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Glad all the good sports came to pittsburgh then :p Unlike last year where we had to deal with people like Tony from media!

Warmaster Primus wrote:

Blackmoor wrote:I wonder how tonytheman did.

After shooting off his mouth in this thread, I wonder if he could back it up.

Same with Dash of Pepper, since he is 74-1-1 and only plays for the money. He might have made it since he plays Orks and the top 2 finishers at his semis were ork players.

I was at the Media PA event, and Tony got kicked out for threatening another player.

From what I was told they both had "issues" and did not finish their tournaments.

Blackmoor wrote:Alright, time to total up the top 3 finishers broken down by codex: (Updated down to the Pasadena scores)

10 Chaos space marines
9 Orks
8 Space marines
5 Imperial Guard
3 Chaos Demons
3 Eldar
3 Dark Eldar
2 Black Templar
2 Tyranid
1 Blood Angels

A pretty good spread of armies.

You could almost say that GW is doing a good job balancing the codexes if there were more than only one or two good units in each codex (Lash/Seer Council/Vulcan).

Who's missing?

Tau
Space Wolves
Demonhunters
Witchhunters (although one Vulkan list did bring SOB allies?)
Dark Angels

So, the gimped codexes performed like gimped codexes.

Dragon's Keep in Provo, Utah:

1st - Mechdar
2nd - Hybrid Tau
3rd - Calgar Marines

bthom37 wrote:

Who's missing?

Tau
Space Wolves
Demonhunters
Witchhunters (although one Vulkan list did bring SOB allies?)
Dark Angels

So, the gimped codexes performed like gimped codexes.

Don't forget Necrons.

All of the 3rd edition codexes excluding Dark Eldar who have the oldest army, and can still kick some butt...and Dark Angels who have a newer codex.

Blackmoor wrote:

Warmaster Primus wrote:

Blackmoor wrote:I wonder how tonytheman did.

After shooting off his mouth in this thread, I wonder if he could back it up.

Same with Dash of Pepper, since he is 74-1-1 and only plays for the money. He might have made it since he plays Orks and the top 2 finishers at his semis were ork players.

I was at the Media PA event, and Tony got kicked out for threatening another player.

From what I was told they both had "issues" and did not finish their tournaments.

I'm sorry that I didn't catch this earlier, but there is some misinformation here. Tony was kicked out during/after the 2nd game (I finished my game earlier and got a bite to eat. When I came back the incident had already occurred and Mall security was waiting for Tony to pick up). The top 3 at Media PA were Salamanders, Crimson Fists & Chaos. No Orks in the top 5. Of the top finishers, there were no issues.

The only "issue" (which wasn't even an issue) was that 3rd & 4th were tied and it came down to victory points. 3rd (me) and 4th had both 61 Battle points. We went to a tie breaker with VPs and I had 60 more than he did. Pretty tight, but hardly an issue. That said, it was a bit of an awkward ride home (I drove with 4th place back home).

Blackmoor wrote:

From what I was told they both had "issues" and did not finish their tournaments.

Food poisoning Friday night - undercooked Kookaburo wings at the Outback led to a very bad night. :(

I showed up pale-faced Saturday morning nonetheless to give it my best shot. I faced off against Eldar in the first round....we had a ridiculous number of arguments that were just absolutely making it a horrendous game; during turn 2, I was setting up for my initial assault - his jetbike seer council had failed to cast fortune, failed the reroll, and I had Ghazghkull and two trukk boyz squads set to pile into them. He'd rolled such a number of 1s and 2s with his lances and missiles, even with guide that his anti-tank efforts were sorrowful; I felt bad for how bad he was shooting.

On the other side of the table, a battlewagon full of burna boyz rammed through and destroyed a wave serpent/falcon? to disgorge guardians; the burna boys piled out to prepare multi-assaulting the guardians and another squad of melta-carrying eldar somethings. I kid you not, we'd run into a ridiculous number of arguments at this point (some of them my fault too), and the game literally broke at this point. I still don't know the right answer to some of our disputes, and if I care enough later, I'll go to YMDC and ask.

I moved in and multi-assaulted....I can't even describe the bunched up stuff and scenario (it was a tight mess) and my opponent accused me of cheating because he thought I could have gotten more models into base contact, which would have prevented another one of my squads from assaulting one of his vehicles. I moved my models back to where they were (deployed outside the battlewagon without having moved) so that I could show him precisely how I had moved them and how, and my opponent told me that it didn't matter, I could have repositioned them anyway I wanted. I offered to let him place my models however he wanted because I didn't want to win and be called a cheater for having done so. He then picked up some of his models and re-arranged them on the board and said something to the effect of (I don't remember the exact words) "If you're going to cheat, then I will too."

