Portland, Oregon USA Looking to host BrikWars tournaments!

Nemo20k

Hi,
I'm new to the forum, and new to BrikWars. Been a brik maniac all my life. I own part of a game store, and I am hoping to form a BrikWars group in Portland, Oregon. I'd like to organize tournaments, and even have some of my retail space devoted to briks.

If you have suggestions, please don't be shy. I'm sort-of taking this into my own hands, so there are no bad ideas!

Thanks,
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Nemo
Loki's Games
SW 46th & Woodstock
Portland, OR
503-774-8467
http://www.lokisgames.com/sites/events.html

Popchik · Hero Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 90 Location: Spoon

That sounds like a great idea! My mom deals with a person who partly owns a game store, and it would be awesome to have a brick-battle there. You might be able to use war game scenery instead of a Lego battlefield too.
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IVhorseman · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:12 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, I don't know of anyone here from Portland, or even the state of Oregon. Regardless, that shouldn't stop you.

Talk to some friends and regular customers about Brikwars and gather interest. Once you start playing games, people will notice and things will REALLY take off!

The only thing I'd make sure to avoid though is to make absolutely SURE that if you sell bricks in your shop, that you in no way endorse any one particular brand (especially lego) over another, and basically anything else that Lego (I wouldn't worry about clone brands attempting to sue) might bitch about, what with the whole "massive bloody carnage" aspect.
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Pvt Expendable · Dimmy Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 616

Grrrr,.... only a 20 hour drive and ill be there,...... dang the lack of bullet trains on this continent!

Rayhawk · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject:

I'm from Portland! I'm just not there anymore. But that's where all the development and playtesting for the 1998 rules happened, I should ping the old crowd and see if any of them are up for it.

Nemo20k · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:09 am Post subject:

Wow. Thanks, everyone. The few people I spoke with at the store were really excited.

I was wondering about not endorsing lego over any other brands. I couldn't see why lego might object; they were making swords long before mega blox ever did!

Anyway, I plan to give away mega blox as prizes as well as lego. And we won't put either on store literature or advertizing.

Might have our first skirmish in December.

From there, I was looking at either battle tournaments, or a campaign.
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Nemo
Loki's Games
SW 46th & Woodstock
Portland, OR
503-774-8467
http://www.lokisgames.com/sites/events.html

Rayhawk · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:31 am Post subject:

silvadream · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:24 am Post subject:

Nemo20k · Last edited by Nemo20k on Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:57 pm; edited 12 times in total

Loki's Games announces their first BrikWars Tournament in Portland, Oregon [s]to be held on January 21, 2009 starting at 5pm.[/s]

All Players must pre-register, and must have an approved army list ready [s]*before* Jan 21. [/s] We will be hosting army list workshops [s]on Dec 10th, 2008 and Jan 7th, 2009 from 4pm until 8pm.[/s]

For our first tournament only:
Army lists are limited to 75 CP's, TL 3.
There will be no victory conditions, other than to wipe-out your opponent.
Rounds will last up to 1 hour each, with ten minutes between.
Prizes for 1st, 2nd & 3rd places, plus some give-aways.
Registration is limited to 8 slots.
Entry Fee is $5.
We are using the PDF version of BrikWars 2005 Chapters 1-6.

http://www.brikwars.com/downloads/BW2005.pdf

The following rules are also in effect, and supercede the BrikWars 2005 PDF version should they conflict:
BrikWars 2001 Chapter 2 - The Trooper's Arsenal
BrikWars 2001 Chapter 8 - Standard Combatants
BrikWars 2001 Chapter 9 - Alternate Species; Fnrd
BrikWars 2005.08 Chapter H - The Horse

http://www.brikwars.com/rules/2001/2001-brikwars.pdf
http://www.brikwars.com/rules/2005/h.htm

Please note the following chapters and supplements are not in effect for this tournament:
BrikWars 2005 Chapter 7 - Special Creations
BrikWars 2005 Chapter 8 - Squads
Supplement SP: Supernatural Powers
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Nemo
Loki's Games
SW 46th & Woodstock
Portland, OR
503-774-8467
http://www.lokisgames.com/sites/events.html

pesgores · Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 12:40 am Post subject:

When I grow up a little bit, enough to organize something like this, I will make a tournament here in Portugal too.
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Ross_Varn · Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:55 am Post subject:

Don't forget to take pictures. You need to post them on here and tell us how it went.
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The Dreaded Chainsaw-face · BrikWars Legend Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 3

I am so down for some Portland BrikWars! Keep me posted, I'd love to play. If people are around we should make something happen.

Nemo20k · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:50 pm Post subject: Bad News / Good News

Ok, due to scheduling conflict in the short-term, the Loki's Games BrikWars tournament scheduled for January 21, 2009 has been postpwned until some time in March.

There will be Army Building workshops between now and then, either on Wednesday or Thursday evenings.

I will post dates and times as they become known.

I also have a few pix from a skirmish we did at an Army Building workshop. How can I share those?
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Nemo
Loki's Games
SW 46th & Woodstock
Portland, OR
503-774-8467
http://www.lokisgames.com/sites/events.html

pesgores · Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:00 am Post subject:

Photobucket.
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silvadream · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:31 am Post subject:

or flickr or brickshelf.
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