1996 Bismark Cup - Final Results

The Bismark Cup is awarded to the player who performs the most consistently at tournaments over a calendar year. The following list was originally published in the newsletter of the Diplomacy Association of Australia, the DAA Rag. It was summarised from information supplied by the Bismark Cup Scorer, Bill Brown.

Five tournaments were played in 1996: the Australian Diplomacy Championships (January), the Victorian Diplomacy Championships (April), the New South Wales Diplomacy Championships (June), the Australian Capital Territory Diplomacy Championships (August), and the Don Challenge Cup (November).


        Place   State                          Total

        1       NSW     Craig Sedgwick         201
        2       ACT     Andrew Goff            171
        3       VIC     Bill Brown             151
        4       NT      Rohan Keene            143
        5       VIC     Ken Sproat             113
        6       VIC     Rob Stephenson          99
        7       VIC     Richard Orme            98
        8       NSW     Mark Pollinger          96
        9       VIC     Tristan Lee             85
        10      NSW     Steve Muzzatti          82
        11      ACT     David Gould             70
                NSW     Harry Kolotas           70
        13      VIC     Gary Bekker             67
                NSW     Geoff Kerr              67
        15      VIC     Ian van der Werff       61
        16      VIC     David Currell           59
        17      VIC     Frank Meerbach          58
        18      ACT     Reg Philp               53
        19      ACT     Doug Stewart            49
                VIC     Jason Whitby            49
        21      ACT     Tri Vo                  48
        22      ACT     Chris Goff              42
        23      VIC     Phil Orme               37
        24      VIC     Andrew Bushby           36
        25      ACT     Chris Nairn             30
        26      VIC     Dugal Ure               25
        27      VIC     Rodney Noble            20
                ACT     Nick Wheatstone         20
                NSW     Choong Yeung            20
        30      ACT     Andrew Geraghty         17
        31      VIC     Michael Ruschena        15
                ACT     Adam Stewart            15
                NT/SA   Andy Turner             15

10 points:
Tim Anderson, Chris Allen, Andrew Cheevers, Gary Donovan, Russell Dovey, Jorge Garcia, Matt Hastings, David Murnane, Marcus Schtenko, Roger Swift, Craig Thomson, Min Vui Voon, Ian Whitchurch

5 points:
Neil Ashworth, Shane Beck, David Blom, Kim Crispin, Roger de Graff, Tom Drake-Brockman, Peter Drew, Bernard Duggan, Peter Eckersley, Andrew Harding, Arianwen Harris, Luke Hoban, James Kwan, Clive Lane, Trevor OShannessy, Kerry Slavin, Graham Staplehurst, Simon Summersfield, Stuart Wilson

Note: 65 players attended tournaments in 1996.

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Diplomacy Association of Australia and New Zealand, Incorp. Assoc. (Vic) no. A0029615P.

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