Things went quite well at Reader Copies today! Rules questions were answered responsibly, many of us had copies of the comprehensive rules and were at least lvl 1 judges, and some good calls were made as events came up. Even the people that'd never played before had a good time (One of whom, in fact, placed second :D) . It was great to meet many of you, I know contact information was passed around, and I hope this is the start of a good thing for the local minis crowd. I know some of you drove a good hour or two to get out there, and maybe we could all do so again once every other month or so?
I think parking went over relatively smoothly. Thank you all who carpooled or walked from the other lot. I know I'll try to come back maybe once a month for Battlegrounds, but it'd be better if we could all coordinate so there were more than four or five people showing up for that :).
I was quite glad to see more than just a handfull of people showing up at all. For the record, I believe there were 20 of us from in or around the state. And if anyone out there in readerland is curious, Fillet and Graccus were the winning team. Followed closely by Haruka and Mojo Shaper. In other news, Blindsight Murlock and Harvest Golem, the frostsaber and the sunscale scythclaw, I believe another Fillet and Rhoria, and I can't remember quite whom else made the top 8. My own team of Sarmoth and Rethilgore (for the curious, the third was Chen, and you needn't ask why I didn't run him :P) did well on its own, through good and not so good die rolls aplenty. But sadly, my 'taunting demon with inflated stats during full moons' wasn't good enough.
And since I'm hoping for a good showing Sunday afternoon, Battlegrounds starts at 3pm tomorrow, so there'll at least be a few people to compete against. And I'll actually be bringing my trade stuff this time since I'm not going to have to be concerned about hauling the crate up and down the highway. Congratulations to everyone that placed, and happy gaming!