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SIEGE!! I'm not playing in the doubles, but I'll probably be down there, and I'll start the trash talk immediately!

This thing started already right? How about some coverage? Who's winning America so far? ;-p

Its a photo finish it seems. All I know is team Wrecking BOLS is one of the ones in contention

I'm chris pryor shane grubbs partner in ATC. We wanted to thank everyone again for attending this weekend. We will be making some improvements for next years event and look forward to seeing you all there. Shane will post the full results as soon as everything settles.

It was nice meeting many of you and I wish I could have met you all.

Chris Pryor
Grand Adventures Comics
Murfreesboro, TN

That was awesome! It was by far the coolest team tournament format I have ever played in and it was also simply my favorite tournament ever. I never liked team tournaments but playing your own game while your 4 buddies are doing the same is just so good. Even if you are getting stomped you are just trying to score that 5 or 10 points(out of 30) to help out your bros.

WC/BoLS won beating WC East in round 6. It was really close between X-Men and WC/BoLS, I think WC/BoLS won by 5-15 points and we are talking about scores around the 600 mark. WC East got 3rd and Best Sports because we are so nice as we pick up all of those models of ours that you kill.

The event was well run and went off without a hitch. Props to Shane and his whole crew for doing everything they could to make us comfortable. The only problem was it was super hot and we sweated quite a bit. They made sure to have ice cold water and set up industrial fans and that did help a bit. I think I can speak for everyone when I say that we are looking forward to coming back next year to a facility with good A/C. Alot of people said they would really like it if it was in the fall or winter but I'll just take A/C. This is my new flagship tournament. If I can only go to one it will be the ATC.

Sounds really awesome. I got a last-minute invite to come down and be a filler, but couldn't make it. Ben (the captain of the US ETC team) also got a last-minute invite to fill a spot and I know he flew down from Boston to attend; we played a practice game Thursday night. I really hope to be able to bring the team down next year.

I can't wait for more details, and hopefully some full batreps and tourney reports!

I want to echo Shinkaze's statements above.

The tournament ran very smoothly and Shane and crew are fantastic.

Sounds awesome. I cant wait till next year to give it a go.

Team Chatta-Winning! here reporting. Our team started off with really bad games, playing Da Boyz in the first round and generally getting shellacked, but we all had fun games. In fact I think our entire team talked about Da Boyz being some of our favorite games, despite getting creamed!

Loved the layout, naming champions added an entirely new level of strategy to the tournament and made things interesting at times, one game we named our BW ork army the champ and the other team named their foot ork army the champ! What a bloodbath!

Overall great experience, AC sucked, but since I'm the local it wasn't that big of a deal to me to go home, chillax and take a cold shower after the tournament, but it probably royally sucked for the travelers out there. I mean, Goatboy probably always smells like goat-ass, but the rest of us aren't used to that kind of smelly post game BO...

I'll post more later when I have more time - but what a great tournament. As a 15 year'sh GT attendee - it was great to see so many players that I've either gotten to know or at least know of over the years at one event - often playing head to head.

The tournament was stellar. A few nit's that got worked out around rounds starting - but well managed and organized. Hat's off to Shane, Mel, Chris and their staff. So blessed to have stores and owners like Dicehead and Grand Adventures in the great state of Tennessee.

The AC dying sucked royally - hope they get some money back from the venue.

It was a fantastic event! I got to bring my new Grey Knights out

@Next Level: I never got a chance to mention it to you during the ATC, but dude that storm raven is amazing in person! I've looked at your blog and seen your stuff, but in real life...holy smokes! I played on the table directly across from your game during round 4 using Deathwing. I saw that Raven and then had to go change my pants...

This event was excellent, and was the most fun I have ever had playing 40k. I loved the format, and got 6 games against 6 top-notch players. I look forward to the next one!

It was a great event!! Shane and Chris did an excellent job. The only down side was the venue itself and the Choo Choo should be ashamed of themselves for putting anyone through that cluster.

As a correction to an above post, DaBoyz won 3rd place. There was a tie for 3rd and 4th and we won it on victory points.

It was great to see a lot of old freinds and make a bunch of new ones. Shane will probably do this next year and I would recommend everyone start planning their teams now. This went off so well I expect it to sell out next year early on!!

+1

Our team had a blast. We got worked the first round by WreckingBoLS, but then we climbed back to the middle of the pack before Day 2, where we started getting worked again! We all had good games, save maybe 2, and we met a lot of great players, painters and hobbyists. 70 people (14 teams) showed and it made for a very interesting mash up. Our opponents were WreckingBoLS, Red Shirt Ensigns, East Coast Assassins, Blade 'n Bolter 1 and Blade 'n Bolter 2. All great guys and great games.

@ Next Level Painting - I owe you one after that first game against your Grey Knights with my Blood Angels. I won't be caught off guard by that speed again! Great showing man, you really had me back on my heels from Turn 1.

Army pics to come. . .

While there were a lot of folks that didn't display their armies, a lot did and here are a handful of shots that I was able to grab on Day 1:

















































I wanted to show this army last because it was so nice. The warboss pictured afterwards was made entirely of Green Stuff, plus a few bits. Pretty amazing.

We will definitely be doing it again next year. We will be making the apporpriate changes and looking into a new venue as well. We may possibly run it in Nashville as well. As long as it is financially feasible

Chris,

Check out Sheraton music city, I stayed there over the weekend and the place was decent. 89.00 a night and I am sure they have to have the room.

That warboss is sick.

