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NEWSLETTER - 17/08/06

Hey Dice Technicians,

We found Field Commander Foggo! SGC management would like to send then warm appreciation to St Vincent De Paul chairty and the Sydney City Council Street Cleaners association for a) finding FCF and b) giving him some clothes to put on before returning him. Details are sketchy as to what actually happeneed after his vegetarian kebab, however he reports that the rash has cleared up using the special ointment.

Lots happening at the moment, details as follows:

MAGIC THE GATHERING: The machines that are OMG again showed their talent on the weekend with James Zhang and Tim He splitting the PTQ glory and James taking the slot. These 2 outdrafted what Adam Harris accurately observed was "one of the hottest top 8's in Sydney MTG history". Great work guys!

This Sunday we're running one of the first type 2 tournaments in the WORLD where Coldsnap is legal! Details as follows:

MTG TYPE 2 WITH COLDSNAP!
When: Sunday 20th August. 11am rego, 11.30am start
Format: Type 2 with COLDSNAP!
Entry: $10
Prizes: Heaps of boosters up as prizes, plus Arena League promos and a MTG banner given out randomly and a fun arvo of playing MTG with the latest expansion!

Then we're back into Sealed Ravnica/win a trip to the PT Kobe mode with PTQ Kobe! Details as follows:

PRO TOUR QUALIFIER KOBE NUMBER 2
Where: Burwood RSL
96 Shaftsbury Rd
Burwood NSW 2134
When: Sunday 27th August. 10am rego, 10.30am start
Format: Ravnica Block Sealed(1 tournament pack of Rav, 1 booster
Guildpact and 1 booster Dissension to make a 40 card minimum deck with)
Entry: $35
Prizes: Winner receives $375US OR A AIRFARE TO PT KOBE! Heaps of boosters up as prizes plus the chance to play a fun, high level sealed event and win HEAPS!

PTQ's with their airfare to the PT option are the BEST and EASIEST way for local players to have their chance to strut their stuff on the world stage, in an exotic location for a MEGA chance at prize money. Think you can do it, or just like playing BIG tournaments with heaps of prizes? This is your bag.

And still in Ravnica Sealed mode we are giving players the chance to grab 3 byes into the upcoming Sydney Grand Prix October 6-8! Details as follows:

SYDNEY GRAND PRIX TRIAL NUMBER 1
When: Sunday 3rd September. 10am rego 10.30am start
Format: Ravnica Block sealed with a Coldsnap draft top 8
Entry: $35
Prizes: Winner receives 3 byes into GP Sydney plus HEAPS of
boosters. Boosters to top 16 at least plus a fun arvo of playing sealed!

Then we do it all again the next Sunday!!!

SYDNEY GRAND PRIX TRIAL NUMBER 2
When: Sunday 10th September. 10am rego 10.30am start
Format: Ravnica Block sealed with a Coldsnap draft top 8
Entry: $35
Prizes: Winner receives 3 byes into GP Sydney plus HEAPS of boosters. Boosters to top 16 at least plus a fun arvo of playing sealed!

The following week we're getting funky with Legacy! Details as follows:

LEGACY TOURNAMENT
When: Sunday 17th September. 11am rego 11.30am start
Format: Legacy
Entry: $10
Prizes: Heaps of boosters plus a fun arvo of playing LEGACY!

Then its the Time Spiral Pre-Release. More details on soon!

We also do booster drafts for just $15 each Thursday arvo from 4pm and Friday Night Magic(type 2)each Friday at 6.30pm!

YUGIOH! OK Duelists, start warming up for the first Winter Regionals of the 2006-2007 Nats season! Its on this Sunday, its sealed, details as follows:

YGO WINTER REGIONALS!
When: Sunday August 20th. 10am rego 10.30am start
Format: Yugioh Sealed! You get 5 boosters of YGO to crack and make
your best 20 card minimum deck with! Top 8 finals!
Entry: Just $30!
Prizes: Winner receives a box of boosters plus an invite to the 2007 National Championships(probably to be held in Sydney!). Boosters to top 24 at least, plus a fun day playing YGO!

Starting September we're splitting our Saturday YGO events into 2-14 and under and open. So if you're only little, Saturday under 14's is for you!

Yugioh rocks. Saturdays are nuts. We play here Advanced Constructed each Saturday from 9.30am-1pm for just $5.Its heaps of fun with heaps of trading and casual play. All our tournaments are UDE sanctioned and everyone wins a prize!

