Captains Log - 2706506 Tournament fever is well underway now as the opening games have played out, Brown proving he’s not just a one-trick Necron by winning his opener whereas May and myself played out a draw which Luke found to be a fascinating and entertaining game, it was certainly tense…and I was soooo close to pitting real daylight between our scores! What a time for my proposed new ‘draw’ scoreline parameters to come into effect – robbing me of victory. Still I stand by it, the game was pretty damn close. So 40k is pulling out the greatness as usual, however yesterday evening saw the Warhammer opener between myself and Charly and the memories of why I’d had no desire to play Warhammer at all in the last year came flooding back. The game was always in my control but it was just horrible and got me thinking of just how difficult it is to have a fun sporting game of the fantasy product. We’d gone from the tense, exhilarating battle earlier between May and myself in 40k to the quagmire of rules technicalities and army imbalances brought about by the poorly developed lists in Fantasy. Its generally a real showcase of how much more fun the old second edition of 40k really is !! So its set to be an exciting month and the next time I report in here it’ll be to review how it all went. As it stands we’ve finally got a 40k Tournament of 8, including players who didn’t qualify! We’ve got record numbers of entries into the Magic Tournament. Plus we’ve got paintball to set up and the first real OGCamp trip out to Amsterdam at the end of July. And there’s also the Warhammer Tournament….. Hopefully the sun will finally shine…every tournament game has seen rain outside. If summer does decide to happen it’ll be outdoor games and barbeques as 40k in Ormskirk gets its send off before myself and Brown sort out the Liverpool scene from August onwards.   So enjoy a decent 4 weeks or so of OGC action! As a final thing, by request and in spirit of the ‘other’ Tournament of the moment [and I’m not happy with Korea going out!], here’s a comparison of the 40k Tournament players and World Cup teams…strange but well see for yourself…. James Brown – Argentina On fire on his day, but he has a history of failure and is out to disprove doubters once and for all Mike Brandon – Germany Always at the top, no matter the form Adam May – Brazil Goes all out to hit hard and rack up big scores but is suckered against opponents who hit back Simon Gray – Mexico Poor history, but always a chance of form and out to prove he has the quality Monovie Asita – Spain Always shows quality and potential but always fails to achieve Andrew Townley – England Can beat below average opponents with some conviction but struggles against real quality Luke Greensmith – Ukraine Can cause a scare and a hit but resides in obscurity Timothy Harness – Togo Making a debut and with doubts whether he’ll play…and not really a contender when he does