Guy's slaanesh army with the wildly converted Rhinos is one of my favorites.

wileythenord wrote:@Next Level: I never got a chance to mention it to you during the ATC, but dude that storm raven is amazing in person! I've looked at your blog and seen your stuff, but in real life...holy smokes! I played on the table directly across from your game during round 4 using Deathwing. I saw that Raven and then had to go change my pants...

Thanks man! i appreciate it, did we talk?

puma713 wrote:+1

Our team had a blast. We got worked the first round by WreckingBoLS, but then we climbed back to the middle of the pack before Day 2, where we started getting worked again! We all had good games, save maybe 2, and we met a lot of great players, painters and hobbyists. 70 people (14 teams) showed and it made for a very interesting mash up. Our opponents were WreckingBoLS, Red Shirt Ensigns, East Coast Assassins, Blade 'n Bolter 1 and Blade 'n Bolter 2. All great guys and great games.

@ Next Level Painting - I owe you one after that first game against your Grey Knights with my Blood Angels. I won't be caught off guard by that speed again! Great showing man, you really had me back on my heels from Turn 1.

Tommy?
met me at wargames con for a rematch

I see Skittlemanders!

SlaveToDorkness wrote:I see Skittlemanders!

Thats Salmonanders to you bub

@Chris-Nashville might be a good option. It is a cheaper and easier airport to fly into if memory serves correctly. Plus it is a little more centrally located so you might pull more from out west. I would honestly be shocked if the ATC did not sell out next year. Make sure you give teams that came this year first shot hehehe.

Looking forward to seeing them at the Maul, FB!

Nashville would practically guarantee a showing of the Slave!

I had a previous engagement this year so missed out. Luckily Nashcon is this weekend! (not that it compares of course)

@Next Level: No I was busy watching my opponent (ok guy, but he seemed to be fighting some of his own daemons in his head during the game...) so I couldn't take a break to step back there and talk.

The first ATC was a great success despite all of us nearly dying of heat stroke. The fact that we had a great time despite streaming sweat for 12 hours each day shows how fun it was. I want to thank the organizers, Shane, Chris, Mel and everyone else for creating this tournament. I think this event is going to explode in popularity. Everyone I talked to loved the format, and with some tweaks, a nicer venue, and the testimony of everyone who came this year, next year is sure to have a large turnout. Start building terrain now guys, you are going to need it!

I was a mercenary this year, selling my services to "Team Toledo" to cover for a last minute drop-out. The team was re-christened "The Original X-Men". We had a blast, and came in second overall, with the "Wrecking Bols" edging us out by like 10 pts. Really close! I had some incredible games, and there was a really impressive number of top players in attendance. I am proud to say I've got the Dark Eldar pretty well figured out now, I won 5 games drew 1, while being "point man" twice and champion once. I think I came in 3rd for highest individual points total. Chris Courtney beat me and Kenny (Next Level) by like 15 points, that punk!

Also, as the Captain of Team America, I'm excited this event is going to take off. Having lots of the best players in the country get experience with this format is going to really help our future ETC teams. So I am particularly grateful to Shane and crew for getting this off the ground. You have done your country a great service!

-Ben

The 'match ups' is for sure where we struggled with the most. I feel like we have that pretty well nailed down for the next one.

It was comical on how wrong we were about our champion pick in 5 out of the 6 rounds, heh.

The whole process takes a little getting used to but it was increibly fun. We had to 'brute force' our way through most of the rounds. Thankfully we brought some brutes

I think on the weekend I had 2 correct champions pegged. It really made you have to think and consider matchups from both captain's perspectives.

Mannahnin wrote:Sounds really awesome. I got a last-minute invite to come down and be a filler, but couldn't make it. Ben (the captain of the US ETC team) also got a last-minute invite to fill a spot and I know he flew down from Boston to attend; we played a practice game Thursday night. I really hope to be able to bring the team down next year.

I can't wait for more details, and hopefully some full batreps and tourney reports!

Ragnar, that practice game helped a lot, I played two lash chaos armies at the tournament! One of them had 3 dreadnoughts 3 defilers and 2 lash princes. Boy oh boy was it interesting to take that on with Dark Eldar!

The part I missed was how important it was to get the right army on the right board - almost more important than the list matchup part. Know that we had two games go bad more due to terrain than anything.

Some lists need the right cover to work.....

SlaveToDorkness wrote:Looking forward to seeing them at the Maul, FB!

Nashville would practically guarantee a showing of the Slave!

I had a previous engagement this year so missed out. Luckily Nashcon is this weekend! (not that it compares of course)

Not sure if I will make it to the Maul this year. It is tough with money and schedules so it is still up in the air. This means you may actually have a chance to win best painted

Spacecurves wrote:
I think I came in 3rd for highest individual points total. Chris Courtney beat me and Kenny (Next Level) by like 15 points, that punk!

Also, my brother was tied with Kenny. He had four 30's, a 25 and a 10. I had four 30's and two 0's. One of which Kenny handed to me!


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blood angel wrote:The 'match ups' is for sure where we struggled with the most. I feel like we have that pretty well nailed down for the next one.

It was comical on how wrong we were about our champion pick in 5 out of the 6 rounds, heh.

And I completely agree with this. I'm still in the air about the Champion mechanic. I talked to a lot of people over the course of the weekend and found some that liked it, but the majority that I talked to weren't crazy about it. With 8 players (ETC), I could see something like this, or the swapping of one opponent, but with only 5 players, it really made it more difficult to try to match good pairings.