A portion of the tournament points will be awarded based upon team painting and presentation. Up to 10 points are awarded based on the criteria below. The official tournament judges will evaluate each team based on these 4 points and not on the aesthetics of the team. This means that any painter of any standard can gain the maximum ten points if he/she puts in the effort and follows the guidelines below. All judges decisions are final.

Based ??? 2 points: All the bases in the team, including sideline staff, are painted and or textured in some manner. Just being painted green is not enough.

Painted ??? 2 points: The team is painted. All models must have at least 3 colors on them. Undercoats must not be visible.

Detailed ??? 2 points: All models have had the details painted in a variety of colors or with noticeable effects. This can be shading or highlighting etc. This discriminates between the merely painted team and the team that has had attention paid to it.

Representative ??? 4 points: All models on the team are representative of the race and position that they are meant to portray. Extra weapons that are not part of a finished and painted figure should be removed. This does not mean that you must use official Blood Bowl miniatures. Only that an Ogre should look like an Ogre, a Dwarf should look like a Dwarf, etc

Important: In order to get the points, all models in the team must fulfill the criteria. If even one model fails, the points will not be awarded.

I have fully painted teams... well, one that meets all the standards at any rate, and if you wanted to apply the 'representative' clause I'd lose all four as my elves are painted as drow (no such thing in BloodHammer world).

Greg

To Uthrac:

--->I think a boycott of point-bonus system is "making the Perfect the enemy of the Good." While I concur with your ideas on accessibility and increase of local player pool size, the point-bonus variety is by far superior to non-painters when compared to the "must be painted or you can't play" rule, which is the other option used in some NAF tourneys (see the recent NA Cup rulebook.)

A separation of Paint and Game is ideal, but the point score compromise is exactly that, a compromise. Staunch Hobbyists aren't guaranteed that every team they play will be up for Best Painted (or even painted at all,) but can take solace in their opponent being nominally penalized for "not caring about the hobby," while Gamers can play in a larger pool of players without worrying they'll be kicked out for not having their whole team based, at a cost of a very low percent chance of the tourney outcome being altered by a painting score.

--->Alternately, any interest on DP's part in having it's own tournament some other weekend?

In looking at these rules again, I will making a correction/clarification in specifying that all players must be numbered.

(RobO, you need a pickup?).

So no big loss

. . . we d just as soon not play with someone so stuck up on such minor "compromises".

Personally, we d rather come to Boston and have a fun time with fun opponents.

that speak volumes of you and the other participants (I'll assume plural since you refered to "we.") Since you have never played a game with me, you're hardly qualified to determined how "fun" I am. *shrug*

...15 minutes to have my food cooked it wasn't bad but nothing fantastic. ...

To each his own, but how many restaurants are you getting served in less that 15 minutes?

Now THIS is really gonna heat-up if you bash Fire And Ice.

why are you still posting on a Beantown thread?