End of Year 2015 Championship CONGRATS KEVINDOLA!

[Dysole]

OHS Invitational End-of-Year Tournament 2015

WINNERS REPORT GAMES HERE!

Spoiler Alert!

     FC       FCPyP       *FC*       FC      *FCPyP*     FCPyP      FC
 
             dok
          1 ──────────┐
                      │           Bengi  
  Bengi             i ├----------──────────┐
  ─────────┐ Bengi    │                    │
  VD     b ├──────────┘                    │
8 ─────────┘                               │          deroche   
  mtl                                    m ├----------─────────┐
5 ─────────┐ deroche                       │                   │
 deroche c ├──────────┐                    │                   │
  ─────────┘          │          deroche   │                   │
  sfrog             j ├----------──────────┘                   │ 
  ─────────┐ sfrog    │                                        ├─────────┐
  MegaS  d ├──────────┘                                        │         │
4 ─────────┘             sfrog              kdola              │         │
                      Lj ────────┐       Ln ─────────┐         │         │
              Cperk              │ Cperk             │         │         │
           Le ────────┐  Cperk   ├─────────┐         ├─────────┘         │
              SSG1    ├──────────┘         │ VD      │                   │
           Lf ────────┘  dok               ├─────────┘                   │
                      Li ────────┐ veg18   │                             │
              veg18              ├─────────┘                             │
           Lg ────────┐  veg18   │                                       │
              w099    ├──────────┘                                       │
           Lh ────────┘                                                  │ 
                                                                         ├────
                         VD                                              │
                      Lb ────────┐ VD                                    │
                                 ├─────────┐                             │
                         dysole  │         │                             │
              mtl     Ll ────────┘         │ veg18                       │
           Lc ────────┐ MegaS              ├─────────┐                   │
              MegaS   ├──────────┐         │         │                   │
           Ld ────────┘          │ MegaS   |         │veg18              │
                         AU      ├─────────┘         ├─────────┐         │
                      Lk ────────┘           Bengi   │         │         │
  kinsth                                 Lm ─────────┘         │         │
3 ─────────┐ kinsth                                            │         │
  CPerk  e ├──────────┐                                        │         │
  ─────────┘          │          kinsth                        ├─────────┘
  AU                k ├----------──────────┐                   │
  ─────────┐ AU       │                    │                   │
  SSG1   f ├──────────┘                    │                   │
6 ─────────┘                               │          kinsth   │
  dysole                                 n ├----------─────────┘
7 ─────────┐ dysole                        │
  veg18  g ├──────────┐                    │
  ─────────┘          │          kdola     │
  w099              l ├----------──────────┘
  ─────────┐ kdola    │
  kdola  h ├──────────┘
2 ─────────┘

• The winners of seasons 17-22 and the winner of the 2014 EoY event will be invited to play in the event.
• The remaining invitations will be given to the highest-ranked players, based on their 2015 ranking at the end of Season 22.
• The tournament will have up to 16 players. We will continue inviting players to play until we have 16 players, up to the 25th position on the 2015 rankings board. If we do not have 16 spots filled by then we will assign first-round byes to the top seeded players.
• Players who have not submitted an army by 11:59 PM Eastern time on November 22nd forfeit their spot in the End-of-Year championship.

Format: Alternating First Crack/First Crack Pick Your Poison

• For this event, each player will bring two 515-point armies. The two armies cannot share any figures. (C3V/SoV eligible, no Marvel. Submitted armies must contain at least 420 points, and cannot take up more than 27 spaces. Standard 24-space startzone restrictions* apply when placing armies. No figure maximum, aside from those space limits.)

Odd Rounds - First Crack

• Before each game, there will be a dice-off, done by the tournament organizers. The winner of the dice-off chooses first army choice or second army choice.
• The winner of the diceoff may not select one of their armies unless they defer selection to their opponent.
• The loser of the diceoff will then choose whether to place his army first or second.

Even Rounds - First Crack Pick Your Poison

• Before each game, there will be a dice-off, done by the tournament organizers. The winner of the dice-off chooses their opponent's army first or second.
• The winner of the diceoff may not select one of their armies unless they defer selection to their opponent.
• The loser of the diceoff will then choose whether to place his army first or second.

* Airborne Elite and Rechets of Bogdan count toward these limits.

Maps:

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Hot Border (Treasure Glyph x2)



If You Can't Take The Heat... (Gerda + Ulaniva)



Sirocco (Wannok + Valda)


Common Ground (Valda, Kelda, TG)


A Stone's Throw (Lodin + Zawit)

Special Placement Rules: Players alternate placing one card's worth of figures from his or her army on any of his or her available starting locations until all figures have been placed.

