CONGRATULATIONS – CHARLES RAICHLE
2024 COLORADO BACKGAMMON
DENVER PLAYER OF THE YEAR
The Denver Backgammon League is intended to add an additional incentive to regular weekly, monthly and invitational tournament play. This league is entirely volunteer with personal commitments to making this a fantastic experience, while working towards growing the backgammon community. League tournaments are played both at live venues and online. Online tournaments are played on Backgammon Studio Heroes Server 3 (temporarily suspended). All Tournament play requires USBGF membership. Tournament rules governing play are posted on the USBGF website. The league director reserves the right to modify league rules, team representation and player of the year nominations.
Denver League Rules: You must be a Colorado resident to participate in Denver league scoring. League play occurs LIVE once a week and occasionally monthly. The format will either be Swiss with 5-7 point matches or progressive consolation or modified double elimination, with 7-9 point matches for the main and 5 point matches for the consolation or fighters bracket. League play, including alternate tournaments and scoring, may be modified at the discretion of the director.
Check out Meetup for dates, times and locations of all league events.
Winner Determination: The Colorado Backgammon Denver League Champion will be based on the best of three, 9 point LIVE matches between the Denver Player that has earned the most Points between January 1, 2025 and June 30, 2025 (1st Half of 2025), and the Denver player that has earned the most points between July 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025 (2nd Half of 2025), as determined by the Colorado Backgammon Denver League Scoring.
Accolades: 2025 Colorado Denver League Champion will receive a custom Doubling Cube, free entry into the 2026 Wild West Shootout (side pool and reg. fee not included) and nominated as Colorado Player of the Year (and included in PrimeTime Backgammon in the Winter 2026 issue).
League Scoring:
1st = Number of Players / 2
2nd = 1st Pts / 2
1st Consolation = 1st Pts / 2
2nd Consolation (or 3rd) = 1st Pts / 4
3rd/4th (or 4th opt.) = 1st Pts / 8
Played = 1st Pts / 24
2025 DENVER BACKGAMMON
LEAGUE PLAY
Check Meetup for Location and Times for Weekly and Monthly Tournaments
2025 LEADER BOARD – 2ND HALF
# / PLAYER / POINTS (EVENTS) AVERAGE
1 – Charles Raichle – 45.79 (19) 2.41
2 – Lawrence Wilson – 41.16 (21) 1.96
3 – Marc Emrich – 40.85 (20) 2.04
4 – Matt Patterson – 39.35 (14) 2.81
5 – Ed Gazvoda – 35.13 (17) 2.06
6 – Ami Benari – 27.96 (17) 1.64
7 – Dan Eisenhauer – 26.41 (22) 1.2
8 – Lynn Lusk – 22.73 (16) 1.42
9 – Myra Gazvoda – 22.61 (16) 1.41
10 – Lynda Clay – 17.59 (9) 1.95
11 – Dan Minardi – 14.67 (16) 0.91
12 – Thomas Christner – 13.61 (6) 2.26
13 – Mark Manning – 12.9 (19) 0.67
14 – Fort Felker – 10.47 (9) 1.16
15 – Joshua Isaac – 8.35 (2) 4.17
16 – David Owens – 7.79 (4) 1.94
17 – LeAnn Roberts – 6.99 (20) 0.34
18 – Nick Knebel – 5.19 (8) 0.64
19 – Jennifer Owens – 5 (3) 1.66
20 – Marjie Harbrecht – 3.02 (8) 0.37
21 – Todd Storey – 2.52 (3) 0.84
22 – Mary Wilson – 2.43 (7) 0.34
23 – Chris Carlson – 2.08 (5) 0.41
24 – Denny Leatherman – 1.9 (3) 0.63
25 – Bill Garofono – 1.05 (3) 0.35
26 – Michael Ginat – 0.99 (3) 0.33
27 – Julie Hoppe – 0.98 (3) 0.32
28 – Bill Hendrick – 0.88 (1) 0.88
29 – Ryan Barrett – 0.6 (2) 0.3
30 – Dan Cohen – 0.58 (2) 0.29
31 – Devin Brady – 0.4 (1) 0.4
32 – Hugo Olivera – 0.33 (1) 0.33
33 – Thomas Towle – 0.29 (1) 0.29
34 – Roberto Litzenberger – 0.29 (1) 0.29
35 – Irina Litzenberger – 0.29 (1) 0.29
36 – Ronan Benari – 0.29 (1) 0.29
37 – Peter Linn – 0.23 (1) 0.23
2025 LEADER BOARD – 1ST HALF
# / PLAYER / POINTS (EVENTS) AVERAGE
1 – Marc Emrich – 58.28 (28) 2.08 – WINNER!!!
