NEWSLETTER - 22/06/07
Hey Super Sleuths,
This week we open with a story that will touch your heart. Little
Kenny Nguyen is a 13 year old boy suffering from shuffleitis, a
disease that makes him want to play games all the time. It is
untreatable and the Starlight make a wish foundation asked him want
he really wanted to happen before his disease overcame him. He said
what he really, really wanted was for his hero, The MIGHTY Allan
Sharpe, to come to Magic Nationals with him in July so he could
experience the thrill of seeing a genius at work. The MIGHTY Allan
Sharpe has retired from play which requires him to travel for many
years now, having nothing left to prove at an international level,
but when approached by Starlight immediantly agreed to grant this
little boy his wish. Its gestures like this and many others that
make The MIGHTY Allan Sharpe not only a champion on the tables, but
also as a human being.
There is a LOT happening this weekend, details as follows:
VS(Marvel & DC)TRADING CARD GAME
After a while out of the spotlight one of Field Commander Foggo and
I's favourite games, VS, is back with avengence this weekend as the
ELITE series comes to town! Its a weekend of VS fun as both sealed
and constructed formats are being catered for. 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
MAGIC THE GATHERING TRADEABLE CARD GAME
Last weekend was a 2 headed giant constructed tournament and after
the dust settled it was the Dreamteam of The MIGHTY Allan Sharpe and
someone else who went 4-0 to win-Great work guys!(and other player
was the Dark Lord Lindsay Heming!). On Saturday it was Emward Lee
who won our junior tournament, beating his friend and test partner
Peter Yang in the final. And last Friday Kelvin Ong beat 18 others
in FNM to take home the boosters and the foil promos! Awesome work
gentlemen!
This Sunday its time for our monthly Player of the Year tournament.
Its type 2, $100 to the winner, 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!
The next Sunday, July 1st, is a type 2 draft extravaganza!!! It will
be an AWESOME event, details as follows:
When: Sunday 1st July. 11am rego, 11.30am start
Format: Standard Block draft!(players draft 3 rounds with Ravnica
Block, then 3 rounds of Timespiral Block, then a Coldsnap top 8
draft final!!!)
Entry: $35
Prizes: HEAPS of boosters, t-shirts and a fun day of drafting up to
3 times for just $35!!!
And looking forward, July 14th and 15th is our 10th edition release
tournament! It's on at 10.30am both days and will have heaps of
boosters, promos, t-shirts and fun up as prizes!
MTG rocks. It is a fun game with a massive player base. We have $5
9th ed decks to get you started, and both Field Commander Foggo and
Kieren the Klingon have played MTG at a high level and would be
happy to give you a run through. We have HEAPS of singles for all
formats, have $12 drafts each Thursday night, juniors tournaments
2pm Sundays, Friday Night Magic each Friday from 6pm and always some
event on a Sunday. Come in and try MTG, it bashes online games :)
STAR TREK 2ND EDITION TRADEABLE CARD GAME
Last Sunday was a fun warm up tournament which was sealed and after
3 rounds sealed pack specialist Shannon Mullane bashed everyone to
go 3-0 to win, beating Scott Newsome in the final. The BIG story was
that Dylan Tchopourian, after learning the game from games guru Will
Hoyle that morning, went 2-1 to finish third-and he is all of about
12! Great work Dylan!
This weekend its our final tournament before the 2007 Australasian
Continentals June 30-July 1st and it will be HUGE! Details as
follows:
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!
And then the next weekend is a festival of Trek! people are coming
from Brisbane and Perth to take on the locals in what will be a
highlight of the year for me, and essential to my World
Championships warm up, the 2007 Australasian Continental
Championships! Full program as follows:
Dangerous Missions Draft Tournament
When: Friday 29th June. 6.30pm registration, 7pm start
Format: Dangerous Missions Draft
Entry: $25
Prizes: Boosters, promos and a great fun way to kick off the 2007
championships and meet the interstate players. Casual play, trading
and general good natured mingling are encouraged
2007 AUSTRALASIAN CONTINENTALS-DAY 1
When: Saturday 30th June. 10am registration, 10.30am start(you need
a full decklist!)
Format: Constructed
Entry: $15
Prizes: Top 6 gain entry into the top 8(played at 2pm Sunday)
Boosters up as prizes for everyone else
2007 AUSTRALASIAN CONTINENTALS DAY 2
When: Sunday 1st July. 10am registration, 10.30am start
Format: Constructed
Entry: $15
Prizes: Top 2 gain entry into the Continentals top 8(played at 2pm
Sunday). Boosters and promos up as prizes.
2007 AUSTRALASIAN CONTINENTALS FINALS!!!
When: Sunday July 1st at 2pm
Format: Constructed(must use the deck you qualified with
Entry: FREE(you must have qualified to play!)
Prizes: Season 1 DSP on DVD, Borg Collective on DVD, trophy,
boosters, promos and bragging rights, plus byes into the World
Championships up as prizes, plus a MEGA fun day of playing Trek up
as prizes
And for those that don't make the top 8, or those like me who just
CANNOT get enough Trek, its a World Championship Qualifier! Details
as follows:
When: Sunday July 1st at 2pm
Format: Constructed
Entry: $10
Prizes: Top 2 have day 2 byes into the World Championships! Plus
HEAPS of boosters and promos, and bragging rights, up as prizes.
Plus everyone gets to play Trek whilst the top 8 is duking it out!