Desperado (Wannok + Dagmar)



Ticalla Sunrise (Wannok & Ulanvia)

TG Pool:

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Hot Border Pool:
Heroic Rune (Attack +1)
Brooch of Shielding (Disengage)
Gem of Lava Resistance (Lava Resistant)
Giant Hunter Stone (+1 Attack/Defense against Large/Huge)

Common Ground Pool:
Ring of Protection (+3 defense, temporary)
Belt of Giant Strength (+2 melee attack, temporary)
Cloak of Invisibility (No Hit Zones, temporary)
Elixir of Speed (+4 move, temporary)

Trap: Roll one unblockable attack die against every figure standing on or carrying a glyph.

Event Details and Rules (note EoY scheduling rules):

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Power glyphs will be placed, power side up, on maps before the game begins.

Dice-off Equalizer - A check before each game to see the dice off win % for the tournament for each player will be made. If a player has a lower Dice off win % than his opponent, he will automatically win the dice off. Should the win % be tied, a dice off will be performed.

Time Controls

If, at the end of any turn, both of the following conditions are met:

• One player has taken 20 minutes less game time than their opponent according to the app AND
• At least 60 minutes of gameplay time has passed since the timestamp of the first set OMs,

Then the player who has taken less time than their opponent may note the current time gap in the chat window and warn their opponent that they are approaching the timed game finish. After that point, if the time gap between the two players increases by another 10 minutes beyond the noted gap, then the player who has taken less time than their opponent may end the game on time. The game will then go to partial card scoring.

Additionally, if one player has taken 40 minutes less game time than their opponent, the player who has taken less time than their opponent may note the current time gap in the chat window and warn their opponent that they are approaching the slow play forfeit. After that point, if the time gap between the two players increases by another 20 minutes beyond the noted gap, then the player who has taken less time than their opponent may claim a win on time, irrespective of the game situation.
The organizers reserve the right to nullify either of the time controls rules if we find that it is being abused or if we believe the time recorded on the app is incorrect.

Because of the time control rules, it is important to use the app's clocking features correctly.

• Always press the "done" button when your turn is complete.
• If you decide to move to a position where your opponent has the option of a leaving engagement attack or engagement strike, use the appropriate quick message button to tell them to make that roll.
• If you have any out-of-turn movement (scatter, scurry, etc), press "done" when you are done with that movement.
• If you decline an out-of-turn action (e.g. you don't want to attempt a leaving engagement attack on Krug, or you don't want to scatter), press "done" to decline the action.

Stalemate Rule

At the end of any round after the fourth round of the game, a player may activate the stalemate countdown by informing their opponent in the chat window. After that call, if three or more consecutive rounds pass where:

1. There is no attack or attacking power* used against an opponent, and
2. Each player wins initiative at least once,

Then the game is over and the winner is determined by partial card scoring.

Note: If a wound is healed (and/or a destroyed figure is returned to the battlefield) then the attack or power that inflicted the wound (and/or destroyed the figure) does not count for the purposes of avoiding a stalemate.

* "attacking powers" are defined as any special power on an army card or glyph that inflicts wounds, destroys figures, or takes permanent control of figures.

Scheduling

Once the last game of a given round of the bracket is announced, players in that round have one week to complete their game. Please attempt to schedule a time to play your game with your opponent. If the game is not completed, a forfeit or double forfeit may be handed out.

Due to Thanksgiving weekend, two weeks will be given for the first round before forfeits are enforced. We will also give 10 days for rounds that would include December 25th or January 1st if extended that long, and 14 days for a round that would include both if extended that long.

If you cannot come to an agreement with your opponent on a time to schedule the game during that week, or if you cannot reach your opponent after three days, then please post in the tournament thread so that the organizers are aware of the issue.

The tournament organizers reserve the right to manually set the pairings involving players with a history of either failing to schedule their games, or not showing up for scheduled game times. Such players will also not be given the benefit of the doubt should scheduling conflicts arise.

Reporting Game Results (and dropping out)

The winner of the game must use the game result form to report results. (This will be linked once the tournament begins.)

If you do not want to continue in the tournament into the next round, please PM an organizer to let them know.

Etiquette for watching games

• Only the tournament referees (awesomeunleashed, Bengi, dok, Dysole, Filthy, Kinseth, Typhon, Xorlof) are authorized to make binding rulings. If no referee is present in a game, ask before offering your opinion.
• Refer to this thread for the etiquette rules of the Online Heroscape tournaments.

