At DragonCon 2016 over 77,000 people milled about in costume and some not, mundanes or muggles you could say. Atlanta, once again, played host to the largest pop-culture/sci-fi convention in the country. In America’s Mart building 1, 2nd floor, gaming of all types took place. The Battletech “Mech Pods” were in full swing, the LARP’ers were whacking each other with foam weapons and HeroClix was a clicking!

For the second year in a row the HeroClix volunteers hosted a ROC SQ. Sixteen brave souls stepped out of convention mode for 7 hours, or so, on Saturday the 3rd of September to try their hand at competitive HeroClix.

The eventual winner was Matthew Billings (rein451) running a team based around Devil Dinosaur! How cool is that??!?!

Here are the top 8 players from the DragonCon ROC SQ!

Winner Matthew Billings (rein451)

Devil Dinosaur 100
Batman/Superman Robot 25
Living Lightning w/Eclipso 105
Ultron-6
Pandora’s Box w/Wrath & Sloth 20
Green Arrow ID (LE Green Arrow) 5
SHIELD Level 7 ID (Nick Fury) 5
Nightwing ID (LE Nightwing) 5
Spider-Man ID (SFSM 49 Spider-Man) 5

2nd Place Edwin Lopez Vega (Deadpool30)

Nighthawk Prime 65
Jean Grey (free tk) 50
Mary Marvel 150
Symbiote Object 6
SHIELD Level 7 ID (Nick Fury) 5
Captain America ID (Steve Rogers) 5
Batman ID (TW Batman) 5

3rd Place Marc Lander (Mlandes)

Krang 170
Baxter Stockman 30
Juston Seyfort 40
Antman (morph) 50 (with 6 version on the sideline)
Level 7 ID (Nick Fury) 5
Batman ID (WF Batman) 5

4th Place Chris Griffith (LatinGringo87)

Brainiac Skull Ship w/City Dial 225
Superman/Batman Robot 25
Solaris 25
Pandora’s Box w/Wrath & Envy 20
Batman ID (TW Batman) 5

5th Place Richard Hagaer (KnightFenris)

Brainiac Skull Ship w/City Dial 225
Brimstone 20
Solaris 25
Round Table w/Wonder Man, Wonder Woman, War Machine, Superman, & Batman
AOU 32 Wonder Man, WF 61 Superman, WF 63 WW, AOU 26 War Machine, TW 51 Batman

6th Place John Robinson (Sceritz)

Iceman w/Eclipso 135
Doc Ock 80
Atomica 25
Ultron-6 30
Pandoar’s Box w/Wrath and Envy 20
Manifold ID (Manifold) 5
SHIELD Level 7 ID (Nick Fury)

7th Place Michael Hilton (Trickey1)

Quinjet W/Resource Dial 145
Atomica 25
Jarvis 40
Ultron (Phalanx) 30
Ultron-6 30
Green Arrow ID 5 LE GA
Black Canary ID 5 LE Canary
SHIELD Level 7 ID 5 Nick Fury
The Atom (ID) 5 Colossal Atom
Batman ID 5 TW Batman
Nightwing ID 5 LE Nightwing
Iron Man ID 0 NFAOS Iron Man
Ronin ID 0 AVAS Ronin
Spider-Man ID 0 SFOS 49 Spider-Man

8th Place Brad Milbrun (bmil918)

Wonder Woman w/Eclipso 190
Morlock w/Proteus 45
SHIELD Level 7 ID (Nick Fury) 5
Batman ID (TW Batman) 5
Pandora’s Box w/Lust, Gluttony, Wrath, Pride, Envy, Greed, & Sloth 40

And here is a quick shot of one of the semi-final matches.

Kudos on the Unleashed packs for prizes. Sadly better than my local ROC venue gives.

Devil Dinosaur can't carry

Those were there (Unleashed and Mutant Mayhem) for fun stuff. I gave out hats, bags, shirts, LE's and other "stuff" as well.

Someone actually pulled that super-duper-rare chase Giant Man from a pack of Mutant Mayhem.

Oh shoot nice!

Great sculpt on that Giant Man!

Assigning Proteus to Morlock? I'm interested to hear more about the strategy behind that!

I assume it is to allow the Morlock to die, popping out Proteus on the cheap, and let him go to town while enjoying the protection from WW'S trait, and if he dies you only gave up 35 points plus 10 or 15 depending on how you played the Morlock.

Ha, love seeing the old boosters!

I remember summer of last year seeing how big Robots were about to get in the meta and thinking that Living Laser could be a meta contender as a counter of sorts, but I'd given up on that notion since he never showed up on any of these lists - but hey, there he is!

You just move it into position/push and drop out proteus. Or use it as tie up and let them waste an attack dropping him iut

I ran A Devil Dino, Dr. Demonicus, hank pym ultron drone team in a local ROC last month. It was glorious and fun as hell. Congrats to the winner.

It has been brought to my attention that due to a lack of Spider-Gwen's on any team that all players in this event has been DQ'd.

I am glad to see a Devil Dinosaur win. I also see living lightning as a great choice with all of the robots out there.

I ran Devil dinosaur with Koriand'r/eclipso and Batman/Superman Robot, an ultron and ID cards. I will never know if this was a great strategy, because I couldn't win map roll and round 3 I couldn't roll above a 5's. Still had a great time.

I am glad to see Brainiac Skullship getting some love, it is one of the more fair and playable colossals Wizkids has ever done and I want more like it rather than more 3000 point monstrosities. Also glad to see heavy use ID card teams not dominant. Congrats to the Top 8!