NEWSLETTER - 14/09/2007

Hey Breakdancers!

What a mega week that was! Jimmy Xing, mild mannered TCG player
became the inaugrial WOW TCG National Champion at Parramatta RSL on
Sunday after going 3-3 and scrapping into the second day drafts,
then going 9-0 to take home the title, the laptop and the trip to
San Diego in November to represent AU in the World Championships!
Close behind, and next to him on the plane, was Paul "Vanwolfgang"
Vanderwerk who finished runner up, then in 3rd & 4th was 2 of the
classiest guys you could ever meet, Jonathan Luey and James White.
The whole event was very well attended and Marc Losper did a
sterling job as head judge and move breaker.

Lots of other things happened, to find out what, read on!

MAGIC THE GATHERING COLLECTABLE CARD GAME

Last Sunday was the final round of our 2006/2007 Player of the Year
Championship, and as expected was won by The MIGHTY Allan Sharpe,
playing a nasty and ingenious black deck. Tin Treffer finished
second and Shonky Jim Bandas played his way into the overall top 8
standings with a strong third finish. The top 8 after 12 months of
heats are:

Kuan Tian 44
Clarrie Brown 41
The MIGHTY Allan Sharpe 34
Pat Pepper 31
Ash Cartwright 26
Colin "Bomber" Harris 23
Rhys Gould 21
Conor Holmes 21(Conor is in Ireland and probably not coming!)
Shonky Jim Bandas 19

Then follows, and these players should come along in case any of the
top 8 can't make it

Yasuke Kawai 19
Genosian Giblett 14
Tayfun Sanal 14
Tim He 12
Brett Ly 12

For complete standings check www.mtgparadise.com/forums and go to
general magic chat!

The top 8 will play duplicate sealed Sunday from 11.30am to win an
airfare to Grand Prix Brisbane! They will also win points towards
the 2007/2008 Player of the Year championship!

And for those who haven't qualified, you can still play MTG this
Sunday, we're running a $100 type 2 tournament to kick off this
years POTY championships!

When: Sunday 16th September. 11am registration, 11.30am start
Format: Type 2
Entry: $10
Prizes: $100 CASH to the winner! Plus heaps of boosters, t-shirts
and player of the year points to top 8

And if thats not enough MTG loving, Sunday 23rd we have our Grand
Prix Brisbane trial!

When: Sunday 23rd September. 11am rego, 11.30am start
Format: Timespiral Block sealed
Entry: $35
Prizes: Winner gets 3 byes into Grand Prix Brisbane!!! Heaps of
boosters up as prizes. plus a fun day of playing a fun MTG format!

And whilst we're on for MTG stuff, the new expansion, Lorwyn, is
being pre-released September 29th & 30th! Details as follows:

Day 1 Lorwyn Pre-Release

Where: City of Sydney Bowlers Club
95 York St
Sydney
When:Saturday 29th September. Morning flight 9am registration,
9.45am start(including junior flight, casual and serious)Afternoon
flight 3.30pm registration, 4pm start(including serious, casual and
2HG)
Entry: $35
Prizes: HEAPS of boosters up as prizes!!! Plus t-shirts, random
giveaways, promo cards and an amazingly good fun day playing MTG
with brand new cards 2 weeks before they go on sale are up as prizes!

Day 2 Lorwyn Pre-Release

Where: Club Ashfield
5 Charlotte St
Ashfield
When: Sunday 30th September. Morning flight 9am registration,
9.45am start(casual and serious)Afternoon flight 3.30pm
registration, 4pm start(including serious, casual and 2HG)
Entry: $35
Prizes: HEAPS of boosters up as prizes!!! Plus t-shirts, random
giveaways, promo cards and an amazingly good fun day playing MTG
with brand new cards 2 weeks before they go on sale are up as prizes!
And just to make sure you've got to know this terrific to the max,
October 6th & 7th is the Sydney Games Centre Lorwyn Sneak Peek!!
It's on Saturday & Sunday 6th & 7th October at 10.30am both days.
Its $35 with boosters and promo cards up as prizes

WOW, lots on, as well as our usual Friday night magic, always type 2
and always fun at 6.30pm tonight, our Thursday night booster drafts
on each Thursday from 5pmish and they are just $12!!!, our Saturday
afternoon 14 & under tournaments at 2pm, for just $6(last Saturday
won by Jason Harris!).

We have a thumping range of MTG singles, LOTS of boosters, heaps of
precons and lots of experience playing, running and teaching MTG. If
you'd like a demo cruise in anytime and we'll show you how its done.

YUGIOH COLLECTABLE CARD GAME

Chester Swords struck a blow for the old school players by winning
last Saturdays YGO tournament in the open division, and Michael
Brancalion went 5-0 to win the 13 & under event. Great work guys!

Yugioh is on again this Saturday from 10am-1pm(rego opens with the
store at 9.30am). Its just $5 to play, UDE sanctioned and everyone
wins a prize.

Next Regionals is on September 30th. Registration is at 10am, it is
$15 to play, winner takes home a box of boosters and everyone wins a
booster at least!

