Hunt The Prey was a beginner-friendly, 1000pt Warhammer 40,000 tournament that took place on the 13th November 2021.
RUNNING THE EVENT
The event was a 3-round, 1-day event specifically meant for beginners and more casual players to introduce them into competitive play
Chapter Approved 2021 missions were used with regular 1000pt list-building rules.
All 24 players were in attendance with no dropouts, so here's the results:
RESULTS
Rankings were done as such:
1: Tournament Points (15pts for a win, 10pts for a draw, 5pts for a loss)
2: Points Scored (Total points scored over all 3 games)
3: Points Losy (Total points opponents scored over all 3 games)
Here are the round-by-round results
STATS & FACTS
Now comes the proper nerdy stuff - here's all the statistics, facts, awards and other fun bits in relation to the results!
Here's each secondary that was selected, the number of times it was chosen and the average points it scored
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And here's the awards (both ones awarded on the day and ones just for this blog!):
1ST PLACE: Bradley Melbourne
2ND PLACE: James Innes
3RD PLACE: Sam Thomas
BEST PAINTED: Cat Morris
BIGGEST DEFEAT: Jack Pugh 97-10 Dan Brooks (Round 3)
CLOSEST GAME: Toby Hyder 54-53 Peter Armstrong + Jake Lovegrove 59-60 Bradley Melbourne
BEST NEWCOMER: Bradley Melbourne
MOST CONSISTANT: Dan Shrimpton (7pts between highest and lowest score)
HIGHEST SCORING GAME: James Innes 97-79 Dan Brooks (R1)
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BEST IMPERIUM PLAYER: James Innes (Dark Angels, 2nd)
BEST CHAOS PLAYER: Jakub Siek (Thousand Sons, 4th)
BEST XENOS PLAYER: Bradley Melbourne (Craftworlds, 1st)
IMPERIUM AVERAGE POSITION: 14th
CHAOS AVERAGE POSITION: 11th (10.5)
XENOS AVERAGE POSITION: 11th (10.6)
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THE 'IF ONLY!' AWARD: Jake Lovegrove (Lost by 1pt in final game to miss a podium)
THE 'I AM THE META' AWARD: Bradley Melbourne (Craftworlds winning!)
THE 'GOLDEN NURGLE' AWARD FOR MOST UNIQUE ARMY: Jake's 3 Great Unclean One list (his 3rd time winning this award in a row)
THE 'BANG AVERAGE' AWARD: Michael Meadowcroft (Closest points scored vs points lost - 6pts)
ARMY LISTS
You can see each player's list by following this link: https://tabletop.to/hunt-the-prey/lists
And that's the tournament report! Let me know if you see anything wrong (email contact@tabletoprepublic.com) - and see our previous reports from other tournaments!
Tom Mepham
Tabletop Republic Manager & TO