What do you get for winning Ard Boyz? pics here

[less_than_ed]

Hey guys here are some pics of the 2010 western finals winner prize along with other pics from the event. We discuss it on our podcast wich can be found at the same link.
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[RealGenius]

What is the crazy army that won?

[Lerra]

There were three divisions in the US (west coast, east coast, and central). The winning armies were Chaos Daemons, Chaos Space Marines, and Imp Guard.

[fuzzbuket]

sigh.. im all for these sort of tourneys but if your paying £50?-£80? for a ticket i might as well as try to make my army look nice :P (gah i forgot ard boyz didntt have soft scores) < person who probably needs painting marks to not come last

but good luck to him in the winner in futre tourneys and for NOT winning with guard :P

[mountaincycle661]

Wait....Wait. So you mean to tell me that this guy fought his way through the hordes at the qualifier rounds, got 1st 2nd or 3rd at the "cream of the crop" semi finals, then finally won first place against the best players in his half of the damn country....And all he got was a friggin' toy ork gun?!

Dude, i would be SOOOOOO incredibly pissed off. After paying all that money to cart my butt around the country (and enter the damn things) and fought all that time, they treat me with a gun that looks like it took the studio terrain guys a day and a half to make?

I mean, come on! 1st place prize for the semi finals was a 2500pt army! I would expect 1st place in the finals to be a little more lucrative than that!

Lame GW...Just lame.

[Leez]

Wait....Wait. So you mean to tell me that this guy fought his way through the hordes at the qualifier rounds, got 1st 2nd or 3rd at the "cream of the crop" semi finals, then finally won first place against the best players in his half of the damn country....And all he got was a friggin' toy ork gun?!

Dude, i would be SOOOOOO incredibly pissed off. After paying all that money to cart my butt around the country (and enter the damn things) and fought all that time, they treat me with a gun that looks like it took the studio terrain guys a day and a half to make?

I mean, come on! 1st place prize for the semi finals was a 2500pt army! I would expect 1st place in the finals to be a little more lucrative than that!

Lame GW...Just lame.

Day and a half? Looks more like 'night before.

[Duke]

Seriously horrible prize.. I have seen the blotter they gave out a few years back and it was a piece of junk!

Duke

[codiddy]

so at 'ard boyz you want to win the semi's more than the finals?

[DarkLink]

Yeah, I'm not impressed.

I mean, really, you win the semis and you get like a whole army. You win the finals, and you get a cardboard toy gun. Wow.

[RocketRollRebel]

I thought there was just one 'ard boyz finals (ie the one in chicago)? I know demons won in '08 with fate crusher list and I thought Darkwynns Leafblower was the '09 winner? For 40k at least.

Those prizes are weak too. Giant fake weapons from the game? No thanks. I'd rather a cool trophy and like a 2,500 pt army or something. From what one of the guys from my local shop said and the bat rep on here of the WHFB 'ard boyz finals last year it just looked lame.

I love competitive play and am a GT junkie but seeing all those "built the night before" armies make me a sad panda and makes baby jesus cry.

[DarkLink]

Last year there was one. This year there was three.

[BuFFo]

so at 'ard boyz you want to win the semi's more than the finals?

Yes.

[Sir Biscuit]

Which is why a huge amount of people who win the semi's take their prize and give up their spot in the finals, because really, it's not worth the travel. =P

[Daemonette666]

I thought there was just one 'ard boyz finals (ie the one in chicago)? I know demons won in '08 with fate crusher list and I thought Darkwynns Leafblower was the '09 winner? For 40k at least.

Those prizes are weak too. Giant fake weapons from the game? No thanks. I'd rather a cool trophy and like a 2,500 pt army or something. From what one of the guys from my local shop said and the bat rep on here of the WHFB 'ard boyz finals last year it just looked lame.

I love competitive play and am a GT junkie but seeing all those "built the night before" armies make me a sad panda and makes baby jesus cry.
If they were going to get you some kind of gun or life size gear from 40K, how about a properly made suit of power armour, like those seen at some of the GW games day events. Throw in the Bolter with removable mag. That would be cool. Only problem is how do you ge tit in a size to match the winner - LOL. When the winner puts it on, you could have the old punch line - " youu're a bit small to be a storm trooper aren't you?" mentioned, or maybe it would be just a little bit too snug.

In some of the competitions we played foranother gaming systems in Sydney at their MOAB event, The organiser for the game had special minaitures made by a sculpter, with permission from the company that had copyright for it, and offered painted miniatures of the mech (sorry hint dropped there), which I painted up, in different unit colours. It was a rare miniature, and not many people have that miniature.

