Adepticon 2018: Wrap Up and Joe’s Corner

By Joe Lewis

Schaumburg, IL – AdeptiCon has grown consistently over the past sixteen years, from the humble 110 person event in 2002, to the amazing 4,500 attendees AdeptiCon hosted in 2018. Over these sixteen years, AdeptiCon has been held at five different venues. They have expanded from a handful of events to well over 460 tournaments, event games, and hobby seminars covering all aspects of the miniature war gaming hobby.

Over the last seven years, the Crystal Brush painting contest takes place at AdeptiCon.  The contest’s sponsor, CoolMiniOrNot, along with its convention host, AdeptiCon, are making the Crystal Brush Awards a global arena for the world’s best miniature artists to display their talent.  The entries are works of art.  The top three highest scorers in each of the 7 standard categories will receive a Crystal Brush trophy.  Each trophy is made of cut lead crystal and tipped with the appropriate place color (gold, silver, or bronze). Gold winners in each category will also receive a cash prize of $200.

The top three overall winners will each receive a cash prize of $10,000, $2,000, and $1,000 respectively. The organizers claim that these are the most valuable awards in the miniature painting world today!

Check out this years and past years entries (and winners) at the Crystal Brush’s site – www.crystalbrush.com

Being one of my must go conventions, this was my 8th.  I had the chance to played in both the Team Yankee Tournament and in Flames of War Mid-War Nationals. When it was all over, I had the pleasure to sit down with the Tournament Organizers David Griffin of Battlefront and Chuck Hiner of the Screaming Eagles.

 

2018 Flames of Mid-War War Nationals Results

Position	Name	Army	Score	Notes
1	Chris Novak	German	99.00
2	Tom Burgess	British	96.25
3	William Brown	German	93.50
4	Chris Fretts	American	90.75
5	Joe Lewis	American	88.00
6	Michael Henry	Italian	85.25
7	Keith Gilmour	German	82.50
7	Leo Colon	German	82.50
7	Roger Modderman	Italian	82.50
10	Andrew Hopson	American	74.25
11	John Cedarberg	German	71.50
11	Tom Dandurand	German	71.50
13	Nathaniel Duncan	Italian	66.00
13	Owen Mcgarel	British	66.00
15	Richard Novak	American	60.50
16	David Vigor	Italian	57.75
17	Tony Domenico	American	55.00	Best Sport
18	Jerry Lane	American	52.25
19	Evan Yount	German	49.50
19	Jim McKinney	British	49.50
21	Jason Hobbs	American	44.00
22	Robert Klemic	Italian	41.25
23	Joel Hassler	British	38.50
24	Jared Camer	German	35.75
25	Nick Angelici	British	33.00
26	Jeff Barden	American	30.25
26	Joe Flesch	American	30.25
28	Alex Astreidas	American	24.75
28	Patrick Barkuloo	British	24.75
28	Ryan Pecore	American	24.75
31	Mark Wasko	British	16.50
32	John Dudkiewicz	American	13.75	Best Army
33	Ken Horton	German	11.00
34	Paul Devolpi	American	8.25
35	Rick Gearheart	British	5.50
36	Mark Shultz	German	2.75

 

2018 Adepticon Team Yankee Results

Position	Name	Army	Score	Icons
1	Keith Gilmour	United Kingdom	93.00
2	Leo Colon	East German	89.12
3	Andrew Hopson	United Kingdom	85.25
4	Michael Henry	East German	81.38	Best Army
5	Joe Lewis	West German	77.50
6	Jim McKinney	United States	73.62
6	Jason Hobbs	West German	73.62
6	Chris Fretts	United Kingdom	73.62
9	David Vigor	United States	62.00
10	Tom Burgess	USSR	58.12
11	Robert Klemic	United Kingdom	54.25
12	George Takacs	United Kingdom	50.38
13	Paul Devolpi	USSR	46.50
14	Jeff Cohen	United States	42.62
15	Jerry Lane	West German	38.75
15	Timothy Stone	West German	38.75
15	Jonathan Tinio	Ussr	38.75
15	Brendgol Majewski	East German	38.75
19	Matt Triak	West German	23.25
19	Julius Paala	United States	23.25
21	Patrick Barkuloo	USSR	15.50
21	Brian Sherry	USSR	15.50
23	Craig Gaddis	United States	7.75
23	Bryan Lada	United States	7.75

 

More information on AdeptiCon can be found at www.adepticon.org.

The next Adepticon will be on March 27th – 31st, 2019 at Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel.

See you next year.