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As some of you may know this time a year ago I was busy quitting Magic. At the time I was running FNM Relax, which was very successful, as well as helping Jim with PTQ arrangements and being the driving force behind the Patriot Games Sheffield MTG Annual Invitational and various special events like Modern Masters etc.
Mark Smith has done a fantastic job of running Relax since I threw in the towel and it continues to fill Patriot full of MTG players on a Friday night. As well as this I was doing a weekly blog on the whole MTG stuff which meant that it took up a lot of my time and I was not sorry to walk away from it.
Following my departure from MTG I went back to Heroclix and my outlook on it had completely changed - this may have had something to do with the ridiculous prices of MTG cards on the second hand market (Scalding Tarn is still $80 on SCG) which makes Heroclix very reasonably priced.
Only £50 - wow that's less than this sliver of cardboard!
I talked with Will quite extensively as having got used to the MTG scene with FNM and multiple other games/tournaments happening each week it seemed strange that there was so little clix going on by comparison. 12 months on I realise that there are just not enough Heroclix players around to sustain the type of schedule that MTG enjoys. After trying a number of options, first of all with Will and then taking it forward as the TO myself, I decided on a model similar to the Relax model with regards to Tuesday nights; fun games around a theme of some kind often decided at the previous week's game. Tournaments have for the most part moved to Saturday or Sunday but more about that in a minute.
Patriot Games have now requested that we make a schedule of events, including the casual play on a Tuesday evening, so that they can better inform interested parties what is going on. After a brief survey of the Elmet Clix group I have taken on board the things people say they want to do and produced a schedule from now till the end of September:
Heroclix Schedule June - September 2014:
| Date | Format/Theme | Time | Cost | |
| 17/06/2014 | Powers Month - week 3 Impervious | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 24/06/2014 | Powers Month - week 4 Perplex | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 29/06/2014 | War of light month 1 | 12:00 - 16:00 | £20 | |
| 01/07/2014 | DC Movies Vs Marvel Movies | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 08/07/2014 | Special Mission - Disarm the bomb | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 15/07/2014 | Dream team night | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 22/07/2014 | Night of the sentinels | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 26/07/2014 | War of light month 2 | 12:00 - 16:00 | £20 | |
| 28/07/2014 | Theme Team Night | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 04/08/2014 | Special Mission - Hellicarrier Hijack! | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 11/08/2014 | Powers week - Close Combat Expert | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 18/08/2014 | Buttery Biscuit Base… | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 25/08/2014 | Guardians of the Galaxy Sealed | 18:00 - 21:00 | £20 | |
| 30/08/2014 | War of Light Month 3 | 12:00 - 16:00 | £20 | |
| 01/09/2014 | 1,000 Point Battle Royal | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 08/09/2014 | Comic accurate Theme Team | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 15/09/2014 | Powers Week - Ranged Combat Expert | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 22/09/2014 | DC Vs Marvel | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
| 27/09/2014 | War of Light month 4 | 12:00 - 16:00 | £20 | |
| 29/09/2014 | Special Mission - Metal Gear | 18:00 - 21:00 | Free | |
Full details of the events listed will be listed on the Patriot Games website shortly and posted here nearer the time as well as the Elmet Clix Facebook group. If you live in the area and you are not a member of the group drop me a message and I will add you.
See you all soon and get ready for the War of Light!
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