Welcome to the 2009-2010 For The People PBeM Tournament Page.

This is a BPA sanctioned tournament started October 19th, 2009.
Mark Herman is your game master.
Tom Thornsen will help administer and report game results for AREA rating.

• Ladder
  last updated Sunday December 20, 2009

Bill Pettus - winner of the 2003-4 For the People tournament results can be seen here.

James Pei - winner of the 2005-7 For the People tournament results can be seen here.

Chris Byrd - winner of the 2008-9 For the People tournament can be seen here.

Tournament Qualifications

• Must be a member of the BPA, Associate level or higher.
• Must have an email account.
• Must have world wide web access (reason : ongoing tournament information will posted here)
• Must own a 'hard copy' of the game. Please note that this tournament will use the 2006 rules with all options posted by Mark Herman at For The People Offical Website
• Must AREA rate the game. The results of all games must be reported to both Mark and Tom, who will report the results to AREA.

Start Dates and Format:

• This is a single elimination tournament.  There are 32 starting players. The winner of each game will advance to the next round.
• Players determine sides randomly. Once sides are determined report them to both Mark and Tom for recording.
• At the games conclusion report the final turn number, SW for each side and reason for the game ending.
• For AREA rating purposes, let Tom know if the two of you have played For the People previous to this game.
• The tournament scenario is used for all games.

Time limits: 

• Each game will be allotted 120 days (players should commit to making one card play per day), although extensions may be granted due to interruption of the ACTS server or some other event beyond the control of the players.

Error Handling

• Player A makes an illegal move(s), attack(s), etc.
• Player B can accept the move as is without changes, or declining this, ...
• Player A must redo the entire move. Once additional cards have been played the error stands, so pay attention.

Rule disputes

• The GMs will rule on rule disputes. The rules Guru is Mark Herman.  Post questions to the "For the People" folder on consimworld found under the path Boardgames/Individual Games section/ American Civil War/ For The People.
• If during a game you have a rules dispute, post it to the FTP BB first, then email the questions, with "FTP Questions" in the subject line to Mark.

Other stuff:

• PDF file of the card text that includes the cards added in 2006 can be found here.
• AREA ratings page for For the People can be found here.

Ladder  

Blue Bracket

Gray Bracket

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 4

Round 3

Round 2

Round 1

1

Henry Russel 4935

Michael Harvath 5420

1

Fall 1862

Spring 1864

2

Steve Likevich 5150

Alberto Molina 4886

2

3

Tim Tow 4834

James Kelly 4982

3

Spring 1864

Fall 1862

4

Nicholas Pei 5378

Tom Willcockson 4905

4

5

Richard Shay 5000

James Pei 7048

5

Fall 1862

Dave Rubin

James Pei

Spring 1862

6

Dave Rubin 4811

Dennis Nicholson 4756

6

Final

7

Gary Kirk 5217

Mikolaj Lenczewski 4865

7

Summer 1863

Summer 1863

8

Tolga Corapci 5000

Ken Burd 5254

8

9

Joe Dicamillo 4900

Jon Gautier 4694

9

Spring 1863

Michael Mitchell

Not on ACTS

10

Michael Mitchell 5499

Bob Sohn 5302

10

11

Doug Pratto 5494

Michael Kunin 5000

11

Summer 1862

Summer 1864

12

Grant LaDue 4996

Donald Everett 5000

12

13

David Dockter 6205

Tom Thornsen 5134

13

Fall 1862

David Dockter

Tom Thornsen

Summer 1864

14

Andy Bodkin  5072

Richard Wright 4590

14

15

Dan Dolan 4999

Jean Louis Dirion 5084

15

Summer 1862

Jeff Donald

Spring 1862

16

Don Chappell 5018

Jeff Donald 4883

16

Note - Small number after each participants name is their AREA rating for "For the People" at the start of the tournament.  
An underlined 5000 is a provisional rating for those who have no AREA rating for this game..