Disputes

The tournament referees are awesomeunleashed, Bengi, dok, Dysole, Filthy the Clown, Kinseth, Typhon2222, and Xorlof. These players may make rulings on in-game disputes (line of sight, figures fitting on a space, dice rolled too soon/too late, etc) in games where they are not playing. If there is a dispute and one of these players is online, they may issue an on-the-spot ruling. If you have a dispute you cannot resolve, and none of the referees are present, you may stop the game and PM the tournament referees for a ruling.

NOTE: if a ruling is made late in the week and there is not enough time to schedule completion of the game, the tournament referees may issue a forfeit loss to the player who was ruled against.

[Kinseth]

I'll be entering... AND WINNING!

[Dysole]

I pulled from one general for my stuff.

~Dysole, who figures it can't be too hard to guess what general based on that

[superfrog]

Is this tournament single elimination?

[dok]

Originally Posted by superfrog

Is this tournament single elimination?

No, we will be using the same format as the last two EoYs. It's double elimination until only 4 people are left (two of them 3-0 and the other two with 1 loss). Then the slates are wiped clean and it's single elimination for those top 4.

Here's last year's bracket for comparison's sake:

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     AD        CtC       *AD*       AD       *CtC*       CtC       AD
   kevd
 1 ────────┐ kevd
   hs2010a ├──────────┐
16 ────────┘          │            kins 
   foudz            i ├----------──────────┐
 9 ────────┐ kins     │                    │
   kins  b ├──────────┘                    │
 8 ────────┘                               │           vegdd
   ixe                                   m ├----------─────────┐
 5 ────────┐ AU                            │                   │
   AU    c ├──────────┐                    │                   │
12 ────────┘          │            vegdd   │                   │
   weebr            j ├----------──────────┘                   │ vegdd
13 ────────┐ vegdd    │                                        ├─────────┐
   vegdd d ├──────────┘                                        │         │
 4 ────────┘             AU                  bengi             │         │
                      Lj ────────┐       Ln ─────────┐         │         │
              vegie              │ vegie             │ bengi   │         │
           Le ────────┐  vegie   ├─────────┐         ├─────────┘         │
              isloth  ├──────────┘         │ vegie   │                   │
           Lf ────────┘  kevd              ├─────────┘                   │
                      Li ────────┐ ssg1    │                             │
              ssg1               ├─────────┘                             │
           Lg ────────┐  ssg1    │                                       │
              dysle   ├──────────┘                                       │
           Lh ────────┘                                                  │ dok
              hs2010                                                     ├────
           La ────────┐  foudz                                           │
              foudz   ├──────────┐ smval                                 │
           Lb ────────┘          ├─────────┐                             │
                         smval   │         │                             │
              ixe     Ll ────────┘         │ megas                       │
           Lc ────────┐  weebr             ├─────────┐                   │
              weebr   ├──────────┐         │         │                   │
           Ld ────────┘          │ megas   │         │ kins              │
                         megas   ├─────────┘         ├─────────┐         │
                      Lk ────────┘           kins    │         │         │
   dok                                   Lm ─────────┘         │         │
 3 ────────┐ dok                                               │         │
   vegie e ├──────────┐                                        │ dok     │
14 ────────┘          │            dok                         ├─────────┘
   isloth           k ├----------──────────┐                   │
11 ────────┐ megas    │                    │                   │
   megas f ├──────────┘                    │                   │
 6 ────────┘                               │           dok     │
   bengi                                 n ├----------─────────┘
 7 ────────┐ bengi                         │
   ssg1  g ├──────────┐                    │
10 ────────┘          │            bengi   │
   smval            l ├----------──────────┘
15 ────────┐ smval    │
   dysle h ├──────────┘
 2 ────────┘

[Chris Perkins]

Sorry for the trouble, but I remember making my armies when this post first came out, but I'm not sure if I ever got around to entering them. Can one of the moderators check if I actually entered the armies? I don't want to miss the deadline on accident.

[Kinseth]

Originally Posted by Chris Perkins

Sorry for the trouble, but I remember making my armies when this post first came out, but I'm not sure if I ever got around to entering them. Can one of the moderators check if I actually entered the armies? I don't want to miss the deadline on accident.

You are in!

[jcustar07]

I'm sorry fellas, but I am going to be unable to participate. My wife and I just had a baby and my schedule is all out of whack. I appreciate the invite, but hopefully somebody else will get a chance to participate.

[Scapebot]

Round 1 is First Crack on If You Can't Take the Heat....

dok (22-5) has a first round bye.

