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The fourth annual Bugeater GT will be June 6th to June 8th, 2014!
http://gt.bugeatergames.com

Click here for tickets

We can officially announce the fourth Bugeater GT. This year it will be held on June 6th through June 8th at Millard West High School in Omaha, NE. The Grand Tournament is not only an awesome weekend of gaming, but it is also a fundraiser for the debate team that I coach that raises thousands of dollars for our program. The Millard West debate team has won the state championship the past four years, and has had students place in the top 20 at the NFL national tournament. Our success would not be possible without your support!

Before I give you my reasons for coming to the Bugeater, check out what some of the people that attended the event had to say:

The Undermind's Review of the Bugeater
Xaereth's Review of the Bugeater
Punisher40k's review of the Bugeater

Now the basics:

We have a 6 round, 72 person 40k tournament. Players will field 1850 point armies, and we will use NOVA style missions (both tiered and cumulative). We are tentatively going to break to brackets the last three rounds to help diversify our awards and give more than just the one undefeated something to play for.

We also have a 5 round, 64 person fantasy tournament. Point levels to be determined, but this year we are removing our army composition restrictions for the fantasy tournament this year.

Our cost is low at $55. That's for three days of gaming, and a swag bag, access to the Golden Gobbo painting competition (our version of the Golden Daemon), and a chance at over a dozen prizes for fantasy and 40k each. This is possible because we get access to the facilities for free in exchange for donating money to the debate program.

We will again have thousands of dollars to give away in swag bags, raffles between the rounds, and prizes for award winners.

We have awesome concessions at the tournament. The debate kids and staff run the concessions, and in addition to lunch you can get at the tournament site, they will come around to your game tables and take orders for pop, candy, chips, etc. while you're playing. That's service!

If you're looking for some diverse competition this is your GT. Last year we had people come in from more than 12 different states from California to Texas to Ohio in addition to the states in our region. We're a 2 hour drive from Des Moines, 3 hours from KC, and only 6 from the Twin Cities.

Tickets are now on sale! We have the basic details for each event and we will be releasing more comprehensive test packs soon for you to try out and give us feedback on.

Thanks in advance for your continued support of the Bugeater GT!

Straight up, this is an awesome tournament! Tim runs a fantastic event and the venue is absolutely awesome, The money goes towards a great cause. Definitely a tournament people should attend!

Tim, myself and 4-5 others will be attendance again. Look forward to December 1st and buying my ticket!

Folks the preliminary schedule is now up. We're finalizing details for the Warmachine tournament, but we'll make sure that info is all up before tickets go on sale on December 1st.

Head on over to our post here to check out the schedule.

The big thing is a full Friday of gaming!

Also, we are adding the Bugeater Cup this year for clubs to compete in. See the post for more details.

How do you get an undefeated out of 72 players in 6 rounds? Are you just hoping that it tilts to one person only going 6-0? And it's possible that someone two 6-0 guys don't play each other?

Just curious, you know I'll be there.

The 72 is to deal with drops/attrition. The past three years we've had at least 9 people drop/no show the day of the GT. So to actually hit 64, we're selling 8 additional tickets.

I'll be there! Gotta defend my title - go for a threepete!

Hopefully I'll have a harder challenge at the final table - that Hulksmash guy was pretty weak! My nids didn't even break a sweat!

I'm gonna stab you!

Looking forward to attending! It will be my first larger tournament I've done! Still deciding whether to run my 2,500 points of Empire, or whether I can get the rest of my
Eldar purchased and painted in time!

This is a fantastic tournament, My game group has gone every year and always bring 5-6 players that are anxious to come back the next year.

Best run GT I have been too and always has good, fun players.

Yep, I'll be there this year too with my group of miscreants, unless something unforeseen comes up. Always an awesome time in Omaha, Tim runs an excellent event

Hey Tim, was looking forward to buying my ticket today along with 3-4 others from out west. is December 1st still the date for tickets to go on sale?

I'd like to buy myself a Christmas present a little early this year! Still looking forward to it! Let me know!

We had a slight hiccup last night, I got it worked out this morning with our paypal integration. So tickets are now up, sorry for the delay!

Ticket bought!

I am going to wait for more information and a finalized schedule on the Kill Team tournament and the Team Tournament before I decide which I want to do. I will be doing one of them for sure!

Looking forward to it Tim!

What's the rule of thumb for conversions/proxies at Bugeater? Allowed if approved ahead of time?

Really want to go to this, but need to convince wife about travel from SC to NE. Can you provide an update on how many tickets are still available? Thanks.

Fxeni wrote:I'll be there! Gotta defend my title - go for a threepete!

Hopefully I'll have a harder challenge at the final table - that Hulksmash guy was pretty weak! My nids didn't even break a sweat!

Hulksmash wrote:I'm gonna stab you!

I swears I am gonna be in the running this time around... I am going to run a gundam army and call it imperial knights for greater heresy.

Speaking of such are any data slates aloud for the bugeater and are imperial knights being allowed? Basically when and where can we ask faq questions since a good amount has been changing of late.

Primers are now up on their websites!

Grabbed my ticket for this one. Not sure what I'm bringing yet but excited either way

Army lists are due soon. May 23rd I believe. Coming up fast!

I turned in list... haven't gotten anything back. Just want to make sure its all good. LMK if possible. Thanks!

Same here Tomb King. I just sent Tim a PM questions about FAQ's for 6th when they are gone. Also what if digital codexs update with the new 7th ed FAQ, how do you play 6th with it?

Question to TO, "how do you run a 6th ed tournament in 7th with no faqs and some codexs auto switching over?"

 Inquisitor_Dunn wrote:
Same here Tomb King. I just sent Tim a PM questions about FAQ's for 6th when they are gone. Also what if digital codexs update with the new 7th ed FAQ, how do you play 6th with it?

Question to TO, "how do you run a 6th ed tournament in 7th with no faqs and some codexs auto switching over?"

I wouldnt mind seeing the team tournament ran as 7th. Would be interesting but who knows this close. It will be hard to play the GT because everyone will be interchanging rules from the two editions.