Wow, what a weekend.
Sorry I couldn’t update my previous post about the LVO that much, but I was having too much damn fun.
It didn’t start off that fantastic though, as customary with almost any event of this size, the championships didn’t start on time going over about 30 minute because of a technical pairing problems caused by some late sign ups. As it was, total paid players were over 300 with I believe 257 actually showing up to play on day one! Enough to break the single championship record for any independent tourney…ever. Once the initial problems got out-of-the-way, it was smooth sailing!
Personally, I was able to win my first game, thus securing best Ork player for the ITC Circuit, after that game it quickly went down hill though.
Before I get to the lists, let me give you some helpful links for all you crazy stat people.
Championship Results Before Single elimination Finals
Torrent of Fire Army Break Down
Links for Discussion and Video
DakkaDakka LVO Discussion Thread
Frontline Gaming Twitch Live Feed
And finally in Order the Top 8 Finalists
Sean Nayden 1st Best Overall Las Vegas Open 2105 — also known as Lictor Shame, Sean had won before and now did it again; spamming Lictors and letting Mawlocs and Hive Tyrants do the rest.
Nick Rose 2nd Overall Las Vegas Open 2015 — Perfecting Reece Robbins’s Space Marine Scout list this Ben Mohlie Padawan made himself relevant again by out playing almost everyone in the LVO.
Tyler DeVries 3rd Overall Las Vegas Open 2015 — Tyler was the only Eldar player to make into the top 8 and without any Wraithknights… but he did have something else, the dreaded double D Lynx.
Geoff Thompson 4th Overall Las Vegas Open 2015 — Geoff brought an objective secured nightmare list able to out maneuver his opponents with Drop Poding Astra Militarum all over the board. He was also the only finalist to get a litany poor sportsmanship complaints from his opponents over the weekend, forcing the main judge for the finals to become defacto Game Master for his games.
Nick Nanavati 5th Overall Las Vegas Open 2015 — Nick the man Nanavati was the favorite to win the whole event and came up just short against Sean Nayden in the first round, but reports have him handicapping himself against Sean makes one wonder what could have been.
Vincente F. Arroyo 6th Overall Las Vegas Open — Vincente an avid Chaos Space Marine (I think) and was the only person to bring a Brass Scorpion. After Stomping his way into the Top 8 he was Doubled D by Tyler’s Lynx in the first turn. Vincente did his best to make a game of it, but Tyler was able to send him back to the Warp.
Steve Sisk 7th Overall Space Marines — Steve won the Bay Area Open 2015 with almost the same list and was able to make the Top 8 with Ultra Scars and was the only Californian player to make it in.
Aaron Albert 8th Overall Las Vegas Open 2015 — Aaron tooled up Grey Knights were a nightmare for many opponents with his Teleporting Centurion Star and Jumping Dreadknights, no soft underbelly was safe.
Well there you have it the lists from LVO 2015. All I can say is the Internet can suck it, Scouts and Lictors won the LVO! It wasn’t a Super Heavy or a single Forgeworld model that did it, so let me repeat once again… Lictors and Scouts.
The LVO was a great event and hats off to Reece and Frankie and the entire Frontline crew for making for a fantastic time, even with the Flamingo Hotel being a maze to master.
Their might be minor Army Builder mistakes for the lists, so if you catch anything let me know and I will make corrects.
Warning
Tits for Tournaments is rated factually opinionated. Expect results, army lists, and some light bitching about boring spam lists to follow.