Recently in Regionals I experienced the darker side of
Heroclix. I’m not here to complain, but to warn all of you
future heroclickers about some of the things you may not
read about in the rulebook.
I had won the pre-qualifier placing myself in the final
rounds of Regionals and manage to coast through my first
match. I had the range on him and killed him before he even
reached me. Currently life was pretty sweet.
For round two, I happened to be talking to the very guy that
I was posted to play. We sat down with our teams and I could
see in his face that he did not like what he was up against.
Not that my team was that good, just that his team was a
very bad match up. He made a comment that my team couldn’t
be 300 points and it had to be over. I assured him it was
exactly 300 points. This was my first mistake. Never tell
anybody how many points your team is until the end.
His first turn last 25 minutes, I am not joking. Twenty-five
minutes and in the end of it all, he moved his medic 1 space
and passed. My turn was about 2 minutes and his next was
about 14 minutes. I had one turn and there was about 20
minutes left in the match. This pace continued as I called
over the judges. I was polite in hurrying my opponent along
and talked much with the judges about the pace of the match.
This was my second mistake. In the end I had 4 turns and he
never attacked me or moved. I never reached him to actually
attack. He was declared the winner. Why? Because his team
was 299 and mine was 300. In the event of a tie without
anybody killed the win goes to the person with the lowest
points.
So I went home a loser without losing a single character. I
immediately talked to the judges, I HAD called them over 8
times. Why did they not do anything? Why did they not help
me? Their answer; you did not complain enough for us to do
something. I thought what a hard lesson to have to learn.
Maybe heroclix should have turn-clocks, perhaps that is what
it comes down too. I fight in my normal life to gain
advantages; do I really have to fight to play Heroclix? The
answer is yes. Being a competitive player in tournaments
means not always making friends. That does not mean that you
should not make friends, but be careful of others playing
off your friendship. If they’re really your friends they’ll
be your friends after you’re competitive. In short, don’t
let people walk on you.
