Online Con 2020- THANKS FOR PLAYING!

[vegietarian18]

ONLINE CON DISCORD

REGISTER FOR VC BRING 2 (FRIDAY 11AM)

REGISTER FOR GENERAL WARS (FRIDAY 4PM)

REGISTER FOR CHAMPIONSHIP (SATURDAY 11AM)

REGISTER FOR HEROES ONLY (SATURDAY 6PM)

REGISTER FOR RAINBOW WAR (SUNDAY 12PM)

Gencon is a decade plus tradition of getting Heroscapers together for a weekend of skull-rolling, and we don't want that to end because of a year of quarantine. So, we are excited to announce Online Con 2020. Join us as we bring the fun of Heroscape tournaments to your home.

Dates: Friday July 31- Sunday August 2. All events will happen optimized for Indianapolis time (USA Eastern).

Venue: Discord Server. There will be one centralized discord voice chatroom where round pairings and general tournament news will be announced, and then players will break out into individual discord rooms to play their games. Games will be played over the Online Heroscape Google Drawings interface, which you can learn more about here. Really, it will be a lot simpler than this makes it out to be: there will be one centralized place where you will pick up all of the figures in your army, and all of the boards will be created for you and you'll just have to follow a link.

Time Limits: All games will have hour round time limits as is the tournament standard, with the exception of Day 2 which will be untimed.

Events:

Spoiler Alert!

June 27

Prep Event- 4x400
11am Eastern. Bring 4 400 point armies. 18 figure limit. No figures repeated between armies. You will play one army per round, each army once in your 4 games. Classic Heroscape only: no Marvel, no Customs. 4 rounds guaranteed. Playoffs as necessary to determine champion will have each player to ban one of their opponents 4 armies and then each player will draft from their remaining 3.

RESULTS
1st: vegietarian18
2nd: dok

July 27-July 30

Pod Draft
9pm Eastern, one game per day on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night. Bring 2 "pods" between 225 and 325 points. 12 hex limit per pod. No figures repeated between armies. Classic Heroscape only: no Marvel, no Customs. At the start of each game, roll the 20-sided die. The player who wins the diceoff may chooose to choose first or defer. The player who picks first chooses a pod from the two they brought or the two their opponent brought. Then, the player who picks second selects two of the remaining three pods, and the final pod goes to the player who picked first. 4 rounds guaranteed, playoffs as necessary. We highly encourage all players to be available for the 9pm Eastern set start time, but if rescheduling is needed and your opponent is willing to accommodate we'll allow for alternate times as long as the game is completed before the start of the next round.

RESULTS:
1st: dok
2nd: kevindola

July 31

VC Bring 2
11am Eastern. Bring 2 450 point armies. 18 figure limit for each army. Classic Heroscape with customs approved by VC allowed. No figures repeated between armies. No Marvel. At the start of each game, roll the 20-sided die. The player who won the diceoff may choose to pick first or defer. The player who picks first selects one army from either their own two or their opponent's two. The player who picks second chooses from the remaining three. 4 games guaranteed, playoffs as necessary.

RESULTS
1st: superfrog
2nd: Tiamat

General Wars
4pm Eastern. Bring a 500 point army where all cards are from the same Valkyrie General. Your army may not contain more than 200 points of the same common figure. 18 figure limit. Classic Heroscape only: no Marvel, no Customs. 4 games guaranteed, playoffs as necessary.

1st: vegietarian18
2nd: vegie dad

August 1

Online Con Championship
11am Eastern. Bring a 430 point army. 18 figure limit. Classic Heroscape only: no Marvel, no Customs. The format is alternating Reverse the Whip: Round 1 you will play your own army against your opponents', Round 2 you will play your opponents' army against your own, Round 3 you will play your own army again, etc. 5 OR 6 rounds (explained below in spoiler for those interested). Top 16 players will qualify for a single elimination Day 2.

Spoiler Alert!

