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Never hear of any tournaments happening!

Lack of Rule Consistency (GW games) from player to player. (or House Rules being used)

Only Tournaments seem consistent, with answers to most rule dilemmas.

EX:

House Rule;
I show up at the Con to play Monopoly, and as we start playing, another player (who is running the game) lands on “Free Parking” and exclaims; “cool I get $500!

Rule Inconsistency;

We are playing Monopoly and the player does not want to buy Boardwalk (the property they landed on), and hands the dice to the next player, skipping the “Auction of not purchased property phase.” (The bidding starts at a Dollar BTW)

Either way, I like to know what I am getting myself into ahead of time.

As for “discussing before a game…” EX: what “types” of terrain ALL the different terrain pieces on the table represent, good luck just getting that accomplished. Let alone a; written list, wysiwyg, painted figures (which is a wysiwyg rule), etc.

wow... almost 300 people that voted here dont have fully painted armies.. thats insane. .. .. . . . .thought i was the only one ^__^

I dabble in all orks, tau, SM and nids .. so i have never really sat down and finished painting one of them..

I only really paint when im with a bunch of friends (or i just got a new music album to listen to .. as i can paint and listen and not die of boredom)

Besides being a beginner (I'll play a tourney yet) they are really far away. So I checked other as well for the distance. I have to drive over an hour jsut to get to a shop that sells GW stuff, I have no clue how much further a tourney would be.

I live in Canada, enough said

People take the tournaments too seriously, and WAAC behaviour makes me sick. there's a high number of cheeseball lists designed to WAAC in any tournament. The only times i tried, i got really turned off by people using TO's to their advantage.. whining about rulings so they can get away with something or get the TO to favour them. Sportsmanship and stuff just boils down to who kisses the TO's ass most or who is his friend. painting points are subjective and also ruin it to an extent
All in all, it brings out the hyper competitive behaviour that takes the fun out of the game. I like to take my bloody time, swear and laugh with someone who is out to have fun. which is what a hobby is all about.fun.
40k is really unbalanced anyways, so "competitive" armies are invariably the newest codexes.
Oh, and did i mention I can't have a beer or snack during a tournament?

It begins and ends with the Hyper-competitive players. This is a hobby for me, something I do for FUN. Seeing some 30 year old guy crush some 12 year old kid (or anyone FTM) in 2 turns with a min/max cheese fest army list really bothers me. I want to have fun, and for my opponent to have fun.

Lack of availability, the 'builds' mentality (seriously its not mtg but it's getting there...), asshat prevalence, WAAC attitude. Games days are fine (play some games, have fun, prizes for best theme/painted/cow*/sportsman/army/nutcase/photgrapher/clown/woodenspoon

Tournaments are one thing, but rewarding people who play in them with nice armies is good.


*there's a dude whos beastman chaos spawn is a cow on wheels in dublin

I suppose the hyper-competitiveness puts me off. But honestly, I don't like competitive gaming. Gaming to me is about having a laugh and a beer while playing and that's it - paying to turn up to an event and play people I don't know and basically putting most emphasis on winning alone is not my idea of fun.

Sgt Mommy and Cpt Daddy won't allow me to go anywhere outside of 100 mile radius from Fort Bragg unless I put in a pass. So I never really have the time to go to any.

I don't go to tournaments because:

I have no method of travel. I can't drive yet.
I have no money to pay for any travel expenses.
Even if I did have a car, I haven't seen any tournaments with an hour of where I live... and over that long of a drive wouldn't be too worth it.

7 little letters: WYSIWYG.

Zero chance of me remodelling 4-5 armies to satisfy this condition.

Ratius wrote:7 little letters: WYSIWYG.

Zero chance of me remodelling 4-5 armies to satisfy this condition.

