Wargames Individual Battle Honours rules.

Elishia  deliberating on her  next move.

Since publishing Individual Battle Honours: Are you up to the challenge?, MSSA has been inundated with people wishing to know the rules to the Individual Battle Honours.

The rules are as follows:

INDIVIDUAL HONOURS

1. Shall be held in all figure-gaming periods as played at the most recent S A National Championships to the rules used in such championships.
2. All games shall be played to the Handicap rules.
3. That all challenges operate as 'BATTLE HONOURS' challenges, except that the defender must defend the trophy at least twice in two months. Should the defender not have defended the trophy due to lack of opponents, he shall retain the floating trophy, however, should he not have defended the trophy and a challenge has been recorded by the Chairman/Chairwomen, or in his/her absence the Secretary of MSSA, the trophy will be awarded to the next best player.
4. Should the holder of the trophy not play at the South African National Championships in the period in which he holds the trophy, then the trophy shall be awarded to the winner of the South African National Championships for that period.
5. Should the holder of the trophy play in the South African National Championships, in the period in which he holds the trophy, and fail to finish in the top five places, then the trophy shall be awarded to the winner of the South African National Championships for that period.
6. All challenges made during a Regional, Provincial, and National Championship, played to the same rules, army point size, and period, as per the most recent S A National Championships shall be valid. Thus a player may have to fend off 5 challenges during such championship, or, the trophy may change hands as many times during such championship.
7. In the case of new periods, the trophy shall be awarded to the highest ranked player.
8. Should the holder of such trophy be unavailable for more than three months, the trophy shall be awarded to the highest ranked player for such period.
9. The competition shall be run on a national level.
10. The trophy shall be inscribed on a monthly basis when necessary.

Individual Battle Honours: Are you up to the challenge?

Jason van Wyngaard considering his options at the 2012 IWF World Championships.

MSSA has finally changed the Super League back to the very successful Individual Battle Honours.

The holder of the Individual Battle Honours may be challenged at any time by any MSSA Registered Player, as long as the notice period is adhered to, and is fought using the Handicap system.

The Handicap System is a proven developmental system which makes it possible for newcomers to have a fighting chance, pun intended, against the older and more experienced players.

Players enter with a handicap of 3, where older and more  experienced players may have a handicap of 10.
All Handicap games are played on a 32 - 0 scoring system.

However where a player with a handicap of 3 takes on a player with a Handicap score of 10, the player with a Handicap score of 3 gets 14 points, out of a possible 32, off his/her opponent before the game even starts.

Currently, the current holder has a Handicap score of 10. Everybody thus gets an advantage - it is going to be so much fun!

Thus the competition is up for grabs.

Pos	Name of Player	Club	Points
1	Webster, Colin 91	OE	10
2	Schoeman, Garth 02	KMSC	7
3	Barry, Sean 09	RPS	6
4	Batzofin, Jason	SJC	5
5	Holliday, Carl 09	PBHS	4
6	Allwright, Terence	OE	3
7	Retief, Elishia 14	OE	3
9	Burger, Erasmus	TUKS	3
10	Mullany, Donald	OE	3
11	Bouwer, Abie	OE	3
12	Havenga, Duane	WAR	3
13	Beuken, Leopold	RPS	3
14	Hervey, Simon	PBHS	3
15	Louw, Adam	PBHS	3
16	Retief, Ewan 14	OE	3
17	Getzner, Jacques	TKMSC	3
19	van Vuuren, Marius	WAR	3
21	Bouwer, Nathan	OE	3
22	Groenewald, Zenadia	WAR	3
23	Retief, Michael	OE	3
24	Love, Dorian	OE	3
25	Schoeman, Alex	KMSC	3

I would encourage gamers to make use of this opportunity, win the trophy and then play as hard as possible to retain it.

