BAO 2015

Results and Pictures, here!

What: Bay Area Open 2015

Where: 4th Street Summit Center, San Jose, CA

When: July 11-12

Why: Because gaming is the business!

Event Info

Warhammer 40K Championships:

Format: ITC Format Event

Schedule

Saturday, 7-11-15
- Registration: 9:00am
- Round 1: 10:00am-12:45pm
- Lunch: 12:45pm
- Round 2: 1:30pm-4:15pm
- Round 3: 4:30pm-7:15pm
Sunday, 7-12-15
- Round 4: 10:00am-12:45pm
- Lunch: 12:45pm
- Round 5: 1:30pm-4:15pm
- Awards: 4:45pm

We will have TONS of awesome prizes and goodies, as we always do. See you there!

Warmachine:

Saturday:

Registration: 9:00am
Start time: 10:00am
Mini-Gauntlet.
35 points to 50 points (see below)
2 lists required
This will be an Iron Guantlet style event.
Deathclock
http://privateerpress.com/organized-play/iron-gauntlet for the rules packet.
No painting required, but it will be rewarded.
The initial rounds will be 35 points. The last round or two (depending on numbers and time) will be 50 points.
You will make your 50 point lists out of the models available in your two 35 point lists.
Lots of prizes like always at FLG events 🙂

Sunday:

Registration: 9:00am
Start time: 10:00am
50 point Steamroller
2nd list optional
Deathclock
No painting required, but it will be rewarded.
We are also using Active Duty Roster out of the Masters packet.

For any tournament questions please contact Tyson@figurepainters.com (WM T.O.)

Warzone:

Schedule:

Saturday July 11th
Registration 9AM
First Round 9:30am-11:30am
Lunch 11:30am-12:15pm
Second Round 12:30pm-2:30pm
Third Round 3pm-5pm
Awards 5:30pm-6pm

Event description:

1000 point Warzone Resurrection Tournament
Standard OOC, Advanced Game format

Event guidelines:

All armies and card decks must be created using the standards laid out in the Diesel Powered Tournament rules pack that can be downloaded here.

Dropzone Commander:

Saturday, July 11th
Registration – 9AM
Round 1 – 9:30AM to 11:30AM
Lunch – 11:30AM to 12:15PM
Round 2 – 12:15PM to 2:15PM
Round 3 – 2:30PM to 4:30PM
Awards – 4:30PM

Prize Structure: 1 exclusive model or terrain package, 2 starter armies, and everyone else gets a blister pull. Every participant will get _something_.

Special Bonus: Is there a (nonexclusive) faction model you want to be in the prize pool? Email the TO at skevin521(at)yahoo.com and I’ll make sure it’s in there! Bear in mind, this doesn’t prevent someone from winning it before you get to it, but it’s a decent shot for you to get for free something you’ve been wanting.

Scenarios: Number of scenarios will be dependent on number of participants, but approximately between 1-3 will be homebrew (which you can lookup in advance at http://solomonder.com/bao.html ), but will not exceed 25% of the scenarios. All other scenarios will be taken from the 2015 Tournament Pack.

Tournament structure: 3 rounds. Bring a 1500 point, Clash level army. Scoring will be as per the Tournament Pack. Bring 5 copies of your army list: 1 for yourself, 1 for the TO, and 1 for each of your opponents.

Additional scoring: You will get an additional 2 Tournament points for best painted army.

These rules and any any further addendums will be posted at http://solomonder.com/bao.html.

Malifaux:

Sunday, July 12th
Registration start time 10:30
End time 6pm

*50 soulstones
*Gaining grounds format
*Proxies only allowed if the model
Isn’t released yet
*Conversions are ok if they are at least
66% Wyrd models.
* New strategy rotation being used.
* fixed faction

Draconic Awards!

Event information here.

Accepting submissions all day Saturday through Sunday at 6:00pm.

Hobby Seminars:

*Note: Each seminar requires a separate ticket to be purchased.

Saturday

Basic sculpting and converting with Will Hanh. Saturday, 10:00am to 2:00pm.

Basic model sculpting and conversion class with two portions, first half of the class will be introduction to sculpting: learning the materials and tools. The 2nd half will be Q&A: bring a project you are working on for help and guidance.

Blending with Caleb Wissenback. Saturday, 3:00pm to 5:00pm.

Intro to Blending.

Join veteran Hobbiest and award winning painter Caleb Wissenback in this hands-on class as he teaches the most popular techniques used by many of todays top painters . This class will cover techniques such as 2 brush blending, wet on wet, tip blending, glazing or French blending . This class is aimed at the beginner it intermediate painter who wants to take that next step . Miniatures, brushes and paints are provided but students are encouraged to bring their own brushes.

Weathering Metal with Seth Amsden. Saturday, 12:30pm to 2:30pm.

Seth will be running a special weathering class today were he will be teaching the concepts behind simulating how the passage of time effects objects, and then demonstrating these techniques. This will be followed by a hands on portion of instruction were each participant will receive a resin plaque to work on. We will be painting this plaque as bronze and then practice aging and weathering metal. Everyone should bring their own paints, brushes, but all of the materials specific to these weathering techniques will be provided for you.

Sunday

FREE EVENT! Come and sit down with artists and get some one on one time talking about your latest project. This is a first come, first served event.

*All tickets are fully refundable up until 30 days before the event. Tickets are transferable up until the day before the event.