5th Edition Tournament Thoughts
Hi guys,
With 5th in our sweaty little hands, I wanted to turn your thoughts for a second to tournaments. Now I’m not taling about the huge crazy organized ones like The Big Waaagh, or Adepticon. Those guys have plenty of staff to create pretty much whatever they want to do to keep participants busy.
I’m talking about the smaller tourneys that you play in regularly in LGSs around the world. 5th edition is a very different beast, and we have now heard Allessio’s thoughts on why he made the changes he did to the core rules.
With such an emphasis on fun, the job of the tournament organizer has gotten a tad more difficult and I would like to get your opinions on what the biggest challenges are going to be and how you would deal with them in a standardized set of tournament rules. Let get the ball rolling with some obvious issues:
Real LoS: This seems like it can lead to all sort of arguments once folks start to get into the higher tourmanent tiers, and some method of quick and clean resolution will be needed that will keep both players feeling that they were not taken advantage of.
Competitive Modeling: From crawling carnifexes, to oversized ork battlewagons, to very-high flying hammerheads, folks are going to try to pull crazy stuff to gain advantage on the modeling side of things. How do you keep a tourney going and resolve compaints from players who find themselves faced with potentially abusive models.
Kill Points: As written, some armies will routinely be fielding 2-3 times the Killpoints of opposing armies (IG in particular). What can be done to balance this out?
~I’m sure you guys can come up with a ton of other examples, but I wanted to get you talking and thinking about this issue. Local tourneys can be a great way to bring together a playgroup and enhance the hobby, but we are all going to have to overcome some 5th edition hurdles first. BoLS is considering organizing all of our community’s thoughts into a 5th Edition Tournament Packet that anyone can download to help get us on the road to fun tournaments. So lets hear from you guys, the designer’s chair is open.
