If only I was good at organising things...
If UK tournaments become a thing, I hereby volunteer my organisational skills.
Well, and I volunteer the UK convention that I run, only I can't imagine people particularily wanting to shamble up to Leicester for a Sentinels Tournament.
FTFY
I would totally shamble DOWN to Leicester from t'frozen north for a Tactics tournament. And I volunteer my do-what-the-person-in-charge-says skills!
I might even be persuaded to shamble down from t'North as well.
If you guys wind up organizing a UK Tactics tournament, definitely let me know. I can send you stuff to help with the tournament as well as helping with publicity.
This Silverleaf derailed thread needs a new title
edit:much better
Woo, thanks Paul!
Seriously, we should do this. Shall we do this?
Hey Paul, don’t you have to put on a hat to organize a tournament?
If you do this I hope you can record some of the matches. Maybe Paul can throw in Christopher and Trin for commentary
The con in Leicester is only on every two years, so we wanted to do it there, we'd unfortunatly have to wait til July 2016, as we just had one last year. I'd be up for that, at any rate, as it would only require a minimum of effort on my part, and we have the space, etc.
Running a UK tournament this year would be a bit of a challenge, because two of the three conventions (UK Games Expo and Nine Worlds) that would probably be suitable are already too soon/booked out, respectively. Dragonmeet isn't, but I'd have to ask the guys what the conditions are like for a tournament table. All depends on the likely turnout, obviously.
Honestly, if you want it done this year, renting out a pub for a weekend would probably be the easiest thing to do.
I suppose MidCon's a possibility, as it's late in the year.
I know someone who is close to the UK expo organisers, I could reach out to them to see if there's any inroad to add this as a late addition. I guess it depends on how many tables you think you would need. Firstly, I think you ought to get a wriggle on with finding out how many people out there are willing to participate to get an idea of the potential scale of such an event.
Another option to consider might be running it from Leisure Games as they were supportive in hosting >G when they came over a couple of years ago (was it that long ago already?) or you can easily find space at a church hall or Royal British Legion for a fairly small sum. Again, I would suggest checking out a few places for prices and then when you have a gauge on the interest you can find out what it will cost to run the event and maybe >G can think about what sort of support they would want to give if it was worthwhile making it happen.
I am not, unfortuantely, a Tactics player, but I am willing to help with some of this where I can
If of interest, I can enquire with a game-store in Norwich that is open 7 days a week, has lots of tablespace and will have even more after they have moved to a larger location at the end of the month.
If you guys organize a tournament, I'll send an Organized Play Kit (which has posters and rules and brackets, etc) as well as a full set of painted miniatures to use as a prize.
And I live two minutes away from a gaming café here in Liverpool, I can see if they're interested as well.
I guess once you've organised one tournament, it would be relatively easy to apply the same to another location...
I offer my 'make up the numbers and take up space' capabilities!
Southerner here, but not averse to a bit of a travel for a laugh or two.
If it happens at a time in the year when I'm free and have money to spare, I'll come over to the tourament from Ireland. :)
It all went a bit quiet on this iniatitive - considering the hint dropped elsewhere that >G/DHM are considering to have a presence at next year's expo should we think about planning a tournament for then or is there still interest in doing something sooner?