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Post subject: Spike! Magazine 2013: Sept. 14/15: White Rock, B.C., Canada
 Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 10:37 AM
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The Blood Bowl major of the Pacific Northwest and the Great White North is back!
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.
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Post subject: RE: Spike! Magazine 2013: Sept. 14/15: White Rock, B.C., Can
Posted: Apr 10, 2013 - 11:21 AM
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Looks good!
I'll sign up in the next week or two hopefully.  |
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Posted: Jul 14, 2013 - 01:54 PM
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Powtown in Calgary has completed. Thunderbowl play-offs are over. Two months out it's now time to officially open pre-registration for Spike! Magazine 2013.
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.
All our information can be found on the first post of this thread, but as well on our Spike! website. Pre-registration must be done via our website: http://spiketournament.com/
Hope to see you out at our new location near the beach in White Rock!
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Posted: Jul 14, 2013 - 09:31 PM
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| Those cards look awesome man...what a great giveaway! |
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Posted: Jul 15, 2013 - 05:54 AM
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Thanks Jonny! These we actually the same cards that we did back in 2007, only the ones we're doing for the Spike! this year will not be laminate as that was almost 2/3rds the cost. 
Still need to pick me up some Chaos coins. They look AWESOME!
Again for any air travellers wishing to hit one of the North American Majors - Chaos Cup and the Spike! Magazine are deliberately held one week apart from each other. Now you can visit both in one trip. Hope to see more Europeans joining Kaare this year! 
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Posted: Aug 06, 2013 - 03:56 AM
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| Me too and I know that their is 4 sweeds doing both tournaments this year! |
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Posted: Aug 08, 2013 - 01:04 AM
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| Yeah Tyler's been hammering everybody over here to play their best teams this year to challenge the European invasion! |
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Posted: Aug 15, 2013 - 10:25 AM
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| Round about a month out and thongs are looking great! So excited about this year ONLY all 40mm Blood Bowl major tournament! S. |
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Posted: Aug 15, 2013 - 11:27 AM
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blammaham wrote: Round about a month out and thongs are looking great! So excited about this year ONLY all 40mm Blood Bowl major tournament! S.
If you're going to wear a thong, I'm definitely not coming!!  |
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Posted: Aug 17, 2013 - 09:46 AM
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| LOL!!! No chance....no matter how much Lord Chaos begs me. ( spelling and my phone don't mix) S. |
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Posted: Aug 19, 2013 - 08:54 AM
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| Great giveaway with the cards, sounds like a great event to be at. I am jealous. |
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Posted: Aug 20, 2013 - 05:42 AM
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| Yeah Spike! is always a drunken hoot. I wish you could be there! |
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Posted: Sep 04, 2013 - 06:20 AM
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Last week to pre-register for this year's Spike! Pre-registration will officially close Sunday, September the 8th. For those planning on going but have not pre-registered be sure to take advantage of the pre-reg discount. $40 for pre-registration as opposed to $50 at the door.
Pre-registration on the Spike! website can be found here:
http://spiketournament.com/?page_id=30
10 days! Can't wait! Hope to see you out.
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Posted: Sep 05, 2013 - 02:40 PM
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These came in about a week ago:
Looking awesome!! |
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Posted: Sep 06, 2013 - 02:41 PM
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Pre-registration will officially close Sunday, September the 8th. For those planning on going but have not pre-registered be sure to take advantage of the pre-reg discount. $40 for pre-registration as opposed to $50 at the door.
Pre-registration on the Spike! website can be found here:
http://spiketournament.com/?page_id=30
One week out! We placed a massive Impact Order this year so the door prize table for BB related material will be stacked. 3 full teams as well, plus a few goodies from the NAF. Hope to see you out!
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