Spike! Magazine Tournament 2010

Random thoughts: Well this year Kavin ran away with it. With 22 TDs in 6 games, his Coaching score was well enough ahead of everyone else that he was able to overwhelm his less-than-stellar paint job and land at the top of the pack. Maybe some of this came from the rest of you just pounding the heck out of one another: I can’t believe we beat last year’s per-game casualties, but this time you hammered it out to the tune of 2.3 Casualties per game per team! I don’t know if that’s owing to the addition of the “blowout” bonus or not: seems some of you figured you’d play the fast teams, like I’d hoped, but the bashier among you took advantage of that and you sure put the B in BB. Or maybe everyone was just bashier in general, or that the skill purchases made the difference … this is all just Theory Bowl, but I really liked the team build system this year. I think it made for many more versatile teams. And I was glad to see Kavin and Dave Sutton at the same table near the end; their rivalry from previous events just had to be settled once and for all.

All said, this one felt pretty smooth to me, apart from the round 3 glitch. Good thing that Overlord, when it’s not seeding correctly, has a suspicion-arousing habit of favouring alphabetical order. That was a dead giveaway that we needed to do it manually (which is not that hard to do when you have the whole room helping), and then to fix it before Round 4. Super special thanks to Craig McAree and Steve Lemky for their help with that.

I’d like to thank our sponsors, Craving for a Game and Imperial Hobbies, as well as Avatars of War and, once more, Ryan Sen for providing door prizes to give away at the end. And thanks again to all the coaches for coming out, playing, giving good feedback and suggestions, and generally just helping to build up West Coast tabletop. We had guests from Oregon, from California, from Edmonton, and one class-skipping Ivy-leaguer from New York! Hopefully none of his professors are reading this, but man, that’s one classy way to support the game, missing your first week of school to fly over! Overall the turnout was amazing. If we’d only had 20 coaches, the whole thing would have felt unnecessary; with 48, it seems that we’re here to stay!

I want to see even more coaches at the next one. This is only the beginning for the Spike!  -Mike

Player Name	Coaching (180)	Sports (48)	Painting (40)	TD +	Cas +	Cas -	Overall (268)
Kavinay Kishor	155	34	23	22	9	12	212
Brett Bird	130	38	31	11	14	8	199
Dan Siger	125	37	36	9	9	11	198
Tony Hogan	120	45	28	10	18	19	193
Lee Eisner	140	35	15	12	18	3	190
David Sutton	120	31	34	12	8	15	185
Shane Gabel	130	30	22	15	13	20	182
Steve Lemky	105	37	35	10	12	15	177
Mark Burckhard	120	28	29	12	18	7	177
Dave O'Neill	115	31	28	11	17	9	174
Ignacio Cort Todoli	105	36	32	8	5	9	173
Nathan Funkhouser	120	30	22	7	19	6	172
Owen Parsonage	100	37	30	14	18	12	167
Mike Lawrence	100	34	33	8	25	15	167
Rob Gordon	105	27	34	7	10	13	166
Craig McAree	105	34	25	10	14	10	164
Joseph Patenaude	120	18	26	16	9	20	164
Greg Friesen	110	27	27	10	20	4	164
Jesse Curbello	85	40	36	5	16	2	161
Paul Sabourin-Hertzog	100	32	25	11	3	18	157
Edward Law	85	41	31	12	14	10	157
Ivan Blauhorn	105	33	17	10	21	5	155
Andy Brandt	85	39	30	12	7	12	154
Murray Campbell	95	25	31	9	15	14	151
David Rolstad	90	30	30	7	12	11	150
Sean Cotter	85	29	35	7	29	4	149
Jason Weaver	75	42	32	5	8	19	149
Bob Wolf	75	36	36	5	13	3	147
Shawn Wowk	90	31	24	10	17	9	145
Travis Childs	100	22	21	10	21	7	143
Michael Adams	65	38	38	7	13	20	141
Cameron Peltz	75	38	27	10	12	10	140
Damion Gilzean	75	38	25	9	17	8	138
Jeff Ridenour	80	27	27	5	15	20	134
Steve Barry	80	29	25	11	5	27	134
Roger Reisinger	75	30	28	7	10	12	133
Darryl Powell	70	34	29	5	15	12	133
Kristian Hargreaves	65	37	30	8	14	13	132
Tyler Reeves	75	33	22	5	37	15	130
Ryan Sen	65	30	32	8	8	26	127
Simon Thomsen	80	26	19	10	8	18	125
Paul Brown	65	27	20	6	21	8	112
Matt Blauhorn	60	31	13	4	16	13	104
Jon Dawes	40	37	27	5	8	33	104
Sean Conrad	40	32	25	5	8	36	97
Mike Haskins	25	40	24	8	6	31	89
Trent Frostad	35	31	9	4	20	33	75
Geoff Rickard	30	27	9	5	9	21	66