Come join the California AGoT crew for Kingdom-Con 2013!!!

Hotel and other event information can be found here: http://www.kingdom-con.com/

AGoT - The Builder Event Friday April 5th 3:00pm - 10:00pm (registration opens at 2:30pm) Compete head-to-head in this joust format tournament with a twist. Each participant will turn their deck in prior to the start of the tournament, and each round players will be given a different deck to compete with. Plan for 4-5 Swiss rounds, with a cut to top 4 or 8. In addition to crowning a winner, there will also a prize to the creator of the best deck! At the end of each round, players will rate the decks they played, and winning decks will receive bonus points. Participants are encouraged to provide short, written instructions in their deck boxes, so other players can get a good feel for the deck before they play it.

Decks will be judged by the following:

Were the instructions clear and easy to understand? (Y = 1 pt.)

Considering the deck type, do you feel you had a good setup? (Y = 1 pt.)

Was the resource curve appropriately balanced? (Y = 1 pt.)

Do you feel the deck performed as the creator intended? (Y = 1 pt.)

Does the deck fit the name it was given by its creator? (Y = 1 pt.)

Do you feel this deck is unique? (Y = 1 pt.)

Did you win? (Y = 2 pts.)

Rate this deck (0 = lowest, 2 = highest) (0-2 pts.)

AGoT - SoCal Joust Regional Event Saturday April 6th 11:00am - 10:00p, (registration opens at 10:00am) Come compete in what will be one of the first regionals of the 2013 A Game of Thrones LCG Tournament Season! This will be a joust tournament with 4-6 rounds of Swiss, and a cut to the top 8 or 16 where players will square off in single elimination.

Intigue at Oldtown (Side Event) Over the course of both AGoT events participants will have the opportunity to forge their Maester's chain link by link as they demonstrate their knowledge in 30 areas of study. The player who forges the longest chain by completing the most tasks will become the Grand Maester of Kingdom-Con!

Tasks:

House Stark Lore                   Play with, or against, a House Stark deck

House Lannister Lore            Play with, or against, a House Lannister deck

House Baratheon Lore           Play with, or against, a House Baratheon deck

House Greyjoy Lore              Play with, or against, a House Greyjoy deck

House Targaryen Lore          Play with, or against, a House Targaryen deck

House Martell Lore                Play with, or against, a House Martell deck

Engineering                           Reveal 6+ cards during setup

Economics                             Marshall 4+ characters during a single marshalling phase

Tactics                                    Win 5+ challenges in a single challenge phase

Espionage                              Discard the last card from an opponent's hand via intrigue challenge, or card effect

Poisons                                   Remove the last character an opponent has in play via military challenge, or non-plot effect

Money Lending                      Finish the Standing phase with 6+ gold in your gold pool

Diplomacy                              Control 3 different cards with 3 different house affiliations at the end of a round

Alchemy                                 Gain 8+ power in one round

Geography                             Control 8+ locations at the end of a round

Faith                                        Come back to win a game after being down by 7+ power

Blockades                               Win a game in which an opponent was 3 or less power away from winning at any point

Politics                                    Win a game in which an opponent finishes with 0 power

Letters                                     Win a game with 7+ cards left in your hand

Warfare                                  Finish a game with 10+ cards in an opponent's dead pile

Defenses                                Finish a game with 3 or less cards in your dead pile

Knighthood                             Finish a game without playing an event card

Athletics                                  Win a game in 3 rounds or less

Endurance                              Participate in a game that goes 7+ rounds

"Sansa Link"                           Lose the first 2 rounds of the Joust or Builder tournament

Time Keeping                        Finish the weekend with 0 modified wins or losses

Building                                  Register on time for the Builder tournament on Friday 4/5 (Closes at 2:55pm)

Jousting                                  Register on time for the Joust tournament on Saturday 4/6 (Closes at 10:50am)

The Final Cut                         Make the final cut for the Joust or Builder tournament, or with your Builder deck

Champion                               Place first in the Joust or Builder tournament, or with your Builder deck

I believe the will also be a Starwars tourney on Friday, and a Netrunner tourney on Sunday.

It's always a blast, and the more the merrier!  Hope you can make it.

Is this the official SoCal regional? Or in addition to?

~What, no Nuetral House Lore link?

Crevic said:

Playing Neutral is its own reward.

I read that as "Playing neutral is its own retard" and agreed. OOPS!

dcdennis said:

We're hoping this is going to be regional weekend. All three of AGOT, SW, and ANR have applied to be regionals. So come on out for basically a mini worlds and have a great time with the socal crew!

Regional status, Go!

Seeing as how the northeast got F'd in the A by crunching all of our dates into a 5 week span i might actually try and make this one.

dcdennis said:

Not to try and take you away from these guys, but North Carolina is much closer to DC than California, and we have a Regional in April (and another in May).  Both of them take place in Cary, which is in the north-east part of NC.

sWhiteboy said:

Hmmmm and roughly a 4hr 40min drive from DC. The gentleman may have a point here. Anyone in NC with a sofabed that lives near a WaffleHouse? No way I'm hitting NC without gettin' me a smothered and covered.

dcdennis said:

Sofabed?  That doesn't sound like southern hospitality.  In NC we have guest rooms, complete with a real bed and hand-made blankets.

sWhiteboy said:

looks like i can make the 4/13 one! who's got a room for me?

…meanwhile, back at Kingdom-Con…

Wow, three regionals in one weekend? Plus unlimited booze and partying? You know what… I WILL come to this!