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After a longer than anticipated wait, the official results for the 2009 Spring Games are ready for release.

Scenario A: The Battle for Northern Italy:
• The scenario featuring all Novice players to the GITM game engine was won by the Venetian Republic team!
• The Venetians won with a revised rate of 136% versus a negative rate of (-46%) for the Piedmontese
• The Venetian team also won the Summer 1700 campaign with a 40% VP increase versus a negative return for the Piedmontese team.
• Jon Vanvark (monarch), John Gordon, Phil Dean, and Taylor Rethmeier were the members of the victorious team.

Scenario B: The Great Northern War:
• This scenario featured veteran players re-fighting the first year of the unique contest of Sweden versus all the major powers in Eastern Europe in 1700. The scenario was won by the Elector of Saxony & his henchmen with a 45.9% Victory Point increase after accounting for the old miser's gold.
• The Summer 1700 campaign was won by the Swedish team headed by the ambitious Charles XII (or madman; why would anyone fight half of Europe in two geographic locations separated by hundreds of miles & the Baltic Sea) with a 32.8% Victory Point increase. The nearest competitors were the Saxons with a 24.9% victory rating after accounting for all the gold of the Elector.
• The Danish team came in second for the scenario by less than a single percentage point (>1%) over the Swedish team. It seems the few Crowns the Danish Monarch was able to save proved to be the difference.
• This shy & bashful group of Saxons consisted of Guild members Jerry Gouge (monarch), Steven Mathena, and George Meyer.

NOTE:The Tartars, a member of the scenario B "white cell" (protrayed to keep game balance in the scenario) had a VP margin of 48.47% for the game. However, because this nation-state was working for the GA - it is excluded from any victory award.

Scenario C: Fear & Loathing along the Spanish Main:
• This scenario featured veteran & novice players alike fighting a PATE-only (the NWOL naval module) scenario among the colonial powers left adrift in the New World by the War of Spanish Succession as well as the more famous pirates of the period. After an involved accounting of Treasure delivered to the Home Country, it was determined the scenario was won by the British Colonial Government team with a 134,500% Victory Point increase after starting, as all Scenario teams did, with empty coffers.
• The Summer 1700 campaign was also won by the British team with a 3542% Victory Point increase. However, the second place team for the Summer campaign was the Anarquía pirates who actually improved their victory total by 26% though being hounded by the Spanish Viceroy. This band of brigands was also able to double the size of its fleet during the scenario though it had no shipyard nor Home Country in support.
• The Spanish Viceroyalty proved to be the largest exporter of Treasure to the Home Country, quadruplicating the nearest total of a competing colonial power. Though not a game criteria, the Spanish Viceroyalty was the only colonial power that contributed a positive cash flow to its Home Country during the scenario by exporting more cash than it took in return in the way of additional ships or maintenance costs.
• The resourceful and strategic British Colonial Government consisted of Jim Voege (Governor-General), Matt Majewski, Matt Young and CR Reid as the new champions of the Spanish Main.