Hello everybody, This year I'm part of the organizing team (other members are MattBab, Dunan and Darkdoji) for the French Satellite which will happen on April 27th and 28th 2019 in Paris' suburb (in a city called Antony). I - The registration It's a two steps process. First you have to send an e-mail to : merovingiansatellite[at]gmail.com In this mail you have to write your ITS nickname, your ITS pin number (and also if you have allergy, necessary for us to prepare the food). Then, we will send you an e-mail with all the informations for payement (25€, covering the tournament fees, meal on saturday and sunday and prizes for every participant). Once you have paid, you will receive an invitation to join the tournament on the OTM. There are 50 spots. Deadline for list uploading is April 19th. II - The venue 1 Avenue Léon Harmel, 92160 Antony https://goo.gl/maps/f58pJ6Yfka22 Off course, the venue is accessible from Paris using line RER B (about 4€ a ticket, 40 min from the middle of Paris). It is also close to "Orly Airport" and "Massy TGV station". Line RER B begins at "Charles de Gaulles (CDG) Airport" so it is also accessible from there but it's at least a 1h train ride. There are a few cheap hotels nearby (at least for Paris) like this one : https://www.booking.com/hotel/fr/ibis-massy.fr.html Or this one : http://www.booking.com/Share-hVAsx9 If you are planning to come from abroad contact me via private message and I shall help you arrange your trip and stay. III - Tournament rules It will be an ITS season 10 tournament, no extra (ecept the special rule below), 300 points and 6 SWC. There will be 5 games. Pairing will be random for the first game. Mesure will be in Cm Special rule for this tournament : Because there is a TAG mission, the following armies will be allowed to recruit Scarface and Cordelia, without the Soldiers of fortune extra and without any extra cost (no 1 cap fee) - Imperial Service - Generalist Ariadna - Caledonian Highlander Army - USAriadna Ranger Force - Tartary Army Corps - Hassassin Bahram - Steel Phalanx Just take them with "NA2-MERCS" option, and do not care about having 7 point of CAP because of Soldier of Fortune extra. Missions will be : Saturday : - Deadly dance - Highly classified - Acquisition Sunday : - Unmasking - Supplies NOTICE : referees will do their best to apply rules and last FAQs. But whatever the ruling, the referee answer is final and you have to respect its decision. Players have to bring their own material, models, printed army lists and rules. Arc of view has to be clearly painted on the base. PLANNING : Saturday 27 april Welcome : 9h00 - 9h30 1st game : 9h30 - 11h45 Lunch break : 11h45 - 13h 2nd game : 13h00 - 15h15 3rd game : 15h30 - 17h45 Sunday 28 april 4th game : 9h15 - 11h30 Lunch break : 11h30 - 12h45 5th game : 12h45 - 15h Result and prize annoucement : 15h15 -15h30 Edit : Dates of the event are 100% sure. If you book a plane make sur you have some extra time to pack your things or just in case we run late. We will do our best to keep the event on time, especially on the last round so that you guys don't have any plane / train issue. IV - Painted armies lottery Furthermore, even if painting is not mandatory, we will organize a lottery between all players with entirely painted armies (meaning both lists) with prizes to win, in order to promote army painting. V - Painting contest Finally, we will organise an amateur painting contest, totally optional. The registration will occurs the saturday 27th. Each participant can propose 1 to 5 miniatures of human size (they must be coherent between them, like a team, up to the judge to decide, if your are not sure send us an E-mail), or one big miniature, or a diorama. It must be themed in the Infinity universe or a cyberpunk one. It is not mandatory to propose a miniature that you actually play in game. Actually it would be more convenient if you don't play with these miniatures. See you there guys. PS : you can already see some of the beautiful tables we will have here : https://www.facebook.com/H.CED.Artiste/ PSS : I edited the post with the registration process and missions 13/12/2018
I edited the post to make more explicite that dates of the event are 100% sure. If you book a plane make sur you have some extra time to pack your things or just in case we run late. We will do our best to keep the event on time, especially on the last round so that you guys don't have any plane / train issue.
I edited the main topic with a special rule : Because there is a TAG mission, the following armies will be allowed to recruit Scarface and Cordelia, without the Soldiers of fortune extra and without any extra cost (no 1 cap fee) - Imperial Service - Generalist Ariadna - Caledonian Highlander Army - USAriadna Ranger Force - Tartary Army Corps - Hassassin Bahram - Steel Phalanx Just take them with "NA2-MERCS" option, and do not care about having 7 point of CAP because of Soldier of Fortune extra. I also add the part IV and V about the lottery for painted armies (to promote playing fully painted armies) and the painting contest (these are two different things).
Hello folks We are very happy to announce that "Gamemate" (https://www.gamemat.eu/) will sponsor this event. So we will have two very nice gamemat to play on and to give to players as prizes. So a big "hourra" for them. :)
Hello, A big thanks to Micro art studio for supporting our event. They are sending some prizes to give to participants. :-) https://shop.microartstudio.com
A big thanks to Legion Distribution (which is retailling Infinity product to local stores) for its support to this tournament with prizes for participants ! http://legion-distribution.com/ PS : if you want to spend some time to Paris do not hesitate to join us. We still have some spot open for you guys. Also I have heard that it is a nice city to visit. :-)
Well we have fireworks too. That's true. If you like it feel welcome. :-) Unfortunately that was like a month ago. Next one is for July 14th (national day) I think. Now it's more like : https://goo.gl/images/87wkfo
Yeah, the Yellow Gilets thing is losing strength. There are still some demonstrations each week-end but they aren't as big and demonstrative as they were two months ago. I know Americans aren't used to this and something at this scale has been unseen for some decades in France but it's progressively depleting. Who knows how things will be in two months? If you want to visit Paris during the week before or after (since we'll be playing during the whole week-end), you won't have more problems the ones you can usually have.
Hello there. You all received a mail but I will add it here. Deadline for list uploading is April 19th.
The results will be update on army soon (if not already). But for the lists it's up to the players to do that (but I doubt a list without insight and explanations is useful).
So the tournament is over. It was great for us as organizers to see all of you looking happy. We hope you really had a good time. A big thank you to the volunteer of the association ALESIA who don't necessarily play infinity and helped us a LOT dueong the week end. Would not have been possible to provide for breakfast and meals and such a warm welcome without them. A big thank you to Cédric / Dunan, one of the organizer who made 9 of these great looking tables and some goodies as prizes. http://hced.fr/ A big thank you also to all our generous sponsors : Corvus Belli, Gamemat, Micro Art Studio, legion distribution (distributor of the game in France) and uchronie (a local store). I will post a short video soon but already if you wanna see the table they are on Facebook : https://m.facebook.com/groups/789138007776205?view=permalink&id=2296497567040234
I have uploaded the photos of the tounament tables online. Since not everybody have access to facebook, I post the photo here also. Tables mades by Cedric / Dunan ( http://hced.fr/) : Tables from Championnet association ( http://forum.championnet-figurines-jeux.com/) : Tables from ALESIA association : Personnal tables lended by the tournament participants : And here for more pictures of the event. https://www.casimages.com/a/PvrNq?p=1