Sigh...Trek is awesome. The new expansion, In A Mirror, Darkly, is a
deckbuilders dream. The game is a deckbuilders dream. It is SOOO
balanced, plays SOOO well and is SOOO much fun, especially if you
remotely like the TV show(though not a pre-requisite by any means)
that I can't get enough of it. If you'd like to have a crack at this
awesome game I would be happy to give you a demo, and a deck to give
to you so you can get the hang of it. We have a deal where you get a
starter and 3 boosters for just $10, a great playing community and a
regular FREE Tuesday night play/trade night to ease you into the
game. Come in and try, it is awesome!
YUGIOH TRADEABLE CARD GAME
Both Hobby League tournaments had 20+ players last Saturday, and in
a first we managed to get more rounds in for the open event than we
did for the juniors! In the juniors Jamie Kwan and Aidan McCarthy
went 4-0 to win the packs, whilst it was a 5 way tie for first in
the opn event after 5 rounds with Reza Azimzadeh, Kevin Luong, Deep
Dayal, Kyle Toff and Sarah Henderson all going 4-1 to share first
place. Good tight dueling guys!
Hobby League is on again this Saturday. SGC opens at 9.30am and the
event starts at 10am. Its just $5 to play and everyone wins a prize.
And to keep the spirit of monthly tournaments alive, Sunday 21st
July we're running a win a box of Force of the Breaker up as first
prize! Details as follows:
When: Sunday 22nd July. 10.30am registration, 11am start
Format: Advanced Constructed
Entry: $15
Prizes: WInner gets a box of Force of the Breaker! Boosters to top
24 at least plus a fun day of playing YGO!
We have a great range of YGO boosters, structure decks and singles
at SGC, plus great judges and a fine playing community. If you'd
like to play YGO, cruise in!
NARUTO TRADEABLE CARD GAME
Last Saturday Alex Stavanavic went 4-0 to out ninja everyone and win
our weekly Naruto tournament-great work Alex! Naruto is on again
this Saturday at 2pm, its just $6 to play, heaps of fun and everyone
wins a prize.
The third expansion, Curse of the Sands, has made the game even
better, and more importantly more balanced, meaning its more fun. We
have a range of singles available as well as Naruto guru Vickey on
hand to give you deckbuilding tips, playskills or just to show you
how its done. If you'd like to have a try at the next BIG anime
game, cruise in and have a go, it is good.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT COLLECTABLE CARD GAME
Last Sunday we ran a sealed tournament and after 3 rounds of
clearing out Azeroth Jonathan Luey made it 27 from 27 and won! Great
work Jonathan! He beat Adrian Capilitan in the final, and Shonky Jim
Bandas was floating around the leader board for some time as well.
The evnt was so much fun we're having another one July 8th! Details
as follows:
When: Sunday July 8th. Noon registration, 12.30pm start
Format: Sealed(you get 6 boosters of wow to crack and make your best
30 card minimum deck with)
Entry: $35
Prizes: Winner takes home a Molten Core raid deck!!! Boosters,
promos and a fun arvo of playing sealed WOW up as prizes.
And don't forget we run WOW Hobby League each Saturday arvo at 2pm.
Its constructed, just $6 to play and everyone wins a prize, and is a
great way to get into shape for the WOW Nationals September 8 & 9 at
Parramatta RSL!
WOW is a cool game. Its fun, easy to learn but hard to master with
awesome cards and fun play mechanics. If you wanna play, cruise in
anytime. We have a great range of singles and Chris and I would be
happy to shpw you how its done!
HORRORCLIX COLLECTABLE MINIATURES GAME
Grea news-the new expansion-FREAKSHOW-is in and we're celebrating
tonight by having a sealed tournament! Details as follows:
When: Friday 22nd June. 6pm rego, 7pm start
Format: Sealed(you get 3 boosters to crack and make a 300 point army
with)
Entry: $35
Prizes: LE's, boosters and a fun arvo of playing Horrorclix with a
new expansion are up as prizes!
Horrorclix is a very cool game. It uses the same engine as Heroclix,
and is as much fun. If you'd like a demo cruise in tonight and you
can start your clix career with the new expansion-FREAKSHOW!
LEGEND OF THE FIVE RINGS COLLECTABLE CARD GAME
One of the longest running TCG ever is on tonight at SGC using the
hot new sets Khans Defiance and Truest Test in a sealed deck
tournament! Details as follows:
When: Friday 22nd June. 6pm registartion, 7pm start
Format: Sealed
Entry: $22
Prizes: Boosters, box toppers, promos and a fun night of playing L5R
sealed!
HEROCLIX COLLECTABLE MINIATURES GAME
This Sunday is a funky new format the guys have made up! Its a 400
pt tournament using 2 feat cards that are being made up! It will be
fun, so cruise into SGC this SUnday with your pieces and have a
crack-boosters and LE's are up as prizes!
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS MINIATURES
STAR WARS MINIATURES
We still play both these fun minis games each Tuesday nights from
6pm. Entry is FREE, with prize support from the very dapper Rob
Tierney from WOTC up as prizes. Even if you don't play the game but
just collect, or use the figures for your roleplaying game, cruise
in anyway as the guys who play have HEAPS of figures for trades, you
might be able to pick up that perfect piece for your new PC/monster!
NEW IN STORE
FREAKSHOW is in!!! Horrorclix fans will be very happy, the new
pieces look The NUTS! Star Trek has In a Mirror, Darkly in stock and
going crazy. YGO Force of the Breaker special edition packs are in
stock, as are restocks of the duelist packs. And Dark Revelation 2
is also back in!
Thats it for this week, any questions give us a call on 97153229 or
email back to this newsletter.
Take care all, play nice and be lucky
Chris, Vickey and Kieren