I put my hands up and said, "You know what, you can have it - this isn't worth it." I packed up my models, went home, took some more Immodium and slept the rest of the day away.

Now, in hindsight I'm a little frustrated at myself. Typically I don't care what people think about me, but my opponent was someone I already knew and whose opinion I respect and was trying hard to make a good gaming impression with (I know, it wasn't an RTT). Combining that with the fact that I was drained and unsteady on my feet as it was, and was going to have to spend Sunday catching up on work, and something clicked in my head and said, "This is not worth the trouble I am going though."

My friends at the tournament called me last night on their way home and told me that he got into several other big arguments and ultimately didn't do well; I was hoping the massacre I gave up first round by conceding would have at least helped him get placed.

*shrugs* It was just not a day for me to be willing to throw down in an argument. Can't honestly say how the game would have went because he had killed a couple of my vehicles and in return had failed his fortune rolls with his seer council and was bunched up (my favorite) and I had just declared a Waaaugh! and was piling into his Eldar. Its ultimately irrelevant because I conceded my game, and chalked up a loss.

Kirasu wrote:Glad all the good sports came to pittsburgh then :p Unlike last year where we had to deal with people like Tony from media!

No, no. Media doesn't claim him! We did our best to extradite him! I think he's from the MD/VA area.

But seriously, stuff happens, you move on. Hopefully it's a learning situation for everyone, and it's goes better next time for all involved, including Tony.

asugradinwa wrote:...and the Chaos Deamons could not down the last fire prism contesting the center object in Catpeeler's game.

You ain't kiddin'. Over two rounds, I must have had...12-15 glances and 5-8 pens on that @$%^#$^&ing fire prism, and couldn't do a damn thing. It's enough to give a guy an anyeurism, I tells ya...

Still made Chicago by one point (!), so I can't really complain.

Open question for any other/previous finalists: prize support for 2nd and 3rd- how is that handled? Are we emailed? Does the TO at semis contact us? Does Mark Wells show up with an oversized Ed McMahon-style check?

kartofelkopf wrote:Open question for any other/previous finalists: prize support for 2nd and 3rd- how is that handled? Are we emailed? Does the TO at semis contact us? Does Mark Wells show up with an oversized Ed McMahon-style check?

Did you register on the GW website? That's about all I know about it. I will be turning in the names from my tournament to GW on monday, and supposedly they handle it all after that. I'm assuming an email, and you put your email on the website when you register.

lol, fighting over little soldiers . . . .

Good times. Still waiting to hear about Springfield, MO results. That's where our store went to.

The contents of this post have been removed. The original poster wanted to keep this in-house and specifically mentioned not wanting it on Dakka. You did this against the user's wishes, and did so to stir up trouble here on Dakka. This is not acceptable behavior. If you continue to violate the Dakka rules, you will receive a temporary suspension. - Iorek

This isn't a good sign.

GG

...and a rebuttal?

Cleveland, TN Dicehead Games:

1st Dark Eldar (gardeth)
2nd Khorne CSM (Me!)
3rd Daemonhunters (4 LRs!)

I literally missed 1st by a dice roll that ended the game on turn 5. We were not aware of the Random Game Length and I failed to secure the central objective before then because I thought I had another turn.

With two scoring units nearby and more scoring units than the DHs (who has points for Troops with 4 Land Raiders!?) I felt that I had the game by turn 5. Especially since I had already pumelled the same army at the Big WAAAGH tourney a few weeks back....

::sigh:: there's always Chicago!

Nice Job Nurgleboy and Gardeth!

Give 'em hell in chi-town!

Way to represent the BnB!

Totenkopfer wrote:
I have decided to bring the issue up here, rather than at some open forum like DakkaDakka or the B&C.

3) Disqualifying or publically “calling him out” for the stuff listed above, in a public area, would have created an issue for the Wrecking Crew in general. That was not, and is not my intention.

He kept the dispute that he had “In house” and did not want to post this on another forum.

So what you did was try to be an internet tough guy and bring this here against the original posters wishes to drag this through the mud.

You should respect his wishes and delete your post.

Edit: I like how you have one post and you choose to make it this.

Dashofpepper wrote:

Food poisoning Friday night -

Doesnt food poisoning take like a week to set in?

So is your record 74-1-3 or are you sticking with the status quo and making it 76-1-1

Agreed. Your integrity is in question, sir! How do you respond?

And since it's your one and only post, I'm pretty sure how this will go.

