Inquisitor Grand Tournament 2012 - March 31st

[Necris]

The player judging has been done before and it seemed to even out scores somewhat but there also needs to be an impartiality to the judging too.

Maybe have a two score system of players judging and awarding scores from 1 to 10 and then a staff member scoring 1 to 10 and the scores being combined for the over all results.

[Van Helser]

I think a combination of peer judging and staff judging would probably work best.  Players understand the complexity of conversions much better than the 54mm-shy staffers, and will thusly boost the scores of the perhaps not so well painted models that the staff like.  I think the playing field for the Painting and Modelling category will be levelled with the scores combined.  Also means the final tally will be out of a nice 100 rather than 90!

I'm just going to say just now that there is a possibility I may not be in attendance - I am likely going to be having shoulder surgery in the next two months, and the timing of it may mean a trip to Nottingham is going to be a very secondary consideration.  I hope the dates don't clash though, as I've started the warband building process with earnest!

Ruaridh

[MarcoSkoll]

Look what I found in my inbox:

IGT 2012 Briefing Pack

[Kaled]

Thanks.  I'm just about to upload the poster to Photobucket and will edit the first post in this thread accordingly.  The pack should also go up on the DM site soon - hopefully that should spread the load a little.

[Kaled]

Larger Version

Evening all,

The 2012 Inquisitor Grand Tournament will take place at Warhammer World on Saturday 31st March.

The briefing pack is now available from the MarcoSkoll's archive and the Dark Magenta website;
IGT 2012 Briefing Pack @ The Skoll Archive
IGT 2012 Briefing Pack @ Dark Magenta (to be uploaded shortly)

Tickets are £10 in advance until 17th March, or £12 on the door.

Participants will be able to pre-order food from the bar in Bugman's in the morning before the event starts and it will be ready to eat at 12.00, so no waiting around.  You can download the current Bugmans menu here.

- Dave

[Kaled]

I should say that if anyone spots any mistakes or suchlike in the campaign pack, please let me know.

Also, please feel free to repost this anywhere you know of that has a significant Inquisitor community*.  If you do, please post a link in this thread so I can check in and answer any questions that anyone might have.

- Dave


* Some forums prefer that you check with a mod first before posting this sort of thing.

[MarcoSkoll]

There shouldn't be a problem with Mediafire load, as there's not any limit on download activity. Download inactivity, yes, but that's not happened so far, and I'm supposed to get email reminders about it first.

Talking about mistakes, I should note that the poster appears to say "purest of wares". Maybe appropriate for Rogue Traders (if not necessarily true), but I expect Inquisitors are more interested in wars.

Anyway, I'll have my name in for a ticket shortly.

[Kaled]

D'oh!  I'll upload a corrected version in a moment...

[greenstuff_gav]

just as i've updated Dark Magenta :lol:
at the parents place atm so haven't posted to Tabletop Gaming News or Tabletop Gaming Fix yet...

[Kaled]

I've posted threads on Warseer in the Tournaments and Inquisitor sections;
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=329998
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=330001

[Toot]

Gah, I'm in London that weekend. 

[Holiad]

Posted my application form this morning, now I just have to get down to painting my nice new models, and putting another arm on that NPC...

[Kaled]

I got the first ticket application today, that'll have been yours Holiad. I plan to do the same as last year and send tickets out in batches so will wait for a few more applications before I start sending them. Again the same as last year, they will be e-tickets to save on costs and ensure the prize fund is as high as possible.

I doubt tickets will sell out, but I'd appreciate people buying tickets (or at least expressing their interest in buying one) as soon as possible so I have an idea of what sort of numbers I'll need to cater for. I'll also start a list of possible/confirmed attendees on the front page of this thread.

Going back to the subject of prizes, almost all the ticket money gets given out as prizes (other than a small amount which pays for the paper and ink need to print out all the tournament material). This meant that last year there was well over £100 up for grabs as attendance was pretty good. How the prize money is broken down will depend on how much money there is in the pot, but I think last year there were prizes for the top three overall and the winners of the playing, GMing and P&M rounds. If anyone wants to donate prizes, then that's fine too. We've had some good stuff given to us in the past including a framed picture of some Inquisitor artwork that was donated by the WHW staff - it has hung on my wall for a couple of years and it's now time to give it a new home so that will be going to this year's winner.

I think that's it for IGT news for now. I'd encourage everyone to try and round up as many players as possible - the more people who come, the better the event will be. And if anyone is a member of a forum where Inquisitor gets discussed then please think about advertising the event there - either post something or consider adding it to your forum signature.

Oh, there was one last thing - I asked this last year (and I think PO asked when he organised the tournament) but it's quite a challenge. Rather than type it out again, I'll refer you all to this post;
http://www.the-conclave.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1133.msg15101#msg15101

Answers on a postcard please...

[greenstuff_gav]

i'm crap at math.. and history... and readin' (as demonstrated by my Inquisition entries!) so can't help there

it's Payday tomorrow so i'll be Paypal-ing this time tomorrow

also have 1 resin cast of My Marine Serf to donate one of only 4 in existence, including the sculpt!

[MarcoSkoll]

Answers on a postcard please...

Turns out it's not as hard as I was treating it as last year. I've not finalised the solutions for numbers of tables other than four, but if you put this sheet out:

Game 1: 1,2,4,13 - 3,6,12,16 - 5,7,8,14 - 9,10,11,15
Game 2: 1,3,11,14 - 2,5,12,15 - 4,7,10,16 - 6,8,9,13
Game 3: 1,5,9,16 - 2,6,10,14 - 7,11,12,13 - 3,4,8,15
Game 4: 1,6,7,15 - 2,8,11,16 - 3,5,10,13 - 4,9,12,14

Then no two players would meet twice, and if there you don't have a player 13, 14, 15 or 16, their missing spaces would never meet each other.

Such a solution can be found for more tables too, although obviously there has to be compromise on people meeting more than once when you go to fewer tables.

Two small downsides:
- Players 13-16 will know they'll never meet, but that could be put to use if they regularly game together anyway.
- It won't recalculate on the fly if you lose a player. However, give anyone that may have to leave one of the 13-16 numbers, and you're pretty much okay. Adding in players should be pretty much fine however, even if you have to add tables and go to a different sheet. I'm pretty sure the sheets can be made work together like that.

EDIT: And I've just realised I need to check the GMing solution for this one...
2ND EDIT: "Lowest number who hasn't already GMed" works fine - randomise in the event that it would be 13-16 but they're missing. As an upside, it puts players 13-16 last in the GMing order, giving latecomers a chance to GM.