Final 2017
The Carcassonne World Championship Final took place in Essen / Germany on on Sunday, October 29th 2017 during worlds largest game fair SPIEL.
37 players were waiting for their chance to become new Carcassonne champion 2017 so due to the uneven number we had to determine another player. This year the Belgium vice champion (the son of the Belgium player!) was the lucky winner of our Carcassonne lottery. Five of the 38 players had been Carcassonne World Champions before so the level of the tournament was very high.
After five preelimination rounds Tomasz Preuss fom Poland was the only player with five victories and therefore automatically in the quarterfinal. Next to him six player with four victories each made it there, too: Pantelis Litsardopoulos from Greece, Matej Tabak from Slovak Republic, David Sandrine from Italy, Ven Gee Lim from Great Britain, Johan Nuyts from Belgium and Martin Mojsiz from Czech Republic. Twelve players had three victories each so the first tiebraker came into play and Stefan Leopoldseder from Austria was the lucky last one who qualified for the quarterfinal. After some very though games the following countries made it into the semi final: Poland, Greece, Slovak Republic and Italy. Here Tomasz Preusz continued his victory series and went straight into the final game (the first world champion ever who won all the games in the tournament!) while two times world champion Pantelis Litsardopoulos followed his example only a few minutes later and went there, too (the fifth year in a row!).
Nearly right from the start there was a fight for a large city and it became clear that the player with the most meeples in the end would be the winner of the tournament. Tomasz attacked Pantelis hard and was able to place more meeples in the city so this (next to some other moves) was the main factor for his victory.
Therefore the new Carcassonne world champion 2017 is TOMASZ PREUSS from POLAND! Congratulations!!!
Here are the final results of the 12th Carcassonne World Championships:
1 Tomasz Preuss from Poland
2 Pantelis Litsardopoulos from Greece
3 Davide Sandrin from Italy
4 Matej Tabak from Slovak Republic
5 Ven Gee Lim from Great Britain
6 Martin Mojzis from Czech Republic
7 Johan Nuyts from Belgium
8 Stefan Leopoldseder from Austria
9 Bradley Finn from USA
10 Nicolescu Mihnea Ioan from Romania
11 Takafumi Mochizuki from Japan
12 Troy Chak from Canada
13 Wolf Nyts from Belgium
14 Pere Vives from Spain
15 Yee Hock Tan from Malaysia
16 Vladimir Kovalev from Russia
17 Rolandas Pukstas from Lithuania
18 Dong Yang from China
19 Els Bulten from The Netherlands
20 Jose Miguel Ferrario from Colombia
21 Hanne Sundelin Larsen from Norway
22 Rafael Escalante from Mexico
23 Thomas Leung from Australia
24 Martin Kasperlik from Czech Republic
25 Tobey Tamber from Taiwan
26 Irene Müller from Germany
27 Diego Acevedo from Chile
28 Larna O'Reilly W. Hansen from Denmark
29 Ricardo F. L. da Silva from Portugal
30 G. Ziegler da Silva from Brasil
31 Ville Inkiläinen from Finland
32 Egita Pandare from Latvia
33 War Key Li from Hong Kong
34 Gabor Somogyi from Hungary
35 Raivo Rang from Estonia
36 Hanna Johansson from Sweden
37 Filip Baljkas from Serbia
38 Trouillard Olivier from France
Some impressions at the end:
37 players were waiting for their chance to become new Carcassonne champion 2017 so due to the uneven number we had to determine another player. This year the Belgium vice champion (the son of the Belgium player!) was the lucky winner of our Carcassonne lottery. Five of the 38 players had been Carcassonne World Champions before so the level of the tournament was very high.
After five preelimination rounds Tomasz Preuss fom Poland was the only player with five victories and therefore automatically in the quarterfinal. Next to him six player with four victories each made it there, too: Pantelis Litsardopoulos from Greece, Matej Tabak from Slovak Republic, David Sandrine from Italy, Ven Gee Lim from Great Britain, Johan Nuyts from Belgium and Martin Mojsiz from Czech Republic. Twelve players had three victories each so the first tiebraker came into play and Stefan Leopoldseder from Austria was the lucky last one who qualified for the quarterfinal. After some very though games the following countries made it into the semi final: Poland, Greece, Slovak Republic and Italy. Here Tomasz Preusz continued his victory series and went straight into the final game (the first world champion ever who won all the games in the tournament!) while two times world champion Pantelis Litsardopoulos followed his example only a few minutes later and went there, too (the fifth year in a row!).
Nearly right from the start there was a fight for a large city and it became clear that the player with the most meeples in the end would be the winner of the tournament. Tomasz attacked Pantelis hard and was able to place more meeples in the city so this (next to some other moves) was the main factor for his victory.
Therefore the new Carcassonne world champion 2017 is TOMASZ PREUSS from POLAND! Congratulations!!!
Here are the final results of the 12th Carcassonne World Championships:
1 Tomasz Preuss from Poland
2 Pantelis Litsardopoulos from Greece
3 Davide Sandrin from Italy
4 Matej Tabak from Slovak Republic
5 Ven Gee Lim from Great Britain
6 Martin Mojzis from Czech Republic
7 Johan Nuyts from Belgium
8 Stefan Leopoldseder from Austria
9 Bradley Finn from USA
10 Nicolescu Mihnea Ioan from Romania
11 Takafumi Mochizuki from Japan
12 Troy Chak from Canada
13 Wolf Nyts from Belgium
14 Pere Vives from Spain
15 Yee Hock Tan from Malaysia
16 Vladimir Kovalev from Russia
17 Rolandas Pukstas from Lithuania
18 Dong Yang from China
19 Els Bulten from The Netherlands
20 Jose Miguel Ferrario from Colombia
21 Hanne Sundelin Larsen from Norway
22 Rafael Escalante from Mexico
23 Thomas Leung from Australia
24 Martin Kasperlik from Czech Republic
25 Tobey Tamber from Taiwan
26 Irene Müller from Germany
27 Diego Acevedo from Chile
28 Larna O'Reilly W. Hansen from Denmark
29 Ricardo F. L. da Silva from Portugal
30 G. Ziegler da Silva from Brasil
31 Ville Inkiläinen from Finland
32 Egita Pandare from Latvia
33 War Key Li from Hong Kong
34 Gabor Somogyi from Hungary
35 Raivo Rang from Estonia
36 Hanna Johansson from Sweden
37 Filip Baljkas from Serbia
38 Trouillard Olivier from France
Some impressions at the end: