Possibly The Worst Professional Game of Warhammer 40k Ever Recorded 

These guys had so much fun. You can feel it.

I can't believe the random guy having a medical emergency was the least awkward part

This is the result of meta chasing from both sides, you can see the negative ego floating around, and sadly it is more common than people think it is.

Alex Harrison was banned from tournaments a few years ago for endless cheating, sad to see he's back to his old ways yet again.

A known cheater who was banned from the London GT for being a scumbag. Not shocked he's featured here.

Why would you make the blue player's text red and the red player's text blue? I don't even know who to hate on.

Imagine ending a game with "gg but not really though"

Having been to one real tornament "I'm too tired to do that" is the most real thing ever and the reason I'm never playing in another Warhammer Tornament.

"I'm not trying to cheat you there's a big camera above my head" while clearly trying to cheat on multiple occasions

"its my word vs yours" nah bro its your "word" vs genuine fucking caught in 4k video evidence

Moving 40k away from being movement and positioning focused to pre-measuring distances and "gotcha" stratagems has changed the game for the worse, i think

Me: "6 minutes video? It must be edited" * watch the video * "Well, they just cut the dead moments, but it's just a single turn, so...."

"I'm not tryna cheat you out of a wound" he said as he effortlessly tried to cheat his opponent out of a wound.

Gosh that was a hard watch. Their only decent moment was the concern for the wellbeing of someone nearby. But also this is by no means typical of the 40k game. This is the 1% tryhard WAAC competitive players breaking the game for a 3D printed trophy.

This is why I don't play with anyone but my close circle. this is such a waste of precious free time. I can't handle the passive aggressive shit going on here fo real 😂

This single handed forced the lack of player mic’s for all the major events in the US for the following year

They both deserved each other, no winners here.

Is this 40k now? Tabling your opponent on the first shooting phase in the first battle round? Genuinely sad. Also imagine encountering either of these two while looking for a pick up game in your LGS. Terrifying.

The mismatched dice offend me

I've never really understood playing tabletop games super competitively, because the inherent randomness and unbalance of games like 40K makes them pretty luck based and unfair IMO, and because playing for any other reason than simply having fun (like playing only to win) feels boring and like it would breed this type of behaviour,

I feel like there needs to be some context added to this. This was day 2, hour 15-16 of the event. These were the only two players in the hall and they were dog tired playing in an absolute hell meta of Admech flier spam. The entire game was just a first turn rolloff because of how broken OP these flyers were. Neither wanted to be playing this game and nerves were frayed

I'd absolutely HATE to play somebody with that attitude

Two dudes who couldn't punch their way out of a wet paper bag trying to big dog eachother while playing a tabletop game. WTF happened to 40k

from my understanding 95% of players play the right way scuffed narritive battles.

And to nobodies surprise, Alex Harrison is involved.

To all the guys complaining, this is not even 1% of the games you'll ever play.

Why is it when i see clips of people cheating it always involves this alex harrison guy and why is he still playing?

I play myself using two different armies and i get into heated arguments against myself too! Sometimes even end up punching myself..

how does someone in finals not understand basic rules

40k is easily my favorite way to hang out with the boys but 40k against like random people trying to get a leg up on you sounds absolutely miserable. The game is busted enough bro you don't have to cheat.

Random pet peeve: I really dislike when opponents' dice are all different colors

At some locals you never see this type of play, but at others it's infected almost everybody. It just depends

How chill players interact outside of a tournament setting: "Dude, I love the paint job on that vehicle! May I see?" "That's cocked. Go ahead and reroll it." "I should warn you now, this unit has really nasty overwatch. You sure you want to do that?" "You forgot to shoot with that unit? Nah, go ahead and shoot with it. Mistakes happen." Absolutely not how these guys were acting.

"I'm gonna build my army around a first turn win if I go first" ... "Why would games workshop make such a bad game where you can only win if you go first!"

There weren't even any pew-pew sounds when they shot with their toy soldiers 😮

It feels like they are tired and they landed in a matchup with terrain where you go first and you win.

Just to give a bit of context : This meta was ridiculous. The ad mech plane/ranger brick spam was ridiculous and it frequently ended on the first turn. This is why the both are just over the game before it starts. They know if Ad mech goes first, there is nothing he can do about the bombers since at this time, every list had 3.

