In our inaugural Carcassonne PBEM tournament, 52 players competed in a total of 103 2-player games over the course of nine round to ultimately crown Kevin Hammond as our champion.

This event used a double-elimination format, with rounds continuing until only one player was left standing with less than two losses. Details on the tournament format can be found at  https://sites.google.com/view/bpa-pbem/CAR-2025.

In the final game between Kevin Hammond and Chris Wildes, each player wound up focusing on a different feature type, with Kevin scoring the majority of monastery points and Chris scoring all of the farm points. Interestingly though, these points completely balanced out, with an 18 point difference between the players for each. It actually wound up being roads that won the day for Kevin, with nine of his thirteen point difference coming from roads (23 road points for Kevin, 14 for Chris). Across the entirety of the final game, points were only shared once, for an incomplete city at the end of the game.

Thanks to everyone who competed in this event, and congratulations to all of our laurelists! Our top six finishers are: 

1. Kevin Hammond

2. Chris Wildes

3. Bronwyn Woods

4. Robbie Mitchell

5. Debbie Gutermuth

6. Albert Bangma

Stats from across all nine rounds:

1. First players saw a slight advantage in this tournament, with 58.25% of wins going to the first player across the course of the tournament.

2. All of our laurelists had five or more wins.

3. Three byes were randomly given to navigate uneven numbers.

4. Our final undefeated player, Debbie Gutermuth, didn't have her streak broken until round seven, where she fell to our champion Kevin.

5. Scores across all games ranged from 54 to 167 points.