Day 1 will be either 5 or 6 rounds, depending on the number of players that sign up. We'll let you know at the start of the event which it will be. Our reasoning behind having a flexible number of rounds is it's hard to anticipate how many people will participate here, and we want to have a flexible number of rounds so we can create the fairest structure to determine the 16 players for Day 2. Regardless, we don't feel this unknown should impact your army building: you'll need to win games both with and against your army on Day 1 and Day 2 to win the event.

Heroes Only
6pm Eastern. Bring a 600 point army. 18 figure limit. Classic Heroscape only: no Marvel, no Customs. Your army may only contain Unique Heroes, Uncommon Heroes, and Common Heroes.

August 2

Online Con Championship Day 2
11am Eastern. Players qualifying for Day 2 will participate in a single elimination bracket, using the same Alternating Reverse the Whip format and same armies they used on the previous day.

Rainbow War
12pm Eastern. Bring a 550 point army. 18 figure limit. Classic Heroscape only: no Marvel, no Customs. Your army must contain at least 60 points from 5 different Valkyrie generals.

Prize Dice: Given to the winner of each event and the top 4 for the championship.

Maps:

Spoiler Alert!

This will be the map pool for all Online Con events. All games in a round of any given event will happen on the same map. No map will be used twice in any event (Day 1 and Day 2 of Online Con Championship count as separate events).

Platypus by Robber

Bad Moon Rising by mad_wookie

Drudgery by Flash_19

Raknar's Rift by Rÿchean

Draugur by mad_wookie

Caldera by Typhon2222

Highways and Dieways Swarm Edition by UranusPChicago and Rÿchean

Fire Isles by yagyuninja

Glyphs: Kelda, Dagmar, Ulvania, Wannok, Lodin, Valda

 

[Cleon]

Re: Online Con 2020

Siiiiiiiiiick

 

[Muskie]

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AWESOME!! I am booking the dates, sitting in my camper with good internet!!!

 

[Chris Perkins]

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This is amazing. A huge thank you to Vegie & anyone else involved in the organization process.

I will be participating in as many events as possible (one per time slot).

 

[Evantage]

Re: Online Con 2020

Yes, big thank you to Vegie and the others helping. I can probably get more of my friends to play in this than I could have fit in my car for Gencon. Very happy the Heroscape in early August tradition will continue this year even without the ‘con

 

[Taeblewalker]

Re: Online Con 2020

Sign me up!

 

[caps]

Re: Online Con 2020

This is right around when lil' caps #3 is due but I'm foolishly optimistic that I'll be able to participate.


EDIT: I presume there will be a front page announcement?

 

[Dysole]

I suspect we'll probably get an announcement to the front page, but I don't know exactly what and when. I do know that we are shooting to have registration available within roughly 2 weeks.

~Dysole, answering to the best of her ability

 

[vegietarian18]

Re: Online Con 2020

The events and maps are out!

Each event has a registration form, but that registration purely exists to collect expected attendance. You will not submit your armies yet. There will be an official army registration form for each event that launches around two weeks before its start date. So that means that army registration for the June 27th Prep Event will open next weekend.

EVENTS:

Spoiler Alert!

June 27

Prep Event- 4x400
11am Eastern. Bring 4 400 point armies. 18 figure limit. No figures repeated between armies. You will play one army per round, each army once in your 4 games. Classic Heroscape only: no Marvel, no Customs. 4 rounds guaranteed. Playoffs as necessary to determine champion will have each player to ban one of their opponents 4 armies and then each player will draft from their remaining 3.

July 27-July 30

Pod Draft
9pm Eastern, one game per day on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night. Bring 2 "pods" between 225 and 325 points. 12 hex limit per pod. No figures repeated between armies. Classic Heroscape only: no Marvel, no Customs. At the start of each game, roll the 20-sided die. The player who wins the diceoff may chooose to choose first or defer. The player who picks first chooses a pod from the two he brought or the two his opponent brought. Then, the player who picks second selects two of the remaining three pods, and the final pod goes to the player who picked first. 4 rounds guaranteed, playoffs as necessary. We highly encourage all players to be available for the 9pm Eastern set start time, but if rescheduling is needed and your opponent is willing to accommodate we'll allow for alternate times as long as the game is completed before the start of the next round.

