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NEWSLETTER - 23/03/07

Hi Climate Changers!

When you work with someone closely for so long, you think that there is not much they can say about themselves that would surprise you. Then you talk to Chris for 20 minutes and you discover that is a myth. During the week Obiwan Foggobi has regaled me with tales of his pre-goth/post Partridge family phase where he went on a scout camp in Bathurst, arrived at the scout camp disco drenched in rexona and then voluntarily had his nipple pierced with a safety pin all in the hope for a young ladies affection...this certainly surprised me. Or the ongoing hypothesis Field Commander Foggo has that all modern music can be traced back to Hank Williams or The Carter Family. Some of the rationale Chris uses to support his claims is truly amazing...Anyway, Chris will be happy to answer all your questions about this, and clarify what music you like is "junk" or not, all weekend, and even explain the link between Talking Heads and Hank Williams(though by his own admission it IS a bit of a stretch).

Onto more important issues-that of playing games, NOW!

WORLD OF WARCRAFT COLLECTABLE CARD GAME
This Saturday is the second NSW WOWTCG Regional tournament at Burwood RSL where the top 4 runners qualify for the 2007 WOW TCG Nationals Championships! It will be LOTS of fun, and the top 8 also walk out with a VERY sexy WOW TCG playmat! Details as follows:

WORLD OF WARCRAFT NSW REGIONALS!
When: Saturday 24th March. 9am rego 10am start
Where: Burwood RSL. 96 Shaftsbury Rd Burwood
Format: Standard Constructed
Entry: $15
Prizes: Top 4 receive invites to Nationals! Top 8 receive WOW playmates. Boosters and a fun day of playing WOW up as prizes
And if you sleep in, or have already qualified, cruise in early afternoon for the Lazy Peon tournament!

WORLD OF WARCRAFT LAZY PEON TOURNAMENT!
When: Saturday 24th March. Noon registration, 1pm start
Where: Burwood RSL. 96 Shaftsbury Rd Burwood
Format: Lazy Peon-common and uncommon cards only
Entry: $10
Prizes: Top 8 receive EA Frost Shocks plus boosters. Another random 8 players will also receive EA frost shocks as prizes! Plus a fun arvo of playing Lazy Peon!

And just when TOO much WOW TCG Premier events aren't enough, April 1st we're hosting the Release Celebration of the new expansion, Through the Dark Portal!!! Details as follows:
When: Sunday April 1st. Noon rego, 12.30pm start
Format: Sealed!
Entry: $35
Prizes: Boosters, mats, deck tins and a fun arvo of playing WOW TCG with the new set BEFORE it even goes on sale!

We have a limited amount of places for this, so to avoid disapointment pre-register at the store asap!

We have a Learn to Play afternoon of WOW this Sunday. Its free, you get to keep the starter deck we teach you with, and its heaps of fun. We have weekly WOW Hobby League on Saturday afternoons at 2pm (constructed), a monthly win a box tournament, and drafts & casual play each Tuesday and Thursday night from 6pm.

WOW rocks. Its a fun game, easy to learn, hard to master, with a predominantly casual fun player base. if you'd like to learn cruise in anytime for a game, or this Sunday for expert coaching from Deep Dayal and Louis Armstrong!

YUGIOH COLLECTABLE CARD GAME
Last Saturday Tyrone Liang went 5-0 to win the 13 & under tournament, and put himself perilously close to getting bumped up to the open tournament tomorrow! Chris Darmardi won the open tournament, adding yet another fine tournament victory to his burgeoning YGO resume. Fine work guys! Yugioh Hobby League is on again tomorrow from 9.30am-1pm. Entry is just $5 with everyone winning a prize, and HEAPS of YGO promos, T-Shirts and fun up as prizes. Its UDE sanctioned and is a GREAT way to warm up for Sundays March YGO REGIONALS!!! Details as follows:

When: Sunday 25th March. 10am registration, 10.30am start
Format: Advanced Constructed
Entry: $15
Prizes: Winner gets a BOX of boosters as prizes! Top 8 get playmats and invites to the 2007 Nationals in June at Bondi RSL, booster prizes to top 24 at least!!!

This will be a fun event. It will be 6 rounds at least, probably more, and no one gets knocked out!

Yugioh is heaps of fun. Its fast, easy to learn and we have around 40 players each Saturday playing, laughing and trading. If you'd like a game cruise in anytime!

