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I was wondering what the worst thing a person has done to you in a tournament. I will go first

I had a player come out of the bathroom at a tournament and pick up one of my best painted models and said as he brought it up to look at the model and said, "Ah, man...this hand still smells like crap." I then when remove that model from the table and wrap it up with a tissue and replace it with a Count's as, before going to my next match.

When the necron codex was new, and the only way you had a copy was if you did the preorder army, I had a guy say I was cheating cos of "we'll be back", my destroyers moving 12" and firing, and wraiths moving through cover without rolling.

I had fully explained all this and shown the guy the rulebook before the game.

He also thought the guass rules were other than what they said.

Even when shown again, he insisted I was cheating, and would tell everyone I was a cheat.

Too bad that about 40% of the tournament knew who I was and that I knew the rules, and was actually playing WBB as weaker than what it was as I was removing any model that died to AP3 weapons.

Loaded. Dice.

Went to a tournament, heard some people complaining about how they were beat by someone with very confusing dice (you know, symbols for sixes, that sort of thing) and how they seemed to be rolling really well. I put it down to sore losing, until I was drawn against him a couple of rounds later.

That man rolled a LOT of fives and sixes. A LOT.

darkslife wrote:When the necron codex was new, and the only way you had a copy was if you did the preorder army,

Most tourneys don't allow a new codex to be used in a tourney until a full month after release and will specify what codexes will be legal for that event.

I would be super pissed if you were using a pre-release codex for an army not released yet and the tourney didn't clearly say 'new necron codex is legal'. How fair or fun is it for people to play against an army where you have never seen the codex ever and have no ability to except mid-game? This is why people often get a solid month or two before a new codex becomes part of any tourney.

I would have probably complained to the TO if you were using a pre-release codex in army in a tourney, especially if the Tourney didn't say 'expect to see new codex is legal' which they often do if it is a question. There is a reason it is 'pre' release and not released. Pre-release shouldn't be allowed at a competitive event until everyone has access to it. I wouldn't call you a cheater but I would have let you know I had a serious problem with it.

I remember playing in a tourney around the time of the 5th ed Space marine codex and the tourney explicitly said 'no new codex' because it had literally came out like a day before the event. That was a good call IMHO as it would have been a giant joke to show up and play against 50% new armies which no one had seen the codex and no one knew how to play with or against. The day would have gone from a tourney to 'lern2play space marines' day.

I've only been to one tournament - the friendly Platinum Devil in Canterbury. I was very offended by people's decision to beat me fair and square.

Probably the Last Waaagh indy GT. First off I ordered a shirt and they weren't there at the event. I thought this wouldn't be a problem but it turns out it was (read the end).
I'm having a great tourney until round 5. I walk up and my opponent is playing with his dice and acting really funny. I explain that since we're so low on the totem pole we might as well play for fun and he agrees. What follows was the oddest game of my life.
The entire game he's constantly shuffling through his dice, instead of talking having a good time or looking up at the field he's playing with his dice. I'm also noticing that EVERY time he needs to roll one die for something he passes it. 1 cover save, 1 penetrating hit, 1 lascannon, it doesn't matter if it only rolls 1 die he gets it. He rolls the die really fast and even after a couple of requests to slow down a bit he doesn't.
So the game is wrapping up and I look down and say "Hey wait I thought those symbols on your dice were 6's, why does that die also have a 6?" He responds with "Oh yeah, I meant to find that one before the game started but I didn't have time."
I go to the TO and he says that since it was only 1 die it really didn't matter.
Now 2 years later I still don't have my shirt or a refund.

The worst thing someone has ever done to me in a tournament was yesterday - I was happily rolling dice when some anonymous donor decided that my immediate vicinity should smell like cooking septic system and released their sphincter muscle enough to poison the air with a cloud of toxic methane. My eyes started watering, the TO had to go open the door, and every Dark Eldar model in my army immediately gained Feel No Pain as they were reinvigorated by my suffering. Stupid fart-lovers.

I mean, gamers have BO sometimes, and anonymous air polluters are a fact of 40k - but this literally made my eyes water. I'm not sure how much damage it caused amongst the other gamers, but the experience has mentally scarred me.

Fifty wrote:I've only been to one tournament - the friendly Platinum Devil in Canterbury. I was very offended by people's decision to beat me fair and square.

Haha, yeah. That was going to be my reply.

"The worst thing a player has done in a tournament to me? Shown up."

Tabled my army second turn....worse things have happened.

I had a certain well-known person in the community start a new round within 5 minutes of the tourney round ending even though we were told not to unless there would be enough time for both players to get through it. He argued with me and kept going. It didn't affect the top half of the tourney results or anything terribly significant, but it was just kind of irritating.

Quitting on turn 2.

This being like round 3, both of us where not in contention of winning the tournament. He said he wanted to play it out just for fun. He quit on turn two not because it was one sided but because "he changed his mind and the game didn't really matter."

Great, thank you for wasting an hour of my life.

I showed up to a team tournament without a partner and wound up getting partnered with a Guard player.