July 31

VC Bring 2
11am Eastern. Bring 2 450 point armies. 18 figure limit for each army. Classic Heroscape with customs approved by VC allowed. No figures repeated between armies. No Marvel. At the start of each game, roll the 20-sided die. The player who won the diceoff may choose to pick first or defer. The player who picks first selects one army from either his own two or his opponent's two. The player who picks second chooses from the remaining three. 4 games guaranteed, playoffs as necessary.

General Wars
4pm Eastern. Bring a 500 point army where all cards are from the same Valkyrie General. Your army may not contain more than 200 points of the same common figure. 18 figure limit. Classic Heroscape only: no Marvel, no Customs. 4 games guaranteed, playoffs as necessary.

August 1

Online Con Championship
11am Eastern. Bring a 430 point army. 18 figure limit. Classic Heroscape only: no Marvel, no Customs. The format is alternating Reverse the Whip: Round 1 you will play your own army against your opponents', Round 2 you will play your opponents' army against your own, Round 3 you will play your own army again, etc. 5 OR 6 rounds (explained below in spoiler for those interested). Top 16 players will qualify for a single elimination Day 2.

Spoiler Alert!

Day 1 will be either 5 or 6 rounds, depending on the number of players that sign up. We'll let you know at the start of the event which it will be. Our reasoning behind having a flexible number of rounds is it's hard to anticipate how many people will participate here, and we want to have a flexible number of rounds so we can create the fairest structure to determine the 16 players for Day 2. Regardless, we don't feel this unknown should impact your army building: you'll need to win games both with and against your army on Day 1 and Day 2 to win the event.

Heroes Only
6pm Eastern. Bring a 600 point army. 18 figure limit. Classic Heroscape only: no Marvel, no Customs. Your army may only contain Unique Heroes, Uncommon Heroes, and Common Heroes.

August 2

Online Con Championship Day 2
11am Eastern. Players qualifying for Day 2 will participate in a single elimination bracket, using the same Alternating Reverse the Whip format and same armies they used on the previous day.

Rainbow War
12pm Eastern. Bring a 550 point army. 18 figure limit. Classic Heroscape only: no Marvel, no Customs. Your army must contain at least 60 points from 5 different Valkyrie generals.

MAPS:

Spoiler Alert!

This will be the map pool for all Online Con events. All games in a round of any given event will happen on the same map. No map will be used twice in any event (Day 1 and Day 2 of Online Con Championship count as separate events).

Platypus by Robber

Bad Moon Rising by mad_wookie

Drudgery by Flash_19

Raknar's Rift by Rÿchean

Draugur by mad_wookie

Caldera by Typhon2222

Highways and Dieways Swarm Edition by UranusPChicago and Rÿchean

Fire Isles by yagyuninja

Glyphs: Kelda, Dagmar, Ulvania, Wannok, Lodin, Valda

A discord link will be sent to you over email if you register, and will also be posted in this thread. At the moment you do not need a Discord account. Discord is very easy to register and allows you to use the application as a guest. In past online events over Discord, there has been some confusion around Heroscape usernames vs. Discord Username so we'll set some guidelines for that to make things run smoothly.

At the moment we're just excited to get this list of events out to you guys as we're already under two months away from July 31 weekend. Thanks for your patience here and we hope to see many of you playing!

 

[Muskie]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

Awesome!!!!

 

[Cleon]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

A few questions:

-I assume 4x400 you can’t repeat the same unit in multiple armies?

-When’s the exact cut off for VC legality? In case there are figures released between now and then. I also know that shadow faction and tree faction are out but they don’t have books yet.

-So the map pool will be different for each event, probably randomly selected out of the 8 and in a random order. Will we know the maps and order for an event before hand, or will it be revealed as the event starts?

-Will the glyphs on Draugur be power, and not treasure?

Sweet events, it all looks great. Maps are great. I really like Rainbow War, and the new spin on General Wars. VC event is nice. I think I’m going to sign up and try to attend everything.

