Players, Battleground Games & Hobbies is the proud host of Fantasy Flight’s 2014 Store Championship tournaments! Running through March, these prestigious local tournaments are your first chance to test the waters of the 2014 tournament calendar, meet other local players, vie for bragging rights, and compete for cool, exclusive prizes. Battleground Games & Hobbies is one of just a few stores in the region hosting events. Be sure to join us!
Format: 100 points Date: March 29th, 2014 Time:Round 1 begins at 12:00pm, Doors open at 10:00am, Registration begins at 11:00am Entrance Fee: $5.00
Address:
25 Taunton Street
Plainville MA 02762
508.316.1195
The tournaments will follow the standard Fantasy Flight tournament rules.
Each round will last 60 minutes.
The number of rounds will be based on turnout.
Swiss pairings (each player will play in every round if they would like, barring byes).
Prizes will look like:
Champion: Store Championship Plaque; Card Box; first place certificate worth a first round bye at one of the 2014 Regional Championships. Runner Up: Card Box Top 4: Custom X-Wing Acrylic Range Rulers Everyone: Alternate art pilot cards (for the first 32 players). Additional prizes may be awarded based on turnout.
Saturday evening, after the event is over Battleground Games & Hobbies will be offering a free “Deathstar Trench Run” scenario to anyone that played in the Store Championships. Full details of this will be posted later on. Check back!
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Check out the latest episode of Geek & Sundry’s smash hit show Tabletop, as host Wil Wheaton and guests Miracle Laurie, Angela Webber, and Aubrey Webber as they play Lords of Vegas!
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About Lords of Vegas:
From Boardgamegeek.com: You and your opponents represent powerful developers in a burgeoning Nevada city. You will earn money and prestige by building the biggest and most profitable casinos on “The Strip,” the town’s backbone of dust and sin. You start with nothing but parking lots and dreams, but from there you build, sprawl, reorganize and gamble your way to victory. Score the most points investing in the most profitable development companies and putting the best bosses in control of the richest casinos. Put your dollars on the line . . . it’s time to roll!
The game board is broken into 8 different areas, each consisting of a number of empty ‘lots’. Players build lots by paying money and placing a die of the value matching the one shown on the lot’s space onto the lot, along with a casino tile of one of 7 colors. Adjoining lots of the same color are considered a single casino. The casino’s boss is the player whose die value is higher than any other in the casino. On each players turn, players turn over a new card representing a new lot they get. The card also is one of the casino colors. Any built casinos of the matching color will score both money and VP. Money is earned for each lot in the casino, where each lot may be owned by a different player. VP goes only to the casino’s owner. Players can expand their casinos; try to take over casinos owned by other players; make deals to trade lots, casinos and money; or gamble in opponents’ casinos to make more money. Ultimately, though, only victory points matter, and that means making yourself boss of the biggest casinos.
Lords of Vegas contains:
Snazzy game board
4 turn summaries
55 cards
40 chips in 4 colors
48 dice in 4 colors
4 poker chips
Lots of money
45 casino blocks
Rules
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Last week, ICv2.com reported that at Toy Fair, Cryptozoic Entertainment shared two planned additions to its DC Comics Deck-Building Game for 2014: the Crisis Expansion in June and the stand-alone Forever Evil box in October.
The DC Deck-Building Game: Crisis Expansion Pack 1 introduces a new cooperative element to game play. Players must team up to overcome the challenging events when one of the 15 crisis cards comes up. There are also “Impossible Mode” super-villain challenges which are much tougher than their lesser counterparts. The 60-card deck also includes 14 oversized super hero cards (including several new ones), and a rules sheet. As an expansion it requires one of the base decks to play and the deck releases in June.
DC Comics Deck-Building Game: Forever Evil will be a larger, stand-alone product; but compatible for play with previous editions. Game play details have not yet been released, but the concentration will be on the ‘villains,’ since the heroes are all ‘dead’ in that DC cross-over event. The release is planned for October.
