I am sure the details will filter through the coming days but since I am on the run to get some stuff done I only want to leave this short message:

Congrats Jan Elfman...very strong performance...and I must admit, in our match up, I was already hanging in the ropes after round two. You went through my warband like a knife through butter

Ps.: Before I forget I really want to thank Peter scott (Alepulp) and Kristine (from Hasbro) for the time and effort they put into making this event possible. I had a blast and was positively surprised by the amount of players showing up.

I'll chime in later (when I've more time) with some more details.

Greetz,
GRUUMSH

First of all: Congratz Jan!!! Fantastic performance...

As far as I remember Jan played: Ultroloth, Chraal, Duergar Champ, Dragonmark + Bat, Snig + Sniglettes

I don`t know exactly because our match in round 1 was over too soon...
Gruumsh played Frenzy, Wemic Barbarian, Insp. Marshal, Gnome Trickster + Filler
Alpulp the same band as at the Germans: Couatl, Ballista, CoO, Shield Guardian, etc.
Janos tried a Ultroloth + 3x Chraal- Band and he did very well (thanks to the invisibiliity-spell from the Duergar Slaver and his good playing)...

And for the LSD? I played same band as in Germany but I changed the map to Thieves Quarter. I played only two matches on it (2nd and 5th)
10th with 3-3 (incl. one bye)...
First match vs. Jan: no chance, because I didn`t knew about the "stack-rule" for the Resist Energy-Spell and I became vulnerable to fire again, after the bat delivered the touchspell. 60 damage from the Ultroloth were the begining of the end...

Second match vs. Erik (don`t know the nick- or lastname): he played Storm with Charger, 2x War Wizard, Bralani and fodder
very quickly it was my LSD + Dragonmark vs. his band...
with one round left Erik was 7 (!!!) points in front and I wasn`t able to kill Storm, so I lost due to Victory points, damn...

Third match vs. another Erik: Ulmo Swarm
short story, with lots off unluck I lost (the LSD routed cowardly, 1...) the match...

Fourth match bye
I needed it hardly, to regenerate myself and calm down...

Fifth match vs Luigi: Tiefling Captain and Warlock, Blackspawn, Magma Hurler, Doomguard, fodder
Cones and high AC of the LSD finished him off...

Last match vs. Joris: Ultroloth, 2x Duergar Champ, Hellcat, Canoloth, Kobold Monk
tough match, but with 5 points left the LSD was victorious...

conclusion: the LSD has earnd his retirement hardly. Two tourneys within the top ten is respectable and I can satisfied try something new ( be warned the LGD is comin`to get you!)...

Very happy with the turn-out! I expected 10 people, and we had 21!

Breakup as follows: 6 Dutch, 7 Flemish, 4 Walonians (sp?), 3 Germans and 1 Englishman

Jan was playing marvelous, and earned a lot of respect. I didn't face him myself, but have seen him play. I ended up 8th myself, by going 4-2. Am very pleased with the result.

My warband: Storm, VirtCharger, Bralani, CWWx2, xephx2, Jozan (yes, Stefan, I was your 1st Erik)
My map: Kings Road

My match-ups:

First match: Loss vs an up and coming dutch player whose name I forgot (shame). Played his 3rd match ever and he beat me fair and square (he ended up 9th IIRC). He played CE: Ryld, Large Blackx2, Thrall, and Orc Warriors. My dice weren't working for me and my opponent played very well and rolled an average of 15+ on die-rolls. I can't remember what map we used.

Second Match: Win vs LSD-Ruler (Stefan). Toughest match of the day. I feared this warband, because I knew it's potential. The guy didn't end up 4th in german nationals for nothing. I think his map (thieves quarter) worked to my advantage, I could take out all his activations except the LSD quite fast, and it was hit-and-run from there on. I kept scoring Victory Area Points, and ended up 7 points ahead, with his LSD at 70 hp. Still thrilling to think back on that match.

Third Match: Loss vs Marcel (I don't know his screen name, am not sure if his name was Marcel to be honest, another German, he ended 7th). He played Storm as well, but with shadow dancers. Pretty even match-up, played on my map. I was up on front about 30-35 vps, but made a stupid mistake in the end by playing too aggresively in the last round. I wanted to kill something and moved my Storm forward with only 15 hp left. I should have pulled her back and let her heal herself. But I didn't, she got killed and I lost. I still hate myself for doing it. match ended in 40 minutes, so at least I had a few minutes to have lunch.

Fourth Match: Win vs Llarbal (Paul). My weekly DDM sparring partner, almost allways plays CE. This time he played: Tiefling Captain, Thrall, HGB, Large Black, Orc Warriors. he won map init (Hellspike). He made a few mistakes (he was hungry I guess), and the dice weren't in his favour. I didn't make any obvious mistakes and won quite easily. Losing a moral save with his HGB didn't help him either.

Fifth Match: Win vs Eelco (don't know if he has a screen name). He played LG, with dual commanders (Excorsist Silver Flame, Paladin of Torm, Gith Monk, Xorn, and a few other pieces). I won map init and my warband was a lot stronger. Speed 4 combined with autodamage killed his warband.

Sixth Match: Win vs Charles the Ghoul (Erwin), playing with Inspiring Marshal, Wemic, Gnome Trickster, Frenzied Berserker, Laldabode, Xeph and timber wolf. He won map-init and we were condemned to teleport temple. Thank god Paul and I had practised on this map. We had a very slow start, with a 20-30 score on Victory Area points after 3 rounds. From the fourth round onward I was able to kill off his Wemic, Inspiring Marshal, and Frenzied Beserker, in that order I believe. I was pretty far up on victory points when he took down my Storm, so that didn't matter any more. He conceded after I took out Laldabode as well

Autodamage saved my day. My 2 fearless War Wizards won me my matches. It was a great tournament, and I think everyone enjoyed himself (or herself in the case of Kristine).

