October 4th is the first Tournament that is being put on by TIAT Gaming! Our first foray into the world of tournament gaming will be a doozy! So far we have 8 teams registered for a total of 16 players. We have room for up to 40 people to come and play some games and maybe win the tourney. Awards will be given for Best Over All, Best Appearance, and Best General! I can't wait to toil away an entire day off just to see a bunch of random strangers (and friends as well) come together to lay waste to the opposing players carefully planned out army. I am also hoping to see some beautifully painted armies as well. Sadly, my contribution to the painted portion will be mediocre at best.
All in all...I think it is going to be great. The process of getting something organized and up and running smoothly is insane. I have always thought that organizing an e vent is like trying to control a bunch of spastic cracked-out monkeys that are all trying to run in a thousand different directions all at once. Usually anything that can go wrong does go wrong and in our case it appears that most of it did. The place that we were going to use to build custom trophies dropped the ball in a royal fashion, so my partner in crime has had to work over-time to build the trophies. I think they will look great and my hats off to Mr. Moore for all of his hard work and dedication to the cause.
I will freely admit that Joel has put in way more work than should be expected of a single person. He has taken it upon himself to deal with the City of Redding, make the terrain, make the trophies, print out all the score cards and packets, get the tables set up and basically he is a one-show. I, on the other hand, have helped to glue together the figures used on top of the trophies and have done some of the background logistics like learning the Tournament Pairing Software, taking some of the pictures used for our packet and generally hounding one of the local gaming stores to see what type of support they are going to be providing for us.
As far as corralling those spastic crack-out monkeys, they are still running all over the place…and honestly are really just a mild distraction that are designed to make things appear more difficult than it really is. Like my cohorts and I learned last year at Dundracon when we hosted our first LARP, we spent so much time trying to figure out every detail and in the end all of our participants applauded us and all had a good time. Which for me at least is the goal, I just want all of our players to have a good time. I hope that all of our participants tomorrow at the Team Tournament have fun and enjoy themselves and ultimately want to come back for our next tournament…when we get around to it and have no worries we will.
- G -
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