So even more wrecking crew 'ard boyz drama? There is a reason I have very little inclination to attend the finals and have to deal with BS like this..(True or not, i rather just take my 2500pt army from semis and watch a movie)

The rules about chaos demons in the 'ard boyz rule makes it obvious enough that GW does not condone what happened last year

There is no reason anyone should get their own rules so wrong.. Im a lifetime blood angel player and there I cannot fathom a situation where a tournament BA player would get Dantes rules wrong to that extent

However, Im also not placing blame because I wasnt there and the internet isnt the most reliable

All I know is that, NO self respecting tournament BA player could possibly get CORE rules wrong. If they did, they cheated or are newbies (Which is counter to a "tournament player").. However, Dante could have been within 12" of corbulo and given the impression that the unit received furious charge because of him.. Ive talked to green blow fly and I can say with 100% certainty he knows BA rules and also makes very similar lists to mine for tournaments. BA arent a popular army nowadays so people get confused on all their "bubble radius" abilities.. who knows really

The horror stories from 'ard boyz just means the finals will include ALL of them from every store instead of giving people the chance to avoid certain areas :p

Aldonis wrote:Nice Job Nurgleboy and Gardeth!

Give 'em hell in chi-town!

Way to represent the BnB!

Thanks, Al! Sharpening my Chainaxe as we speak!

BLADE AND BOLTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PanamaG wrote:

Doesnt food poisoning take like a week to set in?

No, it takes about 15 minutes to set in. I pushed my food aside about half-eaten because I had lost my appetite, and by the time we got home, I made a bee-line to the restroom shortly thereafter to begin the circus.

Nice attempt at trolling though! =) I give you a 1/10 for effort; if you had tied it into the thread in any constructive way instead of just flame-bait, you would have gotten at least a two.

Depending on the cause of food poisoning it takes between 30 minutes- a week to set in. Either way, not very much fun. If I had a case of it there is no way I'd be playing in a tournament the next day.

Dashofpepper wrote:

Nice attempt at trolling though! =) I give you a 1/10 for effort; if you had tied it into the thread in any constructive way instead of just flame-bait, you would have gotten at least a two.

Haha I would care but I just gave myself 10/10. Also you didnt answer my question.

jbalthis wrote:Here's the list of armies I counted:

6 Chaos (5 Mech, 1 Mixed)
5 Mech Guard
3 Orks (2 Mech, 1 Horde)
5 Mech Eldar
1 Tau (Mech)
1 Necron (Mostly Destroyers)
1 Black Templar (Mech)

When you say mech, are you claiming full mech?

^ I am curious about that too. Mech is definitely just as strong at 2500.

Wanted to drop the results from the Foley, AL Semi's

1st-Vulkan/DropPods (me)

2nd-Nidzilla

3rd-Seer Council

I tied the Seer Council in the first game, but was able to table my opponent games two and three. I can only wish my Armor Saves hold up in September.

See ya in Chicago!!

JediRaptor wrote:Wanted to drop the results from the Foley, AL Semi's

1st-Vulkan/DropPods (me)

2nd-Nidzilla

3rd-Seer Council

I tied the Seer Council in the first game, but was able to table my opponent games two and three. I can only wish my Armor Saves hold up in September.

See ya in Chicago!!

I heard the alabama ard boy allowed three "locals" who did not qualify to play as alternates and, indeed, that the judge played as one of these?!?!?! All blatent hearsay, and you need not even respond, but it was a curious thing that I heard.


I put this out, and read about the other threads, with heavy dissapointment. I went to the pheonix atlanta site, and had a very good time, despite getting crushed a couple of times (Very dissapointed as I was top 10 finals last year, but man, the competition was very good at atlanta this year). We talked there, and now I see it confirmed here, but there are certain groups that seem to think they are entitled to win, place, etc... They'll misquote rules, ask for a judge's intervention, bring ringers to a tournament, or allow people to play who shouldn't in an effort to get them to qualify. Why are people so gd eager to win is a mystery, but it's sad that, in three years of ard boyz, it seems to bring out the worst of this hobby every year.

Let's keep the accusations to ourselves, people. Rule #1.

Edit - Sorry, this was not directed at Calltoarms! It's a general notice to keep the tone civil and keep out unprovable accusations.

Also. I am one of the guard players and what I run is not mech guard. More balanced or standard. Yes, I have a lots of vehicles. But lots of footsloggers as well. Just am not running standard mec vet list. The list you have states all mech guard. If ya want to be accurate please change. Thanks. The person that posted results for our store was not actually in the same state at the time, so easy mistake to make.