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We actually require showering and wearing deodorant in the NOVA Open rules; seriously. Smelling awful mandates that you have a Nurgle Army or be disqualified for not being WYSIWYG, OR WYSIWYG.

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.

hahaha

I have only been to a single tournament, and I ended up getting $25 Credit because I was a finalist - only because no one else showed up. Har har!

Back in 3rd I had a player thumb his wraithlord back a few inches when I wasn't looking.

Over the years, and especially in 3rd when you had Guess ranges, I was the master of eye-balling 6" and 12". I have my Grey Hunters ready to pounce this Wraithlord. He wasn't at 6" he was a little under 5" away. To anyone who plays this game awhile, you know when a distance is clearly under 6".
I turn my head for a second to respond to a friend and turn back and now the Wraithlord is a bit over 7" away. I didn't have to pull out a tape measure, I knew. under 5" to then being over 7" away is huge, and very evident.
I called him out on it, to which he denied it. I didn't walk off or quit, I simply told him to put it back or forfeit. In the end he was disqualified as his "minion" buddy ratted him out when the TO approached due to the commotion.

I have actually had other instances of opponents moving models to far to avoid assault. One year at Adepticon in the TT, our opponents attempted it. My team mate and I just moved our models the same distance to compensate. There was no argument.

Really started getting into tournaments over the last couple of years and have never been to a bad one, given the TO's have become mates of mine but that is by the by. There is always one team in the doubles tournament we attend that is a Father and son alleged Dark Angels army, they basically use which ever is the newest marine codex and convince everyone that their dark green painted and 'transferred' up D/A's are infact a new successor chapter from the latest S/W, B/A's CSM etc.
It isn't a huge issue but it has become a running joke within the tourny scene. But it doesn't end there......this team nearly comes to blows at least once a match...not with the opposition but with themselves. More than once I have seen opponents of theirs having to dive accross the table to protect their newly painted units from the flailing arms of Team 'We are not Dark Angels' as they try to bitch slap each other.

Happy Days lol

I was watching a game my buddy was I and the guy he was playing against straight up cheated. I called him out on his 20 inch move then 9 inch charge. He then yelled at me to mind my own business. So I walked away. But was kinda annoyed this guy had to grossly cheat to win.

My first tournament, I'm playing Kult of Speed orks, under 4th edition, and it's an escalation game, meaning all vehicles start in reserve.

I win the roll for first turn, and opt to go second, knowing my opponent will lose a turn shooting at air, while my guys will roll on turn 1 (KoS special rule).

So, that happens, and we play about 4 turns. It's pretty close, but at the end of my 3rd turn, I've got units of orks in position to launch three separate, solid charges the following turn. My opponent takes his turn and does little to change the field.

And then, he says, 'well, i don't think we have time to get both of our turns in, so this is it'. Being my first tournament, and not thinking more, I agree, and we total up the points for a draw...

Driving home, I realized, we didn't need enough time for both of our turns, I went second and should have had my last turn, with those charges I'd set up.

I don't think it was intentional on his part, because his first turn didn't actually amount to anything, what with no models on the table, and I rolled reserves first, due to my army rule. But it happened.

Say this: "I dont want to play as an evil army any more, I'm too loyal."
Me:"Use your IG as traitor guard"
"They're too loyal to the emperor"

It wasn't a tournament but my opponent has once spilled coke on my models. Worse thing was he didn't apologise, just saying 'accidents happen'.

At the Broadisde Bash last year I was playing versus a sad old man with an IG army versus my Spacewolves.

We were playing on a a table of nothing but building wrecks, we agreed beforehand to play them as rubble not buildings. During the game my opponent puts some models on part of a ruin on the second floor. I measure an assault to them and he says, no, you have to measure 'up' the wall as well. I tell him that's not how area terrain ruins work, and he disagrees, so I suggest we get a judge, he agrees and I step away to find someone.

While I'm gone he moved my models further away. The player at the table next to me passed me a note when I got back that said, "while you were gone he moved your models".

