Thread: Clash for the Cure 2011! American Cancer Society Warmachine&Hordes Tournament

Hi guys! I am new to this forum, but not a new gamer in Texas. At one time, I was a pretty avid player of both 40K and WHFB in the Central Texas area. I kind of fell away from my GW days several years ago, only to come back as a Warmachine and Hordes player.

In my GW days, I was a partner with Tom Keegan in making the Hombre Independent Grand Tournament in Killeen TX. It was a blast, but when my partner moved away to Florida for his job, the Hombre went dormant. It's been percolating in my head for several years but really just couldn't get the motivation to move forward with anything.

Finally I have gotten the kick in the rear I needed to move forward. I wanted a little more behind me than just the "good time" a tournament organizer gets out of their creation. LOL. I have been surrounded in both my personal life and professional life with all forms of cancer. I couldn't think of a better benefit than the American Cancer Society. So with that in hand, Clash for the Cure 2011 was born.

The event is to be held in Waco Tx at the Game Closet. The tentative date (and it may vary by a week or so) is October 15th. I know it's early, but to get this thing moving in the direction I wanted with prize support, terrain, and a venue...I kind of had to. We are fixing to be heading into convention season and I needed to see what kind of feeling I could get from some painters and gaming related businesses before the crush of Gencon and the like hit them.

So the plans are for a 4 game tournament with lots of prizes, trophies, and just an awesome day of playing Warmachine&Hordes.

We'll be doing pre-registration later on, just trying to get the word out now.

The plan is for this to become an annual event, but I need some support.

Any of you that are even remotely interested and have a facebook account, please head over there and search for Clash for the Cure and hit the LIKE button. I need as many likes as I can on there before I start calling up the big names to show I have lots of people interested.

I have some cool artwork already drawn up, but I need the legals over at Privateer Press to give me the go ahead, so sorry for the "Under Construction" sign on the page.

Please post here as well so we can all see who's interested!

Thanks alot guys,

Rich Courtney

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Clash-...10349178982880

Now with Color!

Liked.

Now the question is whether you will just want me as a player or if you can use my help running the show.

I know I've met you at some point too. Your name sounds very familiar. Maybe at a Thor's Hammer RT Tourney a few years back? What armies did you used to play? Or were you an Outrider? I had a big Skaven army I used to carry around on a nice display board with a burnt out inn on it, and a green and purple Eldar army.

Sounds like a fantastic event, wish I can make it. I'll plan for Clash for the Cure 2012 though!

Greggle- I will reserve you a spot!

GentleBen- PM sent

Done. This will convince my wife to let me go! "ITS FOR THE CURE!" *puts on black eye liner and striped stockings....*

Funny, since the name was chosen, I've downloaded "Should I Stay or Should I Go Now" and "Rock the Casbah"...and they have been continuously playing in my head.

I've been busy working on this thing for the past 3 months, and am pleased after the long wait to say...Pre-Registration is up!

There is a little less than 2 months till D-Day, but I wanted to get this thing going again, as I am tired of slaving away in my game room, kitchen table, and on the couch painting terrain and other stuff associated with running a tourney. Damn, I forgot how much work all of that really was!

Get over to the FB page for all of the info.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Clash-...10349178982880

However, let me give you a little bit of a recap.

5 games, special Texas themed Steamroller-type scenarios (there are some twists to them, all will be disclosed on the FB page before the event) awards for Overall, Battle, Sportsmanship (I know, I know I can hear it now, "There's a soft score?"), Fastest Caster Kill, and "Misfire".

Sponsors from all over. Southpaw Art and Design, Instamorph, Kneadatite, Gale Force Nine, Dungeon Werks GA, Jerry's Artarama (can you say Winsor and Newton?), JR Miniatures, Secret Weapon Miniatures, KR Multicase, + others!

There will be door prizes for EVERYONE! And no, I'm not talking wound counters or anything. They start out in the $20 range and go up to $60. When you register, you will "pull" an envelope from the pull board, and that will be your prize. There will be a couple of swag items for all players as well.

Sandwiches provided by Subway.

And there will also be a raffle to include some really cool painted models from some of the forum favorites here. Althai, popg0estheworld, Commander Y, Ghool, Terarin, odinsgrandson, plus a few others. Tickets are $2, who wouldn't pay $2 for a chance to win the Croak Hunter painted by althai? You know, althai...the guy that won P3 Grandmaster at Lock and Load! David is just an awesome guy, on top of being an awesome painter.

Stop by the FB page and check things out. If you happen to be in the area in October, why not throw down on some awesome terrain from a host of terrain studios (plus some of mine at least complement theirs...)