NoMoreMrNiceKai

Hi all,

First of all, I have put this here, because although it’s old-home of the UK Events was fine at the time, any changes effect Poland, Netherlands, USA, Denmark & Spain, with Italy & Australia hopefully coming online soon.

It has been discussed about changing the way the events are ranked. If we are to do this, it needs to be before January this year, when the UK Masters Season starts. This discussion comes from the appearance that the number of tournaments we run has grown massively. Here are the stats on UK Ranked Events:

2014: 47 Events (23% were 100 point tournaments)
2015: 64 Events (25% were 100 point tournaments)
2016: 75 Events (22% were 100 point tournaments)
2017: 64 Events (30% were 100 point tournaments)

As you can see, the number of ranked events have gone down in 2017 and although the 28-person tournaments have gone up percentage wise, that is only 3 extra tournaments this year due to lower numbers.

Another reason for people wanting change is the “inevitable” situation where there is more than one person with 400 points. This hasn’t happened either. Even if you consider the 5 other ranking sites.

Based on the above, I personally don’t think that the 28-person limit needs to change.

I did like a suggestion that was made on a podcast though. That talking about the issue that the winner, whether in a 28 man 3 round 1 day event, or in a 128 man 7 round 2 day nationals event, they get 100 points. I’d like to see this change.

A suggestion was that the point limit changes per number of rounds. I have looked and here are the stats for the UK events of 2017 (Thanks to the fact that 79.6% of tournaments used BoT 😊 ).

3 Round Events: 31
4 Round Events: 14
5 Round Events: 4
6 Round Events: 1
7 Round Events: 1

So obviously the Nationals at 7, Scottish GT at 6, English and Welsh GT at 5 leaves 14x 4 round events and 2x 5 round events over and above the three round events. (I don’t know if it helps you, but I feel better about making the proposal with these stats).

So my proposal (and this is completely open for discussion obviously):

3 Round events are based on 100 points for a 28 player tournament winner (as per current calculation).
4 Round events are based on 110 points for a 28 player tournament winner.
5 Round events are based on 120 points for a 28 player tournament winner.
6 Round events are based on 130 points for a 28 player tournament winner.
7 Round events are based on 140 points for a 28 player tournament winner.

I’d also like to propose the idea (If Luke and Stuart agreed to extend the rounds), that the GTs are the only ones that can be ranked for 6 rounds and Nationals 7, to add a bit of prestige to them – not that more is needed. Any other 6 round tournaments (which there wasn’t last year) would get ranked a 5-round tournament.

Thank you to all that use the rankings. Jamie and I cannot wait to show you new exciting features in 2018.

A single day, 4 game, 50SS fixed faction tournament held at Common Ground Games in Stirling on the 25th of November.

At present this is the last tournament counting for the 2017 masters!!! Last chance to grab a few points before it is set in stone!

Time Table
09:30 – 09:45: Check in with TO
09:45 – 11:45: Game 1: Collect the Bounty, Close Deployment
11:45 – 12:15: Lunch / Painting Competition
12:15 – 14:15: Game 2: Extraction, Corner Deployment
14:15 – 14:30: Between Games
14:30 – 16:30: Game 3: Reckoning, Standard Deployment
16:30 – 16:45: Between Games
16:45 – 18:45: Game 4: Headhunter, Flank Deployment
18:45 – 19:00: Prize Ceremony

Pre-Register
You can pre-register @ http://www.bag-o-tools.com/scoresheet/#/eventList

Cost
Payment of £12.50 as a gift to paypal@dolidh.com

Other Things
No painting requirement, Prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, wooden spoon and best in faction. Also wyrd guilder for all players.

Schemes will be drawn slightly earlier than usual (Thursday the 16th), as 7 days before is UK Nationals.

Common Ground Games can be found at: 
Common Ground Games
40 Cowane Street
Stirling
FK8 1JR

On 23/05/2017 at 2:07 PM, OldManMyke said:

Defending champions Team Trump Card have free entry so that means there is one ticket up for grabs (two if they aren't man enough to defend the title  )

Guessing that is 2 overseas tickets Mike?

Ticket bought for 2G1P

A single day, 3 game, 50SS fixed faction tournament held at Common Ground Games in Stirling on the 2nd of September.

Player Pack: http://www.2guys1paintpot.co.uk/malifaux/AutumnsEnd17.pdf

You can pre-register @ http://www.bag-o-tools.com/scoresheet/#/eventList

Payment of £12.50 as a gift to paypal@dolidh.com

Common Ground Games
40 Cowane Street
Stirling
FK8 1JR

Start time: 10:30

Usual prizes etc will be on offer. 

