Members & visitors can play these games on-site at CABS and Members can check out and take them home to play.

Board Game Titles T-V

Taj Mahal
Take Stock
Take Your Best Shot
Tako Judo
Tales of Ulysse
Talisman 4th Edition
Tally Ho!
Taluva
TAMSK
Target Arnhem: Across 6 Bridges
Tears of the Dragon
Techno Witches
Tempus
Tenjo
Terakh: A Creative Strategy Game
Terra Nova
That’s Life!
The Collector
Thebes
There’s a Moose in the House
The Thief of Baghdad
Thingamajig
Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization
Through the Desert
Thugs!
Thurn and Taxis
Thurn and Taxis – All Roads Lead to Rome
Thurn and Taxis – Power and Glory
Thurn und Taxis – Der Kurier der Fürstin
Tic Tac Chec
Tichu
Ticket to Ride
Ticket to Ride: Europe
Ticket to Ride: Märklin Edition
Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries
Ticket to Ride: Switzerland
Ticket to Ride: The Card Game
Ticket to Ride: The Dice Expansion
Ticket to Ride: USA 1910
Tide of Iron
Tier auf Tier
Tigris & Euphrates
Tikal
Timber Tom
Time Control
Times Square
Tin Soldiers
TipOver
Title Bout
To Court the King
Toboggans of Doom
Togoland 1914
Toledo
Tomb
Top Trumps
Toppo
Torres
Toss Up!
Tower of Babel
TPOC: The Politics of Cannibals
Traboulet
Trading Spaces Game
Trailer Park Wars
TransAmerica
Trenches of Valor
Trendy
Tricky Town
Trivial Detective
Tsuro
Tutankhamen
Twilight Imperium 3rd Edition
Twilight Struggle
Ubongo
Ukraine ’43
Ultimate Golf
Union Pacific
UNO Dominos
Unspeakable Words
UR
UWO
Vampire: Dark Influences
Vampire: Prince of the City
Vanished Planet
Vapor’s Gambit
Velomaster
Venus Needs Men
Victoria Cross
Victory & Honor
Victory in the Pacific
Vikings
Viktory II
Villa Paletti
Villainy – The Supervillainous Card Game
Vineta
VisualEyes
Voltage

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Four Round Chess Tournament
USCF Rated

Place:

North Market at Front and Spruce Streets in the Short North area(across High Street from the Convention Center)

Entries:

$20.00 at the door

Doors open at 10:00 a.m.

Entries

10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Enter building from doors facing parking lot on east side of building.

Prizes:

Not less than 75% of entry fees in 2 or more classes depending on number of entries. Top Prize not less than $100.00!

Format:

Four round Swiss:

round 1 G/30
round 2 G/40
round 3 G/50
round 4 G/60

TIME: 1st round 10:15 am, market closes
at 5:00 pm

We will take a short lunch break between
2nd and 3rd rounds.

Tournament will be held on 2nd floor balcony area.

Parking:

Free at meters on Sundays. Don’t park in the North Market lot; over 2 hours is $10.00. You may have to park by Goodale Park, about a five minute walk.

Members & visitors can play these games on-site at CABS and Members can check out and take them home to play.

Board Game Titles W-Z

Wallamoppi
War At Sea
War at Sea
War Galley
War of the Ring
War on Terror
Warcraft: The Boardgame
Warhamster Rally
Warp 6
Warriors
Warriors of God
Waterloo
Waterloo 20
Waterloo: Fate of France
Waterworks
WCW Nitro Trading Card Game
Wealth of Nations
Web and Starship
Web of Power
Wellington
Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow
The Western Front : 1914 to 1918
Wheedle
Why Did the Chicken…?
Wicked Witches Way
WildLife
Wildside
Win Place & Show
Winds Of Plunder
Wings of War – Famous Aces
Winter Fury: The Battle of Tolvajarvi 1939
Witch’s Brew
Wits & Wagers
Wits & Wagers
Wizard
Wizard’s Quest
Wooly Bully
World at War: Eisenbach Gap
World Cup Tournament Football
World of Warcraft: the Adventure Game
World War II: Barbarossa to Berlin
Wrasslin’
Wyatt Earp
X-Machina
Xeko
Yahtzee Free for All
YangTzee
Year of the Rat – Vietnam, 1972
Yellowstone Park
You Must Be an Idiot!
Ys
Yspahan
Zauberwäldchen
Zen Benders – abstract
Zen Benders – dog
Zen Benders – dragon
Zen Benders – road
Zero!
Zig-Zag
Zombie Attack
Zooloretto
Zooloretto – Building Sites
Zulus on the Ramparts!
Zwickern

If you are unfamiliar with D&D Encounters it is a new and exciting marketing program from Wizards to promote D&D at local game stores. WotC has created twelve linked episodes or encounters that are strung together to form an adventure. Players visit their local game store and a store-approved DM guides groups of up to six adventurers. The night I visited there were two tables with a total of 10 players and two DM’s. A second session was also run the same evening. As this was the last encounter of the season, I came expecting to witness the climax and denouement and I was not disappointed.

The players were in a deep cavern with a cold rushing stream and facing them were the chief villan and his minions with a helpless hostage to boot. The battle raged and the bad guys were vanquished. The hostage, sister to the main villain, turned out to be not such a victim, nor much of a nice person and revealed her dark side before exiting stage right.

The players collected their treasures and the DM coordinator Allen Bard handed out special in-game abilities to players that had earning the most Renown Points in the season. Renown Points are awarded for the following things:

Renown Point Accomplishments

Complete an Encounter: 3 Renown Points
Hit a Milestone: 2 Renown Points
Complete All Quests: 5 Renown Points
Revive a Dying Adventurer: 1 Renown Point
Hit for +15 Damage Against 1 Enemy: 1 Renown Point
Kill 3 Minions with 1 Attack: 1 Renown Point
Take 50 Enemy Damage in 1 Session: 1 Renown Point
Survive 8+ Sessions without Dying: 2 Renown Points
Moment of Greatness: 2 Renown Points
Create a Character Builder Adventurer: 5 Renown Points
Player’s Handbook 3 Class or Race: 2 Renown Points
Player’s Handbook 3 Feat: 1 Renown Point

The start of Season Two begins immediately next week on June 9th. The next season is based on the Dark Sun Campaign System introduced in 1991 and centered around the devastated world of Athas. Expect a strong presence of psionics in this upcoming season. As a little taste here are the pre-generated characters for Season Two:

Yuka – Male mul brawling fighter (wasteland nomad)
Phye – Female human enlightened ardent (noble adept)
Castri – Male elf marauder ranger (gladiator)
Barcan – Male human cosmic sorcerer (veiled alliance)
Shikirr – Male thri-kreen quick battlemind (wilder)
Jarvix – Male tiefling telepathic psion (veiled alliance)

I spoke with the owner of Armoury Games, Bruce Langdon about WotC’s new effort to promote D&D 4ed. Bruce was thrilled that WotC was making a strong effort to promote D&D through local stores. We discussed how difficult it is to run a successful hobby store in the internet era, when Amazon.com and internet hobby stores can easily undersell a brick and mortar store.

Bruce felt that his continuing dedication to promoting the hobby, his loyalty to his customers and giving folks a place to play and enjoy their hobby has been the difference that has allowed him to stay in business for almost 10 years. He admitted it was challenging to run a successful store and hopes players of all types of games will reward their local store with their business and their loyalty.

You can play season two of D&D Encounters at Armoury Games or Ravenstone Games starting next Wednesday. Check out the game store links for further information.

Platinum Poker Club offers a well-lighted, clean, friendly and security-conscious environment to play poker. Columbus Face Games has had the opportunity to play several tournaments and has visited on a number of other occasions and has always been impressed by how comfortable and friendly has been the atmosphere.

