There are 6th edition tournaments out there, and this one is part of a series of events being ran in Atlanta Georgia. The first of the series just happened a couple weeks ago, and that makes the next one just around the corner on November 4th. The event is already filling up, so its time to get registered before you miss it.
Giga-Bites Cafe
We are running an 8-event tournament "series" over the next 12 months
(the first event was on 9/23, two Sundays ago), in which participants
get points based on their final position in the standings and where we
will give out some prizes at the end based on those final "series" points.
We did a 5-event test-run earlier this year (all before 6th Edition
released) and had great feedback, so now we're going all-in with 6th
edition.
We use everything that 6th Edition has: Mysterious Forests & Water,
Mysterious Objectives, Warlord Traits, Alternating Terrain Placement,
Allies, Double FOC @ 2000+, Fortifications, etc. We also allow
unlimited use of the non-Apocalypse FW models (i.e., no superheavies,
nothing with Structure Points, and no Gargantuan Creatures).
The only changes we have made are fairly minor:
(1) For Alternating Terrain placement, the judges put a balanced pool of
12-13 pieces of terrain on each table, and that's what the players must
use in their setup each round. (The "pool" remains the same on that
table throughout the event.) So, if they roll really high for terrain
density, they could run out of terrain to place. That's just the
reality of running a tournament with 10+ tables and a finite amount of
terrain pieces!
(2) Fortifications can't be placed within 6" of a board edge, and you
can't place a piece of terrain within 6" of a fortification. This is to
prevent the "fortress of redemption" in the corner move, and also to
prevent the opponent from dropping a giant LOS blocker immediately
adjacent to a fortification. This is a fairly minor change -- just
doubling the distance for fortifications from 3" to 6".
(3) We don't use the "Archaeotech" terrain. Forests and Water are all
always mysterious, and easy enough to make available for every table.
We had some strong opposition when we announced that we would use
alternating terrain placement, with objections ranging from, "it will
take too long!" to "it's going to be abused!" I have yet to see either
of those fears actually manifest.
We have had good feedback on the first event, and the second is already
more than half full. Here's the link to the sign-up page on the FLGS's
website:
http://gigabitescafe.com/forum/index.php?topic=6203.0
The series has its own website as well:
www.atlanta40kseries.com
(Our web maintainer was out of town over the weekend, so the next event
info -- November 4, 2012 -- has not been updated yet.)