AgentRock Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 I'm doing some research for an end of the year wrap-up blog post, and am hoping people can help me out. I'm creating a sort of award show (the Musies) for 2015 awards for factions/masters that did well during the year. I'm thinking of going through who had the best results in tournaments to do this for some of them, but could also do a "most improved faction" in 2015 or something equally off the wall if people are interested. So, to start with, was wondering if people could help me find info on who won the biggest tournaments of the year, namely: Adepticon-Outcasts-Levi and Daw Gencon Avatar of Malifaux-Guild-Sonnia NOVA Open-Guild-Sonnia UK Nationals-Joe Wood-Ressurectionists-Kirai UK Masters-Ant Holt-Ressurectionists Nythera Event-Guild BKFaux-Ressurs Life Free or Die Cheating - Ressurectionists - Weakland Captain Con - Ressurectionists Mali-Fest- Ten Thunders - Adam Talbot Templecon- Guild-Perdita Connecticon - Outcasts - Levi Isle of Faux - Jake Barlow - 10 Thunders - Cow Wars - Mark Ruckuss - Neverborn - Dreamer Haul of Eggs - Mark Ruckuss - Neverborn - Dreamer Scottish GT - Maria Wieland - Outcasts Deliverance - Martin Wodehouse - Arcanists - Collette Play More Games Malifaux - Mark Henderson - Gremlins And, also, what the other MAJOR tournaments of the year in the UK/Europe and US metas might be to include them in the process. Thanks in advance. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valhallan42nd Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 Templecon Captaincon BKFaux 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentRock Posted December 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 36 minutes ago, valhallan42nd said: Templecon Captaincon BKFaux Do you know who won them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valhallan42nd Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 36 minutes ago, AWOL said: Do you know who won them? Sadly, not me. @PeregrineFalconand @Guy in Suit would know. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippodruid Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 Pretty sure the Masters at Adepticon was Leveticus. We'd need @Shadowopal to confirm for sure, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowopal Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 Levi took adepticon Masters against McMorning for the final game. But Joe used Daw as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy in Suit Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 BKFaux was very close, but Ressurs eeked out a win followed by Arcanists. Ressurs was a diverse mix of McMourning, Molly and Tara. Arcanists was mono-Rasputina. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeregrineFalcon Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 Here are all the 'ranked' events that were entered into the system. http://warscore.net/rankings/13/view.html At Live Free or Die Cheating (26 players), Rezzers (Kirai) won (mono-masterd I believe by @Guy in Suit all day) At CaptainCon (30 players) Rezzers won by Blaine Williams (@Aluwin) (can't find his forum name), last round was won with McM (vs Levi), believe Yan Lo (round 1) and Seamus, Kirai in previous rounds At Mali-fest (32 players), 10T won by @lawgivera554 with Lynch (vs Hoffman), Shenlong (vs Sonnia), Misaki (vs Lilith) At Templecon (20 players), Guild won by Jonah Zimmerman with Perdita mono master (only know final round was vs my very own NB Lucius). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy in Suit Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 Blaine played Yan Lo round 1 at Captaincon - I know this because he beat me handily that game!! :-o 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yvarre Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 Connecticon had a Nationals Qualifier with totally awesome prize support from Angry Mojo, Gamer Grass, Widget Wizards, and others, but the turnout ended up being slightly small with around 15 people. It was won by Dean Bils who played Oucasts with Leveticus and possibly Viks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clousseau Posted December 30, 2015 Report Share Posted December 30, 2015 From a UK point of view the definition of 'biggest' could be taken 2 ways (in addition to the Nationals & Masters) - number of players and 'significance'. For the latter I'm thinking of the ones that provided golden tickets for the Nationals (which I think were Isle of Faux, Cow Wars, Deliverance and the Scottish GT - OldManMyke would know), whilst number of players could be 24+ or 32+ dependant on how many events you want to encompass. My Nationals qualifier was Cow Wars 2 (22 players) won by Mark Ruckuss playing Neverborn (fixed faction, but Mark probably used Dreamer throughout) My biggest tournament was Haul of Eggs 3 (30 players) also won by Mark Ruckuss playing Dreamer - Neverborn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aluwin Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 At Captaincon, I played Yan Lo round 1 vs gremlin Zoraida, Molly Round 2 vs perdita, Seamus round 3 vs ironsides, and Mcmourning round 4 vs. Leveticus. