Gaming Arena
Event Information
When: Day 1: Saturday August 2nd
Day 2: Sunday August 3rd
Where: The Gaming Arena, 123 Bakers Rd, Coburg North VIC 3058
Format: Teams Tournament, 1 v 1 Games (explained later)
Points Limit: 900 (PER PERSON)
Army Requirements:
- All models should be WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) regarding all their wargear.
- All armies must be legal according to the Middle Earth Rules Manual and relevant army books.
- Alternative models may be used so long as they properly and obviously represent the model they are depicting. Please reach out to the TO if you have any questions regarding this.
How to Sign Up?
Tickets will cost $90 per player. However, those who buy their tickets as a complete team of 3 players will have their ticket prices reduced to $85
Secure your ticket by paying EITHER $90 (as a single player to be allocated to a team by the T.O.) OR $255 (for a complete team of 3) to acolasante34@gmail.com via PayPal. When submitting payment on behalf of a team of 3, ensure you include a Team Name, as well as the names of all members of your team. If Paypal is unavailable to you, please get in contact as we can organise other methods.
Have any questions?
- Reach out to acolasante34@gmail.com or on Facebook at Alex Colasante
How to Win:
The players on each team will contribute to their overall team score both via the result of their games, as well as achieving some basic soft scores:
- Game Win = 4 Tournament Points
- Game Draw = 2 Tournament Points
- Game Loss = 0 Tournament Points
1 Tournament awarded for each of the following completed by players:
- Army list is submitted before 11:59 pm Saturday July 19th in a readable format to the following google form: https://forms.gle/x5wmK7d8FUSww4xy8 Incorrect or illegal lists will be counted as late.
- The Army is 100% WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) regarding all their wargear.
- Army is fully painted and based to a ‘tabletop standard’. (No undercoat should be viewable, multiple colours, some form of wash or highlighting, some form of basing beyond just paint).
- Include the phrase: ‘GIMME DAT’ in your list submission.
Scenarios: Assuming the Matched Play Guide (2025) has been released, the scenarios will be chosen from any of the 24 singles missions. If not, scenarios will be a mix of those chosen from the Rules Manual, updated scenarios from the Matched Play Guide of the previous edition, and custom missions. For the best chance at victory, your army should be able to complete a variety of missions!
The Most Important Rule:
This game is designed to be played in a generous spirit, in a manner befitting the gentlest and noblest of hobbits. This is also found within the rulebook, and thus not following the code of conduct is akin to violating any other rules. Ensure you speak to the TO or referees if you have any disputes whatsoever in your games as they occur. Tournament Points can be taken, as well as remove players if they do not follow this.
Teams: This tournament is constructed of teams of 3 players battling against each other to determine who will reign supreme. When deciding on your lists, keep in mind some restrictions:
- No team can contain more than 1 of any army list.
- No more than 1 of any named hero across the team. This even counts for multiple versions of the same hero (Boromir of Gondor/Captain of the White Tower, Aragorn/King Elessar, Sauron/The Necromancer, The Witch King of Angmar (Angmar/Dol Guldur/Mordor) etc).
At the beginning of each round, you will meet with the team you are matched up against. There, you will go through the following steps to determine which of the members of your team will face which members of the opposing team.
- Go over each of the opponents lists
- Secretly choose one member of your team to be put forward as your Lead Player.
- Each team reveals their Lead Player simultaneously to their opponent.
- Then, each team secretly chooses one of their opponent’s two remaining players to play against their own Lead Player. Each team simultaneously reveals who is the Chosen Player.
- Then, the two remaining players are designated as the Leftover Player.
At the end of this process, the matchups should appear as such:
Game 1. Lead Player A vs Chosen Player B
Game 2. Lead Player B vs Chosen Player A
Game 3. Leftover Player A vs Leftover Player B
Prizes:
There are many prizes to be won, including but not limited to:
- Top 3 Teams Overall, Top 3 Best Painted Armies, Top 3 Displays
- Best Team Theme/List Cohesion
- Best Sports
- Best Conversion
Schedule:
Day 1:
9am Doors Open/Arrival/Setup
9:20-9:25 TO Address
9:25-9:35 Favourite Army Voting
9:35-9:40 Round Draw
9:40-12:20 Round 1
12:20 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 3:40 Round 2
3:45 - 6:25 Round 3
7:00 onwards Social Night (Attendance optional but highly recommended!)
Day 2:
9am Doors Open/Arrival/Setup
9:15-9:20 TO Address and Round Draw
9:20-12:00 Round 4
12:00 - 12:40 Lunch
12:40 - 3:20 Round 5
3:25 - 6:05 Round 6
6:05 - 6:45 Packup and Prizes
