Battle At The Mines Of Oberonn - An impression

Last Saturday we had our very first Lord Of The Rings / Hobbit tournament. The Battle at the Mines Of Oberonn. Not the least bit inspired by a certain scene from a certain movie ;)

Below you can find a little report of the tournament through my eyes. I heard quite a few mmm's and oooohhh's during the day, saw a lot of smiling faces and some quirky dice rolls. So I will keep to the basics as it is impossible to get into detail of every battle.

We were very pleased that we had 14 attendees, 7 who are not part of our little community! I did not include myself in the count as I was not a player, but was simply there to be judgemental (tongue in cheek, in case you were wondering!). That is too say, you need an organizer present who will make sure everything runs smoothly and to clarify any rules questions.

We used a sort of swiss ranking system to see who played against who, but offcourse I did manipulate it a bit for round one. For one, there are no scores yet and two, it was actually random decided who played who. I only made sure that atleast in round one none of the local crowd played each other, so all new faces across from each other at the tables.

Useally in a tournament environment the players on table one are the ones on top of the ranking, but we had such a nice variety of tables that it was decided to also randomize who played at which table. The dice proofed to be a little fickle however, so Werner ended up playing all three rounds at the same place. Everyone else moved a round quite a lot though!

We also had some trophies prepared for the first three places and a wooden spoon for the last place. This in addition to the entrance fee that was distributed amongst the first three places and the price for best painted army. Note to myself, I need wome work on my writing with a paint brush!

The best painted army was judged by myself, Koen (the Golden Goblin President) and Alan (a honorary Golden Goblin who happened to stop by).

Photo's from during the tournament are included below as are the results.

I would like to end with thanking all contestants and congratulating our winners. Dylan, Stefaan, Coen and Werner.

Round 1

Stefaan F - Witse d R 

Jasper G - Coen U

Werner K - Sebastian R

Dylan C - Jasper L

Timothy J - Mats C

Benjamin S - Michiel Vdb

Kristof G - Helen W

Round 2

Michiel - Werner

Coen - Helen

Mats - Stefaan

Dylan - Witse

Timothy - Kristof

Jasper G - Jasper L

Benjamin - Sebastian

Round 3

Stefaan - Coen

Dylan - Werner

Michiel - Mats

Benjamin - Jasper L

Helen - Timothy

Jasper G - Kristof

Sebastian - Witse

Final results (VP is tie breaker)

Name Points VP Dylan 85 61 Stefaan 85 54 Coen 60 34 Werner 60 23 Benjamin 55 56 Mats 55 44 Timothy 55 36 Sebastian 45 44 Jasper L 45 37 Michiel 45 35 Helen 45 18 Jasper 40 32 Witse 16 18 Kristof 15 5