The World Monopoly Championships have yielded an unlikely winner:
A Spanish lab technician needed only two hours to amass a small real estate fortune and drive a Norwegian mutual fund manager’s railroad empire into bankruptcy to capture the World Monopoly Championship on Saturday.Antonio Zafra Fernandez, 36, of Madrid pumped his fist in the air after he bested Norwegian Bjorn Andenaes of Oslo in the beloved board game to take home the $15,140 prize — equal to the amount of play money in a Monopoly set.
I am actually surprised the Spaniard didn’t withdraw from all of his properties and declare his opponent the winner.
Mind you, his opponent from Oslo may have just agreed to give away all of his own properties via an ill-advised peace accord.