VS(Marvel & DC)TCG: Silver Age Saturdays are hitting their third week and a few surprises happened last Saturday, not that Troy Armstrong won, but that Honest played Foggo's deck! This is where the surprises stopped however, Honest went 0-3...

This Sunday we're running a Golden Age tournament! Honest will be there testing his PC LA Arkham deck, if you beat him you win a booster!

VS GOLDEN AGE
When: Sunday at noon
Format: Golden Age
Entry: $6
Prizes: Foil promos plus boosters up as prizes!

A BIG weekend of VS is happening on the 26th-27th August, it's the release of the new expansion Marvel's HERALDS OF GALACTUS! Details as follows:

HERALDS OF GALACTUS SNEAK PREVIEW:
When: Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th August. 10am rego 10.30am start
morning flights, 2.30pm rego 3pm start arvo flights
Format: Heralds of Galactus sealed(you get 5 boosters of HoG to make your best 30 card minimum deck with)
Entry: $30 per flight
Prizes: Heaps of boosters, playmats, decktins and promo cards are up as prizes, plus a fun weekend of playing the new VS set 2 weeks before it goes on sale!!! Also, the Melbourne 10K has been pushed back a few weeks to allow for HoG to become tournament legal, so this is a great way to get LOTS of the new set in a fun, inexpensive way!!!

We'll be taking pre-registration for HoG in as of NOW, which means for every flight you pre-register and pay for you get an addition HoG booster as prize on the day-AWESOME!

HERALDS OF GALACTUS is also the starting point for our monthly VS SGC PLAYER OF THE YEAR Competition. Each POTY event will contribute points to those coming in the top 8. The top 8 players on the standings list will play off for a flight to the next 10K in Australia! Starts HoG weekend with EACH FLIGHT contributing to POTY points. Jump in, this will be fun.

VS is a VERY cool game with INSANE prize support and a fun growing player base. A 10K event is being held in Melbourne in October and another in Sydney 2nd & 3rd December so now is a GREAT time to have a go. Its fun, easy, many rewards and it is a fundamentally terrfic game. If you'd like a demo cruise in anytime and ask, either myself or the missing Obiwan Foggobi would be happy to give you a demo.

We draft VS for Hobby League each Tuesday night from around 6pm, and Friday night Hobby League kicks of each Friday at 7pm(Silver Age)

STAR WARS MINIS: The top 2 ranked players in Australia, Richard Myors and Kenny Le Bon showed why they are at the top of the tree last Tuesday, both going undefeated before time restrictions, and Kennys table top singing, prevented any more rounds from being played. But it was lots of fun and was a great warm up for the upcoming Sydney Challenge!

THE 2006 STAR WARS MINIS SYDNEY CHALLENGE!
When: Weekend 26th and 27th August. 10am rego both days
Format: Saturday 200 Point constucted
Sunday 200 point sealed
Entry: Saturday $10
Sunday $30(includes 2 Champions of the Force boosters!)
Prizes: Cracked boosters, promos and a fun weekend of playing Star Wars minis!!!

Star Wars is heaps of fun. And Tuesday nights its FREE! Its DCI sanctioned and a great bunch people playing the game. If you'd like to try rock up around 6.30pm Tuesday for a game.

D&D MINIS: We play D&D minis the first Tuesday night of the month, next date being September 5th. Its FREE, DCI sanctioned with figures and a fun time up as prizes.

Then like Star Wars minis, August 26th-27th sees a D&D minis Sydney Challenge. Details as follows:

THE 2006 D&D MINIS SYDNEY CHALLENGE
When: Weekend 26th and 27th August. 10am rego both days
Format: Saturday 500 Point constucted
Sunday 200 point sealed
Entry: Saturday $10
Sunday $50(includes 2 War of Dragon Queen boosters!)
Prizes: First prize in both events is a COLOSSAL RED DRAGON! This
prize is kindly donated by WOTC and isn't even on sale yet, but when it does go onsale it will retail for around $80! Cracked boosters, promos and a fun weekend of playing D&D minis!!!

This will be one of the biggest D&D minis events of the year, don't miss out!

ONE PIECE TCG: The great pirate anime game that is One Piece is on again this Saturday at 1.30pm. The Mistress of Lerve Vickey runs OP each Saturday in a fun, friendly manner, and has a fairly deadly deck herself! Its $6 entry, ratings sanctioned with everyone winning a prize.

And in GREAT news, we're hosting the 2006 One Piece Nationals October 21st & 22nd! Croftminster have sent us an absolutely FANTASTIC looking treasure chest FULL of prizes, you gotta see this to believe it! More details when they come to hand, but start practicing NOW!

