So I've been a little slow in getting this posted. OK, really slow. But in a way, I'm glad I waited.
Monday, I delivered our donation to the St. Luke's Health Foundation, the charitable side of St. Luke's Hospital in Boise. Our $4,450 donation to the mobile mammography coach will buy mammograms for 30 women in rural Idaho. I was humbled when I handed the check to the director of annual giving. She was thrilled and amazed that we were able to raise as much as we did for our first event.
Speaking of the event, this is how it went:
We filled the gaming area at All About Games with 32 players. I had 34 register and two drops — one to help me run the tourney, and another because he was going to have to leave early. I ended up with just two no-shows, which prevented us from having to play six rounds! As it was, we ran five rounds over the better part of 12 hours. All that time running events with Kevin at Gencon proved very helpful; the biggest event I had run prior was 18 players. 32 players was a snap!
All 10 factions were represented: Cygnar 8, Legion 4, Trollbloods 4, Circle 3, Khador 3, Retribution 3, Cryx 2, Protectorate 2, Skorne 2, Mercs 1. The championship round featured Cygnar on Cygnar, with an eCaine-led force topping a 40k convert playing Darius and 4 Centurions. Third place went to an eHaley player who survived eLylyth's feat turn early on and used Telekinesis to set up a B13 assassination.
Out of the money raised, $1,805 came from auctioning off three donated armies — the Khador army I painted sold for $600, a Cygnar force painted by my top donor went for $550 and a Circle army went for $250 (to a very dedicated Tau player!). Sam & the Devildogs sold for $75, a Calandra went for $50, Eiryss sold for $40 and Anastasia and Ashlynn sold for $20 apiece. Our top in-game donor (James “Dicewraith” Kater) spent $590; the moment he saw the Ashlynn print Matt Wilson sent, he said it would be his. Our tourney champ (Nick “Darth Stiggity” Staggs) donated $210 and took home an autographed Deneghra print. Original donated by Chris Walton earned us an additional $400 — Yuri the Axe sold for $200 as part of the silent auction.
While most of the players were from the Boise area, we had four players come in from the Air Force base about an hour away. Two PGs from Utah made the trip and one of our former owners came in from New York.
I'm extremely proud of my crew for stepping up and making this a great event. Special thanks to Bruce DeLaney and Ken Somerville of All About Games, Matt Wilson and Chris Walton for their donations and Scott “brotherscott” Kidwell for helping me run the tourney. Expect Boise to be back bigger in 2010!
