For this years BAO, I had some big goals in mind. I was hoping to at least go 3-2, win best Grey Knights, and try to crack the top ten for ITC points. Here is my story of wins and woes at the Bay Area Open. Road Trip! One of the best things about doing…
Hey everybody, Captain A here with some thoughts on what I’m planning on bringing to BAO. The BAO is going to be a great tournament this next weekend in San Jose, CA. They’ve been sold out for quite some time now and the waiting list is still…er waiting to get into this prestigious event. I…
This past weekend, I made the trek to head out to Austin, Texas for Wargames Con. I had to part with some high value Walking Dead comics to pay for the flight over there, but was glad to make it to the land of BOLS to try my hand at another major GT. Coming into…
Portland, OR has a great mix of 40k gamers. There are competitive groups, narrative groups, casual groups, bloggers, and others as well. It isn’t hard to get a game in at the many different stores and clubs in the area and that has made it easy to make 40k my primary tabletop game of choice….
There are lots of ways to score your 40k ITC tournament. You can use pen and paper, a spreadsheet, or another third party software. The tracking of the tournament has always been the thing that has caused me the most anxiety about running an event, but for my last Grand Tournament, The Guardian Cup,…
This last weekend, May 23-24, 2015, saw the re-occurrence of The Guardian Cup, a 2 day Grand Tournament hosted at Guardian Games in Portland, OR. I, CaptainA, have been the TO (tournament organizer) for the past few years and have been pleased to see it grow and change over the time I have been running…
Hello fellow gamers! This is CaptainA, tournament organizer of the Guardian Cup, Portland, OR’s premiere 40k singles Grand Tournament reporting live from the event! The Guardian Cup 8 – The Ocho – is being hosted by Portland’s grandest game store, Guardian Games, with over 8000 square feet of gaming space. We are being housed in…
In the Beginning, There Was Daemons In 40k, things change over time and forces you to adapt what you do or perish. I remember when I first got back into 40k and started a Chaos Daemons army, back when they had to deep strike their entire army and at first things were doing quite well…
Every tournament organizer wants their tournament to succeed, so how do you take your event from a small sub 16 person event to a larger sized grand tournament? You might want to find some ways to add some spice to your event to take it up a notch and reach more players. A lot of…
This year, the ITC has changed its ITC missions, furthering to seek a better balance between the tradition book missions, new maelstrom, and also changing the bonus points for each game. The desire appears to be to make each game a unique experience and not the same thing over and over again, which is great….
