This in from Jim Burgess:

I may not get the full report out until Saturday, but wanted to get a quickie out now before the reality of work this week, including a worktrip to Baltimore for Thursday/Friday, and not being ready to teach my class tonight, sets in.

We had 21 players in total playing seven games in four rounds, three with two each, only disappointment was not forming a second board on Sunday afternoon. It's still a fight to actually get gamers at a general gaming convention in the room at the right time to play. Plus a HUGE apology to our Best Russia for the weekend who arrived just after we did the draw for the Sunday afternoon round and everyone present voted to have a nice clean final board rather than scrounging for players and a weird last round with
people playing on both boards. Our seven games were all clean, I issued not a SINGLE Diplomacy order in anger or otherwise all weekend, no one played more than two boards at a time or played without fully competing in the round and the tournament. We did have a couple of replacement fillins when people had to leave, but one ended immediately after the player left.

We got a lot of people excited about games in the future though, which will pay Massacre, HuskyCon, and Carnage dividends to come, as well as house games. Note that newcomer Brendan Hickey already has a note out asking for dates so he can host a game!!! By my count, we had 10 veterans of previous FTF and tournament play, and 11 newcomers! The ratio to me seemed good.
Some of the newcomers had played long ago, some were in their first FTF games. Two of the 11 finished in the top 10, and one won best Russia. So Chris Morse needs to give me his postal address so I can mail him his plaque!!!

Here's the quick results:

Champion: Peter McNamara, also winning Best Germany, Best Turkey, and Best Italy (with a solo).
2ND: Jon Hill, also winning Best Austria and Best England
3RD: Steve Cooley, also winning Best France, and I think I have his postal address somewhere, but I need to mail him his plaque too!! (Steve only played one round and the scoring system allowed him to do this -- more on that in the full report)
4TH: Robert Rousse (Carnage is going to have a big role as the end of the four tournament Nor'Easter, more on that to come, make your November 6-8 plans now!)
5TH: Charles Steinhardt
6TH: Alex Amann
7TH: Melissa Call
8TH: Chris Morse, also winning Best Russia
9TH: Don Williams, also winning prize for longest traveler from California, flying back as I write
10TH: Ari Caramanica, newcomer who I wanted to give a "most promising new player" prize to, and I may still try to get that to her, she played great in an introductory outing!

Thanks to everyone and to the great TempleCon hosts, my choice to reserve a crash suite worked out really well, I hope there are enough people next year to need two or three of them.