500 Points about 500 Points (Lists, Touraments & Rules, oh my!)

[tilarium]

Bonus prize for pink painted armies?  LOL  I say no to painted.  If I join I'd probably want to use my rough riders again, but I'm not ready to paint them just yet.

[Rurouni Benshin]

Entry fee is a sticking point. What are people comfortable with? $10? $15? The event would be about 6 hours long. The more people are willing to pay, the better the prize pool.

$5 for 500 has wonderful alliteration, but sadly $5x32 = 160 wouldn't generate enough prize money worth anyone's time.

I think $10 is fair.  The higher the entry fee, the better the prize support, right?  1st place gets a Battalion set, 2nd place a small box, 3rd place a Blister pack, maybe something else for "Best Painted".  Rest goes to the house. 

Just to note, I'd be comfortable paying upwards of $15, if that's what gets decided.

[keithb]

500 points, 500$ entry fee. 

[Chase]

500 points, 500$ entry fee. 

I support this.

[Ian Mulligan]

LOVE IT.

[Benjamin]

$500

[canadianone]

i say no to painted armies, a lot of people who would want to play a 500 point tourney might be new with their armies (me included) and while i have made some progress, with school going, and college searching, i really dont have the time to get my army painted =(.  However, that doesn't mean people with painted armies should be penalized, there can and should be a healthy painting prize for the person with the best painted army.

[keithb]

one way to find the most broken 500 point list.

[Benjamin]

one way to find the most broken 500 point list.

Oh yeah, definitely. Hype that up for six months, and let the Internet burn!

I'm starting to think a High Rollers tournament would be a good idea. Staff wearing tuxedos, free beverages to the participants. Big stakes for big boys who want big prizes. Judges can walk around with the rulebooks and FAQs locked in a handcuff-attached suitcase. Cheap floozies, optional.

[Ed]

if anything painting req are great cause it gets people with their new army to get it painted.
i would have no plans to win best painted but it would get me to paint my plaguebearers.

this event is not going to happen right away which gives enuff to paint 500 points.

[gr33nashe]

I'm against a painting requirement too.

[Rurouni Benshin]

If we can find 40+ people to get 4000 points worth of stuff painted for the Megabattle each year, I don't think it'd be that difficult to find 40 or so people with 500 points of painted stuff either.

Just sayin'...

[Dissimulation]

If we can find 40+ people to get 4000 points worth of stuff painted for the Megabattle each year, I don't think it'd be that difficult to find 40 or so people with 500 points of painted stuff either.

Just sayin'...

While this is true, I feel as if the painting requirement on the megabattle is in place there to make it even more cinematic than it already is. While the 500 point game isn't really meant to be cinematic. It's meant to be "Lets see how stupidly awesome i can make my 500 point list".

[canadianone]

I know painting 500 points sounds easy, but unlike you who has a sizable portion of your army already painted, i have 500 points of tau completely unpainted, add to this fact that i have to get up at 4:40, get home at around 7, with 3 hours of homework, and have to do a tonne of college application stuff, I dont have much time to paint. Also, i use a certain primer that im waiting to arrive, and until i get that, i can't do anything. I know i am just one person, but i think there are a lot of other people who would be unable to participate simply because of painting.

[Benjamin]

I see both sides of the painting argument. I am leaning in one direction, but I'm going to sleep on it.