If you’re unable to get to them, please e-mail me at xthanatosx@laserforcehq.com.
Thank you.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like anything I can do anything about until I get back home in a few days.
Not high on my list of things I want to handle on getting home from vacation, but things happen.
Just in case you haven’t heard already, and to post it officially,
Selectively copied from and credited to DK’s (Laserforce Historian) posts in the Tournament Forum,
Final Standings
1. Brisbane
2. Sacramento
3. NZ/US Super Hybrid
4. Detroit
5. Syracuse
6. St. George/Chula Vista
Individual Awards
MVP: Rusty (Brisbane)
Medic Killer: Rusty (Brisbane)
Golden Gun: Thunder (St. George)
Rookie of the Year: Tandoar (St. George)
Crisis Averted (Most Enemy Nukes Cancelled): Tragedy (Brisbane)
Big Red Button (Most Nukes Launched): Rusty (Brisbane)
Trigger Happy (Most Shots Fired): Freddo (Brisbane)
Trigger Sad (Fewest Shots Fired): Pound Cake (Syracuse)
And if anyone can recall and inform us of the “official” names for the following awards;
Where’s The Love? (Shot Own Medic The Most Times): SCYTHE (Detroit)
Too Friendly (Shot Own Teammates The Most Times): DoNotPassGo (Syracuse)
Backfired (Most Own Nukes Cancelled): Tandoar (St. George)
Snap, Crackle, Pop (Missiled Own Medic): Tandoar (St. George)
Gibi Award (Made Lucky Laugh The Most Hysterically): The Specialist (Chula Vista)
All-Star Awards
All-Star Team (Based on MVP Stat Rankings)
Commander: Rusty (Brisbane)
Heavy: Tragedy (Brisbane)
Scout: Jared (Brisbane)
Scout: Dezza Conda (Brisbane)
Ammo: xThanatoSx (Hybrid)
Medic: Cordash (Sacramento)
People’s Choice Team (Based on Votes)
Commander: Rusty (Brisbane)
Heavy: Tragedy (Brisbane)
Scout: Jared (Brisbane)
Scout: xVenoMx (Sacramento)
Ammo: Freddo (Brisbane)
Medic: LaJou (Sacramento)
And of course a major thank you to Yama (Sacramento Owner) for allowing the tournament to be held at his facility,
as well as thanks to all of the players who were able to come out and participate in this years Tournament.
Tournaments Page
Tournaments Forum
-Shadow Dagger
shadowdagger@laserforcehq.com
If you’re not going to be in Sacramento, that sucks.
However, we have the next best thing to actually being here – and that would be LFTournament.com. Originally set up by Sanch for last years tournament in Syracuse, we’re going to be using it again this year to stream the scoreboard as it happens along with chat functionality. Schedules will also be posted so you have somewhat of an idea who’s playing when. I say “somewhat” because when have you ever known a tournament to run on time? 
So log in and keep tabs on your team. It’ll be a good time the whole way around.
I don’t know who did this originally, but it’s amusing.
So after that, how about you click on the Forums link up above and actually learn how to play? 
So you may have noticed some forums vanished.
Or maybe not.
Site forums that really haven’t been getting any activity I’ve pruned.
With most sites having shifted to Facebook for their communication needs, I’m mulling what role these forums still have to play in the community as a whole. Things are so ridiculously different now than when the boards were originally started 10 years ago. And really, it started before that, but it was 10 years ago that I registered the original lfboards.com URL. From the original forum hosted by ezboard.com, to free hosting that was provided by ~!Super Mutt!~ from Ballarat, to finally paying for hosting in February 2004… it’s been an interesting experience. And by “interesting” I mean “the amount of forum posts we’ve lost due to server moves or other things blowing up is ridiculous.”
So I guess what it boils down to is as long as people in the community continue to find value in the site as a whole, it’ll continue to be here. When people feel it’s completely outlived its usefulness, it’ll ride off into the sunset and become a very small footnote in the history of the internet.
While we’re still a few months away from the actual event (July 30th to August 3rd in Sacramento for all of you who missed the memo), it’s good to see that people are already buying their tickets and making their travel plans.
For those of you who haven’t bought your tickets or made your travel plans yet – let’s get on that shall we? Part of what makes nationals “NATIONALS” is getting to see people who share your addiction for this game we all play. The more of us we get in to one place the more awesome it is.
Or the more trouble we get into.
Probably both.
So let us know in the tournament forum when you’re flying in and where you’re staying. The more the merrier.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all.
Stay safe
Laserforce Detroit will be hosting their second Space Marines 5 Invitational Tournament January 9th to January 11th.
Practice night is January 8th.
Cost is $60/person and that includes the practice night and the awards dinner.
International Rules will be used, as well as the full field. The full field thing is new as typically Detroit has only used the bottom floor and their ramps for SM5 in the past.
The big difference in this tournament from others in the past is the positions will be done via random draw before each game, so there could be some VERY interesting match-ups.
If you don’t have a full team of 6, feel free to post in the tournament forum to find a team. The more the merrier.
The 2012 US Nationals will be held in Sacramento, CA USA July 30-August 3 2012.
Space Marines 5 will be played.
International rules will be used.
Cost details to follow.
