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NEWSLETTER - 15/06/07

Hey Planetary Commanders, Last weekend was the 2007 Yugioh National Championships, and the event was an amazing success, not only by the way that UDE run it, but also the way the judges worked hard and politely effiecently all weekend, the way the players played in a good natured, good sportsman like way and the SGC regular, Egon Cardenes, played briiliantly for 8 rounds plus a top 8 play-off to come from a duel down to beat Queensland representative(and fine guy and VS player as well)Kurt Nightfind in the final to become 2007 Yugioh Champion! Reza Aimdezadeh, Tasmania Welgang and Chester Swords, all Saturday morning regulars, all also made the top 8 and took home a box of product for their toil. Meanwhile, back at the ranch Field Commander Foggo and the Wonderfully Awesome Vickey did a fine job at running around 8 other tournanemts over the weekend, including a 38 player YGO Hobby League Saturday! Great work guys Lots on this weekend, details as follows: WORLD OF WARCRAFT TRADEABLE CARD GAME With all the focus on YGO last weekend it would be easy to forget that the World of Warcraft Natonal Championships are only 3 months away! This weekend we're having a fun sealed tournament, which will be the same format as the next WOW Regionals. Details as follows: WORLD OF WARCRAFT SEALED TOURNAMENT When: Sunday 17th June. Noon rego, 12.30pm start Format: WOW Sealed(you get 2 boosters of HOA and 4 boosters of DP to crack and make a 30 card deck with) Entry: $35 Prizes: Boosters, promos and a fun day of playing WOW sealed! The Nationals for WOW are on at Parramatta RSL September 8 & 9 and will be a celebration of WOW TCG. The game is great, the latest raid deck, Molten Core, is new and out now, we have a stomping range of singles available and a great bunch of players. If you'd like a demo, and nows a great time to start, cruise in for a game, it will be worth it! MAGIC THE GATHERING TRADEABLE CARD GAME We have been inundated with emails begging the Mighty Allan Sharpe to make an appearence at this years Nationals, which are on July 20th-22nd. The only thing that outnumbers those emails begging him to go is those from the countries top MTG players begging us to keep the MIGHTY Allan Sharpe in Sydney to give everyone else a chance! Whatever happens, we want the MIGHTY Allan Sharpe to be there, with his tech, on our side. My sexy girlfriend, Eliza, also wants him there but she won't tell me why and she doesn't even play Magic! Last weekend we had a sealed tournament, and it was no real surprise to see MR Limited himself, Adrian Capilitan, at the top of the table after 4 fun filled rounds of swiss. Nice job Caps! This weekend we're running a fun tournament, its 2 Headed Giant constructed, details as follows: 2 HEADED GIANT CONSTRUCTED When: Sunday June 17th. 11am registration, 11.30am start Format: 2 Headed Giant Constructed Entry: $10 per head($20 per giant) Prizes: Heaps of fun, plus boosters, t-shirts, promos up as prizes. 2HG is always fun, come on in and try it! If you don't have a team mate, don't worry, we wil find you 1! The following week is our monthly Player of the Year tournament. Its type 2, details as follows: When: Sunday 24th June. 11am rego, 11.30am start Format: Type 2 Entry: $10 Prizes: Winner takes home $100 cash and 10 POTY points! POTY points to top 8, plus boosters and a fun day of playing MTG. The Nats are in mid july and the formt is now settled. This would be a top event to start your Nationals Campaign with, so build a deck and come and give it a try! And a note for the diaries, 10th edition will be released July 14th & 15th. We'll be running fun sealed release tournaments for the new sets both days, with HEAPS on prizes on offer, come on in and give the new set a try! We also have FNM tonight at 6.30pm. Its just $6, its DCI sanctioned, its type 2 and its heaps of fun. And don't forget our amazing $12 drafts each Thursday night from 6pm, and our Saturday afternoon 14 and under tournaments each Saturday from 2pm. They help younger players develop their skills against others their own age and we help out with play tips and deck advice, plus there is HEAPS of boosters, promos and other goodies up the the guys as well MTG rocks. Both Field Commadner Foggo and I are going to The Nationals this year to try to rightfully take our position as the second and third best players behind the MIGHTY Allan Sharpe.If you'd like to have a demo cruise in anytime for a game. Either Chris or I would love to show you how its done, we have a million singles, tons of boosters and a player base that covers all types of players from the very casual to the very serious. STAR TREK SECOND EDITION COLLECTABLE CARD GAME WOOOHOOOO! Lots of good things are happening! Firstly the latest expansion, In a Mirror, Darkly, arrived today and is a deckbuilders DREAM! There is SOOO many fine cards in the set both draw decks and dilemma piles have the ability to be so flexible its not funny. The set covers all affiliations so there is something for everyone, and as usual from Decipher the cards look GREAT! The other good thing happening with TREK is that the Continental Championships are just 2 weeks away! So we have a variety of lead up events for this, starting this SUnday, designed for new players to get involved and experienced players to have fun and maybe pick up a few different deck ideas. Details as follows: STAR TREK SEALED TOURNAMENT(great for new players and veterans!) When: Sunday June 17th. 1pm rego, 1.30pm start Format: Sealed(you get 1 starter of your choice and 3 boosters to crack and make your best deck and dilemma pile with) Entry: Just $10!!! Prizes: Boosters of the latest expansion up as prizes, plus a fun arvo of playing TREK! A