I hope you are ready to let it rip because we have finalized the details for the February 20th Beyblade Tournament at Game Summit. Please see the details below:
What: Toys on Fire’s 7th Beyblade Tournament Date: Sunday, February 20th, 2011 (Final day of Game Summit) Time: 1PM -- 3PM (Show up 10-15 minutes early if possible) Where: Nepean Sportsplex Hals A & B (Rear entrance) Admission Fee: $15 (Must be pre-payed at Toys on Fire before the 20th) Requirements: BYOB (Bring your own Beyblade)
Admission fee includes two (2) Sunday Day-Passes to get inside Game Summit for the whole day(1 Child, 1 Adult) and includes participation in the Beyblade tournament(1 Child). This is a very special deal we have worked out for you lucky Beybladers as normally admission to get into Game Summit for two costs about $25.
Please call or visit us to register and we can get your name on the list. Payment can be made by coming by the store with $15 or we can process credit cards over the phone. Unpaid registrants spots will begin to be given to paying registrants on the waiting list on February 12th. This is a much larger venue for the event so we will be taking up to 30 registrants. You will be competing for some Toys on Fire prizes as usual, and the more registrants we get, the better the prizes can be.
Also know that you are welcome to come to Game Summit for the full day as there are many activities and fun stuff to do. Game Summit is open from 9am-7pm. See below some of the benefits of the included Sunday Day-Passes.
1. Access to free activities in all 3 gaming areas (War Room, Casual Gaming, RPG Den)
2. Miniature figurine painting lessons (tokens required)
3. Sunday is the Garage Sale (find some cool out of print board games, Lego sets, gaming books, etc.)
4. Door prizes announced every hour at Game Summit
5. Each participants is also receiving a bag filled with coupons and other goodies
6. Other special activities are available for the cost of tokens
7. Get 2 free tokens if by bringing along a Game Summit postcard. (included with registration)
Hope to see you all there!
Game on!
-Gray
P.S. Check out this cool video of some Game Summit action!
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Nepean, Ontario
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www.toysonfire.ca
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Happy New Year! Now get ready, Ottawa’s upcoming gaming event is just over a month away: Game Summit is back for its fifth and biggest event ever, February 18th, 19th and 20th at the Nepean Sportsplex in Ottawa. Bringing more to the table than ever before for dice-throwers, role-players and war-gamers alike, Game Summit is the place for good times this winter.
For the first time, Game Summit is opening its doors on the Friday night (5pm – 11pm) for an evening of open gaming in all three areas.
In the Pavilion, what about some big expansion games, example: Settlers of Catan with all its popular expansions and the maximum players.
In the Arena war tables are available for historical and specialist gaming: Blood Bowl, Battlefleet Gothic, Inquisitor or anything else you’d like to plan with your friends.
In the Den reserve a table and run any RPG with your friends or pass the word around and plan a CCG / TCG event.
Let us know what you have in mind and how we can help.
Sunday’s Tri-Game-A-Thon
We’ve got the Great Canadian Board Game Blitz (GCBGB) on Saturday, then on Sunday, Game Summit is hosting its Tri-Game-A-Thon Tournament with the help of the Kanata & Ottawa Games Clubs. Play three different games and you could win tons of other great prizes! Each of the games will be available to play all day on Friday and Saturday, so you can learn to play and practice up for Sunday. This year’s selected games are:
The final selection of the three games will be announced at the event. Be sure to register online in advance to reserve your seat!
