Road To The World Series of Board Gaming - RA

Name: Road To The World Series of Board Gaming - RA
Start: 2024-06-19T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Empire Board Game Library

Schedule

Wed Jun 19 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Empire Board Game Library | Albuquerque, NM

Empire wants to send YOU to the World Series of Board Gaming 2024 in Las Vegas! Play for your shot at a Stay And Play pass to the World Series of Board Games, a $1050 value!
Tickets for each event are $20 and can be purchased on our website, in person, or through this event page!
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
EVENT STARTS AT 6PM
Please be here and ready to play at 6.
There will be no "teach" for these games. Participants must know the rules of the game they are playing.
June 12th - Brass: Birmingham
June 19th - RA
June 29th - FINALS!

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What is Road To The World Series of Board Games?
Beginning in March, Empire will be holding a series of tournaments each Wednesday night:
Each tournament will be one of the 16 games to be played during the World Series of Board Gaming.
Winners from these tournaments will qualify for a championship night, to be held at the end of the season, where our winners will compete for the Grand Prize. (Stay And Play Package for WSBG, including 5 days of gaming and tournament entries, and 4 nights hotel stay $1050 value!)
The WSBG main event games cover a wide range of genres and complexity levels. Games at the WSBG this year are:
Wingspan, Great Western Trail, Ticket To Ride, Heat: Pedal to the Metal, Ark Nova, Brass: Birmingham, Lost Ruins of Arnak, Ra, Earth, Dune: Imperium, Acquire, Azul, Terraforming Mars, The Castles of Burgundy, Cascadia, Splendor
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What does a ticket to our Road to the World Series of Board Gaming event get you?
$20 gets you entry to the event, and all day open play. You will also get a free drink with your entry, and a raffle ticket.
Each night will feature a GIVEAWAY RAFFLE! Each participant will receive a raffle ticket, and a copy of whichever game is being played that evening will be raffled off.
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Tournament Structure:
Each night, participants will play one of the 16 games played at the WSBG this year. Each night will consist of up to 16 players.
Round 1: 4 games, of up to 4 players each. Winners advance to Round 2.
Round 2: 4 Players play to become Store Champion of the game being played that evening.
Champions will be invited back at the end of the season to play in our Tournament Championships, to compete for the Grand Prize.
Where applicable, we will use rules adjustments or specific modules/expansions, based on WSBG practices.
Championship Day Structure:
We will be using a similar structure to the WSBG for semi-finals and finals games, with a slight difference.
Semi-Finals: Players will be grouped together to make up to 4 games, as evenly as possible. A seeding system will be used to create the match-ups for the semi-finals tables.
Games will be chosen as such: At a table, any games that were won by a Champion at that table may not be played. Out of the remaining games, the player who has won the most Championships may choose the game for that table (Home-field advantage.) If players are tied, or there is not someone with multiple wins, the game will be randomly drawn from the remaining games.
Finals: The semi-finals winners will play 1 more game for the Grand Prize. This game will be randomly drawn, from games that none of the players have previously won a Championship or semi-finals game.