Hello Westeros!
We organized a teaching event at Cactus bar in Shanghai last Saturday, which went fantastically well!
We had 2 games on display, obviously the Asoiaf Miniatures Game, but also the Game of Thrones Card Game, which allowed people to diversify a bit.
The Asoiaf tables were:
- Robb Stark vs Tywin Lannister
- Stannis Baratheon vs Renly Baratheon
- Theon Greyjoy vs Ramsay Bolton
The biggest table was just big enough to allow 2 mats of Blackwater Bay side by side, which as you can see looked fantastic, and really makes me want to do a 4 player game on that combined mat, with special river and castle rules…
I actually have no idea what happened with the card table, as I was way too busy with the miniatures ones, but I basically heard 2 things:
- Don confirmed that the Greyjoy deck was terrible (as I had tested the night before, trying to learn the game before the event)
- Tiago won the card “tournament” they had, getting a fantastic thrones cup offered by Dan!
We ended the day with a quiz and super nice prizes from SoGoFun, including the Stark-Lannister starter!
Some of the quiz questions were definitely on the hard side (deliberately I’ll admit, although I forgot not everyone listens to the soundtrack under the shower or looks through sigils for painting ideas…), but the winner, Brent, managed to get 26 out of 40, which was a really good score, and got home with the starter and 2 Asoiaf wins under his belt!
Future tournament opponent? Let’s hope so since, I quote, “it’s the game I waited for all my life but never knew existed”…
So big thumbs up to Mateusz (2nd), Michael and Tiago (3rd ex-aequo, with Michael getting the win after 8 more questions to differentiate them), Don, Andrea, Alberto, Dan, Charlie, Amber, Lewis, Shailene and Edward for joining the event and hopefully enjoying as much as we did!
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And a huge thanks to Dan and Eric, as well as Bruce from SoGoFun for helping with the organization and coaching, and providing incredible gifts to make this day even more memorable!
Grob’
Chez Grob 