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Post by Gilvan Blight on May 15, 2010 1:00:57 GMT -5
The WGR and Hugin and Munin have been talking to the organizer of The Great Canadian Boardgame Blitz and we are pleased to announce that the Blitz is coming to Windsor! The Great Canadian Board Game Blitz (GCBGB) is a circuit of board game tournaments held at Canadian game conventions. You play several rounds of games over the span of eight hours, collecting points based on your finishing rank in each game. The finals are held each summer in Toronto at Fan Expo. This will be a free event with boardgame prizes. The overall winner will win tickets to the Finals up in TO. We are still finalizing the details but expect the event will be in early August. Check back here for more details. More details on 'The Blitz here: www.gcbgb.ca/
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Post by wiltchamberlain on May 15, 2010 19:08:19 GMT -5
What games are to be included?
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Post by Gilvan Blight on May 15, 2010 19:28:10 GMT -5
Hasn't been decided yet. Here's a list from the last event. Each round has a set of games and lasts from 1 hour to 2 hours. The next round has a different set of games. You get points based on your ranking 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.
Here's the list of games played at the last event. I we will most likely have less games with 4 tables. If we get enough interest we will run two games a table, with up to 8 games a round. All of the games are provided by GCBB
Round I (1 hour) · Citadels · Dominion · Bohnanza · San Juan · Roll Through the Ages · Three-Dragon Ante
Round II (2 hours) · Amun-Re · Race for the Galaxy · Settlers of Catan · Settlers of Catan: Seafarers · Settlers of Catan: Cities & Knights
Round III (1 hour) · Ra · Alhambra · Ingenious · Carcassonne · Carcassonne + Inns & Cathedrals + Traders & Builders
Round IV (1 hour) · Medici · Ticket to Ride · Ticket to Ride: Europe · Thurn & Taxis · Power Grid: Factory Manager
Round V (2 hours) · Agricola · Caylus · Power Grid · Puerto Rico · Tigris & Euphrates · El Grande
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Post by Gilvan Blight on May 18, 2010 7:24:01 GMT -5
It looks like the date for this event will be August 14th. Once I get confirmation from Hugin and Munin I will be setting up a Facebook event etc.
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Jun 5, 2010 3:54:23 GMT -5
Poster for the event.
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Post by sharky6000 on Jun 5, 2010 11:00:57 GMT -5
Hello everyone, Marc here from GCBGB. I'm very excited to be hosting a qualifier in Windsor.. really looking forward to it! I first took place in this kind of tournament last year at KingCon. It's a great way to learn new games (since we explain them all) and still compete. The atmosphere was competitive yet friendly. After that we ran it at FanExpo 2009. We got great feedback. The organizer of the gaming part of FanExpo (Justin Mohareb) encouraged us to "go national". So we did And since then we've run it at conventions in Hamilton, two Montreal, two in Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto.. and soon Windsor! I'd like to thank Maurice; he's been really helpful in arranging things in Windsor. I'd also like to thank Hugin & Munin for letting us use their store. I've just setup a Facebook group for the event. So feel free to join the group and list yourself in there (link from web page). There's other stuff up there like photos from past events etc. We should have a video up soon too. The game list will be quite similar to the one we used at CanGames, which Maurice listed in his post up there. If you have any other questions, feel free to email us at info@gcbgb.ca . Hope to see you in August!
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Post by sharky6000 on Jul 7, 2010 18:00:13 GMT -5
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Post by lichemaster on Jul 7, 2010 21:02:53 GMT -5
Wow!
Good for H&M and WGR, good show, hope it is a smash hit!
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Post by Gilvan Blight on Jul 8, 2010 11:45:47 GMT -5
Hey lichemaster, do you mind letting people in The Chosen Realms know about this event? The more people we get out the better. I'm hoping we can make this an annual event!
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