I sat down with Paul ‘Hi-Lo’ Horn to ask him why world-class pros have come to central Ohio to open a poker club and what the Platinum Players Club offers to its members.

CFG Good afternoon Paul, thanks for taking the time to speak with me.

PH You’re welcome, I’m glad I could help you out and I hope your blog really takes off.

CFG The question that is really burning for me is: why? Why open a poker room in Grove City, Ohio?

PH I came to Columbus to attend a Car Show and when I tried to find a game of poker in town it became painfully apparent that there wasn’t a decent game to be laid anywhere. There was not a professional game to be found. Also, certainly nothing to compare with other places I’d played, when it came to good customer service and taking care of the players.

CFG Why now with a casino coming into Columbus?

PH That’s the way the cards have fallen. Whatever happens will happen, I’m not concerned about a little action.

CFG Fair enough, what benefits to you offer to your members that will allow you to compete against the other card rooms in town and the casino when it opens?

PH That is easy, we have an incredibly fun place to play. It is clean. It is safe. We have security on hand whenever we need and more importantly we have professional poker players that keep a constant eye on the games that we lay. You can be damn sure that no one is going to cheat you or try to intimidate you at Platinum Players Club.

We provide first class customer service, including dealers for cash and tournament games, free food, cook outs, non-poker games such as chess, billiards, euchre and video skill games. Also, we have poker pros on hand constantly to give lessons, allow you to test your skills against them in cash and tournament games and just have the opportunity to listen to their tales about the pro poker circuit.

CFG Seems like Texas Hold’em is the most popular game of poker these days. What other games does the PPC lay?

PH As we have just opened we have offered mostly Texas Hold’em, but as our customer base has grown and as they have asked for it we have offer limit and pot limit games as well as Omaha 8 pot limit games and we’d like to lay games of Chinese poker and cash euchre games in the near future.

CFG Will you be teaching the rules to these games and maybe offering some low-cost introductory tournaments for these new poker games?

PH We are certainly considering that.

CFG So what is your favorite game of poker?

PH I am best at Hold’em, but my favorite game is Omaha 8.

CFG Is that where you got your nick name ‘Hi-Lo’?

PH Funny as it may seem, I didn’t get the name ‘Hi-Lo’ from playing Omaha Hi Lo. I got it playing Hold’em. I used to play in Atlantic City and when I would play with less challenging players I would play less than premium hands like K-3. When I’d show them the hand and they would say how can you play such trash? I would tell them, no, I have a much better chance of winning because I can hit a hand whether the cards come high or low. Many of them had a hard time figuring that out, especially if they had already had a few drinks! So I became known as Paul ‘Hi-Lo’ Horn and I always thought it was a pretty funny nick name, too.

CFG What is the one key thing that separates average players from good players at any level of the game?

PH You have to learn perseverance. Poker is about learning from your mistakes and being in the game for the long haul. Whether it be how long you play at the table for one day or one week or one year. You have to stay in the game to grind out a living. I would caution though to be careful. Make sure your poker is not hurting someone else. If you are spending the rent money or the car payment or the grocery money, then stop! Go home. Pay your bills. Hug your wife and children and realize there are more important things in life than playing poker.

CFG If a poker player wants to improve their game what steps should they take?

PH Poker is about your average winnings versus your average losses over time. Being a stone cold realist when you are analyzing your game is critical to improving your game. Analyzing every hand you play and knowing that it isn’t skill when you suck out. Knowing when to keep playing hands after you have played well, but lost anyway. Identifying your leaks and ruthlessly fixing them is also important. Above all else is the willingness to put in the time at the table. Don’t quit just because you are up (or even down) because there is always something to learn at the table and a chance to improve your game.

CFG What advice do you have for young players?