The event organisers could get permission from GW to have a special miniature made for the event. It would be so cool knowing you and a few others have the only one to haver that model in the world.

But if they offered a free professionally painted army woth about 3000 points I would take it as well.

[Ghoulio]

A friend of mine actually went to the LA Ard Boyz tournament and said there were only 14 people who showed up. He flew there all the way from Calgary and I gotta say after hearing just how small the tourney was and now seeing what the prize was I would of be BEYOND pissed if I went.

I havent really heard anything about either of the other tournies. Does anyone know how many people showed up to those events and if they also had such sweet prizes? Also, it doesnt make any sense that GW split up the tournies into 3 locations. I thought the whole point of this tournament was to crown a North American Champion...so how does one do that if you have 3 tournies? Weird. Ah well, I hope Vegas next summer is better run then this years Ard Boyz as I was actually thinking of attending it.

[RealGenius]

There were three divisions in the US (west coast, east coast, and central). The winning armies were Chaos Daemons, Chaos Space Marines, and Imp Guard.

What was the west coat list? I know it was daemons, but it looks like... 12 models?

[less_than_ed]

well if you would listen to the podcast we list the army. but there were more than 12 models He also won an Invitation to the GT in las vegas in 2011

[Sir Biscuit]

Bald and Screaming (http://www.baldandscreaming.com/news/results-from-2010-ard-boyz-finals/) has all the finalists lists.

Except one.

THE ONE I WANT TO SEE. =(

Apparently it's supposed to be footslogger SW, a list I've been trying to get to work since the codex came out. Ah well.

Also, 66% attendance rate for those wondering. =P

[Hugz4Genestealers]

The low turnout REALLY pisses me off. I was first alternate(tied for third) at my semifinal, and I would have given an arm and a leg just for the chance to play in one of the finals, and now I learn that a large number of people who qualified didn't even bother to go...

[BuFFo]

The low turnout REALLY pisses me off. I was first alternate(tied for third) at my semifinal, and I would have given an arm and a leg just for the chance to play in one of the finals, and now I learn that a large number of people who qualified didn't even bother to go...

It is like that every year.

[Duke]

Before anyone asks "why"(in response to burros post) remember the whole point of this thread... Nobody goes because it isn't worth it! In could see if gw fronted the cash for people to fly Or at least made the wining prize worth flying, but it just isn't

Ideas of prizes

1st place: $1000 shopping spree to forge world or gw
2nd: $500
3rd: you pick a list from any codex of 2500 pts and they supply it to you... Or $300

I am seriously thinking of making my own crappy bolt gun and handing it out to all my buddies just so we look as cool and save a ton of money!

Duke

[Mike X]

http://lifeafterthecoversave.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/dscn0800.jpg

Worst. Prize. Ever.

[Mr. Smith]

Now let me get this straight, the armies that won the three ard boys finals were:

East: Inperial Guard

Central: Chaos Space Marines

West: Chaos Daemons

Am I right about that?

[DarkLink]

Yes, the armies are correct.

[Thomas Taylor]

I’ve got to say this is pretty pathetic on GW’s part. I remember the White Dwarf write up about the first ‘Ard Boyz finals and the listed first place prize was an entire Red Scorpions battle company, and then some. All with Forge World parts and the like. Plus cases to carry it, and tons of paint. Second was a Forge World Keep of Secrets and units of daemonettes, also with paint and cases. Third was a Trygon and raptors, with the paint and case support. The idea was they were ready to go Apocalypse data sheets.

I was at the finals in ’08 (‘Ard Boyz year 2). I was extremely disappointed in how it was run, but there was prize support still. Instead of set prizes for each place, they had two set of three piles – one set was GW stuff, the other was Forge World stuff. Each of the top three got to pick one pile from each set. The GW piles were 6 Ravenwing Battle Forces, A Space Marine Strike force* box, and a Tyrnaid endless swarm box and Hive Tyrant. The forge world piles were a Warhound Titan, a Hierophant, and two SM Dreadnoughts with one of every arm made. Plus there were prizes for the bottom three!

I won my local semis that year, and the loot I received was a lot. Seems like even more than the prizes at the finals, minus the Forge World stuff. For them to remove prizes at all from the finals is ridiculous, and will kill this tournament series for them. The mass amounts of loot is supposed to be the big draw, and to just flat decide not to award anything is pure stupidity.

Anyone know what Darkwynn got for his national victory? **