Upcoming Tournaments - Here & There

In 2008 Dave Grant established Tin Soldier at the Onehaunga RSA. He ran it for two years before returning to Hull - a place that makes Onehaunga look like Paris.

This year Derick Williams is organising the event and he has upped the points to 2800 while limiting armies to one Lord choice. In addition, this has been dubbed Monster-Con and each of the armies participating must have some sort of big gribbly. The event has attracted 16 people and this weekend they will fight it out. Having seen the lists it looks like it should be a lot of fun.

Next weekend is Call to Arms here in Wellington. i dropped out of playing in the event to umpire and have spent the last week checking lists - first for overall legality and second that they are legal given the comp restrictions. This event is the first one for awhile to allow Special Characters. To date I have only had one included in any of the lists but it appears the heavy hitters are waiting until the last day (today) to submit their lists. There have been some late additions and the field is now up to 22 people.

Finally, next weekend is the ETC in Poland. Here they will compete in a game that bears a passing resemblence to Warhammer (just joking). I'm expecting the New Zealand team to finish somewhere between 10-15 in the rankings. A result higher than 10th would be an extremely good result. I am expecting that they will finish comfortably higher than Australia who I suspect will take their customary shellacking at the hands of Team England in the Ashes. Good luck to both the NZ and Australians at the event.

For the first time Australia is sending a 40k team to the ETC. Josh "Barely Says Anything" Diffey confidently told me that he is expecting big things. Unfortunately Josh the ability to finish 10th at Fields of Blood while admirable given your countrymen's past efforts isn't what I call "good form". I'm expecting Australia to be the recipient of this year's "We're not in Kansas now, Toto" award. There will be blood.....