jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
    
River City
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Given the recent info on Wizard's and online sellers and the focus on the brick and mortar stores I've decided to run a little poll to see how many of your local stores run events.
Chose as many of the options that are apropriate to the store nearest to you/the one you frequent the most often. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 09/23/2006 1:58 PM |
| I'm fortunate that my FLGS runs several events in the course of a month on Wedensdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.
Turnout for everything but D&D minis is still on the light side but having options of games to play is always a nice thing. | | | |
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VFults
Sneak
120 Posts
| | 09/23/2006 2:18 PM |
| There isn't much of a gaming community where I live. The FLGS is mostly a comics store with gaming as a sideline. It hosts an occasional Warhammer 40K or Magic the Gathering tournement, but nothing regular. I tried demoing AAM there thinking I could maybe interest at least the Warhammer players, but no luck. The store sells DDM but to roleplayers, not to skirmish players.
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WakeXX
Warlord
10147 Posts
Edinboro PA
| | 09/23/2006 3:48 PM |
| | mine only has MTG tourneys | | | |
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Sirohk
Commander
3913 Posts
USA
| | 09/23/2006 5:39 PM |
| My local FLGS has been running Magic events for many months and some other games.Â
To date they have run only 1 DDM event - a WotDQ Sealed event, DCI sanctioned. But he desperately wants to run more of them. In fact he / we are planning on running an event sometime in the next few weeks. My local FLGS is rated #1 in DDM sales and is top rated with Wotc based on his miniature sales. He now wants to get bigger and really start having some DDM events.Â
I really hope to grow our local DDM community.Â
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bigbadjon
Sergeant
546 Posts
| | 09/24/2006 6:37 AM |
| | The Hobbytowns in my area run Warhammer, Warhammer 40k, and Heroclix a couple of times a week each. One of them plays Star Wars once a week but it is not sanctioned. | |
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Username
Warlord
5689 Posts
| | 09/24/2006 7:33 AM |
| | They only run Warhammer and M:TG. I've contacted WotC to be a delegate, but I have not received a response. I would like to see some DDM/SWM/DBM/AAM action around here. | |
Originally posted by Schooly_D
Username - he deals in minis
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Sirohk
Commander
3913 Posts
USA
| | 09/24/2006 10:14 AM |
| On the other hand there is a FLGS that is exactly a 1 hour drive away that is holding DDM every other week (200 pt one week and then 500 pt two weeks later). They are building a nice DDM community there with between 10-20 people showing up for these events.Â
I'm glad I'm only 1 hr drive away, it allows me to possibly make it there once a month.Â
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Knight of the Rahshasa's
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Prince o the Raven Banner
Sergeant
606 Posts
| | 09/24/2006 3:37 PM |
| My store runs tournies/campaigns for all the major Paint your minis Tactical Games.
They of course run the mandatory MtG tournaments.
DDM is locally much less popular than SWM (understandable considering the age groups involved), so DDM in an organized involves me browbeating others into playing.
DB has become quite popular locally.
I would happily drive an hour to play games (I drive 25 minutes now), if the destination were a friendly, inclusive place.
My store owners asked WotC if they could nominate Delegates from the local players that worked at teaching the games, WotC decided that they would rather choose their own delegates based on an arcane and unfathomable internal selection process. Oh well, who has that much free time anyway? | |
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Cthulhufnord
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10987 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 09/24/2006 5:54 PM |
| | Nothing realy in my area DDM or SWM wise. There's the pre-releases at TJ's in Milford. Other than that I've had little luck finding SWM or DDM events let alone any Wotc events. | |
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Oryan77
Sergeant
955 Posts
| | 09/24/2006 5:57 PM |
| I've never seen DDM games being run. But I did see a D&D game being
run the other week for the first time. Usually they just run Magic or
Warhammer type games.
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Sir Bozak The Damned
Commander
2854 Posts
Québec
| | 09/25/2006 9:59 AM |
| What FLGS ?  | |
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gregorkhan
Sneak
86 Posts
| | 09/25/2006 10:18 AM |
| | What is a FLGS? | | | |
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nyjastul69
Commander
2711 Posts
Rhode Island
| | 09/25/2006 10:27 AM |
| Posted By gregorkhan on 09/25/2006 10:18 AM
What is a FLGS?
Friendly Local Gaming Store.