We won the tournament, but every round he would complain incessantly about how broken it was that a glance or roll of 1 couple make his vehicles unable to shoot.

At one point, we were winning the final match by about 7 KP's, and he complained non-stop that his basilisk was unable to shoot for 3 rounds in a row.

In another round, he protested the rules for shooting out of cover as being slowed, and accused our opponents of being meta-gamey and unreasonable TFG's for using the rules as written.

I enjoyed my store credit, but I won't partner up with the dude again.

3 Land raiders all anti tank and his troops were all anti troops
I lost every single man.

nkelsch wrote:How fair or fun is it for people to play against an army where you have never seen the codex ever and have no ability to except mid-game?

Honestly, just let me have a quick look through your codex(while you are deploying, for example) and show where it says so in your codex if I believe a claim is too extravagant. The more time you let me have for a look in the codex, the less time we'll spend discussing your rules in game.

The worst I've had a tournie opponent do to me was to rather nastily mock my list building skills. Of course, I ground his list into the dust with superior tactics shortly thereafter....

I was cheated at an ard boy'z tournament a year ago. The guy effectively auto tabled me, it was illegal but the judges ruled in his favor.

Told me before the game he was an uber competitive player.... Then started saying how everything in his list was rubbish???

This was Ard'Boyz 2010.

I was playing first round at a store nearly and hour away from me since there arent any indy stores close to me in Houston, and the one that was was filled already.

So got into first round was playing an Orc player, asked to look at his list. (nearly everyone there did army builder).
And looked it over said it came out to 2495 points so i was like ok.

Guy had a very complete list filled nearly every FoC slot up cept one or two.

Turns out after i had barely lost to him in the last turn. That i had gone through his list after the tournament was done, and he was 300 points over with 2800 instead of 2500.

Yea that sucked, and he went on to first, and i massacred the next two guys fully.

I took 4th.. by only 10 points from my place to 2nd and 15 from me to 1st.

Had i wont a major victory which it was before the next to last turn, i would of had 1st.

Not showered. Almost every single tournament.

I heard about this the other day, a guy at our local store has an all bike army, his opponent reserves everything, first turn turbo boost, second turn spreading every bike out in his opponents deployment zone preventing him from coming on the board thus winning the game.

2nd day of the Tourny. In the middle of the pack, with no real chance to win.
The opponent I was matched with decides not to show up. I end up playing a gimme game with the TOs wife. Essentially an "auto-win" setup, so while you get a W in your column, you know its unearned, making the game itself less fun...more of just going through the motions.

We all know that life happens and sometimes people need to drop. But to just give up and not show for day 2?
Why did you even bother signing up?

Fists of the emperor wrote:I heard about this the other day, a guy at our local store has an all bike army, his opponent reserves everything, first turn turbo boost, second turn spreading every bike out in his opponents deployment zone preventing him from coming on the board thus winning the game.

Well, then there's this:

http://pokeminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/10/greatest-battle-report-evar.html

Taken from this:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/257451.page

Paper list, meet scissors.

I don't think it's bad at all. If people want to trick out a list like that they should expect to
get hosed by other tricks.

3 years ago I went to a 40K tournament with a chaos list (I am not a tournament guy so my list was not really optimal). My second game I went against a dark eldar player. After we were assigned tables he "needed to go to the bathroom".
While I waited 20-40 minutes the guy 2 tables over told me that my opponent was a d#@$ and not to expect a good game.
My opponent comes back, informs me that he did not have an army list for me. I tell him that's ok, let's just play. He said "No, the tournament rules are that I must give you a list, I will write you a list now".
So 10-15 minutes later he hands me a list in poor handwriting that I didn't really understand because I don't really know the dark eldar list.
He takes forever to deploy, and all of his army is in raiders/whatevers all primered black with no way of me knowing which ship had which guns.
So now an hour and half into our 3 hour time limit he tells me he has an army rule where he automatically goes first.
So he is shooting the crap out of me, but slowly. not firing from side to side, oh no. He points at one black ship and fires, then goes to the end of his deployment and fires, etc. to the point where in hindsight I think his heavy ships fired more than once.
We have a rule disagreement that he insists the moderater come over for even though I said whatever. (I was correct by the way).
On my first turn, I take less than 10 minutes.
On his second turn, he moves his vehicles around slowly, fires slowly and then TO says "you have 5 minutes to finish".
And then this clown reaches accross the table to shake my hand and says "we might as well call the game here".

I forced him to give me a 2nd turn, just because I want to remove more of his models off the table. He was such a hole, started playing more WFB after that.

Alastergrimm wrote:I was wondering what the worst thing a person has done to you in a tournament. I will go first

I had a player come out of the bathroom at a tournament and pick up one of my best painted models and said as he brought it up to look at the model and said, "Ah, man...this hand still smells like crap." I then when remove that model from the table and wrap it up with a tissue and replace it with a Count's as, before going to my next match.

You win. I gonna keep reading the rest of the posts, but... damn.

