So we had the 4th War Kings GT - I tried to go with a Star Wars Episode 4 theme, and commissioned art work from my son-in-law (you can check out more of his art at
https://www.artstation.com/ketirz ).
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| (Back) Janner Holliday, Blake Shrode, Matthew Temple, Scott Sallee, Cyle Pool, Steve Malone, Paul Cravo, Kara Brown, Erich Trowbridge, Steven de la Varga, Jake Ciarapica. (Front) Kyle Ritchey, Felix Castro, Grace Patterson, Noah Hutton, Marshall Temple. (Not Pictured) Eric Reiss, Tom Ziegler |
Everyone checked in, getting a free hill, forest and water neoprene terrain piece, and $10 store credit
We had a couple of fun challenges for first round (where people ask to play each other instead of the random pairings). What was fun is both these challenges had their own little trophies.
First was Cyle Pool v Kyle Ritchey - battling for the best K/C yle award..
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| Cyle Pool v Kyle Ritchey |
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| Berst K/C yle award |
Mr, Pool claimed this coveted trophy with a beat down of Mr. Ritchey
But of course they still parted as friends :-)
Then Scott Sallee challenged Felix Castro for the Pride of Hodenburg, a halfling on halfling battle. But Felix brought Northern Alliance to a halfling fight ;-).
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| Felix Castro v Scott Sallee |
This rivalry ended with Scott surrendering the precious trophy to Felix!
The rest of the games were just as much fun even if the pairings were random and no trophies were on the line.
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| Matthew Temple v Blake Shrode |
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| Tom Ziegler v Erich Trowbridge |
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| Noah Hutton v Kara Brown |
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| Grace Patterson v Jake Ciarapica |
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| Paul Cravo v Steven de la Garza |
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| Janner Holliday v Marshall Temple |
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| Eric Reiss v Steve Malone |
We took a break for lunch from Jimmy Johns, giving a chance to do paint judging and allow players to vote for both their favorite army AND their favorite war king model.
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| Jake Ciarapica's Undead |
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Grace Patterson's FishNightStalkers |
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| Matthew Temple's Goblins |
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| Blake Shrode's Abyssal Dwarfs |
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| Steven de la Garza's Varangur |
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| Kara Brown's Riftforged Orcs |
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| Noah Hutton's Abyssal Dwarfs |
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| Paul Cravo's Sylvan Kin |
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| Eric Reiss' Twilight Kin |
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| Steve Malone's Salamanders |
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| Marshall Temple's Undead |
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| Tom Ziegler's Kingdoms of Men |
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| Erich Trowbridge's Orcs |
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| Scott Sallee's Halflings |
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| Felix Castro's Northern Alliance |
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| Kyle Ritchey's Ogres |
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| Cyle Pool's Goblins |
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| Janner Holliday's Northern Alliance |
This tournament is run by the Ohio War Kings - so as part of the tournament everyone brings a special War King character, and there is an award for the favorite War King Model
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| Jake Ciarapica |
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| Grace Patterson |
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| Matt Temple - one of my personal favorites - Jareth the Goblin King (from Labyrinth) |
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| Blake Shrode |
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| Steve Malone |
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| Kara Brown |
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| Noah Hutton |
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| Paul Cravo - another of my favorites |
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| Eric Reiss |
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| Steve Malone |
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| Marshall Temple - this is my favorite (Slimer in an undead army) |
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| Tom Ziegler |
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| Erich Trowbridge |
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| Scott Sallee |
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| Felix Castro |
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| Kyle Ritchey |
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| Cyle Pool |
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| Janner Holliday |
So with everyone fed, Round 2 started right on time
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| Jake Ciarapica v Janner Holliday |
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| Matthew Temple v Paul Cravo |
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| Kara Brown v Cyle Pool |
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| Scott Sallee v Grace Patterson |
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| Erich Trowbridge v Eric Reiss - the battle of the Eric(h)s! |
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| Tom Ziegler v Felix Castro |
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| Noah Hutton v Kyle Ritchey |
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| Steve Malone v Marshall Temple |
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| Steve de la Garza v Blake Shrode |
We managed to start round 3 off right on time as well (I love it when a plan comes together).
