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[piMaster]

Lots of great battles fought at GenCon this year. Thanks to everyone who came out to play. Here are the results from the tournaments:

World Championship
1. Daniel Burkley
2. John Monnett
3. Jim Rayborn
4. John Harrington

Sealed Box
1. Bradley Swanson
2. John Koslow
3. Chuck Pint
4. Jeff Chen

Battlefest
1. Jim Rayborn
2. Chuck Pint
3. Daniel Burkley
4. Cliff Wiggs

No Magicians
1. Daniel Burkley
2. John Koslow
3. Pat Pint
4. John Harrington

Single Race
1. Chuck Pint
2. John Koslow
3. Cliff Wiggs
4. John Monnett

Misfit Monster
1. John Harrington
2. John Monnett
3. Bradley Swanson
4. Pat Pint

Player's Choice
1. Daniel Burkley
2. John Koslow

[dburkley]

I would like to thank Brad and John for their time and effort to put on the Dragon Dice events at GENCON 2008. I'm glad I could return the favor on one occasion by moderating the "Sealed Pack" event so you guys (and Chuck) could participate.

It was my pleasure to meet Chuck, Pat, John, Brad, Cliff, Tiffany, and Jim, as well as all the other players. I enjoyed every game I played with each of you (although I never faced Tiffany across the tabletop). I learned a lot of "magic tricks" from the various blue-colored magicians that many players relied on. Chuck's were rather sneaky and full of surprises. Jim's blew by me faster than I could bat an eyelash. Pat's summoned those viscious blue/black Dragons that literally ate every last die in my army during one game. John K's and John M's were just plain nasty with Lightning Strikes (John M's took out 5 Goblin Riders/Trolls at one clip). Trolls can forgive a lot of "sins", but maybe it's time I started using magicians...

The last time I attended GENCON was 1999. I'll have to see about attending a bit more frequently...
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Daniel Burkley
US National Champion (DEXCON 2007, 2009, 2010)
World Champion (GENCON 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014)
Battlefest Champion: DEXCON 2008, 2011, GENCON 2009, 2010 (co-champion), 2011, 2017)
"No Magicians": GENCON 2008
"Single Race": DEXCON 2008, GENCON 2010, 2011, 2014 (co-champion), 2017

[ddicerc]

Jim beat Chuck in Battlefest? That might qualify as one of the bigger upsets in GenCon history.

And for those who thought that having a 13-year-old National champion was no big deal, now it turns out he beat 2 World Champions (2006 and 2008) to win it. Maybe I should get Jon out to GenCon next year...
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Steve "DDice" Braun
The Diceman's Gaming Pages: http://ddicerc.weebly.com
2014-2015 U.S. National Champion
(Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...)

[chuckpint]

Actually Jim and I did not play each other in Battlefest. Jim won 4 straight games however. I had two straight wins, a draw (to John K) and a loss on time (to Dan).

Jim at some point, I'd like to take on your army. I still think I could beat it....
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You can never have too many dice.
First Place at the first ever Daemon Dice sealed starter tournament.
Battlefest tied for first GenCon 2012
Single Race Champion GenCon 2008-2009, Sealed Box Champion GenCon 2007,2009,
My collection is 21,500 Dragon Dice, 20,000 Daemon Dice, and others (too many to count).

[piMaster]

Okay, Chuck and Jim will play a Battlefest match for their first game on saturday while the rest of us play the month's format. After that they can join us in the second round.

[DEEPBLUEB2]

[chuckpint]

Just to be fair, I'll post my Battlefest army:

2 Flatland Standing Stones
4 Villages (one of each)
5 Dragonfoals of 4 colors (black,blue,gold,red)
3 Gold/Red Hybrid Wyrms

2 Gold Medallions
2 Antelope-folk
1 Horse-folk
8 Necromancers
8 Wolverine-Folk
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You can never have too many dice.
First Place at the first ever Daemon Dice sealed starter tournament.
Battlefest tied for first GenCon 2012
Single Race Champion GenCon 2008-2009, Sealed Box Champion GenCon 2007,2009,
My collection is 21,500 Dragon Dice, 20,000 Daemon Dice, and others (too many to count).

