• Various people tied for Best Sportsman so the award went to the person with the worst battle score -- it's harder to be fun to play with when you are losing.

So why didn't Hyde get best sportsman, he had a worse sportsmanship, but because he had a better painted army he didn't get best sportsman?

Sorry I meant worse battle score.

So, Chris Kruso got a 22 battle score and Hyde Anderson got a 20 battle score. Hyde was the lowest battle score tied for a 15, which means that he should have gotten the best sportsmanship award, right? Or, did I miss something?

At the time Best Sportsman was determined, Hyde was still tied for best painting. The tiebreaker on that occurred afterward. We decided to let the Sportsmanship prize stand since Chris was tied for lowest overall as well as highest sportsmanship.

It may have been determined, but it wasn't awarded. Basically because Hyde had an awesomely painted army, and still got his butt kicked and was a good sport about he get's penalized. I think that makes him more of a good sport than if he didn't have his army painted or poorly painted.

Actually, Nick Soika had the lowest battle score by this chart, not Hyde.

But, as I see now, not the max Sportsman score...

"Various people tied for Best Sportsman so the award went to the person with the worst battle score"

Except that it didn't - I'm confused, you had a formula to determine Best Sportsman, but the player that should have received it didn't because he could have potentially won a different award?

Well, "deciding" to not follow your own scoring rules sort of says something now, doesn't it?

If your scoring rules had indicated that the Best Sportsmanship award went to the lowest "Total" score, then you did things exactly by the book and no one would have had any room to gripe and moan. However, your own scoring rules indicate "Battle" score, meaning Hyde got Best Sportsmanship. We all make mistakes, man up and own up to it instead of awkwardly making up something to cover up your mistake; people will respect you more.

If this isn't being driven by the need to cover up a mistake, then what is it driven by? I mean, you hadn't given awards out when you determined that Hyde actually won Sportsmanship, not Chris, had you? No one would have possibly known that there was this kind of flub up if you didn't decide to post all the scores and then make a lame excuse as to why one award went one way. In my opinion, and obviously this is just an opinion, you either decided to skip over Hyde for Sportsmanship (aka cheating your own system) or you're too stubborn to admit when you've made a mistake. Which is it?

Please see my previous comment. We had an 8 way tie for best Sportsman, and it was determined by lowest OVERALL score of those 8, not lowest BATTLE score. We used overall SPECIFICALLY so that the sportsmanship trophy could be obtained potentially by someone quite new to the hobby, whose strengths were neither battle nor painting.

I have edited Ranillon's post, and noted it as an edit. My apologies if this typo has raised people's blood pressure, no bias or obfuscation was intended.

Thank you for the additional explanation; that makes more sense.

It would be interesting to see the army lists that people played with. What are the chances of posting those? I play orks and didn't get my army together for Origins this year but I would like to see what folks are fielding competatively.