Titan 2 Avaloncon 1998 GM David desJardins 39 entrants A record turnout for this event extended the tournament to an unprecedented sixth round. Next year's event will likely close to new entrants on Wednesday evening, to reduce scheduling conflicts later on. Tim Rothenhoefer took out two-time winner (and three-time finalist) Brian Sutton in the first round, only to fall in round 2 to Mike Pustilnik. The other previous winner, Bruno Wolff III, lasted until round 5 before being unseated by Jason Ley. Ed Rothenheber proceeded to defeat Jason in the final and claim the title. I gathered data this year on starting tower in order to determine if the first player has a significant advantage. But what I found was that the second player won slightly more often! So apparently the first player does not have that much of an advantage---there are enough other random factors to compensate. Round 1 David Platnick (2) defeated Justin Childs (5) Steve Owens (1) defeated Eric Gorr (4) Ed Rothenheber (2) defeated Cliff Ackman (5) Peg Meacham (6) defeated Larry Lingle (3) Hudson Defoe (2) defeated Stefan Krzywicki (6?) Tom Moore (5) defeated Joe Pelliccia (2) Bruno Wolff (3) defeated Jeff Zarse (6) Dan Boyland (6) defeated David Lado (3) Chuck Nail (5) defeated Jonathan Shambeda (2) Christian Goetze (6) defeated Steve Shambeda (3) John Chung (3) defeated Cliff Smith (6) Aaron Fuegi (4) defeated Ken Nied (1) Jung Yueh (1) defeated Doug Faust (4) David Finberg (6) defeated Ben Foy (3) Paul Loebach (1) defeated Steve Clark (4) Michael Pustilnik defeated Eyal Moses Tim Rothenhoefer (4) defeated Brian Sutton (1) Richard Barnette (6) defeated Jason Russ (3) Jason Ley (3) defeated Elam Birnbaum (6) David desJardins received a bye Round 2 David desJardins (1) defeated John Chung (4) Aaron Fuegi (2) defeated Chuck Nail (5) Jung Yueh (5) defeated Christian Goetze (2) David Finberg (1) defeated Paul Loebach (4) Bruno Wolff (4) defeated Dan Boyland (1) Michael Pustilnik (1) defeated Tim Rothenhoefer (4) Steve Owens (5) defeated David Platnick (2) Jason Ley (4) defeated Richard Barnette (1) Ed Rothenheber (3) defeated Peg Meacham (6) Jason Ley (4) defeated Steve Owens (1) Round 3 Jung Yueh (5) defeated Aaron Fuegi (2) Ed Rothenheber (6) defeated Dave Finberg (3) David desJardins (2) defeated Mike Pustilnik (5) Bruno Wolff (1) defeated Hudson Defoe (4) Jason Ley (4) defeated Steve Owens (1) Round 4 Jung Yueh (5) defeated David desJardins (2) Ed Rothenheber received a bye Bruno Wolff received a bye Jason Ley received a bye Round 5 Jason Ley (5) defeated Bruno Wolff (2) Ed Rothenheber defeated Jung Yueh Round 6 Ed Rothenheber (2) defeated Jason Ley (5)