The Las Vegas Open 2020 events have come to a close! After getting home and going right back to work, I’m finally getting the recap and stats together.
I want to thank everyone that came out to play and made it such a great event, my bestest Judge Will-5, and all the helpers without whom this would not be possible.

Over the weekend we had three heats of qualifiers, Finals, a three-person team tournament, Who’s the Boss, Spell Draft, and some MonPoc!

Heat 1 Champions qualifiers:
Chris Dancocks -Grymkin
Shawn Hopkins -Skorne
Dave Bergstrom- Infernals
Tucker Jackson- Infernals
Bret Fogel -Grymkin

Heat 2 qualifiers:
Travis Marg -Infernals
Quin Z -Skorne
Branden Owens -Cygnar
Danny Modesto- Menoth
Gareth Antle -Menoth
Todd Ensley -Retribution

Heat 3 qualifiers:
Ben Fitch -Crucible Guard
Cory Doyle -Cygnar
Mark Ewanec -Infernals
Aleksander Ornaf -Infernals
Kevin Rogers -Mercenaries

Finals came around Sunday Morning. After four hard fought rounds, David Bergstrom came out the winner, going undefeated the whole weekend! He won a $500 plane flight to the event of his choice (LVO, L&L, WFW), a spot on the WTC America Team, a bunch of WFW points, Iron Gauntlet points, and everyone taking inspirations from his lists!

I can’t wait to see everyone again at LVO 2021!

Below you can see each round’s pairings, final standings, and army lists.

Conflict Chamber Lists can be viewed at https://conflictchamber.com/?event=1153
Notes on Conflict Chamber Lists
-Battle Priests are allocated differently in actual lists. CC has an error with unit allocation and free points.
-Todd Ensley lists: replaces Narn and Sentinel Scyir with Scyth. Scyth is not in CC at this time.
-Kevin Rogers list; Jakes jack is a Toro instead of what is listed in CC
-Brandon Owens; Add Order of Illumination Resolutes (min) 8 and Battle priestsx3 0(6) to his list.

It is time for an upgrade to the LVO 40K trophy!

With the help of the excellent digital sculptor Nate Books (Art Station page) we decided that it was time to retire the old polygon Elvis and give him a slight upgrade. 

We started up with a digital sculpt that was then split up into smaller pieces that then could be printed.

Once everything was cut up I moved to printing. I printed it on a Peoploly Moai UV laser resin 3d printer. It makes great prints that are easy to take right to painting without much post processing. 

This picture is of the build plate with the part still attached and all the support structure.

And some of the parts with supports cleaned up and parts washed and cured.

And all put together with a marine for scale. This thing is massive! It will be getting a red/gold Khorne color scheme paint job. I will update once I start getting some paint on it. 

Here is a step by step tutorial of the build for the Grymkin themed finials table at Las Vegas Open 2018.

I still have more pictures to add. But this should tide you over for now.

/tips-tutorials/2018/2/17/making-the-las-vegas-open-grymkin-themed-finals-table.html

Here is a step by step of by build for the Las Vegas Open Cephayx table.

http://thefigurepainters.squarespace.com/tips-tutorials/2017/2/10/making-the-las-vegas-open-2017-cephalyx-finals-table.html

Here is a tutorial on how to make water/wave bases for your minis. If you have any questions always feel free to ask!

Here is a tutorial on making snow and icicles for miniatures to be played with.

/tips-tutorials/2016/10/9/making-snow-and-icicles-for-miniatures.html

I finally got a tutorial put together for the glowing/lit Haley 3 ghosts!

/tips-tutorials/2016/10/7/lighted-warmachine-major-prime-victoria-haley-haley-3.html

Finished up a cool conversion in making the Ghosts for Haley3 clear and glowing!

You can see all the pictures at the end of the gallery here. /galleries/other-warmahordes/?currentPage=8

Also a Denegra3

 

Finished up a Mortician's Guild and some cool Goals for them.

/galleries/guild-ball/

First off I want to thank everyone that came to this year's Las Vegas Open and made it such an amazing event. Without you guys it would never be so great. Also a huge thanks to all my Judges, PG's and helpers that made everything run smoothly and helped me keep my sanity over the weekend. 

For anyone interested in pictures and the like head over to the Facebook page. LVO Warmachine

There was an amazing turn out this year and FAT matts as far as the eye can see. 

Over the weekend we recorded a bunch of games and RFP Pressganged the Frontline Gaming streaming rig into the service of the Dragon Father. 

(Yes this is 40k, but it is what the stream set up looks like)

You can view the streamed games at http://www.twitch.tv/frontlinegaming_tv/profile

The RFP grudge matches are here starting at 10:46:00 http://www.twitch.tv/frontlinegaming_tv/v/41395284

The interview with William Hungerford starts at 0:18:00 http://www.twitch.tv/frontlinegaming_tv/v/40990032

And the IG matches that were streamed shortly later in the VOD at 1:05:00

Big thanks to Charles (Omnus), Emanuel Class and anyone else that helped for casting the games. But I know you did it just to play with the streaming toys!

The rest of the matches were captured by our friends at Frontier Gaming. Please visit their channel for streams of the games. They are being edited and posted. 

Here are the results from the various tournaments over the weekend. 

