| Play the Game is proud to bring you Modern Mondays! Every Monday night at 6:30pm come get your game on and compete in this new format. Including cards from the Mirrodin set and newer, this non rotating format is catching fire in the Magic Community. Each event will be a number of round based on attendance and feature a playoff if there are more than 12 players. Prizes are players choice of booster packs or store credit. Get your play testing in for the upcoming Winter Wonderland "Win-a-Mox" events as well as the Pro-Tour Qualifier!! See you this Monday! |
If you are player of Warhammer or Warhammer 40K, you may have heard of army composition and painting scores. Many of you have questions as to what these are and how we arrive at the scores we give you. While there is no definitive, hard core answer to that (as these scores can be subjective for each judge) here are some basic guidelines.
Painting
The painting score comes from 10 basic questions that each judge asks himself while looking at the army as a whole. If the judge answers yes to the question, the person receives a point. Paint scores range from 0-10. The questions are as follows:
1)In your opinion was there honest effort put into painting this army?
2)Are ALL the models in this army COMPLETELY painted? (All models in the army MUST be base coated and have at least 3 different colors present on all of the models.)
3)If the army scored the first 2 points, they get an additional point.
4)Are ALL the models in the army based in a pleasing fashion?
5)Does the army feature insignia, camo schemes, or other eye-catching items?
6)Do the character models and other center-pieces stand out?
7)Does the army look like an army? Does the force look coherent?
8)Was EXTRA time and effort put into the creation and painting of cool details? This is where unique conversions, basing, banners, battle damage, badges, and a model’s finer details such as a face, come into play.
9)In your opinion, was this army painted to an above average standard?
10)Is this army one of the top 3 present at the tournament?
Army Composition
The army composition (or comp score) is a little bit trickier and a lot more subjective. Comp scores range from 1-5. Judges look at an army list and decide which of the categories below the list falls into. That category determines the score.
[ 1 ] This army appears to be built to ‘win at all costs’. This army was obviously built to exploit as much of the rules as possible. This list seems to have been created for the sole purpose of winning at all costs. As an experienced player, I would not voluntarily play against this army.
[ 2 ] This army appears to be built with little consideration of the opponent’s fun factor. This army was built to exploit some of the rules, but it could have been a lot worse. This list seems to have been created to win, but it did not take all of the fun out of the game. As an experienced player, I would not like to play against this army, but would if I had to.
[ 3 ] This army appears to be a fair to play against. This army seems to have been built to be competitive, but is also fair in most respects. While maybe not a “power-gamer” army, it does have some powerful units in it. (A good guideline here is if the player has some repeating non-troops units meant to optimize some aspects of their army; such as 3 Leman Russes, 2 Land Raiders, 3 Carnifexes, etc in the army. One or two single repeats are ok, but more or choices that repeat 3 times fall into this category). This list seems to have been created to be competitive, but it did not take the fun out of the game. As an experienced player, I would play against this army. Note: Many/most armies will more than likely fall into this category
[ 4 ] This army appears to be built fairly with regards to an opponent’s fun factor. This army was built with some competitive spirit, but was primarily built with the friendly spirit of the game in mind. This list seems to have been created to be somewhat competitive, but also had a variety of units (not just a few, repeating non-troops choices) that were mostly not “power-units.” As an experienced player, I would like to play against this army if given the chance.
[ 5 ] This army appears to be an shinning example of the Games Workshop spirit. This army does not seem to have been built to exploit the rules, and moreover, it has a great variety of units in the army. Units in the army are not maximized or minimized for winning, and the army seems to have been created with the friendly spirit of Games Workshop in mind, a really good example of what the hobby is about. It is not a ‘power-gamer’ army in almost all/ all respects, but appears to be fun to play against. As an experienced player, I would love to play against this army anytime.
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| Happy Holidays From Play the Game | |  $3 Friday Night Magic - Standard
Play the Game Read the Story wishes to reward the Magic Player Community for supporting us over the years. For the holiday season we will be running $3 standard format constructed FNM events with a better prize pool! There will be door prizes at each FNM event like playmats, promo cards, and more!
$13 Friday Night Magic - Booster Draft - Huge Prizes!
For the holiday season we will berunning $13 booster draft FNM events. This event will have our best prize payout we can offer! There will also be door prizes at each FNM event likeplaymats, promo cards, and more!
$13 Wednesday Booster Draft - Huge Prizes!
For the holiday season we will berunning $13 booster draft events. This event will have our best prize payout we can offer!
Free Magic Modern Format Tournaments
For the holiday season we will berunning free Magic Modern Format events with paid entry to Sealed Deck events. Modern is a new non-rotating format including cards from Mirrodin and 8th edition and newer sets.
