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Tournament Scoring

In my post and video about Southern Assault 2025, I talked a bit about being disappointed with apparent unevenness in the paint scoring. I don’t think my own paint score reflected what my miniatures should have gotten on the published rubric, and I know a few other people in similar situations.

In some conversations sparked by that, I’ve seen some players advocate for removing paint scores from the tournament’s scores altogether with a painting competition as a separate event. Despite my frustration with paint scores this year, I quite like the way that it is incorporated into Southern Assault’s rankings.

For the tournament, a player’s overall score is a combination of their scores from games played, sportsmanship, army composition, and painting. The tournament’s top prize requires a player to perform well in all of those categories, but there are still prizes for those who excel at just one. In addition to the top 3 overall, there are trophies for the top 3 in sportsmanship, top 3 for painting, and top 3 in just game scores. I like that the overall rankings reward painting and sportsmanship in addition to just winning games since it reflects the entire hobby.

That said, there are definitely parts of Southern Assault’s scoring that I’d be happy to see changed. I like including painting, but scoring does need to match the rubric and be applied evenly across the field. There will always be a bit of subjectiveness, but ensuring multiple judges have enough time to independently look at each entry seems like it would help out.

My least favorite part of scoring at Southern Assault is actually sportsmanship and list composition. I think those are important parts of the event, but I do not enjoy giving scores out to my opponent for sportsmanship and army composition after each game. I feel like the first ends up being like a rating on a service worker – you give 5 stars unless there’s a problem of some sort. Then for army composition, it feels like every player is working off of their own rubric for where lists should land on a 1-20 rating system. Scoring after each game also means that you have less context for early opponents than those you play against in later rounds. It also has the possibility of feeling awkward if you do give a lower score because your opponent is still sitting at the same table while you pick and write down a score for them. I’d much rather just do ranked lists for both sportsmanship and army composition at the end of the event.

I don’t think any tournament scoring system is going to make everyone happy. A lot of it comes down to personal preferences with no definitively correct method. Overall though, I do like the system used by Southern Assault.

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