Maintaining position

Just a small part of Turmabar's excellent Circle army.

So this saturday there will be the third installment of the Iron Cabal 3 or IC3, our local WM/H tournament in Wetzikon, Kanton Zürich, Switzerland. The IC started because of the initiative of Turambar who is a man of action and wanted to test the waters in the fall of 2011. A couple local players signed up, so did cb_crusader and I and we took Botond with us. It turned out Botond had to play, too, because one player didn't show up, so he got an ad hoc Cygnar force from Logan and did remarkably well.

Fast forward 18 months to the IC3 and things look different:

The current Swiss WM/H Top 10 - players are mostly from the area around the Lake of Zürich.

In the German part of Europe we use the T3 platform to keep track of tournament scores and players' performances. (it is similar to RankingsHQ) The picture above is a screenshot of the current national WM/H Top 10. cb_crusader and Botond are running on the two top spots followed by Turambar and me, but Kirin and McMortison are closely following up. Due to their performance at the OETC I actually expect Kirin and McMortison to pass me, but I am currently squeezing everything out of my Trollbloods lists for the IC3 to not let that happen.

However, just looking at my local gaming group won't be enough in the future anymore, this is the list of registrations for the upcoming IC3:

If you are sort of familiar with Swiss geography, you immediately notice that now people are signing up from various parts of the German speaking part of Switzerland. This will bring fresh blood to the tournament scene and new challenges. In other words, keeping my 4th rank will be even more difficult, so that's another motivation to ramp up my game.

In the end, our goal is to have an active national WM/H community we can use as a player base for the WTC qualifier event for 2013. Switzerland is a small community by definition, so we definitely wanna make sure we send the best of the best. :-)