MMSGS 2015 Tournament:
Puerto Rico

This three-round tournament was played on Tuesday night Game Night sessions on March 31, April 28 and May 26, 2015, one game each playing session. The tournament winner was to be the player with the highest total of game scores, dropping his/her lowest score in the three games.

In each game players earned a score that was the percentage of their victory points relative to the winner of that game. (For example, if players A, B, C and D scored 50, 40, 30 and 20 VPs respectively, their tournament scores would be 100%, 80%, 60% and 40%.) This was intended to prevent players from cooperatively gaming the system to gain a high VP total by avoiding game end until all the VP chips have been given out, as well as to allow for differing numbers of players in tournament games.

In order to minimize the probability of a tie for the tournament winner, in the third round the players with the highest individual game scores (i.e. with the best chance of winning the tournament) were to be paired against each other on a single board.

Players rolled a dice for playing position at the table, with the high roller being the Governor on turn 1 and with the other players seated clockwise in order of their dice rolls.

There was an optional $5 entry fee for those players wishing to compete for a Valhalla's Gate gift certificate prize, payable prior to the player's first played game. Those preferring not to pay an entry fee were welcome to play but were not eligible to win the prize.

Here are the final tournament standings:

PlayerVictory Points/ScoresTournament
Score
March 31April 28May 26
Charlie68/100%59/100%53/83%200
Dana*34/81%43/100%0/0%181
Will*52/76%56/95%0/0%171
Glen*46/68%0/0%64/100%168
Blake*43/63%49/83%0/0%146
Stan*0/0%29/67%34/53%120
Walt*42/100%0/0%0/0%100
Debra0/0%33/77%0/0%77
Holli26/62%0/0%0/0%62
(* - paid entry fee)