 

[Dysole]

Quick answers

1. Yes. I'll make that explicit.

2. If it follows how we've done it for past seasons, probably gonna be anything that's been released up to the day we launch (SoV doesn't count until it's been finalized)

3. I know for previous events we've generated the map order as soon as the event started and put all that information in the OP. We haven't finalized exactly how we will do this at this time.

4. We've used both in the past, but for this I suspect it will be power glyphs.

I will definitely update once we finalize the exact logistics for map revelation.

~Dysole, informationally

 

[Chris Perkins]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

This looks awesome; I plan to play each event (have a potential timing issue with 4x400 but I think I can resolve it, available otherwise).

Thanks again to all the organizers for putting this together.

 

[lefton4ya]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

Awesome! Gign me up. I have two suggestions

Can you move the Friday July 31 events two hours later so they start at 1pm and 6pm EST? This allows people to take only 1/2 day off and participate in both events, or if you work till 5pm CST/EST still be able to attend the evening event, and MST/PST only have to leave an hour or two early.

Also can the Pod Draft be a "Flex Tourney" where you do not have to play all events. I think @Hendal won last year just playing in all games and only winning a couple, but this prevents people who can maybe only do a couple days from feeling bad if hey don't do every day instead of taking an L.

 

[Cuzmo_of_Gilead]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

I am a fairly new competitive player, I have had the game since 2007, but never played competitively during that time. I found my old figures and other pieces and started really getting back into it over the past month or so. I am really looking forward to competing in some of the online Gen Con 2020 events, but when I go to the Home tab while signed in it says I have been permanently banned. I wonder if this just because I created the account in 2007, never posted, and then totally forgot about it until recently. I would not want it to interfere with trying to sign up for any tournaments. Sorry if this is in the wrong location, but I just was looking for some feedback. Thanks!

 

[Muskie]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

I would love to see the 4x400 be VC. I think it has become the same 4 armies brought to each. They addressed it on the podcast as well. Same set of four armies every time. VC would really change the dynamic (if only for this year). I know that it will be back to classic at Gencon for 2021. Just a fun twist on one of the tournaments! It would be cool to see the 4th mass build face off against the microcorp troopers!

 

[BiggaBullfrog]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

This looks awesome! Not sure how much I'll be able to play myself (I really want to, it's just making sure I can commit the time). Couple of questions:

For Caldera, will the version used be the current one in the Maps folder for OHS or the one in the image/download (which I think is the most recent version)?

Would it be possible to get the event/map details edited into the OP so that I don't have to tell friends to scroll all the way down when I share it with them?

 

[superfrog]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

We will use the most recent versions of all maps. Caldera will be updated, Platypus will be fixed on level 0, Draugur will use the hive-accomodation version, Drudgery and Raknar's Rift will both be created.

 

[Chris Perkins]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

I have a question about "Rainbow War" - do you have to have >= 60 points from each general in the placed army, or just in your pre-placement army?

What I'm imagining is being over the 18 figure limit with the full army and then in some matchups choosing to sit a portion of the army that removes one or two generals from having 60 points in play. Is that allowed?

 

[vegietarian18]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

Yes, the sat figures are still in your submitted army. So Isamu + MBS with a sat Isamu still counts as 60 points of Utgar.

 

[Dysole]

Up and Running

Armies can now be submitted for the prep event.

~Dysole, informationally

 

[lefton4ya]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

Posted on BGG and Reddit to get some more eyes on that don't follow Heroscapers.

 

[Muskie]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

What are the glyphs for the maps? I cannot find any info.

 

[superfrog]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

I don't know if we've chosen glyphs yet but a good bet would be last year's GenCon glyphs.

On the maps front, I've created Raknar's Rift and Caldera for online play if you're looking to practice

 

[vegietarian18]

Re: Online Con 2020- EVENTS AND MAPS ANNOUNCED

The glyphs are in the OP and the maps announcement post. Just the standard Kelda Wannok Dagmar Ulvania Lodin Valda pool.