Spike! Magazine Tournament 2009

Random thoughts: Another great year. The scores at the tops of each category were much closer this time around, owing to our going 6 rounds instead of 7. Until we added up the numbers this time, even the winning coaches had no idea they’d done as well as they had. Jesse in particular was surprised to come second overall despite having been 20 Coaching points behind the two leaders, John MacIntosh and Kavinay Kishor. His Sportsmanship and Painting scores nearly pulled him into the lead; if only he’d scored one more TD in either of two games … and wow, it was really a brawl this year: we had 1.9 Casualties per side per game, and a 4-way tie for third place in Casualties Against, with 19 apiece over 6 games. Tyler had a lot to do with that, with his “Game Plan” scoring 33 Casualties on his own, for more than 5 per game! Another amusing event occurred when Kavin had to decide between Coaching and Endzone Hog, mirroring a decision made by Dave Sutton last year, who had to decide between Endzone Hog and Outstanding Painting. So Dave, he “stole” your award last year, and this year you “stole” it back!

Special thanks again to our sponsors, Games Workshop, Imperial Hobbies (Richmond), Craving for a Game (Surrey Central), and Core Games (Brentwood Mall). Thanks too go to the guys who donated prizes, Ryan Sen, Mike McAree, Brett Bird, Lee Eisner, Rob Gordon (and anyone I may have forgotten). Thanks a bunch guys. Special note of thanks to Avatars of War, whose donated models didn’t reach us in time from their shipping centre in Barcelona. We’ll hold on to those models when we get them and use them as prize support for the next event.

Anyway, I promised you scores, so here they are. We had a great time and we hope to see you all (and some more of your friends) at the next one!   -Craig.

	Player Name	NAF ID	Coaching (150)	Sports (40)	Painting (40)	TD +	Cas +	Cas -	Overall (238)
1	John MacIntosh	Atropabelladonna	140	28	26	13	21	10	194
2	Jesse Curbello	Sallacious	120	36	34	9	13	3	190
3	Kavinay Kishor	Warpstone	120	39	27	18	13	19	186
4	Ken Washington	gken1	120	36	30	8	16	2	186
5	Kristian Hargreaves	Wedge22	115	38	32	11	8	7	185
6	Dave Sutton	Da_Scum	110	30	33	16	7	18	173
7	Damion Gilzean	tremere	105	34	32	9	15	8	171
8	Bob Wolf	Punkpogoer	95	41	35	8	12	2	171
9	Trevor Bowser	islandtrevor	105	32	33	14	5	19	170
10	Paul Sabourin-Hertzog	Subhedgehog	105	37	24	11	7	10	166
11	Steve Lemky	Blammaham	95	31	37	6	11	3	163
12	Andy Brandt	Khail	90	34	27	16	4	12	151
13	Lee Eisner	Spaceman_Spiff	95	29	26	9	8	19	150
14	Cale Miller		85	33	31	6	12	8	149
15	Michael McAree	poundfist	90	28	28	11	7	7	146
16	Greg Friesen	Nevyn	95	24	26	15	9	22	145
17	Sean Conrad	Balbaroy	80	36	25	11	8	20	141
18	Simon Thomsen	Dr.Evil	80	32	28	10	4	12	140
19	Ryan Sen	humongeloid	70	31	34	6	4	14	135
20	Rob Gordon	mr.gordon	70	27	35	6	11	7	132
21	Justin Martyn		75	30	25	8	11	5	130
22	Darryl A Powell	Nurglestar	70	27	29	6	14	10	126
23	Marc Frydenlund	ragginbone	70	25	30	4	7	6	125
24	Murray Campbell	Gimli	60	32	33	9	7	19	125
25	Shayne Haugen	strelkov	70	28	26	7	12	18	124
26	Ryan Allen	beruche	60	34	30	5	23	14	124
27	Jon Dawes	endycarus	70	31	16	6	10	16	117
28	Geoff Roscoe	Bear	50	34	31	4	12	15	115
29	Dominic Lepiane		60	31	22	7	10	7	113
30	Robert Hosek	Barraq	55	33	24	5	8	15	112
31	Chris Slater	cas	60	37	11	6	19	9	108
32	Colin Klym	Colin	60	22	26	5	6	10	108
33	Tyler Reeves	lordchaos	30	36	27	1	33	1	93
34	Neil McInnis		30	31	28	2	13	16	89