Valourbowl III Results

 

For those of you who've been following us for a while, you're probably aware that each year we at Drawn Combat run a tournament in aid of charity each year - and this year was no different. Last month we ran the third iteration of our staple tournament: Valourbowl. The idea? We raise a heck of a lot of money in aid of charity with a bit of a twist on the ol' format. Sure we have a tournament winner, but what we want to see over the course of the day is kills achieved with each players chosen Hero of Valour! 

List building wise, players were given 500pts to play around with and to nominate a Hero of Valour from their list to be their champion for the day. There were certainly some heroes we expected like Boromir, Bolg and and Glorfindel, but there were also some very out there choices too! 

Our players had four games to rack up as large of a kill count as they could, some faring better than others and some genuinely surprising results too for one of those that reached the top 10! Ultimately however, one person had to come out on top and it was a fight to the bitter end with Team DC's own Dan Sellen making a punt for the top spot (thankfully, Dwalin died early in his last game and we were spared accusations of a fix!). But who did win you ask? Matt Hudson with his Dragon! In his own words, Fly made all the difference in his games as he was able to pick and choose his fights more carefully to inflict the most damage he could, really running away with it in his last match when he picked up 20 kills!

Of course, we had a much greater goal in mind - this years chosen charity was the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. The combination of ticket entries, baked sale goods and a raffle were all in place - with a lot of prizes donated from an incredibly generous bunch. This included our various partners and family members making hand making prizes, members of the community getting in touch to send us things and even some big names in the hobby industry such as Siege Studios, Element Games, Duncan Rhodes Two Thin Coats, Mantic Games, Rosemary & Co, Artis Opus and many more sending us amazingly kind gifts for us to raffle off. 

In total we raised...£2036.89 for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust! We cannot thank everyone enough for the support given to this event, and we aim to be back next year - bigger and better than before!