World Boardgaming Championship
2024 Memoir '44 Tournament
World Boardgaming Championship
2024 Memoir '44 Tournament
Welcome to the World Boardgaming Championship Memoir '44 remote PBeM ("play by email") 2024 tournament.
Eligibility: All entrants are required to be members of the Boardgame Players Association (BPA) at the Associate level ($10 USD) or higher. See https://www.boardgamers.org/joinindex.html for details about joining.
To Register: Send real first and last name, email address, and BGA name via direct message to Winn81 on BGA or BGG
Prizes: BPA will award a plaque to the tournament winner. The top 6 finishers receive laurels.
February 15, 2024
3-4 months
Games will take place on Board Game Arena (www.boardgamearena.com) as a private, invitation only tournament. There will be two stages: a groups stage followed by a single elimination stage.
Time Limit: Each game's maximum duration is 30 days, which means each player has a maximum of 15 days to finish the match. This is the maximum length allowed by BGA. If a player runs out of time they can be skipped (up to the opponent), which will result in a loss.
Scenario: We have to work with the parameters of BGA, which means one scenario will be used for the entire tournament. I'm open to suggestions. Send your favorite scenario to Winn81 on BGA to be considered. Must be an official scenario available on BGA. Perhaps we will have a vote on which scenario is used. Update: The scenario is going to be The Meat Grinder. This was the highest rated scenarios on the DoW site.
Schedule: The next round will automatically start as soon as possible from the conclusion of the previous round.
Tiebreaker: At the conclusion of the tournament, the following tiebreakers will be used in order to determine places 3-8. Based on the last match played: Medal differential, figure differential, total medals, total figures, total dice rolled.
None
If needed, the GM and assistant GM will determine the fairest resolution for all.
Top 6 standings
1-Frederik De Buck-VCX1302-Belgium
2-Dan Winnowski-Winn81-USA
3-Caley Roark-CPRoark-USA
4-Jeroen van der Ham-jeroenh-Netherlands
5-Geoff Heintzelman-Nittany Devil-USA
6-Ethan Parks-ParksAndWreck-USA
Full standings: https://boardgamearena.com/tournament?id=268234
A total of 25 players participated in the tournament, which included players from 6 different countries and 4 different continents! The scenario played for all matches was The Meat Grinder, which was the #1 ranked scenario on the old DoW platform. It features USA Marines vs Japanese at Iwo Jima.
Stage 1 – Round Robin – Players were randomly divided into 4 groups by BGA’s algorithm and played a match against each player in their group. Group 1 was the only 7-person group and had the tightest overall standings. Winn81 (6-0) won the group. There was a 3-way tie for second place between Jeroenh, Gamer_Dave, and MDGatsby were all 4-2. Jeroenh advanced with the best tiebreaker, a cumulative medal differential of +15. Group 2 was won by VCX1302 (5-0). He is a well-known player in the Memoir community from Belgium who has won numerous tournaments. CPRoark (4-1) came in second, losing only to VCX. Group 3 was won by juliandb (5-0). 2nd place went to CarlChauvin (4-1) who edged out mrmanley31. The key match was a head-to-head match which Carl won 12-11, that lasted only 4 hours. In the process knocked out Jon Manley who has won the WBC Memoir ’44 tournament twice. Group 4 was won by Nittany Devil (4-1) with lopsided games and a score difference of +27. ParksAndWreck (4-1) earned second place to round out the 8 player field for the single elimination phase.
Stage 2 – Single Elimination – 8 players qualified for the single elimination stage
Winn81 def ParksAndWreck (12 to 11) – He took out my engineers early, then aggressively attacked on axis left, but I had assault center which yielded 3 medals, finest hour finished off last unit for 7-4 win. Game 2, his early artillery bombard posed a major problem throughout the match, he stormed the hills with general advanced, DFHQ, inf assault, also took out my key artillery on the other side, got 5th medal mid game to clinch the match despite poor cards throughout, he had a 3 medal turn not too long after that to make it close, 12-11.
jeroenh def juliandb (14 to 8) – It seems the score was reflective of the hit %s, 45% to 35%
VCX1302 def CarlChauvin (14 to 8) – A fast and furious 3-hour game.
CPRoark def Nittany Devil (13 to 12) – One of the closest matches, 6-7 and 7-5. Tied on figures overall.
SEMIFINAL – Winn81 def jeroenh (14 to 8) – A rematch of the top 2 players from Group 1. A lot of fighting at distance he's up 4-3, I assaulted the center, including rolling armor over mines, ambush caught him off guard, a 3-medal turn including reaching a retreated infantry unit ended the game suddenly for a 7-5 win. Game 2, early on some great dice for me and terrible for him, throughout the match I kept chipping away at his units mainly with artillery units eventually getting the 14-8 win.
SEMIFINAL – VCX1302 def CPRoark (14 to 8) – A slow start, with action at a distance and poor dice, no medals until move #92, kind of a weird game with below average dice overall. Game 2, CPRoark was notably aggressive with flame thrower tanks, VCX aggressive a couple times kamikaze with his infantry charging off the hills.
FINAL – VCX1302 def Winn81 (14 to 9) – He used infantry assault, assault left, and some great dice to decimate my right flank early, then I had no cards to respond, dig in stuck in hand whole game and subpar dice certainly didn't help, loss 7-3. Game 2, I had great cards but his were too, but the trend of his dice above average and my dice below average was impossible to keep up with, culminated with 0/5 pot shots at taking out a long infantry figure and then he medic back to full strength, for the match his hit percent was 41% mine was 32%, against a player like VCX that's not going to get it done.