Gencon Championship Results (Day -1)

[lonewolf]

I don't have everyone's names from the top 16, but here is a partial list with everyone I know....

1 5-0 Hendal
2 5-0 Kaharma
3 5-0 Spider Posion
4 4-1 Killer Cactus
5 4-1 Matrix Renegade
6 4-1 Gamjuven
7 4-1 Southwest Ninja
8 4-1 Lonewolf
9 4-1 Mattster Truck Rally
10 4-1 Eirikr
11 4-1 Scaper_Dude
12 4-1 (not on forums)
13 4-1 Main Train Choochoo
14 3-2 Brownsfan82
15 3-2 Mecha Frog
16 3-2 Weesel

It shaping up to be a great second day. The people who were 3-2 and made it to the second day did so because they had the highest strength of schedule.

The matchups tomorrow will be 1 vs 16, 2 vs 15, etc 4 rounds single elimination.

Some notables from this group are two family efforts, including Mattster Truck Rally and his brother MainTrainChooChoo, and myself and my son Scaper_Dude!

Good luck to everyone!

[Uprising]

Thanks for the update lonewolf.

[Shades fan]

Agreed, I can't wait to here the stories!:D

[Rifier_Ace]

Thanks a lot for posting the results lonewolf. I appreciate it. +Rep coming, not now since " You must spread reputation before giving it to lonewolf again" but I will as soon as I can.

[Onion Knight]

The tournament was great fun. Lonewolf rolled me in absolutely embarrassing fashion. I have to root for him to win. Good luck guys!

[arp12]

Dang! Kahrma, Codeman, theGuru, and Jormi_Boced all didn't make it to the second day. Spider poison was the only one to out of my fantasy team.

[J-Unit94]

Yay! My fantasy team's beasting!

[lonewolf]

Dang! Kahrma, Codeman, theGuru, and Jormi_Boced all didn't make it to the second day. Spider poison was the only one to out of my fantasy team.

I think Kahrma made it, I just couldn't remember his real name and the DCI output sheets put people's real names. Kahrma finished either 5-0 or 4-1, so he is one of the ?????????

[CheddarLimbo]

Congrats to all the winners!

But...No Rev, or Rychean? :?

[spider_poison]

Dang! Kahrma, Codeman, theGuru, and Jormi_Boced all didn't make it to the second day. Spider poison was the only one to out of my fantasy team.

I think Kahrma made it, I just couldn't remember his real name and the DCI output sheets put people's real names. Kahrma finished either 5-0 or 4-1, so he is one of the ?????????

Greg (Kahrma) is the other 5-0. Here are a few of the armies of people that made it on:

Kahrma

Q9
3X Stingers
2X Rats
Raelin

Matrix Renegade

Finn
Thorgrim
Eldgrim
3X Knights
Krav

Spider

4X Glads
2X Blasts
Raelin

MattserTruckRally

(I think)
5X Mass
New Drake

Lonewolf and Scaper_Dude

4X Stingers
2X Rats
Raelin
Kaemon

Brownsfan82

Nilfheim
Zelrig
Q10


I'm not entirely sure of any other armies, but there are more armies with Stingers in them. Overall, there's a pretty good diversity, but it's mostly in the "good" units out there. I particularly think it's cool that matrixrenegade's knight army made it on.

[Matthias Maccabeus]

Matrix Renegade

Finn
Thorgrim
Eldgrim
3X Knights
Krav

I particularly think it's cool that matrixrenegade's knight army made it on.

GO KNIGHTS!! Of course he made the second day, he's got knights, plus he's 20 points short, unless you forgot the rest of his army.

[arp12]

Well, thats good. Go Karhma and Spider!

[Agent of Vydar]

Gamjuven is the only one I see up there from my fantasy picks. Oh Well.

[Bloody the Marro Stinger]

Oh yeah! Spider Poison is back with a 5-0 record! Go go Spider Poison! :D
Really, though, everyone is doing great. Great jobs, everyone! I'll be eagerly awaiting the results!

[Nadom]

There's sure to be some great battle reports, especially considering the number of great players that both made it and didn't make it into the top 16. Thanks for posting this, lonewolf, and congrats to you and your son!

EDIT: For the sake of my fantasy draft team, here's hoping that the question marks belong to skyknight, Clarissimus, or Jexik (already heard from Revdyer). Either way, go MattserTruckRally!

