Fields of Blood 2010 - Results!

[nik_]

Thanks again to all the players.

Results

Player Name	Battle points	Painting	Sportsmanship	Peer Comp bonus	List on time	List modification	Total points		Placing
Tony Vodonavich	90	15	12	6	3		92.63		1
Pete Dunn	75	16	12	6	3		86.5		2
Jack Dunn	84	16	12	6	3	5	86		3
Joe Dixon	71	16	12	6	3		84.5		4
Nikola Jaksic	72	15	12	6	3		83.63		5
Thomas van Roekel	80	12	12	6	3		83.5		6
Antony Kitson	68	16	12	6	3		83		7=
Josh Warne	68	16	12	6	3		83		7=
Paul Davison	68	16	12	6	3		83		7=
Phil Wu	68	16	12	5	3		82		8
Luke Brimblecombe	74	14	11	5	3		80.75		9
Daryl Painter	75	14	12	6	3	5	78.75		10
David Stent	58	16	12	6	3		78		11
Tom Dunn	63	14	12	6	3		77.75		12
Simon Kwok	78	12	12	6	3	5	77.5		13
Tim Norling	61	14	12	6	3		76.75		14
Henry Poor	64	15	12	6			76.63		15
Locky Reid	57	15	12	6	3		76.13		16
Ryan Simister	66	15	12	6	3	5	75.63		17
Bill Shera	60	13	12	6	3		74.88		18
Richard Barby	59	12	12	6	3		73		19
Rob Sadler	50	15	12	6	3		72.63		20
Daniel Leigh	56	12	12	6	3		71.5		21
Brian Leigh	54	12	12	6	3		70.5		22
Ben Wadsworth	53	12	12	6	3		70		23
Glen Tibbles	40	16	12	6	3		69		24
Ray Oconnor	45	14	12	6	3		68.75		25
Nicholas Ng	39	16	12	6	3		68.5		26
Nick Buckby	50	14	12	6			68.25		27
Derick Williams	46	13	12	6	3		67.88		28
Russell Simister	51	11	12	6	3		67.63		29
Rion Roben	51	15	11	6	3	5	66.63		30
Carl Templeton	61	10	12	6	3	5	66.25		31
Glenn Patel	52	10	11	6			62.25		32
Amy Tanabe	42	6	12	6	3	5	51.25		33
Christian Pride	11	8	12	6	3		43.5		34

If the total points column doesn't seem to make sense, it's because the numbers in the columns are the raw scores and the final score takes those scores and turns them into percentages as described in the players pack

Prizes

Award	Player Name
1st Overall	Tony Vodonavich
2nd Overall	Pete Dunn
3rd Overall	Jack Dunn
1st Best Painted	Pete Dunn
2nd Best Painted	Jack Dunn
3rd Best Painted	Glen tibbles
Best Sportsman	Ben Wadsworth
Butcher	Thomas van Roekel
Best Theme	Joe Dixon
Terrain Prize	Ryan Simister

Spot prizes went to Ryan Simister, Phil Wu, Pete Dunn, Amy Tanabe, Locky Reid, Joe Dixon, Christian Pride and probably a bunch more who I've missed

Big thanks to GW and Vagabonds Queen Street for prize support. Please go along and support these local stores.

[Vaul]

Yet again, didn't put in the work to make movement trays and let myself drop several placings as a result - six players above me with lower battle points!

Still, got over this after a couple of minutes - I was extremely lucky to be at the top of the tables for much of the tournament in the first place.  Well done to the high placers.

[Antony]

Thanks Nik and Mrs Nik. Lotsa fun.

Big thanks for the army too and orgainsing that painting score for me *ha ha ha*

If you like I'll start a FoB winge thread so people don't clutter this one up with dwellers groans *more laughter*

[nik_]

I had an impartial 3rd party mark the army for painting Antony, so I can't take credit apart from my all nighter on Wednesday to get the basing a bit more complete

[richardbarby]

as fortold by me kitsen top third cause he played me in my last game before a tournie im happy to start auctioning of my last game to pay for my buy in if anyone wants a high finish

[pete dunn]

Can I check what army each of the following people played:

Henry Poor

Brian Leigh

Daniel Leigh

Ray O'Connor

Carl Templeton

Russell Simister


Thanks

Pete

[Fodderboy]

An epic second day for me, and a personal best finish.

Thanks to my opponents who delighted in pummeling me, and those who graciously allowed me to return the favour.

See you all at future events.

Lord Firemagnet out.

[Henry Poor]

Pete,

I played the all mighty Orcs and Goblins.

Cheers,

[nik_]

Can I check what army each of the following people played:

Henry Poor - Orcs
Brian Leigh - Vampires
Daniel Leigh - Tomb Kings
Ray O'Connor - Warriors
Carl Templeton - Lizardmen
Russell Simister - High Elves

[pete dunn]

Thank you Nick. The results have been inputted for Rankings and there should be an update in next 24 hours.

