Thursday 19 June 2014

40k Team Tournament

In November, the UK 40k team tournament is going ahead at Sanctuary Games in Sutton-in-Ashfield (near Mansfield, Notts). After throwing out a request for players to join a team, I'm delighted to say we had nearly a dozen requests! This of course means they'll be three teams coming from the blogosphere.
 
The first team will be led by Alex ‘From the Fang’ Brown, who runs the most excellent Blog Wars tournament twice annually. His team will consist of gamers from the northern stronghold of Sheffield and the surrounding areas.
 
The other two teams consist of gamers predominantly from the Nottingham area, most of whom are regulars at the First Company Veterans 40k club night at Warhammer World. After having analysed which armies each player can bring, I have rationalised the seven interested players into the following two teams:
 
‘Team Claws & Fists’
 
Graham (me!) – Astra Militarum / Tyranids / Eldar
Young Josh – Daemons
Andy ‘Fudal’ Lane – Space Marines / Tyranids
Darren ‘The Baron’ Grainger – Orks / ???
 
‘Team Blood Claw’
 
John ‘Blood Claw’ Holland – Space Marines / Astra Militarum
Daryl Dudey – Eldar / Daemons / Orks
Al Shrive – Tau / Daemons / Tyranids
??? (Tom?)
 
Just a few words about the rationale between the selection of players for the two teams. Firstly, I have tried to include at least one ‘top tournament’ level player in each team; that is, John Holland in Team Blood Claw, and Andy / Darren in Team Claws & Fists. Secondly, I tried to make sure that there was as little crossover as possible in terms of playable armies for each team – eg, both John and I use Astra Militarum as one of our ‘main’ armies, so it would be unwise for us to both be in a team together as we couldn’t both use our preferred army.
 
Anyway, that is the plan as it stands at the moment!
 
The next step is for each team to procure their team ticket. Tickets should be available from this weekend, via the Facebook group set up by Sanctuary Games. Tickets are £80 / £90 per team (ie £20-£23 per player). I will buy the ticket for Team Claws & Fists. John – are you able to coordinate with your team and arrange to get your team’s ticket?
 
Once we have tickets, the next step will be for each team to begin the process of deciding which armies to each take, list-building and match-up analysis (I’m looking forward to that part!).
 
John / Daryl / Al – I am quite happy to leave the organisation of your team completely to you! Basically please treat your team as completely your own thing. I hope that will be ok for you guys?  

7 comments:

  1. Team "From the Fang" is actually a north/south combo with Frank and Rob from down south.

    There's a fifth player in the form of Gary Hoptroff who's interested too. Maybe for team Blood Claw?

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    1. Gary is more than welcome.

      Graham is you can lead me to Daryl and Al on facebook and we can take it from there.

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  2. Hi Gary here, I'm up for the tournament -

    I have, GKs, Necrons, SMs, Demons & Chaos Marines.

    I'd prefer to play chaos of some description bore of marines, screw this goodie goodie stuff! :-)

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  4. Hi Gary, good to hear that you are interested too!

    @ John - Gary is interested on joining your team. I'll leave it to you to make contact and sort out details for your team!

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  5. UPDATE: team ticket bought for Team Claws & Fists. It's really happenin', guys!

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