NEWSLETTER - 07/12/2007

Hey Trumpet Players,

SOOOO much happened last weekend I can't really remember too much,
other than Steve Phung winning both the Wii and the $250 first prize
in our inaugural The Spoils TCG BIG weekend. It was a mega fun
weekend, with 17 players fighting it out for the Wii on Saturday and
EVERYONE having a brilliant time.

Movember also finished and whilst it was a close run thing at the
top, the table propers position was a fait accompli weeks out. The
final standings, for the record, were

Tony $61.70
Kieren $56.70
Obiwan Foggobi $40.00

An interesting footnote to this table is on the final Wednesday of
the competion(Kierens day off)with the store empty bar Obiwan, my
jar, all by itself, fell off the shelf and shattered. Foggo cannot
explain how this happened, or can he guarantee if all the money
splattered all over the floor ended up back in my smaller
replacement jar, or made its way into his….

Thanks to all who supported us in Movember, your help is much
appreciated and the money goes to a very good cause.

Lots happening again this weekend with 2 premier events, details as
follows:

YUGIOH TRADEABLE CARD GAME

Last Saturday in our weekly Hobby League it was Michael Brancalion
who took out the 13 & under tournament, then David Chapa and Chester
Swords beat a hot field to jointly win the open event. Great dueling
guys!

Badger Badger Badger then beat Azn Brothers in the final of the 2
player teams tournament Saturday afternoon

Hobby league is on again this Saturday from 10am-1pm. Entry is just
$5, its UDE sanctioned, heaps of fun and everyone wins a prize. And
on Saturday afternoon we are playing 2 player teams. Entry is just
$5 per player, its also UDE sanctioned and has boosters up as
prizes, plus its heaps of fun!

Then on Sunday we launch into Phaorohs Tour Qualifier mode with our
December Phaorohs Tour Qualifier!!! Details as follows:

DECEMBER PHAOROHS TOUR QUALIFIER

When: Sunday 9th December. 10am rego, 10.30am start
Format: Advanced Constructed
Entry: $15
Prizes: Winner takes home a box of Gladiators Assault PLUS and
invite to the Pharoahs Tour at Parramatta in January! Everyone wins
a booster just for playing, plus a fun day of playing YGO are up as
prizes.

Yugioh is heaps of fun. In the school holidays we'll be running our
regular Tuesday and Thursday midday tournaments as well as the
weekly Hobby League. We have a fine range of rares for sale from
most sets, and boosters and structure decks from most expansions. If
you'd like to try cruise in on a Saturday and we'll grab someone to
show you how its done!

WORLD OF WARCRAFT TRADEABLE CARD GAME

The new expansion, March of the Legionnaires, becomes tournament
legal TODAY! So that means that Sundays 2007-2008 Nationals Regional
Qualifier will be one of the first events in the WORLD that will
test out the new metagame!!! To be part of the action don't miss
this event, details as follows

WORLD OF WARCRAFT DECEMBER REGIONALS

When: Sunday 9th December. 12 noon rego, 12.30pm start
Format: Constructed
Entry: $15
Prizes: Winner gets a box of Heros of Azeroth! Deck boxes, promos
and boosters up as prizes, plus top 4 get invited to 2008 Nationals!
It will be fun, cruise on in

Then on December 16th we're running a Christmas special WOW TCG
sealed tournament, a win a Feast of Wintervale tournament! Details
as follows:

When; Sunday 16th December. Noon rego, 12.30pm start
Format: Sealed(you get 5 boosters of March of the Legionnaires to
crack and make your best 30 card minimum deck with)
Entry: $35
Prizes: Winner gets a Feast of Wintervale box set!!! Boosters to all
players plus a fun arvo of playing WOW!

The new expansion, March of the Legionnaires, come in 19 card packs,
meaning that a WOW TCG draft just costs $15. We'll probably have a
draft at the end of the Regionals, plus we draft each Thursday night
from around 6pm, so cruise on in and draft the cool new set.

VS (MARVEL & DC)TRADEABLE CARD GAME

OK Goobers, to reward the faithful, plus have a little fun just
before Christmas time, we're having a Galactus Crack tournament,
which will be HUGE! Details for this mega Christmas event as follows

GALACTUS CRACK TOURNAMENT

When: Sunday 23rd December. Noon rego, 12.30pm start
Format: Marvel Team Up box sealed!(you get 1 whole box, that's
right, 24 boosters to CRACK, and make your best 30 card deck with)
Entry: Just $25!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prizes: Winner takes home the sexy looking Coming of Galactus box
set!!! Boosters for all, plus a FUN afternoon of playing a top game,
VS

MAGIC THE GATHERING TRADEABLE CARD GAME

Last Sunday SGC made a successful return to Legacy tournament play
when 11 brave souls bought in the power to test their mettle old
school. And after 5 rounds of heavy duty biffo it was French player
Tomas Ribet who stood tall at 5-0. Well done Tomas! Last night Owen
Egas won our amazing $12 draft, and last Friday night Scott "The
Machine" Smith drew with Luke Bartter, Lindsay Heming and The MIGHTY
Allan Sharpe in our weekly FNM. Well done everyone!

