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I love what you’re saying. And it’s totally true.

Awww! Thanks Tasty!

And yeah – the guy who originally did it wanted to blow it up into a feature-length, but it was nearly impossible to do a doc about miniature wargamming and not get stomped out by GW (as in, […]

If you googled just a little, you’d not only find long-winded descriptions of my lists but MULTIPLE photos of my lists.

My apologies – I’ve heard a lot of heresay about your event and from what I understood it was very interesting bracketing system, but nobody really spoke of the heavy use of paint/sportsmanship scoring.

(Also, I’m a bit of a fangirl of your blog!)

Bob: My point is a wholesale critique of how GW positioned this event and the implications to hobbyist gamers (since the implications to competitive gamers are WELL documented). If you want talk soft scores, at BEST they’re 25% of a player’s total score. But that’s AT BEST. I also went over why a Best Vote [...]

The gents who ran the event were bootstrapped with the format. Everything they handled was done so amazingly. I’d give them an A for executing within the system they had to, but I’d give the format an F since it totally failed to appeal to hobbyists and competitive gamer alike.

I don’t think that was the point I was making – there are certainly a pile of criticisms about the Throne of Skulls system from the competitive side as well about it being random and soft. Personally, I love 40K. It’s got incredibly bad balance issues (which is somewhat acknowledged by the fact that they’re [...]

Thanks Hulk! I think that’s the beautiful thing about the independently organized events – if you don’t like my philosophy about soft scores, but that philosophy is the one that carries through my events, you know it’s not your cup of tea. That doesn’t mean either of us are right or wrong – just that [...]

I honestly can’t – it was a friend of mine who played him. Sorry!

That’s right: my reasons are my own (namely, I want to run the type of event I’d like to play in – there’s enough competitive events out there but I personally don’t think there’s enough hobby-oriented events, and I want to change that.) And I’m certainly not implying I’m the Mother Teresa of gaming – [...]

It wasn’t a big hug-a-thon where everyone sang Kumbayah. The guy who won the Skulltaker award (earning points by FULLY destroying units – counting the unit’s value) destroyed 6800 out of a possible 7500 points using a Grey Knights list that had no Grey Knights. I’d call that pretty hard.

My friend (the guy who had painted and sold those beautiful Dwarves) mentioned it to the player who won with them, but he (for obvious reasons) wasn’t inclined to tell anyone.

It was pretty lame.

Don’t have to be defensive about it at all. I don’t play in my own events so I’m not sure what you’re implying there. Just to make it clear, part of getting a nod as a qualifying event is based on whether there not being any other qualifying event nearby. It may be different in [...]

I don’t know about that, but I know that the guy who won best overall in Fantasy did so with an army bought from eBay painted by the guy who won 2nd best painted army in 40K.

:/

Honestly, do you honestly think that the attendance of VIP players really degraded the playing experience? That’s pretty harsh: I mean, if folks like me didn’t run events, there would be no qualifying for anyone. Wouldn’t you rather have folks who enabled guys like you to qualify rather than people who just bought tickets to [...]

Reece: I’ve got a whole post coming up on why I don’t think this type of format is really good for community-building/hobby-oriented events (having run a few myself). I’ll let the post come up and I’m sure we can debate it from both sides.

*winner – not non-winner. Whoops!

I’m going to have to disagree with you on the point being a real non-winner for those of us who are hobbyist gamers, Reece – it’s funny that coming from two opposite perspectives, we woudln’t choose it as a format for ourselves.