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**puma713**

Adepticon 40K Champs results are in via Blood of Kittens:

http://bloodofkittens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/40K-Champs-Overall-Results.pdf

Way to go Reecius on placing 5th overall!

Edit: Better note that this is from the standard format tournament. The Qualifying 16 are here: http://bloodofkittens.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/16-Qualifers.pdf

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Updated from BoK:

Blood of Kittens wrote:
The Elite 8 are…

Space Wolves vs. Space Wolves

Orks vs. Blood Angels

Khan SM vs. Nids

Blood Angels vs. Imperial Guard

Deamons are out =( and Reece Robbins lost his first game.

Blood of Kittens wrote:
The Final Four are…

Space Wolves Grey Hunter Spam
Imperial Guard Vet and Valks
Horde Orks
Hybid Stealer Guant Nids

This is what they look like…

So it is down to the final two and the Cinderellas are all gone. The winner of last year’s Nova Open with Space Wolves is up against Mech IG. I have to admit I am shockingly pulling for the IG. The list on closer look is pretty hybrid besides the vet squads. It has some Hellhounds and Russes as well as Heavy weapon teams. So it should be a good match. The Space Wolf player has sqeecked by almost every game so this will be his final test to see if he can win 8 games in a row at Adepticon.

Blood of Kittens wrote:
Ok turn one guys has just started. we have dawn of war deployment. SW player went first, but got seized on by the IG

IG first round of shooting going fairly well. Njal rhino wreck and Long fangs squad neutered…Space Wolf top of 2 wolves move up then proceed to Immolize a vend and explodes the vend and chimera explode. Top of turn 3 for IG blows up a rhino immobilizes a razorback and picking at Njah squad.

SW turn bottom turn three…Russ weapon destroy. Manticore stunned. Two Chimera destroyed so far… not looking good for IG.

IG top of 4…. Killed Njal squad whittled down some grey hunters. SW bottom turn 4 clean up starts takes out heavy weapon teams abs stuns some more vehicles. SW kill another melta squad.

IG top of 5…Grey hunter squad bites it and another is whittled down. Bottom 5 SW.

SW really getting into full clean up mode might table IG if goes to 7….

And finally:

Blood of Kittens wrote:
Well games ends and SW have won and the netlisters rejoice!

Having watch Tony Kopach the 17 year old Space Wolf wunderkin– what can I say? He out played his opponent on that last game even with the IG seizing. He used the terrain to his advantage and provided enough cover saves to protect his transports as they moved up. On turn three all of Tony’s dice just lit up with 5 and 6s on damage table rolls. So by then it was just a matter of his Grey Hunters finishing off the easy bits inside. Overall the game was fast paced and easy to watch. Was not really inspiring though. I have seen this battled played out over the last year time and time again. I think if Tony would have played the Nid list that almost made it, we would have had a real classic on our hands. So I am tired– might have more stuff up later tonight, otherwise thank you everyone that watched the live broadcast and followed the blog. Next up WargamesCon and I cannot wait.

Pics and full story here: http://bloodofkittens.com/blog/2011/04/03/adepticon-2011-40k-campionship-coverage/

**tinfoil**

Congrats to Ragnar (Mannahnin) as well, for second place (in the Champions round) with CSM.

**Inquisitor_Dunn**

Awesome broadcast! The nid vs wolves would have been a good match up. Too bad they fell short by victory points to the ig in round 3.

**vonjankmon**

Anyone know if the SW player used the same army at the NOVA Open? Would be a bit disappointed if Grey Hunter spam was the current top army.

**spireland**

I hope BOK posts up the lists, it'll be interesting to see what top players were using.

**Shinkaze**

I hope all major tournaments using this new format put all the lists from day 2 up for all to see and let us know what the match ups were. The more reporting the better.

**Avariel**

Any news on results for Gladiator or Team tournaments.

**sharkticon**

I wonder what those guys who were giving Stelek flak for loosing to a 17 year old will say now that said kid has gone on to go 8-0 at Adepticon.

**vanghost**

Are the lists posted publicly anywhere?

**thehod**

Team Spiky Bitz has won the Team Tourney. They beat out last year's team tournament winners the Sons of Shatner (ripped shirts?). I do not know all the players on the team yet but will let ya know.

**MVBrandt**

Tony is 16, not 17. His list is Njal, 5 scouts mgun, 5 wolf guard fist/combimelta (and 2 have mbombs), 2x8gh mgun standard rhino, 2x7gh mgun standard rhino, 2x5gh flamer plas/laserback, 3x5fangs 4missiles

He came to play with us in the TT, and Youngbloods, b/c he didn't sign up for champs in time, but got in off waitlist.

