I know a ###### bag who did/does that... He used to judge a venue that is now closed down here in South Florida. Then my husband took over and while Clix was on hiatus... used his own pieces as prize support. We spent so much money on such said auction site buying Galactus, Spectre, Fing Fang Foom, Starro and other LE prizes. We had some buy-ins for these events since we USED OUR OWN MONEY to get them, and never really recouped all that we spent, but we did it because my husband LOVES this game and didn't want it to die.

Now that Clix is back, the ###### bag goes to venues around here, (there are several) and uses his cheesy pieces and tries to screw everyone over so he can sell the stuff online.

He even threatened me while I was pregnant because I called him a jerk and when he called me a "fat #####" behind my back I confronted him and he threatened to stab me. (That's another story in itself.)

Anyway, my point being, my husband is a great judge... I miss him because he judges 2 different venues 3 nights a week. But everyone loves him... he plays whenever he can (if there is a by) but is always available for questions. He also uses the LE's he doesn't want as extra prizes.

That's dedication.

Wow! You are amazing, your husband is great, and that guy who threatened you while you were pregnant needs to have some work done! Preferably by some large men with pinky rings! That's totally outrageous and I hope you filed charges - what a creep!
I really feel blessed in a lot of ways, but one of them is definitely the Heroclix community in Maryland. The jerk ratio is extremely low, and the players that will "help a brother out" are plentiful. I hope this idiot who treated you that way is the only one you've ever had to deal with, and that this is long since settled!

That's not exactly correct. There were 3 copies of each LE sent out, but none were marked for anything specific so there was no "entitled" prize of any type.

A venue could choose to give one for 1st place, one for Fellowship, and one for the "Judge" if they wanted - but it didn't have to.

At my venue I didn't feel comfortable taking an LE that wasn't "given" to me by someone else (venue or WK) so for HoT (and we got the replacement prizes - the cardless stuff) I gave out one prize for First Place, one for Fellowship, and the 3rd prize depended on number of players. If we had 7 or less the prize went to second place. 8 or more and it was a second fellowship.

As the "Judge" I only played when it was an odd number, unless it was just my 4-5 regulars, in which case I played regardless since I wanted those pieces, too AND my regulars are competitive friends. Sadly (for me) we had a lot of even numbers with newer players so I opted to sit out so they could have plenty of game time and help.

It sounds like for the next set there is going to be LE's set aside for the Event Coordinators / Judges so I won't have missing holes in my collection.

Now if I could just find an LE Samantha Parrington & Skull-Brother to trade for (or buy)...

I have one for you.

I was a judge that was too busy judging to play bye rounds.

If you think that makes me a prize hog then it just shows how much you don't know, and I don't care what else you may think.

To Tom730:

Nah, we still see the d0uche bag... He shows up to my husband's 2 venues to try and cheat his way through the tournaments. Every time I see him, I give him the evil eye. (Its a woman thing.) He's so stupid.. he used to be a judge and still asks the simplest questions to my husband just to stall in his games. I say to my husband, didn't that jerk-off used to be a judge? Shouldn't he know the answer to the question? My husband has more patience than I, and answers his ridiculous questions without a problem. If it were up to me, I'd ban the jerk like he was banned at other venues around South Florida.

But we have plenty of idiots in our "Heroclix Community". I'm so sick of some of them that I stopped playing and going to games.

But one good thing did come out of Heroclix... our children's Godfather we met at Heroclix in November 2006. He's such a great person and we admire him and look to him for advice and just a really great person! Thanks Heroclix! LOL

When My Players come to play and there is an odd number I will play the Bye round with the odd player, but I would still answer questions and see how they are doing. As for prizes they always get them I only get the one that is awarded to me for running the event. Other than that I go all Out for My Players. So yes I do Play for fun in the Bye round with my players. All should be treated equally.

I got your pinky ring and family right here. You wants I should show up and shows this guy some manners for yous?

Those guys oughta start the Charles Atlas Method! I got an ad from an old comic-book around here somewhere...

That was always a risk.

There you go again, bring facts, actual history, and logic into a discussion on HCRealms! I would think you would know better by now!

Once again, Darius is right!

I agree 100% with the above statements.

I agree with your disagreement; I've always disliked the concept that a Judge could play, skew the results fo their event, and offer a "Second Place Prize" by way of consolation. It just rubs me the wrong way.

You are comparing apples and oranges here.

The Judges at the conventions don't play because the events are generally larger (i.e. Worlds or qualifying events) than your average event at a Venue, or they are judging more than one event at a time (in the case of Battle Royales).

Even then, when the turnout is low (more often in the case of Battle Royales) or its the end of the day and fewer players are around, I've seen Judges allowed to play in Battle Royales while working. This is the exception of course, because the Judges working at the Cons are there to, well, work. The standards (and direct oversight) are generally a little higher than what is expected of us at our local Venues

Regardless of your personal misgivings, the Rules allowed Judges to play, during tournaments, in certain situatuions (other Judges present, playing the BYE, etc...). I do not see how doing so is automatically mutually exclusive to being on-hand to perform their role as Judge for the non-BYE games.

I actually took care of it myself. Ex-lax cupcakes really suck. The hubs wouldn't let me slash his tires. (I'm just happy the hubs likes the "fire" in me.) I can be really kind & sweet... But you threaten me, my family, or my friends, and you'll get what you desearve.

Anyway, I don't go to many clix tournaments anymore... I have a 17 soon to be 18 week old daughter and a 7 year old son, they're plenty for me to handle right now.

I am very surprised that after threatening you, your husband allows this guy to play at his venues. At the very least, this guy would have been banned and probably missing a few teeth.

I would love to meat this guy. No really...I wouldn't hurt him...much.

The store has to ban him... he cannot. Trust me... I've asked.