Games day Baltimore 2010

[Nameless]

few GD wins in your CV should get you more clients and possibility to increase prices.

[Skeeve]

Official coverage is up

https://www.games-workshop.com/gws/conte ... 0a&start=2

[pae]

I imagine one of the reasons she went to the US GamesDay was because it was a week after GenCon. I think that CMON brought her over to help push her DVD, so maybe she figured she'd do both competitions. I don't know. Just conjecture on my part.

[Nameless]

sounds reasonable.

[Trovarion]

it's easy...money prizes on gencon from privateer press (no?) 250 dollari/category and...is it 1000 dollari/best of show? ...if i knew my chances are 99% of winning 1250+ dollar each year, then i'd go to the US too...flight covered and you can probably stay at fellow painters places. take a few US demons on the way is just icing on the cake I suppose =)

[Corvus]

I don't know why the overall quality at the US gamesdays is lower than in Europe. Maybe the European ones are more competitive? You have the Spanish guys who want to steal away the prices of the French at the France GD. The French do the same at the German GD, etc

And European Golden Demon winners are rarely out-of-the-box models, in the US this seems very common...

[kacpero]

I don't know why the overall quality at the US gamesdays is lower than in Europe

because europeans are better painters/modellers?

[Corvus]

I don't know why the overall quality at the US gamesdays is lower than in Europe

because europeans are better painters/modellers?

I don't agree with this. Why put 200 hours of work into a scratchbuilt vehicle while all of your competitors bring out of the box models to the competition?

I think it's the fierce competition among the Europeans that "force" them to be better painters...

[Trovarion]

- a lot of top american painters dont give a rats ass about GDs anymore, since a while. with this preasure gone...the following people dont have to push their limits as hard and are maybe stagnating their levels?

- european contries are smaller, more condensed. more people per km² i think ...35 for usa...less than 1/3rd of spain, france and 1/6th of germany thats statistically less painters located together. not everyone wanting to go rrrreeeeeeeeally far for a GD.

- more GDs in reach for everyone in europe (so potentially more better painters can attend more GDs per year)

- european painting comunities developed in all european countries. started with the french, spread to spain, some in germany. UK has the longest history of GD, GW obviously. i know of no US comunities...not their style maybe? historical influence maybe? compete on your own, fight for yourself, american way of life and all that maybe? the really good ones not giving any input? hard to catch up without someone giving a broad basis hints and tips like it was in the EU.

- EU comunities developed within the last ...7, 8 years? with huuuuuuuuge progress, fast progress.

just some factors i can think of in 3 minutes.

[NAVARRO]

Maybe its a cultural thing, I tend to see european more picky and american more relaxed, dont know.