November 7, 2018

Guild Ball: STW Van Value Tournament Trays

Back at the end of October I noticed on the "Strictly the Worst Guild Ball Podcast" that one of the hosts of the show (Pat V) started making Tournament Trays. I clicked on the link and it took me to their online store where I got to see the pictures he had of his trays. My son and I have a tournament coming up this Saturday and I thought these trays would really be handy, we each have a tray for our models from "Tectonic Craft Studios", but those trays only hold our models, when I saw the ones from Pat that can hold tokens, dice and widgets, I thought these would be perfect for moving our stuff between games.

The trays come in 3 sizes ranging from 12mm- 19mm ($30-$36) and there is an option for a custom logo on the lid for $40. I would have taken the logo option, but I was not sure what tray thickness that would come with, as I was wanting the extra thick 19mm trays. I was assuming the logo option was for the base 12mm tray.

The reason I chose the extra thick 19mm option was that I wanted to carry our "Broken Egg Games" movement sticks in the tray, and when I stacked them up they were just under 19mm. This tray does come with it's own movement sticks made from MDF, but Pat was nice enough and slotted our trays to hold the "Broken Egg Games" sticks instead.

Our trays arrived this Monday afternoon and yesterday I was able to assemble them (glue them together) and get some black paint on them and seal coated. They are now ready for our Guild Ball tournament this weekend and I am looking forward to using them. One thing to note, obviously you cannot use the lid when you have models on the tray, but the lid is nice, all your tokens, dice, and widgets can stay in your tray, put the lid on, then put the tray in your back pack, makes for easy traveling.