NEWSLETTER - 01/09/06

Hey Kristel from Croftminster Fans,

Obiwan Foggobi: the very name conjures up images of a man who won't date chicks from certain suburbs. Won't live in certain suburbs. A vegetarian who loves Peking Duck. Loves Wolfmother. Well, shortly the name will conjure up immense fear (yes, even more than his iPod playlist does)as Field Commander Foggo prepares to enter the world of Horror Clix! Why did Foggo choose this game? Well, the figures look cool, it plays like heroclix(which is awesome)and Chris can look like a 1920' scary person without having to change his outfit. Horror Clix will be on Thursdays, but more details later on.

I would also like to thanks The Mistress of Lerve Vickey, SuperJudge Paul Ross and Mega YGO judge Marc Losper, as well as SGC regular savior Tony Chung for helping us out over an extremely hectic weekend last weekend. Seriously, we couldn't have done it without you guys, many thanks.

OK-as last weekend was so hectic we have OOODLES of results to report. And more is happening this weekend, so check out the following:

MAGIC THE GATHERING: Last weekend saw the 2nd Sydney PTQ Kobe and SGC regular Adam Douglas took home the excellent prize of a trip to the Pro Tour! Adam gets his flight to Kobe covered by WOTC and it gives him a chance to play on the biggest MTG stage there is. Adam is mainly a Constructed Deck specialist so for him to win a sealed event against 48 other players is a fine effort. Well done Adam!This weekend we're running another sealed tournament, a Grand Prix Sydney trial! Details as follows:

Grand Prix Sydney Trial Number 1
When: Sunday 3rd September. 10am rego, 10.30am start
What: Ravnica Block Sealed: You get 1 tournament pack of Ravnica, 1 booster Guildpact and 1 booster Dissension to make a 40 card minimum deck with.)
Entry: $35
Prizes: Winner gets 3 byes in Grand Prix Sydney. Heaps of boosters are also up as prizes!

Ravnica Block sealed is awesome. It is balance, the set has fine cards and the deck building options are amazing. And besides, if you don't go so good this Sunday, or just absolutely love it like I do, there's always the second GP Sydney Trial the Sunday after! Details as follows:

Grand Prix Sydney Trial Number 2
When: Sunday 10th September. 10am rego, 10.30am start
What: Ravnica Block Sealed: You get 1 tournament pack of Ravnica, 1 booster Guildpact and 1 booster Dissension to make a 40 card minimum deck with.)
Entry: $35
Prizes: Winner gets 3 byes in Grand Prix Sydney. Heaps of boosters are also up as prizes!

And then due to popular demand the funky format that is sweeping the city-LEGACY!!! Its our monthly Legacy tournament September 17th, details as follows:

LEGACY TOURNAMENT

When: Sunday 17th September. 11am rego, 11.30am start
Format: Legacy
Entry: $10
Prizes: HEAPS of boosters for top 8 at least, plus a fun arvo of playing the most versitile, creative format MTG has!

Then its another HUGE weekend of MTG madness-its the pre-release of the brand new expansion TIMESPIRAL!!!! Details as follows:

Time Spiral Pre Release Day 1

Where: The Bowlers Club of NSW
95 York St
Sydney(behind QVB Building)
When: Saturday 23rd September. Morning flight is 9am rego 9.30am start. Arvo flight is 3.30pm rego 4pm start
Format: Time Spiral Sealed(players get a tournament pack and 2 boosters of Time Spiral to crack and make a 40 card minimum deck with!)
Entry: $35($30 for morning 16 and under flight)
Prizes: HHHEEEAAAAAPPPPPPPS!!! Promo pre-release cards plus TONS of boosters up as prizes.Plus a fun arvo of playing MTG with the new expansion 2 weeks before it even goes on sale!

Time Spiral Pre Release Day 2

Where: Dooleys Lidcombe Catholic Club
24 John St
Lidcombe
When: Sunday 24th September. Morning flight is 9am rego 9.30am start. Arvo flight is 3.30pm rego 4pm start
Format: Timespiral Sealed(players get a tournament pack and 2 boosters of Timespiral to crack and make a 40 card minimum deck with!)
Entry: $35
Prizes: HHHEEEAAAAAPPPPPPPS!!! Promo pre-release cards plus TONS of boosters up as prizes.Plus a fun arvo of playing MTG with the new expansion 2 weeks before it even goes on sale!

And then the weekend after the Pre-Release is the SGC Sneak Peeks! They are on September 30th & October 1st at 10.30am both days. Sneak Peek promos plos LOTS of boosters and a fun day of playign Timespiral sealed are up as prizes. Why is it so cool to play Timespiral sealed??? Because the weekend October 6-8 is the Sydney Grand Prix! Its Timespiral sealed and will be one of the biggest MTG shows of the year(last time this event was held in Sydney a record 272 players duked it out!)

