Thursday 18 September 2014

GuardCon 2014 Weekend & Results. part 1.

Another well attended and top weekend of games with a number of systems hosted at GuardCon weekend. Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k were the mainstays again. Flames of War, Board Games and this years two new systems at the convention, SAGA and X-Wing also getting a run. Both of the new tournaments were heaps of fun. Rob running SAGA and Amol and myself running the X-wing. We saw a great turnout from the Auckland community and a smattering of travellers from around the country. With only 130 at the tournament we thought it would be great to have everyone in the main hall which gave it a the exciting convention feel. The number of smiles and excited shouts was encouraging for the hobby and continued tournaments ahead.

Remember that Equinox 2015 (mid March) and NatCon 2015 (Easter weekend) will be our next two big tournaments. Early bird registrations will be up this weekend.

The first thing at the tournament I noticed is the more relaxed standard of painting at this years tournament. The number of new players in the community coming through our local club is testament to the popularity of the games. All you vets out there know how much sustained painting goes into making an army complete. It will take a while for the standard overall to rise again. In saying that the benchmark for painting at the top of the tournament was very high. There were some amazing armies and the ones that were noticeably wowing me were the winners of best paint for both WHFB and WH40k. The 'Grey Wardens' for WH40k and The 'Double Carnosaur' for WHFB were a dream for any painting aficionados out there.

Here's some of the tournament Pic's courtesy of Lee our Photographer (many thanks for your top work). There are also some photo's from my point and snap, and I'm sure you'll recognise those.

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Auckland City Guard at Freemans Bay

WH40K on the left, WHFB on the Right. SAGA, FoW & X-Wing at the back of the hall.


 Great to see young bloods at their first tournament. Also grand to see some experience to temper that too.


 Some very nice tables of terrain at the tournament.




 Good amount of competition mixed with easy going fun.

 X-wing is definitely a good change up. I'm think WHFB & WH40k will still be my main hobbies. 
X-Wing is a refreshing filler afters. The miniatures are so cool.

At this point my Camera threw a sicky. Thanks to all these chaps for sticking around for the prize giving and giving us a hand to pack down, Legends!


Warhammer Fantasy was run by Nick L-I again this year and Swedish Comp was used. The variety of Armies at the event and positives from the tournament testify that it's very solid. Here are the results and big ups for Rory, defending his title to claim the 'GuardCon Shield'.

Name
Sports
Battle (120)
Adjusted battle (60)
Paint (16)
Adjusted paint (22)
Penalty
Total (100)
1
Rory Finnemore
15
84
42
16
22
79
2
Kelly Gragg
14
82
41
16
22
77
3
James Brown
12
85
42.5
16
22
76.5
4
Sean Robertson
16
74
37
16
22
75
5
Glen Tibbles
14
75
37.5
16
22
73.5
6
Nick Lironi-Irvine
14
70
35
16
22
71
7
Ryan Simister
15
76
38
16
22
5
70
8
Antony Kitson
12
72
36
16
22
70
9
Richard Barby
14
66
33
16
22
69
10
Brian Smith
14
62
31
16
22
67
11
Phil Comins
15
57
28.5
16
22
65.5
12
Michael Coxon-Baines
16
55
27.5
16
22
65.5
13
John Willenbruch
14
58
29
16
22
65
14
Paul Dalton
13
62
31
15
20.625
64.625
15
Daniel Street
16
53
26.5
16
22
64.5
16
Daniel Leigh
13
61
30.5
15
20.625
64.125
17
James Cardno
13
77
38.5
11
15.125
5
61.625
18
Ken Hay
14
51
25.5
16
22
61.5
19
Mike Youngs
15
56
28
16
22
5
60
20
Erdem Oguz
16
60
30
9
12.375
58.375
21
Rowan Coker
15
52
26
16
22
5
58
22
Richard Holtzhausen/Neil Heileman
13
39
19.5
16
22
54.5
23
Aaron Cue / Paul Davison
14
45
22.5
16
22
5
53.5
24
Russell Simister
15
43
21.5
16
22
5
53.5
25
Tom Cochrane
16
30
15
16
22
53
26
Chris Ellis
11
48
24
9
12.375
47.375
27
Michael Partridge
14
48
24
4
5.5
43.5
28
Curtis Tweedale
14
39
19.5
7
9.625
43.125


Best Paint : Sean Robertson
Best Sport : Erdem Oguz

Well done Rory, defending the Shield!
Kelly capturing 2nd should catapult him in the rankings.
Go James with a consistent podium finish.
 Best paint Sean. Those Dinosaurs look magnificent. Can't wait to see more work from you maestro. 
 Mr Nice Guy. Erdem with best sports.
Curtis wins the 'Booby' prize. He also captured the Young Blood award.

 Sean's Dinosaur army.

 Very close second in the Best paint awards.







 I'll have the rest of the results and more pics in the next part tomorrow. 
It's getting late.





2 comments:

  1. Looks like fun, needs more pictures of James Brown though

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  2. A good thing your camera didn't start going on the blink with the shots of the armies....did you find out what was wrong with it?

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