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dumb Luck Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 On 30 December 2015 at 9:00 PM, Clousseau said: From a UK point of view the definition of 'biggest' could be taken 2 ways (in addition to the Nationals & Masters) - number of players and 'significance'. For the latter I'm thinking of the ones that provided golden tickets for the Nationals (which I think were Isle of Faux, Cow Wars, Deliverance and the Scottish GT - OldManMyke would know), whilst number of players could be 24+ or 32+ dependant on how many events you want to encompass. My Nationals qualifier was Cow Wars 2 (22 players) won by Mark Ruckuss playing Neverborn (fixed faction, but Mark probably used Dreamer throughout) My biggest tournament was Haul of Eggs 3 (30 players) also won by Mark Ruckuss playing Dreamer - Neverborn Did I get a golden ticket? Can't remember, ha! We had just shy of thirty people at Deliverance and it was won by Martin Wodehouse, who I'm pretty sure mono played Colette. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentRock Posted January 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Thanks for all the replies. Can anybody let me know who got the masters? Then I'll call it good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeregrineFalcon Posted January 2, 2016 Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 6 minutes ago, AWOL said: Thanks for all the replies. Can anybody let me know who got the masters? Then I'll call it good. Can't wait to see the summary. Also curious about # of players at events around the world that you list. Thanks for doing this @AWOL, great work! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adran Posted January 4, 2016 Report Share Posted January 4, 2016 Ant Holt won the UK masters with Ressurectionists. (16 invited players) I think it was mainly Seamus, but wasn't there (and if you were doing the UK golden tickets, Jake Barlow won Isle of Faux with 10 Thunders, 28 players) UK GT was 88 players Scottish GT was Maria Wieland with Outcasts (33 players but over 2 days) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentRock Posted January 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2016 The results, tabulated by hand and probably incorrect, can be found here. 2015 Musie Awards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yvarre Posted January 7, 2016 Report Share Posted January 7, 2016 There's stricter gun control in the UK than US, right? Maybe the guild just can't get enough guns there. More Bullets will keep any corpse down. Cool article. It's interesting how Outcasts stay upper-mid-pack while Guild and Ressurs vie for the top. For some reason I expected Neverborn to win in the UK. I'm pretty excited to see Gremlins in full bloom this year. I've played against some brutal Gremlin lists like heavy peons and a pigapult for Collect the Bounty and such, and they can only get dirtier with all their masters. At least it's harder for those filthy Ressurs to find corpses in the swamp... Thunders shall strike from the shadows this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adran Posted January 7, 2016 Report Share Posted January 7, 2016 Cheers for that, it is an interesting read. One thing it doesn't pick up on, (unsurprisingly) is the sheer number of medium-large events in the UK. I think we probably had over 70 events in the year, and most of them had at least 20 people (largely based by looking at the UK ranking site, and Maria's record, as she probably attended the most events by far - 33 ranking events! and 20 of those were 20+). Neverborn put a strong showing in most events (I think they were 2nd, and 5th in the UKGT). But for example, the top two guild players of 2014 were Joel Henry and Joe Wood, neither of whom played Guild at any of the bigger events this year (to the best of my knowledge). So whilst the factions are interesting to see, there is a large degree of it depending on what faction the top players decide play, rather than the faction (at least in my opinion). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentRock Posted January 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2016 Right, and I expected there would be serious holes this time. Next year, when I can collect data consistently and determine things as it goes along should help. I guess my question re: the guild would be why the UK folks aren't choosing Guild at the top. That's what I'm going to start emailing folks to find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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