Magic Pre-Release: Dominaria

By: Dozer

So along with five other friends, I ended up at Wizards Tower to play at the late night two-headed giant pre-release. I was partnered with Luke while Wolf and Forgotten were paired up, and Linna and Molotov were partners. I was leaving the next morning for Toronto for work but I was alone and I needed to get my nerd on after a intense two weeks in St Jean, QC.

I was only in town for less then an hour before I sped down the highway and traveled from the east of Ottawa to pick up Luke. This was also his first pre-release event.

Man did I ever need this.

Nerding it up with my mates after two weeks of intense training... all I needed was my wife with me but she was already in Toronto and I'd be seeing her the next day to play some Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 with our friends from the area. I had just driven for three stressed filled hours, gotten home long enough to snag a snack and refuel my car before, ignore my four hours of sleep to go play Magic the Gathering.

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Event - Extra Life

Support Extra Life!

Take a look at the video below and if you can support the event give it a try. The team behind it are putting a lot of effort into this event.



I spoke with Artimage the event organizer and asked a few questions -

When is the event?

The main Extra Life event is November the 4th.

Due to constraints affecting the hosting store, Black Knight Games, we are doing the local event the week before, Saturday October the 28th.

How long have you been running the event?

Five years.

Where is being hosted?

The event is being hosted at Black Knight Games at 864 Mohawk Road East, in Hamilton, Ontario.
Located on the south west corner of Mohawk Road and Upper Ottawa Street

Where can folks find out more?

People can find out more about Extra Life, and their mission goal, and maybe find or start a local event, at Extra-Life.org

For more information on my personal event, pay attention to my Twitter (@Artimage84) and my YouTube channel.

Thanks!

So for you folks living in Hamilton or close to Hamilton, take a look at the site and all the information that Armitage passed on.

From the team at Canadian Tabletop Gamer, We wish you luck.

- Cheers

Event - Dire Province: Capital Conflict

Capital Conflict is a 4 round ITS event for 12-24 players within our nations capital located at the Major Holland VC Senior Ranks Mess.

When-
23 September 2017
Event check in starts at 0900 EST.
Games to start no later than 1000 EST.
Closing ceremonies will be no sooner than 1900 EST depending on lunch and round length.

Where- 
Major Holland VC Senior Ranks Mess
2100 Walkley Road, Ottawa, Ontario

Rules - 
ITS Event, 300 point, 2 list, 4 rounds, two hours each round.

Scenarios are (from ITS Season 8 v1.4) in no order:

Capture and Protect
Rescue
Safe Area
Supplies.

Prizes include -
A tournament box from Black Sheep Industries for our winner!

Prizes also include ITS Season 8 prize pack, a painted HVT by EMP Studios for Best Sportsmanship, from Angel Giraldez a signed Studio Giraldez mug to be filled with other goodies for the winner of Best Painted, and more!

Additional prize details to be announced as I get final confirmation while we move closer to the event.

Swag - 
Measuring template, patches, and more to be confirmed.

Accommodations -
Location provides free unlimited parking, private large clean washrooms, and access to a bar in the event room.

A lunch is included in the event price and will be provided at the location. If you have any dietary restrictions please include that in your registration e-mail.

A private Bar will be open for 1130 for players to purchase drinks (alcoholic* and non-alcoholic) and snacks.

To Register - 
$35 Canadian Dollars for anyone who registers before 1200 EST on 18 August 2017, 40$ CND afterwards.

Send money via paypal or e-mail to: capitalconflict@gmail.com

Once your event payment is received organizers will send a confirmation e-mail with registration instructions and future updates.

- Cheers

Olen Gravel

*Minors will not be served alcoholic drinks and if caught will be removed from the event per Federal and Provincial Laws.

Event Report: Infinity @ Kessel Run

By: Dozer

Location: Kessel Run Games

Game: Infinity
Format: 1 list, 4 rounds, Infinity RECON

Last Saturday, walking into Kessel Run at 10am in the morning was interesting. Two gents from the Royal Tabletop Regiment showed up and took up 2 tables for Warhammer 40k. A Warmachine+Hordes group took up a pair of tables. Lastly a Batman Miniatures monthly event was happening and another 4 tables were going to be lost. Oh there was also the regular scheduled Magic the Gathering Saturday event and some folks coming in to demo and play X-Wing.

Lucky for me Kessel Run had already planned for my event. They offered both of their rental rooms, I only took the larger room. No need for me to take up both rooms and cut out that possible income for the shop. I also claimed the two board game tables on the raised portion of the store. It let me set up the Admin table and a table for the forth pairing.

The last couple of week leading up to the event, we lost 2 players dropping my numbers down to 8. By round 3 Doc was not feeling well and we lost another player to his boss calling him into work. So the final two pairings we were six players.

I know there was less players because of the fear of experience players wrecking the faces of the newer players but we still had a few come out and were happy from the experience. The swag well accepted. Players that were sporting a Velcro spot on their bags put on their patch. The measuring templates and crates were well used through the matches. Each player was allowed to put on the board a single crate before initiative was rolled so everyone's board had some changes to it.

Lastly the coupons, 10% from the BBQ joint next door was well used. Every player snagged some food and it was brilliant as per normal. Meatings does great Texas style BBQ. I have yet to have anything else other than their brisket and smoked beans but I always fail to get anything else.

After the break I have some pics and final standings.

Event - Infinity 27 May

Kessel Run Games is hosting a 1 list, 4 round tournament designed for new players to the game of Infinity. Using the Infinity RECON format players will square off in quick rounds against each other with armies of 150 pts.

The tournament is to allow first time and new players the opportunity to get in some games of Infinity in a tournament setting, and to allow experienced players to meet other new people in the community. Using the Infinity RECON format players will square off in quick rounds against each other with armies of 150 pts.

Register via e-mail: olengravel@gmail.com with the subject line Kessel Run Infinity. Cost is $15 CND for the ITS pack and the swag bag contents.

Contents of the swag bag:
-1 CTG Velcro patch
-1 MDF custom crate with Kessel Run Games logo for your own scatter terrain
-1 Acrylic measuring template with 1", 2", 4", 6", and Silhouette 2
-1 Coupon 10% off for the day of the event from Meatings (not in image)

Thanks goes out to:

Our host Kessel Run Games.
Meatings and Black Sheep Industries for sponsoring with food discounts and terrain.
Top Down Terrain for making the crates and templates.

-LINKS-

Kessel Run:
http://www.kesselrungames.ca/

Meatings:
http://meatings.ca/

Black Sheep Industries:
https://black-sheep-industries.com/

Top Down Terrain:
https://topdownterrain.com/

Rules can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6xtNo5dWd61ZnNNdElEWkVEOXc/view?usp=drivesdk