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Show Notes
Date: 3-6-19
Intro
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News
- This week’s GW pre-orders are two of the Ork buggies and the Ambot for Necromunda! You can grab them in our web-store at a discount with FREE shipping options!
- Big new this week is the reveal of Shadowspear and Abbaddon!
- The Shadowspear contents look pretty fantastic!
- We also got a preview of the Demonkin side of the box set’s rules!
- Powers:
- Warlord Traits:
- Had a great time at the Dicehammer GT this past weekend!
- Big shout out to Jim Vesal who won with Chaos Daemons.
- Top 5 were Damond, GSC, CSM, AdMech, Alaitoc
Upcoming ITC Events
Upcoming 40k ITC Events
- 40K 8th Edition Revised Scenario Showdown, Jack’s on Queen, Elmvale, Ontario, Canada, March 9th, 2019
- WarZone: Rtt 3, Gosford, New South Wales, Australia, march 9th, 2019
- Snow Piercer ITC 40k, Longueuil, Canada, March 9th, 2019
- 40K RTT ITC 2K Point Tournament, Fredericksburg, VA, March 9th, 2019
- Waterfall of Blood ITC, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, March 9th, 2019
- Warhammer 40K: Fun to Play Day Rogue Trader Tournament, St. Petersburg, FL, March 9th, 2019
- No Respite, New South Wales, Australia, March 9th, 2019
- Game Nation March 40k, Game Nation llc, Fort Smith, AR, March 9th, 2019
- Winter Warzone – ITC 40K Tournament, Portland, OR, March 9th, 2019
- War Unrelenting – WH40k ITC Tournament, The Goblin Traders, Ironton, OH, March 9th, 2019
- ANZ40K Open, Ringwood, Victory, Australia, March 9-10th, 2019
- Warhammer 40k 2000 pt Tournament, Armada Games, Tampa, FL, March 9th, 2019
- Spring Brawl Primer, Spokane Valley, WA, March 9th, 2019
- Feast of Blades 40k Tournament 10th of March, GameForce, Eindhoven, Netherlands, March 9th, 2019
- Ferrus Manus Memorial RTT, Aberdeen, WA, March 10th, 2019
- Bourbon Brothers Spring 40k League, Louisville, KY, March 10th, 2019
- Amiricon, Naerbo, Rogaland, Norway, March 10th, 2019
Upcoming AoS ITC Events
- Otto’s March AoS (2019), Bakersfield, CA, March 9th, 2019
- Warhammer Age Of Sigmar 2000pts ITC Matched Play, Lords of War Games and Hobbies, Oakville, Ontario, Canada, March 9th, 2019
- Gameology AoS ITC Tournament, Upland, CA, march 9th, 2019
- Bunker Buster AoS, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, March 9th, 2019
- Warhammer Age of Sigmar Tournament, Gam3Escape, Hilo, HI, march 10th, 2019
- Blooded Sands RTT, Glendale, AZ, March 10th, 2019
- Age Of Sigmar 2k RTT ITC Tournament, Fredericksburg, VA, March 16th, 2019
- Fight At The Tavern, Bremerton, WA, March 16th, 2019
- Rose City Wrath, Portland, OR, March 16th, 2019
- Wizards Age Of Sigmar One Day 1000pt GT & Beer hammer, Wichita, KS, March 16th, 2019
- BWG: AoS RTT, Phoenixville, PA, March 17th, 2019
- March 1250 BAG AoS Tournament, Bel Air, MD, March 23rd, 2019
- March Haven AOS RTT, Spokane Valley, WA, March 23rd, 2019
- Age Of Sigmar At The Dragon, Miami, FL, March 30th, 2019
- Ere We Go Again Ladz! AoS, Winter Park, FL, March 30th, 2019
40k ITC Top 10
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Points | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael | Sarapata | 370.15 | 4 of 5 |
| 2 | Jim | Vesal | 367.4 | 3 of 5 |
| 3 | Michael | Ralston | 342.84 | 4 of 5 |
| 4 | Robert | May | 335.37 | 3 of 5 |
| 5 | Anton | Wilson | 276.51 | 3 of 5 |
| 6 | Richard | Siegler | 262.77 | 3 of 5 |
| 7 | Karl | Abrahamsson | 262.02 | 2 of 5 |
| 8 | Chris | Kentrup | 260.81 | 3 of 5 |
| 9 | Danny | Kwan | 254.65 | 3 of 5 |
