WBC News

12/11/2023 WBC Status

Just a reminder to everyone to vote for CFR on the Trial Ballot when you sign up for this year's membership. From the website:

The voting for Trial Events for WBC 2024 will occur during our initial Membeship Drive period from December 4, 2023 to January 31, 2024. To vote, complete the Membership Application, which includes the Trial Ballot for WBC 2024, and submit the form along with payment.

I have already talked to Ken and submitted a request regarding the player hours announcement below. However, the best thing we can do right now is to show our support for CFR by voting on the Trial ballot. Please make sure you do so before the end of January.

12/04/2023 WBC Status

We got an announcement from the board this week which may end up affecting us:

WBC EVENT PLAYER HOURS: With the announcement of the WBC 2024 Century Group, there has been much discussion on the player hour calculations for a few games. The player hour calculation was standardized using box hours for the playing time in 2018 to provide a consistent approach to player hours. Based on the discussion after the WBC 2024 Century Announcement, this calculation was revisited. The following process, reviewed by the Board, will be implemented for those GM's who feel the playing time for their event is significantly different than the box time.

A GM of an event may submit a request for the playing time to be reviewed for potential change from the box time. The GM will be responsible for submitting documentation to support the requested change. The request and supporting documentation is to be sent to the Convention Director (conventiondirector@boardgamers.org) by February 15. A decision on each request will be made by February 28.

If the request is approved, it will affect WBC 2024 Laurels and WBC 2025 Century/Trial Status.

I'm going to submit that request to be re-evaluated, but in the mean-time, let's all still make sure to vote on the Trial Ballot.

10/20/2023 WBC Status

Attention WBC racers!

Some of you may already know this, but unfortunately Championship Formula Racing lost its Century game status with WBC for this upcoming year.

We had our typical attendance of about 30 players in July but our player hours went down considerably as a number of racers had conflicts with other events. That was apparently enough to boot us out of the top 75 games. I was told by Ken that there were another 5-6 games in our same situation, and none of them got the 2/3 vote from the board to achieve Legacy status.

The next step at this point is to submit the game to the Trial Event Ballot, which I will be doing. So please make sure to vote for CFR this year on your ballot. If we don't get enough votes there, we could still get sponsored by a publisher, so we have a number of remaining avenues to explore.

It is my intention to run CFR at WBC in 2024, but that is the current status of things. Remember to vote on the Trial ballot in December!

8/02/2023 Results

Read this year's full report here, and in the meantime here are the top 6 finishers:

  1. Jim Fleckenstein
  2. Bruce Rae
  3. Tim Mossman
  4. Chris Long
  5. Dennis Nicholson
  6. Chris Kennington

7/15/2023 Rules

I updated the WBC Tournament rules to match the changes WBC instituted this year with regards to qualifying points and tie-breakers for determining finalists.

3/28/2023 Tracks

Without further ado, here are the tracks for this year's WBC.

The first group are some real classics - three of the most raced tracks in F1 history. Group 2 is a collection of fan favorite modern era tracks. Then the last grouping includes 2 tracks never used in WBC qualifying before - Kent which is a new design and Indy which made it's WBC debut as last year's finals track.

This year's finals is another brand new to WBC track - Midrand, also known as Kyalami.

Q1 Red Q2 Purple Q3 Green Finals

1/16/2023

I filled out the WBC form for CFR today, and it was approved, so we're official. I plan to announce the tracks for this year at some point in March.

8/01/2022 Results

Read this year's full report here, or if you're just curious about the top 6 finishers here they are:

  1. Tim Mossman
  2. Chris Long
  3. Brian DeWitt
  4. Don Tatum
  5. Mike Polcen
  6. Jason Schulz

3/04/2022 Tracks

In no particular order, the qualifying tracks will be:

Group 1:
  • Greater Noida
  • Austin
  • Hockenheim
Group 2:
  • Silverstone (1997)
  • Valencia
  • Barcelona
Group 3:
  • Sakhir
  • Singapore
  • Mogyorod
Finals:
  • Indianapolis
This would be the first time that Indy has appeared at WBC. Also, 4-wide straight.

5/11/2021 Cancelled

WBC has been cancelled for 2021. Michael Polcen at Redscape is looking to put together a TTS tournament, so if you need your fix, I suggest looking there.

5/23/2020 Cancelled

WBC has been cancelled for 2020, due to COVID. Hope everyone stays safe out there.

7/30/2019 Results

Read this year's full report here, or if you're just curious about the top 6 finishers here they are:

  1. Bruce Rae
  2. Scott Cornett
  3. Don Tatum
  4. Doug Gallulo
  5. Jeff Cornett
  6. Jim Fleckenstein

4/29/2019 Tracks

It is that time again, time to announce the tracks for WBC -- the last event of the 2019 Organized Play Season. This is a great event and one I always recommend. It is the largest single weekend event in CFR.

