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Origins 2011 Warhammer 40K Indy GT Results

Posted by Ranillon on 30. June 2011 21:28

Here are the results for the latest Origins 40K Rogue Trader Tournament:

First Place Best General: Thomas McFarland
Second Place Best General: Stefan Olson
Third Place Best General: Adam James
Best Sportsman: Michael Brown
Best Painting: Steve Olk

The complete results:

Note:  The two painting scores in the seventies include extra judging to determine
the painting winner as there was a tie.

Before you ask there was no overall winner for this tournament because Games Workshop mandated that the Golden Tickets we gave out had to go to the top two Best Generals.  Rather than have a situation where the Best Overall didn't win the best prizes we decided to leave out that award altogether. Also, please note one player did receive a zero paint score. This player admits he did not paint the army in question, so we scored him a zero in paint simply to keep our awrds straight. This score is in no way intended to slight that army, or it's painter and creator, we simply left it scored there as a means to keep things simple.

However, as it turned out Sportsmanship and Painting were still vitally important to determining the Best Generals as we ended up with ties at the high end.  We needed to use Sportsmanship and then Painting to finally figure out who won the Golden Tickets.  Thus, the moral of the story is to make sure that you act your best and paint your best even if you are going "merely" for Best General.

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  • Decimus

    Decimus said,

    Would like to thank the judges for awarding a 0 for one of the paint jobs.  The player acknowledged that he couldn't paint well and spent ALOT of time doing some conversions on his army and wanted it to look good, so he asked me to paint it for him.  Once at the tourny, he didn't try to lie and pass off the painting as his own.  As a reward for this, he got a 0!?  So taking bare plastic models and sloppily throwing the minimum 3 colors onto them would have netted him a better score as long as he did it himself....  Considering I haven't been able to find "painting rules" on your site, (please point them out if I missed them)  you need to be much clearer in advance of your next tournament.  Especially considering this is obviously a HUGE part of determining tie breaking and so on.  For anyone else reading this that is curious about which army scored a 0, please go to the pictures page and look for the bluish colored space wolves.  Pic has 4 rhinoes arranged in semi-circle with a dread in the top middle.


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