Quake City Rumble – Wrap-up

First, and it has to be said, this was by far and away the best tournament I have been to in bit (since waaaghpaca!), and the best QCR I’ve ever been to.  And the big change I think was my not caring.  My goal going in was to stay just below the clouds, and I think it worked well.  I didn’t go hard core for all the bonus points, taking small wins early which put me against larger wins but softer comps later on.  This gave me better games in general, and really much better match ups.  I think all of my games could have been big wins for me if I had been going for such (and the dice didn’t end up as they did in my two non-wins – damn that 1 peasant, fleeing less than 2 inches from the board edge and my failing to hit/wound on 2s general not killing 5 chameleon skinks with 12 shots and then letting them kill her.

But a blast.  I didn’t stay for final scores.  The 2012 QCR I thought I was doing hot, going 4-1 with huge wins and when I saw the final standings, putting me in the lower half I was just crushed and it basically ruined the weekend by leaving a bitter taste.  This time I left early (for this and another personal reason) and it really separated the final score reaction from my feelings for the weekend.  Last year I left not thinking I’d go back, this year I left looking forward to next year.  Great event.

In the end I placed 33.  If I that peasant had run off round 3 and in round 5 my general had managed to kill 5 measly skinks before dying (and therefore lived) I would have earned another 16 points, which would have put me 161 and tied for 6^th (not thinking about how if I had won round 3 I would have played different people rounds 4 and 5).  So two small things for a big difference in score.  All in all happy.  I focused on my soft scores more where normally I focus just on battle.  I think it paid off.

And of course, here is my running overall record for 2013:

Dark Elves – 23w/8l/1d

Ogres – 2w/3l/0d
Skaven – 3w/4w/1d

Singles – 19w/11l/1d

Doubles – 8w/3l/0d

Overall – 28w/15l/2d