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Warhammer 40,000

Outdoor Summer Charity Tournament
August 8, 2009







First Things First


Alright, first thing’s first. This tournament is DIFFERENT! Rest assured that we’ve taken a lot of time to think about all of the things that can potentially go wrong with something “different” like this. If you really don’t like the way it sounds, just don’t sign up!


- Break the mold of the typical tournament
- Join us outdoors at a lovely picnic area in Springfield, VA, near the Springfield Plaza Games Workshop
- Enjoy freshly grilled burgers and dogs between your games
- Get some fresh air instead of being trapped indoors with 31 sweaty gamers all day
- You’ll be able to collect pledges of donations / game, or flat donations, from friends and relatives – finally the opportunity to tell them you’re giving back with this dorky fun hobby of ours




The Skinny


$15 Covers – A couple bottles of water or soda, hot dog or burger, bag of chips, & registration
2,000 Points
Four rounds
8AM – 8:45 Registration; 9AM First Round Starts
Only 32 spots available
GW Lists, Rules, and FAQ’s (Small tourney-specific FAQ will be provided to sign-ups)
No painting required, but numerous awards for the best painted
Trophies and small prizes
Give Back – SGI is a Fully Registered Charity Non-Profit Organization
Sign Up Today!




How to Sign Up

To reserve a spot for the tournament, contact ...
Mike Brandt (mvbrandt@gmail.com)








Notes:
We are taking pre-registration now by e-mailing mvbrandt@gmail.com

As soon as we fill a certain % of spots for the tournament, we'll begin taking paypal registration payments for the tournament - this payment of $15 will cover registration, participation in all side competitions, a burger or hot dog, a couple of bottles of soda or water over the course of the day, and a bag of chips

We will be sending a pledge/donation form out to each registered participant

Each participant will have the option of choosing their donations/pledges to one of three charitable foundations benefitting Catholic Relief Services, Breast Cancer, or Kidney research.

Scoring system cliff's notes - Detailed information and rules will be available soon, but we assess primary value to win or loss, and break "draws" with the optional Victory Points rule from the back of the GW rulebook. Victory Points and Killpoints MODIFY your overall rating (primarily based on win / loss) in equal parts, and so are recorded and meaningful for all missions, even objective-based ones. For purposes of best general, the scoring stops there. For purposes of overall, paint score and sportsmanship score also factor in to the same level as victory points and killpoints.

Lee District Park, Springfield, VA, Picnic Area #2


Some of the Awards We'll be Presenting:

- Best Overall (General + Sportsmanship + Painting)
- Best General (Win/Loss + VP + KP)
- Best General by Round (Best overall Generalship score for each round)
- Best Army (Best overall army theme, painting, converting)
- Best Painted (Best individual model)
- Best Converted (Best individual model)
- Best Sportsmanship (Overall highest sportsmanship rating)


Visit our forums as needed - http://www.tlsconline.com/forums ... SGi Subforums (top of the page!)

/shameless bump for a good cause

Thats awesome and probably one of the best ideas I have read.


Also, my local FLGS did something similar with a foood drive all last month which was kind of cool.

Wow... I'm definitely going to consider this! (I guess I'll have to consider fast, since there's only 32 spots available!)

Thanks for posting the info

Just let me know if you'd like to pre-register for a spot ... once the 32 spots are filled, we'll start taking registration fees.


/bump for a good cause, also

I promise not to do too much more bumping for good causes!

Just as an update - we're a little over "half full" at this point, so anyone contemplating let me know if you'd like to be on the pre-registration list!

Hi,

Yes, please put me on the pre-registration list! I will send you a PM

Thanks,
Steve / RTN

Steve's signed up

For all ya'll area folks who just wrapped up 'ard boyz, if things didn't go quite as you'd hoped, feel free to sign up for this event now that your August 8 weekend is free ... there'll definitely be some solid match-ups present.

Couple of people who sent me PM's with interest but not commitment - bumping for their sake.

We're down to about 5-6 reliably available spots (maybe more by the day of, given sometimes people drop out of tourneys on short notice)

- Mike

Couple of spots left, week away and they're filling up.

Any dakkas who were interested but didn't know their schedules yet, it's 8 days away!