How about just go constructed but. Chane the HTH so that cheese is harder to use.

personally I love the randomness that a sealed box tourney gives. besides I think WK would rather sponsor sealed box tournies for the sales they generate off of it.

In the FFE marquee I pulled 2 DF Firestarters, a HL Lego, a Mash, a recovery vehicle, and I think a SC Belona. 0 Art, 0 Transports, No units that could make a formation. As you may imagine I got absolutely RAPED, by a someone playing a BR Lego, Longtom, and other assorted BETTER stuff. It was not pretty. No matter HOW GOOD you are, you are going nowhere if you pull 2 freaking Firestarters and a HL lego type pull. I agree the sets have gotten better, but luck of the draw is very much a part of this stuff.

If WizKids is worrying about profits, I will glady give them $100 in the Nationals for a better system.

And btw, can someone explain exactly how a Booster Draft tournament works?

Actually,you shouldn't complain,that's the fun of it,you pull ####,good luck to you,you pulled good stuff,well,well,that's good!It's the randomness that is fun.

If you don't like it,don't play it.

A booster draft has everyone getting 3 boosters, but you only open one at a time. You pick the unit out of the box that you want and pass the remaining units to the next player around the table, while recieving the units the previous player passed. Each player then selects one of the 3 units they recieved and passes the last two. Continue on, until every unit has found a home. Rinse and repeat with the next two boosters.

It tends to even out the horrible and spectacular pulls, as you can only keep one unit from the booster you open.

I love booster drafts, I go and pick darkage boosters which I can shake around to the point that you know it has complete #### in it, its always fun watching people be forced to take #### units.

Personally, I would rather take my chances with a random pull in place of I line up my Arrow IVs and you line up your Arrow IVs and we see who gets to go first and who has less shots scatter off target. I find sealed boosters enjoyable, but that is just my opinion.

I like that Nationals is half and half -- the eventual winner has to show that he (or she) can both build an intelligent army and intelligently use a random mixture of stuff that might not usually see competitive play.

I agree that something like a draft would be an improvement in evening out the bad pulls. If there were a vote, I'd vote for that.

Geoff

i think big tournements such as this should have strategy involved showing that you knoww how to use your figures. there for i think this tournament should be constructed
Alex

I prefer modified rochester myself for a draft format.

everyone opens 1 booster nad places the contents in the middle as a pool. Then one player opens his second booster, and picks from its contents or the pool, and places the unpicked units into the pool. Repeat unitl all units have been drafted.

I hate the old style because the person next to you can really mess up or hurt your game more so then in a rochester

You mean pulling two Mining Mechs is a bad thing? And I thought I just sucked at last years Qualifier :)

I pulled all #### ...a liao Rifelman.......figured it was over right there.....a bunch of #### infantry.....a SS raider(yuck) and at least on good thing in the form of a SS SunCobra.

It didn't matter though I had no arty, no formations, 1 Vtol only matched my oppenents Vtols. I was pretty much screwed

at 450 i think 1 more booster should be in the whole thing.

Want some cheese to go with that whine? :p

Sealed is fine, leave it alone.

Sealed is only desireable over HtH right now because of the pogwarrior mess that wizkids has gotten the game into.