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At my FLGS we regulary hold 1850 2 day 2.5hr tournaments where 95% of games finish on time.

We use a simple system of submitting the army lists weeks in advance along with payment.

Each game is given a 15minute window to set up the game and begin deployment, before the game clock starts.

Play your game yadda yadda yadda. If you run out of time both players finish the current game turn.

The scoring system is also straight forward:
W/L/D
8/0/4 for primaries
4/0/2 for secondarie

And points awarded both ways for points killed vs points lost. In the event of a tie breaker k/d is the deciding factor.

So the system rewards both tactical play and devastion at the same time.

wargamer1985 wrote:
Each game is given a 15minute window to set up the game and begin deployment, before the game clock starts.

By most tournament standards, then, you actually have 2:45 rounds, rather than 2:30.

Play your game yadda yadda yadda. If you run out of time both players finish the current game turn.

And with the potential for more, if necessary.

Both of those are great things, and I wish more events would (could?) accommodate such timing. That extra 15 minutes would be enough by itself to offset the longer 6e pre-game routine.

Technically yh 2.45 but if you are done before 15min window ends you have to wait for the timer


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And we've been running this style since 3rd edition thinking back over the yrs where we created our own secondaries of fb stwl and lb