyrian armies that have been gathering dust since the days of 5th Edition.

I would like to thank Frank Gilson for helping out with the umpiring chores. Dan Burkley filled in for me on Saturday so I could actually play a game. Alan Spencer organized and ran the DBA event, something he plans on doing in the forseeable future.

The following sponsors kicked in for about $500 in prizes, again a new high: Ral Partha, Antiquitus Miniatures, Modelers Mart, Falcon Miniatures, Wargames, Soldier World USA, Simtac, and Matchlock Miniatures. I would especially like to thank Doug Ray of Eagle and Empire hobby shop here in Northern Virginia for providing the very nice terrain for the DBA tournament. It was light years ahead of my masking tape effort last year.

The various tournament results are as follows:

25-mm Team: Brad Bode and Lenny Herrman-Seleucids
15-mm Team: Mark Stone and Dave Stiers-Tibetans
25-mm Bronze Age: Chris Damour-Early Hebrews
15-mm Bronze Age: Craig Tyrell-New Assyrians
DBA Tourney: Scott McDonald-Free Company
Best painted 15-mm: Wait Leach-New Assyrians
Best painted 25-mm: Dan Burkley-New Kingdom Egyptians
Sportsman: Holly Hinrichs

We continue to break the gender barrier with each convention. Last year we had the first women playing, this year we had the first father/daughter team, Tom and Holly Hinrichs. She is 12 and when I last saw her Sunday morning, she was holding her own in a singles pick up game running Germans.

Tentative HISTORICON tourney Info will includc singles games in both scales in the standard all three book 1500 point format as well as the NCT. However, because of forseeable space limitations, we don't have a schedule yet. That will be in one of the next couple of Spearpoints and any other newsletter I remember to mail a schedule.

The following is a breakdown of the tournament results in order of placement. I've only listed players or teams that finished the entire tournament. Several players and teamsdropped out early.