The Bay Area Open is back, baby!
Purchase your event tickets, here.
It’s back! The Bay Area Open is the event that started everything for Frontline Gaming, and we’re pleased to announce the 6th year of this premiere 40k tournament! We’re pleased to announce a partnership with Game Kastle, and will be hosting the tournament in their new event center, located at 550 Showers Dr, Mountain View, CA 94040.
This venue has been built for large tournaments and due to the size, we will have room for 200 players, this year! This will be the largest BAO to date and qualifies as a large Major Event for the ITC, and will be generating a ton of points for those who attend! Make sure to grab your tickets early, as the event sold out in 2 weeks last year with a 30 person wait list. You can purchase those tickets, here. We look forward to hosting you for the biggest and best BAO to date. Oh, and as a nice bonus, as we were able to work out a good deal this year on the venue and were able to save a significant amount of money and are passing those savings on to you! So in addition to being the biggest BAO it will also be the most affordable as well. Winning!
What: A Warhammer 40k Tournament
When: July 16th and 17th
Where: 550 Showers Dr., Mountain View, California 94040
Why: Because 40k tournaments are awesome!
We can’t wait to see who puts their name on the coveted Belt of Russ this year! Alan “P.J. Pants” Bajramovic was the champ last year, with the likes of InControl, Steve Sisk, Tomb King, JY2 and many other top notch players all in the hunt for the win! This year promises to provide more of the same exciting 40k action!
This will of course, be an ITC format tournament.
Schedule:
- This will be a 6 round event, 3 rounds on Saturday and 3 rounds on Sunday.
- Registration will begin at 8am on Saturday morning.
- Round 1 will begin at 10am.
- Day 1 will conclude at 7:30pm.
- Day 2, Round 4 will begin at 9am.
- Day 2 will conclude at 6:30pm, Sunday evening.
Travel and Logistics:
Their are a ton of hotels near the event venue in every price range. Just Google “Hotels Mountain View California” and you’ll see the wide variety of options nearby.
For those of you flying in, the San Jose Airport is only 12 miles away and the San Francisco Airport and Oakland Airport are also close options, as well.
*Ticket Refund Policy: All tickets are fully refundable up until 30 days from the event, June 16th, 2016. After June 17th, 2016 all sales are final and refunds for ticket will not be issued. Tickets are transferable up until the day before the event, July 15th, 2016.
Please make sure to order porta potties as the game center only has 1 toilet! OSHA requires 1/15 people FYI 🙂
They’ll have more bathrooms available by then =)
Yay BAO!
you guys see this?
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2016/03/gw-40k-send-us-your-questions.html
If not I vote you just copy paste the entirety of the ITC faq and go “how’d we do? Make better rules please. Kthxbye”
Yeah, we saw that. We’ll see how GW handles the deluge of questions they are sure to get.
Maybe it would be worth it though to organize ITC folks to just post on the thread the FAQ and ask about it. I honestly would not be surprised if they’ve never even heard about it, let alone read it. So just hammering the message home that we’re really grappling with all these rule conundrums may make them take more drastic action.
I just fear that they’ll see the list of 500 replies, take the first 20 (of which 10 im sure probably arnt even questions) and call it a day. whereas if they see 500 posts all of “is THIS what you meant?” might.. help. Somehow…
We’re closer to 1,000 rules questions now, honestly. It’s crazy. But yeah, it is such a daunting task, we’ll see how it goes.
1500 points? 🙂
Alas, no. 1850pts, sir! Bring your Knight army, those play super fast, lol.
My favorite tourney each year, cannot wait!
See you there, brotha!
Just 40K? Any workshops, demos, etc? Trying to talk some casuals into it and I need more than drinking. They say they can do that at home.
Will DFTSkies be part of ITC at the BAO? Wondering if I should pick up a pair of stormhawks for my WarConv. Could be a sneaker play that wrecks reserve players.
We will be voting on this, this month, so we will know shortly how we will interact with DftS.
Hey Fellers. Is there no Best Coast Pairings App for Android?
How long does registration last – from 8am till when?