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Congratulations to this week’s Friday Night Magic winners at both Battleground Games & Hobbies locations in Abington, MA and Plainville, MA. This week, FNM featured the Standard format with top finishers not only receiving store credit prizes, but likewise an exclusive promo foil Elvish Mystic! Now, let’s check out last week’s winner’s:
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Standard FNM – Start time: 7:30 PM
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Modern – Start time: 7:30 PM
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Theros/Theros/Born of the Gods Booster Draft Pod One – Start time: 7:30 PM
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Theros/Theros/Born of the Gods Booster Draft Pod Two – Start time: 7:30 PM
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Theros/Theros/Born of the Gods Booster Draft Pod Three – Start time: 7:30 PM
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Standard FNM – Start time: 7:30 PM
Congratulations to the top finishers of each event. In addition, on behalf of the staff here at Battleground Games & Hobbies, we would like to thank everyone that attended our Friday Night Magic events. We greatly appreciate you choosing to hang out with us.
If you’re looking for a friendly atmosphere to enjoy playing Magic the Gathering while meeting new, like-minded people and win cool prizes and exclusive promo cards, then Friday Night Magic at Battleground Games & Hobbies is exactly what you’re looking for! Try Friday Night Magic today at either of our conveniently located brick-and-mortar stores and see why Magic players consider Friday night the best night of the week. To learn more about our Friday Night Magic events, please click here.
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Everyone is aware by now that at this year’s Grand Prix Paris, won by Javier Dominguez playing a Blue/Black/Green Legacy deck, came under review due to numerous issues that occurred during the event (see “UPDATE: Grand Prix Paris Standings Under Review“). Even though there was a disqualification after the last round of the swiss that put popular Brazilian professional Magic player Paulo Vitor Damo de Rosa into the top eight, perhaps the most notorious “cheat” is the “Brainstorm heard round the world,” in which eventual champion Mr. Dominguez only returned one card to the top of his deck after casting a Brainstorm during his turn – all on camera!
“Two situations arose at Grand Prix Paris that have raised some questions on social media. While we don’t discuss ongoing investigations, or the underlying causes leading to a Disqualification, here is some explanation of the policies behind these two situations.
Head Judge Riccardo Tessitori conducted an investigation of Gerardo Jurado Gibert during round 13 of Grand Prix Paris after a suspicious Game Rule Violation. After listening to all involved parties (Jurado Gibert, his opponent and the Floor Judge), he did not feel that he had sufficient information to assess a Disqualification at that time and, in the interests of keeping the tournament moving, allowed the player to continue playing. As more information came to light during further interviews, and consultation with other senior judges present, Head Judge Tessitori was convinced that the actions taken during the Game Rule Violation were intentional and issued the appropriate Unsporting Conduct – Cheating infraction. As Tessitori stated: “The fact that two rounds had passed and the fact that the player made Top 8 shouldn’t be good reasons to keep in the tournament a player who I was now sure had cheated.” Following the appropriate course of action in such a situation, since Jurado Gibert had already finished his match, the result for round 15 stood and Jurado Gibert was therefore disqualified after round 15 and before the Quarter Finals. As defined in policy, since the cut to top 8 had not yet been made, Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa, who ended up 9th in the standings prior to Gibert’s removal from the tournament, advanced to the Top 8.
During an on-camera match in the quarterfinals, Javier Dominguez played Brainstorm and only returned one card to the top of his library when resolving it. After investigating the issue and discussing it with the player, Head Judge Tessitori and the Investigations Committee have concluded that the error was accidental. The infraction has been noted in Dominguez’ penalty history. Since the error was not noticed during the game and Cheating has been ruled out in this situation, the Grand Prix result will stand as is.”
So, Mr. Dominguez will retain his title. What do you think? Watch the video below and let us know in the comments below.
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Format: Standard
Date: February 22rd, 2014 – TOMORROW!
Time: Doors at 10:00am, Registration at 11:00am, Round 1 pairings at 12:00pm
Entrance Fee: $25.00 per person
Address:
1423 Bedford Street
Abington MA 02351
781.261.9669
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