great way for new players to have fun, learn the game and get HEAPS of cards cheap! Then the following week we have the Continentals Warm Up! Continental Warm Up #1: Constructed Tournament When: Sunday June 24th. 1pm rego 1.30pm start Format: Standard Constructed Entry: $10 Prizes: HEAPS of boosters plus lots of practice for the Continetals the week after! This will be the first and only constructed tournament before the Continentals with In A Mirror, Darkly will be legal for play, so come test out the new tech! The next weekend is a TREK FESTIVAL! Starting with a Dangerous Missions draft June 29th, we then swing into the event proper with heats on Saturday and Sunday, the finals on Saturday arvo, and a World Championship qualifier on Sunday afternoon for those who can't get enough trek! For more details check out http://www.sydneygamescentre.com/star_trek.php Trek is FANTASTIC! It is a awesome game with great cards and a fun, cool group of people who play it. It is a balanced, well though out system that plays like the TV show and all affiliations are pretty equally balanced. I'm going to play the world championships in August in Indianapolis and frankly, I can't wait! I have fun start up decks I can teach you how to play with and then GIVE you to get you started, and we have a deal where you get a starter and 3 boosters of the first 3 sets(your choice)for just $10.If you'd like a game cruise in and ask Kieren the Klingon, the future 2007 World Champion, for a game, he'd be happy to show you hows its done! YUGIOH TRADEABLE CARD GAME As I said in the intro, Egon Cardenes played out of his skin to be Australian YGO Champion and will now fly to San Diego in August to represent his country in the wolrd championships! And where does Egon play to hone his skills? SGC Hobby League of course! I don't know who won last week as I was at Bondi but 38 players duelled it out and had a great old time despite the yucky weather! And Hobby League is on again this Saturday from 10am-1pm. It costs just $5 to play, we have both junior and open tournaments run simultaneously, both are UDE sanctioned and EVERYONE wins a prize. Yesterday the new Force of the Breaker special edition pack came in and looks AWESOME! it has 2 FOTB boosters and a INVASION OF CHAOS booster in it, which is reason enough to buy, plus 2 super rares! Come and and grab the while we still have them! NARUTO COLLECTABLE CARD GAME Last Saturday was the first Naruto tournament we've run where Curse of the Sands is tournament legal and it REALLY made the great game even better! Everyone said the different elements are now very well balanced and nothing but good times are coming. And those good times start tomorrow with our weekly Naruto tournament! Details as follows: When: Saturday 16th June. 1.45pm rego 2pm start Format: Constructed Entry: $6 Prizes: Boosters and a fun arvo of playing Naruto! Our Naruto singles folder is updated once again with heaps of teched up goodness. Both Obiwan Foggobi and Vickey are master ninjas and would be happy to show anyone how this game is played. It's growing both here and throughout the rest of the country, is a fine game, is on tele and is the next BIG anime game. Cruise in on a Saturday and try it, it is fun! VS(Marvel & DC) TRADEABLE CARD GAME More WOOHOOO! ing from me as the other favourite Kieren game is also having a BIG tournament. The Elite series is coming to Australia and we get to host it! So we're making a VS festival that weekend, with 2 big tournaments, details as follows: SILVER AGE WIN A BOX TOURNAMENT When: Saturday 23rd June. 1.30pm registration, 2pm start Format: Silver Age Entry: $10 Prizes: TONS of boosters up for grabs with the winner taking home a box of MTU!!! A great way to enjoy playing VS again, cruise in and win yourselves some packs and have some fun Then June 24th is the Elite series, with crazy amounts of prizes and a crazy low entry fee! Details as follows: THE VS ELITE SERIES! When: Sunday 24th June. 10am rego 10.30am start Format: MTU Sealed(you get FIVE boosters to crack and make your best 30 card minimum deck with) Entry: $20 Prizes: HEAPS, and its ALL COOL, click http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/vs/en/n...e.aspx?aid=2503 This will be a fun weekend of playing VS. The game rocks and UDE have come to the party on this one and given us some prize support, so lets show them their support is well placed. We may even demonstrate to these guys that we deserve more events of this type! But the only way to do that is to COME IN AND PLAY! We have LOTS of VS on special at the moment, for a full rundown check out http://www.sydneygamescentre.com/vs.php POKEMON TRADEABLE CARD GAME Last Sunday we had a very happy bunch of 10 players giggling and collecting prizes, in our usual weekly Pokemon league. Its on again this Sunday from 12 noon till 3.30pm, costs just $6 to play with everyone winning a prize. The next expansion, Diamond and Pearl, is due out at the end of the month, and we'll be running a release tournament for it as soon as more details come to hand! NEW IN STORE As we said earlier, the new special edition pack for Yugiohs Force of the Breaker is out now, plus restocks of all Duelist packs. WOW TCG have released a series of sexy looking playmats that you can buy and are on sale now for just $25(they look HOT). And finally, the reason I'm rushing to finish this is so I can go back to cracking my SECOND box of the latest TREK expansion In A Mirror, Darkly. It is SOOO good its not funny. We got 12 displays in and I'm already onto my second, I love it. Come in quick before I crack it all, except the stuff I'm going to use as prizes for this Sundays sealed tournament. Thats about it for this week, until next time stay safe and have fun Chris Vickey and Kieren