Another summer (or winter!) has come and gone in the Diplomacy world. The hobby just keeps on growing, and below is just a small smattering of the tournaments that have taken place in the last few months. Check back with the Pouch this fall for what we hope will be a new system for tracking all the tournaments that take place around the World of Diplomacy.

DAANZ Bismark Cup Standings (Top 10) Dugal holds on to a significant lead after sweeping the first two tournaments of the year! (complete standings) 1 Dugal Ure VIC 18.29 2 Rob Stephenson VIC 16.43 3 Geoff Kerr NSW 14.17 4 Tony Collins QLD 13.66 5 Sean Colman NSW 10.51 6 Will Black AKL 9.47 7 Grant Steel AKL 8.23 8 Tristan Lee VIC 7.98 9 Steve Muzzatti NSW 7.77 10 Yvonne Walus AKL 7.77

European Diplomacy Grand Prix Standings (Top 10) Yann still has the lead with 3 events to go. Can William come back and defend his Grand Prix title? (complete results) 1 FRA Yann Clouet 3685 2 FRA William Attia 2913 3 ENG Shaun Derrick 2300 4 NOR Frank Johansen 1838 5 IRE Brian Dennehy 1800 5 ISR Gilad Foldes 1800 5 FIN Vesa Virri 1800 8 NET Oscar Dijkoff 1331 9 NET Ronald Lokers 1300 9 ENG Gihan Bandaranaike 1300

North American Diplomacy Grand Prix Standings (Top 10) Edward Hawthorne still maintains a big lead after his Dragonflight win, but it's not over yet! (complete standings) 1 Edward Hawthorne 700 2 Vincent Carry 500 3 Chris Martin 486 4 Lisa Foster 477 5 Frank Johansen 451 6 Tom Pasko 446 7 Niclas Perez 428 8 Martin Snow 407 9 Matt Drew 404 10 Pat Charlton 350

Boston Massacre BOSTON - We have another first time tournament winner, as Detour comes to America!(complete results) 1 Lisa Foster 2 Andy Marshall 3 Andy Batchelor 4 Christopher Mann 5 Rick Desper 6 Chris Campbell 7 Brian Lester 8 Kyle Kalember 9 Graham Woodring 10 Jim Burgess

Arcon 19 OSLO - Frank Johansen runs another excellent tournament, this one won by, er, himself! (complete results) 1 Frank Johansen 2 Erland Janbu 3 Inge Kjol 4 Niclas Perez 5 Tage Bengstsson 6 William Attia 7 Mikal Lanes 8 Simen Fure Jorgensen 9 Rune Krogh 10 Yann Clouet

ManorCon XXI BIRMINGHAM - Despite not being a part of the Grand Prix, 50+ players attended the site of next year's World Championship! (complete results) 1 Ivan Woodward 2 Yann Clouet 2 Phil Day 4 Simon Bouton 5 Vick Hall 6 Dave Wreathall 7 Ian McLlellan 8 Richard Williams 9 Doug Massie 10 Brian Dennehy

European Championship SAN MARINO - Most of Europe's top players turned out for the eleventh European Championship! (complete results) 1 Yann Clouet 2 Sascha Hingst 3 Simon Bouton 4 Shaun Derrick 5 Niclas Perez 6 Cyril Sevin 7 Gihan Banderanaike 8 Miguel Martinez 9 Fabio Milinanni 10 Fearghal O Donnchu

Victoria DipCon VICTORIA, BC - British Columbian Diplomacy seems to be picking up a reputation as the premier Canadian scene! (complete results) 1 Edi Birsan 2 Gary Waines 3 Lucas Erskine 4 Jake Mannix 5 Andrew Simpson 5 Ben Cheng 7 Jon Saul 8 Armik Yaghoubian 9 Mark Zoffel 10 Ricki Briggs

  Matt Shields
(chirchill@diplom.org)