D.

I can at least give you my warband that earned me second place

Inspiring Marshall, Frenzied berserker, Wemic, Gnome trickster, Mialee, xeph, two graycloacks with wolves (one wolf and one timber wolf). I played on the teleport map.

Jan's warband was something like:

Ulthroloth, duergar champ, Chraal, dragonmarked heir, Snig + sniglets, bat, greenspawn sneak and another gobo skirmisher I think. 11 acts on the drow outpost.
He completely trashed me in round three

Greetz,
GRUUMSH

let's see...
my band was: Ultroloth, chraal, DHoD, duergar champ, snig +3 gob shirm, greenspawn sneak, bat familiar and gob shirm  (total 199 pts)
map: Drow Outpost

first game: VS LSD with LSD, DHoD, CoO,...
won map, don't know about side init
first round nothing really happend
second round LSD started: LSD flou in and breath cold on duerg, bodyguard and some little guys (snig +1 minion)
then my turn: bat immune cold on LSD so lose immune fire (i though that there come a rule out with bloodwar or something that the first spell is replaced by ur first spell  when you cast the same spell on the same creature, doesn't matter if you can choose another effect with the same spell) LSD take 140 dmg from dubble scorch, crit flank charge of duerg and hits of bodyguar with flanking
thrith round: i win init and finishes off LSD with scorch
still well played

Second game: (sorry for forgetting ur name, not really good at remmembering name's)
that was a close on VS Ryld, 2 MDP, 2 sting l, deep dragon, ...
won map init and side init (that was it for my inits then, lost the rest, i think)
second round:lose init, dragon use cone on snig, DHoD and duerg...
killed 1 mounted (don't know much about it, i was to focussed on the game to remember everything)
and dragon routed
after awayl duerg die and second drow patr followed .
ryld came in and DHoD died pritty quick aftr that
ultroloth MC: i rolled a 2 then i needed a 3
but next round Ultro rallied and come bck the round after that, chraal killed ryld and ultro finished off the dragon who rallied befor
game finished, Well Played

Thrith game: VS Erik Pede (Gruumsh)Belgian !!! band: Frenzi, wemic, IM, tricky, 2 gray and xeph map: teleport
lucky won map init and side init
then lost init:had to begin
first moved all little guys (activations 9 for Erik, 11 for me)
Erik made he's band inv
1 wolf moved to vic area
second round i won init and begon:
chraal was next to wolf, attatted and pass conc 11 with second att and wolf ran off
Erik moved xeph next to green on he's vic area (still inv) green atts twice and hits the second 1
second inv wolf moves on other vic area...
after 3 or 4 rounds frenzi came nex to green on vic area (still inv) and wemic close to chraal (1 square between, still inv)
used att atts of chraal and duerg on frenzi (frenzi gets to 5 hp), chraal gets pushed by tricky, grant move, wemic and frenzi next to ultro
me turn body takes aoo from frenzi and takes 30 dmg, frenzi became visible and body atts frenz
deathstrike missed ultro (+14+2 flank VS ac 21) then wemic atts hits ones (ultro takes the dmg)
last round:
in init and ultro and chraal do full att
wemic runs
game over: Well Played Erik and congrats with second place

forth game: VS Roger (Janos) Ultro, 3 chraal, duerg slaver, skel w and legion map: waterfall
lost map init and side init
lost first (think so but not sure)
nothing happend just moved closer
second round: think i won init, chraal moves true waterfall (has immune fire from bodyguard) and blocks the other chraals from moving in to cone my guys
began to first
lost almost all inits from this point on,
at the end my utro was at 25 hp with chraal at 75 and he's ultro died with 1 chraal still standing
that was a really fun game to play and not easy to win, went really fast without really making mistakes, well roger thx for coming from Germany and Well Played

fifth game: think is was VS Erik (a dutch player) 3 bluespawn storms, snig+3 skir, talon,...
won map and side init
second round: chraal coned 1 blue, snig and talon
snig ran, blue saves
ultro scorch and quick c another on blue, MC (6+3) he ran of at once, duerg came in and ran bck away for 1 round
my little guys died (a little shocked by the elec link), 1 blue was killed by DHoD with flanking and other blue and talon where killed by chraal, ultro and duerg when he came bck
chraal was at 20 hp, ultro about 50 (don't really know), DHoD around 20 to 30 hp and duerg 30 hp left at the end
Well Player

Last Gameand sixth: VS Peter (Alepulp)band: CoC, Couatl, Balista, Shield guard, mialee, 2 wolfs,... map: Dragondown Grotto
lost map init, won side init
first init: lost so i begon
little guys got shocked and shot the first round
second round chraal moved next to wolf on vic area at the top, and DHoD, duerg and ultro moved closer to balista (in forest cover)
next round: chraal atts wolf (rolls a 2 then a 1), moved DHoD and duerg moved next to shield, ultro scorch on shield (5 dmg)
next round duerg dead, snig dead and DHoD dies (and bat with DHoD)
chraal atts wolf and hits, wolf ran
ultro moves next to balista
chraal and ultro keep fighting but it was pretty hopeless for me
congrats with ur thirth place and Well Played

thx to everyone, but aspecially thx to Peter (Alepulp) and Kristine (of WotC) for the organizing of the event

(my English is not so good, so sorry for mistake with me writing, if you see any)

Greetings, Jan Elfman

my parents asked if there was a site where you can look at the pictures ??

Gr ,Ja Elfman

Congratulations to:

Jan, Gruumsh, Peter and Roger.

How did Llarbal do?

I am very excited to see the Europeans this year. It is a lot of great players which don´t do many mistakes!

So it seems like the time has come for the younger great players....