Friday:

Iron Guantlet
1st Place, Charles Soong -Skorne
2nd Place, Julien Lesage -Trollbloods
3rd Place, Peter Lipphardt -Convergence of Cyriss 

Team Tournament
1st Place, Team "You can't ban awesome"

• Tony Faber, Retribution
• Jordan Nach, Mercs
• James Preusser, Cryx

2nd Place,  Team "That's Complicated"

• Chandler Torres, Circle
• Jaden Iwaasa, Cygnar
• Mark Gerow, Menoth

3rd Place, Team "Fontier Gaming"

• Scott Koss, Cygnar
• Jaerrett, Khador
• Matt Zelus, Cryx

 Saturday:

Masters Qualifier:

Qualified people going into Sunday Masters.

Ryan Chiriboga (dallas) Cryx 4 (10.0)(14)(144)
Sam Cameron (KGC) Trollbloods 4 (10.0)(5)(100)
Tom Guan (sydney) Cygnar 4 (9.0)(4)(133)
Bret Fogel (Handconnon) Trollbloods 4 (8.0)(5)(186)
Nicholas Freeman Mercenaries 4 (7.0)(12)(154)
Ben Ripple Legion of Everblight 4 (7.0)(12)(154)
Brian Marino Legion of Everblight 4 (6.0)(5)(150)
Jeff Everitt Retribution of Scyrah 3 (12.0)(14)(172)
Mike Puryer Protectorate of Menoth 3 (11.0)(12)(148)
Jordan Nach Mercenaries 3 (11.0)(9)(107)
Jeff Mullin (Game Empire) Cryx 3 (11.0)(7)(134)
Dan Yount Circle Orboros 3 (10.0)(14)(112)
Charles Soong Trollbloods 3 (10.0)(7)(145)
Scott Kohley Khador 3 (10.0)(5)(93)
Jay Larsen Retribution of Scyrah 3 (9.0)(12)(162)
Joe P. (Hobby Town) Khador 3 (9.0)(0)(124)

Alternates:

Manual Carreon Skorne 3 (8.0)(14)(137)
Trenton Bates (AAG) Khador 3 (8.0)(10)(150)
Adam Bernstein Protectorate of Menoth 3 (8.0)(5)(129)

Spell Draft:

1st Place, Juan Alvarado -Khador
2nd Place, Scott Chandler -Khador
3rd Place, Todd -Retribution 

Sunday:

Masters Finals:

You can see lists here https://www.facebook.com/LVOWM/posts/877766539008230

1st Place, Jeff Everitt -Retribution WMW invitation & $500 Travel Voucher to WMW
2nd Place, Bret Fogel -Trolls
3rd Place, Jordan Nach -Mercenaries

Congrats to all our winner over the weekend, including the piles of raffle loot! Hopefully everyone had a good time and we will see you again. LVO is just going to get bigger and better! I have already started planning.

I posted up the tutorial of making the LVO finals CoC themed table. Enjoy!

You can see it in the tutorials section HERE

I will be out of town till Feb 8th. I may be able to answer emails periodically while gone. Anything from the store will be going out once I get back.

I hope to see some of you at LVO!

Check it out at HERE!

Come join us at this year's LVO! See https://www.frontlinegaming.org/las-vegas-open-2016/lvo-2016-warmachine-events/ for more information. 

Finished up a new Mountain King and whelps pack!

/galleries/other-warmahordes/?currentPage=8

Some new guild ball minis all finished up!

/galleries/guild-ball/

I have added a bunch of bases to the store. /store/#!/Resin-Bases/c/2485534/offset=0&sort=normal

I put together a tutorial on how the made my case for my Convergence of Cyriss army.

Enjoy!

/tips-tutorials/2015/10/22/making-a-table-war-magnetized-convergence-of-cyriss-caring-c.html

I added a bunch of new pictures to the Bushido, Infinity, Other Warmahordes, GW Chaos, GW 40k Marines, GW Fantasy and Board games. The new pictures will be at the ends of the galleries. 

Enjoy!

With light up runes!

Phoenix Open was Sept. 5th-7th. I was recruited to help run the event along with William Rutan. We both had a great time seeing everyone and watching them test their prowess against each other!

We had a total of 44 players. The first day everyone played in the masters qualifier. Day two consisted of an eight man finals and a 35 point tournament for everyone else.

You can watch the recordings of the games here. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBcb8HX_6xu00cI0SmU0FA-__UUoZonLq  

Ending day one, we had eight people move onto Masters Finials. 

Brian Marino -Legion

Matthew Shoup -Khador

Jason Flanzer -Trollbloods

Kevin Rodgers -Mercs

Inyoung Whang -Khador

James Bannan -Cryx

Bret Fogel -Circle 

Dan Yount -Circle

Going into Sundays Masters Finals was a tough field. At the end of the day Brian Marino was able to pull through for the big win. Though luckily for Dan Yount both Brian and Bret are already qualified, so the invitational ticket fell to third place. We had a TON of prize support. Over $800 for the weekend. 

I want to thank Imperial Outpost for graciously hosting the event and for providing such great prize support. Also Broken Egg games for providing $100 in gift certificates and Black Sheep Industries for $200 that were given out to random participants. 

Masters Finals

1st place Brian Marino $300 Certificate

2nd Place Bret Fogel $180 Certificate

3rd Place Dan Yount  $100 Certificate WMW qualifier ticket

35 point Sunday SR

1st Scott Chandler -Khador $120 Certificate

2nd Bruce Montgomery -Cryx $80 Certificate

3rd Colin Miller -Trollbloods

I want to thank everyone that took the time to come out and participate. I had a great time seeing everyone I and hope to see some of you at LVO!