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Dragon Slayer Scoring System
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The somewhat legendary Dragon Slayer Scoring System is a mix of many old and new ideas, but the unique feature is the scoring itself. Victory Points are calculated for each game as normal and they form the basis of your score within the tournament's leaderboard (called your League Points), but there all resemblance to any other tournament ends.
Intrigued? Well, you'd better read on, hadn't you!
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League Points
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First of all, you must differentiate between league points and victory points, because they are two very distinct things. Victory points are, of course, the scores used to work out who has won or lost a game, and the methods used to calculate these can be found on page 198 of the Warhammer 6th edition rulebook. Dragon Slayer events will always use this page to calculate victory points.
League points, however, are scores used to rank players in a tournament or campaign, or indeed any other event, and are dependant upon how players perform in their battles rather than how many casualties they have inflicted - just like any other tournament. For example, in a WPS tournament, a win by 1,000 victory points would give a player 20 tournament points, and his opponent - because he lost by 1,000 victory points - would only gain 5 tournament points. Broadly, Dragon Slayer events follow this type of scoring system, but there is one major difference: the amount of victory points you score are also factored into your league points. This means that if a player has inflicted a lot of damage on his opponent whilst still losing quite badly, he'll gain more league points than somebody who has simply been slaughtered - which means, of course, there is a major incentive to play on and inflict a few casualties rather than give in at the first sign of trouble!
Further, the scoring system we use is calculated in the thousands rather than in the tens, which means we can directly relate victory points to league points. It also has one huge advantage over other scoring systems in that ties are almost never seen and placings are always differentiated clearly - there's no roll-offs to see who has won in our events!
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League Points Scoring
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In general players do not have to worry about how league points are calculated, because all they have to do is hand in their victory points total to the scorers. For those who need to be in the know, however, the following system is used to modify victory points (vps) and turn them into league points (lps). This does depend on the points value of your armies, however.
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To the Victor
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To the Loser
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Total Victory
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Utter Defeat
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(win by 1,200 vps or more)
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(lose by 1,200 vps or more)
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2,000 League Points
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250 League Points
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plus half vps scored
(max of 3,000 lps)
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plus half vps scored
(max 1,000 lps)
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Victory
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Defeat
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(win by 800-1,199 vps)
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(lose by 800-1,199 vps)
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1,750 League Points
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500 League Points
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plus half vps scored
(max of 2,750 lps)
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plus half vps scored
(max 1,250 lps)
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Marginal Victory
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Marginal Defeat
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(win by 300-799 vps)
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(lose by 300-799 vps)
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1,500 League Points
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750 League Points
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plus half vps scored
(max of 2,500 lps)
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plus half vps scored
(max 1,500 lps)
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Draw
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(within 300 vps)
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1,125 League Points
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plus half vps scored
(max of 2,000 lps)
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To the Victor
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To the Loser
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Total Victory
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Utter Defeat
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(win by 1,000 vps or more)
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(lose by 1,000 vps or more)
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2,000 League Points
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250 League Points
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plus half vps scored
(max of 3,000 lps)
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plus half vps scored
(max 1,000 lps)
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Victory
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Defeat
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(win by 600-999 vps)
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(lose by 600-999 vps)
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1,750 League Points
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500 League Points
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plus half vps scored
(max of 2,750 lps)
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plus half vps scored
(max 1,250 lps)
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Marginal Victory
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Marginal Defeat
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(win by 200-599 vps)
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(lose by 200-599 vps)
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1,500 League Points
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750 League Points
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plus half vps scored
(max of 2,500 lps)
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plus half vps scored
(max 1,500 lps)
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Draw
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(within 200 vps)
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1,125 League Points
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plus half vps scored
(max of 2,000 lps)
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Ending Games Early
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In some cases games may be ended early and the scoring system is well set up to cope with this. If a player concedes before a game is over, he automatically loses the game as an Utter Defeat (gaining 250 League Points plus half of his Victory Points scored). His opponent receives a Total Victory (2,000 points plus half of his Victory Points scored).
If a player doesn't turn up for a game or cannot take part for some reason, the opposing player will receive a bye in the form of a Total Victory (2,000 League Points), with no other points added.
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Monday, 06 September 2010
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