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Just a heads up to the Dakka Community on an upcoming event for the North American clubs....

From Shane Grubb - owner of Dicehead Games in Chattanooga (an awesome game store owner who truly loves the game and knows how to run a good tournament):

The ATC (similar to the ETC) Club challenge is going to happen in May in Chattanooga. Shane will be advertising it at Adepticon this year.

They went with May since they already had a venue and location set for the Siege convention that Dicehead sponsors each year. So for year one - the ATC will be a part of the Siege. Assuming that it's successful - I think Shane is looking at Nashville or Atlanta in the future - but want's to see interest in it first.

Here's linky to website: http://www.diceheadsiege.com/

A lot of the well known clubs have expressed interest in attending - Wrecking Crew, Team Toledo, 'Da Boyz, BOLS, Battle for Salvation, etc....

As the Team Captain for the Nashville Blade and Bolter Boyz - consider your clubs challenged! Here's a chance to throw down.....

Updated:

This summer the Siege (annual convention hosted by Dicehead Games in Cleveland, TN) will be hosting a Club Challenge tournament. It's an ETC style event designed to pit the best players from different clubs across the US against each other.

Here are the details at present:

The American Team Championship is where the best of the best will come together to decide who is the #1 Club/Team in North America!
There are many details to be posted and worked out and we will be continually updating this page with all the info as decisions are made.
Here's what we have to date - More Details to Follow Soon!


5 Member Teams.
Every Member on the Team Must use a different Codex Army.

2000 Points per player.
Maximum 1 Special Character per Army List.

6 Games (4 Saturday, 2 Sunday)

No Painting or Composition Scores.
ALL models MUST be WYSIWYG!
Sportsmanship will be taken into account - more details to follow

Trophies will be given for Best Painted, Best Sportsmanship, Best General, Best Team (each member will be rewarded a trophy) and Best Theme.

Mission(s) are currently being play-tested but will basically be a combination of the Rulebook Missions.

Link to site: http://www.diceheadsiege.com/2673.html

Their are already several well known clubs that are planning to attend. Will be a great gathering of some of the best known 40K players in the US. A great event to get a group of your best buddies together and compete for a two day 6 game slug fest.

C'mon down!

Al Gleason - Team Captain - Blade and Bolter Boyz

Contrary to some, I felt the exclusion of SC's from the ETC promoted a more diverse army list design across the board. I also feel 5 players per team is not enough to dip into the non-power books. It might be a cookie cutter fest in May.

Logan Wolves
Mephiston BA
Vulkan Marines
Ghaz Orks
IG

Rinse repeat. At theleast those will be the 5 armies most represented by far. The ETC forced 8 players per team and people had to play other things.

It should be fun though. I'd like to see painting required, but YMMV.

Cool man - I think the thoughts on SC went back and forth for ETC - at this one you get 1 per list. Will see what it does. I can tell you at least for our team it's different from what you posted. I think they went with 5 players per team due to logistics as well as challenges getting more people than that together and to Chattanooga in a relatively short timeframe.

I think the requirement for painted armies will be there - it's just not part of the scoring.

Grab some buddies and head down. Shane and Mel run a great tourney.

Aldonis wrote:Cool man - I think the thoughts on SC went back and forth for ETC - at this one you get 1 per list. Will see what it does. I can tell you at least for our team it's different from what you posted. I think they went with 5 players per team due to logistics as well as challenges getting more people than that together and to Chattanooga in a relatively short timeframe.

Sounds good. The should probably make it "named" characters, though, as I don't think they're all labeled "special" anymore.

Aldonis wrote:I think the requirement for painted armies will be there - it's just not part of the scoring.

That's good. No way I'd travel that far for an event which didn't require painting. As it is, this is extremely tempting. Might be a little too short notice for me to get five Cold Steel Mercs together, sadly. :( Our US members are all in the Northeast or Midwest (and one CO).

Would love to see you guys there - good point on "special" characters. Working to get the Battle for Salvation guys there from your neck of the woods also.

It's in Chattanooga - so not too bad to get too. The hotel is reasonable priced. Lots to do in the area.

Aldonis wrote:
It's in Chattanooga - so not too bad to get too. The hotel is reasonable priced. Lots to do in the area.

