Tournaments

Throughout the convention we will be holding many tabletop tournaments.  Entry into a tournament is free.  Attendees must register for the tournament they would like to be a part of beforehand. This may be done on site at the registration desk or at a link that will be provided for each tournament. Prizes will vary for each tournament.

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Inspired by a love of classic video games, Boss Monster: The Dungeon Building Card Game pits 2-4 players in a competition to build the ultimate side-scrolling dungeon. Players compete to lure and destroy hapless adventurers, racing to outbid one another to see who can build the most enticing, treasure-filled dungeon.  Description & image via BGG.

This tournament will be traditional bracket with single elimination.  Winners of the first round will compete to win.

Time/Date: Friday 22nd 6:00 PM-8:00 PM

  • 1st: A copy of Boss Monster 2 and an expansion.
  • 2nd-4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

Unearth

Unearth is a bend-your-luck game of dice placement and set collection. Designed by Jason Harner and Matthew Ransom, it plays in under an hour with 2-4 players. Each player leads a tribe of Delvers, represented by five dice (3 six-sided, 1 four-sided, and 1 eight-sided). Players take turns rolling and placing dice in an attempt to claim Ruins.  Description & image via BGG.

This tournament will be traditional bracket with single elimination.  1st and 2nd place winners of the first round will compete to win.

Time/Date: Sunday 24th 2:00 PM-4:00 PM

  • 1st: TBA
  • 2nd-4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

Spaceteam

Spaceteam is a fast-paced, cooperative shouting card game in which you race to repair your malfunctioning spaceship.

Your goal is to ensure that all ship systems are functioning properly before time runs out. Each player must deal with the various malfunctions in their sector by flipping cards from the malfunction deck in front of them, and fixing the ship’s systems. You’ll have an arsenal of disorganized space tools spread among all players’ hands, but finding the right tools can be harder than you think, especially when your Spaceteam is franticly worrying about malfunctions in their own sector. If that wasn’t hard enough, you’ll also have to deal with complications such as wormholes and asteroid fields, which require the coordination of the entire Spaceteam. There are no turns; everyone plays and shouts at the same time. Victory is achieved if enough malfunctions are corrected to reveal the 6 hidden System-Go Cards before time is up.  Description & image via BGG.

This tournament will be round robin.  3 to 4 rounds depending on attendance.

Time/Date: Saturday 23rd 2:00 PM-4:00 PM

  • 1st: Spaceteam game or 2 expansions for spaceteam.
  • 2nd-4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

The Red Dragon Inn

In Red Dragon Inn, you and your friends are a party of heroic, fantasy adventurers. You’ve raided the dungeon, killed the monsters, and taken their treasure. Now you’re back, and what better way to celebrate your most recent victory than to spend an evening at the Red Dragon Inn. You and your adventuring companions will spend the night drinking, gambling, and roughhousing. The last person who is both sober enough to remain conscious and shrewd enough to hold onto his Gold Coins wins the game.   Description & image via BGG.

This tournament will be traditional bracket with single elimination.  Winners of the first round will compete to win.

Time/Date: Sunday 24th 11:00 AM-2:00 PM

  • 1st: TBA.
  • 2nd-4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

Codenames

In Codenames, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin.  Description & image via BGG.

Sign up with a team or find one the day of.  Teams will contain 2 to 3 people.

This tournament will be traditional bracket with single elimination.  Each round will be best 2 out of 3.

Time/Date: Saturday 23th 4:30 PM-6:30 PM

  • 1st: Codenames Disney or Marvel.
  • 2nd: +2 raffle ticket
  • 3rd & 4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

Lords of Waterdeep

In Lords of Waterdeep, a strategy board game for 2-5 players, you take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to go on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city. Expand the city by purchasing new buildings that open up new actions on the board, and hinder – or help – the other lords by playing Intrigue cards to enact your carefully laid plans. Description & image via BGG.

This tournament will involve 5 preliminary games.  The winners of the 5 pre-qualifying games will take each other on in a final winner takes all game.

  • Pre-qualifying game 1: Friday at 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
  • Pre-qualifying game 2: Saturday at 10:00 AM -1:00 PM 
  • Pre-qualifying game 3: Saturday at 2:00 PM – 5:00PM 
  • Pre-qualifying game 4: Saturday at 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM 
  • Pre-qualifying game 5: Sunday at 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM 
  • Finals: Sunday at 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Prizes:

  • 1st: Broken token insert
  • 2nd – 5th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

Deadzone: Battle for the Pass

Deadzone is the sci-fi skirmish game by Mantic.  Details will be posted to the Mantic southwest gaming group via FaceBook.