[lonewolf]

We have a winner....SPIDER POISON.

Congratulations to Spider, he has now won the championship 2 out of 3 years. I lost to Spider in the final match placing me 2nd. The 3-4 match was between Southwest_Ninja and someone not on the forums. SW Ninja finished 3rd.

Great job to everyone running the events and playing in the tournaments, it was a blast!

:)

[lonewolf]

I also updated the first post with all of the names of the top 16, except for the one contestant that isn't on the forums.

[Nadom]

Thanks again, lonewolf, and congratulations spider_poison!

[Bloody the Marro Stinger]

WOOO!
Congratulations, Spider Poison, and good job everyone! You probably did better there than I ever could. Everyone did an excellent job by the looks of it! :D
And thanks Lonewolf for doing so much to keep those that aren't at Gencon informed!

[Matthias Maccabeus]

Congrats Spider Poison (my number 1 fantasy pick) and lonewolf (my number 3 fantasy pick). Anybody know who got fifth place? (Please let it be Kahrma)

[SuperflyTNT]

Were there 128 people to start as shown on the registration or were there no-shows?

Great job keeping the Scapers Community up front yet again!!!

[Rifier_Ace]

Thanks for the info lonewolf, representing AZ!

[spider_poison]

The field was really tough, but the Trons held up for me and I got some luck when I needed it. I'm back from the Con now, and I should have some sort of report up in a little while.

Oh, and I'll be doing lots of Power Rankings modifications and get the rankings for the new units up. It was lots of fun to see some of the new units in action.

I also got to see the most entertaining game I've ever watched...matrixrenegade and Jexik were playing a Heat of the Battle game when it came down to matrix's Parmenio vs. Jexik's Ne-Gok-Sa. Matrix's Parmenio was holding strong and blocking most of Jexik's attacks, and it was looking like Parmenio might be able to pull it off. One 20 later, Parmenio turned sides and Jexik shackled for the win. It pulled a huge reaction from the crowd watching...even to the point where other gamers looked over to see what was happening. It was a pretty awesome game :D

[Velenne]

Congrats Spider! Blast & Glads, it just doesn't get much better.

And if you think that's a good story, you should hear how I won my own "We don't need no stinkin' Gencon" tournament here in DFW. It was designed to somewhat mimic the Marvel Power of One tourney, but we allowed multiple Marvel because we're brave like that. I posted a report HERE (http://heroscapers.com/community/showthread.php?p=649226#post649226).

[Gulp]

Congrats to all the people who made it to day 2, and of course to the champ.

My Army

2x Micro
Cyprien
AE
Isamu
Sonya

Ended up 2-2-1.

A point needing a judge came up involving the AE. After a long game with no AE drop yet, my opponent and I were almost in a stalemate. He was reluctant to move his Minions off height, and I wasn't about to send my Micro Agents up to be minion food. So I just kept trying unsuccessfully to take shots of 2 attack while I waited for each new chance to get the AE to drop in and change the game. Finally it happened. I got the drop. I placed the AE on the map, and before we could set markers a judge said 'game over.' We would be going to points to determine the winner.

220 v 220 with the AE

We had to get a judge to determine whether the AE counted or not since it could be ruled that the game ended between rounds and only the last round counted. The ruling was that as soon as the AE were placed on the map, they were in my army. So I got the extra 110 to get a draw.

I assume that the ruling would technically come down to whether or not I had achieved my Drop roll. Is that correct? What if the round had been called after I made the roll, but before I placed the figures on the map? Splitting hairs here, but is this something you guys think I should submit to the Book of AE?

[hex706f726368]

We have a winner....SPIDER POISON.

Congratulations to Spider, he has now won the championship 2 out of 3 years. I lost to Spider in the final match placing me 2nd. The 3-4 match was between Southwest_Ninja and someone not on the forums. SW Ninja finished 3rd.

Great job to everyone running the events and playing in the tournaments, it was a blast!

:)

3rd last year, 2nd this year...guess everyone might as well skip this event if you go next year. ;)

Congrats on a solid finish! And congrats to spider_poison on reclaiming the championship.

[playa1]

Matrix Renegade

Finn
Thorgrim
Eldgrim
3X Knights
Krav

I particularly think it's cool that matrixrenegade's knight army made it on.

GO KNIGHTS!! Of course he made the second day, he's got knights, plus he's 20 points short, unless you forgot the rest of his army.