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| Steve de la Garza v Felix Castro |
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| Battle of the War Queens - Kara Brown v Grace Patterson |
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| Cyle Pool v Eric Reiss |
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| Paul Cravo v Jake Ciarapica |
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| Matthew Temple v Tom Ziegler |
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| Janner Holliday v Erich Trowbridge |
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| Noah Hutton v Marshall Temple |
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| Blake Shrode v Scott Sallee |
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| Kyle Ritchey v Steve Malone |
After a good night's rest everyone gathered back again on Sunday morning to finish things off. Unfortunately two of our players had to withdraw, but we continued with 16.
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| Jake Ciarapica v Erich Trowbridge |
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| Grace Patterson v Matthew Temple |
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| Janner Holliday v Kara Brown |
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| Paul Cravo v Cyle Pool |
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| The battle of Steves!!! Steve Malone v Steven de la Garza |
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| Abyssal Dwarf Civil War with Noah Hutton v Blake Shrode |
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| Kyle Ritchey v Felix Castro |
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| Scott Sallee v Marshall Temple |
I'm not sure how much the awards, prizes and swag influences players, but we try to have as much as possible. At registration everyone got a 3d printed hill, neoprene water/difficult terrain, neoprene forest and $10 credit to the store. Plus as many 3d printed steps (to support units partially on hills) as they wanted.
Then there is the award / door prize table.
Winner gets a $100 gift card to the store, Best General / Best Appearance and Best Sportsman get $50 gift cards (and the best sportsman - the Jesse Cornwell Sportsman award, also gets the Ogre Shaman miniatured based on and designed by Jesse himself!). Favorite army and Favorite WarKing each get $25 (these are the only awards that can be give with another award, as they are purely based on player votes). And of course new dice for the "Dice Hate Me" award for last place.
We then do door prizes for everyone that did not get a 50/100 gift card - starting with the bottom player up (as typically the worse someone performs, the more they need 'help' in the form of prizes. We have excellent prizes from Mantic and the Ohio War Kings - everything from the new Clash of Kings book, a Firefight 2 player starter, 2 copies of the new Barroom Brawl Advent Calendar/game, six ambush starter and others. Even an unboxed horde of Impalers (2 sprues), troop of void touched (two sprues) and four corsairs (1 sprue) for those wanting to get started with the new Twilight Kin (yes, they are what I had left from my Mega Army - in case anyone wants them.
After pizza for lunch, we got started just a few minutes late for the final round.
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| Paul Cravo v Kyle Ritchey |
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| Marshall Temple v Kara Brown |
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| Noah Hutton v Scott Sallee |
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| Cyle Pool v Felix Castro |
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| Jake Ciarapica v Matthew Temple |
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| Blake Shrode v Janner Holliday |
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| Erich Trowbridge v Steven de la Garza |
And then, after some furious data entry, it was all over.
So we typically announce awards from the bottom up
So first the Dice Hate Me award. This is to the last place player - because obviously their score has nothing to do with their skill at the game, but is all dice that truly hate them. They get new dice! Scott Sallee took it home
The Counter-Charger certificate is for the person who comes in exactly in them middle of the pack. This was 'earned' by Steve de la Garza.
Favorite Army was voted on by our players, and went to Grace Patterson for her FishStalkers
Favorite War King was also voted on by our players, and went to Jake Ciarapica.
Best Appearance in an extremely close race (broken by the votes for Favorite Army) also goes to Jake Ciarapica.
The Jesse Cornwell sportsman award went to Noah Hutton. One thing that I absolutely love to see is every person at the tournament received at least one favorite opponent vote. That just shows how friendly the community is, and is itself a tribute to the prophet of Pizza Jesus himself.
Best General is for the highest battle score (that didn't win). This went to Paul Cravo, whose only loss was to the winner
And finally, the tournament overall winner, with a record of 4-0-1, was Cyle Pool.
For full army lists and score details, you can go to the tournament score page at
War Kings IV
A big thank you to Game Table Adventures for the great gaming space, and Mantic games for making such a fun game and being so generous with prize support.
Also thank you to all our players, and we hope to have even more next year!
Because it is all fun and games . . .
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