PH Hell, stay in college and get a degree. Don’t quit school cause you won a couple of online tournaments. I have been up and I have been broke. I’ve help a lot of people who were broke and I’ve had a lot of those people walk away from me when I got broke. Poker is a hard-ass game. On that you can take my word.

CFG Thanks, Paul, its been a pleasure to speak with you.

PH My pleasure. Tell your readers to come on down to The Platinum Players Club and give us a try.

There were 216 players and the top 8 qualified for nationals. Below are the qualifying players and the decks of the winner and runner-up.

1. Chris Fulop
2. Shane Kelley
3. Andrew Cooperfauss
4. Sean Metz
5. Andrew McIntire
6. Mark Larson
7. Alan Reyzis
8. Brian Fulop

Congrats to all the qualifiers and thanks to professional event services for providing the tournament information. (Decks below) and on their site:

http://www.professional-events.com/Magic/index1.php4

Winner – Chris Fulop

Main Deck

3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
2 Gideon Jura
2 Ajani Vengeant
3 Day of Judgment
3 Path to Exile
3 Oblivion Ring
2 Negate
3 Mind Spring
1 Martial Coup
4 Spreading Seas
4 Wall of Omens
2 Everflowing Chalice
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Celestial Colonnade
1 Halimar Depths
3 Island
3 Plains
3 Scalding Tarn
4 Arid Mesa
1 Mountain
3 Tectonic Edge

Sideboard

4 Kor Firewalker
2 Kor Sanctifiers
2 Negate
3 Flashfreeze
2 Celestial Purge
1 Jace Beleren
1 Day of Judgment

Runner-Up – Shane Kelley

Main Deck
4 Wall of Omens
4 Path to Exile
4 Spreading Seas
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Jace Beleren
3 Ajani Vengeant
3 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
3 Gideon Jura
3 Oblivion Ring
3 Day of Judgment
2 Negate
4 Celestial Colonnade
4 Glacial Fortress
5 Plains
4 Island
3 Arid Mesa
3 Scalding Tarn
2 Tectonic Edge
1 Mountain

Sideboard

3 Meddling Mage
3 Flashfreeze
3 Wall of Denial
2 Negate
2 Baneslayer Angel
1 Telemin Performance
1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre

CFG is not about a lone voice, namely mine, talking about the events that are going on in Columbus and Central Ohio or about things that I think people in Central Ohio are interested in reading about. It is about you!

CFG needs, I need, you to be guest bloggers on the site. To tell me who you game with, why you game, what you game, where you game, when you game and how you game. I know you love what you do. This blog is your opportunity to share that with others, to invite them into your gaming world and show them a great time.

So, you ask, what about you? Who is Columbus Face Games and what kind of games do I play?

My name is Tom Graves, I am 49 years of age and have been gaming for about 40 years. What did I start with? Green plastic army men, of course. However, being a gamer at heart, I didn’t just set them up and shoot them down with rubber bands.

NO! I wrote rules. I laid out a 4×8′ plywood board with 2″x2″ squares to define movement for soldiers. Troops with bazookas and mortars were slower, then the troops with M16′s, crawlers and crouchers were slower than standers and runners. I cut blocks of some form of insulating material that I had ‘acquired’ at a local construction site into rectangles and squares out of which I could build hills. I procured the buildings from my brothers abandoned railroad scenic project and turned them into ‘hard cover’.
I had a blast! I took a one dollar bag of green plastic army men and I spent hours in my basement with friends playing games.

My tastes have evolved over time. I played a lot of Avalon Hill (AH) military boardgames in my teens. I progressed to Role Playing Games in college and for sometime after. I moved on to miniatures of all kinds with boardgames of all kind thrown in as I grew and raised a family. Now, in my middle years I have added poker to the games I like playing.

I am not sure where this blog will lead me, but certainly I am going to try a lot of games I may not have played so I can write about them and I may just find a new game or two I love playing.