MAGIC THE GATHERING TRADEABLE CARD GAME
This pretty much should be a weekly copy and paste. The GREAT man of Magic, the peoples champion, the visionary and the mana master The MIGHTY Allan Sharpe once again won our Friday Night Magic event last Friday evening, destroying a field full of cutting edge tech and battle hardened players. Great work TMAS!

This weekend is a biggy. Tonight once again we have FNM. Saturday afternoon we have our 14 & under junior tournament. It kicks off at 2pm, costs just $6 to play with heaps of play advice, deck tips and tournament etiquette being given out in a fun, relaxed style to help younger MTG players have fun playing the game against opponents their own age. Then on Sunday we have our monthly Player of the Year tournament! Its type 2 with $100 CASH to the winner, details as follows:

When: Sunday 25th March. 11am rego, 11.30am start
Format: Standard Constructed(swiss rounds, top 8 play-off)
Entry: $10
Prizes: $100 cash to the winner. boosters, T-Shirts and a fun day of playing MTG and having a chance to boost your Player of the Year standing. Points table can be found here

http://www.mtgparadise.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=26503

And don't forget our fantasticly priced fun booster drafts each Tuesday and Thursday night from 6pm for just $12!!!

Looking forward the Pre-Release of the next expansion-Future Sight- is on April 21st and 22nd. Day 1 will be at The Grace Hotel, a beautiful building in York St, City, and Day 2 will be at the Burwood RSL. More details to follow, including pre-registration info and transport options, in the near future.

MTG rocks, if you'd like a demo cruise in anytime for a game where Pro Tour competitor Obiwan Foggobi or PT Aspirant Honest Otto would love to show you how its done.

STAR TREK 2ND EDITION COLLECTABLE CARD GAME

Great news Trekkers, the 2nd ever Dangerous Missions draft tournament in Sydney happens to be on this Sunday! Its a very fun format giving players a chance tp test their draft skills as well as use cards they would never dream of ever using otherwise in a fun environment. Details as follows:
When: Sunday 25th March. 1pm registration, 1.30pm start
Format: Dangerous Missions draft
Entry: $25!
Prizes: Rare picks plus promos plus 3 boosters for 1st, 2 for 2nd and 1 for third.

This will be a cool day of playing Trek with a different format, and I can't wait. Trek is fun, easy, cheap and very much worth trying out, especially for fans of the show. If you'd like to try cruise in anytime and ask Kieren the Klingon for a game

DREAMBLADE COLLECTABLE MINIATURES GAME
This Saturday we're giving all those new Dreamblade players Ambassador Shane taught how to play a chance to strut their stuff on the tournament stage with a Saturday afternoon tournament! Details as follows:
When: Saturday 24th March. 1.30pm rego, 2pm start
Format: Constructed
Entry: Just $5
Prizes: Cracked boosters and promo figures, plus a fun arvo of playing a top minis game, up as prizes
We also play Dreamblade each Tuesday night at 7pm. It is fun, $5, DCI sanctioned and HEAPS of fun!
If you'd like to learn how to play Dreamblade cruise in anytime for a game, its fun

VS(Marvel & DC)TRADEABLE CARD GAME
Great work from part time player all time cool guy David Limim who put down his YGO deck and picked up a Checkmate/Villains United deck to win last Sundays win a box tournament. He tied with Sam The Man Kassis, Donovan Hawke and Luke Bartter for the top spot, but egdged them out on tiebreakers. Great work David!

Louis Armstrong and Deep Dayal are running a learn to play VS day this Sunday from 11am. They'll have decks to learn with and give away, plus they are fine guys and top VS players, so you'll get a chance to learn from the best. Then you can use your newly gathered skills and decks on April 1st when we run our funky Golden Age tournament! Details as follows:

When: Sunday 1st April. Noon rego, 12.30pm start
Format: Golden Age-but your deck cannot have more than 2 teams!
Entry: $5
Prizes: Foil Savage Beatdown to the winner, plus boosters, promos and a fun day of playing VS!

Then Easter Monday we're cranking up the VS love with a BIG, 10K style sealed event! Details as follows:

When: Easter Monday 9th April. Noon rego, 12.30pm start Format: Sealed. First 3-4 rounds will be LOS sealed-5 packs to make your best 30 card deck with. Then next 3-4 rounds will be MTU Sealed. 5 packs to make your best 30 card deck with. MTU draft final to top 8.
Entry: $40
Prizes: Apart from a fun day of playing VS to your hearts content, plus getting HEAPS of Modern Age cards REALLY cheap, the winner will get a box of MTU!!!. T-Shirts, deck tins and boosters up as prizes as well, plus a fun arvo of playing infinite sealed VS!!!

