Agram Arena Winter 2014 Report

Marko Paunović, 9th December 2014

The biggest regional wargaming tournament in Croatia, the Agram Arena Winter 2014, was held on Saturday and Sunday, Dec.6th and 7th. The event took place in Gallery Zvonimir, MORH (Croatia's Department of Defense), Bauerova 33, Zagreb. This year the main event had 52 players with numerous participants in other events such as Malifaux December Horrors IV tournament, and demo games of various wargaming systems like Warhammer 40.000, Warmachine and historical Pike and Shotte. This year Arena featured competitiors from Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Italy and Austria. Even one orc came!

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Two days of gaming in an extremely friendly atmosphere saw the competitors battle it out in five matches.
"Everything ran smoothly, the e-mail communication prior to the event was excellent. Being from out of Croatia, the fact that we could rely on the organisers to arrange our stay in the Hostel was a big help. Also, as this was my first time here so the guys of UMS "Agram" providing me with free Saturday night accommodation and both lunches during the event, makes this one of the best value for money tournaments around.
What I like most about the event, though, is the friendly natured opponents and the "after" tournament activities organised by the locals. Even though the guys spent most of the friday afternoon setting up the tournament, they still took time to take us out to dinner afterwards and the same thing happened on Saturday night as well. I can honestly say, I will come back again!"

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On saturday, the December Horrors IV Malifaux tournament took place on beautiful tables that were one of the highlights of the whole competition. On Sunday, there were numerous demo games being played for all the visitors and onlookers. Games on offer were: Malifaux, Warmachine, Warhammer 40.000 and historical Pike and Shotte.

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Boris Samec and Dean Konti ran demos of Pike and Shotte with their massive, beautifully painted armies on an equally impressive table throughout both days of the event.

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Sunday saw the painting highlight of the whole event, the Best Painted Army competition. Two judges, Figure Painter Magazine's own Ana Polanscak and Marko Paunovic, decided that the Award should in the end go to Slovenia's Primož Pirš and his beautifully painted pure Chaos Khorne army.
"There were better painted models in some of the other armies (like the Dwarf Lords in one of the numerous Dwarf armies) but this one had a really, really high standard of painting throughout the army. The fact that impressed us the most is that the same ammount of time and effort was put in in all the models. Even models in the back ranks of units or to the back of the display base were painted with as much attention to details as the lords in the forefront. Almost all the models had some kind of battle damage and the freehand on the banners was executed cleanly and precisely."

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The People's Choice Award, the award given to the army that gets most of the votes of the tournament participants, went to Marco Filiplich from Italy and his impressive Dwarf army set on a huge display board.

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List of the winners:
1. place - Anže Horvat, SLO
2. place - Matic Anzeljc, SLO
3. place - Dragomir Dopuđa, SRB
Best General - Anže Horvat, SLO
Best Sporstmanship - Anže Horvat, SLO
Best Painted Army - Primož Pirš, SLO
People's Choice Award - Marco Filiplich, I
Best Story - Josip Ivani, UMS "Agram"
KeyMaster - Mislav Gorupec, UMS "Agram"
GIMP (worst placed UMS "Agram" member) - Luka Kani, UMS "Agram"
Last Place - Mathias Perzi, I

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Congratulations to the winners and a big thank you to all the competitors and all who participated in the organisation of the twelfth annual Agram Arena Winter. A big thank you to all the sponsors: MORH, ZZTK, Carta Magica, Figure Painter Magazine, Ravnice Youth Hostel, Escenorama, Microart Studio).

See you in 2015!

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