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Myself and my housemate headed down to Cork for Warpcon's 40K tourney this year. My list was:
Waaaagh! Bazgor (1500 point list)

HQ:
Ork Warboss 60
Warbike 40
Power Claw 25
Attack Squig 15

HQ Total: 140

Elites:
3 Meganobs 120
Kombi-scorcha 5
Trukk 35

10 Lootas 150

Elites Total: 310

Troops:
12 Ork Boys 72
Nob 10
Power Claw 25
Trukk 35
Rokkit 5
Red Paint Job 5
Subtotal: 152

x 6

Troops Total: 912

Fast Attack:
Warbuggy 30

Heavy Support:
Looted Wagon 35
Boomgun 70

Heavy Support Total: 105

Army Total: 1497

And his was pretty much standard nidzilla minus the flyrant and ravenors and plus some tooled up CC warriors and a few more upgrades than is normal for his stealers and hourmagaunts.

The first evening we arrived a bit late and missed the Q and A, so headed off to the pub for a couple of pints before retiring to our hostel. Up bright and early the next day for the first day of the competition. There we 40 other players with only 3 ork players (boo!) a fair few marines and variants, 1 Eldarzilla (!) list and two mech eldar, a couple of mech tau, a more combined arms Tau player, assaulty nids, a suprisingly small chaos contingent, 1 guard player and 2 dark eldar. No necrons. The tables had minor special rules attached (nothing big, just stuff like "Ironwood trees: Woods are 4+ cover" and the like. Added a little bit of flavour). First round I drew against a mech eldar list and my friend drew Dark Angels. Well, it was a walkover massacre for him, with his highest amount of points scored in a game ever (Nearly 3000 vps in a 1500 point game!)
I had a vicious and very tense, but enjoyable game against mech eldar. I managed to down one falcon by blowing every single weapon off the damn thing and immobilising it with my lootas. Apart from that, there were a multitude of bloody, brutal short range firefights and close combats, with my mobs slowly swinging the balance around. Eventaully, I won a solid victory (13 points out of a possible 20) and I was well satisfied, as they had been one of the lists I was worried about.
My second game was against the combined arms tau player. It was a disaster. The board had only a tiny amount of cover (2 small forests and 2 hills) the rest of the 25% allotment being taken up by a large river which flowed diagonally across the table. We were playing omega Cleanse. My opponent set up his broadsides and fire warriors in the quarter protected by the river, leaving me a quarter pretty much bare of cover with a massive killing ground between me and the bridge, and then another on the other side. Lovely. I deployed my lootas in the forest at the very back corner, as it was the only cover available to me, but my opponent was able to sit outside of their range or fire arc for most of the game. Basically, my trukks came on piecemeal, had nowhere to hide really, and got destroyed. Even a 25" move wasn't enough to get them into cover, so it was a turkey shoot, with the mobs that survived having to footslog it through an open field and then across a bridge covered in difficult terrain wrecks. I lost, but managed to not get massacred, which was something. This put me out of the running for the tournement basically, as we were only playing three games to decide who went on to the top eight for the second day's knock out affair. Meanwhile, my friend was massacring another opponent, a mech eldar player who used Dire Avengers and Fire Dragons.
On painting I scored quite well, the system being 5 points for each of: Fully painted, Detailed, Very Detailed, Converted, Based, At least three colours. I scored a respectable 25. My friend got a bit gimped as he isn't the world's greatest painter.
We then moved to the third game, where I was playing against Drop Podding Black Templars in a Recon. It was a fun game, but we only got to play 4 turns. Still, it was enough for me to gain a 17:3 victory and place myself at a fairly reasonable 13th overall. (I was a bit miffed about the second game's terrain set up, but thems the breaks.) My opponent massacred another dark angels player, putting himself in the top eight practically on his generalmanship score alone. We head off for a shower, and then to the pub for an ill advised session of drinking. After 8-9 pints of Murphy's stout and a few shots of Jameson Whiskey we were pretty hammered, with the result of my friend showing up to the second day with a horrible hangover. Still, he trashed Las Plas marines in his first game, jumped the Tau player who had destroyed me in the second, and then faced off against another nid player for the final. The shooty nids prevailed, especially when we discovered that nids with all the combat uprgrades >>>>nids without them.
I played a bit of an apocolypse mega battle, and it was alright. Not my cup of tea really, but it did have a stompa dread mob coming on behind an entire company of space marines and killing the whole lot, and the amusing debate at Ork HQ when we realised we had destroyed all the imperial vehicles with our gargants lifta droppa, and were looking for something else to chuck at them. I pointed out that I had seven trukks in my army that would make excellent missiles, and the response was "Deadly, dismount your boys." My reply was "What would I want to dismout for? this'll get me to the enemy much faster!"
Any Irish Wargamers reading this, I highly recommend Warpcon for wargaming. The UCC crew are dead sound, and I had a great time all weekend. They ran a very good tourney.