Hopefully will say something that he is now 14-0 in GT play with the NOVA 10 and AdeptiCon 11 in his cap; he also achieved all but one possible objective/point.

Like any event with no margin of victory requirements, you saw squeaker close games between all variety of lists. People brought less rocks, and more balanced armies (I.e. more bodies, and weaker but swiss army knife hq's like Njal). The finals had a TON of list variety.

**ph34r**

Thanks for posting the list. Very basic seeming, just goes to show how powerful a basic SW list can be with a proper commander.

**Pipboy101**

Is it just mer or is adepticon news hard to come by this year?

**vonjankmon**

I was thinking the exact same thing. I don't remember having to search and hunt for it like this in past years.

**Maelstrom808**

Agreed. I'd really like to see what Jay Woodcock's Nid list looked like, and what his match ups were prior to the finals.

**frgsinwntr**

MVBrandt wrote:Tony is 16, not 17. His list is Njal, 5 scouts mgun, 5 wolf guard fist/combimelta (and 2 have mbombs), 2x8gh mgun standard rhino, 2x7gh mgun standard rhino, 2x5gh flamer plas/laserback, 3x5fangs 4missiles

He came to play with us in the TT, and Youngbloods, b/c he didn't sign up for champs in time, but got in off waitlist.

Hopefully will say something that he is now 14-0 in GT play with the NOVA 10 and AdeptiCon 11 in his cap; he also achieved all but one possible objective/point.

Like any event with no margin of victory requirements, you saw squeaker close games between all variety of lists. People brought less rocks, and more balanced armies (I.e. more bodies, and weaker but swiss army knife hq's like Njal). The finals had a TON of list variety.

Very awesome. I like how he did it, very solid player. I hope to play him at the NOVA this year. His list is very basic but it seems to have staying power!

71 bodies, 6 armor 11 tanks.

**Target**

frgsinwntr wrote:
MVBrandt wrote:Tony is 16, not 17. His list is Njal, 5 scouts mgun, 5 wolf guard fist/combimelta (and 2 have mbombs), 2x8gh mgun standard rhino, 2x7gh mgun standard rhino, 2x5gh flamer plas/laserback, 3x5fangs 4missiles

He came to play with us in the TT, and Youngbloods, b/c he didn't sign up for champs in time, but got in off waitlist.

Hopefully will say something that he is now 14-0 in GT play with the NOVA 10 and AdeptiCon 11 in his cap; he also achieved all but one possible objective/point.

Like any event with no margin of victory requirements, you saw squeaker close games between all variety of lists. People brought less rocks, and more balanced armies (I.e. more bodies, and weaker but swiss army knife hq's like Njal). The finals had a TON of list variety.

Very awesome. I like how he did it, very solid player. I hope to play him at the NOVA this year. His list is very basic but it seems to have staying power!

71 bodies, 6 armor 11 tanks.

I want a Whiskey Challenge versus Tony so bad now...

Kudos to him on his victory with a true "all comers" style list!

**Redbeard**

MVBrandt wrote:
Hopefully will say something that he is now 14-0 in GT play with the NOVA 10 and AdeptiCon 11 in his cap; he also achieved all but one possible objective/point.

It says he's an excellent player, no doubt there. It may also say something about how deep 40k really is as a game on a philosophical level, but I guess Bobby Fischer grandmastered at 15, so maybe he's just a prodigy and will go on to live in exile in Reykjavík too

Is it just mer or is adepticon news hard to come by this year?

Don't forget that a lot of people stayed for the poker tournament last night and aren't travelling home until today. I'd expect to see more results and posts in the upcoming week.

**Dashofpepper**

MVBrandt wrote:Tony is 16, not 17. Hopefully will say something that he is now 14-0 in GT play with the NOVA 10 and AdeptiCon 11 in his cap; he also achieved all but one possible objective/point.

Well, I must say that he definitely has something to be proud of. I sincerely hope we get to face each other at the Nova Open this year; testing my abilities against players like this is why I play.

**Target**

Dashofpepper wrote:
MVBrandt wrote:Tony is 16, not 17. Hopefully will say something that he is now 14-0 in GT play with the NOVA 10 and AdeptiCon 11 in his cap; he also achieved all but one possible objective/point.

