december invitational?

Aaron several of the judges felt that there were models in the army that were unfinished, which is why you didn't make the top ten. Some of your squads looked like they only got your base air brush blending and nothing beyond that. If more of your army was to the level of your converted unit (not sure the name but you used the ogre models) you would have scored higher.


Erich the painting rubric was post but the sportsmanship wasn't which will hopefully addressed next year.

The sportsmanship was based off last years system only we increased the amount of points. The ranking was from best to worst and points where 10,8,6,5,4,2. In hindsight, this caused there to be "too much" of a dispersion in the scoring. What also seemed to happen was that there may have been an aspect of comp that was taken into account when people made their choices. For example, both Ben and Andrew who were playing the 2 necron flier lists received lower than average scores despite being some of the best sportsmen around.

This is something that will need to be discussed in greater detail moving forward. I agree that we will need to publish the system ahead of time as well. There have been several proposed revisions for consideration.

For anyone who dropped, their sportsmanship score will be skewed lower as they would have had to receive "6's" from their last opponents to keep the system working.

I think we need to have an after event meeting for anyone who is interested and has "ideas" on what should be changed or implemented for next year. We also need to make sure we have "our tournaments identity" established and make sure we take steps to keep that identity. My thought is that we should be a "casual competitive event focused on promoting all the aspects of the hobby." I value everyone elses thoughts and I'll throw out a meeting time on Sunday the 25th at Boldo's - 1:00. Does that work for people?

As a closing note - I would like to thank everyone who was involved in running/helping the event. It appears there has been a great amount of positive feedback and the primary goal of having a fun event seemed to be provided. If anyone doesn't agree with that ------ then the heck with you;) Thanks again.

Shaun,

How about a weekend other than Thanksgiving weekend for the meeting? Plus it gives us some more down time. Some, like me will still be getting in from out of town on Sunday. But if I can't make it I want to throw in my two bits out about sportsmanship scoring with you sometime. Yes there was too much separation, but it definitely worked (i.e. the best sports consistently got scored as 1st or 2nd best opponents and vice a versa).

Works for me, but please don't decide just on my schedule. Want to teach me 6th edition that day too? Challenge to the warmaster!

Just to make sure were on the same page. 4pm 12/2 at Boldo's. I definetly want to be there, maybe more Beef and Wing too.

Maybe they might, if you go to Boldo's on Sunday (hint,hint) and make a case for it.

thats easy to answer.

army list not many in rochester has seen (outside of our copies), with possible balance issues againgst regular 40k armies, in the store championships.... no chance.

think of that list like your warhound. it gets used in a tourney once a year (adepticon)