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| December 17th & 18th. Play the Game Read the Story is proud to bring you our first Clix-4-Ca$h $1000 event. Incredible Hulk set is soon to be upon us. The Clix-4-Ca$h event is a two day event with Grinders on Saturday and the Main event Sunday. Players will be able to earn a spot in the main event by winning grinders in on Saturday. On Sunday 32 lucky players will test their skills for a total of $1000 in prizes. How do Grinders work:
There will be both sealed and constructed format grinders. Each grinder will have 8 players. Grinders are single-elimination. One loss and your out of that grinder. Don't worry you can enter as many grinders as you can stand! The Main Event:
This event will be a free event for the 32 players that claimed their spots in the grinders. The players will have to put their skills to the test in both sealed and constructed format. The winner will walk out with $500 cash! The rest of top eight players will walk out with at least $25. There will be a ton of side events on Sunday for those that don't make it into the main event including a "Welcome Back" event. The Incredible Hulk is due out on December 13th. All of the events on the Clix-4-Ca$h weekend will be Incredible Hulk for product for sealed events and prizes. Full event details can be found here: 12/17/11
Grinder Events:
http://www.playthegamereadthestory.com/events_detail.php?ID=10219 12/18/11
11:00am Main Event:
http://www.playthegamereadthestory.com/events_detail.php?ID=10220 12:00pm Welcome Back Event:
http://www.playthegamereadthestory.com/events_detail.php?ID=10760 1:00pm Hulk Sealed Event:
http://www.playthegamereadthestory.com/events_detail.php?ID=10761 |
Customer Rewards Member apprecation Black Friday Sale.
8am-12pm on 11/25/11 only.Here's what we'll be offering to our Customer Rewards Members on this crazy shopping day. Not a Customer Rewards member? Sign up on or before 11/25 and start saving! DOUBLE POINTS DAY!! Earn coupons faster during the Black Friday Sale. Every $1 spent in the store earns you 2 rewards points. Rewards members earn a $5 coupon for every 50 points earned in a calendar month. Buy 3 get 1 free (equal or lesser value):
All Hordes miniatures.
All Warmachine miniatures.
Heroclix Superman Packs.
Manga, Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks.
All Back Issue bin comics priced $6.99 or less.
All Magic Commander Decks.
All Magic Planechase
All Magic Archenemy decks.
All D&D Roleplaying Books and adventures. Buy 4 get 1 free (equal or lesser value):
All Pokemon Products.
World of Warcraft TCG Booster Packs.
Magic the Gathering Booster Packs (Excludes Innistrad).
Generation Force Special Edition. Special Discounts:
15% off all Warhammer Fantasy Products.
50% off all Monsterpocalypse products and singles.
15% off all paint and miniature supplies (excludes GW Paint Set).
35% off all Redakai TCG products.
35% off all Naruto TCG products.
35% off all Kingdom Heart TCG Products.
35% off all Legend of the Five Rings TCG Products.
40% off all Bella Sara booster packs.
20% off all Warmachine and Hordes Faction and Rules Books (Excludes Domination).
20% off all Roleplaying Books (Excludes all D&D).
10% off all World of Warcraft Loot Cards. Special Deals:
$6.99$3.99 Yugioh Duelist Revolution Packs. Save $3.00.
$9.99$6.99 Magic 2012 Two-Player Battle Pack. Save $3.00.
$19.99$12.99 New Phyrexia Rot From Within Event decks. Save $7.00.
$19.99$12.99 Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas Duel Deck. Save $7.00.
Free Red Collector Safe Portable Gaming Case with any Collectible card purchase of $40 or more. Save $17.99.
Free Assault on Ice Crown Treasure Pack with the purchase of Assault on Ice Crown Raid Deck. Save $5.99.
25% off any 1 board/card game expansion when you purchase the main game.
Free Fluxx Promo Card with Purchase of any Edition of Fluxx.
Free copy of “LCR” Dice game with any $55 Board Game purchase. Save $7.99
PTG RTS Brand Liars Dice and Pharkle Sets 2 for $29.99. $17.99 each, Save $5.99.
$10 Customer Rewards Membership. Retail Priced $20, save $10. The fine print: Offers cannot be combind with any other offers, sales, coupons, store/event/trade credit or discounts. Offers are valid only on in stock items. All offers are while supplies last. Not valid on special requests. Valid only from 8am-12pm on 11/25/11. Customer Rewards membership required. See store for details. |
Yugioh players, we've got your winter blues cure!
Free Thursday Night Tournaments:
Every Thursday at 6:00pm we'll be hosting a free ($0) yugioh advanced format event. The event will be four rounds of play reguardless of how many players show up. You may play in as many rounds as they want to. Just because you lose, doesn't mean our out of the event.
Monthly League:
Starting with November, we're running a monthly Yugioh league. There is a $5 charge for the league and you receive a free turbo pack just for signing up. The only way to earn points is to compete in the free tournaments on Thursday nights at 6:00pm. You earn a point just for showing up. Each match you win, earns you an additional point for the league. League prizes include Store Credit and limited edition swag like, backpacks, sleeves, deckboxes and promo cards.
Winter Championship 2011-2012:
Season One of the 2011-2012 PTGRTS Yugioh Winter Championship is underway! Earn points by playing in any Yugioh events held at the store, including the free Thursday Night events. This season runs until the last event in January on the 29th. First place in the Championship receives a booster box, four free $5 event entries, a certificate and have their picture and profile posted on the website and store's facebook page. Prizes will be awarded to the top 8 championship players.