I hope that you will join me on this journey and share your journeys with others, as well. This blog is dedicated to those of us in Columbus and Central Ohio who like to play cards, boardgames, miniatures, or Role Playing Games with our friends.

You know who you are. You know how much you love it. Columbus Face Games is here to help you find others that love it as much as you do!

The tournament structure for the doubles event was a 8 (10 pt) game qualifier on Friday evening. Teams winning five or more games were seeded into the winners bracket for Saturday mornings finals. Those teams with four or less wins were seeded into a consolation bracket for the finals. The difference was significant. The winners bracket played an additional seven (10 pt) games on Saturday morning for a prize pool of $4000.

First Place: $2000
Second Place: $1000
Third Place: $600
Fourth Place: $400

The consolation bracket also played out an additional seven games, but mostly for the pride as the consolation bracket paid out only a first place prize of $300.

Entry fees for the doubles tournament was $50 per player.

The singles tournament began at 1 pm on Saturday and consisted of over 50 players. The individual tournament differs from the doubles in structure and strategy. Even though the individuals are paired as teams and need to score 10 pts to win the game, they only get credit for points they themselves score. The Singles Tournament consists of 8 games with the highest individual scorers winning the tournament.

Prize structure for the Individual Tournament was also significant. Entry fee was $30 and the prize pool was $2000.

First Prize: $1000
Second Prize: $500
Third Prize: $300
Fourth Prize: $200

ColumbusFaceGames spoke to Tournament organizer and Director Joe Andrews.

CFG Why do you run a Euchre Grand Prix Tournament?

JA I’ve always enjoyed Euchre. I like bringing people together and see that they have a good time.

CFGWhy hold the Grand Prix in Columbus?

JAThe midwest is Euchre country! We held the 2003 Grand Prix in Cincinnati and 2005′s in Cleveland, it seemed like a natural idea to bring the tournament back to Ohio, the heart of Euchre territory.

CFG Is this a pretty good turn out for the event?

JA Yes, it is. We are very pleased with the turnout and the fine facilities here at beautiful Beulah Park. In fact, we are considering bring the tournament back here next year, so get the word out as we want it to be bigger and better than ever.

CFG Joe, you started this tournament and you have run it for 11 years. Why have you invested so much of yourself into this event?

JA (Laughing) Nobody else would do it!

CFG Is this just a local event?

JA Definitely not. Even though Euchre is a regional game, originating in and centered in the midwest, we have players that have traveled as far a 1000 miles and foreign countries to participate.

CFG Thank you for your time, Joe. It was a pleasure to speak with you.

JA Thank you and go bucks!

The Euchre tournament was not the only game in town, either. There was a hearts tournament with 20 participants and Stephen Smith and George Yanakiev were on hand testing a Euchre playing program called Euchre Baron. While not yet as strong as equivalent Chess programs, the application can help to sharpen your Euchre and is available at:

[Euchre Baron]

ColumbusFaceGames would like to put in a plug for Joe Andrews great book Win At Euchre. If you have not read it, you can buy though the same link as above.

Drum Roll Please!

2010 Euchre Grand Prix Results

HEARTS:

1st Place ($1000) – Ninos Shaoul of Chicago, IL

EUCHRE:

Partners 1st Place ($ 1000) – Constance Starks of Powell, OH
Partners 1st Place ($ 1000) – Virginia Sampson of Canal Winchester, OH

Partners – 2nd Place – ($ 500) – Tamara Adams of Moline, IL
Partners – 2nd Place – ($ 500) – David Adams of Moline, IL

Individuals’ (Round Robin Tournament)

1st Place ($1000) – Constance Starks of Powell, OH
2nd Place – ($ 500) – Kim Little of Columbus, OH

A most remarkable outcome !

Connne Starks becomes the first player since Darlene Migliaccio (OH) in 2003 to win the
Euchre Double Crown (Partners and Singles)!