2 – Charles Raichle – 57.32 (25) 2.29
3 – Matt Patterson – 39.17 (22) 1.78
4 – Ed Gazvoda – 34.77 (20) 1.73
5 – Lynda Clay – 32.53 (15) 2.16
6 – Dan Minardi – 32.23 (21) 1.53
7 – Lawrence Wilson – 27.94 (23) 1.21
8 – Lynn Lusk – 25.76 (20) 1.28
9 – Dan Eisenhauer – 24.07 (21) 1.14
10 – Michael Ginat – 21.93 (6) 3.65
11 – Ami Benari – 17.54 (20) 0.87
12 – Myra Gazvoda – 17.34 (19) 0.91
13 – Mark Manning – 13.03 (25) 0.52
14 – Marjie Harbrecht – 8.32 (16) 0.52
15 – Goldie Devalon – 8.25 (2) 4.12
16 – Fort Felker – 8 (1) 8
17 – LeAnn Roberts – 6.85 (23) 0.29
18 – Nick Knebel – 6.75 (10) 0.67
19 – James Hoppenworth – 4.27 (7) 0.61
20 – Robert West – 4.16 (4) 1.04
21 – Mary Wilson – 2.2 (6) 0.36
22 – Michael Stephen – 1.29 (2) 0.64
23 – Christine Rothwell – 0.66 (2) 0.33
24 – Bill Garofono – 0.6 (2) 0.3
25 – Tolga Yildiz – 0.54 (2) 0.27
26 – Nick Noonan – 0.35 (1) 0.35
27 – Dave Owens – 0.35 (1) 0.35
28 – Jennifer Owens – 0.35 (1) 0.35
29 – Ryan Barrett – 0.33 (1) 0.33
30 – Thomas Christner – 0.33 (1) 0.33
31 – Keene Marin – 0.31 (1) 0.31
32 – Bill Hendrick – 0.27 (1) 0.27
33 – Hugo Olivera – 0.27 (1) 0.27
34 – Adrian Chavez – 0.27 (1) 0.27
35 – David Klausa – 0.23 (1) 0.23
Last Updated: 11/27/25 18:18 MST
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PAST COLORADO BACKGAMMON
PLAYER’S OF THE YEAR – DENVER
2024 – Charles Raichle
2023 – Marc Emrich
2022 – Dan Minardi
2021 – Charles Raichle
2020 – Charles Raichle
2019 – Tom Christner
2018 – Dan Minardi
2017 – Lynda Clay
2024 LEAGUE RESULTS – TOP 20
# / PLAYER / POINTS (EVENTS) AVERAGE
1 – Charles Raichle – 116.11 (44) 2.63
2 – Marc Emrich – 101.59 (46) 2.2
3 – Lynda Clay – 71.29 (28) 2.54
4 – Ami Benari – 69.7 (43) 1.62
5 – Lawrence Wilson – 65.76 (43) 1.52
6 – Ed Gazvoda – 60.24 (43) 1.4
7 – Nick Knebel – 59.42 (32) 1.85
8 – Dan Minardi – 57.09 (45) 1.26
9 – Lynn Lusk – 50.59 (38) 1.33
10 – Matt Patterson – 38.95 (37) 1.05
11 – Dan Eisenhauer – 36.21 (39) 0.92
12 – Myra Gazvoda – 29.93 (32) 0.93
13 – Ray Gronek – 28.49 (11) 2.59
14 – LeAnn Roberts – 28.18 (44) 0.64
15 – Michael Ginat – 27.3 (12) 2.27
16 – James Hoppenworth – 27.06 (17) 1.59
17 – Marjie Harbrecht – 25.9 (20) 1.29
18 – Adrian Chavez – 25.85 (26) 0.99
19 – Mark Manning – 23.24 (45) 0.51
20 – David Owens – 14.33 (14) 1.02
2023 LEAGUE RESULTS – TOP 5
# / PLAYER / POINTS (EVENTS) AVERAGE
1 – Marc Emrich – 79.23 (50) 1.58
2 – Ami Benari – 73.45 (43) 1.7
3 – Dan Minardi – 71.15 (48) 1.48
4 – Charlie Raichle – 64.73 (32) 2.02
5 – Ed Gazvoda – 63.32 (44) 1.43
2022 LEAGUE RESULTS – TOP 5
# / PLAYER / POINTS (EVENTS) AVERAGE
1 – Dan Minardi – 78.62 (50) 1.57
2 – Ed Gazvoda – 70.3 (40) 1.75
3 – Marc Emrich – 65.3 (45) 1.45
4 – Charlie Raichle – 65.2 (31) 2.1
5 – Ray Gronek – 58.33 (34) 1.71
2021 LEAGUE RESULTS – TOP 5
# / PLAYER / POINTS (EVENTS)
1 – Charlie Raichle – 83.2 (29)
2 – Marc Emrich – 58.95 (29)
3 – Tom Christner – 55.9 (28)
4 – Dan Minardi – 49.03 (28)
5 – Ed Gazvoda – 40.99 (27)
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