This in from  Diplomacy World Tournament Editor Jim O'Kelley:

Andy "Buffalo" Bartalone of Maryland, who played with us at Weasel Moots I and II, won the Potomac Tea & Knife Society's Tempest in a Teapot tournament, which was held October 9-11 in the Tysons Corner area of Virginia. A total of 45 players participated in the three-round event, playing on a total of 15 boards.

The event was scored using the Carnage system, which is rank-based, meaning your placement is significantly more important than your center count. For example, topping the board with eight centers will get you 7008 points, compared with 6012 for finishing second with 12 centers. Buffalo topped two of his boards outright and shared the top on a third for a total score of 20,530 points.

The next three spots in the tournament went to fellow PTKSers: Chris Martin, our Alpha Weasel alpha, took second with a score of 18,525; Dave Maletsky, who also played at the first two Moots, was third with 18,025; and Jeff Ladd finished fourth with 17,022.

Thomas Haver of Columbus, Ohio, who played at CODCon and Weasel Moot last year, took fifth with 16,525 points. I was sixth with 16,026, and Adam Sigal of New York was seventh with 15,019. By placing seventh, Sigal almost certainly wrapped up the 2009 Grand Prix championship. The final event, Carnage next month in Vermont, probably won't yield enough points for anyone to catch him.

The best country awards went down as follows:

Best Austria: Jim O'Kelley with a 14-center board-top
Best England: Andy Bartalone with a 10-center board-top
Best France: Don Woodring with a 12-center board-top.
Best Germany: Dave Maletsky with a 10-center board-top
Best Italy: Chris Martin with an 8-center board-top
Best Russia: Jeff Ladd with a 9-center shared board-top
Best Turkey: Conrad Woodring with an 11-center board-top

Weasels Peter Yeargin and Thom Comstock joined me at Tempest. I haven't seen the full results yet, so I'm not sure how they fared. We all had fun, though. Thom was given a new Caylus game during the awards ceremony, I think for playing so many different games throughout the weekend. Peter was recognized along with PTKSer Doug Brown for a turn during which they simultaneously stabbed each other to no effect. They were each given a set of Chinese finger cuffs.

The Weasels were also singled out by the PTKSers. The three of us were called up to receive a copy of the obscure board game The Defense of Rorke's Drift for our club. I'm not sure where they found it. For those of you who don't know, Rorke's Drift is the battle on which the movie Zulu is based.

While we posed for our photograph, several members PTKSers demanded that we sing the Weasels battle hymn, which was written to the tune of the Zulu version of the Welsh song Men of Harlech. I started to say that we didn't know all the words, but before I could get that out, Conrad Woodring jumped up and handed us a copy of the lyrics. He had smuggled one of our song sheets out of Weasel Moot. So, our hand forced, we sang, but just the first verse.

Comstock and Yeargin need practice. Also, to sound its best, the song really does need to be sung by at least a dozen Weasels, one of whom must be founding Weasel and co-author of the battle hymn Eric Brown.

See you at a game soon!