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Wolfgang
Warlord
5559 Posts
Milton, Ontario Canada
| | 09/25/2006 2:07 PM |
| we have nothing going on in the kingston area
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Nobody Important
Sergeant
718 Posts
| | 09/26/2006 3:40 PM |
| | A FLGS? Where do you find these things? | |
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yack
Commander
3261 Posts
Gatineau Canada
| | 09/27/2006 4:12 AM |
| | Nothing at my FLGS in Ottawa except some people playing marvelclix thats it and its not an event. I play D&D at home and perfer too... no need to do it in the open and get interrupted. | |
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greyhaze
Warlord
6755 Posts
| | 09/27/2006 6:02 AM |
| | My closest and most frequented FLGS is just now starting to get in to DDM events, but they're new. | |
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Thenameless
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11587 Posts
The Fortress of Solitude
| | 09/29/2006 1:13 AM |
| | Every second Saturday of the month is DDM 200, while every fourth Saturday is DDM 500. I'm not sure what the schedules is for SWM and Magic. I believe Magic is their bread and butter. | |
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dolcet
Sneak
61 Posts
| | 09/29/2006 8:54 AM |
| | My FLGS has been hosting DDM & SWM & hero clix since they opened. Every sat there is a sanctioned tourny in DDM some weeeks it is 200 some it 500 & every once in while it is 100 or 200pt triad. They also hold a weekly league on tuesday evening. | |
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 09/30/2006 9:26 PM |
| | My FLGS is just starting to run SWM tourrnaments, and there may be interest in DDM, but I think I'd have to run them and I already have enough on my plate without doing that. | |
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forkedmoon
Underboss
1305 Posts
| | 10/03/2006 8:52 AM |
| Typical month will include:
Friday Night Magic
MTG tournament every Saturday
Wednesday night MTG drafts
DDM 200 - 1-2x month
DDM 500 1/month
DDM booster drafts (2x-3x per release)
SWM 1/month
Warhammer running tournaments
DDM & SWM league every month (typically Monday nights most play)
DReamblade Edge Tourneys (4x month)
and now Horrorclix to start up.
Basically if we the players express an interest - they will try and find a way to accomodate us and if we have the numbers in players showing up the events will be favorably supported. | |
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willhi1979
Warrior
208 Posts
| | 10/03/2006 11:20 AM |
| | I agree with forkedmoon and Chris. I got to the same store, ha ha. Best smelling is debatable though, it entirely depends on who's around you, ha ha.... | |
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Omand
Commander
3120 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | 10/04/2006 9:16 PM |
| Hey there Jacksonm,
I hope that I got the answers correct in the poll (since we frequent the same store).
As has been noted, lots of activity at the store.
Cheers 
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 10/05/2006 5:16 AM |
| It's nice to see there are a few really good gamestores out there supporting their product with events. I do consider myself lucky that I'm near one that does.
Still, it looks like Wizards has some work to do in promoting events in some local markets. | | | |
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LordStorm
Sneak
133 Posts
Columbus Ohio
| | 10/09/2006 8:01 AM |
| | I'm not aware of what recent info you are referring to. Could you post a summary. | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 10/09/2006 1:11 PM |
| | A while back when Augie's revealed that Wizards was no longer selling to online retailers. One of the reasons given was that they wanted to promote the brick and mortar stores because that where their events are run. | | | |
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Nobody Important
Sergeant
718 Posts
| | 10/09/2006 3:27 PM |
| With so many posters counting the same FLGS these poll results can't be considered accurate. If one well connected and highly active store gets votes from six members who happen to be part of that community it really skews the results from three widely scattered posters who don't have a FLGS or one that runs any kind of evens.
To Illustrate the problem:
By Member: Six great and highly active stores vs. three without store support. This shows that FLGS are very good for the game and common. 6 good vs 3 bad.
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By Store: One active store vs. three that don't support the game or organized play. This is a more accurate picture of how much support stores provide. 1 good vs. 3 bad.
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 10/09/2006 6:23 PM |
| I never claimed this was a scientific poll, it's pretty limited by the way they're set up in the software.
The fact that a few people have posted in the negative shows that there is some work to be done by Wizards on the grassroots level. | | | |
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R5Don4
Skirmisher
12 Posts
Vancouver, BC
| | 11/20/2006 9:42 PM |
| | My LGS runs SWM tournies on Saturdays... the turnout is starting to dwindle a bit but there is still prize support as long as we get at least four players. Better than nothing. | | | |
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