As the Holiday creeps in, somethings are not meant to be.

December 1, 2010

Last November 26, 2010, I woke up earlier than usual, around 5:00am.

This was the first day of the 2010 Warhammer 40 Grand Tournament, to be held at Glorietta 4 Art Space.

Getting ready for the event, I had a full breakfast and left for the battle bunker to pick up my Witchhunter army.

I check the bags for each item that is essential for the tournament. Dice, templates, army book, 3 sets of armylist, a set of printed missions.

I was hopeful to be able to play well this year. As the excitement grew, I pack all the bags in the car and head for my office in Makati City.

My office is located at 71-79 Sen. Gil J. Puyat Avenue, corner Filmore street, Makati City. Cash and Carry Supermarket and Mall is just around the corner. It would only take me 15 minutes to get from my office to Glorietta 4.

I arrived at the office around 7:30am. Opened up the gate and all the air conditioner and computer servers. Lights went up and went straight to my desk.

I took my army bag up and made a final check of my Witch Hunter army. I found out the Inquisitor model was not painted properly and only based color in black.

I had still two hours to spare so I started to paint the entire model white and decided just to use washes on the model.

As it turned out, time passes so fast that it was almost 10am when I had just finish washing it with red and blue washses.

Quickly and excitedly, I raced down the flight of stairs and went straight to the parking area.

I took my trusted employee with me to drive me to Glorietta 4 entrance so I do not need to park the car myself saving me some time.

As we turn left off Filmore street crossed Buendia and planned to take a left Finlandia street, the traffic turned out to be heavy. I decided to push towards Glorietta 4 via South Super Highway, take the clover leaf and head towards Edsa and Ayala.

To my utter dismay and cause my blood to rise, the entire South Superhighway up to Edsa is totally jump pack with cars, container trucks and buses. To make matters worse it was moving at a slow pace. After 30 minutes I kept calling Henri Tecson and texted him and Ian Siongco alternately on whats happenning. But with the excitement of the Grand Tournament and thier responsiblity of officiating the tournament, I did not get a single reply.

With a heavy heart, we had to turn back towards Sen Gil J Puyat(Buendia Ave) via Evangelista Street in Pasay City.

It took us another 30 minutes to go back where we started and passed by Finlandia street crossed Buedia toward Makati Medical City. As we turned right on Ayala, traffic eased up a bit.
My blood pressure was rising and the thought of not being able to play and participate in the Grand Tournament was on my mind.

I finally arrived Glorietta 4 and just to find out I forgot to check where the actual location of the tournament will be held.

With the guard checking the bag, I ask about the NG tournament and he mentioned it was on the 3rd floor Art Space area.

The tournament already started and it seemed all the tables were taken already. Henry and Ian told me that 22 players where in attendance and I would be playing Bye.

It was a sad day for me for being late to arrive.

If I joined the tournament the number would be odd and it would ruined the parings since a bye would automatically be a minor win. I decided it was not meant to be for me to play at the GT this year. I politely told Freddie Tan, Henri Tecson, and Ian Siongco that it would be better I passed so to make it easier for the organizers to do the pairings.

It was great to see the number of people participating the tournament has increased this year.

The consolation was that Freddie Tan invited a cosplayer of a Sister of Battle Seraphim. We took pictures of entire group with the Sister of Battle. It was not entirely a bad day.

Next time, I better make sure I would leave earlier for the Warhammer 40 Grand Tournament in the year 2011.

Cheers,

Oberon

Shadows of the Warps Ranking

As the Shadows of the Warp comes to an end, we come to meet new friends and gamers on this FUN tourney. Prepare your armies for the Philippine Grand Tournament Warhammer 40K to be held on the last week of November, 2010.

Congratulations to the winners.

Jeff Jongko and Rayzon Lozada.

Here is the list of the Ranking for the Shadows of the Warp tournament.

We will be sending this list to RankingsHQ this week.

Cheers,

Oberon



1 Jeff Jongko
2 Jay Estaris
3 Wiley Peralta
4 Angelo Almeda
5 Felix Lohongko
6 Jesse Laya
7 Jonathan Perez
8 Rayson Lozada
9 Melo Lazatin
10 Garick Lee
11 Henri Tecson
12 Kerwin Lim
13 Randell "Obi" Parcon
14 John Nieves
15 DR. Benjie Perez
16 Fex Engracia
17 EJ Lim
18 Harold Soon
19 Ernest Serote
20 Whel de Angel
21 Paul Borja
22 Domingo Ong
23 Patrick Chua
24 Francis Lohongko
25 Jun Ubay
26 Zeb Melosantos
27 Ian Navarro
28 Ian Peña
29 Lucas Jacinto

Shadows of the Warp Game 4 (Finals Night)-Oct. 5, 2010

At long last, the final round 4 for the Shadows of the Warp touranament.

We have prizes for two winners. The overall winner and the best newbie of the tournament.

Good Luck to all.

Cheers,

Oberon


















Jeff Jongko VS. Felix Lohongko JR.

Melo Lazatin VS. EJ Lim

Rayson Lozada VS. Harold Soon

Jesse Laya VS. Henri Tecson

John Nieves VS. Paul Borja

Jonathan Perez VS. Domingo Ong

Kerwin Lim VS. Jun Ubay

Wiley Peralta VS. Doc. Benjie Perez

Angelo Almeda VS. Jay Estaris

Ernest Serote VS. Whel De Angel

Fex Engracia VS. ZEB

Garick Lee VS. Randel Parcon

Shadows of the Warp Game 3, Sept. 28, 2010

Here we are for Round 3 for the Shadows of the Warp tournament!!!

We have lots of guest who dropped by to view the event as well.
















Henri Tecson VS. Wiley Peralta

Jeff Jongko VS. Melo Lazatin

Ian Peña VS. Jonathan Perez

Carlos Sanaco VS. Jojo Domingo

GArick Lee VS. Paul Borja

Domingo Ong VS. Harold Soon

Fex Engracia VS. Rayson Lozada

Kerwin Lim VS. Domingo Ong

Felix Lohongko VS. Randell "Obi" Parcon

EJ Lim VS. Jay Estaris