And don't forget our regular Thursday night drafts each Thursday from 4pm and Friday Night Magic each Friday night from 6pm. FNM is always type 2 and is $6 to play with FNM foils and boosters up as prizes.

VS(Marvel & DC)CCG: The Heralds of Galactus Sneak preview was on last weekend and was MEGA! 111 players over 4 flights smashed it out in the first 2006-2007 Player of the Year championships! Points table as follows:

2006-2007 VS Player of the Year Standings!
Alex Antonies 31pts
Adrian Capilitan 23pts
Luke Bartter 18pts
Jonathan Luey 16pts
Darren Teh 12pts
Louis Armstrong 12pts
Simon Gilbert 7pts
Scott Smith 7pts
Gabz 6pts
Glenn Mortimer 5pts
Sundeep Dayal 4pts
Chad Manalo 4pts
Howard Big Mak 4pts
The King 3pts
Valentino Rossi 3pts
Kris Alberto 1pt

Points are:
1st: 10, 2nd 8, 3rd 6, 4th 5, 5th 4, 6th 3, 7th 2 and 8th 1

Next Player of the Year event is Silver Age, at SGC, on Sunday 17th September.

Heralds of Galactus is REALLY good. As a result we're now happy to announce we're draft HoG TWICE a week!!! Tuesday nights from 6pm will be our regular Hobby League draft. It is $18 for a draft set with Hobby League foils up as prizes. On Thursdays our drafts will also kick off around 6pm. Draft sets are also $18 with the winner picking up 2 boosters, the runner-up winning 1 booster(plus rare picks as well!).

And don't forget our Friday Night Hobby League is on at 7pm each Friday night. Its Silver Age and entry is just $6, and Silver Age Saturday, each Saturday arvo at 1.30pm. Funnily enough its Silver Age, its $6 to play with boosters up as prizes.

The Sydney 10K has just been announced. Its on December 2&3 and will be Silver Age.

YUGIOH! YGO is on again this Saturday 9.30am to 1pm with our usual chunk of boosters, t-shirts, deck boxes and Hobby League promos up as prizes-and it just HOBBY LEAGUE!!! More importantly its HEAPS of fun, UDE sanctioned and just $5 entry with everyone winning a prize.

Next Winter Regionals is September 24th, details as follows:

YGO Winter Regionals
When: Sunday September 24th. 10am rego 10.30am start
Format: Advanced Constructed
Entry: $15
Prizes: Winner receives a box of boosters and an invite to 2007
Nats! Heaps of boosters up as prizes, plus a fun day of dueling YUGIOH!

STAR TREK 2ND EDITION CCG: YEE-HA!!! The latest expansion of my favourite game, Star Trek 2nd Edition, is in and on sale now. To kick off this new set we're running a sealed tournament this Sunday at 1.30pm, details as follows:

When: Sunday 3rd September. 1pm rego 1.30pm start
Format: Sealed!(you get a starter of your choice and 3 boosters of TBG to make a deck and dilemma pile with)
Entry: $35
Prizes: I got 2 promo foils left-they are going in the kitty, plus boosters of the new expansion and a fun arvo of going where no one has gone before is up as prizes.

Trek absolutely rocks. Its heaps of fun, a great crowd of people play the game, our events are Decipher sanctioned and heaps of fun.

The guys also hang out each Sunday from lunchtime, so if you would like to play this awesome game cruise in for a look.

WWE RAW DEAL CCG: OK Trunkwearers, the time for talking is over, the time for doing the double suplex off the top rope is here! The NSW State Champs qualifier is on here at SGC September 9th and we're not mucking around anymore. Details as follows:

When: Saturday September 9th. 11am rego 11.30am start
Format: Standard Constructed
Entry: $30
Prizes: Everyone wins 5 promo foils at least, plus HEAPS of boosters and the winner gets into a World Championship feeder event!

WWE is a fun game. Boosters are just $5 and wrestler designated starters are just $16. Its fun, cheap and has fine organised play support.

POKEMON TCG: Ex Crystal Guardians was released last weekend and a big congratulations goes to Adam Ferguson who won! Adam has had a break from the game for a while but the lure of this funky new set obviously was too much for him to resist! Great work Adam.

Our Pokemon league is on again this Sunday from Noon. Entry is just $5 with everyone winning a prize! mistress of Lerve Vickey does a fantastic job of running things smoothly and everyone has a great time. Cruise in Sunday for some prize winning action!

Pokemon Minis have landed at SGC this week and even I have to admit, they look cute! Mistress of Lerve Vickey will be running tournaments in the future, watch this space!