It should be noted that this footage is like over a year old. Despite being uploaded recently.

I played Alex at a local tournament maybe close to 10 years ago, I was maybe 14-15 but I knew the rules like the back of my hand and this was the final, the game we played was fine he had the better army and I played not so good but he was cool to play against, as for the way they conducted themselves at the table this is far from the worst is it ideal? no you play with your opponent not against them but with so much rules bloat and codex creep eventually you'll run into games that maybe don't make for best viewing and this was one of those occasions

Example of antiquated design. You can still do "I go you go" in a good way- but lame the first turn and give reaction moves to players. Take SAGA as a good example of a competitive wargame- in most senarios the first player gets only 3 of 8 SAGA dice used to charge activations and abilities, but can manover freely during first turn. Also players can react to attacks by closing ranks to lower their attack but improve armor saves. So things like that will never happen. This is what happens when you only care about releasing units but not improving the ruleset in ways that matter.

Fairest deathwatch player

I have no idea whats going on but I thank God that my introduction to Warhammer was through video games.

meanwhile I show up stoned out of my mind carrying all 12 of my leman russes and just sending it up mid board. gamell be over in turn 3 one way or another.

It's things like this that are the reason I won't play anything tournament style. I will only play narrative games with people who don't believe that 40k, a game, is not life or death.

40k isn't that shit, shit is just the way these guys are playing it... of course you want to win, but also you want to have fun.

10th edition sorted out a lot of the rules bloat, but still can lead to some heated moments even between friends. Its just a big time commitment so you dont want to be screwed I guess. Luckily with friends everyone still ends the game happy, seeing randos behave like this is almost insufferable!

People like this are exactly why I refuse to play with anyone outside of my friend group. Way too many of these losers out there spoiling the fun

Warhammer lore: Bazillions of dead in mere seconds, war without care for losses. Warhammer tabletop: "NUH UH THOSE ARE 3 INCH TOO CLOSE" Bro just get out your fecking gun of annihilation and end the match yourself! FOR THE EMPEROR

I think there should be official rule, that u can put a black carton box on middle of table when u deploy and just deploy blindly, it's fucking stupid that u can see and measure position of players. There should be fog of war.

back after a year...I totally missed it was a first turn kill...that's pretty much 40k damn bro that's awful

40k is notorious for having players who lie and cheat. People will use weapons and spells they dont actually have. Bring extra troops, and make up rules on the fly. And unless you've studied all 45 codexes, you're not going to have any clue until somebody comes along and says, "Hey, How did you fit a land raider and two squads of terminators into a 1,200 point army? And then i packed up my Eldar starter kit and cried all the way home.

I come back to this video occasionally to show new people into the hobby how certain people and certain situations can take something that is supposed to be “fun” and literally ruin it, so much so that they can’t even enjoy it themselves 😂😂

40k turned into nothing but rules lawyering

To be fair to the AdMec guy he probably was just depressed knowing he was going to have to play with this guy. Also how can you be a "pro" and not remove the fails rather than picking up the hits to avoid potential confusion like the "4"

The one game of 40k I played was with me and my friend after school. I was playing Space Marines, and he was playing Eldar. I just remember blowing up half his guys with my 2 land raiders and other heavy weapons from across the board on the first turn, and then he rage quit.

How many archeopters does a guy need, Jesus christ

Wow, this looks like the absolute best way to spend an afternoon ...

40k dont look anything like back in the days when we used to play. Quit 40k many years ago and dont regret it after this video

Still too this day I still don’t know how you play warhammer

seeing this late but I feel like a decent amount of useful context has been removed here for me to actually make a judgement. The first thing where they say "oh i havent deployed anything yet..." seems fine, like I could see myself saying that to make sure they don't get mislead. The squabble over the flyer and whether or not it was already deployed is hard for me to judge. The context of it being placed down is removed, so I actually have no idea if that was clearly deployed, was clearly just sitting there to be moved later or if it was just an honest mistake. Checking how the infantry is moving seems fine, it just seems like they're tired and awkward. If i had some other important context I might view that interaction differently. The flyer moving thing seems weird, I don't really remember how those rules worked but it seems fine to try to make sure it's moving correctly in a tournament if you did think there was a mistake The dice that's a 5 being said to be a 4 seems pretty sus, I'd be a bit miffed too if someone took away a potential wound from me. Like it could be an honest mistake. And if i knew how the context to the squabble over the flyer being deployed or not earlier then I'd potentially much more hard set on thinking this guys a scummy player. This encounter is like the most salty any of them got. The thing about him saying "good game, well not really" I can totally understand when he clarifies afterwards that the game balance feels wack and only turn 1 matters. If that's not actually how 9th played and he's pulling that out of his ass then fair enough, he's being super salty there, but i dont remember enough of 9th to say otherwise. Saying in the description that "both players demonstrated some extreme salt" feels weird when these guys didn't seem super salty much at all in these clips

Alex Harrison, where have i heard that name before?

