Tits for Tournaments: Bay Area Open 2015 Pics, Lists, Results

What a weekend!

I just wished I could have participated!

As it was the fates conspired against me, at least I got to watch some great games and hang out with friends. What I saw is what I mostly expected: the rise of Demi-companies! Space Marines were out in force, I haven’t seen the break down, but I am sure they represented at least 30% of the field. Most of the Space Marine armies had Drop Pods lots and lots of Drop Pods. Space Marines are certainly here to stay especially with the ITC format, which favors lots of Objective Secured units. I did find a surprisingly high number of Daemonkin armies. This seemed like a hard counter to all the Space Marines, but what it really meant was Heldrakes. SO many Heldrakes! These meta busting flyers are back, providing a surefire way to handle not only marines, but Eldar Jetbikes and host of other typical units. I still felt like their wasn’t a lot of Eldar players, but of the ones who did show up performed well. The nerf to D must have something to do with it.

Ok, enough meta talk you are here for lists!

I decided to gather all the undefeated army lists going into the final round, I felt that it was a good barometer of what exceled at the event. BAO had 8 players undefeated going into the final round, with only half having any possible way of taking the top slot. Here is the order along with their final rank.

1st Best General Alan “Pajama Pants” Bajramovic vs. Brett “Tombking” Perkins

Steve Sisk vs. 2nd Best General Geoff “inControl” Robinson

4th Best General Israel Bojalil Sanchez  vs. Karl Payne

3rd Best General Mark Armburla vs. Justin Takemoto

Pretty good spread, but looks like that newest codexes are going to be extremely strong, allowing for a few different play styles, as long as you take a core set of units.

Now on to the pictures!