This event would be excellent for both new players and PC veterans as the sealed format lends itself to a more even playing field. Plus you get TWO!!! card pools, so if you're unlucky in the first, hang in, the second may help you roar up the tables.

April 15th we have a Silver Age win a box tournament, then April 22nd its another Golden Age tournament, this time with no team restrictions

VS rocks. The guys are gonna be here Sunday to show you how its done, but if you can't make it this Sunday then cruise in anytime for a game.

POKEMON COLLECTABLE CARD GAME
The State Championships are coming to SGC! Thats right, SGC will be hosting the State Championships April 22nd. As a result we're running Pokemon warm up tournaments each Sunday as WELL as our weekly pokemon league. If you'd like to play in the tournament we'll kick off at 12.30pm. Entry for either event will be $6 with lots of prizes for both.

After the States SGC will be hosting the National Pokemon Championships May 12th and 13th! The 3 age catagory winners for this event will win a trip to the World Championships in Hawaii! So pack you're hoola skirt and you're Pokemon deck and start collecting prizes!

NARUTO COLLECTABLE CARD GAME
Details are a little skecthy, but most reports seem to indicate that regular Naruto guru Rudi won last Sundays win a box tournament. Fine work mate! Rudi is a Saturday arvo regular and is always on hand to give deck tips and play advice to new players and thoroughly deserves another win.Naruto is on this Saturday at 2pm. Its $6 to play, standard constructed with everyone winning a prize.

Starting April 7th we're kicking off our statue league, where each Saturday players will accumulate league points when they play, and the winner will take home a very cool looking Naruto statue! We'll put it on display when we get it, but by all accounts it looks REALLY good, and Mistress of Lerve Vickey would never let us down.

Naruto is the next BIG anime card game. Its fun, strategic, cards look great and the guys who play are awesome. If you'd like to learn pop in Saturday afternoon and have tjhe experts show you how, or any other time and ask for Chris :)

WWE RAW DEAL WRESTLING
Next WWE tournament is on Saturday March 31st. Details as follows:
When: Saturday 31st March. 11.30am rego, noon start
Format: SMACKDOWN constructed
Entry: $10
Prizes: Promos, boosters, belts and a fun afternoon of jumping off the top rope up as prizes.

Trent does a great job at running and promoting the game for us, and is always happy to give a demo. So if you'd like to try cruise in Saturday 31st March and have a look, its a very, very fun game.

STAR WARS MINIATURES AND DUNGEON AND DRAGONS MINIATURES
Richard ran a fantastic new campaign style tournament last Tuesday and the 10 players who played reckon it was very, very good. Well done to Grant Mcenvoy for winning and Kenny le Bon for coming in second. Great work gang. A regular Star Wars tournament will be on next Tuesday night, its free, DCI sanctioned and we'll have promo figures up as prizes.Next Tuesday Richard is weaving his creative magic again, but this time with D&D minis! It'll be fun, free and we'll have WOTC promo figures(thanks to the very highly regarded Rob Tierney)up as prizes.

IF you're looking for a role playing group, D&D has exploded at SGC over the last few months, with groups joining up everywhere. If you feel like having a go pop your name and email on our wall and we'll try to join you up with people in a campaign, or even give you the chance to start your own! Its heaps of fun, come in and try
HEROCLIX COLLECTABLE MINIATURES GAME
This Sunday the funkiness that is Heroclix is 300 point constructed. Play kicks off at 2pm, with the new DC origins set allowable, entry is just $5 with cracked boosters and LE's up as prizes. Clix is LOTS of fun. There is always something happening in it, the pieces are great and a fine group of people play. If you'd like a demo cruise in anytime, you'll get hooked.

NEW IN STORE
D&D Minis Unhallowed boosters, the new expansion, is in and looks GREAT! Our friend Chris Zed cracked a case with us on Tuesday and the pieces look awesome. New sleeve and deckbox designs are due in today, and obviously the new Clix expansion-DC Origins, is in stock. Games Workshops Dark Angels army and codex are also in and look great.

Until next time, smile and play nice
Chris, Vickey and Kieren