This weekend was the Twenty Second Adepticon, for the second year at the Baird Center in Milwaukee. A great time was had by all (at least I hope everyone had a good time). I have to acknowledge that when it was announced it was moving, not only an hour further from Chicago, but directly north (meaning I would have to still drive THROUGH Chicago) I was a bit concerned. However the GPS took me on the I-294 Expressway, and it was indeed. Instead of the expected traffic hassles, for it has been an easy drive up and back, and going through Chicago was no worse then going through Indianapolis. So drive wise, I expect no issues in the years to come.
My schedule was a bit different than I've been used to in the past - and easier. Since Champions was announced last year (at Adepticon) I have really believed that it is a much better game to introduce people at conventions - small and quick, without an overwhelming number of models to paint up. At it's heart, Adepticon is a bunch of tournaments (though it is trying to grow into a full convention it still struggles with small one-off events). So we had a Champions tournament Thursday afternoon.
Since Champions does not involve any list building (all the companies are set) Mantic said they were all balanced against each other (though The Bloody Cardinal struggles against Allanis Gneus). It was a small event, with only 5 players (so I played in the first two games, and Aaron Richardson volunteered to step in for the last game)
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| Benjamin Grosek, Chris Davis, Aaron Richardson, Frank Kirby, Graham Carlson, Volker Jacobsen |
If you have been reading my tournament reports, you know I try to take pictures of all the game. Unfortunately when I have to play, I often forget to do that because for the brief time, I'm thinking about the game. However I was able to get pictures of round three since Aaron stepped in as the ringer
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| Aaron (son of Richard) v Graham (son of Carl) |
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| Benjamin Grossek v Volker (son of Jacob) |
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Chris Davis v Frank Kirby
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| Benjamin Grosek's Alanis Sallustis (Basilean) Company |
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| Chris Davis' La'theal Voidheart (Twilight Kin) Company |
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| Frank Kirby's Z'akke (Salamander) Company |
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Volker Jacobsen's La'theal Voidheart (Twilight Kin) Company
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Graham Carlson's La'theal Voidheart (Twilight Kin) Company
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| My Axel Tricklebrook (Trident Realms) Company |
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| Graham Carlson - Best Painted |
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Benjamin Grossek, Best Sportsman (favorite Opponent) ( I apparently was a bit blind as I did not find the medal for this in the pile (there were 6 of them after all :-) so I printed a certificate for him, and then gave him the medal once I grabbed it thinking it was 3rd place.
There was a bit of a mix up and I switch the 1st round scores between Frank and Graham, but Graham talked to me afterward and I corrected the error, and a gave Frank his well earned 3rd place medal. |
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| Frank Kirby, 3rd Place |
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| Benjamin Grossek, 2nd Place |
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| Volker Jacobsen - 1st Place |
Everyone was very enthusiastic about the tournament and wanted to do it again next year. I mentioned my idea of using my old "How You Use It" format for a champions tournament (where the players get a different company to use each game) and wanted to do that one as well next year, so I'll have to see about doing that!
On Thursday we had the Armada tournament - this year with 12 players (up from 10 the previous year. This year we used the Mantic Companion to do the pairings for the tournament and let the players enter their own scores. We had some issues (I has misconfigured it to add the scenario points to the tournament points (my mistake), and while had marked that it SHOULD include kill points (based on custom tiers) to the scores, it did not. So I had to put in a little extra work on the scores each session.
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| James Gustafson, Aiden Belmont, Nicole Karolus, Sean Rogerson, Andrew Karolus, Jakub Paradies, Thomas Jarvis, Jordan Yanow, Jared Crumly, Caleb Bailey, Joshua Hachmeister, Andrew Korenic |
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| James Gustafson's Salamanders |
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| Jared Crumly's Empire of Dust |
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| Jordan Yanow's Dwarfs |
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| Joshua Hachmeister's Trident Realm |
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| Nicole Karolus' Dwarfs |
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| Sean Rogerson's Northern Alliance |
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| Thomas Jarvis' Orcs |
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| Aiden Belmont's Forces of the Abyss |
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| Andrew Karolus' Elves |
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| Andrew Korenc's Trident Realms |
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| Caleb Bailey's Northern Alliance |
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| Jakub Paradies' Salamanders |
Round 2
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| Jared Crumly v Aidan Belmont |
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| Andrew Korenic v James Gustafson |
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| Sean Rogerson v Jakub Paradies |
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| Andrew Karolus v Johsua Hachmeister |
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| Tom Jarvis v NIcole Karolus |
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| Jordan Yanow v Caleb Baley |
Round 3
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| Caleb Baley v Nicole Karolus |
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| Jordan Yanow v Aidan Belmont |
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| Sean Rogerson v Joshua Hachmeister |
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| Tom Jarvis v Andrew Korenic |
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| Andrew Karolus v James Gustafson |
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| Jared Crumly v Jakub Paradies |
And then it was done.
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| Andrew Karolus - Best Painted |
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| Tom Jarvis - Most Sporting |
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| Caleb Bailey - 3rd Place |
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| Andrew Karolus - 2nd place |
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| Andrew Korenic - 1st Place |
Final Results
On Saturday and Sunday, I did my (in)famous Learn To Play sessions for Champions and Armada. Adepticon doesn't have us turn in attendance reports - so I assume it is about tickets sold, not actual attendance. I got a few pictures of these.
In addition, there were other Mantic games (Epic Warpath, Halo:Flashpoint) being run as well, including the big Kings of War tournament on Sat - Sun. I managed to get a few pictures of them
Back home, taking the day off work to recover.
Because it is all fun and games . . .
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