Results of the Qualification Games



The games of the qualification round were all very different.

The following events are noteworthy:

Josef Gundel's Russia conquers East Prussia eventually without a final battle, by luring Lehwaldt into Poland and blocking his return path, thus killing Lehwaldt by supply shortage. (Game 2)

Anton Telle's Prussian TC-stack is close before reaching the ceiling of the hall. (Game 3)

The Allies escape a defeat by running out of time with only 25 seconds left on the clock (nevertheless they lose the game after turn 23). (Game 5)




Ralf Viereck sends Prince Soubise deep into Saxony, what turns out to be a not so successful strategy: Ralf receives 0 points in this game. (Game 5)

Alexei Gartinski loses as Prussia simultaneously against Russia, Austria and France. — A very rare triple-victory can be seen very rarely! (Game 7)

The designer of Friedrich, Richard Sivél (he jumped in as a spontaneous helper), makes mistake after mistake. Finally, Nico Maly "sings" perfect lullabys to him, and Richard manages to let Sweden win the game by conquering all 10 objective cities. Also a very rare event! (Game 9)
Josef Gundel's France juggernauts Hanover. This is the fastest victory of the tournament: 8 rounds. (Game 10)

Sometimes the Strokes of Fate are coming very, very late: The last 5 turns bring the cards "America", "India", "Elisabeth" and both Prussian Subsidy reductions. (Game 11)

"I am stupid! I am stupid! I am stupid!" – André Spiegel is jumping and screaming through the hall, very angry about himself and his mental blackout. What has happened? André played a TC and made a score of Zero. But the score of Zero was not his intention! – Thus, Robert Hafemeister's Prussia gets the wonderful gift of ending the combat as a draw (instead of being wiped out). This action maybe costed André the victory in this match. (Game 12)






Franziska Gilbert plays her first game as Prussia, and throws Josef Gundel (Austria) into deep desperation with her positional playing and her endlessly strength in diamonds. Finally she loses . . . (Game 13)

Bernd Preiß is able to lead his Prussia over the full length of 23 turns, based on most perfect positional play and aided by the quite early death of Tsarina after turn 9. (Game 15)

"Hooray !! The Tsarina is dead !!"Also after turn 9, the Tsarina dies at the adjacent table – but to the very happiness of Russia ! Richard Sivél had conquered the fifth 1st order objective just at this moment (and would have lost at least one in the next turn for sure; and his Swedish general Eherensvärd would have been removed from the board due to lack of supply). – A damned hard stroke for Dennis Kelsey and his Prussia!


B: Scoring after finishing the Qualification Round

Rank Player Fred. Elis. M.Ther. Pomp. Total
1 Josef Gundel 13,5 8 11,5 12 45,0
2 Anton Telle 13 12 8,1 11,5 44,6
3 Bernd Preiß 13,5 6 11,3 11,5 42,3
NC* Sivél & Vogel 6,5 12 6,9 11,5 36,9
NC* Gilbert & Gerlach 6,5 8 12 9 35,5
4 André Spiegel 7 8 12 7 34,0
5 Alexei Gartinski 6 9 7,5 9 31,5
6 Nico Maly 9,5 12 5 4 30,5
7 Steffen Schröder 6 8 11,5 5 30,5
NC* Kuner & Kettner 5,5 8 6,9 8 28,4
8 Robert Hafemeister 7,5 7 5,6 8 28,1
9 Thorsten Hennig 4 11,3 3,3 8 26,6
10 Herman Baeten 5,5 4 3,3 12 24,8
NC* Viereck, Hofmann & Wolmeyer 7 4 12 0 23,0
11 Dennis Kelsey 4,5 2 8,1 8 22,6
Notes:
1: NC = Not competing (due to participation as Team)
2: Between Nico Maly and Steffen Schröder (both 30.50 point) the second tie-breaker had to decide (i.e. sum of the points of the "small" countries (Sweden and Imperial Army)).








As to be seen in the table, the best 4 players were
Josef Gundel, Anton Telle, Bernd Preiß (3 victories each)
and André Spiegel.

They played the final match, which started after a 90 minutes break.

Josef Gundel, as best player of the qualification round, had the right of first choice of his role. Anton Telle, as second best player, had the second choice, and so on.