Knights were in short supply but it was good to see the variety of some of the armies.

I had probably the wierdest army in all of the championship tournament:

Braxas
Dund
Shades of Bleakewood x2

I had an unimpressive 2-3 record in the championship, but I believe none of my figures were used in other armies. There may have been another Braxas, but honestly I don't recall there being any. There were certainly no Dunds and no other shades. So ultimately I believe having two wins with Dund should count double! They should at least count more than the stingers!

There were more stingers than you could actually count! Surprisingly few Gladiatrons and Blastatrons; only a modicum of Q9's and about as many Q10s. There were a good handful of Nilfheims and Zelrigs and the 10th regiment was a pretty common sight. There were only a couple of 4th mass armies that I could recall seing. Also:

Old Raelin (at least 90% of all the championship armies) vs. New Raelin ( nil )
Cyprien was in at least 40% vs. Iskra/Retchets ( nil )
A few armies included Minions vs. No Sentinels that I can recall
Krug and Charos were in only a few armies
There were a few grut archers, but otherwise a strange absence of orcs.
No Zombies
No Marro Drudges
No Hive armies
No wolves of Badru
No Anubian wolves
No Darklord
But, there were plenty of Rats!

[Shades fan]

Matrix Renegade

Finn
Thorgrim
Eldgrim
3X Knights
Krav

I particularly think it's cool that matrixrenegade's knight army made it on.

GO KNIGHTS!! Of course he made the second day, he's got knights, plus he's 20 points short, unless you forgot the rest of his army.

Knights were in short supply but it was good to see the variety of some of the armies.

I had probably the wierdest army in all of the championship tournament:

Braxas
Dund
Shades of Bleakewood x2

I had an unimpressive 2-3 record in the championship, but I believe none of my figures were used in other armies. There may have been another Braxas, but honestly I don't recall there being any. There were certainly no Dunds and no other shades. So ultimately I believe having two wins with Dund should count double! They should at least count more than the stingers!

There were more stingers than you could actually count! Surprisingly few Gladiatrons and Blastatrons; only a modicum of Q9's and about as many Q10s. There were a good handful of Nilfheims and Zelrigs and the 10th regiment was a pretty common sight. There were only a couple of 4th mass armies that I could recall seing. Also:

Old Raelin (at least 90% of all the championship armies) vs. New Raelin ( nil )
Cyprien was in at least 40% vs. Iskra/Retchets ( nil )
A few armies included Minions vs. No Sentinels that I can recall
Krug and Charos were in only a few armies
There were a few grut archers, but otherwise a strange absence of orcs.
No Zombies
No Marro Drudges
No Hive armies
No wolves of Badru
No Anubian wolves
No Darklord
But, there were plenty of Rats!
Weirdest, I think not!

Try best army their is!:D

[southwest ninja]

spider poison........What can I say. Every single match that I sat down to I looked across the table and said man am I screwed. Somehow at the end of the battles though I had pulled out a crazy upset.(except for Hendal who for reasons will be explained later.....)I sit down across from spider poison see some glads/blasts and go WOW, I might actually be able to win this match. NOPE! bad bad bad bad bad dice.(spider poison might have had something to do with it too;) ) Not once did I win initiave, two straight turns in a row Q9 could not kill one single Gladatron..... Even if the dice were with me I still would have lost though, He was just that damn good. I did not see one tactical error on his part. Im just happy That I was able to win the next match I played and take 3rd to score the wonderful dice tower and custom dice included in the prizes.. They are absolutely gorgous! well maybe next year...........

[boom]

Man, I love hearing about these games. Keep it coming and congrats to all the players.

[Taeblewalker]

It was a fn romp. I managed to win one game, which is better than none. I guess. :?

Anyway, I never saw so many 10th regiment, stingers and rats in my life.

[Soul Shackle]

My fantasy team got pwned. You guys need to step your game up pronto!

(Like any of them know or care who I'm talking to. :p)

[Hendal]

I had 7 stingers, raelin, and Marcu - oh yea and a amazing great time. WOW was it super cool, well run, and filled with way cool people. Gotta go back next year now that I have the lay of the land.

[killercactus]

Matrix Renegade

Finn
Thorgrim
Eldgrim
3X Knights
Krav

I particularly think it's cool that matrixrenegade's knight army made it on.