The judge ruled I had to measure 'up' and was out of range and didn't get a charge, so I didn't challenge the issue further and kept the note to myself.

Then I got a ZERO sportsmanship that round, (after I won it legitimately, despite the cheat) because I had called a judge.

Used an army based on 3 maxed out bloodcrusher squads that weren't even made out of games workshop models. he guy just glued 3 plastic Nexu (the cat-like creature from Star Wars Episode II, colosseum scene.) toys to bases and put bloodletters on top. He also arued about every move i made and tried to tell me that khorne demons prevented me from using psychic power.

from what i have read here and the people i have seen play in my area....this is why i have played 10 games in 1 year and refuse to enter tournaments

to me its more about the building and painting

LakotaWolf wrote:from what i have read here and the people i have seen play in my area....this is why i have played 10 games in 1 year and refuse to enter tournaments

to me its more about the building and painting

Don't let these stories fool you; most tournament games are not like this. We're only hearing this stuff because it's more interesting than, "It was a great game, fun time, and no arguments". Standard caveats apply (there's a store that I don't like to play at because of the group there), so your mileage may vary.

I've also found that the more relaxed you are about a game, the more relaxed your opponent tends to be.

Taoofss wrote: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.

Had a guy quit top of turn 1 on the first round of a tournament against me once. Back in maybe 4th ed, he deployed a Tau gunline all the way forward on his 12" deployment zone line, directly opposite my Hormagaunts who were deployed the full 12" up on their line. Rolled a 6 for Fleet and got a first turn charge on his Fire Warriors. He promptly forfeit. Didn't roll out the combat or anything.

I've only had one bag tournament game. I actually yelled at the dude, which is way out of character for me.

He just didn't know the rules and kept telling me I was playing wrong and every time when we had to drag out the rule book, I'd show him I how the rules actually worked.

He just had a really, really bad, confrontational attitude that pissed me off. The vast majority of my games in tournaments have been excellent.

I recently had a rather trying game that involved constant rules arguing (he was always wrong), LOS issues (again, he was always wrong) and for some inexplicable reason (TO Discretion) his entire army was proxied. All the while he was behaving in a confrontational and unpleasant manner.

I almost decided that I was done and was going to not finish the game but decided it would be more satisfying to mop the floor with him. Which I did. And it was highly satisfying.

It warms my heart to defeat the annoying and nasally.

Can't say I've had a bad game in a tournament. The worst was having to play the guy that beat the dirt out of me the week before (we tied, he took 2nd, I took 4th), but still it was a rather pleasant game in terms of sportsmanship.

I think the worst tournament experience was seeing someone cheat. He was playing Blood Angels when they came out, fudging numbers and fudging rules. This alone was upsetting to me, but the fact that he was doing it in order to win against a new player who was borrowing a Ravenwing army really got on my nerves. The game was basically over and I mentioned it to the TO but the tfg still took 1st. Sadly, I never saw the RW guy again.

Well, I've never been a serious tourny that went badly but I did once get a bit pissed off with a guy in a campaign I went to.

It was a weekend event, and we were told specifically to bring fluffy, non-optimized lists. The emphasis was on doing silly things (like a whole army of grots, or combat necrons). Nearly everyone who turned up ran crazy lists (the player who came first has a biker khorne chaos space marine list!) . However this one guy turned up with a seriously tournament pimped-out Gazh and battlewagon spam list and proceeded to face-roll everyone he played against.

Luckily the TOs (for want of a better word) didn't let him come first and he completely missed the spirit of it! (So he came second)

The worst thing I've every done in a tournement is give max points to player that didn't earn them. It was a few years back, at the top tables at a VERY large tournement... I regret it in hindsight

yermom wrote: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.

Would this be at the finals? Would it have to do with your opponent lining the board edge so your models could not arrive? If so then the guy you played lives around here. The local group all thought it was hilarious. Although most of us did point out the douchebaggery inherent in the move. However you said "illegal", and I am pretty sure that while lame as hell, it was within the rules.