| 10 | Jason | Chatterton | 252.3 | 3 of 5 |
40k ITC Hobby Track Top 10
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Points | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kristopher | Boss | 189.94 | 2 of 5 |
| 2 | Laren | Ocasio | 187.67 | 2 of 5 |
| 3 | Vincent | Castellano | 166.91 | 2 of 5 |
| 4 | Namon | allen | 138.95 | 2 of 5 |
| 5 | Michael | Ralston | 128.56 | 2 of 5 |
| 6 | Jim | Vesal | 120.89 | 1 of 5 |
| 7 | Tony | Lopes | 118.14 | 2 of 5 |
| 8 | Simon | Leen | 113.19 | 1 of 5 |
| 9 | Lou | Rollins | 110.56 | 1 of 5 |
| 10 | Sid | Singh | 106.66 | 1 of 5 |
AoS ITC Top 10
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Points | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert | Proscia | 207.17 | 2 of 5 |
| 2 | Alex | Gonzalez | 118.42 | 1 of 5 |
| 2 | Michael | Schwartz | 118.42 | 1 of 5 |
| 4 | Robbie | Steinbring | 117.02 | 1 of 5 |
| 5 | Matthew | Pashby | 114.93 | 1 of 5 |
| 6 | Wiliam | Soehaili | 113.88 | 1 of 5 |
| 7 | Chase | Reinhard | 113.19 | 1 of 5 |
| 8 | Kyle | McKean | 112.84 | 1 of 5 |
| 9 | Samuel | Gould | 111.79 | 1 of 5 |
| 9 | Rahul | Pereira | 111.79 | 1 of 5 |
AoS ITC Hobby Track Top 10
Shadespire ITC Top 10
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Points | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jacob | Lawler | 113.19 | 1 of 5 |
| 2 | John | Sosnowski | 111.44 | 1 of 5 |
| 3 | Ivan | Cho | 100.72 | 1 of 5 |
| 4 | Matt | Everhart | 93.04 | 1 of 5 |
| 5 | Andrew | Everhart | 92.02 | 1 of 5 |
| 6 | John | Downes | 91.38 | 1 of 5 |
| 7 | Kenneth | Moran | 84.11 | 1 of 5 |
| 8 | Scott | Driessen | 83.07 | 1 of 5 |
| 9 | Sean | Ratner | 81.79 | 1 of 5 |
| 10 | Orri | Barnes | 79.75 | 1 of 5 |
Tactics Corner
Completed Commissions
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Will Any GSC stuff be forth coming? Seam’s to have been forgotten because of LVO. Was looking forward to the incites.
Yeah, I am sure we will get to it, just had a lot of high priority stuff to cover.
I am planning to put together some articles on them in the near future.
New scoring is great, I got a lot more points for an 84 player major i finished 4th in vs a 20 person RTT I finished 1st in which makes sense!
p.s I didn’t fly down for the tournament, was in town for a work conference!
“p.s I didn’t fly down for the tournament, was in town for a work conference!”
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure 😉
Yeah, that is where the biggest difference in scoring will be evident. And, as you noted, it feels like a better fit.
I like the score changes. I got 4th place in a 19 person RTT and got some decent points to show for it. Before the change, it was the mentality of “I didn’t get in top 3 this event didn’t matter for points”.
Yeah, the results now will feel a lot more intuitively accurate I think.
Are the formulas for how it’s calculated available anywhere? I looked over the ITC pages, but couldn’t find references (except in passing.)
The BCP guys did the heavy lifting on the math and asked to keep it under wraps as a trade secret. As I only had feedback on the output and not the creation of it, I agreed.
Many video game companies do the same thing with the exact math of their scoring formulas.
They are building a calculator though, that will show players how many points an event can get them to help offset the lack of transparency. As things have grown and changed they felt it was the right call to protect themselves and their investment in BCP as well as to avoid folks trying to game the system.