December 7th, 2006: A short note to let everyone know that the Yu-Gi-Oh and World of Warcraft Hobby League prizes have arrived!
For Yu-Gi-Oh, we have parallel rare participation prize cards (one per player per month while supplies last), and special awards including play mats, and t-shirts. Join us for our weekly Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments Thursdays at 4:30pm. Special prizes will be awarded at the last tournament of the month based on month-long participation.
For World of Warcraft TCG, we have special extended art prizes and participation cards (one per player per month while supplies last). World of Warcraft TCG tournaments are Saturdays at 1pm.
Snowed in, no power, and tired of all the games in your closet! We've got your answers - we have dozens of great board and card games to make anytime a great time.
Games make great Christmas gifts, and who doesn't like to pull out a great board game after the big Christmas dinner. Be the hero at the family dinner by bringing the fun game no one has ever played before.
If you are out and about in December - come by and check out all the events we have going on in December. Download the attached flyer and show it to your friends - see if you can get a group together to come and play in our Risk 2210 tournament on Dec 12th! Who knows - you may even be able to have some fun while doing your Christmas shopping.
Didn't get what you wanted for Christmas - be sure to check out our in-store only Boxing Day Sale! For one day only Dec 26th from 11am-9pm, selected items in the store will be 10% to 40% off. Including:
Were you able to join us on World-Wide D&D Game Day?
Some of the photos from the event are posted in the Media/Picture Gallery - hope everyone had as much fun as I did.
If you missed it, we run drop-in D&D every Saturday night starting around 5pm - beginners welcome. Come on by and learn what all the fun is about.
Wow - it's August already, and it's going to be a busy one!
Our August Calendar of Events is now posted - please take a look to get all the details.
Come and join us for our: GRAND OPENING SALE!
August 16th through 22nd - get 10% off everything in the store. Plus we are running several special events, and doubling the prize support at all our regular events during the week!
Special Events include:
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Plus Vs tournament, Yu-Gi-Oh tournament, Magic Tournament, and a Pokemon tournament.
Also in August check out:
- Dreamblade demos on the 12th and 26th
- New Vs. Hobby League with foil card prize support starting Sunday Aug 6th
- New Pokemon League play on Mondays starting Aug 7th
Check out the calendar page for more events and details. Register on the site to sign-up online for events. Please check out the Vancouver Gaming Guilds web-site for details about the upcoming H.P. Lovecraft's Birthday party - also happening in August. Happy gaming everyone!
[acidfree:200] Wow - June went by quickly. Big props to all those people that made it out to the store for our June events. We finally have our sign up - yay! It's already making a difference in terms of the number of people finding us.
We've submitted the paperwork - so hopefully in July we'll start having access to prize support from Wizards of the Coast. I also received my tournament organizer kit, so now we can easily sanction our Magic, Star Wars Minis, and other DCI sanctionable games. Our full July Calendar is now posted!
Highlights in July include:
- Coldsnap release event - July 22nd
- Ice Age/Alliances/Cold Snap Draft - July 29th
- Warmachine demo/tournament days on Sundays 9th and 23rd
- Magic Type 2 on Saturdays at 1pm when not having a Cold Snap event
- Minis days - casual drop in miniatures play on Sundays
- Board Game nights - Tuesdays
- Yu-Gi-Oh Tournaments with new earlier summer hours on Thursdays at 2:30
Note: we have to limit most events to 32 people. If you want to reserve yourself a spot - please sign up online.
A quick note to let you know that our June Calendar of events has been posted. We're running Magic Type 2 and draft, Heroclix, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, and Vampire the Requiem this month (The VTR event may turn into a D&D event - let us know if you have a preference.) The Warmachine demo day and sale is on June 25th.
Check out the "Calendar of Events" link to see the details, and log-in to register on-line for events. On-line registrants will be given preference (spots will be held till five minutes before event start times) should any events reach capacity.
We hope to see you in the store. If you have other events you'd like to see us run, please let me know by e-mail to mjones(ar)tcgaa.ca.
Just a quick note to those of you checking the web-site - we're open (at long last). Took a little longer than planned, but we've done it. Thanks very much to all the Magic players that showed up for the draft on Friday night - I hope you all had fun.
I took some pictures of opening night and they are posted in the Gallery section now. If you want to know what our store hours, location, or phone number are check out the "About The Connection" page.
[acidfree:143] We're almost there. A bunch of clean up to do today and a dry run through of the sales systems and we should be open tomorrow (sometime). We still have quite a few empty shelves, but it is starting to look like a real store.
We'll be running a (hopefully) sanctioned Magic the Gathering draft tomorrow night in the store if you are interested. Check out the Upcoming Events link FNM Link
Hope you can all stop by sometime.
May 9 - Vancouver, BC. The people who said "The Devil is in the details", were right. It seems there is always one more thing to do...
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Big thanks to Mike Zimmerman for coming out on Sunday to give me a hand putting some finishing touches on the painting and getting the floor ready for polishing. The building inspectors are back today - hopefully we will pass final inspections so we can open for business.
I've received a lot but not all of my inventory so far. Still need to buy the food items and related supplies, and have to figure out some shelving system to display snacks etc...
Hopefully I'll be able to root out that devil and get all the little things done so we can open in the next few days. But, it won't be tomorrow as I had hoped. I'll post an article as soon as we are open - hopefully no later than Friday.
[acidfree:130]Well I guess in a time when construction people are very hard to find - I have been extremely lucky to have such great friends and family to help me out. Otherwise we would be even later than we are.
It looks like we'll have to push back the opening by at least a couple of days at this point (now planning for May 10). We still have to get the furniture ordered, and if it needs to be built or brought in - one week is probably a little tight. There are several other unknowns that could still throw a wrench into the works - so stay tuned. I'll try to post here as soon as I know if we have to delay again.
Thanks to everyone who helped me install the slat wall this weekend - Patrick, Mark, Charles, and Dad. Check out the new pictures in the Construction Photo gallery - if you want to see us hard at work.
We appreciate your patience - look forward to seeing you all in the store.
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