As for my worst tournament experience. It would have to be the semi finals of Ard'Boyz last year. My first two opponents had to be the two people there that knew the least about the rules, or rather, the ACTUAL rules and not "how they played it at my store". Both games only got to round 4 due to having to get TO rules clarification repeatedly basically crippling my chances to advance. If you have to get verification that vehicles in area terrain need to have 50% coverage to get a save, or that you need half or more of your unit in said terrain to gain the benefit of cover, then you should not be playing in a tournament that size with time limits that tight. At the very least you should trust in Me or the 4 people to our left and right saying it works how I am telling you.

Kaotik wrote:

yermom wrote: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.

Would this be at the finals? Would it have to do with your opponent lining the board edge so your models could not arrive? If so then the guy you played lives around here. The local group all thought it was hilarious. Although most of us did point out the douchebaggery inherent in the move. However you said "illegal", and I am pretty sure that while lame as hell, it was within the rules.

Yeah...I never know how to deal with this one. This past weekend at a tournament, my first round opponent (Mechanized Orks) lost the roll to go first in a pitched battle game against my DE, and reserved everything. While lining the table edge to prevent enemies moving on is a valid tactic (and has been settled by the GW FAQ 1.1), I'd prefer not to do it. I said, "I think you should deploy - I can line your table edge and prevent you from getting onto the table." He said, "I don't want to get shot at." I said, "Getting shot at is better than auto-losing your vehicles because they can't come on." He said, "Still reserving, we'll have an early lunch then."

I didn't line his table edge because I was looking for a good challenge and I'd been told he was the best there. We had a fun game and booze....but I think in any of the GTs I attend this year, if someone reserves on me like that...I'm not giving them a break.

If I remember Yermom's story correctly, he lined the board edges of Yermom's side with Kommandos ... in a Dawn of War mission.

Although you can infiltrate in Dawn of War, you cannot infiltrate units that aren't from the two troop and 1 hq restrictions, so ... if that's the proper remembrance ... and he infiltrated 3 kommando units to line Yermom's board edge, while lining his own with shoota boyz ... then yes, he was totally illegal in what he did / cheated.


From the DOW Mission - "Troops and HQ units that can infiltrate, can do so, as long as at the end of deployment the player still has a maximum of one HQ and two Troops units on the table."

WHy didn't Yermom punch him out?

Stupid question: couldn't vehicles tank shock through infantry in that sort of scenario?

or fly over them, if they were skimmers?


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LakotaWolf wrote:from what i have read here and the people i have seen play in my area....this is why i have played 10 games in 1 year and refuse to enter tournaments

to me its more about the building and painting

I think that is a very legitimate position sir! I consider that myself sometimes, sufficed to say, I'm not going back to the BSB this year, and possibly, never.

Also the hardboy, and other tourneys where they dont judge, or even require painting, well they just don't interest me. YMMV.

I had a tyranid player bring a 'tyrannofex' to a tourney game, apparently a TO had given him the go ahead.

The 'Tyrannofex' was basically a slightly converted biovore, so the relatively small model could crouch in cover an pelt my army from safety. I was not amused :(

Dashofpepper wrote:WHy didn't Yermom punch him out?

Not sure if serious...?

Yermom is a really cool guy, and the TO was called over and said the guy could do it (incorrectly reading the rule and not really getting the question from what I understand).

Yermom was also playing a Tyranid army, all foot, so could not tank shock a damned thing ... or fly over.

He'd also declared everything was coming on Turn 1.

He just autolost as soon as the game started.


Caveat - I wasn't there; maybe some weird rule allowed the guy to put 2 troops units on Yermom's board side, but, I doubt it.

I would hope a TO would take a little more time to think about a question that had a chance to end a game before it started. Pretty lame.

At my next 'AB, I'm just going to ask a ridiculously favorable rules question of the TO for each game. Can't hurt, right?