March Massacre 2012 – Final Results!

Well, our first big tournament is complete and in the books guys! Overall, we had an outstanding time with Tim at Gatehouse Games. The overwhelming repose from the local players, along with several people who traveled 2+ hours to play was just amazing. We went into this event hoping to hit 10 players and we were shocked to see 24 people show up to play. So shocked, we were building tables on the fly in round one to make room for everyone!

We want to make our sincerest apologies to Bill who bowed out of the event as we did not have enough room for everyone to play, and to those players who had to take a bye and only got two games in that day. We simply did not expect to see so many of you out there that day! This is a lesson we have learned the hard way and will be sure to bring more tables and terrain to our next event to make sure EVERYONE can play!

Outside of a few hiccups in my spreadsheet not expecting as many people as we had, the event went smoothly and I think everyone had a great time. Josh Turiano took first place, scoring 10’s in each and every one of his games, and he took second in painting! Alex Vavreck wowed us with his amazing paint job and he took home first place in painting! And since everyone at the event were such good sports, Tim could not decide on a Best Sportsmen and instead decided to give all people attending the event a 10% discount on purchases made that day! That was just amazing!
Here are the overall results from the day, we look forward to seeing you all in our next event, to be announced soon:

No.	Player Name	Wins	Loses	Total Battle Points	Total Victory Points
1st	Josh Turiano	3	0	30	3840
2nd	Christian Mclean	3	0	27	3280
3rd	Josh Mullins	3	0	24	1840
4th	TJ Lonigan	2	1	22	2925
5th	Ed Horne	2	1	21	3145
6th	Sam Bennett	2	1	20	2975
7th	Gary Klinger	2	1	20	2615
8th	Donzig	2	1	20	2375
9th	David Cacace	2	1	19	3036
10th	Jason Sinclair	2	1	18	2139
11th	Ron Marshall	2	1	17	2305
12th	Seth Bushmore	2	1	17	2230
13th	Jason Bushore	1	2	16	1882
14th	Joe Cocco	1	2	14	2940
15th	Sara Parker	1	2	14	2602
16th	Anthony Ketrow	1	2	14	1805
17th	Alex Vavreck	1	2	12	2339
18th	Matthew Hagerich	1	2	12	1737
19th	Logan Brown	1	2	9	833
20th	Lynn Henry	1	2	9	585
21st	Andy Schaner	0	3	7	1323
22nd	Shawn Keiron	0	3	6	1905
23rd	Jess Bradley	0	3	6	1438

Looking forward to seeing everyone next time!

Ed Horne

March Masacre 2012! 40K Championship Series Event I

Greeting guys! The Cellar Dwellers wanted to let you know about the first event for 2012! Our up coming 40K event will be at Gatehouse Games in Duncanville, PA!

Here are all of the particulars:

Date: Saturday, March 24th
Time: 1PM - 8PM (approximate)
Location: Gatehouse Games 208 Hollidaysburg Plaza Duncansville, PA 16635
Phone: (814) 693-9271

Tournament:
Fee: FREE (All events at Gatehouse Games are free to enter)
Size: 1500 Points or less, all current 40K Codices
Painting: There is a three color minimum for this event
Sportsmanship: This will be scored at this event

Tournament Full Rules

Mission One

Mission Two

Mission Three

Any questions, please contact this event's tournament organizer, Chad at barcon@hotmail.com

Hobby 101: A brave new world "dipping"

Hello gamers! It has been a bit since I last posted. I haven’t been playing 40K lately mostly due to work, but I have been doing some work in the hobby. Lately, the gaming group has been bitten by the Fantasy bug. I know, I know, we are mostly a 40k blog but I’m going to post a few Fantasy things here from time to time.

As of late I’ve been painting up my Tomb Kings! I have been looking in to ‘dipping’ to help speed up the process. So I’m learning as I go and you'll all along for the ride!

Here is the beginning of the project.

More pics to come.

-DJ

Tentative Schedule for 2012 Cellar Dweller Events

So we wanted to let everyone know what we would like the year of 2012 to look like for our local tournament circuit. As it stands now, we have two stores (Gatehouse Games in Duncanville, PA and Toy Soldiers Gallery in Ligonier, PA) willing to support us and host our events. Ideally, we would want 4 major events at each location, each contributing to our Invitation Only 40K Championships in December. Well also are looking into running smaller, introduction events of smaller point values for new and younger players that will not count towards the championship ranks.

The 40K Championships:

We really like the idea of the keeping a tally of the best players over the course of a year, not just a single event, and crowning a champion at the end of the season. This year, we will be keeping score at all of our events. Your Win-Lose record, Battle Points, and Victory Points scored over the course of your top three events (dropping your worst performances) will be added up and the top 16 players at the end of the year will be invited to play for the title of 40K Champion 2012. The more events you participate in, the better your chances of hitting the top 16. We have some fun stuff planed here too, including a ‘Stanly Cup’ style trophy we want to build and engrave the champion’s name and year on (but would live in the store of the winner for the year), and a special trophy they can take home. We are keeping that one a surprise for now.

The Winner Take All – Last Man Standing

A Free tournament for all, we like the idea of a fun, less competitive event, and this will be the big one for the year. Each player will bring a 1250 point list and will be placed on a table with up to 5 other players. Then it is a knock down drag out fight to the finish, the last remaining player on each table will move their remaining armies to the final table where a final winner will be declared.

Anyway, here is what we are thinking right now for a schedule:

Gatehouse Game

March 24th, 2012 March Massacre 1500 Points
May 2012 ??? 1850 Points
August 2012 ??? 2000 Points
December 2012 40K Championships 2000 Points

Toy Soldiers

February 2012 Battle for Da Burgh 1850 Points
April 2012 ??? 1500 Points
July 2012 Land Man Standing 1250 Points
October 2012 ??? 2000 Points

Any ideas, comments, or anything else you would like to contribute, please feel free to add a comment at the bottom here.