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