Yugioh Photon Shockwave Case Event - 12/3/11:
Photon Shockwave is hot! We've giving away 12 booster boxes as prizes in this awesome event. $25 entry fee to test your skills with your new Advanced Format deck including cards from the new Photon Shockwave set (decks not required to have PHSW cards). First place earns 4 booster boxes, 2nd earns 3 boxes, 3rd/4th earn 1 and half boxes, the rest of top 8 each walk out with a half box.
Yugioh Photon Shockwave Regional Event - 12/11/11:
Players can compete for their shot at Yugioh TCG fame. There will be at least 4 lucky players earning World Championship invites at our Regional event. Top 8 Duelists will receive the ever popular Regional Playmat and the Top 4 Duelists earn an exclusive Regional Binder. All players will receive 5 booster packs of Photon Shockwave just for signing up! For the young Duelists (12 and younger) there will be a free Dragon Duel event where you can earn a invite to the World Championship and the Dragon Duel Championship. |
| Every Sunday, we invite you to test your skill and luck in our free game Sundays at 1:00pm. Play great games like, Settler of Catan, Scrabble, Monopoly, Wits and Wagers, Uno, Phase 10, Pitch and other great games that we have for sale! We give out a $50 gift certificate to one winner and $20 gift certificate to a second winner. Here's is how it works. Show up before 1:00pm and get signed up by filling out an event registration form or signing in with a staff member if you have Customer Rewards. Then the event runner for the day will randomly create table assignments for everyone attending. There are usually two rounds of play. Depending on the attendance and game being played, top players from each table will move on the winner's bracket and others will move on to a second bracket. The winner of winner's bracket will earn the $50 gift certificate and the winner of the second bracket will earn the $20 gift certificate. The more player the more fun you'll have! Bring some friends! Best of all, THESE EVENTS ARE FREE! |
If you haven't liked us on Facebook here's what you're missing: updated comic releases and events, discussion boards, giveaways and special coupons, and more! Every week Play the Game posts the expected list for Wednesday's new comic release. This gives customers a chance to make changes to their comic reservation lists as well as inform all customers about the new comics expected for that week. Play the Game takes the time to create Facebook events and invite customers via Facebook as a reminder about specific up coming events, like Magic Pre-releases and other special events. Players can help spread the word about an event they are excited for that they plan on attending by using the share feature, or inviting friends to join the event. Another feature of our Facebook page is the discussions tab. There players can post to organize group meet-ups, or to find other players interesting in playing a game at a specific date/time. This feature has all sorts of uses! To reward customers for keeping us in their social networking lives, we post special coupons or host giveaways on our Facebook page. There are more giveaways to come in the future, that's for sure! In the past we've given away demo games, World of Warcraft Loot Codes, Coupons and more.
So, if you haven't checked us out yet just search Play the Game Read the Story on Facebook or check out this link:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Play-the-Game-Read-the-Story/195897404352
We'll hope to see you online and in the store!
PS. When we get to 1500 likes, we'll be giving out a 25% off coupon to only those on our Facebook page! |
| December 17th & 18th. Play the Game Read the Story is proud to bring you our first Clix-4-Ca$h $1000 event. Incredible Hulk set is soon to be upon us. The Clix-4-Ca$h event is a two day event with Grinders on Saturday and the Main event Sunday. Players will be able to earn a spot in the main event by winning grinders in on Saturday. On Sunday 32 lucky players will test their skills for a total of $1000 in prizes.
How do Grinders work:
There will be both sealed and constructed format grinders. Each grinder will have 8 players. Grinders are single-elimination. One loss and your out of that grinder. Don't worry you can enter as many grinders as you can stand!
The Main Event:
This event will be a free event for the 32 players that claimed their spots in the grinders. The players will have to put their skills to the test in both sealed and constructed format. The winner will walk out with $500 cash! The rest of top eight players will walk out with at least $25.
There will be a ton of side events on Sunday for those that don't make it into the main event including a "Welcome Back" event.
The Incredible Hulk is due out on December 6th. All of the events on the Clix-4-Ca$h weekend will be Incredible Hulk for product for sealed events and prizes.
Full event details can be found here:
Clix-4-Ca$h |
Starting in January 2012, Play the Game Read the Story will be holding a monthly event for a piece of the elusive Power 9 Cards.
Event Schedule:
| Date & Time | Format | Top Prize | | Jan 14, 11am | Modern | Mox Pearl | | Feb 11, 11am | Modern | Mox Ruby | | Mar 3, 11am | Modern | Mox Jet | | Apr 7, 11am | Modern | Time Twister | | May 12, 11am | Legacy | Time Walk | | Jun 9, 11am | Legacy | Mox Sapphire | | Jul 7, 11am | Legacy | Ancestral Recall | | Aug 25, 11am | Legacy | Black Lotus |
Each event a player attends will earn one entry for a Mox Emerald. The more events you enter the better the chances for the Mox Emerald. |
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