WorldDipCon

WorldDipCon

During the 1970s, there were very few Diplomacy tournaments outside North America. At that time, the winner of the tournament held at American DipCon was considered by the North American players as a world champion of Diplomacy.

The WorldDipCon (World Diplomacy Convention) was created in 1988 and the winner of the tournament held at this convention becomes the world champion of Diplomacy.

The players taking the top three places in each WorldDipCon tournament are listed below:

Year	Host City	Host Country	World Champion	Second	Third
1988	Birmingham	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Phil Day	Template:Flagicon Matt MacVeigh	Template:Flagicon Jim Mills
1990	Chapel Hill	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Jason Bergmann	Template:Flagicon Jeff Bohner	Template:Flagicon Steve Cooley
1992	Canberra	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Steve Gould	Template:Flagicon Eric Roche	Template:Flagicon Bruno-André Giraudon
1994	Birmingham	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Pascal Montagna	Template:Flagicon Stéphane Gentric	Template:Flagicon Bruno-André Giraudon
1995	Paris	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Bruno-André Giraudon	Template:Flagicon Antonio Ribeiro da Silva	Template:Flagicon Thomas Sebeyran
1996	Columbus	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Pitt Crandlemire	Template:Flagicon Leif Bergman	Template:Flagicon Björn von Knorring
1997	Gothenburg	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Cyrille Sevin	Template:Flagicon Roger Edblom	Template:Flagicon Borger Borgersen
1998	Chapel Hill	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Chris Martin	Template:Flagicon John Quarto-von-Tivadar	Template:Flagicon Mark Fassio
1999	Namur	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Christian Dreyer	Template:Flagicon Leif Bergman	Template:Flagicon Ivan Woodward
2000	Hunt Valley	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Simon Bouton	Template:Flagicon Brian Dennehy	Template:Flagicon Matthew Shields
2001	Paris	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Cyrille Sevin	Template:Flagicon Brian Dennehy	Template:Flagicon Chetan Radia
2002	Canberra	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Rob Stephenson	Template:Flagicon Grant Steel	Template:Flagicon Yann Clouet
2003	Denver	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Vincent Carry	Template:Flagicon Edward Hawthorne	Template:Flagicon Frank Johansen
2004	Birmingham	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Yann Clouet	Template:Flagicon André Kooy	Template:Flagicon Cyrille Sevin
2005	Washington<ref>Originally scheduled to be in Hunt Valley, but moved when the original host convention moved from Hunt Valley to Lancaster, PA.</ref>	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Frank Johansen	Template:Flagicon Tom Kobrin	Template:Flagicon Edi Birsan
2006	Berlin	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Nicolas Sahuguet	Template:Flagicon Cyrille Sevin	Template:Flagicon Yann Clouet
2007	Vancouver	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Doug Moore	Template:Flagicon Jake Mannix	Template:Flagicon Mark Zoffel
2008	Lockenhaus	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Julian Ziesing	Template:Flagicon Cyrille Sevin	Template:Flagicon Daniel Leinich
2009	Columbus	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Andrew Goff	Template:Flagicon Daniel Lester	Template:Flagicon Jim O’Kelley
2010	The Hague	Template:Flagcountry
2011	Sydney	Template:Flagcountry

North America

DipCon

The winner of the DipCon (Diplomacy Convention) tournament is the North American champion. The title of North American champion was not given at the beginning, but since 1972 has been awarded to each winner of the convention tournament. DipCon was created in 1966 and occurred each year (except in 1967 and 1968). There was no tournament in 1966<ref>DipCon I held in Youngstown, OH, and hosted by John Koning in his home, 31 August, 1666.</ref>, 1969<ref>DipCon II held in Youngstown, OH, because "...we had so much fun last time, let's do it again."</ref> and 1971.

