Tournament Standards

by **ImAShakiraholic** on Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:10 pm

Please note this is about Games Workshop Rogue Trader Tournaments, specifically. If you want to kibitz about tournaments in general or other game system tournaments, please set up an appropriate post in the relative forum, not here.

So to get things started, I'm attaching the link to the GW RTT booklet and the Player's Bill of Rights, so everyone can see the baseline we use. This has neer been a "secret" or a no-no for players to have, but it seems a lot of players are unaware of what actually goes on behind the scenes with RTT judging.

RTT Guidebook:
http://us.games-workshop.com/communi...5Guidebook.pdf

Player's Bill of Rights (or see p.3 of the Guidebook, above):
http://us.games-workshop.com/communi...rogue_info.htm

RTTs are a different creature from GTs or Games Days, and utterly different from tournaments like the 'Ard Boyz circuit or Adepticon. For one, the scoring is more about actual sportsmanship and hobby work, not just "the killing." Battle points factor in greatly (15 for a win, 5 for a loss, per round), but then there's Sportmanship (up to 6 points per round) and Theme (up to an additional 2 per round). Then you've got Bonus Points, the opponent votes (see p.11 of the RTT Guidebook), that can be added in and actually swing who wins.

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EXAMPLE:: Donovan went 3-0, beating Ron in the final (2-1), but Ron got top votes for Sportsmanship from his opponents, bringing their Overall totals to a tie (97 each). And since Sportmanship is the drop-dead tiebreaker (RTT Guidebook, p.13), Ron was the winner. In the end, they came to an agreement, but the scores were set. -WC Forums

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We've got a framework we can use, something tried and true, with room for additions or omissions. We've played around with stricter or looser Theme and Painting requirements, we've focused more on "Best General" then "Best Army." We've allowed unpainted armies to continue (grrr...), and we've allowed bought-painted armies to get full Paint scores (just not Best Painted). -WC Forums

So, with the above information handy to all to peruse, what would players like to see different about the RTTs? The tournaments are for the players, so chime in.

This post is just to inform players how RTTS are run, my specific tournamnet on Jan 19th will be a GT style.