[Amy ちゃん]

Pete,

I played the all mighty Orcs and Goblins.

Cheers,

yeah, and you ripped my ogres to shreds!
*sob *sob
awesome fun game tho (^_^)

[Bignic]

Cheers Nick and Mrs Nick and all the helpers

I had a great time and played 6 great games against 6 great opponents.

(Most people say that sort of shit and don't mean it cos they got to play at least one muppett)

I mean it !!!!

N

PS - of course it helped that I managed to dodge anyone who might have been tempted to take themselves too seriously.

I recommend taking a suck army for this very reason  :-)

[Josh]

My results:

Game 1 vs Joe Dixon: 1-19 loss. Beaten by a better player, and some nice rolling (that's my story anyway). Time to submarine!

Game 2 vs Ryan Simister: 17-3 win. Ryan is kind enough to throw 700 points away in the last turn. Thanks again matey! Should make our grudge match interesting in two weeks time.

Game 3 vs Henry Poor: 20-0 win. Unfortunately for Henry, he rolled poor spells and found out the frenzied Nurgle warriors and Chosen (with 4+ ward and stubborn) are the shizzle!

Game 4 vs Nikola Jaksic: 6-14 loss. First three turns I lost 3 units to Gateway. Played cagily after that and scraped it back a smidge. Cracking game.

Game 5 vs Anthony Kitson: 14-6 win. Smashed 'em bro! Win based on the Jugger-tank's ability to refuse to die and some very poor magic phases by the wood elves. Also, warriors tend to like the Watchtower scenario.

Game 6 vs Paul Davidson: 10-10 draw. I was initially nervous facing 250+ rats, HPA, WLC and doomwheel (and dreaded 13th spell). Gave away the Nurgle warriors to shooting, kept the A-bomb honest with lightening and difficult terrain test fails, Chosen survived 2 Dreaded 13th spell attempts and being combo-charged by 14 censor bearers and 5 rat ogres to survive the game with 2 models left. Demon Prince was a hero killing 40 clan rats, WLC and Jezrials. I won by 192ish points, 8 battle points shy of an 11-9 win 

Best tournament I've played in ages, and can't thank my opponents enough for 6 fantastic fun games. Very happy to finish up equal 7th, my best ever final standing.

[Derick]

For what its worth...

Game 1 Vs Vod's Demons. Loss 15-5
I was walking into this expecting to come out with a 20-0 loss.
First mistake I made to to be sucked in by vod's fast moving flankers. I moved my temple guard unit forward to try to get away from being hit in the rear by the great unclean one and a couple of fiends.
Then dwellers went off. Vod rolled a 6. Then I looked at the board and all I could see was the Temple guard was about to get smacked by a unit of bloodletters.
They charged and by turn 3 The slann went down to killing blow.

Game 2 vs Amy's pokemons. Win 13-7
This was a fun game. I got dwellers off on double 6's. Having Vines is great, but not when you roll a 1. This in turn reduced my lvl Slann down to a lvl1, but he was still alive.
Amy's unit was hurt but not too badly.
I was able to bait Amy's big boss unit and keep it away from doing anything useful, while I picked off the rest of her units. The Gorger came on, then faced the devastating  magic of a lvl 1 Slann and got taken out

Game 3 vs Carl's Lizards Loss 12-8
Its actually good to play against Lizards. We both had Dwellers, but I don't think either of us got it off.
I tried to charge a unit of saurus and a steg into Carls Temple guard. The Steg got in and held him up for about 5? turns before succoming to wounds. Carl keep challenging with his champion, then raising him back from the dead.
On my right flank, a unit of Kroxies and a unit of sallies, beat up a bunch of skinks and chased off a steg (which rallied). On my left some skinks and sallies chewed up a unit of saurus and a unit of Razordons.
It was a good game.

Game 4 vs Rion S's Chaos Loss 19-1
Started off the a dumb deployment mistake. The slann was too far to offer much in the way of leadership support to the rest of the units. Must remember the 12" bubble... one day.
This scenario was random deployment, Rion rolled a lot of deploys on his Right, and when I rolled... yep half my army Deployed on my left.
Rion charged his Dragon ogres down the left flank, into the combined firepower of sali's and Razor's. They shoudl've gone down, I should've rolled better. Instead, he got to charge my salis, after losing combat, the nearby Kroxies ran off the table, the nearby Razor's did the same.
2nd last turn I got off Dwellers on his lord's unit. IF. Enough damage for his lords unit to take a panic. he rolled an 11, then he ran 6", 1" further and he would've bounced through his own unit off the table. This time I did not have vines, but Rion had puppet.
I roll a 3 on the worst outcome, slann pops.
Good game Rion.