A Husband and Wife Team, Tamara and Dave Adams take 2nd Place in the Partner’s event.

And Nino Shaoul wins his 2nd Hearts Title in 3 years!

It was a competitive event to be sure!

I was teamed with another relatively new player to the group, Rebecca. Rebecca and I started strong against experienced players Diana and Sandi, with Rebecca taking most of the tricks and carrying the weight for our team. With a 3-2 lead we were feeling fairly confident that our skills in Euchre were not as rusty as we thought they might be from many years of absence from the game. However, our success was short-lived as Diana and Sandi quickly Euchred us, added two more points to make it 3-6 before stunning us with a close out loaner!

Rebecca and I shrugged off our loss. We were thankful that the tournament was double elimination and chatted amicably with Diana and Sandi while we waited for our second round match. As we met our second round opponents, Felicia and Roger, I told Rebecca we would do better in our second round, but that was not to be. We tried to be aggressive in the second game, having nothing to lose, but we were Euchred in 2 of our first 3 hands and didn’t score our first point until we were down 0-9! Needless to say, our tournament life was soon over and I joked with Felicia that they had taken us behind the wood shed for a pretty good beating!

Before slipping away from this friendly, but clearly more skillful group of folks I spoke with Meetup organizer Amy Carmean. She told me that this group of serious, but relaxed players has been giving Euchre players a place to meet and play for a very respectable and impressive 18 years. Outlasting their first four meeting places they have been playing at in or near San Margharita, just west of Upper Arlington for most of that time. Now, they have moved to their new home at the Black Hat on 2643 Federated Blvd. off Sawmill Rd just north of 161.

ColumbusFaceGames recommends this group as a great place to meet Euchre players and to enjoy a relaxing evening of Euchre. The Black Hat has some seriously cool gear for sale, provides free dinner (last week was Beef Noodles, Yum!) and you may partake of an adult beverage, if you desire. ColumbusFaceGames even had the good fortune to have someone pick up the cost of a Newcastle Brown Ale. Much thanks for that!

Tournament organizer Amy and Curtis won Wednesday’s tournament and second place was claimed by ColumbusFaceGames first round opponent’s Sandy and Diana. Congratulations to everyone!

We have a major Euchre event occurring at Beulah Park in Grove City. This has been described as a Euchre Grand Prix or a World Series of Euchre event.

Registration starts May 14th between 5:30-6:30 pm for Doubles and on May 15th at around 8:30 am for Doubles Finals.

Call Joe Andrews for information on the registration for the Saturday May 15th Singles event and to sign up at

781-454-6666

http://grandprixtournaments.com/

We have an adults only (13+) Columbus Area Boardgaming Society (CABS) meeting at the MOSSL facility on May 15th – 10am to 3am (Adults Only 13+). That is 17 hours of boardgaming goodness, if you have a serious boardgaming itch that you need to scratch!
MEETING LOCATION
MOSSL / CABS
670 Lakeview Plaza Blvd.
Suite E
Worthington, Ohio 43085

http://www.buckeyeboardgamers.org/

We have a USCF-rated four round Swiss-system Chess Tournament taking place on Saturday May 15th at the North Market. The tournament is USCF rated so you must be a member of the United States Chess Federation.

Doors Open: 10 am
Entry Fee: $20 at the door
Prizes: Not less than 75% of entry fees in not less than 2 classes (based on entries)
Format: Four round Swiss – G/30;G/40;G/50;G/60 Each player has 30 minutes to complete their first round game and this rises 10 minute per round to each player having 60 minutes to complete their fourth round game.
Link: http://ohchess.org/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=321&year=2010&month=05&day=16&Itemid=32

There is a National Qualifying Tournament for Magic: The Gathering on May 15th. Just found out about this, so check the Collectable Card Games Coming Events for details.

There are also Poker Tournaments at every one of Columbus’s eight Poker Social Clubs. Check the Links section for information on tournaments near you.