Tournament tomorrow (27 June 09) in Jacksonville

I know this is last minute but I was not aware you guys had a forum. Matt went there for the tournament this past weekend and said he had a great time. I would like to invite all of you to join us tomorrow in Jacksonville for an 1850 tourney. Here is the break down of the tourney:

1850 points - 3 rounds
$15 entry fee
Location: Game Zone Alpha in Jacksonville, Arkansas
Registration will begin at 8am. Tournament will begin at 9:30 sharp.

Prizes will be:
Overall: 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Warlord
Best Sportsman (Possibly 2nd place if there is a big enough turnout)
Best Painted (Possibly 2nd place if there is a big enough turnout)
Most balanced list

Please forward (email) your lists to me at warpigs8man@hotmail.com if you have them available. This will speed things up for me when I am doing the Army Composition scoring. NOTE: Once you send your list to me, it will be final. There will be no changes from that point.

Sportsmanship will be 10 points per round of play. 5 points will be on your opponents preparedness and punctuality. the remaining 5 will be on the attitude and sportsmanship of your opponent. DO NOT GIVE BAD SCORES JUST BECAUSE YOU DONT LIKE TO PLAY AGAINST CERTAIN ARMIES.

Bring 5 copies of your army list. 1 for the judges, 1 for each opponent and 1 for yourself.

Overall Scoring will be 60/30/30:
60 Battle Points
30 Sportsmanship Points
30 Army Composition Points

There will be a best painted army award, but the scoring will not be factored into the overall score. Best painted will be a seperate award. If there is enough participation in the overall tournament then I will have a second place for best painted army.

I will also have a surprise award that will be announced at the tournament.

Standard armies and codexes will be used. If it is a current and up to date codex then that is the one that will be in use.

Everyone will start with 30 points in army composition then I will apply the rules based off of the scoring breakdown below. The army composition scoring breakdown is as follows:

-10 Army list is illegible / unreadable
-10 If you do not have copies of the list to hand out to your opponents (will be added later if needed)
-30 If you do not have a list to turn in to the tournament organizer

HQ
-1 Maximum number of HQ choices
-1 More than 1 named character model
-2 3 or more named character models. (This includes other force org. choices as well)
-1 If the character model(s) is/are 15% of your overall army cost
-2 If the character model(s) is/are 20% of your overall army cost
-1 If your HQ Force Organization is more than 20% of your army cost
-1 For each 5% (or part of) over the 20% of your army cost
+1 If your HQ Force Organization is less than 5% of your army cost

Troops
-2 Maximum number of Troop choices
-1 Total points spent on Troops is less than 40% of the army total
-2 Total points spent on Troops is less than 30% of the army total
-3 Total points spent on Troops is less than 20% of the army total
-4 Total points spent on Troops is less than 10% of the army total

Fast Attack
-1 Maximum number of Fast Attack choices
-1 If your Fast Attack Force Organization is more than 20% of your army cost
-1 For every 5% (or part of) over the 20% of your over all army cost
+1 If your Fast Attack Force Organization is less than 5% of your army cost

Elite
-1 Maximum number of Elite choices
-1 If your Elite Force Organization is more than 20% of your army cost
-1 For every 5% (or part of) over the 20% of your over all army cost
+1 If your Elite Force Organization is less than 5% of your army cost

Heavy Support
-1 Maximum number of Heavy Support choices
-1 If your Heavy Support Force Organization is more than 20% of your army cost
-1 For every 5% (or part of) over the 20% of your over all army cost
+1 If your Heavy Support Force Organization is less than 5% of your army cost


THESE POINTS ARE CUMULATIVE. For example, if your troop choices are below 20%, you get -1for under 40%, -2 for under 30%, and the -3 for under 20%, for a grand total of -6.

OR

If you take 50% of your total point cost in elites then you would get -1 for over 20% then and additional -1 for each 5% or part of 5% for a grand total of -7.

I so wish I could make it down for tomorrow's tournament! Alas the best laid plans of mice and men are nothing in the shadow of the almighty spouse and 19 month old daughter! Let us know how the tournament goes! The Hogs of War will make it down for one of the tournaments soon!

22 Players arrived for the tourney.

Unfortunately later in the day the air conditioner shut down so round three was a bit heated due to the rise in temperature.

$480 in total prizes and 9 people went home with a prize.

I am not sure when the next one will be. There is a lot going on in the next couple of months. We will post something here and let you know what we can get going.

Here were the results along with some pictures.

https://i.servimg.com/u/f85/14/05/00/79/result12.jpg



Roger Pauly
"Mustard Marines"















Mike Gregson
"Razerbikes"





Scott Slayden
"Snow Tau"











Matt Buchanan
"Patior Antiquitas"





Dave Terry
"Monster Chaos"





Will Lang or Zack Edwards (didn't catch players name)
"Blood Ravens"





Couple of In game shots.

Wow. There were some really nice looking armies down there.