Munchkin Invasion
If you’re a Steve Jackson Games addict, our next event will fill up your prescription. We’ve got demos and open gaming of Stars are Right, Frag , Revolution and dice games all weekend + the following main events (but not limited to):
Fri 18:00-22:00: Munchkin + All Expansions Game
Sat 12:00-16:00: Zombie Dice Mini-Tournament
Sat 14:00-18:00: Revolution Mini-Tournament
Sat 10:00-14:00: Munchkin Quest + All Expansions Game
Sun 10:00-18:00: Munchkin Tournament
Sun 14:00-18:00: Zombie Dice Mini-Tournament
Just a reminder that the 2009 Summer Game Summit is coming up soon! Some of you are wondering what that is right now, and I’ll tell you. It’s Ottawa’s bi-yearly classic gaming convention. Good old fashioned dice rolling or minature moving or card playing. It’s fun for everyone, with a plethora of board games for people to rent out and try! There’s also lots of Warhammer, W40k and Lord of the Rings tournaments for those with miniatures armies itching for a fight, and an RPG den for people to learn how to play D&D ! I’ve also heard there will be Pokemon and Chaotic tournaments as well. For those more artistically inclined, there’s (miniatures) painting workshops, where you get your very own little miniature that you can practice your painting on and keep after! There’s gonna be loads of paints and and paintbrushes for people to use. Of course, the most obvious reason to go is because we’re gonna be there!
That’s what our good friend Hank Hill would say if he worked at Toys on Fire. If only, eh? Oh well, it’s probably for the better anyway, now I get to say that! Especially after today! We recieved lots of dice and dice related things! For one, the Pounds-o-Dice are back in stock: these are always a good deal, and they’re always your best bet especially if you need a whole darn pound of dice (which is close to 100 dice.) We also got some nice wooden DRZs (Designated Rolling Zone) which is basically just somewhere to roll your dice on something soft, and keep them from going everywhere. And last, but not least, we got a Dice Tower otherwise known as the Dice Boot (which I like to pronounce with a German accent.)
This weekend I traveled incognito to CanGames (Ottawa’s gaming convention) under the clever guise of “Conrad Albatross” to see if I could get the inside scoop on Ottawa’s gaming underground. I arrived at the convention center at around 2 pm on Saturday and was instructed to enter through the back door. My accomplice handed me my pass and I began my surveillance of the convention.
On first glance, it appeared to be a gamers paradise: miniatures, role-playing books, and boardgames as far as the eyes could see, but on a closer look it revealed something else… something I’d like to call “mad dealz.” “Mad dealz” is a term you use to describe an excess amount of savings to products you’d normally pay out the nose for. I was immediately drawn to the tables where I could find plenty of old Dungeons and Dragons books. These conventions bring product of the highest, and sometimes rarest quality, and today was no different. Toys on Fire brought its usual, enormous selection of board games (probably the largest in the city) and the prices killed the convention market, as usual. I quickly began to lighten my pockets.
After buying the weight equivalent to a small car in books, I quickly turned my attention to my second mission: finding “mad Warhammer dealz.” I was armed with $120 to get as much on the list as possible for our beloved Stephen- and ending up spending $180. Yes, the “dealz” were this “mad.” These conventions always somehow end up being tax-free, it was amazing.
As the show was winding down our friend Bill showed up after his job to take a look at some “mad dealz” at the show as well. As we all got our fill, Alex and I hopped in Bill’s stretch SUV limo thing and took a ride. That’s right, a DANG (forgive the pun, Dang) LIMO! It had a TV and an intercom, and crazy lights, and beverages, and EVERYTHING. BIG FAT TIRES AND EVERYTHING! I was King of the Town in that limo. Muchos gracias, Bill. We owe you one.
All in all, it was a lot of fun meeting up with our toy/hobby retail brethren, and local hobbyists to nerd out for an afternoon now it’s time for me to go back to being cool.
Why are you laughing? I’m cool, I swear!
I mean, I’m playing D&D tonight, but that doesn’t mean anything! I have an assortment of leather jackets!
…fine, don’t believe me? I’ll just put a HEX ON YOU! Or maybe a plague! A PLAGUE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES!
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This weekend I traveled incognito to CanGames (Ottawa’s gaming convention) under the clever guise of “Conrad Albatross” to see if I could get the inside scoop on Ottawa’s gaming underground. I arrived at the convention center at around 2 pm on Saturday and was instructed to enter through the back door. My accomplice handed me my pass and I began my surveillance of the convention.
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