Once again wargamers from across the country, and even across the world, gathered in Schaumberg IL for the biggest wargaming convention in the world. And once again Mantic sponsored the Adepticlash championship.
39 players gathered for five rounds of battle to determine who was the best.
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| Even after five rounds of tough games, everyone was smiling. Even the guy in the back row that managed to sneak into the picture. |
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| Corey Reynolds v Adam Ballard |
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| Rob Phaneuf v Blake Shrode |
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| Christian Moisan v Janner Holiday |
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| Connor Murphy v Felix Castro |
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| Grant Fetter v Kenny Lull |
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| Alan Wigness v Brinton Williams |
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| Dariusz Bienkowski v Dan Zarembski |
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| Erik Greiner v Eric Town |
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| Jason Black v Grace Patterson |
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| Jeff Schiltgen v Jeremy Duvall |
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| Jesse Berglund v Steven de la Garza |
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| Je;ff Swan v Jason birr |
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| Kyle Pietsch v Jonathon Neesen |
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| Kyle Ritchey v Marshall Temple |
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| Richard Pennertz v Drew Richardson |
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| Matthew Temple v Lam Choon Voon |
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| Sean Vilmont v Shannon Shoemaker |
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| Steve Malone v Javier Ancizu Vergera |
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| Tim Akers v Tim Lonas |
During the lunch break on the first day, all the armies were set up for paint judging and favorite votes.
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| Corey Reynolds' Twilight Kin |
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| Adam Ballard's Nightstalkers |
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| Blake Shrode's Abyssal Dwarfs |
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| Rob Phaneuf's Salamanders |
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| Christian Moisan's Ogres |
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| Janner Holiday's Northern Alliance |
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| Felix Castro's Northern Alliance |
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| Grant Fetter's Northern Alliance |
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| Alan Wigness' Dwarfs |
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| Brinton Williams' Abyssal Dwarfs |
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| Dan Zarembski's Riftforged Orcs |
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| Dariusz Bienkowski's Northern Alliance |
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| Erik Greiner's Free Dwarfs |
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| Grace Patterson's |
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| James Black's Forces of Nature |
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| Jeff Schiltgen's Ogres |
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| Jeremy Duvall's Basileans |
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| Jesse Berglund's Twilight Kin |
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| Steve de la Garza's Elves |
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| Jason Birr's Elves |
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| Jeff Swann's Ogres |
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| Kyle Pietsch's Halflings |
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| Jonathon Neessens's Night Stalkers |
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| Kyle Ritchey's Goblins |
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| Marshall Temple's Undead |
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| Drew Richardson's Empire of Dust |
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| Richard Pennertz's Undead |
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| Matthew Temple's Goblins |
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| Lam Choon Voon's Ogres |
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| Sean Vilmont's Orcs |
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| Steve Malone's Salamanders |
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| Javier Ancizu Vergera's Elves |
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| Tim Lonas' Varangur |
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| Tim Aker's Northern Alliance |
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| Jeffrey Jett's Order of the Brothermark |
Then round 2 started up
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| Christian Moisan v Jeff Swann |
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| Jason Birr v Tim Lonas |
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| Erik Greiner v Felix Castro |
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| Alan Wigness v Drew Richardson |
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| Jeremy Duvall v Sean Vilmont |
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| Tim Akers v Jeffrey Jett |
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| Lam Choon Voon v Kyle Pietsch |
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| A blurry (sorry) Javier Ancizu Vergera v Adam Ballard |
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| Brinton Williams v Richard Pennertz |
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| Steven de la Garza v Jeff Schiltgen |
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| Janner Holiday v Grace Patterson |
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| Matthew Temple v Grant Fetter |
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| Steve Malone v Jesse Berglund |
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| Kyle Ritchey v Dariusz Bienkowski |
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| James Black v Corey Reynolds |
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| Conor Murphy v Blake Shrode |
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| Jonathon Neessen v Rob Phaneuf |
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| Marshall Temple v Kenny Lull |
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| Dan Zarembski v Eric Town |
For this tournament everyone had the option of bringing a custom "Ronnie the Bard" model. This is used as a token to give one unit the Inspiring(Self) rule.
