The NJ SOBs held their Breast Cancer Brawl on Saturday the 17th of October at their local game store, The Only Game in Town located in Somerville, NJ (www.togit.com). We had 13 players in all show up to play, including 1 coming from Pennsylvania. We had a reasonable mix of factions there too with 4 Cryx, 2 Circle, 2 Legion, 2 Trolls, 2 Cygnar, and 1 Menoth player. This meant we had 4 rounds to play to find a clear winner.
We got a lot of donations in as part of the cheating system and for selling "L" measuring tools. We had a fantastic dollar amount when I totaled it all. As if by fate, exactly at that moment, Alex Leong walked in. He couldn't stay to play but he wanted to donate, so he asked me what the total amount the group had contributed so far. I told him the number and then he hands me a check matching the ENTIRE AMOUNT. I was so stunned, all I could do was shake his hand in gratitude. In all we were able to raise $1,036 for the Susan B. Komen charity, North Jersey chapter.
My thanks to TOGIT too for being so supportive to us during the event. We are very lucky to have them as our store. They came through with a free coin prize pack, $50 in store credit, and 4 little games to give away. Congrats go to Matt Lejeune for painting up TEN figures in pink as part of the raffle. Way to go man!
The game play was a lot of fun too. I heard that people were using their cheats to make a lot of rerolls. The finals were both nailbiters with the outcome swinging back and forth each turn. Congratulations to Tom Hoffmann for winning a tough game over our worthy friend from PA, Jake Hoffman. In the tight game for third place, congratulations go to Eric Jacks (Collosus) for pulling out the win from Adam Pitzer. Poor Adam had demonlished Eric's Legion army and was just about to kill eThagrosh's last beast, Typhon, and missed killing him by just 2 points! Overall, everyone had fun playing their games and it was a great day indeed for charity.
--Norbert
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