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	Portsmouth and Allied Wargames Society, Southsea Community Centre, St. Pauls Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire.

The 2006 English DBA Open

England's premere DBA competition was held on Sunday 15th October 2006 at Southsea Community Centre in Portsmouth.

The 15 mm Senior competition used a "World Cup" format. The group stage consists of two groups of 5 players bringing their own armies. Any legitimate DBA army could used, with the players split into early and late groups. The top two players in each group progressed to contest the knockout stage with Wars of the Roses English armies (IV/83) provided by the organisers.

The four semi-finalists were Ray Briggs, Colin O'Shea, Martin Smith and Nik Gaukroger. Interestingly, each chose different options from the IV/83(a) list, with none opting for the (b) version. Nik beat Ray 4-3 and Martin beat Colin 5-4 to reach the final, which Nik won 4-3.

The 25mm competition involved each of the five players playing each other twice, once as defender and once as invader. The winner was Richard Jeffrey-Cook (enjoying playing in the competition for once, having organised all the previous ones).

The nine Junior 15mm players formed a single group, playing each other once. Overall winner was Alex Keane.

Alex won all but one of his games, but could only manage a winning draw against eventual second place Robert Dowling.

The Lance & Longbow Society's prize for the best performing 14th & 15th Century AD army was won by Aislinn Smith, using Medieval French, IV/64(b).

The final prize was awarded to Richard Pulley, for introducing so many new players to DBA.

Richard is a teacher and has started up a DBA group at his school, introducing many new players to the game. He has regularly taken his young players to the English DBA open, PAWS DBA events and even the Welsh DBA championships. His prize was one of the vouchers provided by 15mm.co.uk, which we expect will be used to buy more figures for the club.

	The 2006 English DBA Open was sponsored by the Society of Ancients (www.soa.org.uk) and 15mm.co.uk from Alternative Armies (www.alternative-armies.com)
with additional prizes sponsored by:
Magister Militum (www.magistermilitum.com)			prize for the 25mm competition
The Lance & Longbow Society (www.lanceandlongbow.com)			prize for best performing 14th or 15th Century AD army
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Click here for pictures from 2005's English DBA Open.

The fourth annual English DBA Open was held at Farnborough on 25th September 2005.

For the latest information on the next English DBA Open competition, check the Yahoo group at this link.