I'm not sure when in the summer this is, but Chattanooga is not far from Cherokee National Forest and they have the Atlanta Olympics White Water River Rafting course there. It's not to difficult of a course and a ton of fun for the family. You can rent a log cabin in the mountains for a reasonable price and raft the river. It wouldn't be to hard to turn 2 days of 40k into a 4 day mini vacation for the family.

Would be interested in more details on missions, and such, and in making sure the local team isn't assisting with planning / organizing / playtesting.

I believe that the mission is pretty straight forward - the basic missions from the rule book all combined into 1 - you have three conditions - Seize Ground (3 objectives), Capture and control, and Annihilation for each mission. Whoever can get the most wins. That's what they are talking now - but not sure it's finalized.

Using VP's for tie breakers.

Not sure if Dicehead has a local club playing or not....my team is from Nashville. Just trying to help get it off the ground by getting the word out to get some of the top teams there. No need to worry about "home field advantage".


A team Nova would be awesome to see there.

I just want to say I support the idea of this tournament 100%, I'm really glad this is being created. The more events like this there are, the more experienced our player base will be for future American Teams. I doubt I'll have the time to go this year, but I encourage everyone to make the trip down and support this event.

I'll have a talk with some of the people in our group. Might have to make it out to this.

Any chance at a fantasy division?

This look like fun! I have never been to TN, either. Italiaplaya and I might get a team together from the Bay.

It is one week before the SoCal Slaughter though, that might be the only thing holding me back. Traveling two weekends back to back is a bit rough, although the SoCal slaughter is only an hour flight, so it's not too bad.

@Darthdiggler
I think anymore than 5 teams and you start having logistical problems of actually finding enough people that can make it.

While I'd normally be down I don't think it would happen for me this year. Though I could probably find a team that would take me my personal travelling budget is getting more limited as I'll be travelling for Nova, Wargames and minimally for Bugeater and Adepticon. Add in the possibility of a west coast event and I'm out this year

Good luck to those attending!

I dunno, Darth, you're forgetting fateweaver daemons and eldrad eldar.

As a side note, whoever designed the website for this event should be shot. Don't make websites that play noises at your visitors, it's not cool.

Reecius wrote:This look like fun! I have never been to TN, either. Italiaplaya and I might get a team together from the Bay.

It is one week before the SoCal Slaughter though, that might be the only thing holding me back. Traveling two weekends back to back is a bit rough, although the SoCal slaughter is only an hour flight, so it's not too bad.

@Darthdiggler
I think anymore than 5 teams and you start having logistical problems of actually finding enough people that can make it.

ah its only a little trip for you!!

I am going from Geneve Switzerland to the independent UK GT for a 2 day tournament and than one day later hop a plane and fly to chicago for Adepticon and back to Geneve. But I am still looking at doing this event and flying back to the states a few weeks later.

You doggone better get you arse back across the pond for this one Sabote! You're homeboys need you on their team brother!

Starting to get teams signing up - not sure how many spots will be available - but if you are interested I think there's a good chance it will fill up quickly......

So is it just 25 dollars, or is there a addition price for the tournament?

So far me reece and white925 are interested in coming. Just need 2 more players to commit.

Aldonis wrote:Starting to get teams signing up - not sure how many spots will be available - but if you are interested I think there's a good chance it will fill up quickly......

There is nothing on the site that allows for registering, or what the cost is per team (other than the $25 per person entry fee), etc., etc. Just some bare bones information and a cryptic message that more details are to come, and an e-mail address.

Eldanar wrote:

Aldonis wrote:Starting to get teams signing up - not sure how many spots will be available - but if you are interested I think there's a good chance it will fill up quickly......

There is nothing on the site that allows for registering, or what the cost is per team (other than the $25 per person entry fee), etc., etc. Just some bare bones information and a cryptic message that more details are to come, and an e-mail address.

Ya i thought the same thing... From what i got out of though, is you have to email them or call them up to register your team. And it would seem like its 25 dollars per person.

Yeah, we're interested for sure. We have Hulk as a maybe, and we would need one more player. I will ask at the Sprue Posse GT to see who's up for it.

I'll get with Shane and kick him in the ding-ding to get the site updated and more details out.....

So far I know of 6 or 7 teams that are looking at attending already - with some real good players on those teams.


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BTW - awesome that you guys would come from the west coast - know that there are some top shelf players from that area - but don't know them as well as the Eastern US players.