Group 1:
  • Suzuka - was the finals at WBC last year
  • Francorchamps 2007 - last seen at WBC back in 2014
  • Sakhir - last seen at WBC back in 2013
Group 2:
  • Speilberg - never before seen at WBC
  • Yeongam - last seen at WBC back in 2016
  • Silverstone 2010 - never before seen at WBC
Group 3:
  • Sochi - was the finals at WBC in 2017
  • Shanghai - last seen at WBC back in 2016
  • Sepang 1999 - last seen at WBC back in 2016
Finals:
  • Hockenheim - last seen at WBC back in 2017

7/31/2018 Results

Read this year's full report here, or if you're just curious about the top 6 finishers here they are:

  1. Michael Polcen
  2. Chris Long
  3. Mike Aubuchon
  4. Bruce Rae
  5. Don Tatum
  6. Tim Carnahan

7/03/2018 Rules Survey

I've copied all the results out of Survey Monkey again and put them on my website. Thanks again to everyone for filling this out, I really appreciate it. Check it out here:

Second Survey Results

Just as recap to these surveys, here is how WBC will be running this year regarding the issues we discussed in these surveys:

  1. We'll be splitting to 3 tables when we hit 21 players.
  2. We're sticking with 3 laps (with one exception). I forgot to mention this when sending out the tracks, but Oyama (on Day 1) will have 5 laps instead of 3, due to its short length.
  3. We know the tracks in advance (which was sent out a month or so ago).
  4. Table seating will determined randomly within skill groups. (I talked to Ken and he said this was fine and that several other games do the same thing with AREA rankings).
  5. No slip rules will be changing.

Finally, on the subject of Table Talk, let's continue to have a fun time around the table and talk and banter like we always have. Just bear in mind that coordination of moves and/or collusion is highly frowned upon, so be respectful of your fellow racers. We've been getting a bit relaxed on that subject in the last few years, so let's be more mindful in the future.

Personally I'm very much looking forward to seeing and racing with all of you in a little less than a month.

4/26/2018 Tracks

Since we decided as a group that we still want to know the track selections ahead of time, here is the much anticipated announcement of our track selections for this year's WBC.

The basic criteria we use is to cycle through the colors, one group a year. So since this year it is Blue, Purple, Red, and Yellow that means that next year would be Purple, Red, Yellow, and Green. That gives the greatest variety of tracks and keeps shifting what we play at any given time. Within that selection, we simply pick tracks that either haven't been played at WBC before, or haven't been played in the longest amount of time.

Qualifying Heat 1:
  • Valencia - last seen at WBC in 2015
  • Oyama - never seen at WBC (this track will run 5 laps due to length)
  • Baku - never seen at WBC
Qualifying Heat 2:
  • Sochi - first seen at WBC as last year's finals
  • Francorchamps 1983 - never seen at WBC
  • Castellet - never seen at WBC
Qualifying Heat 3:
  • Imola - never seen at WBC
  • Nurburg - never seen at WBC
  • Estoril - never seen at WBC
Finals:
  • Suzuka - last seen at WBC in 2013

4/02/2018 Survey

I've copied all the results out of Survey Monkey and reproduced them on my website. Go check it out here:

WBC Survey Results

It gives you graphs of all the questions and a bunch of the comments. I have some comments and then also make decisions on some stuff. There will likely be at least one more of these email blasts when we figure out the tracks for this year, and I'll probably have an announcement or two at WBC.

Anyway, thank you to everyone for filling this out, I really appreciate it. If you have anything else you want to talk about, feel free to email me.

8/03/2017 Results

Our finals track this year was Sochi, and the top 6 finishers were:

  1. Kevin Keller
  2. Don Tatum
  3. Brian DeWitt
  4. Bruno Passacantando
  5. Tim Mossman
  6. Randy Needham

8/03/2016 Results

Our finals track this year was Mexico City, and the top 6 finishers were:

  1. Bruce Rae
  2. Lance Ribeiro
  3. Chris Long
  4. Brian DeWitt
  5. Don Tatum
  6. Kevin Keller

8/19/2015 Results

Our finals track this year was Singapore, and the top 6 finishers were:

  1. Mike Aubuchon
  2. Kevin Keller
  3. Randy Needham
  4. Tim Mossman
  5. Chris Long
  6. Seth Kirchner

8/09/2014 Results

Our finals track this year was New Delhi, and the top 6 finishers were:

  1. Kevin Keller
  2. Randy Needham
  3. Chris Long
  4. Christina Hancock
  5. Tim Mossman
  6. Phil White