Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Battle for Salvation - Results, Plus - VOLUNTEER CALL for 2013

First thing's first - THE NOVA OPEN 2013 KICK-OFF MEETING IS THIS UPCOMING SUNDAY, FROM 2-4. WE ARE LOOKING FOR ANY AND ALL VOLUNTEERS INTERESTED IN HELPING FOR A PORTION OR ALL OF THE EVENT ITSELF.

This year's terrain days will be few and far between, and we'll replace them with a bunch of volunteer benefits. Volunteers will be involved in gaming opportunities, mini-tournaments, tactics courses, painting courses, terrain-building courses, and other things that non-volunteers won't get access to during the year leading up to the NOVA. We're also working on a much stronger and clearer volunteer program. We need volunteers for the NOVA to work (and we all ARE volunteers), and we're also interested in doing all we can to advance volunteers' gaming and hobbying capabilities and experiences as our way of giving back. Plus there's quite a bit of annually free booze and food! E-mail mvbrandt@gmail.com or novaopen@gmail.com to volunteer, and let us know if you want add to the evite for this Sunday's meeting.

Existing volunteers, please e-mail me or novaopen@gmail if you haven't received the evite ... we'll also be giving out AWARDS for this year's volunteers and leads.

Well, it was another great Battle for Salvation, and another great tournament showing by our DC area crew.

Successful showings from our loose group of friends in brief include:
Tournament Champion / Best General by Andrew Gonyo (6-0) with GK primary, IG Allied
2nd Best General, 3rd Best Overall, Bracket 2 Champion (5-1) for me with the Tyranid
3rd Best General, 5-1 in Top Bracket (loss to Andrew) for Tony with Wolves primary, IG Allied (slightly modified from his NOVA list)
Fellow DC group attendees Eric Hoerger (4-2, Bracket 1), James Watkins (4-2, Bracket 2), and Owen Beste (4-2, Bracket 4) also all did very well for themselves. Eric brought Necron primary, GK allied ... James brought pure Orks, and Owen brought pure Vanilla Space Marines w/ lots of tacticals, pedro, and shooty terminators.

Just those alone represent 28-8 by the NOVA guys.

Great job by everyone all around. I was also ECSTATIC to score 8th best army appearance score with an army built and painted in 14 days. That said, I think there were a couple of guys who scored lower on paint score than they probably should have, and I may have been scored higher than I should have!

Discussion on my games, my boneheaded loss to a great opponent, how happy I was to get to play Sean Nayden and Alex Fennell in 2nd bracket, and reviews on the event in general to come.

I've attached the various results pics ... don't know why they won't go right-ways; they are right-side-up on my desktop ... odd.




Photos of some exhausted NOVA folks afterward ...


5 comments:

  1. Thanks again for all of your guidance and help with the event, Mike. And, of course, thanks again for making the trip!

    I've got the scoring spreadsheets uploaded for anyone who might want to take a look. I'll also be putting up more stuff throughout the week, including some other data (codex representation, allies breakdown, KP per army, prevalence of all-infantry armies, psyker use, flyers per army, etc.).

    Appearance and competitive scoring: http://www.battleforsalvation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Results_BFS_GT_2012.xlsx

    Sportsmanship scoring: http://www.battleforsalvation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Sportsmanship_BFS_GT_2012.xlsx

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    1. Nah, Danny - all thanks go to you guys for running an event I'm glad to have been able to attend for three straight years now.

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  2. Mike it was great to get to spend some time with you this time! I had a great time, and am hooked on the Pumpkin! Hope to see you again soon!

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  3. You guys really represented the Virginia area Mike. Cudos go out to you and the guys. I cant express enough how awsome it is that you and the guys came up to play at our event, it really means alot to us. Also i appreciate all the conversations we had leading up to the event bouncing ideas off you and just general tournament guidance. Even though we may not have seen eye to eye on every little thing i hope we represented your format in a way you would be proud of. Its a great format and thank you for all the hard work you put in to it. Makes the jobs of T.Os like myself a little easier.

    My only regret wasntspending enough time with you and the guys and partaking in that awsome looking beverage you brought. However even the 1/2 hr we hung out at the Hotel on sun morning was a pisser.

    -ed

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