Chimera Gaming - Kitchener, Ontario invites you to our monthly Kill Team event for August, 2024!

Chimera Kill Team Monthly tournaments are fun and competitive single day events, bringing you the matched play Kill Team that you know and love, with prizes to be won and friendships to be made along the way.

CHIMERA KILL TEAM TOURNAMENT PLAYER PACKET

August 18th, 2024

In order to secure your spot at the event, a ticket must be purchased ahead of the date. Signing up on BCP alone will not secure a spot!

1.0 EVENT ESSENTIALS

System: Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team - Matched Play

Location: Chimera Gaming - 31 - 700 Strasburg Road, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2E 2M2

Missions: Critical Operations 2022 Card Pack

Number of Rounds: 8 players will be 3 rounds, 9+ players will add an additional round.

Kill Team Selection: Create a Matched Roster as described on page 90 of the Kill Team Core Book.

Tools of War: Attendees are expected to bring their Kill Team, three barricades, dice, measuring gauges or a tape measure, and all relevant rules publications. It is recommended that you also bring a set of Tac Ops cards and a chess clock.

2.0 KILL TEAM CONSTRUCTION AND PAINTING

2.1 KILL TEAM CONSTRUCTION

You will require a roster of up to 20 Operatives to participate in this event, plus three barricades. Details for selecting your Matched Roster can be found on page 90 of the Kill Team Core Book. Kill Team Barricades are available in either the Kill Team Octarius set or Kill Team Essentials set. Players can scratch build barricades to fit the theme of their army as long as they are the same size and shape as those found in the Kill Team Essentials box.

Once you have built your Kill Teams, you must record the list under the event on Best Coast Pairings. List submissions are due one week prior to the event.

2.2 PAINTING AND MODELLING

Playing exciting, atmospheric games with finely detailed, painted miniatures is intrinsic to the Warhammer experience. With this in mind, all miniatures in your collection must be Games Workshop or Forge World miniatures (excluding basing or scratchbuilt components), and be fully assembled and painted to at least a Battle Ready standard. Information on the Battle Ready standard can be found at Warhammer-Community.com

Each model must accurately represent its entry on your Matched Roster. Please note that we do not expect you to model specific Equipment onto your models. However, if you have two of the same model, but with different equipment, your opponent should be able to clearly identify which model is which. This is generally done with tokens or small elastic bands.

Conversions and scratch built models are a beloved part of the hobby. For the sake of fairness, any conversion should be comparable in size to the most current version of the model they represent. You may not gain a benefit from converted models, but may incur penalties. For example, if you make a model extra tall with a heroic pose, this does not permit it to gain extra line of sight, but does permit it to be more easily seen. The conversion should also closely represent the original model to decrease any additional mental load on your opponent when they are trying to keep track of which model is which on your team.

For any conversions and scratch built models, you must request approval from the tournament organizer. Please email chimeragamingonline@gmail.com with photos of the conversion and which model it represents one week prior to the event.

If you do not obtain permission for conversions before this date, you run the risk of them being removed from play, or possibly incurring score penalties.

3.0 TOURNAMENT FORMAT

3.1 WIN-PATH PAIRINGS

Your opponent for your first game will be randomly determined. Subsequent rounds will use ‘Win Path’ to pair opponents in each round. This pits players both against someone with the same record and who won and lost their games in the same rounds. For example, a player who lost Round 1 and won Round 2 will play an opponent who did the same, rather than someone who lost their first two and lost their third round. This is done to ensure players with a similar strength of schedule pair off and to ensure an increasing level of skill parity and sportsmanship with each subsequent round, as they face people who have had an increasingly similar play and outcome experience across the event.

3.2 GAME SPEED AND MILESTONES

Each round of the tournament has a two hour time limit. The tournament organizer grants a few minutes once the next round pairings have been posted for players to find their tables and move their belongings there.

