Team Tournament Planning: Official

[jasonryonhall]

Several of us were talking yesterday about having the Team tournament end of July. There were actually several people who would be interested in helping out from several different aspects of the planning, which is really what it will take make make it successful.

One of the very first tings we need to do is work on the rules. Here is what we came up with so far, if I remember right, and this is opening the discussion on these and for new ideas:

1.) 3 games Teams of two

2.) Teams can be preplanned, we will allow preregistration for 28. We're considering it full at 28, so that leaves no room for walk-ins if it does fill. We might consider capping registration at 25 to leave some room for walk-ins. What do people think of that?

3.) 2500 points. Minimum 1100 points per team member and 300 points to float between members. Discuss

4.) Shared modified force org. This means that the team will share a force org chart that is modified from the standard by adding one to all required slots and one to optional. For example the team must have 2 HQs, but no more than 3. The team must have 3 troops, but no more than 7. The team may have 0 Fast Attack, but no more than 4 and so on and so forth. In addition, any one team member may not exceed the codex force org for his individual army. Basically you can't bring all 3 HQs from one codex or all 7 troops from another codex.

5.) We want this tournament to be very fun, challenging and interesting for folks that are up to planning for it. Outside of rules that specifically state that they only effect certain friendlies or certain factions (we don't want to break any extablished rules) we are going to completely open the door to allow any combinations and synergies you can come up with that are not explictly denied by existing rules.
An example of something that would be allowed:
Eldar Seer Council picked by a heavy support Land Raider and casting fortune on the land raider.

An example of something not allowed
Genestealers deploying in a Space Marine Drop Pod. You can't buy a drop pod as a dedicated transport for Genestealers, only for marines.

This is not open for debate. We are doing this, and everyone is challenged to come up with the most interesting combos they can. We will develop an FAQ on many of these over the next few weeks. If you team decides not to come up with any cool synergies it's your fault, not ours. You have over a month to think about it so use your noodle.

6.) This will be an all day tournament. Morning to night. We will be allowing 3 hours per game. If you can't stay you forfeit. Plan for the entire day. We will not be kicking anyone out to play Yugio.

7.) $10 per *person*, so $20 per team. Prize support will obviously be from entry fees, be will will also have some donations from various generous peoples. We will also take donations from anyone we don't know abou, and see about official GW support, though if we do that I think you have to have only GW related prizes, but we'll see. Everyone will walk away with their prize that day. We will also have some random prizes throughout the day. Kind of like Foodhammer did, the random thing happens in the middle of the game, and if you do it you get a prize sort of thing. It should be lots of fun.

8.) We're going to have a couple people working the tournament, but not actually playing in it. I want to make sure we have something to give to those people. We also need volunteers to be those people. I want to play personally, but if noone else steps up I'll do it.

9.) We need a name for the tournament, someone think of something!

So there is what we know so far. Please discuss

[Gregor_xenos]

Sounds pretty good. For names, hows about "Tag Team Beat-down"? The 'ol lady suggested "4 Dork 40k".
I kinda like that one.... lol

[jasonryonhall]

Trying to nail down a date.

We're looking at July 16th or July 30th.

I guess we'll need to talk to Matt too.

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Scratch that. I think the 30th is the only day we can do it, unless we can get it on a Sunday or something.

[Deadpool]

(06-13-2011 08:53 AM)jasonryonhall Wrote:  Trying to nail down a date.

We're looking at July 16th or July 30th.

I guess we'll need to talk to Matt too.

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Scratch that. I think the 30th is the only day we can do it, unless we can get it on a Sunday or something.

Sounds interesting...

[jasonryonhall]

Having a hard time holding back this flood of ideas.

I guess everyone is cool with what we have, so I will start writing up a flyer/post for it.

We will start working on Scnearios too. I have some ideas, and I'll work with Dickie and Scott on them.

[Scribbles]

We could call it the "Twin-Linked" Tournament.

[DC]

How about the Two Twinks Tournament?

[jasonryonhall]

Dude I like that

You are so creative.

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What Dickie said I like, to clarify.

I don't get what DC said, he is too smrt for me.

[DC]

Gay joke

[Scribbles]

Quoted from UrbanDictionary:

Twink: An attractive, boyish-looking, young gay man. The stereotypical twink is 18-22, slender with little or no body hair, often blonde, dresses in club wear even at 10:00 AM, and is not particularly intelligent. A twink is the gay answer to the blonde bimbo cheerleader.

DC, that's gross...