For today’s article I’m going to go over day 2 of the Las Vegas open
As I said before I found out that I was to play tau the morning of day two … so I did what any sensible person in Vegas would do and went out the night before and purchased one of the meter long margaritas and boy that was easily the biggest misplay of the night!
So round 4 begins and I get to the table before my opponent and the first thing I do is mark out objectives and such along the table set my models up on the side then slam back 4 Advil’s and proceed to get 3. Cups of water
Once my opponent showed up we start talking and I made sure to inform him of that state that I would be in the rest of our game
So we set up and get everything ready and the game goes exactly as I had though Magnus got sniped to death turn 1 and then morty got popped turn two and from there it was just a game of how many turns does it take to kill all my plagues … well it took5 so I ended up losing on the top of turn 5 with a score of 31-15
After the round was over and before pairings were posted I looked at bcp placings to gauge who I may be facing off against for round 5 and it was either Colin Sherman playing his Ynari list … or Konrad aka time out a friend of mine from Toronto …. alas it turned into the battle of Canadians and I had to face konrads druhkari army full of talos grotesques allied with some craft world psykers. This was my first game playing with a clock so I was on edge a bit, but eventually made me fall in love with clock play nothing keeps people honest and focused on choices like time ticking down to death.
Also to note Konrad was the team coach for ETC team canada last year so I will fully admit he is a far more veted and experienced player then myself so I didn’t have high hopes going into the game
After a long dragged out fight Konrad took the victory over me 34-23 not a bad showing and I still left the table happy as when you play a friend imo doesn’t always matter who wins
So this brings me to a losing record of 2-3 heading into the final game of the event and I get paired against admech with a knight
I feel fantastic about the matchup as that’s kinda what I’m good against. And really didn’t care what happened as were playing the bottom tables just wanted a fun and clean game… unfortunately this is not what happened at all
During the game my opponent was very on edge the whole game and on more then one occasion lashed out at me for rulings in which I proved myself right and then began questioning my integrity asking why I rolled different size dice or dice for specific things and so on.
This led me to on turn 3 telling him that I’m not here to play this kind of warhammer and in fact even though I was winning and in position to win the game to pack up my dice and models and walk away from the game.
Now i don’t consider myself a salty person or player. In fact I pride myself on ensuring that both players walk away from the game having enjoyed it and this is the first time in any game I have ever played where I felt that the only way to not lose my temper would be to walk away from the situation even if it cost me the game.
Later on I found out that this individual was playing on one of the biggest and most well known 40k teams in the itc which made me even more shocked (although I will not name the individual or the club in this article)
So that was my 40k champs experience I ended the event going 2-4 which to many would be upsetting but I consider it a victory no matter what. This was my first year of trying to break into the comp scene of the game and I really enjoyed my experience at LVO and will 100% be going back in 2020 but with hungry eyes! I met some amazing people and left with many new friends as well as a new look on the game, and I urge those who are worried about going because they think they will lose to buck up and go for it. Only 8-16 of the players who attend do not receive a loss during the main event so there’s nothing to worry about just go and play 6 of the best games of 40k that you possibly can and enjoy your time. Visit the vendors , play the Sunday RTT or long war team tourney join a paint class or just come and hang out … whatever tickles your pickle you can find it in Vegas
Thanks to all of you who have read this and I look forward to any feed back y’all provide and any input on what you’d like to see in future articles
Cheers and may you always roll 6s
-Mike
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