[Deeghter]

Congratulations to the winners!!!
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Mr. Green Fan Club President

Forum Games Record: W 5 / L 10

www.dragondicer.com
SFR's German electro-punk-bluegrass artist Deeghter @@ My S&JW Memorial Space! Tanx, Steve!

[cliffwiggs]

[cliffwiggs]

[dburkley]

One thing I noticed at GenCon that I had not noticed at DEXCON was that many players had customized play-aids for their Dragon Dice games (as did I). These ranged from purely functional to very colorlful and/or imaginative.

Many (but not all) players used "place-holders" for their dice to represent the Campaign, Home, and Horde armies. John K's were very customized and colorful, with what appeared to be original artwork. Cliff used Dragon Dice artwork as a starting point for his customized place-holders (which also included those for the DUA, BUA, Reserve and Summoning Pool). Cliff (oops, I meant Chuck) and Pat used white plastic lids with printed labels. I used a word processor to label card stock, using matching colors with the army I played with (black on yellow, in this case - but no artwork). I took some pictures during the convention that show some of these creative play-aids(and if I can figure out how to display them in the forum, I'll do so).

Players used either the Dragon Dice shields or the lid from the Battle Box as a screen to set up their armies at the start of a match.

I appeared to be the only one to bring a round dice-rolling tray for tossing my dice in, which I placed off to the side of the opposing armies. The tabletop worked just as well for everyone else, with only a couple or rare occasions where the dice would "wander" off the table.
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Daniel Burkley
US National Champion (DEXCON 2007, 2009, 2010)
World Champion (GENCON 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014)
Battlefest Champion: DEXCON 2008, 2011, GENCON 2009, 2010 (co-champion), 2011, 2017)
"No Magicians": GENCON 2008
"Single Race": DEXCON 2008, GENCON 2010, 2011, 2014 (co-champion), 2017

[cliffwiggs]

[cliffwiggs]

piMaster, do you still have the tournament sheets which show who played who and the result of every game?

I'd like to use that as seed data to do some test analysis...
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Multiplayer Champion Gencon11/Battlefest Champion(tied) GenCon10/World Champion GenCon07/National Champion Origins05/Intermediate Champion GenCon02/Novice Champion Origins99

[piMaster]

I gave them to Chuck.

[cliffwiggs]

I know Chuck is very busy, so I can wait an indefinate amount of time, but I would like to get these eventually. I dl'ed some tournament ranking software and want to see what it does with a small amount of real data.
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Multiplayer Champion Gencon11/Battlefest Champion(tied) GenCon10/World Champion GenCon07/National Champion Origins05/Intermediate Champion GenCon02/Novice Champion Origins99

[chuckpint]

I'll scan them and send you the scans. Someday soon.....
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You can never have too many dice.
First Place at the first ever Daemon Dice sealed starter tournament.
Battlefest tied for first GenCon 2012
Single Race Champion GenCon 2008-2009, Sealed Box Champion GenCon 2007,2009,
My collection is 21,500 Dragon Dice, 20,000 Daemon Dice, and others (too many to count).

[koslowj]

[cliffwiggs]

If you have historical data that would be awesome.

more data points to play with.
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Multiplayer Champion Gencon11/Battlefest Champion(tied) GenCon10/World Champion GenCon07/National Champion Origins05/Intermediate Champion GenCon02/Novice Champion Origins99

[cliffwiggs]

Just a friendly reminder to Chuck and John about past historical Gencon data, including who played who.

I still want to set this up via a Chess ranking system and see what it looks like.

if its good I'll add it to the website.
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Multiplayer Champion Gencon11/Battlefest Champion(tied) GenCon10/World Champion GenCon07/National Champion Origins05/Intermediate Champion GenCon02/Novice Champion Origins99