GO KNIGHTS!! Of course he made the second day, he's got knights, plus he's 20 points short, unless you forgot the rest of his army.

Knights were in short supply but it was good to see the variety of some of the armies.

I had probably the wierdest army in all of the championship tournament:

Braxas
Dund
Shades of Bleakewood x2

I had an unimpressive 2-3 record in the championship, but I believe none of my figures were used in other armies. There may have been another Braxas, but honestly I don't recall there being any. There were certainly no Dunds and no other shades. So ultimately I believe having two wins with Dund should count double! They should at least count more than the stingers!

There were more stingers than you could actually count! Surprisingly few Gladiatrons and Blastatrons; only a modicum of Q9's and about as many Q10s. There were a good handful of Nilfheims and Zelrigs and the 10th regiment was a pretty common sight. There were only a couple of 4th mass armies that I could recall seing. Also:

Old Raelin (at least 90% of all the championship armies) vs. New Raelin ( nil )
Cyprien was in at least 40% vs. Iskra/Retchets ( nil )
A few armies included Minions vs. No Sentinels that I can recall
Krug and Charos were in only a few armies
There were a few grut archers, but otherwise a strange absence of orcs.
No Zombies
No Marro Drudges
No Hive armies
No wolves of Badru
No Anubian wolves
No Darklord
But, there were plenty of Rats!

I'll chime in that Mechabeast played Zombies, and I think played them very well. I believe he went 3-2 or 2-3, but all of his losses were from time and he always had a horde of zombies marching towards a couple of units, which usually means a zombie win. They're just so slow and they move a lot of figures, so he couldn't finish the matches in time.

I played a Rat + Heavy Hitter army and finished somewhere in the top 8. I'll post my battle report in a couple minutes. I had a blast the whole time though!

[gamjuven]

I had stingers x4, Cyprien, Sonya, Raelin and eventually finished in the top 5-8. It was a ton of fun and I can't wait to do it again next year.

Congrats to all who played and a word to all of you other people who couldn't make it: Come!

Spider_Poison's win really boosts Heroscape's greatness as a game I think. If the same person can win at gencon multiple times it shows that the game is more about army building and strategy rather than just lucky dice rolling. Just look at the top players from year to year, they are more or less the same. That's awesome for a game to have. And what'd even more beautiful is that the winning army that spider used isn't the be-all end-all army. It has its weaknesses, and if spider would have played against armies like the 4th mass it could have been different, but we'll never know. Congrats again!

I love this game.

[southwest ninja]

Matrix Renegade

Finn
Thorgrim
Eldgrim
3X Knights
Krav

I particularly think it's cool that matrixrenegade's knight army made it on.

GO KNIGHTS!! Of course he made the second day, he's got knights, plus he's 20 points short, unless you forgot the rest of his army.

Knights were in short supply but it was good to see the variety of some of the armies.

I had probably the wierdest army in all of the championship tournament:

Braxas
Dund
Shades of Bleakewood x2

I had an unimpressive 2-3 record in the championship, but I believe none of my figures were used in other armies. There may have been another Braxas, but honestly I don't recall there being any. There were certainly no Dunds and no other shades. So ultimately I believe having two wins with Dund should count double! They should at least count more than the stingers!

There were more stingers than you could actually count! Surprisingly few Gladiatrons and Blastatrons; only a modicum of Q9's and about as many Q10s. There were a good handful of Nilfheims and Zelrigs and the 10th regiment was a pretty common sight. There were only a couple of 4th mass armies that I could recall seing. Also:

Old Raelin (at least 90% of all the championship armies) vs. New Raelin ( nil )
Cyprien was in at least 40% vs. Iskra/Retchets ( nil )
A few armies included Minions vs. No Sentinels that I can recall
Krug and Charos were in only a few armies
There were a few grut archers, but otherwise a strange absence of orcs.
No Zombies
No Marro Drudges
No Hive armies
No wolves of Badru
No Anubian wolves
No Darklord
But, there were plenty of Rats!

I'll chime in that Mechabeast played Zombies, and I think played them very well. I believe he went 3-2 or 2-3, but all of his losses were from time and he always had a horde of zombies marching towards a couple of units, which usually means a zombie win. They're just so slow and they move a lot of figures, so he couldn't finish the matches in time.

I played a Rat + Heavy Hitter army and finished somewhere in the top 8. I'll post my battle report in a couple minutes. I had a blast the whole time though!


