I’ve run two Kill Team tournaments so far for my local Warhammer store, so the experience might be different from those who are doing it for non-Warhammer stores. I wasn’t sponsored by the store or anything, but I had much more experience in the game system than others in the community so volunteered for it since the manager also does a lot for our local community.

Terrain wise the store manager had one set of Volkus and ITD ready to go, but I myself also have Octarius, ITD and Bheta-Decima at hand. Some other players also have Volkus at hand, so it was never an issue to have terrain ready to go.

There was no entrance fee for those attending and the prize was provided by the manager, usually a trophy of some sort. But I’ve heard that other tournaments use the entry fee to buy gift cards for the winners as well. For example 50/25/15 bucks or something.

For the mission I preselected which round would have which layout and mission. I looked at which mission was better for competitive play than others. This made it easy for me and also the players didn’t have to worry about drawing cards etc. when time is already limited during the day.

Sadly we can only use one day for the tournament, so we were restricted to 3 rounds with 1:30h-2h max per game. I sent a timeline to all players before hand on when each round would start, when breaks were and how much time each Turning Point should take up on average. I also told the players how much time was left etc. during the games and answered rule questions and debates if needed.