Game 5 vs Nicholas's Skaven disguised as Empire Win 11-9
We both roll for Life magic, we both have the option to take dwellers. By mutual agreement, we don't.
I won the toss, but didn't have a core unit of less than 20 models. Nick's unit of 40 spearmen took up residence in the watchtower on turn 1. So I pretty much ignored the
watch tower unit, and picked off a few of his other units. Sallies got off a panic on the unit just about every turn. His stubborn leadership 9 w/- re-rolls from his BSB didn't help me much.
Fun game.

Game 6 vs Russell S's High Elfs Loss 12-8 ?
Pretty tired by this time, didn't see his Dragon lining up for a charge on my steg till it was too late. His archers tried to pincushion me all over the place, it was hard to get into combat, everytime I charged something it'd run away. I had trouble getting a handle on this game, but Russel is always a good sport.

All up good fun, well done Nick

[Digl]

Wicked tournament. Was quite suprised I pulled off 4th after the bad, bad things Jack and his watchtower friend managed to do to me.

Big thanks to Nick and everyone I played. Especially Josh, A: for letting me 19-1 him and B: not murdering me in my sleep afterwards for it.

[pete dunn]

Thanks to Nick and all his helpers.

Well done to Vod!

Thanks to all my opponents I had six very cool games - and learned lessons in each.

Special thanks to josh for the lift to the airport and to Richard, Ryan S and Derick for being just all round nice blokes

[nik_]

Thanks for all the positive comments guys.

As promised, here are the survey results



Not quite prepared to give any analysis yet, apart from to say that I'm not sure that the person who put a 1 for having fun really meant it

[Fujin]

Cheers Nick - good fun and some interesting learning experiences

Yeah sorry about those 1s mate - I wasn't reading/understanding anything by that stage. Daryl's Dwarfs were making my brain bleed out my ears; call it mental exhaustion.


My statistical analysis-fu is weak but do these graphs essentially mean:

- people enjoyed themselves

- they were mostly pretty happy with the kinds of lists they saw

- it looks like most people were (on a VERY rough average) happy with the comp/restrictions and don't want to see MORE restrictions introduced

- the majority would be happy to attend another tournament using similar rules

- most people, taking the "comp" system into account were encouraged to attend?

[nik_]

Cross posted to WargamerAU if you want to watch the comments from across the ditch

[Vaul]

I think a lot of the anger and ranting pre-tournament was largely due to people not understanding how to deal with things that look hard in other people's lists, assuming that nothing can be done, and feeling like they are going to be at a disadvantage.  OR not understanding why the seemingly innocent choices they have made in their own lists were rejected as OTT now that the game works so differently.  That's basically what it broke down to in my books, i'm as guilty as anyone else with regards to the above, and seeing things work in practice really cleared the air.

I'll repeat here what I wrote on my feedback form though, - examples of 'on target' lists should be plentiful and very clear before a tournament, this helps new players and experienced players alike when we are dealing with a new ruleset.  I think that was a fantastic feature of FOB '09 and could have been of great assistance to entrants of FOB '10.

[Simon]

I think the weekend was awesome, I had 6 great games and 6 great opponents and it was good fun.

However, for those who care, this is my 100% honest feeback, I was very unhappy with the unclearly, vaguely writtin guildlines stated in the player pack, and with the large number of vetoed players range from tournament newbloods to longbeards clearly indicated that.

and I personally will not attend another tournament with a similiar playerpack.

[Nicholas]

Placement's after the three 7th equal finishes should to be increased by 2. For instance, 27 players finished better than me but the list says I'm 26th. It's correct on RankingsHQ.

[nik_]

@Nicholas You're right, I thought I already fixed that... bugger

[nik_]

The Rankings HQ page for those who are interested

[Fujin]

Nick/Pete

For FoB Daryl Painter has been logged as using Vampire Counts. He was actually using Dwarfs.

I'll take that Vampire icon thanks

[nik_]

Ooh I sense another grudge match coming up...

[pete dunn]

Sorry about that....my fault. I've changed it now but requires next update to register.

I hadn't announced the RHQ update as I was going to get the normal post tournament news article up as well.

[pete dunn]

Just noticed Paul Davison has been entered as Darrell Keirnan....I'm getting that changed. Jumps Paul to 25th

[Derick]

Just noticed Paul Davison has been entered as Darrell Keirnan....I'm getting that changed. Jumps Paul to 25th

I don't think Darrell likes Skaven, so I'm sure he'd appreciate that.

[lockyreid]

Im very confused by the way the rankings work. When i go into my personal list of tournaments what is the difference between the ones that are highlighted in blue compared to the ones that arent. I thought that the blue ones werent counted for the points but were in the last year, however it does mean that im denied the 50 points from guardcon but get the 35 points from last years fields of blood. can anyone help me understand this complex system.