POKEMON TCG: There was 15 players playing league or tournaments here on Sunday, including 2 very special guests James and Jayson Campkin, who where in Sydney on their way for Jayson to represent Australia at the Pokemon World Championships in Anaheim this week! How is Jayson going to prepare for this? By going to Disneyland of course! Good luck and travel safe to both of you-you both play the game in a way that makes us proud, enjoy yourself!

Pokemon league is on again this Sunday from 12.30pm. Its just $5 to play and everyone wins a prize, plus Mistress of Lerve Vickey makes sure everyone has a good time!

And on the Poke front August 27th is the pre-release for the new expansion, ex Crystal Guardians! Thats right, Pokemon couldn't hold off naming an Poke expansion after the delectable Kristal from Croftminster any longer! Details as follows

The new expansion, ex-Crystal Guardians, is August 27th. Details as follows:

POKEMON EX CRYSTAL GUARDIANS RELEASE!
When: Sunday 27th August. Noon rego, 12.30pm start
Format: Booster Draft!(you get 6 boosters to draft your deck with!)
Entry: $30
Prizes: Everyone wins 4 boosters! Plus promos, plus pins, plus everyone has a GREAT time playing Pokemon with the new cards BEFORE they go on sale!!!

STAR TREK 2ND EDITION CCG: This Sunday Kieren the Klingon is going to SHRED everyone with his world famous Federation deck, so its a matter of seeing who comes second. Think its you? Step on up!

STAR TREK TOURNAMENT
When: Sunday 20th August. 1pm rego 1.30pm start
Format: Constructed
Entry: $5
Prizes: Boosters and foil promos up as prizes, plus a fun arvo of playing my favourite ccg-TREK!

In REALLY good news the new expansion-To Boldly Go-is being released August 23rd!!! It has been a long wait but its now definitely coming! So we're running a sealed tournament with the new set September 3rd to celebrate(and give everyone a chance to get the new cards and play with them first!) Details as follows:

STAR TREK TO BOLDLY GO RELEASE
When: Sunday September 3rd. 1pm rego, 1.30pm start
Format: To Boldly Go sealed(you get a starter of your choice and 3 TBG boosters to make a deck & dilemma pile with)
Entry: $35
Prizes: Foil promos and HEAPS of To Boldly Go boosters up as prizes, plus a HEAPS fun arvo of playing Trek!

And finally dAustralia website is running a sprint event for the September-December period. So when you play a Trek event at SGC you increase your score not only on the World Wide rankings, but also in the Australia only sprint! And the winning state wins a box of Reflections! It starts in September so start shuffling up and get ready To Boldly Go!!! For more details check

http://www.decipherperth.net/daustralia/index.php

If you wanna learn how to play Trek cruise in pretty much anytime and ask me for a game. Its fun, and we have starter deals for just $10. Its awesome, a great bunch of people play, its inexpensive to get into and the new set is coming-HOW GOOD!

HEROCLIX: This Sunday the funky format goes into the red with Craig making up even more madness. This Sunday its 300 point teams with no 2 figures being able to have the same Team Ability! Entry is $5, we kick odd at 2pm with cracked figures and a fun arvo up as prizes!

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:

NARUTO CONSTRUCTED
When: Sunday Arvos. 3.30pm rego 4pm start
Format: Constructed
Entry: $7
Prizes: Boosters plus a fun arvo of playing Naruto!

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!

DREAMBLADE: The new WOTC minis game which will have $$$ tournament and HEAPS of Organised play programs, was released last week and looks absolutely sexy. No events scheduled as yet but we will be doing a release/learn to play event asap! Starters are just $39 and boosters $20.

WARHAMMER 40K and FANTASY: Just a reminder that a hardy group of players cruise in most Sundays to play some fun, casual games of 40K from around lunchtime onwards. Its fun, its free so cruise in and play.

Also, GW are revamping the Fantsay side of things with a redone rulebook and sexy new starter package. This new version of Warhammer Fantasy will be release September 9th and will retail for $85.

NEW IN STORE: Carcassone expansions are back in all their glory! WOTC Dreamblade is in, and Coldsnap Fatpacks are back in stock. In D&D roleplaying Dragon Dwon Grotto, a fantastci location, is in, as is Tome of Magic. restock of Star Wars minis Revenge of the Sith is in, as is Universe and the AT-ST Attack on Endor expansion. YGO's new expansion Power of the Duelist also went on sale this week! Both Pokemon and Trek have new expansions coming in the next fortnight!

Until next time, stay safe and play nice

Cheers
Chris & Kieren