Episode #30 - Ultimate Return!
Never fear - the End is here! We return with a blast as we cover the two most prestigious events of the Western Australian tournament calendar - the 2009 WestGamer Ultimate Tournaments! Whilst at the event this year we return to our regular schedule of hobby goodness, as well as detailed discussions on the state of the Warhammer Fantasy & 40K game systems, and topical considerations for both games in today’s competitive tournament environments. Enjoy!
Intro & Show News (01:09)
- - Listener “shout-out”: Val Cassotta
Hobby Update (23:57)
- - Warhammer Beastmen incoming. <Link>
- - 2010 Games Day Chaos Sorcerer. <Link>
- - New Forgeworld Lord of Change. <Link>
- - GW goes WW2 in 2010?
- - Dark Elves released for Bloodbowl on PC. <Link>
- - Ultramarines Movie screenwriter announcment. <Link>
- - GW legal clampdown.
Ultimate Warhammer Army Composition (55:33)
- - A detailed overview of the Ultimate Warhammer Tiered composition system, including its positive impacts on a competitive event, and how to make it work for other Warhammer Fantasy tournaments.
Competitor’s Edge (Tournament Event Operations) (01:16:07)
- - In this installment of our regular tournaments segment, we look at what exactly it takes to run a successful competitive event on the day itself, as well as discuss the roles of the event judges & referees.
- - “Overlord” tournament managment program. <Link>
Final Words (01:42:52)
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nice intro music .. HA HA HA, love it
lol, in listening to your ‘Competitor’s Edge’ segment on running tournies, every thing you seem to list in terms of time management, scoring & coordinating your tourney seems to be the polar opposite of all of the 40k grand tournies that I played in @ the now defunct Atlanta Gamesdays (USA). Every year the same guys ran them, and every year it was a whole new nightmare. The worst offenses being sent to WHFB tables to play 40k (several of us suffered from this & when we pointed it out we got the official ‘oh well’ response (literally, despite there being available 40k tables). We may as well been fighting in Iowa (the American midwest or in other words a flat, wide open landscape)and the other (affecting the WHFB players far more than us in the 40k tourney, or @ least me as I had all but crushed my opponent) due to their complete lack of time management (and they did say it was their fault), they shortened the second round by about 45 minutes! In general when we got our assigned tables, the round had already started which is an issue in its own right.
I really wish we had tournies run by guys like you! (locally we don’t have any at all, though after 3 years of Grand Tournies, I don’t really miss them)