FIRST (YES, I AM SHOUTING) THE ORIGINAL SUBJECT WAS A 2012 TOURNY! But it has again turned into a pissy-fit over who is the best and blah, blah, (excuse me) and Blas.
 
Second, I apologize to Richard (UG) if he misunderstood. The 2011 was Underground's private tournament, because it was mainly Brits. Like 2010 was mainly Dutch and Deutch (sp?). What to do, what to do?
 
Quote from Devilsmacker on Apr 8^th, 2012, 11:39pm:

 
Wonderful idea. But lets go one step further:
 
Take this as a way of determining a NATIONAL champion. A small entry fee could be collected from each player. THAT money would go to basic travel expense for the National Winners to compete IN PERSON against all the other National Winners.  
 
Surely some way (let's ask Chip) to allow competitions to be on Meta, with (a)no meta membership required, but (b) ONLY for the individual National Titles. (like those robot championships?) This would allow smaller countries to not only compete for a National Title, but by pooling all the entry fees and ONLY using those entry fees for travel (basic economy class fares) to the in-person final tournament.  
 
This would, of course, mean everyone involved would have to GIVE and make an effort to do it right, (and considering the greed and avarice in the world, probably never happen), but............
 
Consider that a video could be made of the competition, and uploaded to Youtube. OR, some network like Fox Sports or C-span, CNN, could televise it. Why not? Perhaps it might stimulate interest in Stratego, either newcomers to the game, or some of those many 'Gee, I played that when I was a Kid, I didn't know it was still around'.
 
This comment from the Son of the South:
 
HTRN said, My question is, is this a real WORLD championship? is it sanctioned by ISF do they run it does any other group give it  legitimacy? Or is it a bumch of stratego geeks (i include myself and all admin and mods in that category)  playing at a group setting. I ask because I really do not know.  
 If the answer is yes it is legit than there should be different region champs europe, North America Asia etc thaen one championship played each year with the winners from these regions in the tourney. Otherwise it is not a true World championship.
 
As for ISF sanction, is that necessary? A World Champion is still a World Champion regardless of sanctioning body. And, with this in mind, wouldn't the ISF WANT to help (or lose the 'franchise'?) Just what contract does JUMBO have with the ISF? Jumbo is a Dutch country, but Pim (lighty) is also Dutch and a many times world champion.............
 
Maybe a new organisation, the Confederated Stratego Association (CSA?) would work as a sanctioning body.....
 
If you want a fun place to have the in-person competition, come to my village. I will supply food, shelter, and a place for competion (with tables and chairs).  
 
Don't know if that helps, or if I am even understood. Love you all, and love this game.  
 
 
 
 

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Actually it was mainly Dutch and German players just like 2010 and 2009.
The participation from British players was dissapointing. We had more British players at the last British National Championships than at the World Championships.
All the hard work finding sponsirship in the thousands of pounds and all the work setting everything up, so British players could participate and only a handful turn up. Certainly it was not done for me. I would travel to wherever it is held. It was held in the UK to help encourage the Brits to participate and they stayed at home.    
 

There was a tournament, last Autumn in New York City. I know several Germans who travelled across the Atlantic to participate. Not sure if any Dutch attended the tournament, but I don't think there was a great deal of Americans enter.
I may be wrong.......but I am sure if there was, they would be shouting out this fact. Also.....I never saw any tournament ranked in the official rankings which means there must have been less than 7 players, because if there was 7 or more it could have been ranked.  
 
It would great to see more American tournaments and more Americans entering Stratego events.
A WC in America would be great? I would love to travel over and combine a Stratego WC with some sightseeing.
But for this to happen the USA needs to start organising tournaments and trying to get players to travel to these events.
Other than joining ISF, the only other major thing is to find the sponsorship/funding to pay for the WC.
Get these 3 things and the dream would become reality.

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