Scoring

The Scoring at Bayou Battles consists of:

100 Battle Points:

Win—15
Draw-10
Loss—5
Scenario objectives-5 (some available to both players)

60 Sportsmanship:

Your sports score will be determined by two factors: A) Post game opponent opinion (45 points max), and B) post-tourney opponent ranking (15 points max).

A) You will be rated by your opponent at the end of each game as either having Good Sportsmanship, or Bad Sportsmanship. You start out with 45 points. Each Bad Sportsmanship vote you receive will deduct points from your total, and each successive bad game vote is worse than the previous one, and the scores are cumulative! Here is the breakdown:

1st Bad Vote: -3 points
2nd Bad Vote: twice as bad as 1st, -6 for a total of -9
3rd Bad Vote: 3x as bad as 1st, -9 for a total of -18
4th Bad Vote: 4x as bad as 1st, -12 for a total of -30
5th Bad Vote: 5x as bad as 1st, -15 for a total of -45 (Yes, showing good Sportsmanship IS that important!)

In addition, we will talk with each person that gives a Bad Sportsmanship vote, not to try to change your vote, but to understand why it was given so that after the tourney, feedback can be given to the individual on how to improve (if he wants it/asks about it), but also to determine if this is someone we even want to allow back in future years. Also note that if you give out Bad Sportsmanship votes like candy on Halloween, YOU may not be invited back!

B) Post-Tourney scoring is as follows: Each player will rank their Top 3 opponents from the weekend (and yes, you MUST vote for 3 and no ties allowed!). Additional points will be granted for each vote as follows:

Best Opponent: 3 points
2nd Best Opponent: 2 points
3rd Best Opponent: 1 point

20 Composition:

At the end of each game, you will judge your opponent's list as either being a Good List or a Bad List. Good List = 3 points, Bad List = 0 points. Total of 15 points available from opponent's opinion of your list, plus 5 points for submitting a list by the deadline.

25 Painting:

0-10 points on the quantity of your army that is painted to the 3-color minimum. 0-15 points available on the quality of the paint job. We are enforcing a minimum 75% painted needed to get the quality paint job points.

Remember that painting is not required to participate!

Prizes

PrizesWe award prizes for 1st through 3rd place in the following categories:


Overall:                     Battle+Sports+Comp+Painting
Best General:          Battle+Comp
Best Sportsman:   Sports
Best Army:              Painting+Comp
Players’ Choice:    Player Voting (separate from other scores)

We also award a single prize for:

Arm Chair General:       Sports+Comp-Battle
Snotling Hard Luck:     Winner of Game 5 between two players with lowest Battle                                            Scores

It is also our tradition to give out many high-quality door prizes. Don’t miss out!