Friday night Magic is on again tonight from 6.30pm. Its just $6 to
play, standard constructed with FNM promos(top 2 1 each, 2 random
door prizes)and boosters up as prizes. Tomorrow(Saturday)is our
weekly Saturday arvo 14 and under tournament, which is just $6 with
everone winning a prize, then on Sunday we're bringing back standard
type 2! Details as follows:

STANDARD TYPE 2 TOURNAMENT

When: Sunday 9th December. 11am rego, 11.30am start
Format: Standard type 2
Entry: $10
Prizes: Heaps of boosters plus a fun arvo of playing MTG!

The following Sunday we've let Field Commader Foggo out of the
bouncy room to come up with a fun format, and after plenty of false
starts, dribbling, and navel gazing he came up with CHAOS SEALED!
Details as follows:

CHAOS SEALED TOURNAMENT

When: Sunday 16th December. 11am rego, 11.30am start
Format: Chaos Sealed(you can pick ANY 5 boosters from the shelf and
crack to make your best 40 card minimum deck with)
Entry: $35
Prizes: Heaps of boosters, promos and a poster or 2 thrown in for
good measure, plus a fun day of playing a fun MTG format. Anyone who
gets beat down by Grizzly Bears has my unending sympathy, as you
will enter a very exclusive club(Foggo being the only other member)

The week after that we're running a Sydney 500 warm up, it will be
type 2, kick off at 11am with the winner taking home a box of
boosters! Heaps of other boosters up as prizes, then the following
week IS the much coveted Sydney 500!!! Details as follows:

THE 6TH ANNUAL SYDNEY 500

When: Sunday 30th December. 10am rego, 10.30am start
Format: Standard type 2
Entry: $20
Prizes: $500 plus trophy and infio bragging rights to the winner!!!
Heaps of boosters plus a fun day of playing MTG at one of the
countries longest running independent big $$$ event.

And to add a little spice to our Friday Night Magic leading up to
the Sydney 500, the winner of the 3 FNM's preceding the Sydney 500
gets a round 1 bye!!! That's the FNM's December 14th, 12 and 28th!
How cool!!!

Heaps on for MTG. It's a great game. We have an amzing range of
singles for sale, as well as heaps of boosters and theme decks from
all expansions. If you'd like a demo cruise in and we'll show you
how its done.

THE SPOILS TRADEABLE CARD GAME

As I said earlier, a big weekend for Steven Phung who won both the
sealed Wii tournament Saturday, then the $500 constructed tournament
Sunday. He beat a gallant Michael Lou in Saturdays final, then the
plucky Troy Armstrong in the final of Sundays constructed. All
players who won money Sunday left the tournament with a cheque in
their hand on the spot, and were pretty damn happy about it!
This weekend we have our regular Saturday afternoon draft from about
2.30pm, as well as generally a Spoils hangout all arvo, so if you
have a deck, even if it's a "bitsa", cruise in and test it out on
Saturday.

Then on Sunday we're having a sealed win a box tournament! Details
as follows:

THE SPOILS SEALED WIN A BOX TOURNAMENT

When: Sunday 9th December. 11.30am rego, 12 noon start
Format: Sealed(you get 1 competition pack and 2 boosters to crack
and make your best 45 card minimum deck with)
Entry: $35
Prizes: Winner takes home a box of boosters! Everyone wins a booster
just for playing, plus a fun day of playing the exciting new TCG!

I'll be around all day so if you'd like to learn how to play cruise
on up and ask me for a demo, if I'm free you're on!

The following week Good Games have their Win a Wii sealed tournament
on Saturday, then their $500 constructed tournament Sunday.

The Spoils is awesome. Its heaps of fun, easy to learn, has GREAT
prize support and cool, fun themes running throughout the cards. If
you'd like to have a go cruise in pretty much anytime for a game,
you'll like it.

STAR WARS TRADEABLE MINIATURES GAME

Good news Star Wars players, we have actually worked out whats
happening for the next 2 weeks! Next Tuesday, 11th December is our
regular weekly free constructed tournament from 6.30pm. Then the
week after we're running a Christmas special tournament, a sealed
event at a special price! Details as follows:

STAR WARS MINIATURES CHRISTMAS SEALED TOURNAMENT

When: Tuesday 18th December. 6.30pm rego, 7pm crack-off
Format: Star Wars sealed(you get a Star Wars starter and a booster
to crack and make your best 200 point army with!). Boosters you can
choose from are Rebel Storm and Clone Strike.
Entry: Just $35
Prizes" Everyone gets a Clone Strike or rebel Storm booster just for
playing, winner gets 2!!!

This will be a fun night of playing SW minis for newbies and
veterans alike. So come on in and either start your collection or
fill in the gaps to your set, but whatever happens, HAVE FUN!