The kevindola (18-8) v. william099 (9-12) pool of armies is:

* Heavy Gruts, Death Chasers of Thesk, Blade Gruts, Marrden Nagrubs, Nerak the Glacian Swog Rider, Swog Rider, Tornak, Wo-Sa-Ga
* Dreadgul Raiders, Roman Legionnaires, Knights of Weston, MacDirk Warriors, Guilty McCreech, Valguard, Finn the Viking Champion, Eldgrim the Viking Champion
* Protectors of Ullar x3, Syvarris, Capt. John Varan
* Microcorp Agents x3, James Murphy, Mika Connour, White Wyrmling

kevindola chooses to pick armies first or second. After armies are picked, william099 chooses who places first.

The Kinseth (18-8) v. Chris Perkins (10-11) pool of armies is:

* Emperor Andask, Blade Gruts x4, Nerak the Glacian Swog Rider, Siege, Kira Jax
* Rygarn, Prince al'Kahora, Red Ants of Aunstrom x4, Sonlen, Marcu Esenwein
* Cyprien Esenwein, Sonya Esenwein, Marro Warriors, Mezzodemon Warmongers x4, Isamu
* Raelin the Kyrie Warrior [RotV], Marro Stingers x5, Kaemon Awa, Otonashi

Kinseth chooses to pick armies first or second. After armies are picked, Chris Perkins chooses who places first.

The MegaSilver (15-10) v. superfrog (7-5) pool of armies is:

* Azurite Warlord, Armoc Vipers x4, B-11 Resistance Corps
* Mok, Axegrinders of Burning Forge x4
* Protectors of Ullar x3, Atlaga the Kyrie Warrior, Raelin the Kyrie Warrior [RotV], Isamu
* Asterios, Havech Eradicators x4, Seleena

MegaSilver chooses to pick armies first or second. After armies are picked, superfrog chooses who places first.

The mtl1998 (15-10) v. deroche (9-9) pool of armies is:

* Capuan Gladiators x3, Spartacus, Van Nessing
* Goblin Cutters x3, Nilfheim, B-11 Resistance Corps, Martial La Hire
* Anubian Wolves x4, Death Knights of Valkrill x2, Khosumet the Darklord, Marcu Esenwein
* Warforged Soldiers x4, Martial La Hire, Siege

deroche chooses to pick armies first or second. After armies are picked, mtl1998 chooses who places first.

The Soundwarp SG-1 (13-10) v. awesomeunleashed (9-6) pool of armies is:

* Minions of Utgar x3, Runa, Elaria the Pale
* Zetacron, Venoc Warlord, Venoc Vipers x6, James Murphy, Marcu Esenwein
* Bramcephys, Syvarris, Kelda the Kyrie Warrior, Raelin the Kyrie Warrior [RotV], Marcu Esenwein
* Sonya Esenwein, Iskra Esenwein, Skeletons of Annellintia x4

awesomeunleashed chooses to pick armies first or second. After armies are picked, Soundwarp SG-1 chooses who places first.

The dysole (12-10) v. vegietarian18 (6-12) pool of armies is:

* Taelord the Kyrie Warrior, Torin, Marro Drudge x4
* Othkurik The Black Dragon, Brunak, Warden 816, Garrett Burns, Ornak
* Marrden Hounds x2, Othkurik The Black Dragon, Kee-Mo-Shi, Mezzodemon Warmongers
* Deepwyrm Drow x2, Sujoah, Wyvern, Estivara

dysole chooses to pick armies first or second. After armies are picked, vegietarian18 chooses who places first.

The vegies dad (11-11) v. bengi (5-8) pool of armies is:

* Marro Gnids x3, Ana Karithon, Mind Flayer Mastermind, Kumiko, Johnny "Shotgun" Sullivan
* Tomb Skeletons x4, Werewolf Lord, Erevan Sunshadow, Shiori, James Murphy
* Goblin Cutters x4, Blue Wyrmling x3, White Wyrmling x2, Black Wyrmling x2, Heirloom
* Dreadgul Raiders x4, Valguard, Guilty McCreech, B-11 Resistance Corps

bengi chooses to pick armies first or second. After armies are picked, vegies dad chooses who places first. Send PMs to vegietarian18 to schedule games with his dad

[vegietarian18]

Undefeated in the playoffs in 2015 and planning to keep it that way. Looking forward to a great season

[Kinseth]

Originally Posted by vegietarian18

Undefeated in the playoffs in 2015 and planning to keep it that way. Looking forward to a great season

Rock on with your bad self!

[mtl1998]

@Deroche and I are starting up now. I have the warforged against a big, mean dragon and small, mean goblins.