2013 US Master Report

2013 US Master Report with David Griffin The closing act of our 2013 has been played out.  The top eighteen players from across the North American continent came together at the Embassy Suites Hotel at the airport in Philadelphia in comradeship to fight it out to see who would take home the title of Masters Champion this year.

Six rounds over two days is enough to burn a lot of people out, add in the need to switch up armies and tactics after the first day and the possible reserves your opponent could call in and nerves were getting frayed towards the end.  All-in-all everyone seemed to have a good time and spirits remained high throughout the weekend.

The Masters format was a bit different this year with each participant needing to make both a Mid-War and Late-War army. These armies must be from the same nationality but cannot be of the same army type (i.e. Tank, Mechanised, Infantry, and Fortified).

Also, for each time period the player had the choice of an additional 250 point reserve force chosen from their army list. We played three rounds of Mid-War on Friday and three rounds of Late-War on Saturday.

I had a wonderful time this weekend playing the stand-in to even the number of players and generally getting beat up by the best players on the continent…. I still blame the dice.

Below are the match-ups and scores:

Round One: Dust Up Players Score Lewis vs. Dorothy 5 - 3 Messier vs. Vigor 6 - 2 Poore vs. Gains 2 - 6 Rush vs. Rosson 5 - 3 Forbes vs. Koches 1 - 2 Gobel vs. Robertson 2 - 6 Davis vs. Sinor 7 - 1 Cuthbert vs. Wismer 1 - 7 Griffin  vs. Mayer 1 - 7

Round Two: Hasty Attack Players Score Sinor vs. Griffin 7 - 1 Forbes vs. Cuthbert 3 - 5 Vigor vs. Poore 6 - 2 Rosson vs. Gobel 5 - 3 Dorothy vs. Rush 2 - 6 Lewis vs. Robertson 2 - 6 Messier vs. Gains 5 - 3 Wismer vs. Mayer 3 - 5 Koches vs. Davis 7 - 1

Round Three: Fighting Withdrawal Players Score Gobel vs. Cuthbert 7 - 1 Sinor vs. Vigor 5 - 3 Davis vs. Rosson 5 - 3 Lewis vs. Koches 6 - 2 Forbes vs. Dorothy 7 - 1 Wismer vs. Gains 7 - 1 Poore vs. Griffin 7 - 0 Rush vs. Robertson 7 - 1 Messier vs. Mayer 5 - 3

Round Four: Surrounded Players Score Davis vs. Gobel 7 - 1 Lewis vs. Messier 5 - 3 Robertson vs. Vigor 5 - 3 Cuthbert vs. Gains 6 - 2 Dorothy vs. Griffin 7 - 1 Koches vs. Rosson 7 - 1 Forbes vs. Poore 7 - 0 Mayer vs. Sinor 7 - 1 Rush vs. Wismer 5 - 3

Round Five: Cauldron Players Score Griffin vs. Koches 1 - 7 Rosson vs. Mayer 6 - 2 Gobel vs. Wismer 1 - 7 Messier vs. Rush 5 - 3 Lewis vs. Sinor 3 - 5 Davis vs. Vigor 7 - 1 Gains vs. Dorothy 3 - 5 Cuthbert vs. Poore 3 - 5 Robertson vs. Forbes 6 - 2

Round Six: Free-For-All Players Score Koches vs. Cuthbert 3 - 3 Vigor vs. Dorothy 6 - 2 Davis vs. Robertson 2 - 3 Gobel vs. Poore 2 - 6 Mayer vs. Rush 5 - 3 Wismer vs. Messier 2 - 6 Lewis vs. Forbes 1 - 7 Griffin vs. Gains 2 - 6 Rosson vs. Sinor 3 - 3

The Combatants

After the dust cleared, everyone sat down and had a wonderful dinner and talked about various points of interest, most conversation I overheard oddly seemed to revolve around Flames Of War. Strange that. ~ David. Right: John Matthews congratulates the 2013 Masters Champion, Phillip Messier.

The Players & The Armies
Ben Gobel with his British

Bryan Koches with his British

Byron Sinor with his Americans

David Cuthbert with his British

David Vigor with his Soviets

Doug Rosson with his Finnish

Ed Forbes with his Soviets

Jacob Mayer with his Americans

James Gains with his Germans

Jerry Poore with his Soviets

Jim Rush with his Americans

Joe Lewis with his Germans

Paul Dorothy with his British

Philip Messier with his Germans

Ron Wismer with his Americans

Tony Davis with his British

Wyn Robertson with his American

Battlefront's own David Griffin with his Soviets