WAWC fall 2012 tournament

Greetings,

Sign ups are now open for the AA50 Main Championship at AAMC.  They close on March 26.  If you are interested, or have any other question about the club, feel free to drop in or drop me a line.

Tarkin
AAMC Chairman

Greetings,

AAMC is currently taking sign ups for our Revised Combat Leaders/Lieutenant tournaments.  Sign ups will be open until Oct. 25.  This is a ranked tournament, with the top players going into the Combat Leaders draw and the lower ranked or new players going into the Lieutenant draw.  If you are new to PBEM or to the Revised ruleset, then it is a good way to get a taste of tournament action with out having to face some of the top players.

If you have any questions about the club, don’t hesitate to ask.

Tarkin
Chairman AAMC

I, for one, LOVE Battlemap… :-D

@Enigmatic_Decay:

@Young:

Team Grasshopper surrendered to team Gargantua due to foreseeable conditions.

Yeah, I ate the board, and half of the other team because of it!

You owe me a board BTW…… (Again).

If you follow the links, you will see the details for the rules.  Kremlin gives you all kinds of options to start the game.  Things like early landings in WAfrica, having Turkey, Switzerland or other neutrals starting the game as your ally, adding a battleship to the South Atlantic for Germany and many, many more.  It can completely change the playout of the game and because the restricted Tech rules, Technology will likely not play as bid a role as it can in regular 2nd Edition games.  Give it a try and you’ll see that it makes the game a very different one.

SS

I have been haunting this board for well over a year now and I am very interested in participating in this tournament, which is why I finally got around to registering.

I do have an opinion about the burnout issue, though. I believe that the burnout and turnover rates of the singles tourney was primarily a result of the time limit. I noticed that many of the games had warnings issued and a few of the games were defaulted out because life got in the way of the time limits for some of the paticipants. Nobody can guarantee that they will be available every other day for three months and it shouldn’t be expected of anyone.  Although, with teams it should be less demanding because now there will be three players moving before anybody has to post a new move. Also, I can understand imposing a strict time limit for this tourney if the intention is to finish it before the end of the year so that the 2007 Tournament season can be given a longer lifespan and allow for a greater number of entrants. Now, I’m not saying that a relaxed time limit will fix the burnout issue but it might be worth a try if you run into the same problems as the singles tourney.

Note- this is not a dig on the way the other tournament was run because you guys were more than lenient on the time infractions and nobody seemed to get too twisted about it. I was just saying.

Like I said, if the intent is to finish quickly so the 2007 season can have a whole year to play then Switch’s suggestion seems equitable.

Otherwise, I would prefer a double elim to keep a team from getting kicked out because they got hosed by the dice, especially if it’s early. My suggestion would be a best 2 out of 3 with the first 2 games being run similar to the triple-a style. Each team will play one game as the axis and one as the allies running at the same time. The teams playing will negotiate the bid with the knowledge that whatever they will be getting as the axis they will also be giving as the allies so that should keep the bids from getting out of hand. In case of ties, the third game would be an auction bid with the starting point being the bid from the first two games and going from there. I prefer this way because if we are going to declare a team A&A champion, they will have to show their prowess on both sides of the board and it will prevent teams from riding their preferred side all the way to the champoinship. In order to allow for the extra games you should probably start the tournament as soon as 8 teams sign up.

I also like the week off between games. That should help with the burnout.

ADS and LHTR definitely.

Next tournament

San Francisco Bay Area Axis & Allies Miniatures Sanctioned Tournament
Saturday, January 14, 2006
1pm to around 5-6pm

Game Kastle, Santa Clara, CA

Format: TBD

Entry fee is usually $5, with all entry money applied to prizes.

The plan is usually to crack open boosters for prizes with the winner picking first.