Outside of tournaments, most players do not complete their games against a set clock. As a result, players may not generally play at a pace that is suitable to complete a game of kill team in the alloted round time. To ensure that each player has access to an equal amount of time, it is strongly suggested that players use a chess clock. Each chess clock should be set to 50 minutes per player. Approximately 10 minutes should be used prior to the clock starting for each player to get settled and explain their team's rules to their opponent. Once deployment has started, the clock is in use. The only time a clock should be paused is between turning points, when operatives activation tokens are flipped and scoring is done. During judge calls, the clock will not be paused. Pausing the clock during gameplay will result in warnings / penalties.

Failure to complete the second turning point of any game will result in a mandatory clock for both players in all subsequent rounds of the tournament.

3.3 Scoring

Scores should be kept on the scoresheet provided by the tournament organizer. Scores can be submitted digitally on the Best Coast Pairings app. Alternatively, if there are any issues with submitting digitally, the scoresheet can be handed in to the tournament organizer.

3.4 EVENT SCHEDULE

Sunday

8:30 am - 9:30 am: Registration

10:00 am - 12:00 pm: Round 1

12:15 pm - 2:15 pm: Round 2

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm: Lunch

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Round 3

5:15 pm - 7:15 pm: Round 4

7:25 pm - Awards

Late arrivals for Round 1 will have the clock started on their time at the beginning of Round 1.

3.5 EVENT AWARDS

The Warhammer hobby is multi-faceted, with both gameplay and painting being important. As a result, the following awards will be presented:

1st, 2nd and 3rd place: The players who end the tournament in those positions.

Best Painted: The player voted as having the best painted kill team by the tournament organizer / judges.

Best Sportsman: The player voted as the best sportsman from their opponents. In the case of a tie, the player with the lowest record wins. (It’s much easier to be a good sport when you’re winning, and much harder when you’re losing!)

4.0 TERRAIN

4.1 BOARD LAYOUTS

Each Kill Zone will be pre-set by the tournament organizer. A photo of the terrain layout will be available. If the terrain does not appear to match the photo provided, please call a judge.

5.0 PLAYER CODE OF CONDUCT

5.1 PLAYER CONDUCT POLICY

There is a famous adage that says, ‘It matters not if you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.’ At Chimera Gaming, we strongly believe that Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team is a game best played in this spirit and we place great emphasis on playing excellent games with like-minded people in our events. Therefore we expect players to play each game with a certain code of conduct to support this. When you arrive at your table for a game, greet your opponent, introduce yourself, and start the game promptly. We then expect players to treat each other positively and demonstrate good sportsmanship throughout each game.

5.2 JUDGES

Event staff will be available in the store throughout the event and hold the final say on all game rules and tournament issues. Individual rulings, however, are never binding precedent - it’s a game, not a court of law. Rulings will always be based on correct rules interpretations rather than adhering to previous precedent. When calling for assistance, please be prepared to provide any relevant rules to the particular question.

A Note on Active Judging. At Chimera Gaming events, judges are empowered to actively stop instances of illegal play, with or without a player’s specific request for intervention. If a player has concerns at any point, they are always welcome and encouraged to call a judge. While we will not have judges at every table, and we cannot stop every instance of a minor misplay, our goal here is to make all the games played at Chimera Gaming tournaments an enjoyable experience for everyone.

5.3 CONCEDING

We expect all players to see the game through to the very end and not concede, as doing so can impact tiebreakers and, ultimately, the final rankings. In the unlikely event that a player does concede before the game has reached its natural conclusion, then the players should follow the rules presented under ‘End the Battle’ on page 93 of the Kill Team Core Book.

Of course, if you have some kind of emergency that means you can’t proceed, just let the event staff know right away.

5.4 CHEATING AND IMPROPER PLAY

Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team is a complex game with many different rule interactions. As a result, rules can be misplayed during a game. Even if these rules are not intentionally misplayed, game infractions will result in warnings. Singular warnings are not an issue - it is a reminder to play properly and to maintain a proper board state. Multiple warnings throughout the tournament can result in penalties.

Blatant cheating is not tolerated in our events, and any observed or reported cheating will result in penalties, ejection from the tournament and potential bans from future events.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the event, feel free send an email to chimeragamingonline@gmail.com, or join our discord and send us a message!

Ticket purchases are fully refundable up until 48 hours prior to the event.