Ok Guys, Shane from Dicehead Games & The SIEGE here:
The website will be updated hopefully within the next 24 hours (and the noise will be turned off!)

But to clear up a couple of things:

The General Admission to SIEGE is $25. This gets you access to TONS of games and events, but for Larger Events (or drafts where product is involved - Magic, Clix, etc - there is an additional charge)
There is an additional $20 fee for The ATC event if you do not pre-register/pre-pay.
If you Pre-Register/Prepay (Money Order or Paypal) it is an additional $15 instead of $20 (so $40 per person, $200 per team)
The Prize Support will be Really, Really Nice along with the Trophies and we do a lot of Random Prizes throughout as well.
Also, there are GW tournaments on Friday Night Plus All-Night RPGS and Board Games all weekend that you can play in for no additional charge!
Long Story Short - Your Money Gets you ALOT of stuff!!!

The Mission will be posted as well as some additional rules on painting and sportsmanship.

Registration is as follows (and will be up on the site ASAP for future reference)

HOW TO REGISTER for the ATC:

A brief note on Pre-Registration vs Showing up the day of:
Pre-Registration is HIGHLY recommended and is also cheaper!
We will be prepared for the amount of teams that have Pre-Registered plus 4 "Last Minute" teams for the last week/day of, UNLESS we sell out before!
Don't take your chances with being one of those 4 teams!

Pre-registration cut off is Saturday May 14th 2011

Pre-registration/Registration for The ATC Event is done through Dicehead Games & Comics.

INFORMATION NEEDED:
1 - The Full Name of EACH Team Member
2 - At least 1 email contact for the team (email contacts for EACH member is recommended if possible)
3 - The Name of the Team
4 - The State(s) that the Team is coming from

To Register :
You can call : (423) 473-7125
or email : shane@dicehead.com with "ATC Registratration" in the Subject Line
You can Prepay ($40 per person, $200 per team - this includes the base $25 Event Fee) by Money Order (call for address) or Paypal shane@dicehead.com
IMPORTANT : If you email and do not receive a response within 48 hours, please call the number above!

I NEED YOUR INPUT!!! So Please give it and I will do ALL that I can to accommodate everyone!
Thanks,

I am so there.

Two points:

1. The sound is off on the main page, but not on the ATC information page. (Not a biggie, as I just hit the mute button, but just a fair warning to some folks.)

2. You listed placing objectives for both Capture and Control, and Seize Ground. Are these meant to be two seperate and distinct sets of objectives/victory conditions, or are you intending to lump all 5 objectives together into one pool of 5 objectives?

Shane will need to confirm for sure - but I believe the idea is that you have all three basic mission objectives in play.

Two objectives for Capture and control

Three objectives for Seize Ground (seperate from C&C)

Then Kill Points

Achieving more of these than your opponent wins the game.

For ties or Draws - VP would be the tie breaker - so you always have a winner for each game.

So with 5 players per team - you will not have any ties for the Team vs. Team matchup.

Don't know if that's finalized - but that was what he was thinking last time I talked with him.

So the Seize and Control objectives are a different set of victory conditions from the Seize Ground objectives.

How is he planning on doing tournament or team points? Will there be margins of victory similar to the current minor/major/masacre/draw breakdown in single player tournaments; or will it be solely win/loss/(draw?) points collectively added together? I know it is extremely rare, but there is a remote possibility of a tie on victory points as well.

Also, what is the schedule and time limit for Saturday? I would imagine an early start with 4 games? 2.5+/- hour time limits?

(I apologize in advance for not being very familiar with the ETC format this is based off of.)

I just want to kick in here and say that Shane runs an EXCELLENT event. I make a point to get to Chattanooga/Cleveland when I can.

I may have to at least attend the Siege this year. It'd be good to see Brother Sabote!

Aldonis is correct.

3 Mission Objectives:

1 - Two objectives for Capture and control

2 - Three objectives for Seize Ground (seperate from C&C)

3 - Kill Points

Achieving more of these than your opponent wins the game.

For ties or Draws - VP would be the tie breaker - so you always have a winner for each game.

So with 5 players per team - you will not have any ties for the Team vs. Team matchup.
IF VP is a draw then both players will receive a "Draw" result. VERY unlikely that this will happen though, but since It has been spoken/typed aloud, we will probably have 10 Draws first round! hehe.


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Also, it will be very clearly Win or Loss (or Draw if it comes down to it).