Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Singapore Board Games Nationals 2007 Results

Singapore Board Games Nationals 2007
WARNING Lotsa Pics!!!!


The attendance at the event - FULL HOUSE

The Singapore Board Game Nationals 2007 were held on 1st and 2nd September 2007. Located at My.Playground, this event was held in conjunction with Gaming Fiesta 2007, insupport of Children At Risk Empowerment (CARE).

4 Different games were chosen this year for the Nationals, namely Dividends (Funfactory), Settlers of Catan (Mayfair), Blokus (Growing Fun) and Carcassonne (Rio Grande Games). A total of 62 registrants took part in the event, with Settlers of Catan taking the lead as the most popular game played, garnering 50% of the registrants.

Prizes were sponsored by Growing Fun (major) as well as Funfactory, Paradigm Infinitum and Funfactory. Players stood to receive over $1000 worth of prizes, with winners of the Catan and Carcassonne going to the Worlds Championships at Essen Germany to represent Singapore. All in all, players had a good time meeting up with new faces and enoying the games.

Both Paradigm Infinitum and Settlers Cafe would like to thank all those who came down and supported in one way or another a very big Thank You!!!!!!! These photos are a small token of our appreciation!



Trophies for the event



Dividends Players


Airin Yacup emerged Champion for Dividends

Simon Lek got the consolation Dividends set

Dividends designer, Nikki Lim, was on hand to autograph Simon's set

The public joins in at the open gaming with Nanyang Girls hosting

Start of the Settlers of Catan Nationals

Players studying their positions

The eventual winner, Calvin Ng, at his first table

Students also joined in the fun

Damien from Paradigm Infinitum teaching a game of Ca$h 'n Gun$

While Nikki runs a session of Dividends

Back at Catan, Weng Keong makes a decision

As Calvin negotiates at another table

Winner of Dividends, Airin in a round of Settlers of Catan

Final round of Swiss

Building up his points

Players ponder on their next trade

final minutes of the swiss rounds

And finalists: Marcus Tong, Teng Howe, Calvin Ng and Ricky Purnomo with Frederik as the Table Judge

The setup for the Grand Finals

The players' initial setup

Ricky concentrates on defending his title

The Grand Finals had a little tension in the air

Marcus Tong, last year's runner up back in the finals

Fredrik assisting the players

Nice view of Marcus and the 3-D Catan set

Calvin looks on as he decides his next move

A nice view of the 3-D board as players expand

Teng Howe making his move

Robber strikes!

In the meantime, meetup members bring their own games to share

The final board placement

Another shot of the final board

And we have a WINNER!

Group photo of the finalists

4th placing: Teng Howe (sorry about the blur photo)

3rd Placing: Ricky Purnomo

2nd Placing (AGAIN) Marcus Teng

Winner: Calvin Ng

Day two: Two Trophies to win

First up was the Blokus Nationals

We had a good mix of participants

Fast paced, each swiss round took only 30 minutes each

One of the best games to mix young and old

Nearing the end of the round

Agonizing over where best to place their pieces

Start of the next round

Early aggresive blocks

In a competition, no niceties as players strove to expand and block opponents

Green striving to break out of the blocks

The best way to win is always keeping track of your pieces

But hey its fun!

But thought provocating at times

Another game near completion

Yellow spreading his pieces far and wide

As each game nears completion, the board becomes colorful indeed

While Blokus is easy to learn, it is hard to master

Early Sunday morning most shops were still closed

This gives an ideal quiet envronment for thinking

Shuttered shops seen in the distance

Giant Blokus set to be used in the finals

Dividends winner Airin Yacup back on the second day for more gaming fun

Fenchao winning the lucky draw of a Blokus Trigon set

Meantime we welcome back Ricky for another round of Settlers!

Hosting for the public were the Nanyang High Girls

Here they are teaching out Snorta!

Grand Finalists for Blokus preparing for the tournament

And the game is on!

Reaching the centre

Finding ways to go through while blocking opponents

Midgame

And round 1 belongs to Ding Yuan!

Rob with his students preparing for the Carcassonne Nationals!

Ding Yuan was undefeated for the swiss rounds

Vincent looking on in horror as he is blocked!

While Fredrik gets a new perspective on the game!

End Game! And Ding Yuan emerges this year's winner by winning all his games!

The final board

Winners gather for a photo shoot

4th Placing: Marcus Tong

3rd Placing: Elijah Lau

2nd Placing: Vincent Gan

Blokus Champion: Ding Yuan

Final tournament of the Nationals: Carcassonne!

Its 1 on 1 as players slug it out for the finals!

The indefatigable Airin in her 3rd Nationals!

While Ricky challenges in Carcassonne!

Ladies were not uncommon for Carcassonne

Another game in progress. Each round was 1/2 hour long

Scoring charts had to keep shifting as the board grew

Kids got involved too in the Nationals!

Frederik with his well deserved break charming the ladies!

One of the NUS Volunteers from Gaming Fiesta

Commemorative Limited Edition Cards of the games played

Blokus proving to be very popular

Semi Finals of the Carcassonne Competition

Kah Leong concentrating on his opponent

Teng Chek is the brother of Teng Howe, also in the finals

Rob concentrating in his match against Teng Chek

View of the game in progress

Teng Howe vs Kah Leong...

but Kah Leong goes on to the finals and Teng Howe gets 4th

Rob came in 3rd

Teng Chek is 2nd

Champion of Carcassonne: Kah Leong!

That's all folks! To the next Nationals!

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