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Announcing ‘Star Wars’ X-Wing 2014 Store Championship Event
Friday, February 28th, 2014
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
Google Maps
Battleground’s Facebook Page
Contact:
Please contact us with any questions.
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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Tags: Deathstar Trench Run, Fantasy Flight, Star Wars, Store Championship, Tournament, X-Wing
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Geek & Sundry’s TableTop: Lords of Vegas
Wednesday, February 26th, 2014
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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Like this game? Pick it up now at your local Battleground Games & Hobbies!
About Geek & Sundry:
Geek & Sundry is an internet community centered around producing entertaining web videos, primarily on YouTube, that focus on comics, games, books, hobbies & more. Their goal is to connect their audience together through common interests both online and in real life.
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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Tags: Angela Webber, Aubrey Webber, Board Games, Geek & Sundry, Lords of Vegas, Miracle Laurie, TableTop, Wil Wheaton
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Cryptozoic Entertainment Announces New ‘DC Deck Building Game’ Releases for 2014
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
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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Tags: Board Games. Cryptozoic Entertainment, DC Deck Building Game, ICv2.com, Toy Fair
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Winner’s Circle – Feb 21 Friday Night Magic Champions
Monday, February 24th, 2014
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:
Battleground Games & Hobbies – Abington, MA
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
Battleground Games & Hobbies – Abington, MA
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
Battleground Games & Hobbies – Plainville, MA
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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Tags: FNM, Friday Night Magic, Magic the Gathering, MTG, Winners Circle
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Grand Prix Montreal Trial TOMORROW!
Friday, February 21st, 2014
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
Parking on site
• Google Maps
• Battleground’s Facebook Page
This event is being run as a Grand Prix Trial for Montreal:
• Decklists required
• Cut to top 8
Prizes:
• First Prize – 4x Tarmogoyf and 2 Byes at Grand Prix Montreal (guaranteed).
• Other prizes may consist of store credit based on attendance.
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Tags: GPT, Grand Prix Trial, Magic Grand Prix, Magic the Gathering, MTG, Standard, Tarmogoyf
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Announcing ‘Netrunner’ 2014 Championship Event
Thursday, February 20th, 2014
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: Standard, as outlined here.
Date: March 15th, 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
Google Maps
Battleground’s Facebook Page
Contact:
Please contact us with any questions.
The tournaments will follow the standard Fantasy Flight tournament rules.
Each round will last 65 minutes.
The number of rounds will be based on turnout. There will not be a cut followed by single elimination rounds.
Swiss pairings (each player will play in every round if they would like, barring byes).
Each player must bring 1 Corporation and 1 Runner deck in accordance with the Deck Restriction rules found here (page 2).
Prizes will look like:
Champion: Store Championship Plaque; Deck Box; first place certificate worth a first round bye at one of the 2014 Regional Championships.
Runner Up: Deck Box
Top 4: Custom “Top 4” playmat
Everyone: Alternate art cards with full-bleed graphic design (for the first 32 players).
Additional prizes may be awarded based on turnout.
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Tags: Android Netrunner, Fantasy Flight, Store Championship, Tournament
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