For those who go to Nottingham GT

[warsmith]

Hi

Know that a few of us go down to Nottingham for 40k, WFB & lotr tournament.
Though might be best to check this out

warhammerworld.typepad.com/warhammer_world_news/2010/03/breaking-news-throne-of-skulls-grand-tournament-update.html#more

Breaking News - Throne of Skulls Grand Tournament Update!!
The Warhammer World Venue Team have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes recently, plotting and planning a host of exciting new things for all you hobbyists out there.....

We are pleased to announce that the Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000 and the new War of The Ring Throne of Skulls Grand Tournament tickets will be available to purchase from the Games Workshop Web Store from Monday the 12th of July 2010.

The addition of War of The Ring into the Throne of Skulls family as part of our events calendar will be great news for all of you War of The Ring gamers out there! But that's not all.....

We've also taken a look at our calendar and we've decided to hold four seasonal Throne of Skulls Grand Tournaments per year for both Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000, instead of three heats and a final.

This now means that we are able to offer even more tournaments a year and by spreading them out you can enjoy the events at different times of the year too. This also gives even more opportunities for avid hobbyists to take part in great games, make new friends and enjoy the hospitality of the Warhammer World Venue.

LotR
- There will now be a War of the Ring tournament, I think LotR will still go as normal as well by sound of it.

WFB & 40k
- There is no longer three Heats (only go to one per year) follow by the finials for those luck to make the cut.
There will be four tournament in general.

Unsure if they will allow you to enter more than one then??

Unsure right now, if we are allowed to enter more than one tournament (as in more than one 40k event in the year for exsample, where in past it was only one heat) then I do welcome this, as tournaments do make me happy to battle armies you never fought, meet new & old friends & just in general the banter.

Anyway though bring this up since there me, Graham, Dave, Chris & a few other who go down to Nottingham for the tournament/events held in Warhammer World.

Jamie

[warsmith]

Get this posted up for a few of us who go down to Nottingham for the GT, Chris, me, Iain, Dave, Graham, etc...

Here the new rule pack which is for WFB, 40k & L/WotR all in one

www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1240205a_ToS_Rules_Pack.pdf

Few things are

- By the looks of it there is no longer a 1st, 2nd & 3rd place regardless of the armies use. It now down to race who win it. On top that if your the only person to use.....say Chaos Daemons for exsample, regardless of lossing all five games, you will get auto points for that & they will be getting a award no matter what due to being the only army/race of that type.

So which army dose not get played a lot for 40k then?? ;D

- Favrout army, basicly after the event you vote for one oppent who army look pretty cool, fit in with the spirt of the army, dose well on the table & also the oppent/person useing it is a nice sporting oppent.
More votes, more points you get. So you could come 7th overall for exsample, get 5 favrout army votes, then win out right.

- Loss of a round. I know 40k & WFB has 6 rounds over the course of two days. This is now down to 5 & will see the event finish that 4.30pm. That first I was a little unsure (due to lack of info). But though I'd still enjoy that extra game, now seen the time instead of 6pm is now 4.30pm for the event. It dose help people for travel reason for flights, trains or car.
I know me & my friends will be back by 10.30pm which will help our driver, when past it been midnight leaving right after the event.

- Also look like for anyone who attend the event down in Nottingham, you have to sign in by 6pm Fri night, instead of the 9am Sat moring.

Also a e-mail (from Warseer, Col Gav) exsplain about the changies with in the UK Grand Tournament setting

Hi

Thanks for getting in touch; hopefully I can address some of the points you raise to help you understand why the changes have been made to the GT system.

The reason for removing the heats was twofold. Firstly, the new Throne of Skulls format has been designed to emphasise the fun of playing games in a relaxed, friendly environment, where the only prize up for grabs is the knowledge that you were the best in your race class. As the heats and final system is essentially encouraging people to play for a physical prize, it now doesn’t fit with the ethos of playing for fun for what you can win.

The second reason is to open up the competition to more players; 3 events limits us to a maximum of 468 players, and a final where (if we’re lucky) 120 may turn up. This now opens the competition up for 4 events with a total capacity of 624 different players, allowing greater access to the competition and providing more support for the hobby.

The original reason we ended up with heats was to satisfy the demand for places that our venue couldn’t meet. Over time this evolved due to the demand from players to be able to take part. This new systems allows us to space the events out so that more people have the option of returning for another event if they wish.

Reducing the cost of tickets wasn’t a viable option for us, so what we’ve done instead is to up the offer; we are now offering early registration and social gaming on the Friday, organised activities on the Saturday evening and a change in the food options for the weekend . The decision to run to 5 games rather than 6 was driven by a desire to emphasise the relaxed nature of the event and give players 2 ½ hours to play so that they didn’t feel rushed or pressured to finish.

The aim is to give you guys more than you had before and encourage the idea of a social weekend of gaming starting on the Friday night. We have even created a ‘Hall of Heroes’ area to display the names of all the winners of our GTs, so that they can be immortalized in Warhammer World forever. There are some other things I’m looking at, but it’s a bit too early to talk about that just yet…

If there are other events that you feel better suit what you are looking for, then by all means let us know what you like about them; we value the feedback and you never know, we might be able to do some of the things that are suggested. To extend this one stage further, we have a free to hire venue that players can make use of if they wish to run their own gaming events here if there are those who want to have a crack at doing it for themselves.

Thanks for getting in touch. If there’s anything I can do for you, please let me know.

Andy Joyce
Warhammer World Events Manager

Finial ticket are on sale 12th July.

Jamie

[Asurya]

Having read the pack, that's not really a tournament now is it?

Best in race/show is a wonderful concept and does reward more players over the course of the event, but c'mon, best army ties are awarded to who has the best looking army list?

I could see that as a doing concept if there was a standard army list layout, but each and every player has an idea on how an army list should look.

Having run tournaments myself, I've seen laminated binders with full colour, detailing every point cost and special rule, almost to the point they wouldn't need an army book with them and I've seen players hand in a list that is scribbled down on a napkin.

[lordsquinty]

Jun 29, 2010 9:34:15 GMT Asurya said:

Best in race/show is a wonderful concept

It's good enough for Crufts..... ;D

My next Army - Long haired persian Eldar

[thor]

a relaxed frendly enviroment ?? the hell dose that have to do with a tournyment