Hi Guys,
Now that I've returned from MOAB it is time to report on proceedings of the weekend. Day 1 saw an Auxilia themed tournament with 10 players vying to be declared the most Vanilla of Auxilia. After 6 rounds of grueling combat the dust settled to reveal the following results:
1st, Mark Brandon-Baker, III/55 Early Samurai, 44 points,
2nd, Chris Humphreys, III/9a Burmese, 43 points,
3rd, Phil Baldoni, III/4e Warring States and Ch'in Chinese (Other), 36 points,
4th, Leigh Dunn, II/14 Ariararthid Kappodokian, 32 points,
5th (on countback), Greg Kelleher, IV/60 Catalan Company, 32 points,
6th, David Lawrence II/20a Ptolemaic, 31 points,
7th, Adrian Williams, II/82a Patrician Roman (West), 30 points,
8th, Brad Del Munns, II/20a Ptolemaic, 25
9th, Peter Spitzkowsky, II/13 Samnite, 19 points, and
10th, Michael Spitzkowsky, II/39a Ancient (Iberian) 16 points.
The hotly contested chocolate frog award, for for first lists to be submitted, went to Peter Spitzkowsky.
Day 2 of MOAB dawned and 16 players were set to contest a 6 round competition themed upon the conflicts between The Crescent and The Cross. Unfortunately, 1 player had to withdraw at the very last moment. To avoid byes I withdrew from the fray.
1st, Adrian Williams, III/52 West Frankish or Norman, 48 points (6 from 6!),
2nd, Chris Humphreys, III/31 Umayyad Arab, 44 points,
3rd, Leigh Dunn, III/61 Dynastic Kurdish, 37 points,
4th (on countback), Rob Grierson, IV/17 later Crusader, 37 points,
5th, Phil Baldoni, III/37b Communal Italian, 36 points,
6th (on countback), Chris Cameron, IV/55b Ottoman, 36 points,
7th, Brad Del Munns, III/71a Georgia, 31 points,
8th (on countback), Geoffrey Stewart, IV/1b Kommenan Byzantine,
31 points,
9th, Peter Braham, III/31 Umayyad Arab, 30 points,
10th, Peter Spitzkowsky, III/31 Umayyad Arab, 28 points,
11th, Michael Spitzkowsky, III/17 Maurikian Byzantine, 27 points,
12th, David Lawrence, III/12 Christian Nubian, 25 points,
13th, Mark Brandon-Baker, IV/7 Early Crusader, 24 points, and
14th, James Hide, II/83b Later Visigoth.
The final award bestowed was the Stephen Webb Memorial Spirit of DBA Award. Players were asked to assess their opponents over the 2 days of play and allocate points (3, 2 & 1) to whom they considered exemplified the best traits of sportsmanship and fair play. The accolade went to Chris Cameron.
Finally, I would like to thank Peter Callan for painting and donating the two 1st place trophies, War and peace Games and Leadbear's Tufts for sponsoring the weekend of gaming and for supplying excellent prizes.
So that wraps up DBA at MOAB for another year. Many thanks to those who played and made organising the weekend a very easy proposition.
Images of the weekend's gaming have been posted to the 2 FB DBA pages and for those who are not on Facebook you can see the images here:
www.facebook.com/groups/dba.hott.wargaming/permalink/10159482626716821/?mibextid=Nif5ozCheers