And speaking of Star Wars minis, anyone who has a Han in Carbonite
from the new expansion Force Unleashed, I want it, so let me know
and we can talk turkey!

NARUTO TRADEABLE CARD GAME

Bad bad news, the new set Eternal Rivalry STILL hasn't arrived at
time of writing this, so we're going to have to postpone the sealed
tournament again until December 16th. But we're playing regular
constructed tomorrow arvo from about 2pm if you're looking for a
game.

HEROCLIX COLLECTABLE MINIATURES GAME

OK superheros, this Sunday is a funky tournament, its 400 point
armies, but 200 points must come from the new set, Mutantations and
Monsters! PLUS, we're giving everyone who plays a promo HULK to add
to their army of they want! How cool! Details as follows:

When: Sunday 9th December. 1.30pm rego, 2pm start
Format: 400 point armies(200pt from M&M!), plus a HULK!
Entry: $5
Prizes: Cracked boosters and LE's up as prizes, plus a fun arvo of
playing Heroclix!

STAR TREK 2ND EDITION TRADEABLE CARD GAME

This weekend is another of our fun win a set of something
tournaments! I'm pretty sure it will be Captains Log, but don't hold
me to that! Anyway, we're playing the awesome game that is Trek on
Sunday, details as follows:

STAR TREK WIN A SET OF SOMETHING TOURNAMENT

When: Sunday 9th December. 12.30pm rego, 1pm start
Format: Constructed
Entry: $10
Prizes: A set of something to the winner, plus boosters up as prizes
(everyone gets at least 2 packs!)

And to round off the year we're having a Trek players Xmas party! To
make it better its going to be a crack fest of near infinite
proportions, and a ton of fun, AND it's a good way for new players
to get into the game. Details as follows:

TREK QUANTUM CRACK TOURNAMENT

When: Sunday 23rd December. 12.30pm registration, 1pm start
Format: Sealed-players get 1 Premier Edition starter/booster combo
box to crack and make a 35 card minimum draw deck and 20 card
minimum dilemma pile with(that's right, you crack the BOX!)
Entry: Just $50
Prizes: Winner gets a t-shirt and boosters from the new set.
Everyone wins boosters, and everyone gets to live the dream and
crack a whole box of cards to crack and play. I can't wait, this
will be awesome!

And don't forget our weekly gathering of Trek players Tuesday nights
from around 6pm onwards where you can just cruise in, have a game or
2, talk Trek tech, trade and generally chill out with the knowledge
you play one of the best TCG's ever made.

Trek is flat out a great game. I love it, and had the time of my
life going to Indianapolis in August to play the world
championships. If you'd like a game cruise in pretty much anytime
and Foggo the Ferengi or Kieren the Klingon will show you how its
done.

POKEMON TRADEABLE CARD GAME

Pokemon is on again this Sunday from 12 noon till 3.30pm. The new
set, Secret Wonders, is now in stock after a fun release event last
Sunday, which was won(again!)by the amazing Adam Ferguson. Well done
Adam.

Pokemon is heaps of fun, and the weekly league is as much about
talking Pokemon, drawing Pokemon and colouring in Pokemon as it is
actually PLAYING Pokemon, and everyone likes it that way! Entry is
just $6 and everyone has a fun day and wins a prize.

The next competitive Pokemon tournament is round 2 of our Elite
Beats series. Its on Saturday 29th December, 12 noon registration,
12.30pm start, entry is $12 and heaps of prizes are up for grabs, as
well as the precious Elite Beats series points. Last months winner
was Gordon Ranger, who will win this months event???

And then on January 6th it's the Pokemon City Championships!!! This
will be a fantastic event with prizes in 3 different age categories,
details as follows:

THE POKEMON CITY CHAMPIONSHIPS!

When: Sunday 6th January. Noon rego, 12.30pm start
Format: Modified Constructed
Entry: $10
Prizes: SOOOOO many boosters its not funny, plus medals to the
winners of each age category. This will be FUN, come in and play
Pokemon!!

MECHWARRIOR COLLECTABLE MINIATURES GAME

Mech is on from around 2.30pm again this Sunday. We usually get
around 4-6 players, though we've had groups of 12 cruise in in the
recent past, so the game is still quite popular. It costs just $5 to
play for the afternoon with LE's and cracked boosters up as prizes

EYE OF JUDGEMENT FUNKY PS3 GAME

Just reminding everyone that we still have some Eye of Judgement
theme decks and boosters for sale, and we're doing a Christmas
special of just $15 for theme decks and $4 a booster. The game is
incredible and ushers in a new era in games, if you have a PS3
cruise in and check it out.

Well, that's is for this week, and don't forget that our Christmas
party is on Monday 17th December at Wentworth Park dogs from around
7pm. Its heaps of fun, and everyone has a chance to win something
from Field Commander Foggos sack of specials! Until next time, take
care and play nice,

Chris, Kieren and Vickey