The winner of each DipCon North American Championship tournament:

Year	Host City	Host Country	North American Champion	Notes
1970	Oklahoma City	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon John Smythe
1972	Chicago	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Richard Ackerlay
1973	Chicago	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Conrad von Metzke and Template:Flagicon John Smythe tie
1974	Chicago	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Mike Rocamora
1975	Chicago	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Walter Blank and Template:Flagicon Bob Wartenberg tie
1976	Baltimore	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Thomas Reape
1977	Lake Geneva	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Mike Rocamora
1978	Los Angeles	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon David Lagerson
1979	Chester	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Ben Zablocki
1980	Detroit	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Carl Echelberger
1981	Burlingame	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Ron Brown	<ref>Held as part of Origins, which was in San Mateo, but held in a separate hotel because of space limitations</ref>
1982	Baltimore	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Konrad Baumeister
1983	Detroit	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Joyce Singer	<ref>We can see in Diplomacy World 35 that the name of the winner is Joyce Singer.</ref>
1984	Dallas	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Jeff Key
1985	Seattle	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon J.R. Baker
1986	Fredericksburg	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Malcolm Smith	<ref>The best North American player, the American Marc Hurwitz, finished 2nd.</ref>
1987	Madison	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon David Hood
1988	San Antonio	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Dan Sellers
1989	San Diego	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Edi Birsan	<ref>Hohn Cho won the 1989 DipCon Diplomacy tournament, but that year's "DipCon Champion" was decided by a number of events.</ref>
1990	Chapel Hill	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Jason Bergmann	<ref name="DipCon">This year, the DipCon was the WorldDipCon.</ref>
1991	Scarborough	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Gary Behnen
1992	Lenexa	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Marc Peters
1993	San Mateo	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Hohn Cho
1994	Chapel Hill	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Bruce Reiff
1995	Baltimore	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Sylvain Larose
1996	Columbus	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Pitt Crandlemire	<ref name="DipCon"/>
1997	Seattle	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Chris Mazza
1998	Chapel Hill	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Chris Martin	<ref name="DipCon"/>
1999	Columbus	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Chris Mazza
2000	Hunt Valley	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Simon Bouton	<ref name="DipCon"/><ref>The best North American player, the American Matthew Shields, finished 3rd.</ref>
2001	Denver	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon David Hood
2002	Chapel Hill	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Morgan Gurley
2003	Washington	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Edward Hawthorne
2004	Portland	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Ken Lemere
2005	At Sea	Template:Flagcountry Template:Flagcountry Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Rick Desper	<ref>Played during a cruse from Galveston Template:Flagicon and with several stops: Progreso Template:Flagicon, Cozumel Template:Flagicon and Belize City Template:Flagicon.</ref>
2006	Charlottesville	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Hohn Cho
2007	Vancouver	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Doug Moore	<ref name="DipCon"/>
2008	Tysons Corner<ref>DipCon status was removed from the Bangor event by the NADF on 30 July 2008.</ref>	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Chris Martin	<ref>Results Disputed. Under normal hobby practice, the Tournament Director is ineligible for prizes due to real or perceived conflicts of interest. David Webster acted as TD, but still declared himself the winner.</ref>
2009	Columbus	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Andrew Goff
2010	San Francisco	Template:Flagcountry

North American Grand Prix

The winner of each Grand Prix:

Year	Nbr of steps	Nbr of players	Winner
1999	7	58	Template:Flagicon Chris Martin
2000	14	125	Template:Flagicon Matt Shields
2001	34	166	Template:Flagicon Jerry Fest
2002	17	171	Template:Flagicon Andy Bartalone
2003	16	213	Template:Flagicon Edward Hawthorne
2004	14	305	Template:Flagicon Doug Moore
2005	13	234	Template:Flagicon Andrew Neumann
2006	12	200	Template:Flagicon Jim O'Kelley
2007	12	270	Template:Flagicon Doug Moore
2008	15	275	Template:Flagicon Thomas Haver

Europe

European DipCon

The winner of each European DipCon tournament:

Year	Host City	Host Country	European Champion	Notes
1993	Paris	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Samy Malki
1994	Linköping	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Xavier Blanchot
1995	Cirencester	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Inge Kjøl
1996	Oslo	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Inge Kjøl
1997	Namur	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Cyrille Sevin
1998	Bedford	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Toby Harris
1999	Turku	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Simon Bouton
2000	Paris	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Leif Bergman
2001	Dublin	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Paraic Reddington
2002	Malmö	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Frank Johansen
2003	City of San Marino	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Yann Clouet
2004	Darmstadt	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Edi Birsan	<ref>First European: Template:Flagicon Gihan Bandaranaike (second of the tournament).</ref>
2005	Utrecht	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Simon Bouton
2006	Cheshunt	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Benjamin Pouillès-Duplaix
2007	Marseille	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Fabien Grellier
2008	Brunate	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon Luca Pazzaglia
2009	Bonn	Template:Flagcountry	Template:Flagicon André Ilievics

European Grand Prix

The winner of each Grand Prix:

Year	Nb of steps	Nb of players	Winner
2002	10	283	Template:Flagicon William Attia
2003	11	349	Template:Flagicon Yann Clouet
2004	15	472	Template:Flagicon Yann Clouet
2005	13	364	Template:Flagicon Gwen Maggi
2006	14	340	Template:Flagicon Gwen Maggi
2007	14	272	Template:Flagicon Gwen Maggi
2008	11	207	Template:Flagicon Emmanuel du Pontavice

Australia and New Zealand

Bismark Cup

The National Tournaments Championship - comprising the perpetual trophy known as the Bismark Cup - is awarded for the best aggregate tournament results at Diplomacy tournaments held during the calendar year. It is an annual (short term) ranking. The exact number of points depends on the size of the tournament and the person's placing in that tournament.

The winner of each Bismark Cup:

Year	Nbr of steps	Nbr of players	Winner
1989			Template:Flagicon Robert Wessels
1990			Template:Flagicon Harry Kolotas
1991	3	75	Template:Flagicon Robert Wessels
1992	5	123	Template:Flagicon Steve Gould
1993	6	93	Template:Flagicon Harry Kolotas
1994			Template:Flagicon Craig Sedgwick
1995			Template:Flagicon Rob Stephenson
1996	5	65	Template:Flagicon Craig Sedgwick
1997	5	74	Template:Flagicon Bill Brown
1998	7	92	Template:Flagicon Rob Stephenson
1999	8	117	Template:Flagicon Brandon Clarke
2000	9	111	Template:Flagicon Rob Stephenson
2001	10	104	Template:Flagicon Tristan Lee
2002	7	84	Template:Flagicon Rob Schone
2003	6	52	Template:Flagicon Geoff Kerr
2004	8	56	Template:Flagicon Grant Steel
2005	8	65	Template:Flagicon Tony Collins
2006	10	76	Template:Flagicon Sean Colman
2007	-	-	Not organised
2008	7	58	Template:Flagicon Andrew Goff

Origins of the Bismark Cup

In the early 1980's the Diplomacy scene in Australia was built around several PBM Diplomacy magazines, of which the most significant titles were Rumplestiltskin, The Go Between, Beowulf, Victoriana, The Journal of Australian Diplomacy, and The Envoy. Most of the torunament players were subscribers, players and editors of these magazines. The Envoy, which was published between 1986 and 1991, ran a series of articles which were both popular and influential. Purportedly written by Arthur von Bismark and styled as lecture transcripts, the character of Arthur von Bismark became celebrated among the contemporary Diplomacy subculture in Australia.

The aricles were popular at a time when tournament play in Australia had become more organized, with well-attended tournaments in Adelaide, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney. Rating systems at the time were being hotly debated and many players desired a way to assess the best player in the torunament scene for a calendar year, as a way of overcoming the perceived inconsistencies of rating systems within one event. The annual trophy concept was accepted among the then-principle organizers of these tournaments and the title Arthur Bismark Cup was suggested by The Envoy's then-editor Mathew Gibson.

The real author of these Arthur von Bismark articles was never announced publicly, but was suspected as being either Harry Kolotas, Marion Ashworth, Neil Ashworth or Luke Clutterbuck.

External links

• Template:En EDA - The World Diplomacy Database stored all the results known of competition in face-to-face.
• Template:En The international calendar of tournaments in face-to-face.