Pretty much why I keep putting the hobby down over the decades, cool universe and models but the game always boils down to this exact formula.

This is why I never got into the tabletop. I bought a ton of books and codices for the lore, but never once wanted miniatures. Primarily for this reason, and also because GW is one of the worst companies I've ever had the displeasure of being a "fan" of their IP.

Flipping the colours of the people speaking really threw me off for a while there.

The Red voice is the Blue marked Player right?

Meanwhile I just want to have fun with others, while we admire our small forces of well loved and overpriced plastic.

this is anything but professional

To be fair it’s Alex Harrison he’s a known cheater

Couldn’t these battles be made more fun with narration and descriptive action sequences describing what’s happening in the rolls?

I have had no compulsion ever to play competitive 40K, and this video affirms it. Why the f would I waste 3 hrs of my time doing this?

Deathwatch guy is clearly the problem here

anyone know what the medical emergency was that made some one cry out in pain?

Dear god what a nightmare's its what happens when you allow players to police themselves in competive games.

Basic tournament stuff. This is why I don’t want to play in those. People care too much about winning, they care enough to cheat.

"its my word against yours", he says to the live streamed recorded match

I would much rather just play in the basement with some friends and take whatever list looks or sounds fun than play some meta in a tourney

I thought that was turn two or three. Turn one and nearly tabled? I still can't believe seeing this, and I've been seeing it happen with almost every new codex during 9th. I'm just happy I don't play 40k anymore. I play warhammer that isn't 40k.

This is why after stopping after 1 tournament in 6th edition, and coming back for 2 tournaments in 8th edition. I stepped away for the rest of 8th and all of 9th. I might try 10th but i doubt I'll like it either.

Mf in this comment section acting like 40k was ever balanced especially in a comp setting.

Casual games are NOT like this. These guys are Magic the Gathering tier

This is why I ceased playing and just paint the things.

Can't we all just get along and have fun

why did it have to be the two armies I play myself…

These are exactly the sort of players that have ruined 40k in local stores

This is by far the worst game i have seen ever. imagine calling it there on the first turn wtf. Competitive gaming ruins games, regardless of what they are.

As someone who doesn't play, I don't suppose anyone could explain? What's going on and what meta chasing is?

Too much autism prevalent in Warhammer tabletop gaming. I just collect and paint the models at this point. Actually playing seems like a chore and taxing on one's mental state and patience having to deal with autism.

At first glance I thought this was stick arena

Lol. “Professional 40k” what an oxymoron

This is like some card game national tourney I went to, you can hear people calling judge every 5 minutes, everyone's trying to rule shark the other person. It's expected though, when you're at that level of competitiveness, winning is everything otherwise there is no point in even trying to get that far. Me? I died on round 1 lol.

Where is Stillmania when we need it most???

One of the two also talks almost like Herknes Dragonblade, which increases the awkwardness

Geez that was bad. Shit attitude throughout, redeploying stuff already on the table, being an ultra-stickler about a single wound despite it wounding on camara, T1 stomp, getting super butthurt after the game. Honestly, I get being tired and not wanting to play, but thats not an excuse for a lot of this stuff.

There's good competitive players and then there are these horrible competitive players.

People like this (rude dry attitudes), are one of the big reasons underworlds tournaments no longer do anything for me other than feel like a waste of time.

These games make me takes breaks from the games for MONTHS

Lol. Considering warhammer is not a “professional” game this was expected.

Damn, kinda glad I won't be at any top tables in the UK

This is why i switched to Aos. Obviously you can't completely get away from it, but the community I've experienced is far more casual "it's a game, lets have a laugh" vibe.

Jesus, these two sound like they are one bad day away from roping. this is 3 years ago, so their is every chance they already have...