DREAMBLADE CMG: WOTC have released a fine new minis game Dreamblade. Dale popped out yesterday to teach us how to play and it is very, very cool. The figures are excellent, the gameplay is really good and the organised play division of Wizards are looking to run around a dozen 1K events in Australia before Christmas! We're running Egde tournaments(like FNM)each thursday night at 6.30pm. Entry will be $5 with alternate paint job figures and cracked boosters up as prizes, plus its DCI sanctioned so you can work on your Dreamblade ranking! Monthly weekend dreamblade events will also be held here, more details will be posted as they come to hand.

Last night was our first ever Dreamblade event and Lindsay Heming scrapped home on resistance!

This game is good and looks to have a VERY bright future. We like it, cruise in and see if you like it too!

NARUTO TCG: Our weekly Sunday Naruto tournament is going great, so great that we have run out of stock for a while and so can't give out Naruto as booster prizes! So we're giving out ANY booster you want as prizes until we get some more. Details as follows:

When: Sunday Arvos. 3.30pm rego 4pm start
Format: Constructed
Entry: $7
Prizes: Store credit to put towards any booster you like!

ONE PIECE TCG: Last Saturday the countries highest ranked One Piece player, Reza, went 5-0 to win! Well done Reza! One Piece is on again this weekend and its gonna be HEAPS of fun, mainly coz Chris will be playing and everyone always beats him

Details as follows:

When: Saturday arvo. 1pm rego 1,30pm start
Format: Constructed
Entry: $6
Prizes: Heaps of boosters plus foils up as prizes, plus a fun arvo of playing One Piece!

In a blast of good news we are hosting the One Piece National Titles here, in Sydney, in October! It'll be on October 21 & 22 at SGC, more details as they come to hand!

WORLD OF WARCRAFT TCG: For those cyber junkies who cannot get enough of 32nd level elves UDE, the makers of the best selling TCG’s Yugioh and VS are releasing the much anticipated WOW TCG! It goes onsale at Supanova October 27-29th but Chris Zandides is coming in Sunday 3rd September around 2pm to demo this exciting new game at SGC to all those who are interested. The cards look great, and the game mechanics are very easy for ccg players to pick up. It will be an enormous game globally with the release at Gencon Indy breaking all expectations and records. If you’d like to see this game in action, Sunday arvo is the time to get a sneak preview of it!

HORROR CLIX: Wizkidz BRAND NEW GAME has finally arrived at SGC and it looks SOOOOO good its not funny! The game is based on the 1930's kinda horror/adventure movies that are fun to watch when you're drunk with friends eating pizza, and the figs look REALLY good. The gameplay is very similar to Heroclix, in fact Big Daddy tells me the 2 games are about 80% compatable. We're having a release tournament for this excellent game next Thursday night, details as follows:

When: Thursday 7th September. 6pm rego 6.30pm start
Format: Sealed(you get 3 boosters to make a 300pt force with)
Entry: $35
Prizes: Winner gets a MASSIVE Cthulu dude who looks really good and really scary both at the same time! Cracked boosters and a fun arvo of playing the great new game Horror Clix up as prizes. I would also like to say Obiwan will dress up for the event, but he really doesn't have to...

MECHWARRIOR: Regular play each Friday night from around 6.30pm. We also have the Call to Arms release kit for Vanguard, so as soon as we speak to Heath we'll let you know! We had 7 players last Friday all chilling out and having fun playing Mech, if you come along you'll have a good time, its free and don't forget to bring your trades!

D&D MINIS: Last weekend was the Sydney Challenge and we had a great response from players cruising in to try their warbands at a higher level. On Saturday Damien Browne shredded all before him going 4-0 to win the Giant Red Dragon, and on Sunday Big Daddy used his mind controling green tea to go 4-0 and win the big red dragon. Well done both!

Our monthly D&D minis event is on this Tuesday night at 6.30pm. Entry is FREE, its DCI sanctioned, warbands are 500 points and we have alternate paint job figures up as prizes.

STAR WARS MINIS: As with D&D the Star Wars Sydney challenge was on last weekend and Kenny Le Bon won Saturdays constructed tournament, taking home a AT-AT walker. On Sunday it was young up and comer General Maul(Ebubiker Clark)who went 3-0 to win sealed and take home the walker. What makes this so cool is that Ebubiker is around 8 years old and plays with his dad Stuart at home for practice(he beat his dad in round 1!)Great work General Maul, I hope this makes up for missing out on pocket money for the next month.

We play a constructed Star Wars minis tournament each Tuesday night at 6.30pm. Entry is free, its DCI sancyioned and LOTS of fun.

Well, thats it for this week-LOTS happening! Until next time smile and play nice

Chris, Vickey and Kieren