{"id":417,"date":"2015-06-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pagan-gerbil.net\/?p=417"},"modified":"2015-06-27T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T08:00:00","slug":"wales-and-south-west-regional-tournament-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagan-gerbil.net\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Wales and South West Regional Tournament 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year was a huge improvement for the tournament. There were fourteen players overall, coming from Bristol, East Anglia and even Wales! Genuine Welsh people! And just after Mantic added \u201cand South West\u201d to the name, too.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d been intending to bring the Asterians, but had screwed up the painting a bit so took the Sphyr<\/a> instead. I was joined by Jen with her S1 Corporation as usual, Dan with Veer-myn, Stuart with his S2 Corporation and Dai who forgot his team on the day (he borrowed Dan\u2019s S1 Corporation). As for upgrades, I took two coaching dice and a Defensive Coach.<\/p>\n

Game 1 \u2013 Chris\u2019 Rebels<\/h2>\n

This was a very, very close game. We went into Sudden Death, which I don\u2019t recall happening in a tournament for me before. I scored a few four-pointers, and my Jack at the back of the pitch was indestructible – as a result of Slambacks, he sent off both Rin Guards and the Gaellian Jacks before he was finally knocked out for a turn.<\/p>\n

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In the first round of Sudden Death I managed to grab a single point and win the game. Exhausting, nail-biting, thoroughly exciting game!<\/p>\n

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Game 2 \u2013 Phil\u2019s Teratons<\/h2>\n

Phil had travelled from the other side of the country for his first tournament with Dale, a well-known and very strong Teraton player from East Anglia who I\u2019ve seen at many tournaments and hadn\u2019t played competitively (he did come to see us for a DreadBall day in Bristol, where we got a friendly game or two in).<\/p>\n

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Phil has been trained well, and made things very difficult for the fish men. However, the dice were still with me, and I managed to not only move two of the players blocking the three-point zone up – but kill them completely! It wasn\u2019t helped that in the first action of the first turn, he slammed one of my Strikers, who doubled moving onto the ball, evaded out of the threat hex, and scored two points to get the very earliest of early leads. The game ended in a landslide win for me.<\/p>\n

Game 3 \u2013 Dai\u2019s Corporation<\/h2>\n

I was coming away from lunch on a bit of a high \u2013 I\u2019d bought myself some new toys, I was winning my games (though not in the lead, certainly)  when I came up against Dai – an ex-work colleague who I hadn\u2019t caught up with very recently. He completely dismantled my team and I hope I didn\u2019t come across as a sore loser – there was literally nothing I could do to stop it. There were no glaring errors in his play to exploit, and in the standard approaches I tried my dice disappeared. He kept apologising (I probably had a real frown on by then) but really, I\u2019d just done the same thing to Phil in the round before so it wasn\u2019t a problem. One landslide loss to me.<\/p>\n

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Game 4 \u2013 Dale\u2019s Teratons<\/h2>\n

Finally, we got to play each other in a tournament! Both a little tired (admittedly, he had driven four times longer than I had and most of the Welsh guys had come further than us too), I made some huge errors. I didn\u2019t calculate the Teraton Teleport properly and kept miscalculating where he would choose to go, then I got into place for a risky throw only to have it pointed out to me that the shot was blocked. Despite the fouling up, I got a three-point victory.<\/p>\n

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Final Results<\/h2>\n

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Chris\u2019 Rebels came in first place, as well as getting Fan Favourite (most cheers) and Hot Shot (most four pointers). He was only beaten once, and barely at that, so I take some pride in my first game win against him. Stuart had been in the running for first place but the way the final scores shook out, he dropped down to fourth place. I finished in fifth, which I feel is a fairly good place in a fourteen-player tournament.<\/p>\n

Looking back, I was much more aggressive than I needed to be in some games, and needed more defence than I put into. A single player to guard the three-point strike zone doesn\u2019t work against all teams, and I need to vary my setup depending on my opponent. I think the upgrade options were right for the team overall, the defensive coach saved me a couple of times (against two Teraton players, and to deny the Rebels a four-point shot, definitely!) and having the coaching dice to boost a high scoring shot early in the game were extremely helpful.<\/p>\n

I will probably try taking the Sphyr to another tournament this year, I\u2019m still planning on going to the Southern Regional and the UK Nationals for certain and it\u2019ll either be the Sphyr or the Rebels (because they are probably my best painted team). I know that Dale is aiming to get to every regional this year, who knows if we will face each other again in Brighton or Nottingham\u2026<\/p>\n

Finally, here are some of the painted teams from the event! I\u2019ve forgotten who they all belong to, because I am an awful awful person. If you want to correct me on anything, please comment below! It was really difficult to choose my favourite, every time I looked I had two favourites\u2026 then I went for another more detailed perusal and came back with two totally different favourites\u2026 it was a tough decision and I don\u2019t remember who I voted for in the end. Here\u2019s the few I managed to grab a picture of – enjoy!<\/p>\n

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This year was a huge improvement for the tournament. There were fourteen players overall, coming from Bristol, East Anglia and even Wales! Genuine Welsh people! And just after Mantic added \u201cand South West\u201d to the name, too. I\u2019d been intending to bring the Asterians, but had screwed up the painting a bit so took the … <\/p>\n

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