Well, I must say that he definitely has something to be proud of. I sincerely hope we get to face each other at the Nova Open this year; testing my abilities against players like this is why I play.

I thought you played so you had an acceptable reason to drink from sun up to sun down...

**LegendJRG**

Long drive back to cinci last night working after a weekend like that is rough. I had a blast there it was my first con and I won killzone, Saturday night combat patrol and took best general for Sunday morning CP. Some of the crystal brush stuff was simply amazing for me especially it was the space marine with the incredible free hand that won. Hopefully I'll be able to register or know that I'm going sooner than two weeks before so I can try my hand at the bigger games next year.

**Old Man Ultramarine**

Woodcock's Tyranids...

Rough guessimation

2 x2 hive guard
4 x10 genestealers
3 zoathropes
x2 tervigon
many gargoyles
not sure on HQ

It looked great on table.

**Elessar**

As I've said already on YTTH, congrats to Tony. It's a shame TastyTaste has to degrade his coverage by trying to downplay Tony's achievement, but that's what he's built his 'career' on, so I'm not surprised or even that disappointed really.

Well done everyone who won all their games.

**spireland**

Pipboy101 wrote:Is it just mer or is adepticon news hard to come by this year?

There are nuggets of info out there, but no one good source for it. BOK has some stuff up, but not a ton.

I think what is going on is that everyone who is there is engaging in the event and doesn't have time to report.

**Lord Severus**

Cole Markgraf here, the IG player from the Final 4.

Few Clarifications. My IG list was this:
CCS w/ 4x Plasma and officer of the fleet in a chimera
8 Psykers in a chimera
Melta vets in a chimera
Melta vets in a chimera
Infantry platoon:
Pcs w/ 4 flamers in a chimera with a turret heavy flamer (This is the chimera everyone thought was a hellhound)
Infantry squad
Infantry squad
Autocannon heavy squad
Missle Heavy squad
Vendetta
Vendetta
Russ
Executioner w/plasma and lascannon
Manticore

Jays Nids were:
2 HQ tervigons
3x hiveguard
3x hiveguard
3x zoes
20 genestealers
20 genestealers
15 genestealers
25 Gargoyles

Both were good games against awesome players. Tony is a phenomenal player and deserves all the credit in the world. Following up the 120 player Nova win with the 260 player Adepticon win is truly amazing.

**Monster Rain**

Pipboy101 wrote:Is it just mer or is adepticon news hard to come by this year?

I just got back from there, and I have to say that a lot of people probably just don't have time to give reports. The events are quite long and intense.

I know that the 11th Company and Independent Characters Podcasts were doing a lot of live coverage. You could look there.

**skkipper**

Elessar wrote:As I've said already on YTTH, congrats to Tony. It's a shame TastyTaste has to degrade his coverage by trying to downplay Tony's achievement, but that's what he's built his 'career' on, so I'm not surprised or even that disappointed really.

Well done everyone who won all their games.

it was a great job by Tony to pull off the 8 wins.
but he needs to clean up his game. I played him one round on saturday(we won) and talked to several others that played him and there were issues in several games. this like extremely long movements and questionable assault moves, and stretching a few rules.

**vanghost**

I'm really interested to see the ork list from the final four.

**Warboss Gubbinz**

Not trying to downplay his win but @skkipper, did people not call him on it due to his age? Not wanting to seem like a bully to someone under 18 etc?

**frgsinwntr**

skkipper wrote:
Elessar wrote:As I've said already on YTTH, congrats to Tony. It's a shame TastyTaste has to degrade his coverage by trying to downplay Tony's achievement, but that's what he's built his 'career' on, so I'm not surprised or even that disappointed really.

Well done everyone who won all their games.

it was a great job by Tony to pull off the 8 wins.
but he needs to clean up his game. I played him one round on saturday(we won) and talked to several others that played him and there were issues in several games. this like extremely long movements and questionable assault moves, and stretching a few rules.

On the flip side of this, those other players may not have had a good understanding of the rules (if he wasn't stretching), or may just have the "I got beat" bucket of crabs mentallity.

Either way, passing on hearsay is kinda useless and "social dividing" for the hobby.

That said, unless you personally played him... and can show us a rule he stretched and how, it's safe to assume the other parties involved could also be wrong.

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Warboss Gubbinz wrote:Not trying to downplay his win but @skkipper, did people not call him on it due to his age? Not wanting to seem like a bully to someone under 18 etc?

Or they didn't because he was in the right?

I've met more people who don't know the rules that do.

I think jumping on the hearsay train is bad form