Hi

I'm just afther our Nationals.

During last round there was a very odd situation. Judge came to the players from final table (evryone have ended games before time) and inform them that they have 9 min to the end of round. Both of players do they moves that could change game the rest was left just to move (no shoting etc. to faster game). When they finished one of the player goes to the judge to checkthe time (they do all stuff in about 7 min). Judge informed them that they have another 10 min so if they want the have to play another round. He said that erlier he wrongly check clock!!! One of the players want to play another round, another one said he want play another one since he didnt make all moves and shooting because judge said that this (that was round 5) was his last round.

Did you ever saw such judge mistake? That where Nationals for God sake! I'm rather new in armada but have almost 20years of wargaming under my belt. I organised over a hundred of tournaments in many systems and never saw such thing. It is normal in FFG run turnaments?

No, you just had a bad judge

At Tacoma regionals last spring the last round was cut short because the convention hall was closing and the event organizers didn't allot us the space or time to start earlier. FFG has no direct control over how these events are run as far as I know though

So i get this right:

Judge said there are 9 minutes left. And one player thought this is the last round and hurried to play this last round to finish this before time is called? Just to be forced to play the 6th round that he didnt want to play?

No idea about the fault of the judge (reading the wrong time), but this is really a stupid move to rush the round and ending in another round that you didnt want to play at all.....

If the judge say there are 9 minutes left, and you are in the middle of the round, you eighter play normaly and wait for the time call. Or you hurry to get to the next round. But you dont hurry and are mad if you have to play the next round.

FFG only has any actual "control" at Nationals and North American Championships in the United States, and, of course, at Worlds...

Store Championships are completely the Domain of the Store, and of course, any store in Good Standing can Participate.

Regionals are controlled, somewhat, in who holds them - with FFG being the Decider in the United States, and the "Exclusive Distributors" being the decider in other Countries... So for Canada, that's Lion Rampant... For Australia, that's Good Games, etc...

Nationals are typically, these days, held either directly by the distributor, or at least, at the Distributor's Behest. This is different than previous years - for example, Lion Rampant directly held Canadian Nationals this year, rather than having it shipped out to people at a Con... I know the UK Distributor has a very tight hold on their Nationals, too...

However, if you have problems, or complaints, or indeed - things like this - then there are Event Feedback Forms that shouldbe filled out with FFG... It is the only way that FFG knows what has happened at an Event.. report it here, and make sure you dictate everything that's happened:

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/more/organized-play-event-reporting/

You can aslo report direct to Organised Play with this link, again, giving AS MANY DETAILS AS POSSIBLE:

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/op/feedback/


And Finally, you can Email Organised Play directly:

[email protected]

Thx drasnighta for info. Will post it to guys. I wasn't involved in this situation. I never meet such judge action in my life and it is whybI posted it to make sure that this is rare situation. That was my fifth Armada tournament. It was very unpleesant to see two guys that are good friends argueing about stupid judge decision over they table

I don't get the issue, if they were told 9 minutes left and rushed to finished the round in 7 mins they have 2 minutes left so "Must"start the next round, it's in the rules.

The fact the judge the said there was a further ten minutes is not relevant in this case ( it would have been if they had taken 15 minutes and though they were over time and sudenly found out they needed to play another round).It sounds like one player did not fully understand the rule around the fact if you still have time left (no matter how much or little) you start a new round and only finish when that round is over ( even if it puts you over) you never rush your round to keep you in time unless you are both trying to get in just one more round.

It sounds like one player did not fully understand the rule around the fact if you still have time left...

Sound like the judge didn't fully understand either.

As a side note, It's a good habit to not rush things and play the round out as intended. In part due to circumstances like this. At World's I actually didn't activate one of my ships because we thought time had been called only to find out that it actually had not. This meant my ship was in a bantha poodoo spot for the next round which you are required to start.

Never assume it's the last round until you end round six or have finished the round and the the judge confirms your time up and you've shaken on the result.