What is this all about?
Unhappy with the changes to the
GW Throne of Skulls Grand Tournament?
Wish someone would organise an event like the old
GW GT’s?
With the change in format to the
GW Throne of Skulls Grand Tournament we feel that there is now a demand for a player driven Grand Tournament, where the focus is on a players gaming prowess.
Announcing the UK
40K GT. This is an event organised by a number of well known tournament players and members of the UK gaming club community with the aim of providing a non comp, no holds barred event for gamers.
We hope the UK
40K GT will expand over the years to become one of the UK's premier
40k tournaments. However as with all things we must start small and realistic, therefore for its first year we are holding
a single tournament at Maelstrom Games Eye of the Storm venue on the 26th and 27th March 2011. We envisage this event will prove so successful that we are able to hold regional heats across the UK with a percentage of top finishers qualifying for a Grand Final to decide the UK’s ultimate
40K champion. A number of potential venues across the UK have already pledged their future support and we need your help to make this happen! Yes, this year will be only a single event, but the more popular it proves the greater our scope becomes to expand for the future. Therefore this really is going to be a truly player driven event as its increased size, scope and success will depend upon the support you give.
As we have said this year’s inaugural tournament is being held at Maelstrom Games Eye of the Storm venue on the 26th and 27th March 2011.
Tickets will be £35 which includes a hot/cold buffet lunch on both days, and an evening meal on Saturday.
Tickets will be sold on a first come first served basis and can be purchased on www.uk40kgt.co.uk from Monday 4th October 2010 at 6pm GMT. The event will consist of 6 games at 1750pts over 2 days with no composition restrictions beyond you may only use current and official Games Workshop Warhammer 40,000 Codices (so no Forge World) with the standard force organisation chart. The first round will be a random draw, with subsequent rounds being drawn on a swiss system because if you want to be the best, you have to beat the best!
For full details of the event please download the
RULES PACK There will be a minimum painting standard to be adhered to, similar to that employed over the years at the GW Throne of Skulls Grand Tournaments. This is because all of us prefer to face painted armies across professional built boards and terrain. There will be awards for the best painted army at the event, but there will be no soft scores to speak of. Your final ranking at the event will be based solely upon your gaming prowess. We understand that this may not appeal to everyone, but we feel there are plenty of excellent events across the UK with a stronger hobby over gaming focus; such as Games Workshops own Throne of Skulls Grand Tournament. That is not to say however, that we will tolerate poor sportsmanship (WAACer's) at our events, as we believe that it is entirely possible to play both tough and fair. Winning and having fun are not mutually exclusive and we hope to prove that with this event.
We have also set up a small forum;
http://independentukgrandtournaments.freeforums.org. This is intended to be a venue for people to discuss the particulars of the UK 40K GT, whether that be submitting a rules question for the FAQ team, discussing travel arrangements, army lists, or even just laying down some smack talk.
Hopefully this has whetted your appetite for the event and you are already ear marking you calendars for the 26th and 27th March 2011. As we have mentioned above tickets can be purchased direct from
www.uk40kgt.co.uk on Monday 4th October 2010 at 6pm GMT.
Until then however, "Stay Frosty"
Regards
The UK 40K GT Committee: Bunny, Kong, Lash Machine, Lord Flashheart, Mattrs, MJayC50, Nature Boy and Skcuzzlebumm
ENTRANTS LISTN.B If you see you name down multiple times this means you need to email:
uk40kgt@gmail.com and confirm who is coming please.
1 Gaz Jones
2 Chris Green
3 Filippo Cipriani
4 Chris Penfold
5 Gordon Wilson
6 John Jasinski
7 David Richardson
8 James Karch
9 Simon Ellis
10 Pete Ganderton
11 Andrew Bampton
12 Tim King
13 Graham White
14 James Meikle
15 Alex Harrison
16 Gary Marsh
17 Robert Kancidrowski
18 Alex West
19 Michael Bolton
20 Neil Gibbons
21 Rob Cullen
22 Craig Green
23 Mark Burstall
24 Josh Roberts
25 Mike Newman
26 Allen El-Sour
27 Gareth Donnelly
28 Gareth Donnelly
29 Adam Smith
30 James Le Grys
31 Jake Wilstrop
32 Matthew Tennant
33 Stu Dickson
34 Lee Ridgeway
35 Harry Allen
36 Andrew Lane
37 Simon Thorne
38 James Ramsay
39 Matthew Robertson
40 Martin Ramsden
41 Graham Apperley
42 Nathan Roberts
43 Kiran Reddy
44 Sharan Reddy
45 Nick Simmerson
46 Andy Oakham
47 Walter Simpson
48 Biggs Hancock
49 Matt Gough
50 Steve Peters
51 Chris Bowbrick
52 Peter Sidaway
53 Jack Rawcliffe-Foo
54 Karl Bickley
55 Andrew Rutter
56 Gary Percival
57 Alessandro Azzone
58 S R Smith
59 Simon Edwards
60 Nicholas Hyland
61 Rob Peck
62 James Duguid
63 Callum Duguid
64 Ben Harris
65 Andrew Taylor
66 Nicola Taylor
67 Sean Gill
68 Steve Hedges
69 Oliver Hedges
70 Martin Barrow
71 John Holland
72 Chris Cook
73 Thomas Jackson
74 Piers Barrow
75 Michael Simpson
76 Paul Turner
77 Roy Finch-Spencer
78 Rob Duck
79 Richard Woods
80 Karl Darley
81 Steve Revis
82 Phil Maclean
83 Nick Tydesley
84 Joby Davis
85 Douglas Lang
86 Richard Simms
87 Liam Royle
88 Scott Mills
89 Peter Cooke
90 Michael Purvis
91 A Roberts
92 Andy Garrard
93 Brian Crew
94 Geoff Hamilton
95 Rob Simms
96 Paul Burke
97 Andy Smith
98 Jason Annette
99 Bob Wolstencroft
100 Chris Dickinson
101 Sam Dickinson
102 Lefteris Gavalas
103 Iain Miller
104 Mark Dickinson
105 Gaz Taylor
106 Timothy Smith
107 Michael Smith
108 Graham Simpson
109 Justin Read
110 Darren Dougan
111 Dan Fortnum
112 Charlie Smith
113 Dan Fortnum
114 Scott Nichols
115 Maurice Peachey
116 Maurice Peachey
117 Paul Croghan
118 COMMITTEE
119 COMMITTEE
120 COMMITTEE
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RESERVES LISTPlease email
uk40kgt@gmail.com if you wish to be added to the reserve list.
1 Nigel King
2 Alan Banebridge
3 Ian Sturrock
4 Stuart Robinson
5 Mike Clark
6 Courtney Rhodes
7 Lee Brown
8 John Humphries
9 Michael Pike
10 Kevin Weaver
11 Mike Clark
12 Daniel Whitten
13 Ben Turnbull
14 Richard Arnold
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