Event Horizon top 8, live cast where possible Options

[Loriness]

After a tough first day we have 8 qualifiers

3-0

Jason Collins
Matthew Tolcher
Michael Cruise
Stuart Lord

2-1
Brendan Hunt
Will Wykoff
Simon Rainbow
Jason Miller (snuck in by primarys achieved)

Late change!!!!
Wayne Lauter is in top 8 instead of Jason due to score error

This post has been edited by Loriness: May 29 2011, 09:37 AM

[Loriness]

Qtr Finals

1) Wayne Lauter vs Matt Tolcher

2) Will W vs Michael Cruise

3) Simon Rainbow vs Jason C

4) Stuart Lord vs Brendan Hunt

New update!!!

This post has been edited by Loriness: May 29 2011, 09:40 AM

[Loriness]

Semi Finals

A) Winner (1) vs Winner (4)

B) Winner (3) vs Winner (2)

Will update once I know the result - around 11:30

This post has been edited by Loriness: May 29 2011, 09:41 AM

[Mr Peon]

Keff you had better get your arse in gear I want to see you in game 5.

[Loriness]

Michael Cruise - Eldar beats Kirby - GK
Matt Tolcher - Chaos beats Wayne Lauter - IG
Simon Rainbow Daemon beats Jason Collins - IG
Stuart Lord - SW beats Brendan Hunt - SW

This post has been edited by Loriness: May 29 2011, 12:17 PM

[Loriness]

Michael vs Simon

Simon looks in trouble. He had a first Turn opening with Michael Eldrad out of position but did not take it.

Stuart vs Matt

Still too close at the moment. But Stuart looks out of position.

[Loriness]

As predicted by David Teoh on first turn

Micheal Cruise beats Simon
Matthew Tolcher beat Stuart

So 2 ACTian in the finals. Too bad to NSW, at least it was not a Qlder.

[Trip]

Woot!

That would be 2 Good Games Canberra Regulars in the Final,

Must be all the events we run

[ÆON]

Go Eldrad! I mean Mike!

[Loriness]

Michael Cruise is the nest general in EH
Chee Wong takes the Tri man award
Vincent was Master of the Art
Dallas takes best sports

[The Sound of Machines]

Well done everyone! Some really nice armies and fun games all round.

My best sport goes to the guy who made my burger and had to put up with my stupid questions.

Cheers for having me Denis and thanks to all the dudes who turned up to support EH's first event!!!


Luke

[Krefey]

I must admit I fared quite a bit better than I thought I would with the army Thanks for running the event Dennis.

Also thanks to all my opponents for the weekend.

[J.McGowan]

So 2 ACTian in the finals. Too bad to NSW, at least it was not a Qlder.

firstly thats just hurtful

so the ACT is a contender for the ATC.... interesting.

all jokes aside, well done dennis, this event will only get bigger im sure and i'll make sure I definately come down next time.

well done to everyone

oh and kirby, at least this time it wasnt to orks

[Thorse]

Thank you Denis for the well-run and organised tournament, had such a great weekend.

And to all my opponents, being my first tournament you were all very patient and helpful which was much appreciated. Thanks to you I'll surely be entering more tournaments from here on in.

Bruno

[Krefey]

so the ACT is a contender for the ATC.... interesting.

HAH! I'm running the event, so I can't be part of the ACT team And I had to reject the invite from the NSW team

[Kirby]

Ya it was Footdar instead McGowan . Woopsie.

Ask Dennis about my fail in Game 3 against Wayne though. I didn't tap my strike squad to hold an objective and thus lost of VP >.<. Fail. Michael played well though and was a great game though we both need to invest in new dice .

Next time don't forget to come down eh?

Well done Dennis and congrats to all the major prize winners.

[ÆON]

Ya it was Footdar instead McGowan . Woopsie.

Ask Dennis about my fail in Game 3 against Wayne though. I didn't tap my strike squad to hold an objective and thus lost of VP >.<. Fail. Michael played well though and was a great game though we both need to invest in new dice .

Next time don't forget to come down eh?

Well done Dennis and congrats to all the major prize winners.

You think that was bad? At Cancon Jasonc had me beat; except for his guard army not being entirely within my deployment zone and my last 3 remaining squads had just deepstriked into his right at the end of the game giving me the win.

Tactics

[J.McGowan]

Ya it was Footdar instead McGowan . Woopsie.

Ask Dennis about my fail in Game 3 against Wayne though. I didn't tap my strike squad to hold an objective and thus lost of VP >.<. Fail. Michael played well though and was a great game though we both need to invest in new dice .

Next time don't forget to come down eh?

Well done Dennis and congrats to all the major prize winners.

yeah those dam elves can be tricksy

i'll be there next time for sure, i find with no comp events everything is much more relaxed and is a really enjoyable atmosphere.

even had vince asking me to come down, but just couldnt, and been kicking myself since

[ArchonCryx]

Would have been good to have you down Josh.

You're right about a more relaxed atmosphere - much less criying over cheese -in fact, I don't think anyone felt hard done by, particulalry as most armies s3ee3med to follow a well worn pattern of a good HQ or 2, triple heavy, and then efficient list building.

Was nothing like what I used to fear for no comp events, althouigh of course we're all used to playing comp'd style events which no doubt impacts our model choices, particularly painted ones.

There was only a couple of fully mechanised lists, which were guard armies, and none of the wolves went all the way to razorspam, for eg (although I did face a SW army with 3 plazerbacks for his 3 LF squads (who stayed out) - he out gunned me convincingly when flubbed target selection after seizing the initiative)

I thought for the most part our lists were of comparable strength. At times I felt low on anti tank but I reckon I could have simply played better in at least 2 of my losses to turn things around. My list was absolutely brutal vs poor Glen's Bloodcrusher spam army- but I had fun in that game and had done well by myself.

Denis ran things well. I liked his idea of randomly distributing minor prizes to around a dozen of us ("random" draw - we goit one entry per lost game, so my name would have been in there 3 times) - I picked up a $20 Iron Halo0 voucher even thogh I was well off the top 8 at ~26th place!

Good idea, I think I'll steal that for lords. One of the ideas of spreading the prize pool is less about rewarding the guys whop get to the top 10 and more about trying to spread the love in appreciation of people participating.

Thanks Denis, a nice event filling in the gap between BiV and Lords quite nicely...

Great weekend, I look forward to next year.

[Kirby]

yeah those dam elves can be tricksy

i'll be there next time for sure, i find with no comp events everything is much more relaxed and is a really enjoyable atmosphere.

even had vince asking me to come down, but just couldnt, and been kicking myself since

Vince just heard what happened when the two of us went out alone and he wanted to see what would happen with you, too .