Due to the first train into Stirling being later than start I need to push the times back by 20 mins. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Those going to the meal: They are kind enough to let us eat from this menu: http://www.beefeater.co.uk/…/S…/evening_fixed_pricemenu.html

Please email Lewis (lewphill91@hotmail.co.uk) with your order. (They'd like to be prepared)

I have updated the lists. If you have a team of 1, then something has gone wrong. Can you email me with your expected team mates. Ta.

Updated the lists on the first page - added prizes. If you want to come to the meal, I need to know by Monday 19:00. It is as Beefeater stirling.

Since I have failed to keep up with reveals (due to illness), I have decided to give you these a little early:

Round 1 
Turf War, Standard Deployment
Claim Jump
Frame for Murder
Leave Your Mark
Set Up
Search the Ruins

Round 2
Headhunter, Flank Deployment
Claim Jump
Eliminate The Leadership
Accusation
Leave Your Mark
Last Stand

Round 3
Interference, Close Deployment
Claim Jump
Frame for Murder
Dig Their Graves
Mark for Death
Inspection

Round 4
Extraction, Corner Deployment
Claim Jump
Dig Their Graves
Accusation
Covert Breakthrough
Show of Force

Round 5
Stake a Claim, Close Deployment
Claim Jump
Frame for Murder
Leave your Mark
Tail 'Em
A Quick Murder

Round 6
Collect the Bounty, Flank Deployment
Claim Jump
Eliminate the Leadership
Accusation
Undercover Entourage
Recover Evidence

11 Tickets Left

Second reveal is best in faction. Prizes you get for simply being the best of a particular bunch.

They are:
6x of your factions colour labeled beer. Kindly given to us from brewdog! (A massive thanks to all at brewdog - www.brewdog.com). Ten thunders will be getting one of each colour as you never quite know what their true allegiance is.
1x trophy (will be pictured with the other trophies)

Still to reveal:
The Trophies
Prize pool (mystery boxes and stuff)
The wooden spoon (that isn't wooden, or a spoon)
Spot Prizes

First reveal is Giveaways. Prizes you get for simply being awesome and turning up (You must do both).

They are:
1x 30mm SGT marker
1x Wyrd Guilder
1x Something incredibly Scottish (Last year it was tablet)
1x Raffle Ticket
1x Hello my name is badge
7x SGT Poker Chips

Still to reveal:
The Trophies
Prize pool (mystery boxes and stuff)
Best in Faction Trophies/Prizes
The wooden spoon (that isn't wooden, or a spoon)
Spot Prizes

Teams, lunches, meal & terrain. Please fill this out....
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RTM85GQ

I will be uploading the first pic of prizes today  - the giveaways (if you haven't already seen them on social media)

12 tickets left.

There are now 11 tickets left. This week I will be revealing prizes and sorting out the other lists

Not sure, I'll find out tomorrow for you.

I have updated the list to include Surnames (after a bit of confusion). If you have paid, please check that you are on it. Get in touch if you are not.

5 tickets left!

Update the attendance list. In the next couple of weeks, i'll try and get on top of lunches and meals.

ONLY 8 TICKETS LEFT!!!

Prizes and giveaways for Saturday:

Schemes announced in first post

I updated the attendance so far. This weekend i will upload swag pics and schemes!

I Made this twitter poll (can't make a poll on here unless it's a new thread):
 

Prizes & Giveaways For this weekend!

Hi All: IMPORTANT UPDATE!!

In 3 weeks of this being advertised, we have quickly gone to 53 people coming to Scotland, Late July, for this wonderful event.

As this was capped at 60, that only left 7 places. In my discussions with people at other events and on the internet, I know that there is more than 7 people who intend to go but haven't paid yet. The venue owner (Steve) has agreed to build up another row for us, making me able to push this to 70 spaces :). This accommodates those that I have spoke to, but if you intend to go, please get your place ASAP (only £25 for the weekend, send to paypal@dolidh.com as a gift). This cannot be expanded again :(.

I will start releasing what will be in the prize pool over the coming months. If you are on Facebook or twitter, you will have seen the poker chips (pictured below), that each of you will receive 7 of, to thank you for attending. Also, as posted above, the winner gets a UK Nationals "Golden Ticket"! 

I have updated the meal, lunch and team list (ping me if i missed you, sorry) - this can all be decided closer to the time, and no up-front payment is needed for it. Steve would like me to remind you that with this amount of people, the lunches are limited to the soup and sandwiches offer which is £5 per day (no special toasties during lunch), and that no outside food should be consumed in the venue. Not that those rules matter, because the soup and sandwiches are frikkin awesome.

I am looking forward to seeing you all, it it shaping up to be another great event.