Some of the better ones
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| Corey Reynolds |
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| Felix Castro |
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| Grace Patterson |
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| Jason Birr |
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| Javier Ancizu Vergera. |
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| Jesse Berglund |
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| Marshall Temple |
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| Matthew Temple |
On to round 3
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| Dan Zarembski v Kyle Pietsh |
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| Grant Fetter v Jeff Schiltgen |
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| Jonathon Neessen v Felix Castro |
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| Grace Patterson v Steven de la Garza |
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| Brinton Williams v Jason Birr |
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| Erik Greiner v Steve Malone |
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| Corey Reynolds v Marshall Temple |
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| Drew Richardson v Connor Murphy |
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| Kenny Lull v Jeffrey Jett |
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| Christian Moisan v James Black |
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| Sean Villmont v Dariusz Bienkowski |
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| Adam Ballard v Janner Holliday |
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| Kyle Ritchey v Tim Lonas |
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| Alan Wigness v Blake Shrode |
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| Rob Phaneuf v Jeff Swann |
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| Tim Akers v Richard Pennertz |
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| Eric Town v Lam Choon Voon |
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| Jeremy Duvall v Jesse Berglund |
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| Javier Ancizu Vergera v Matthew Temple |
Ronnie came by the tournament area later that night to celebrate his birthday with us, and much celebrating was had. I'm a bit surprised at how well everyone looked as we got started bright and early (we wanted to finish as early as possible for the people heading back north, as a storm was heading their way). We did unfortunately lose too players.
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| Corey Reynolds v Connor Murphy |
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| Eric Town v Kenny Lull |
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| Dan Zarembski v Tim Lonas |
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| Alan Wigness v Erik Greiner |
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| Steven de la Garza v Kyle Pietsch |
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| Marshall Temple v Jeffery Jett |
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| Blake Shrode v Christian Moisan |
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| Jonathon Neessen v Jason Birr |
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| Tim Akers v Janner Holiday |
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| Steve Malone v Jeff Swann |
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| Lam Choon Voon v Jesse Berglund |
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| Sean Vilmont v Grace Patterson |
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| Javier Ancizu Vergera v Dariusz Bienkowski |
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| Felix Castro v Brinton Williams |
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| Jeremy Duvall v Drew Richardson |
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| Adam Ballard v Jeff Schiltgen |
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| Matthew Temple v Kyle Ritchie |
Unfortunately some dumb-ass says he got busy or some other lame excuse and didn't take pictures during round 5. Maybe there was one person there who was hungover.
Regardless, it all wrapped up and we gave out the awards
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| Dice Hate Me - Kenny Lull |
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| Counter Charger - Steven de la Garza |
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| Best Ronnie from 2022 - Matthew Temple |
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| Best Ronnie from 2023 - Felix Castro |
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| Best Ronnie - Jason Birr |
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| Players Choice - Corey Reynolds |
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| Best Mantic Army - Drew Richardson (with the bottle of Ronnie's Rum) |
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| Jesse Cornwell Sportsman - Tim Lonas |
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| Best General - Javier Ancizu Vergera (coming over from Spain to teach us how to play the game) |
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| Best Overall - Jeff Schiltgen |
It was, once again, another great year and a lot of fun. For full army lists, round pairings and breakdown of all the results, check out the tournament page at https://puggimer.net/Adepticlash2024/Event.html
A special thanks to Mantic Games, Adepticon, and especially Winged Hussar Press for all the prizes - I love it when everyone can leave with something. In addition a special thanks to Shannon Shoemaker who was our ringer. He only played the first game (due to a player having car trouble), but it is an essential role in a tournament this size.
I did want to mention that I used the Mantic Tournament Companion to run the tournament, and while it is still fairly limited, it worked pretty well for the actual pairings and game scores, with pairings going out and everyone entering their results from their phones, with very few corrections from me. It does not, however, handle soft scores in any way that is close to useful (and those are a big part of any tournaments I run). However it is MUCH easier to do pairings and have players enter their own results in the tournament companion and then copy the over to warscore where I can add the rest of the scores than to go the other way around (i.e. do pairing in warscore then try to put them in the companion). This looks like it will work for actually running tournaments, and I love having players submit their lists to the companion as well, but it is a long way from replacing the software I have been using for over 10 years.
Because it is all fun and games . . .
I did want to mention that I used the Mantic Tournament Companion to run the tournament, and while it is still fairly limited, it worked pretty well for the actual pairings and game scores, with pairings going out and everyone entering their results from their phones, with very few corrections from me. It does not, however, handle soft scores in any way that is close to useful (and those are a big part of any tournaments I run). However it is MUCH easier to do pairings and have players enter their own results in the tournament companion and then copy the over to warscore where I can add the rest of the scores than to go the other way around (i.e. do pairing in warscore then try to put them in the companion). This looks like it will work for actually running tournaments, and I love having players submit their lists to the companion as well, but it is a long way from replacing the software I have been using for over 10 years.
Because it is all fun and games . . .
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