Sorry to say folks, the roster for Granite City Waaagh!Fest is officially full. I'm surprised to see the extra eight slots fill so quick after opening them up, Don't fret though, I'll be posting a sign up form in the next day or so for those who wish to be put on a waiting list. Sometimes people have to drop for whatever reason and I'll be pulling from this list to replace these folks. You will be contacted in the order in which you submited to be included on the waiting list.

I'll post an update both here and Facebook to inform everyone when this goes online.

Thanks again for those who did get in and I can't wait to see everyone here!

Randy

With three months (pretty much) left until Waaagh!Fest 2012, there's only one more slot left and I know there some people who haven't registered yet. We've decided to add another 8 slots, expanding the field to 40 players to accomodate these folks. After that we'll open a "Waiting List" sign up for people who want to play and could fill in for people who need to drop or not show. (that and we don't have any more tables ready!)

Remember too that t-shirts are on sale online until May 28th as well and available for $16 – $17.50. These will be availabe for pick up at the event.

I dropped some spanna wrenches across a few gretchin skulls and got us some dealz on armour dis year. Well, regular ork t-shirt armour dat iz! I've gotten a break on the shirt prices from $20 last year to $16 this year, and they're waaaay cooler than last years threads. The image to the right is the mockup and pretty much what it'll look like.

These awesome shirts can be ordered online, right now, right here!

Remember to make sure you order soon enough to we can have them produced in time. The final day to order shirts will be May 28th.

Man, I can't wait to get these shirts, too cool. And thanks again to Clayton Tait for the great artwork! (he's threatening custom artwork for next year )

OK, it might seem like a long way away but time flies like dakka out a big shoota when yer not lookin' ! Lots of cool things in the works for this years gathering and I think you all will want to be a part of it. Work on the contest boards are rumored to be underway by a number of parties and it sounds like there's some really cool ones under construction.

The biggest news though is the poster/artwork for this years Waaagh!Fest. Fellow ork big mek and very talented artist (meanin' drawer of tings orky), taytonclait, has graciously given us permission to use an outstanding piece for our poster. (at right) I can't wait to see this thing on the large board, standing at the door and awaiting the winners (which is all of us).

Make sure you go over to his Deviantart gallery and check out the rest of his fantastic work. Maybe we can get him to do something custom for us next year

With just a little under six months left before the second best little Warhammer40K pub tournament in the US, half of the slots are already claimed for Waaagh!Fest 2012! I'm amazed at the response and can't wait to see if we're forced to expand the registration to acceed 32 people. Do more than 32 people really want to play a game in a bar? I guess we shall see!

The date is set, registration is open and that means ya gits better get yer slot reserved today!

Last year was a tremendous success so I guess we're gonna do this all again! Thrity two slots, a fun bar that we basically take over for the day and a bunch of really great players converging to eat, drink, play and meet new  people and experience 40K the way it was meant to be. The location is McCann's Food and Brewpub as last year but we've got many more surprises in store this time.

One is a local terrain competition amongst the local players/builders. We'll be having a board desing/building contest between now and early June. Competitors will design and build a board of whatever choosing and theme they want. A public voting poll will determine the winner whose table will become the championship table table where the top two conteders will play against each other in the Octagon Cage! Details will be posted on St.Cloud Wargmaing.com soon.

Of course there will be prizes and I've got a really cool idea for the top trophies this year that will be hard to beat. As mentioned earlier, we had such a blast running last years show that we knew right away we'd be doing this again. Now we can't wait to spring all the fun stuff on you folks this time.

Remeber to take a swing through the Rules page and talke to your friends/enemies and set aside the time to come on down, up and over – you wont regret it!

ps: I'll start checking around soon on hotel accomodiations – I won't be able to get any really good deals unless I can confirm 10 plus rooms though, but we'll keep our eyes peeled.

The staff of Waaagh!Fest

We couldn’t have hoped for a better time. Great players, lotsa beer, burgers galore. Here’s the quick rundown for the people who are deserved of it…

Best Overall: Jason Moore – Tyranids
Best General: Mike Geppert – Dark Eldar
Best Sport: Duncan Campbell – Necrons
Best Paint: Chris MOnohan – Chaos Space Marines

I’ll be gathering media, writing stuff and gathering feedback during the week and hope to have full coverage and a ‘uge gallery by the end of next week.

Now we rest a little!

Waaagh!Fest Staff

Howdy folks! Here's the information for the place where the ranite City Waaagh!Fest will be taking place.

Address:

33rd Ave. and 3rd St. N.
St. Cloud

Directions from HWY 10: Get off HWY 10 at the HWY 23 exit to St. Cloud. This is Division Street. Follow Division St. West until you reach 33rd Ave. Take a right and go to 3rd St. N. McCann's will be on your left.

Directions from I94: Follow I94 to HWY 15. Take HWY15 North until you reach HWY23 (Division St.). Take a right onto Division (HWY23). Take a left at 33rd Ave. and go to 3rd St. N. McCann's will be on your left.

If anyone has a problem with getting to McCann's, give me a call at 1-320-420-0997. I'll cross my fingers about reception in the basement.

Here is a shot of the "front" of the building, facing north.

and here's a shot from the "back" facing south.

At this point I don't know which door(s) are going to be open to us this early. I suppose which ever side of the building that has cars parked at it! If you're coming from the "front" of the building, you'll need to head through the front door, throught the bar and to the left will be a set of stairs leading to the basement where the tournament will be held. If you're coming from the "back" parking lot, you won't be able to miss it as it'll be right around the left and down the stairs.

I'm hoping to have big enough signage so there's no mistaking you're in the right place. For those who are just visiting and not playing, you should be able to come on down and grab a seat (after ordering an appropriate beverage) and enjoy the games.

Can't wait to see all of you there!

Five days until the kick off of the inaugural Granite City Waaagh!Fest. A few reminders as we draw closer to the event…

Armylists were due June 4th. It's a pretty soft date but there are a few of you who haven't sent them in yet. You can email me pdfs, word docs or Army Builder .rst files to sukigod@bigshoota.com anytime before Saturday morning.

Make sure you have copies of your armylists to hand to your opponent before the game. This is very, very important and per the rules, you may be docked Sportsmanship points for not providing these. Speaking of rules, it won't hurt to make one more spin throught the Rules Page before Saturday.

I'll be posting pics of McCann's Food and Brew Pub this week so those who aren't from around here will know what to look for.

We can't wait to see all of you on Saturday morning!

Randy Tenvoorde and the staff of The Granite City Waaagh!Fest

Ok, since I do this for a living, it's a little ironic that we haven't been pushing this thing yet. I also understand it's pretty close to game time for it to do a lot of good but ya gotta start somewhere, right?

Granite City Waaagh!Fest now has a funcitoning Facebook page. Make sure you head over and Like them to get all of your Waaagh!Fest information, news and alerts delivered right to your Facebook wall (if your seetings allow for it), Stay tuned as we may be running special offers and contests through the Facebook page as well. Like us to find out more!