I haven't had a particularly bad tournament game, but the worst experience I've ever had with a fellow gamer was this one time at my local GW back home in California. I was in on a Saturday, slightly odd for me given that I usually come in on weekdays, and finally managed to get a game. While I'm setting up, a guy sitting painting comes up and looks at my models and basicallly starts laughing, picks one up and looks around and says, "Dude, did you paint these? They look like a 5 year old painted them!". Now, I suck at painting so I didn't do anything but just ignore him, but damn..that has got to be the worst experience i've ever had.

A close second would be this one guy who insisted I draw little sticky note labels for everything that wasn't WYSIWYG in a game.

I mean, gamers have BO sometimes, and anonymous air polluters are a fact of 40k

That is so true! Why?!

Wow. Some of you guys have quite a lot of patience.

Was at DaBoyz last November and it was my 3rd game of the day. I had brought my Chaos with a heaping of Khorne Zerkers so my list was very melee happy. My opponent brought in Blood Angels. Sure, this will be bloody and interesting.

Mission was to keep our objective secure and take our opponents before it detonates *Havocs, sit, stay and for the love of god don't do anything stupid!* I place mine in a forest, he puts his off in the corner of the map. I elect my 9 man zerks as the attack force able to outflank, I don't think he chose anything for his.

Game goes on and normally I play with lax cover rules being as my store does it on a more 'does it make sense?' format so I wasn't prepared for such strict measures of 'ok his tire is behind the building corner so i'm getting cover from your shots' As I'm not use to such things I'm a bit skeptical but let them go as I want to get to the fun assault phase. His assault squad catches my plague marines and lash sorcerer and battle ensues. He says that his power fist in the second row is going to clock my HQ in the mouth. Later I realize that since his PF was unengaged he could since it was within 2" of a guy base to base but I argued otherwise. My fault there. After a brief back and forth I submit and let it go just wanted to get to my turn. Sorc dies, Plagues hold. With my turns I advance my berserkers into the thick of his lines and assault stragglers and my deepstruck oblits tear through anything near my objective.

Now on his turn, his HQ, Sanguinary Guard and Sanguinary Priest all drop in close by. That's it. Doesn't run them, doesn't shoot, meh. My turn rolls in and I move a squad of Berzerkers into charge range. My oblits plasma cannon and he says they will go to ground since I'm going to charge anyways. I kill a good handful, pistols claim another and a lucky auto cannon wounds the HQ. I end my turn. No charge. He is livid at this point, very tense looking. Shoots a few more of my zerkers and my turn, my strike force outflanks right where I need them. At that point he calls the game and says he just wanted to leave and that I wasn't fun to play, that he wasn't getting anything from me. *No idea what the hell that even means*

Turn 4 he gave up. Now, I'm a very civil person and try my best to make my games enjoyable and being told I was unfun to play against really doesn't sit well with me.

Edit: I found out that it was Darkwynn. LOL who knew.

Dashofpepper wrote:The worst thing someone has ever done to me in a tournament was yesterday - I was happily rolling dice when some anonymous donor decided that my immediate vicinity should smell like cooking septic system and released their sphincter muscle enough to poison the air with a cloud of toxic methane. My eyes started watering, the TO had to go open the door, and every Dark Eldar model in my army immediately gained Feel No Pain as they were reinvigorated by my suffering. Stupid fart-lovers.

I mean, gamers have BO sometimes, and anonymous air polluters are a fact of 40k - but this literally made my eyes water. I'm not sure how much damage it caused amongst the other gamers, but the experience has mentally scarred me.

Omg! Hahahaha!
- Not that i've got anything to add, but that one cracked me up, big time. If we ever meet in a turney, those DE's of yours got a free FnP from my stomachache right now!

Dashofpepper wrote:The worst thing someone has ever done to me in a tournament was yesterday - I was happily rolling dice when some anonymous donor decided that my immediate vicinity should smell like cooking septic system and released their sphincter muscle enough to poison the air with a cloud of toxic methane. My eyes started watering, the TO had to go open the door, and every Dark Eldar model in my army immediately gained Feel No Pain as they were reinvigorated by my suffering. Stupid fart-lovers.

I mean, gamers have BO sometimes, and anonymous air polluters are a fact of 40k - but this literally made my eyes water. I'm not sure how much damage it caused amongst the other gamers, but the experience has mentally scarred me.

LOL someone crop dusted you!

I went in to my local gaming group and there was the biggest douchbag i ever met. He took up the entire army section table people normally had armies on to move to their gaming tables, crying about which list would be best to use. I ask him if he could move some of his stuff so i could set up my army. He just blurts out no and keeps ticking. Im not looking for any trouble so i just shrug and set up on the D n Dragons table. Then, guess what, Im stuck playing this punk. He cries about my noise marines getting 3 shots with sonic blasters a piece when he is p[laying a tau fire warrior spam with vespids in 1250. He wipes my army turn 5 and still cries about my dual lash army being unbalanced, WHEN I DID GET 1 MARINE INTO ASSAULT THAT HE KILLED. He also argued about the rules my army had and so a game that shouldve taken 1.5 hours literally went for 4 hours. I didnt even shake his hand I just packed up ignored his statements and walked straight out the door without saying a word to anyone still around while the store was closing.