Thursday, 22 March 2012

Equinox Tournament WFB Results

Brilliant weekend and really proud to have hosted all the fine wargamers that made this the biggest tournament by far I've been involved in hosting. Although we have a big base of wargamers in Auckland the great response from the community all around the country made this tournament the big success that it was. A big thank you goes out to those of you who flew or travelled those extra miles to making the great atmosphere that a big tournament makes. So without further delay here is the results.


Name
Army
Paint
Total
Tie Break
Adj Battle
Total Overall
1
Pete Dunn
Ogr
15
87
76.125
91.125
2
Ross Hiller- Jones
WoC
14
81
70.875
84.875
3
Tim Joss
TK
15
77
67.375
82.375
4
Rob Sadler
Emp
15
76
0.1
66.5
81.6
5
Peter Williamson
TK
15
76
66.5
81.5
6
Raymond Dick
Beasts
15
75
0.1
65.625
80.725
7
Dan Butler
Skaven
15
75
65.625
80.625
8
James Page
DE
15
73
63.875
78.875
9
John Mathews
Emp
15
72
63
78
10
Al Raynor
WoC
15
71
62.125
77.125
11
John Willenbruch
Brets
14
72
63
77
12
Thom V
Dwf
15
68
0.1
59.5
74.6
13
Reid Pittams
DE
15
68
59.5
74.5
14
Henry Poor
WE
14
69
60.375
74.375
15
Kyran Henry
Emp
15
67
58.625
73.625
16
Glen Tibbles
WoC
15
65
56.875
71.875
17
Neil Williamson
Brets
15
64
56
71
18
Rory Finnemore
Emp
15
63
0.1
55.125
70.225
19
Hamish Forbes
O&G
15
63
55.125
70.125
20
Antony Kitson
Dwf
15
59
0.1
51.625
66.725
21
Richard Barby
CD
15
59
51.625
66.625
22
Jeremy Brown
VC
10
64
56
66
23
James Brown
WE
14
59
51.625
65.625
24
Paul Clark
TK
14
58
50.75
64.75
25
Mike Vercoe
VC
15
56
0.1
49
64.1
26
Derick Williams
Skaven
15
56
49
64
27
Michael King
Liz
15
55
48.125
63.125
28
Geoff Fletcher
Ogr
8
61
53.375
61.375
29
Paul Dalton
Ogr
5
63
0.1
55.125
60.225
30
Sam Peters
Brets
12
55
48.125
60.125
31
Basil Moskovis
VC
15
50
0.11
43.75
58.86
32
Patrick Crockett
WE
15
50
0.1
43.75
58.85
33
Michael Fenner
WoC
15
50
43.75
58.75
34
Noel Tobin
O&G
14
51
44.625
58.625
35
Graeme Fry
HE
15
47
41.125
56.125
36
Damon Quaid
WoC
15
42
36.75
51.75
37
Russ Simister
VC
15
40
35
50
38
Chris Ellis
TK
13
40
35
48
39
Darren Butler
O&G
15
36
31.5
46.5
40
Michael Stewart
Emp
12
39
34.125
46.125
41
Jake Griffiths
VC
12
36
31.5
43.5
42
Phil Petry
DE
15
32
28
43
43
Amy Tanabe
Ogr
15
26
22.75
37.75
44
Daniel Blomfield
O&G
8
5
4.375
12.375
45
Jorin Duncan
O&G
0
5
4.375
4.375
46
Jordan Rees
WoC
0
5
4.375
4.375
47
Antony Nobs
WoC
0
5
4.375
4.375
48
Aaron Cue
WoC
0
5
4.375
4.375

Best Sports:                Glen Tibbles
Best Paint:                  Graeme Fry, can be found Here
Best Emerging Player: Michael Fenner

Well played to the veteran of the community Pete Dunn who showed that Ogres are the new black. A special mention has to go to Ross Hiller- Jones and Tim Joss, whom collected the other podiums for such a tight finish. The Podium finishers all played each other and with Pete beating Tim, Tim beating Ross and Ross beating Pete in their match ups, it proved there was very little in it duking it out at the top of the field. This is also the first tournament that I've had the pleasure of meeting Ross and it seems that Tauranga is going from strengths to strengths with a second place finish this time around.


Edit:

Strengths in NZ Wargaming:

With Wellington, Tauranga and Invercargill taking the podiums for the WFB tournament it bodes very well for the health of the hobby in NZ. Even though Auckland may boast the greatest population in terms of player base only one Aucklander managed a top ten finish in the tournament.

The tournament had well over 60 contestants interested in the 50 WFB spots in the competition, with late withdraws due to work or family reasons the tournament was reduced to 48. Further withdraws during the week meant that come tournament day there were contestants not participating that were on the tournament list. With this kind of response and no last minute timing conflicts I don't see why we can't steadily work towards my goal over the past year or so of developing the hobby and N.Z's wargaming participation. This being my last tournament as TO I'd like to thank all competitors and fellow organisers who have shared my common goal and volunteered their time to building the New Zealand tournament and wargaming scene. With the huge participation of all the systems at Equinox I'm sure you as the competitor will continue to support the guys who will be running tournaments in the future. The Next big tournament in Auckland will be Nicon and details can be found here Here.


Playing with Stats:

With Equinox hosting the largest 8th ed tournament in NZ it's great to see some of the internets not so fancied armies also sharing space with the top ten finishers. No Surprises with Ogres, WoC or Empire, but TK and Beasts the more unfancied cousins in the current edition of the game makes a surprise appearance in the top ten at Equinox. Tournament performance often comes down to List design and your overall performance rather than luck so I thought I'd look at some of the stats taking into account the 3 most recent tournaments in NZ. I've used the average Army placing and by eliminating the last result where I could to stabilise as much statistical bias due to small a sample size. This is what I got which makes for interesting reading.


Army Average Tournament Finish  Average Batt Pts
Warriors 3 77.5
Lizardmen 3.5 78.5
Empire 4 84
Tomb Kings 4 76.5
Ogres 4 74.5
High Elves 4.5 74
Dark Elves 5 79.5
Skaven 5.5 75.5
Brettonians 6 80
Beasts 7 73.5
Daemons 7 66.5
Dwarves 9 71
Wood Elves 12 59


So statistically speaking in this country the top three armies are far removed from the big two countries of warhammer the UK & US. I would agree with the results some what as Warriors and Lizards tend to be able to get solid points in a tournament which they are favoured in and Empire if run right and maximise their shooting all six turns could very much also maximise their battle points. Lower on the table Wood Elves are still a good army but struggle to get maximum battle points due to the nature of the army and hence are not so good at tournament finishes.

Nb: Sample size is small and top 10 results were the only data used where able to minimise conflicting data. Statistical analysis is for snapshot trend only.

2 comments:

  1. Hey there Phil, just thought I'd drop in a comment to say cheers for a great event, my first large tournament and what a tournament it was! Thanks for all the hard work running it!

    Aleisha has given me the all clear for NICON and this time wants to watch the whole time, she says she had a great day on Sunday.

    I had 6 great games against 6 great opponents and will most definitely be back, with a nicer looking army too (Already redone the Chaos Knights).

    Cheers,

    Ross

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  2. You're very welcome mate and thanks for making the trip up to Aucks for it and almost taking out a podium. I hear that most of the Tauranga club will be up for NiCon in June which will be the next Auckland City Guard Tournament. I'll be attending as a competitor and can't wait for some awesome 6 tournament games.
    Always good to hear that people are painting. I'll be frantically painting up my force for the next tournament too. I wish I actually was sure of which list I'm gonna take but I've got the characters sorted, WIP soon.

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