Time/Date: Sunday 24th 10:00 AM-3:00 PM

  • 1st: TBA
  • 2nd-4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

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Dreadball is the futuristic sports game of strategy and brutality!  Details will be posted on the Southwest Mantic gamers Facebook Page.

Time/Date: Saturday 23th 10:00 AM-3:00 PM

  • 1st: TBA
  • 2nd-4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

Hit Me!

Hit Me! Is a quick 2-4 player push your luck card game. Players are comic characters in a battle. Last person standing wins!
The tournament will play up to 16 players. The winner will receive a free copy of the Game. Free to enter, but sign up quick, spots are limited.

Time/Date: Saturday 23rd 6:00 PM-7:00 PM

  • 1st: Copy of Hit Me!
  • 2nd-4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

Potion Explosion

Dear students, it’s time for the final exams of the Potions class! The rules are always the same: Take an ingredient marble from the dispenser and watch the others fall. If you connect marbles of the same color, they explode and you can take them, too! Complete your potions using the marbles you collect, and drink them to unleash their magical power. Remember, though, that to win the Student of the Year award, being quick won’t be enough: you’ll also need to brew the most valuable potions in Potion Explosion!  Description & image via BGG.

This tournament will be traditional bracket with single elimination.  Winners of the first round will compete to win.

Time/Date: Friday 22nd 8:00 PM-10:00 PM

  • 1st: Potion Explosion promos
  • 2nd-4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

Terraforming Mars

In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things.  Description & image via BGG.

This tournament will involve 2 preliminary games.  Players who place 1st and 2nd place in one of the 2 pre-qualifying games will take each other on in a final winner takes all game.

  • Pre-qualifying game 1: Friday at 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM
  • Pre-qualifying game 2: Saturday at 9:30 AM -12:30 PM 
  • Finals: saturday at 7:30 PM – 12:30 AM

Prizes:

  • 1st: TBA
  • 2nd – 4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

Smash Up

During the game, basic cards (each with their own difficulties and abilities) are at stake. You try to have the most power on the basis of your minions when the base is broken. Sounds easy? Is it easy when an opponent’s Alien-Ninja decides to tie your minions to other Bases – flat Murder them? What happens when the Pirate-Dinosaur Full Sails player and frees King Rex to trample your minions in the ground, or when wizard-zombies use their mystic power to create an outbreak, suddenly flooding minions on the base of the discard pile? Or if you were facing a Zombie-Dinosaur player instead and he created an epidemic of massive beasts at the same time?!?  Description & image via BGG.

This tournament will be traditional bracket with single elimination.  1st and 2nd place winners of the first round will compete to win.

Time/Date: Saturday 24th 7:00 PM-10:00 PM

  • 1st: TBA.
  • 2nd-4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

New York Slice

In New York Slice, each player slices pizzas into portions, giving their opponents first choice, while they take the leftovers. There are a dozen kinds of pizza to work with, from veggie to hawaiian to meat lover’s, and each player decides if they want to eat or keep some of the slices, building the best collection of pizzas possible! Description & image via BGG.

This tournament details TBA

Time/Date: Saturday 23rd 4:00 PM-6:00 PM

  • 1st: TBA.
  • 2nd-4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

One Night Ultimate Werewolf

One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a fast game for 3-10 players in which everyone gets a role: One of the dastardly Werewolves, the tricky Troublemaker, the helpful Seer, or one of a dozen different characters, each with a special ability. In the course of a single morning, your village will decide who is a werewolf…because all it takes is lynching one werewolf to win! Description & image via BGG.

This tournament will be round robin.  10 rounds..

Time/Date: Sunday 24th 2:00 PM-4:00 PM

  • 1st: TBA.
  • 2nd-4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket

Castle Panic

Castle Panic is a cooperative, light strategy game for 1 to 6 players ages 10 and up. Players must work together to defend their castle, in the center of the board, from monsters that attack out of the forest at the edges of the board. Players trade cards, hit and slay monsters, and plan strategies together to keep their castle towers intact. The players either win or lose together, but only the player with the most victory points is declared the Master Slayer. Players must balance the survival of the group with their own desire to win. Description & image via BGG.

This tournament type is traditional bracket with single elimination.   We will be playing Nightmare Mode.

Time/Date: Saturday 23rd 11:00 AM-1:00 PM

  • 1st: TBA.
  • 2nd-4th: +1 raffle ticket
  • Everyone: 1 raffle ticket + promo bag + Promo card.

Cards Against Humanity 18+

Details are a thing that sometimes matter.  This is not one of those times.

We’ll start playing Friday night.  Ask around.  Must be 18+