MariFaux

Well, I'm still in. And I decided that's a fantastic deadline and chaotic enough setting to get my Collodi crew done by and use this as his first outing. Prepare for the Master Puppeteer!!

Dave, I think in your entrance list the "Connor Rooney" attending is actually Connor Barker?

I've never been to Firestorm, but I'd love to go. How are accommodation options around there?

I'm in.

I'm in.

There's no train station at Glasgow airport, but an airport bus going directly to queens street station, where the train for Stirling leaves. Pretty easy. I'm sure Edinburgh is similar.

Craig, Connor and me are in. And yeah, I guess booking (even for a rough guessed number of people) is probably a good idea.

Ticket and travel booked for this. Because of train times I should be there at 9:20.

Ticket bought.

Me too. I'll be announcing Outcasts each round... (you might want to change your post to say 26/6 though, Nate)

Cool, I'll see if I can collect 3 more for a discounted group ticket for the weekend. Anyone? It's £25 per person for both events instead of £30.

Is there still Malifaux happening on both days?

Last year's Scottish GT had 36 or so payers, this year should be around 40 I reckon. Plus it's a weekender, so more games, and socialising Saturday evening!!!

Paid, and I booked a train to arrive in Ramsgate at 9:30, just in case you are going to start a wee bit earlier to relax the schedule. If not, I'll find a Starbucks and get high on caffeine.

I like the challenge, Dave Brown does something similar for Cow Wars, although less extreme (4 games between 59 and 45 SS) and that works really well.

Scottish GT (Stirling is easy to reach from Glasgow and Edinburgh)!!

With some other master than Lucius?

I don't think ranged support is that important in a Viks crew, I usually only have Vanessa and that works extremely well. I also would not qualify the child as must have, it's very useful but not an absolute necessity.

Cool thanks. No breaks between rounds or shorter than 120 min rounds?

Probably be there, I like 4 games, if there's enough times in between games and such (means early start ad late-ish finish). Edit: you missed a trick there not calling the event "taps aff" since the venue is run by a Scot.

Woo! more random poker chips!

I looked at the Black Joker's numbers as well, we would only contribute with three people Mark (7/12), me (11/15) and Josh (2/3) for (20/30) counting games out of 7 members. I know we might be an extreme example, but a good system should work for different teams. The question is if we favour quantity or quality. I think quantity is much more inclusive in a team sense.

Challenge accepted.. wait, no, wrong answer. Difficult to accommodate for small teams with players that don't go to three tournaments a month and big teams with regular tournament goers. I'm sure there's a sweet spot in the middle, just need to find it.

The argument against averages is that teams could only take top players. I think we should not make it too complicated in any way, it's just a number and toy soldiers. And top x (the example here is 20) results would not necessarily include all players, in many teams just the top two or three players would contribute, and that's not great either. Maybe cap a single contributor at a certain number?

In my view the team part is mostly for fun either way, and not that serious a competition. I don't see any team or person of the community ditching players for that reason. And while we Black Joker's tend to hoover up players, it's to include and incorporate new players (Simon Austen is our newest member btw, Kai) and not to increase any standings. Having said that, I do like Connor's idea a lot. But that leaves the question of numbers per team (and what happens if there's more - does one person form a lonely team b, or decide the clubs how to split? Like 3 BJS team A and 4 BJS team B instead of 6 BJS team A and lonely me BJS team B?)