That reminds me, not only is that a problem for me, but I also have only 15 of my miniatures painted, and I hate painting. >.<

I don’t go to tournaments because I’m not really into the whole competition thing, I don't play 40k to win anymore. The guys I play against have been friends of mine for 15+ years and it’s just as good to see their ideas and tactics work as it is mine. We play for the enjoyment and tend to use things we have read to inspire scenarios so win or lose its just good fun.

I play the game at a social level and aren't much of a tactician when it comes to the latest incarnations of the rules-gunline armies just aren't feasable anymore. To go to a tournement would be to say that I game as something more than just a hobby that I get around to a few times a month at best. Plus the side of the hobby that I'm more into is the making of the models and making a individual army, something that's at odds with tournies-ie "Yeah...so that thing over there counts as a Leman Russ, those are plasma guns, and that big walker thing with the artillery gun for an arm's a basilisk".

I voted other.

I've attended a very small tournament at my FLGS, but it was really just a series of friendly matches, only a few people took it seriously.

I've never attended major tournaments because: i'm not old enough to go to the single player ones and none of my regular gaming friends/relatives has an army mine can ally with properly, except for one. Also the 40K doubles tournament always seems to crop up at important weekend in my calendar.

Valhallan42nd wrote:I love tournaments. Three or more guaranteed games against fully painted armies. What more could you ask for?

Unless its ard boys. Than painting does not matter. Your armies could be un primed and no one would care.

Vasarto wrote:

Valhallan42nd wrote:I love tournaments. Three or more guaranteed games against fully painted armies. What more could you ask for?

Unless its ard boys. Than painting does not matter. Your armies could be un primed and no one would care.

So, you've found the exception that proves the rule. Let me restate myself for the persnickety: 89.994% of the Tournaments you go to will be three or more guaranteed games against fully painted armies.

I guess the only reason why I don't attend tournaments is I don't have a fully painted army yet. Will try to fix this in the next year or so. Emphasis on try

there are to many variables for a tournament to be able to discern who is the "best" player. i have seen tournament and math-hammer lists go down in flames, because somebody else took a risk that paid off. ive seen a single model hold off hlaf an army for the entire game, and i have seen multiple instances of tourney freaks (those players who ONLY do tournaments) deriding a new players choices so much they quit. if somebody knows of a tournament where the only variables are strategy and dice roles, let me know. i might show up to that.

I don't enter tournaments cos I'm a noob and still get fed the rules by my b/f but I'm getting there, slowly. But I'm just sorta understanding the rules for my own dudes, let alone all the other armies I'd be facing.

Also I did my schtick on the tournament scene with CCGs. Sooo over it. I don't give a toss about winning games, I've only won a couple out of the handful I've played but have a great time. I really don't want to sully that by turning it into something truly competitive.

Gaming is about fun, and not about wining. It is no fun playing against somebody who has a cheesy and fluffwise, totally false army.

I don't like playing fast or competitive games, I play really slow. I usually just play with people I know for that reason

Too much time and money. And I have little of either to spare.

Honestly I would rather play in a campaign than a tournament. Regardless of game/sport I have never found the draw tournaments seem to have on other people..

Well I'd be tempted, as a group of us done a couple of small scale fun tournaments in the past.
However the cost to get to the big tournaments, the ultra competiveness, which WILL lead to whining over who's interpretation of the rules is correct and seeing the same army list for each army? Meh too much hassle.
As Zuul said a campaign would be much more interesting for showing off gaming skill, but again, cookie cutter lists would annoy the hell out of me...

First of all : "Tournaments bring out hyper-competitiveness, which I despise"

And then, my painting skills are very poor.

I'm not the most rules savy 40k player, me and my friend commonly miss rules

and there are no tournaments for LOTR, my preferred system, locally

There are no tournaments near Georgia

I would vote for the great similarity in the builds thrice. It really got me out my last tournement was when the Iron Warriors stand and shoot build was still around. 6 Games 4 of them against the the silver drybrushed CSM. It was really boring (even a victory couldn't cheer me up). Second reason our tournament got more expensive every year because the owner of the place raised the rent every year which killed it of pretty much.