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Víktor Bautista i Roca → Portuguese.


Víktor Bautista i Roca lives in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Spain) and is a Catalonian Oware master and game designer. He invented Fortaleses (2006), La llotja (2006), Pesca Polar (2007), Nonaga (2008), and La Mêlée (2008; together with Xavi Bonet).

Víktor is interested in anarchism, environmentalism, Swahili, board games (including Bao, Toguz Kumalak), and comics of Ralf König. He started to play Oware in 1993. In 2002, he created the first Wiki on mancala games, first in Catalan, later (2004) with English articles. Víktor is also an amateur researcher and conducted a field study on Hoyito in the Dominican Republic, in 2005.

Tournament Results

Achievements
Year Result Tournament
1998 5th Place UK Open Oware Tournament / Mind Sports Olympiad (London)
2000 7th Place UK Open Oware Tournament / Mind Sports Olympiad (London)
2002 7th Place European Awale Championship (Cannes)
2002 Silver Medallist (Juniors) International Warri Festival (St. John's, Antigua)
2003 Bronze Medallist European Awele Championship (Cannes)
2004 Bronze Medallist European Awale Championship (Cannes)
2005 Bronze Medallist (Amateurs) 1ère Tournoi International d'Awélé (La Tour de Peilz, Switzerland)
2005 5th Place European Awale Championship (Cannes)
2006 5th Place European Awale Championship (Cannes)
2006 Bronze Medallist Campionat d'aualé de Catalunya / Festiwale (Barcelona)
2006 4th Place (Seniors) 2ième Tournoi International d'Awélé (La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland)
2007 Gold Medallist Campionat d'aualé de Catalunya / Festiwale (Barcelona)
2008 6th Place European Awale Championship (Cannes)
2008 Bronze Medallist Campionat d'aualé de Catalunya / Festiwale (Barcelona)
2008 Bronze Medallist (Seniors) 4ème Tournoi International d'Awélé (La Tour de Peilz, Switzerland)
2008 4th Place (Masters) 4ème Tournoi International d'Awélé (La Tour de Peilz, Switzerland)
2008 Silver Medallist Deskohraní (Prague)
2009 Bronze Medallist (Seniors) European Awale Championship (Cannes)
2010 6th Place European Awale Championship (Cannes)
2010 Silver Medallist (Seniors) 6ème Tournoi International d'Awélé (La Tour de Peilz, Switzerland)
2012 5th Place European Awale Championship (Cannes)

Publications

Bautista i Roca, V.
Africa Hidden Inside A Small Hole. Paper presented in the VIIIth Board Game Studies Colloquium. Oxford (England) April 2005.

External Links

Copyright

© Ralf Gering
Under the CC by-sa 2.5 license.

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