Posted in Stories from the Road, Tournament Reports on Sep 7th, 2007 Comments Off
Today was one of the longest events that we have had the entire tour. We arrived at Misty Mountain Games around 9 am and set up immediately. We were sharing the venue with a WoW sneak preview so we had to wait a little while to get our registration done. Andrew, the head judge, was [...]
Posted in Stories from the Road, Tournament Reports on Sep 7th, 2007 Comments Off
We spent most of the morning traveling to DeKalb, Illinois to hold a draft event at On Board Games. The shop was so amazing! It was three levels, that where split. On the top level was the main part of there store. The second level had a great couch arrangements along with a pool table. [...]
Posted in Stories from the Road, Tournament Reports on Sep 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
We woke late, as per our custom, and headed out to lunch at the Olive Garden. Originally we couldn’t find a table that would seat all 8 of us together. Dawna through talking with the hostess, decided to try out having us split up in to two different tables, but the boys were too rowdy [...]
Posted in Stories from the Road, Tournament Reports on Sep 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
Today we were in Antioch, IL. We started off the day with getting up late and heading over to IHOP for lunch. Dawna and Rebekah were out running errands, so the players, Amy and Rachael strolled over there to get a table and get the Joe and Dan some food. Luckily, Dawna turned up before [...]
Posted in Stories from the Road, Tournament Reports on Sep 7th, 2007 Comments Off
Today was the 5K in Detroit at RIW Hobbies. The event started earlier than we would have liked because of the little sleep we got the night before. It helped that most of the players had as little sleep as we had in some cases, less, making the Bawls a big hit at this event. [...]
Posted in Stories from the Road, Tournament Reports on Aug 13th, 2007 5 Comments »
Today was a girlie day until the event. We got up early and spent the early part of the day shopping at the nearby mall. The boys decided to sleep in till around 3pm. Us girls headed out early in the day to make the most of our girl time. We spent more than we [...]
Posted in Stories from the Road, Tournament Reports on Aug 13th, 2007 Comments Off
Today we had another drive day. We traveled from Ohio to Michigan. The drive felt like it took longer than it should. While we rode we discussed cards and tried to come up with the top 10 Spoils cards. We pulled over at a truck stop for lunch and Bernie made a poor decision about [...]
Posted in Stories from the Road, Tournament Reports on Aug 13th, 2007 1 Comment »
Today we were in Westlake, Ohio, outside of Cleveland. We left Pennsylvania last night and arrived in Ohio in the evening. We decided to sleep in and go shopping in the afternoon before the event at I’m Game. The event was located in a mall, so we had to gather up our entire event materials [...]
Posted in Stories from the Road, Tournament Reports on Aug 13th, 2007 1 Comment »
We had our event at 1:30 today in Somerset, Pennsylvania. The store, called Laurel Mountain Comics, was quaint. The store was in a house that was an antique. It was small, but the set up was well done and made the place seem like home. The entrance led into the retail area which connected to [...]
Posted in Tournament Reports on Aug 2nd, 2007 Comments Off
Blackthorn Gaming Center located in Dickson, TN was located in a small town. But for such a small town to have such a great gaming center is amazing. Everyone we meet was really sweet and took the time to make us feel welcome. The Store has a wide range of everything gaming, plus a great [...]