IWF - Alexandria Virginia, USA - May 22-24, 2009

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Sat May 23, 2009 10:08 am

Willing widows in many cases is my guess.

spike · Post by **spike** » Sat May 23, 2009 10:20 am

philqw78 wrote:And Dave, does that make me best 'cos I tanned your arse on Monday, or did you just need a little bit of humility before you went.

Careful Phil, he could win!

timmy1 · Post by **timmy1** » Sat May 23, 2009 10:21 am

When we return without a trophy?

shall · Post by **shall** » Sat May 23, 2009 4:54 pm

What news from the front?

Si

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Sat May 23, 2009 5:34 pm

shall wrote:What news from the front?

Si

This is serious, a beer is riding on the result of the Shaw vs Handley match.

shall · Post by **shall** » Sat May 23, 2009 6:28 pm

And we need the next round so we can find a suitable bet for then too!! And I've already drunk the beer so may be 2 out of pocket!

Si

petedalby · Post by **petedalby** » Mon May 25, 2009 11:34 am

Just wanted to record my thanks to Dan Hazelwood for organising a great tournament and to everyone else who helped make the weekend such a success.

I had 6 great games against people I’d never played before, all played in a very positive spirit – so big thanks also to Steve, Mike, Mark, Silvio, Dave & Terry.

Terrific hospitality from our American cousins – especially Scott & Mike.

And well done to Ricky Jones for a well deserved 3rd place.

Commiserations to Dave Ruddock who led the competition from start to finish but who had a really tough draw and fell at the final hurdle.

Huge thanks to Paul Woolerton – aka Scrumpy – for the ride to and from the airport – we just made it back in time!

And thanks to all the Brits - especially Nik for bringing the trophy back for me - hope there was no excess baggage charge!

Hopefully see you guys for the next one?

Cheers

Pete

michaelguth · Post by **michaelguth** » Mon May 25, 2009 3:36 pm

Any idea what armies players were using?

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Mon May 25, 2009 3:39 pm

All the runners & riders were listed on the IWF 2009 site.

Pete used Ottomans, Dave had his Skythians & Ricky used Anglo-Irish.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Mon May 25, 2009 3:50 pm

michaelguth wrote:Any idea what armies players were using?

http://www.alexandria2009.com/alexandri ... 09_007.htm

babyshark · Post by **babyshark** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:23 pm

I, too, wish to thank Dan for organizing such a fun event. In the six games I only played one person that I had ever played against before, and that was many years ago under DBM, not FoG. So six fresh opponents, which is always a lovely thing. One of them was Terry Shaw who was kind enough to give me a very convincing demonstration of why an all cavalry army has no chance against longbows. I built the army expecting to see a lot of shooty cav and light horse, but in the end only played against one. <sigh>

After three rounds I was within striking distance of the top, but then it all slipped away over the next three. I assign blame to lack of sleep, too much beer, poor alignment of the stars, and so on. Oh, and a large portion of operator error.

All in all, great fun.

Marc

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Tue May 26, 2009 1:35 pm

I too must add my thanks to Dan for running such an excellent tournament, and to his assistants, especially the lady who helped him on Friday & Saturday. ( who is sat next to me as I type

)

I had 5 great games against people I had never played before, and enjoyed each and every game thoroughly. Learned some stuff, and each opponent was a gentleman.

Saving my pennies for 2010 !

Andy1972 · Post by **Andy1972** » Tue May 26, 2009 9:31 pm

Where is it in 2010?

Scrumpy · Post by **Scrumpy** » Tue May 26, 2009 9:48 pm

Not sure, but saving just the same.

hammy · Post by **hammy** » Tue May 26, 2009 10:02 pm

Andy1972 wrote:Where is it in 2010?

It should be in Europe, probably either Spain or the UK.

At present I am not aware of a definite location.

Andy1972 · Post by **Andy1972** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:01 am

Unless i win the lottery or some US sports group pays for the airfare.. I dont see that happening for me.. Though i was starting to plan on saving for a trip to Scotland with some friends in about 2-3 years... But we would be staying with his sister.