Britcon

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:20 pm

Sorry if I have cast a dark light on your character.

No thats the shadow ray casts naturally

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:22 pm

I am still however waiting on lists from 3 players.

Can we have some R+R then

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:30 pm

philqw78 wrote:
I am still however waiting on lists from 3 players.
Can we have some R+R then

I expect that I will have them all nicely sorted in the next day or two. The target is the weekend.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:48 pm

Just to complicate things I have just received another list but it is not from anyone I was missing a list from

It seems entries are still popping in.

I will have trhe R&R for the weekend.

jdm · Post by **jdm** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:20 pm

Its looking like around 70+ entries or so for the FOG periods, so a pretty good turnout, with players from France and Spain attending

We will be posting the player list with the armies shortly and after I have procecessed the late entries.

Regards
JDM

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 3:39 pm

The FoG runners and riders for this year's Britcon are now up on the BHGS website http://www.bhgs.co.uk

madaxeman · Post by **madaxeman** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:40 pm

Looks like the 25mm should be sponsored by "Clunk & Clang" rather than Kerr & King..

petedalby · Post by **petedalby** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:05 pm

Great variety in the 15's though - 36 different armies! Shame it's still dominated (geddit?) by Romans - at least 8 different flavours - and that's without the Palmyrans and Selucid Romans.

Should be fun!!

Pete

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:32 pm

FWIW I did a by book breakdown on the lists as I checked them

Swords and Scimitars 15
Immortal Fire 11
Rise of Rome 12
Storm of Arrows 22
Legions Triumphant 11

So there is a bias towards medieval armies. It will be interesting to see how they perform in the end.

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:17 am

What happened to the seedings? This is important with Matts Giant Kiler prize!!!

I think there is an interesting mix of armies - 36 different armies amongs 61 players.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:19 am

dave_r wrote:What happened to the seedings? This is important with Matts Giant Kiler prize!!!

I think there is an interesting mix of armies - 36 different armies amongs 61 players.

Seedings will be posted either today or tomorrow. We have had to have a careful review of seedings to make sure that the wrong people can't win Matt's prize

petedalby · Post by **petedalby** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:52 am

We have had to have a careful review of seedings to make sure that the wrong people can't win Matt's prize

Harsh!!

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:06 am

And here was me thinking that seedings were arrived at by a clear scientific method!!!

I presume Mr Powell is no 1 seed?

davidandlynda · Post by **davidandlynda** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:23 am

I think Mr Ruddock should be seeded as punishment for keeping on so much

David

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:24 am

dave_r wrote:And here was me thinking that seedings were arrived at by a clear scientific method!!!

I presume Mr Powell is no 1 seed?

Actully the seedings are mainly worked out scientifically but as we have only had half a year of rankings I have compensated (scientifically) to prevent a bias towards players who have been able to get to more tournaments so far. Essentially if a player has played three comps they will have a 'full' ranking for seeding. We also have to work out how to fit overseas players (of whom there are several) into the mix.

And Mr Powell is not the No.1 seed. He isn't even the No.2!!!

nikgaukroger · Post by **nikgaukroger** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:38 am

Scientific for a given value of scientific

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:39 am

So am I seedless? My wife wouldn't be surprised and perhaps even relieved.

petedalby · Post by **petedalby** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:08 pm

I believe the technical term for seedless is a 'Jaffa'.

Pete

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 1:23 pm

philqw78 wrote:So am I seedless? My wife wouldn't be surprised and perhaps even relieved.

Err, no. It is just you are not the number 1 or number 2 seed

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:32 pm

Err, no. It is just you are not the number 1 or number 2 seed

Cos I am sad and am also at work I have worked out the seeds playing 15mm from the UK rankings as modified by Hammy's statement above. They are:

1. Phil Powell
2. Paul Cummins
3. Martin Wilkinson
4. Pete Dalby
5. David Fairhurst
6. Bob Amey
7. Steve Clarke
8. Graham Evans
9. Dave Ruddock

Given that you have said Phil is not seeded 1 or 2 that must mean that there are two furriners (no offense meant to any French or Spanish players reading this) seeded first and second. Since there are only four non-English players I suspect that is Olivier Dader and Pedro Sanchez. Although It could be Gilles Wieglsoz or Stephane Brault as well (he says to cover his back)

Given the Giant Killing prize on offer, can I propose that we cap the number of seeds at 10 rather than the usual 16 (given that 25% are normally seeded) please?