Yugioh is still an enormous juggernaut of TCG player generating
meganess. Its easy, fun, has a masive following and we get great
support for it through Chris Zantides and UDE. We have a big range
of boosters, structure decks and singles and a well attended weekly
event, so you'll always get a game. If you'd like to try cruise in
on a Saturday and we'll get someone to show you how its done.

WORLD OF WARCRAFT TRADEABLE CARD GAME

As we said earlier, Jimmy Xing is the 2007 Australian WOW TCG
Champion! He and Paul Vanderwerk will be jetting off to San Diego
courtesy of UDE in November to represent all things Aussie at the
World Champs. Great work guys!

WoW is on again at SGC this Saturday in the form of Hobby League.
Play kicks off at 2pm, it costs just $6 to play, its UDE sanctioned
and we have Onyxia Raid treasure packs, as well as boosters and
promos, up as prizes.

WoW is on a roll. Its a good game, its well supported both player
wise and by UDE, and the 3rd expansion Fires of Outlands is awesome.
We have a top range of singles and base set boosters for just $5. If
you'd like a demo cruise out anytime for a game

VS(Marvel & DC)COLLECTABLE CARD GAME

Well, bad news in th VS front, the new expansion Marvel Legends
hasn't made it in on time to have a pre-release this Sunday. But
don't panic, we've come up with a funky draft format that will be
awesome! Its Marvel only draft using boosters from Origins,
Spiderman, X-Men, Heralds of Galactus and Marvel Team up and it will
cost just $20!!! Details as follows:

Marvel Booster Draft

When: Sunday 16th September. 12.30pm rego, 1pm start
Format: Players get 1 each of the above mentioned boosters to draft
their best 30 card minimum deck with
Entry: Just $20!!!
Prizes: Rare picks at the end plus VS t-shirts to the top 3 drafters!

This will be a fun event and has never been tried before! Big thanks
to Iain Kenderline for giving us the ideas, it is terrific!

STAR TREK 2ND EDITION COLLECTABLE CARD GAME

This Sunday is Kieren the Klingons return to Sydney tournament play
after his big World Championship trip, and he has a bag stuffed full
of Trek loving to give out as prizes this Sunday at Trek. Its this
Sunday, details as follows:

When: Sunday 16th September. 12.30pm registration, 1pm start
Format: Constructed
Entry: $10
Prizes: Boosters, promos and a pick of the Vegas stash of lerve to
the winner! Lots of fun going where no one has gone before is also
up as prizes!

We also play each Tuesday night from around 6pm. Its fun, free and a
great way to test new decks, dust off old ones, trade cards and just
generally mingle with other Trek players. New players are welcome, I
have plenty of time to show you how its done, I can even give you a
deck for free to learn how its done, then practice when you get home
(we have heaps of rulebooks to give out as well!)

Trek is awesome. I went to Indianapolis last month to play worlds
and it was SOOOOO good! Sydney has one of the biggest player
communities in the world, and also one of the nicest. I have HEAPS
of trades so I can usually help you make your deck whatever you want
it to be, and the game is so good and so balanced you can pretty
much play any affiliation you want and still win oodles of games, or
have lots of fun trying. So if you'd like to learn cruise in and ask
Kieren the Klingon for a game!

DUELMASTERS TRADEABLE CARD GAME

Yep-Duelmasters! Due to popular demand we're running a once a month
sanctioned Duelmasters tournament,the first one will be September
23rd. Details as follows:

When: Sunday 23rd September. 10.30am rego, 11am start
Format: Constructed
Entry: $5
Prizes: HEAPS of boosters up as prizes plus a fun morning of playing
Duelmasters!

We have Duelmasters for sale for just $1 a booster, so you can very
cheaply get whatever card you like, and engage in one of my
favourite ever pasttimes, pack cracking! It plays easy and the game
works well, its designed to be a entry vechile for Magic. Cruise in
anytime for a game, you'll be pleasantly surprised

LEGEND OF THE FIVE RINGS COLLECTABLE CARD GAME

The second oldest TCG is still running well and tonight is the bi-
monthly Friday night L5R night! Format changes all the time, so
cruise in tonight with a few decks and maybe some extra $$$ in case
its draft time. We're getting insanely cool prize support direct
from AEG in the US to help boost things along, and we have a pre-
release event scheduled for September 23rd(was supposed to be this
Sunday, but stock didn't make it in time). If you're a former player
dust off the old cards and cruise on in tonight for a game, or if
you're new and want to learn, tonight is your night as well. Its
fun, easy and has a great bunch of guys playing it, why not give it
a try!

Weekly events as usual this week are Heroclix and Pokemon on Sunday,
Star Wars & D&D minis on Tuesday night, Mechwarrior on Sunday and
Naruto on Saturday afternoon at 2pm, as well as YGO 2 player teams
Saturday arvo.

Thats about it for this week, if you have any questions don't
hesitate to give us a call.

Take it easy

Chris, Vickey and Kieren