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Doubt it, nor is there a reason for it to change.

In a 7 round tournament it only happens in the later rounds when the overall winner is being determined.

Basically if you are there just trying to have a good time and are not on the top tables it will never happen to you if it is a real 'concern.'

A lot of people don't want to play the same opponent twice in the same event. Sounds like a legit reason for change.

Maybe some more clarification would help people understand.

Day 1 there is 4 rounds that everyone in the event plays. There should never be someone who plays the same person in this round or from there same area as we sort by zipcode along with other variables.
Day 2 we split the tournament into two events. The first we take depending on the number of people in the event a % that move on and keep their same scores. They are then reseeded based on their battlepoints off day 1..
The other group below the cutoff get a whole new start and their battle scores reset to zero( They keep sportsmanship and painting).

The top bracket is sorted and plays against people who made the top. This could be someone who they played from yesterday because of seeding for day 2.
If Day 2 they have close scores and they want to switch we will try to switch them with scores that are close unless Scores are diverged enough by 30+points.

The bottom bracket is a classic old school Rogue GT and we can switch and move people around all the time which we did quite frequently as that is more of a relax tournament and for fun.

so short if your going to be there competitive and you expect to be in the top 16 it could happen but we can move things around if needed ( That is why you see resposnes from Blood angel and Next level painting who were both in the top 16). If your there for fun that is something you don't need to worry about playing someone you have already played.

Cool, thanks for the clarification. That makes a bit more sense.

jwolf wrote:Actually I walked up and offered to switch Reecius and his opponent, and would have done it right then (I have no respect for the rules, privilege of being the boss), but someone wanted to take a nap to prepare for an evening of introducing the young ladies to his own magnificence. Had a great game with Reecius' opponent Carl, and maintained my unbeaten tournament play streak with Tau.

You did indeed offer to switch, but I did indeed want to go back to bed! hahah, thanks for that, super nice of you.

And Carl was awesome, I really enjoyed the game with him, too.

I guess they won't have to wonder about the rematch if you beat them twice!

Ever since ATC I'm not very interested in GTs but I wouldn't miss WGC for anything! It's the bomb!

40k scores posted on the website. Www.wargamescon.com

Darkwynn wrote:40k scores posted on the website. Www.wargamescon.com

With the numbers 2 (bad game), 6(good game), and 8(excellent game) it is impossible to get the number 9. How did I possibly get a sportsmanship score of 9 rofl?

Hmmm... I am interested to know how an army that wasn't based or finished got a paint score of 25 but I got a 24 with a finished and based army... I assume it is a misprint. Not that it matters since I clearly wasn't going to win anything last weekend playing the way I did!

Darkwynn wrote:

pretre wrote:@Derkwann: (heheh) Would any other competitive event do the same? Seems kind of strange.

Derkwann... Cute,

Nick, don't misspell other folks' handles, and they'll usually spell yours right too. Most dudes aren't as friendly about being called a chick's name.

Darkwynn wrote:Moving away from the trolling. We will post scores from the event at our website. www.Wargamescon.com

99%+ of events make a point of not pairing the same people twice. It was a legitimate question, and deserved the real answer it got later. The format makes sense, but it's unusual enough that explaining it shouldn't be a big deal. Thanks for doing the right thing.

Mannahnin wrote:

Darkwynn wrote:

pretre wrote:@Derkwann: (heheh) Would any other competitive event do the same? Seems kind of strange.

Derkwann... Cute,

Nick, don't misspell other folks' handles, and they'll usually spell yours right too. Most dudes aren't as friendly about being called a chick's name.

To be fair, I'm used to being called all sorts of things due to my unusual real name, so it isn't so bad. lol

Any ideas from the organizers as to why there was such a big upset in codexes at the top levels? Missions or top level players just said 'F GKs!'?

I wasn't there or anything but from reading batreps, there were several "kill HQ" or "kill marked unit" objectives. This could have given necrons an advantage as their HQ's can keep coming back. Ben mentioned jumping anrakyr into a night scythe to save him since the special rule puts him back into reserves.

Darkwynn wrote:40k scores posted on the website. Www.wargamescon.com

Ohhh you made my score 69 ......................................... Rofl

My dad and I are clearly greater than the sum of our parts.

We were 3rd overall in doubles. I placed 17th in the RT and he placed 100th. I'll tease him about this until next year.

pretre wrote:
Any ideas from the organizers as to why there was such a big upset in codexes at the top levels? Missions or top level players just said 'F GKs!'?

The reasons why are:

All of the Grey Knight hate has turned off some of the Grey Knight players.
Necrons have quietly become the best codex.
Everyone has figured out how to beat Grey Knights by now.

Blackmoor wrote:All of the Grey Knight hate has turned off some of the Grey Knight players.
Necrons have quietly become the best codex.
Everyone has figured out how to beat Grey Knights by now.

Cool, I figured that was some of it, but it is nice to see some confirmation. Necrons are pretty nasty.

mostly it was due to people not wanting to play Grey knights and it was the end of 5th edition. Lots of 5th edition apathy and people who came wanted to have fun. Saw tons of Dark Eldar players and even nids who used to play Grey knights.

Well, whatever the reason, it is nice to see.

Any chance of posting the team tournament results, or are they already out somewhere I haven't found yet? We didn't stick around that night for the printed wall posting since the year before they were on-line that night.

Thanks!