Yes he did. I only made it as far as I did because I was able to kill 2 zombies in the last round. had time not been a factor his horde would have swarmed my army

[markwars]

The DFW crew was non-existent I see. :(

[southwest ninja]

I was looking at the dice tower I won and I noticed it said 2nd place on it...... I wonder if they were set out wrong. lonewolf, spyder poison, do either of yours have a 1st/3rd place listed on the front plate?

[lonewolf]

I was looking at the dice tower I won and I noticed it said 2nd place on it...... I wonder if they were set out wrong. lonewolf, spyder poison, do either of yours have a 1st/3rd place listed on the front plate?

Spider's says 3rd place and mine says 1st place. I don't think any of us saw that on the front of the towers, especially those who set up the prize table.

[Onion Knight]

;)Well in that case, congratulations Lonewolf. I knew you'd win it!;)


*edit*
;) to Bloody

[Bloody the Marro Stinger]

If you're joking, I think a smiley would be better to make that apparent, but hey, I'm cool either way.
If you're not joking (and I doubt it, but just to make it clear), I think it was a mistake. Spider won, but nobody looked at the places on the dice Towers, so he got the one intended for third. I do think he has the correct trophy, though.

[playa1]

Matrix Renegade

Finn
Thorgrim
Eldgrim
3X Knights
Krav

I particularly think it's cool that matrixrenegade's knight army made it on.

GO KNIGHTS!! Of course he made the second day, he's got knights, plus he's 20 points short, unless you forgot the rest of his army.

Knights were in short supply but it was good to see the variety of some of the armies.

I had probably the wierdest army in all of the championship tournament:

Braxas
Dund
Shades of Bleakewood x2

I had an unimpressive 2-3 record in the championship, but I believe none of my figures were used in other armies. There may have been another Braxas, but honestly I don't recall there being any. There were certainly no Dunds and no other shades. So ultimately I believe having two wins with Dund should count double! They should at least count more than the stingers!

There were more stingers than you could actually count! Surprisingly few Gladiatrons and Blastatrons; only a modicum of Q9's and about as many Q10s. There were a good handful of Nilfheims and Zelrigs and the 10th regiment was a pretty common sight. There were only a couple of 4th mass armies that I could recall seing. Also:

Old Raelin (at least 90% of all the championship armies) vs. New Raelin ( nil )
Cyprien was in at least 40% vs. Iskra/Retchets ( nil )
A few armies included Minions vs. No Sentinels that I can recall
Krug and Charos were in only a few armies
There were a few grut archers, but otherwise a strange absence of orcs.
No Zombies
No Marro Drudges
No Hive armies
No wolves of Badru
No Anubian wolves
No Darklord
But, there were plenty of Rats!

I'll chime in that Mechabeast played Zombies, and I think played them very well. I believe he went 3-2 or 2-3, but all of his losses were from time and he always had a horde of zombies marching towards a couple of units, which usually means a zombie win. They're just so slow and they move a lot of figures, so he couldn't finish the matches in time.

I played a Rat + Heavy Hitter army and finished somewhere in the top 8. I'll post my battle report in a couple minutes. I had a blast the whole time though!


Yes he did. I only made it as far as I did because I was able to kill 2 zombies in the last round. had time not been a factor his horde would have swarmed my army

I stand corrected. Wish I would have seen the zombies in action -- with nearly 80 players there was so many great games to watch (after getting stomped by my opponents :oops:)

[lonewolf]

I got a copy of the Day-1 results sheet and compiled the information along with the brackets from Day 2 into one spreadsheet. It has everyones records and opponent win percent. I put the online screen names for everyone that I knew. If I didn't know the online name, I just put initials to protect privacy.

HERE
(http://www.mcmclive.com/hs/2008_Main_Event_Results.xls)

[Rÿchean]

Thanks for putting that together, lonewolf.

The DFW crew was non-existent I see.


Uhm.....You are referring specifically to Ninthdoc and I; there were no others in the event. Sorry we let you and the entire state of Texas down !!! :-P

[Velenne]

Round here we got ways of dealin with yella-bellied, good fer nuthins like you boys. Mark, get the rope...and the butter..and the tongs...no, the big ones...

[Rÿchean]

Whatevers! just be at NHSD so I can administer multiple beatings to you ungrateful slugs.