New structure for WK tournaments at big cons

[southpaw13]

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Premiere Event Organizer, Cascade Games to
Administer WizKids Tournaments at Gen Con

Cascade Games www.cascadegames.com, in cooperation with WizKids, Inc., will organize and run WizKids tournaments and gaming events at Gen Con Indy 2007. Cascade Games has years of experience running successful premiere events for high profile game lines in the U.S. and Canada, and will introduce a new level of competitive play at Gen Con Indy for the WizKids gaming community. Cascade Games has been collaborating with WizKids on this project for months and these events will prove to be among the most popular at Gen Con this year. WizKids will be hosting three prerelease tournaments— DC HeroClix: Justice League, Halo ActionClix and Star Wars PocketModel TCG: Ground Assault—as well as MechWarrior storyline events and Solaris VII combat events, the HeroClix World Championship, and a Pirates at Ocean’s Edge “Fleets at War” tournament.
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So what's that mean? We will find out in a week.

[vladdswrath]

It means tournaments will now take 10 hours to complete instead of 4....

;D

[warlord1985]

I do have to say that had to be the longest I've ever waited to play in tournaments at conventions. The tournaments were fun, especially the Haloclix pre-release, but definetly long. A 1 PM tournament that starts at quarter to 3 is not an acceptable start time.

[Zxqueb]

Agreed, the tournament lengths were definitely stupidly long this year. It sucks to wait an hour between each 30 minute game. I didn't have a problem with the start time for Halo, just the delay between rounds (which led to 2 rounds being dropped). I also didn't like the change to "iron man" (20 minute) rounds in the top 8 rounds.

On the other hand, it wasn't just wizkids. UDEs wait times were absurd. WotC seemed to be the only people getting it right.

Z

[warlord1985]

admin said:

On the other hand, it wasn't just wizkids. UDEs wait times were absurd. WotC seemed to be the only people getting it right.

Z

And when WotC is the only one getting it right you know theres a problem.

[vladdswrath]

yup...UDE gets a big smack upside the head with the WTF stick too.....

[moonsammy]

The rounds did take forever, but the HaloClix tournament must have agreed with you at least a little bit, huh Matt? BTW, how much is a Battle Damaged Scarab going for these days...

[Zxqueb]

Honestly.. The battle Damaged Scarab is officially going for "not enough for me to sell it".

So I opened it and read the scenario. All I can say is Wizkids FINALLY did a big battle piece correctly. The rules are super awesome and have the flavor of a video game boss fight. Plus, you know... it's an awesome sculpt.

The idea is that the good guys get 7 dudes (or 9 at "heroic level") at 700 points (or 1000). Scarab has to kill 20 guys (or 30 for Heroic). They have to shoot the scarab, doing minor damage to it while the scarab pwns them. At some point, it'll kneel down so the good guys can jump onto its back and enter the interior where they have to deal with some dudes and shoot the main power core. If they don't get there fast enough, the interior guys can "swarm" and start heading out to take care of the outside guys. If the good guys blow up the core, they win. If the scarab force kills 20 guys, it wins. It looks like it'll be a really fun scenario. I am dying to play it!

Z

[moonsammy]

So, there is an internal map as well as an external map?

[Zxqueb]

yep! The external map takes up two sheets and the internal takes up one. It's massive!

Z

[brinxter]

What was the big announcement anyway?
Or was it that they changed tournament times?