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James "Boon" Kelling

Competitive Play

Boon’s Road to LVO: We Built This City on Wrack and Roll

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Sunday, January 30th is a big day – frankly one of the biggest days of the season’s calendar. A day to exorcise playoff daemons and finally get over that championship hump, secure a prominent position in history, and prove...
Goonhammer

Goonhammer 2022 Reader Survey

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The 2022 Goonhammer Reader Survey is now available! Last year we released a survey in which just over 800 of you let us know, with both barrels, just exactly what you thought of us. After reading every single comment -...
Battle Reports

Boon’s US Open Austin Tournament Report: Victory in Defeat?

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In my usual post-event writeups I walk through each round of the event. However, I’m going to take a little bit of a different tack on this post-event writeup. In part because it’s the holiday weekend and I don’t...
Competitive Play

Start Competing: Playing by Intent

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For regular tournament-goers the phrase “playing by intent” is a commonly heard declaration – it signifies a friendly, stress-free game that alleviates some of the anticipated mental load by acknowledging that missed actions may have been intended and are...
Age of Sigmar

Measuring Up the Competition: A Review of the ITC Scoring System

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The COVID pandemic is far from over but as hot spots have become increasingly regionalized, countries and communities are returning to a semblance of normality, including the competitive Warhammer 40k community. One thing that has been lost in the...
Goonhammer

Tournament Organization: An Explainer on Tournament Structuring

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In recent months there have been a fair number of discussions on how tournaments should be organized and run to best reflect the competitive environment they seek to achieve. While there is no true solution to all situations, in...
Battle Reports

Boon’s Goonhammer Open US Tournament Report: In Search of a Belt

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Life in the COVID era has meant change the world over, and while I’ve been fortunate to avoid the worst of COVID in my personal life, my waistline has not been so fortunate. As a rapidly approaching middle-age meets...
Community Spotlight

The US Goonhammer Open Grand Tournament: Event Recap

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If you believe the true measure of a Grand Tournament’s success is how well the elevators work, and we certainly do, then the GHO is the best 40k event ever run in the greater Washington DC area over a...
Community Spotlight

Community Spotlight: Building Dreams Amidst the Corn

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Credit: Goatboy On April 21st, 1989 Joseph Jefferson “Shoeless Joe” Jackson famously asked local farmer Ray Kinsella if he was in heaven. “No.” Ray replied, “It’s Iowaaagh.” Ray built it, and in the end, the people did come, his pain...
Competitive Play

Opinion: An Open Letter to the Competitive 40k Community

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  Boon: Before digging too far in I want to acknowledge that these opinions are my own and not necessarily reflected universally by the larger Goonhammer team. Furthermore, the lens I view this game and its health is through the...
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