Once again the armies converged from around the region to do battle, the sounds of conflict sounding like thunder. Yes, Hoosier Storm has come back!
15 players gathered once again in Lebanon Indiana to play 5 games of Kings of War, each warrior bringing not only their finely painted force, but an additional storm elemental to boot.
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| Back Row - Jon Carter, Kara Brown, Marshall Temple, Austin Lesh, Jeff Franz, Cyle Pool, Scott Sallee, Paul Cravo, Jesse Berglund, Erich Trowbridge, Steve Malone. Front - Donny Krosch, Grace Patterson, Matthew Temple. Not Pictured - Andrew Summers |
Unfortunately I think that pushing the storm aspect to promote the event may have backfired, as it decided to actually act like winter Friday evening, slowing down almost everybody. What should have taken us a bit over 2 hours took us almost 7, and every time we tried an alternate route to avoid accidents, the new route ended up ALSO having an accident.
Luckily everyone arrived safe and sound (in body, if not nerves), but it was far too late to attempt to set up that night.
So we got in the facility at 8 and it was a very quick setup, and we got started right on time.
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| Round 1 underway |
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| Challenge between Erich Trowbridge and Paul Cravo |
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| Challenge between Jeff Franz and Kara Brown |
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| Challenge between Cyle Pool and Andrew Summers |
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| Steve Malone v Matthew Temple |
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| Jon Carter v Marshall Temple |
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| Grace Patterson v Jesse Berglund |
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| Donny Krosch v Austin Lesh |
The tournament provided Jimmy John's sandwiches for everyone for lunch, while their armies were set out for paint judging.
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| Marshall Temple's Undead |
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| Jon Carter's John Carter of Mars themed Ogres |
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| Grace Patterson is working on her new mushroom themed Order of the Green Lady army and brought it to play even though it wasn't finished. |
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| Jesse Bergland's Twilight Kin |
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| Andrew Summers' Basileans |
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| Kara Brown's Riftforged Orcs |
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| Jeff Franz's Order of the Green Lady |
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| Cyle Pool's Goblins |
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| Steve Malone's Salamanders |
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| Matthew Temple's Goblins |
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| Paul Cravo's Empire of Dust |
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Erich Trowbridge's Orcs
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| Austin Lesh's Undead |
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| Donny Krosch's Goblins |
Perhaps the youngest fan was Cyle Pools cute daughter checking out Daddy's hobby
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| Grace Patterson v Jon Carter |
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| Jon's great 4 armed martian ape is politely knocking at the door and asking if Baba Yaga can come out and play |
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| Steve Malone v Jesse Berglund |
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| Andrew Summers v Paul Cravo |
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| Jeff Franz v Marshall Temple |
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| Erich Trowbridge v Matthew Temple |
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| Austin Lesh v Kara Brown |
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| Donny Krosch v Cyle Pool in a Goblin-off |
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| Just how many goblins can you fit in the dominate circle? |
We made reservations at
Klooz Brewz where everyone went to enjoy good food and beer.
Sunday morning, and everyone showed up on time and ready to go. Andrew Summers was only able to play on Saturday, so Scott Sallee stepped in as the ringer player
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| Donny Krosch |
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| Jon Carter |
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| Jeff Franz |
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| Steve Malone |
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| Scott Sallee |
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| Grace Patterson |
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| Erich Trowbridge |
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| Kara Brown |
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| Matthew Temple |
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| Marshall Temple |
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| Jesse Berglund |
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| Cyle Pool |
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| Austin Lesh |
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| Paul Cravo |
After everyone filled up on Dominoes pizza, the final round started right on time
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| Marshall Temple v Scott Sallee |
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| Matthew Temple v Jeff Franz |
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| Grace Patterson v Kara Brown in a battle of the lady gamers |
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| Austin Lesh v Jon Carter |
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| Steve Malone v Paul Cravo |
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| Cyle Pool v Erich Trowbridge |
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| Donny Krosch v Jesse Berglund (that will be a fun ride home back to Minnesota) |
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| The tropies - Overall, Jess Cornwell Sportsman, Best General, Best Appearance, Best Elemental and Dice Hate Me, each with an online gift code for the Mantic web store. A person can only win one award EXCEPT for the best elemental. |
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For everyone who did NOT win an award, we had a big selection of door prizes, that go to people in the reverse order of their ranking at the tournament (not including the people who did not play all 5 rounds).
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And with that it was all wrapped up for another great year.
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| Grace Patterson - Dice Hate Me |
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| Donny Krosch - Counter Charger |
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| Marshall Temple - Favorite Elemental |
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| Jon Carter - Best Appearance |
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| Grace Patterson - Jesse Cornwell Sportsperson |
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| Steve Malone - Best General |
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| Jesse Berglund - Overall Champion |
You can see the full breakdown of results on the
Event Result Page, which has full breakdown on each round as well as all soft scores.
One thing we did differently this year was to use the Mantic Companion tournament web app. While not perfect (if players mis-enter data they cannot correct it, and no ability to enter 'real' soft scores (such as appearance scores) that have a variable number of tournament points) it is vastly improved over when we attempted to use it last year. For running the tournament and recording battle scores it really worked pretty well - it just still requires more to do my style of overall scores.
I do think it is worth using right now, and we will try it again at Adepticon.
Because it is all fun and games . . .
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