V:EKN North American Championship Regional Qualifying Tournaments
Top half (up to 10) of each tournament qualify to play for the
North American Championship at GenCon 2002 August 11 in Milwaukee, WI.
Players that qualified from previous events do not count against the
top 10, but do count for the total number of players present at the event.

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The Five Finalists from the 2001 Championship are
already qualified for this years events.  They were:

Ben Peal
Robert Goudie
Jared Strait
Steve Fazio
Trey Morita

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February 23
Northeast USA - TotalCon, Andover, MA (Ben Peal & Grant Garvin)
48 players

 

10 New Qualified Players:
Peter Bakija
Kevin Scribner
Nick Watkins
Shaun McIsaac
Ben Swainbank
Josh Feuerstein
Prescott Jenner
Robyn Tatu 
Ed McGlynn 
Greg Williams 


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Mar 31
Northwest USA - Norwescon, Seattle, WA (Robert Moshell)
18 players

9 New Qualified Players:
Scott Christopherson 
Jason Smith 
Brian Moritz 
Jay Kristoff 
David Oros 
Jessica Johnston 
Jason Dawson 
Geoff Conn 
Mark Loughman 


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May 4
North Central USA - Lansing, MI (Bernie Bresnahan)
23 players

 

10 New Qualified Players:
John Bell
Bernie Bresnahan
Matt Kowalski
Aaron Steele
Corey Brindley
Will Kristoff
Wes Weston
Noal McDonald
Ahmad Habbiyyich
Jason Tomlinson


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May 11
Mid-Atlantic USA - Chantilly, VA (Joshua Duffin)
32 players

10 new Qualified Players:
Joshua Duffin      
Matthew Hirsch     
John Whelan        
Scott Gomes        
Colin Riggs        
John M(sporemage)  
Johnny Tullner     
David Cherryholmes 
Emily Lloyd        
Steve Holmer       


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May 26
Canada - Montréal, Quebec (Hugues Bertrand)
41 players

10 new Qualified Players:
Samuel Belanger
Michel-Etienne Fortin
Remy Auclair
Francois Dion
Benoit LeFrancois
P.O. Duval
Hugues Bertrand
Frederic Gingras
David Hernandez
Christian Chenard


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May 25
Southeast USA - Atlanta, GA (Todd Banister) 
16 players

8 new Qualified Players:
Chad Brinkley
Saumil Shah
David Tatu
David Davila
Pat O'Shea
Derek Ray
Joe Churchill
Todd Bannister


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May 26
Pacific USA - Gamex, Los Angeles, CA (Robert Goudie)

 
24 players

10 new Qualified Players:
Marcos Acevedo
Szilan Fodor
Ken Kiesel
Donovan Brouwer
Vincent Price
Keith Thompson
Paul Johnson
Darby Keeney
Steve Bucy
Mike Courtois


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July 6
Midwest USA - Origins, Columbus, OH (Kevin Mergen)

 35 players 

10 new Qualified Players:
Tom Mickle
David Buerger
Alex Harmon
Christian Herro
James Gains
Eric Chiang
Shane Strait
Dan Keller
J.J. Wurz
Tim Bowen


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Aug 10
Final North American qualifier - Gen*Con, Milwaukee, WI (LSJ)

67 players

10 new Qualified Players:
Oscar Garza
Jeffrey Thompson
Chris Berger
Daniel Harting
Matt Flint
Josh Dillard
Peter Kapsalis
Kevin Masterson
Norman Brown
Keil Rosenberger


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Players that would have qualified at multiple events,
except that they are skipped at future events after
becoming qualified.

Jay Kristoff
Josh Duffin
Colin Riggs
Trey Morita
Robyn Tatu
David Tatu
John Bell
Corey Brindley
Tom Mickle
Paul Johnson
Robert Goudie
Darby Keeney
Christian Chenard
John Mickle
Brian Moritz
Szilan Fodor


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