Spike! 2012 saw the reforging of the Spike! Magazine Trophy itself! Spike! 2013 marks the 10th anniversary of the Spike! Magazine tournament. Fantastic give-away prize to be announced!
Our dedicated crew from Edmonton made the trek once again in 2012, as well as coaches from Rat City Rumble in Seattle and over half a dozen members from OrdoFanaticus in Oregon. Thank you Tremere, Khail and Weav for organizing that. And big thanks to the crew from Calgary for finally making the trip over the Rockies and introducing yourselves! It was great to meet you guys and add faces to names. I was also happy to see Zootsuitjeff make the trip out once again. And HUGE thanks for current Spike! champion Kaare from Denmark for making the trip out to both NA Majors last year and owning Pacwest! We look forward to seeing last year's participants return and hope to see a lot of new faces as well. 2013 marks an even bigger year in Spike! history.
For those of you unfamiliar with the SPIKE!, the SPIKE! Magazine Blood Bowl Championship is the Canadian Blood Bowl NAF Major. Five "Major" tournments take place annually, each in a different country. They are in chronological order:
1. The Southern Wastes Scrimmage, held each year in January at CanCon in Canberra, Australia.
2. The Dungeonbowl, held each year in March in Duesseldorf, Germany
3. The Blood Bowl (aka NAF Championship), held each year in May at GW HQ in Nottingham, England
4. The Chaos Cup, held this year in early September at the Battle Bunker Chicago, Illinous, USA
5. The Spike! Magazine Trophy, held this year in mid September in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2013 sees the continuance of the one-week-or-no-more-than-a-fortnight policy between NA Majors, where the organizers of the Spike! Magazine and the Chaos Cup host the 2 North American Majors within 1 week of each other. We started this 3 years ago with Tom, with a fortnight between them in the same month. The second year Johnny and I set them 7 days from each other. Last year due to circumstance two weeks. This year due to fortune the Majors are back to one week in between for 2013. For those travellers wishing to make it out for a North American Major now you can try to make it out to both of them in one trip!
Things that have been added or changed from last year's event:
WE ARE NO LONGER PLAYING AT THE COMPASS POINT INN. OUR NEW HOME IS THE PACIFIC INN RESORT IN WHITE ROCK: http://www.pacificinn.com/
Spike! Magazine 2013 Blood Bowl Grand Tournament
Dates: Saturday, September 14th, and Sunday, September the 15th, 2013
Location: Pacific Inn Resort
Address: 1160 King George BVLD, White Rock, B.C.
Hotel Website: http://www.pacificinn.com/
Accomodations: Mention the Spike! Magazine when booking a room at the Pacific Inn Resort and receive the Discount Rate of $89.99.
Time: 8AM Registration Saturday
Contact: Craig or Mike
Email: thunder-bowl@hotmail.com or PM me (generaljason) here.
Web: http://www.spiketournament.com/
Additional Information:
- $45 non-NAF pre-registration, or $50 at the door
- $40 NAF member pre-registration
- 6-game Swiss Resurrection TV 110
- Door prizes from local and online stores
Since this is the Tenth Anniversary of the Spike! Magazine tournament, this year every participant will be receiving as their sign-up gift a set of full colour 104 Special Play Cards. These are the same cards that we introduced to the community back in 2007, with full coloured pictures and card descriptions.
Stay tuned for any new developments in this thread. Any questions feel free to post away and looking forward to seeing some more of you on the other side of the pitch.
Gj.
S.