Previous holders of the Individual Honours Trophy are:

YEAR	ANCIENTS	CLUB
2016	Colin Webster	OE
2015	Garth Schoeman	KMSC
2014	Colin Webster	OE
2013	Colin Webster	OE
2012	Colin Webster	OE
2011	Dr David Vannucci	WITS
2010	Colin Webster	OE
2009	Colin Webster	OE
2008	Colin Webster	OE
2007	Edward van Trotsenburg	BWC
2006	Ingo Haferung	OE
2005	Ingo Haferung	OE
2004	Matthew Strachan (Jul)	MG
	Eugene Burger	OE
2003	Eugene Burger (Dec)	PEN
	Angelo Stathoussis (Dec)	OE
	Richard Ligault (May – Dec)	PEN
	Prof. David Davidson (Jan – April)	MG
2002	Prof. David Davidson	PEN
2001	Kevin Hoyle	OE
2000	David Webster	OE
1999	David Webster	OE
1998	David Webster (June – Dec)	OE
	Richard Gordon	PWC
	Christo Steenkamp (Jan-May)	WHAM
1997	Christo Steenkamp (Aug-Dec)	OE
	Pavel Rabiner (May '97 - Aug '97)	OE
	Pavel Rabiner	PWC
1996	Pavel Rabiner	PWC
	Christo Steenkamp (Jan – May)	OE
1995	Pavel Rabiner (Aug – Dec)	OE
	Colin Webster (Aug 95)	OE
	Dorian Botsis (Aug 95 - Aug 95)	OE
	Christo Steenkamp (Aug)	PWC
	Ben Fouche (Jan – Aug)	PWC
1994	Ben Fouche	PWC
1993	Ben Fouche (June – Dec)	PWC
	Colin Webster (Jan – May)	OE
	Grant Casey	OE
1992	Colin Webster (March – Dec)	OE
	Dr. Evgenii Rabiner	OE
1991	Dr. Evgenii Rabiner	OE
1990	Dr. Evgenii Rabiner	OE
1989	Dr. Evgenii Rabiner	OE

Please direct queries to: Sean Barry, 072 710 1286, nizzybarry@gmail.com

Should the 'Super League' for figure gaming be changed back.

Christo Steenkamp a many time Individual Battle Honours winner

It is clear that the 'Super League' for wargames as implemented in 2006 has not worked.

The 'Super League' replaced the 'Individual Battle Honours'. The 'Individual Battle Honours' was an active system for promoting games.

Whereas the 'Super League' relies on totalling up the scores of players throughout the year, the 'Individual Battle Honours' relies on active participation and challenge matches throughout the year.

'Individual Battle Honours' also takes into account the Handicap rating that a player has to make sure that the holder truly is the best player in South Africa.

The old rules were:

INDIVIDUAL HONOURS

a.        Shall be held in all wargaming periods played at the S A National championships.

b.       That all challenges operate as 'BATTLE HONOURS' challenges, except that the defender must defend the trophy at least twice in two months. Should the defender not have defended the trophy due to lack of opponents, he shall retain the floating trophy, however, should he not have defended the trophy and a challenge has been recorded by the Secretary of the MSSA, the trophy will be awarded to the next best player.

c.       Should the holder of the trophy not play at the South African National Championships in the period in which he holds the trophy, then the trophy shall be awarded to the winner of the South African National Championships for that period.

d.      Should the holder of the trophy play in the South African National Championships, in the period in which he holds the trophy, and fail to finish in the top five places, then the trophy shall be awarded to the winner of the South African National Championships for that period.

e.        In the case of new periods, the trophy shall be awarded to the highest seeded player.

f.       Should the holder of such trophy be unavailable for more than three months, the trophy shall be awarded to the highest seeded player for such period.

g.       The winner of any challenge is the player with the most points on the 32 – 0 system after the SA Handicap adjustments have been made.

h.        The competition shall be run on a national level.

i.         The trophy shall be inscribed on a monthly basis when necessary.