The awards section is a work in progress, feel free to email your suggestions of what types of awards you would like to see at the Iron Halo.
Best General - The Best General is the person who has the best win-loss record at the end of the tournament. Only your record on the table top is used to determine the overall tournament champion.
Best Overall - The Best Overall is commonly referred to as the “Renaissance Man” at other tournaments and it's the individual with the highest total score combination of: - Battle Points (33.3%) - Painting Points (33.33%) -Sportsmanship (33.3%) This represents the best overall player, who does well on the tabletop, but also has a well painted army and is a great opponent to play against.
Best Painted - The 5 players that receive the highest possible painting points for their army based on the 2017 Iron Halo Painting Rubric are finalists for the Best Painted award. Players will be asked when they check in on Saturday night if they’d like to enter there army for this award. The judging for this award will be done during Armies on Parade on Sunday during lunch where 40K tournament participants can vote for their favorite painted army. The army must be a total of 1850 army list points to qualify as to set a limit on amount of models required for judging.
Best Sport - This award is give to the player who best exemplifies the spirit of the game by his/her attitude, demeanor, and treatment of fellow competitors, teammates, and judges while accepting victory or defeat graciously. The tournament judges and organizers will pick the winner based on their observations as well as opponent feedback. In addition each player will have one vote to choose who they think the best sport winner should be.
Best Team - This award is given to the team with the best team average swiss points with 300 bonus swiss points points for each team member who is participating. For example, if a team's average swiss point score is 1500 and have 7 players in attendance that team would earn an additional 2100 swiss points bringing their team total to 2600.
Individual Best Grand Alliance - This award is given to the person who has the best win-loss record in a particular Grand Alliance at the end of the tournament.
Best General - The Best General is the person who has the best win-loss record at the end of the tournament. Only your record on the table top is used to determine the overall tournament champion.
Best Overall - The Best Overall is commonly referred to as the “Renaissance Man” at other tournaments and it's the individual with the highest total score combination of: - Battle Points (33.3%) - Painting Points (33.33%) -Sportsmanship (33.3%) This represents the best overall player, who does well on the tabletop, but also has a well painted army and is a great opponent to play against.
Best Painted - The 5 players that receive the highest possible painting points for their army based on the 2017 Iron Halo Painting Rubric are finalists for the Best Painted award. Players will be asked when they check in on Saturday night if they’d like to enter there army for this award. The judging for this award will be done during Armies on Parade on Sunday during lunch where 40K tournament participants can vote for their favorite painted army. The army must be a total of 1850 army list points to qualify as to set a limit on amount of models required for judging.
Best Sport - This award is give to the player who best exemplifies the spirit of the game by his/her attitude, demeanor, and treatment of fellow competitors, teammates, and judges while accepting victory or defeat graciously. The tournament judges and organizers will pick the winner based on their observations as well as opponent feedback. In addition each player will have one vote to choose who they think the best sport winner should be.
Best Team - This award is given to the team with the best team average swiss points with 300 bonus swiss points points for each team member who is participating. For example, if a team's average swiss point score is 1500 and have 7 players in attendance that team would earn an additional 2100 swiss points bringing their team total to 2600.
Individual Best Grand Alliance - This award is given to the person who has the best win-loss record in a particular Grand Alliance at the end of the tournament.
