Forums

I was thinking of hosting a tournament here in Finland in January or February next year. I have quite a bit of experience in minis games tournaments but not so for Eden tournies, so anyone held any?

The crazy thing is that since the Eden boards take up so little space, I could hold the tournament at my home even. Might even be able to convince my wife to bake a cake or something! Coffee/tea and cake for the participants

But I digress...

If I've understood correctly, there have been approximately a gazillion tournaments in France, so the tournament rules are mature so the French view would be super welcome but I'm also very interested in hearing from other places and people.

Some topics I've been wondering about:

1) How long are the rounds? I've found Eden to be substantially faster to play than other skirmish games I've played (Malifaux, Hell Dorado, Confrontation, Alkemy and so on) - would one hour fifteen minutes be enough for a tournament game? Four games would then take five hours and with some time between rounds and a lunch break, the whole even would be a bit over six hours, which sounds nice and sweet.

2) Sideboards? Are they used? And if so, how big?

3) NPFs? I have some and could get them painted but not enough for many tables. So would it be silly to have one table feature them (and try to get as many people as possible to sit one game there)?

4) Tournament points? Wins worth two points, ties worth one, losses worth zero, and then victory point difference as a tie breaker?

Edit: 5) Also, do you use the weather table?

Hi ! And great news, holding a tournament at home, that's a sweet idea !
So here are some advices :
1) How long are the rounds? One hour and half, top, is enough even for the slower players. But that is if everyone knows the rules well. If not, you could make it a bit longer, but my main advice would be to supervise the first preparation phase : as the referee, you should tell everyone what to do and explain each step. It is sometime the hardest phase to grasp completely the first time. Do it together once and it should be good.

2) Sideboards? Are they used? And if so, how big? I'm not sure, what do you mean by 'sideboards' ?

3) NPFs? No NPF unless someone plays the Sacred hunt. At least not for the first tournament

4) Tournament points? Wins worth three points, draw worth one point and zero if you lose. The difference of VP is added at the end of each game and the result is used at the end to distinguish ties for any places.

5) Also, do you use the weather table? No weather, you could also forbid the use of the related TC to avoid problems.

And finally, a) no changes of fighters and/or team during the tournament, same 100 points for all games ; b) players cannot play the same Mission card twice during the tournament, they must play four different missions (during a four games tournament, of course).

And you're ready

Thank you, sounds awesome! Keeping it simple (No NPFs, no weather) for the first tournament sounds like the way to go, for sure.

When I told the wife about this, she started instantly thinking about making a pie or two and apparently one cake isn't enough - it should be two or a cake and some cookies or something. Heh, she's awesome!

Sideboards are the idea of having a small force of alternative minis that you can use to customize your force for a given game once you know your opponent's faction. They are good for some games (and some are wholly created with the idea of using those - Malifaux for example allows you to pick any models from you faction once you've found out your opponent's faction and the mission) but I can see that being allowed to customize for the missions might lead to over-optimized lists. Also, it's easier to enforce having painted forces, if it's just the one exact 100 points force, so sounds good.