Hello all,
Jack and I are arranging an OP day in Toronto. What started as a personal get together of just me, him and two or three others has blossomed. We potentially have a dozen to 15 players thus far.
We're looking at December 28th in downtown Toronto. PM me if you're interested in joining in.
This is just a fun gathering, not a tournament of any kind.
-BBH
if it was say White Horse... I might make it. Toronto is on the other side of the continent, sadly. :(
Quote from: CoS on December 15, 2010, 11:16:42 AM
if it was say White Horse... I might make it. Toronto is on the other side of the continent, sadly. :(
But... but... but - this is OVERPOWER! What's a few thousand kilometers for OVERPOWER?!? Priorities, man! :P
Did you ever get OP online going?
-BBH
i can try it out. add me on MSN championofsolaris at hotmail.com. I have the OPOnline as well as Hamatchi. We will see how my internet connection holds up. spotty at best and I am on a borrowed laptop.
I added you to my MSN. I also use Hamachi, do you have a specific room ID, and password? (PM me with the info.)
-BBH
Hey Everyone, I'm new here, my name is Dan...
My brother and I play overpower, and we have since back in the day. Have played some games with bigbadharve before ;).
I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays fast approaching.
Excited for this get together :D. If anyone would like to add to msn or send an email.
Feel free, zippa_head@hotmail.com
Take care
By the way, that's two more for the get together, I have informed Jack already.
Post Merge: July 14, 2011, 11:01:01 AM
I was just curious about one other thing as well Sean. If you might be able to list some of these house rules or ideas that you are planning on playing with.
It will be nice to see who is all still playing this great game :D.
Take care folks.
Quote from: zippa_head on December 20, 2010, 12:16:57 PM
I was just curious about one other thing as well Sean. If you might be able to list some of these house rules or ideas that you are planning on playing with.
It will be nice to see who is all still playing this great game :D.
Take care folks.
Shh! People will discover my secret identity! :P
I actually sent the house rules to Jack's OP mailing list, did you subscribe to it?
In order to actually go ahead and play by the House Rules, though, we need a majority consensus. If not everyone agrees, then we have to stick with Official rules.
I hope people are open to playing them, though, I'd like outside feedback on their effectiveness.
-BBH
Just wanted to let you know that the house rules were not attached in the email. If you want to send me an email including them that would be great.
Thanks,
Dan
Scroll down...
Just to make things easier, we are good for any day you choose to host the OP day/night...Just let us know which date you're sticking with.
Thanks,
Dan
And I seen the homemade rules, they seem pretty good...I am assuming the "Power Leech Target Rule" just means that he has to place the card on a specific character so it can be negated or avoided?!
So... the day has come and gone, and I would dare say that it was a reasonable success!
In the end we had 9 players, and most people got to play everyone else. Pictures were taken and are forthcoming!
For those of you who couldn't make it, but are near Toronto, we are planning another one in the coming weeks. (Likely February). More details will be posted as we hammer together a plan. It will likely be another open day of just playing, but there were talks about creating an actual tournament situation for the Spring, assuming that the interest remains. Nine showed up, but at least a dozen more have indicated that they will attend future meetings. I'll post information as it develops.
Cheers!
-BBH
And here are the pictures from the event!
(http://overpower.ca/thumb.php?file=meetup_pics/meetup1/opto1.jpg&size=400) (http://overpower.ca/meetup_pics/meetup1/opto1.jpg)
Jack
(http://overpower.ca/thumb.php?file=meetup_pics/meetup1/opto2.jpg&size=400) (http://overpower.ca/meetup_pics/meetup1/opto2.jpg)
BigBadHarve
(http://overpower.ca/thumb.php?file=meetup_pics/meetup1/opto3.jpg&size=400) (http://overpower.ca/meetup_pics/meetup1/opto3.jpg)
zippa_head
(http://overpower.ca/thumb.php?file=meetup_pics/meetup1/opto4.jpg&size=400) (http://overpower.ca/meetup_pics/meetup1/opto4.jpg)
HotRod
(http://overpower.ca/thumb.php?file=meetup_pics/meetup1/opto5.jpg&size=400) (http://overpower.ca/meetup_pics/meetup1/opto5.jpg)
(http://overpower.ca/thumb.php?file=meetup_pics/meetup1/opto6.jpg&size=400) (http://overpower.ca/meetup_pics/meetup1/opto6.jpg)
(http://overpower.ca/thumb.php?file=meetup_pics/meetup1/opto7.jpg&size=400) (http://overpower.ca/meetup_pics/meetup1/opto7.jpg)
(http://overpower.ca/thumb.php?file=meetup_pics/meetup1/opto8.jpg&size=400) (http://overpower.ca/meetup_pics/meetup1/opto8.jpg)
(http://overpower.ca/thumb.php?file=meetup_pics/meetup1/opto9.jpg&size=400) (http://overpower.ca/meetup_pics/meetup1/opto9.jpg)
(http://overpower.ca/thumb.php?file=meetup_pics/meetup1/opto10.jpg&size=400) (http://overpower.ca/meetup_pics/meetup1/opto10.jpg)
(http://overpower.ca/thumb.php?file=meetup_pics/meetup1/opto11.jpg&size=400) (http://overpower.ca/meetup_pics/meetup1/opto11.jpg)
Great photos, I love seeing stuff like this! I am so jealous of your ability to get so many OP players in the same place at the same time. I look forward to seeing more photos of your meetups in the future, and any reports about games would be really interesting.
Quote from: Onslaught on January 19, 2011, 05:53:44 PM
Great photos, I love seeing stuff like this! I am so jealous of your ability to get so many OP players in the same place at the same time. I look forward to seeing more photos of your meetups in the future, and any reports about games would be really interesting.
We are very fortunate indeed.
I didn't even think about taking down notes of the games to do a tournament report with. :(
But I'll definitely try to at the next event!
Hopefully if we get 20+ people every 2ish months or whatever, we can make it worth the time/effort/money for out-of-towners to attend.
Great pics! Next time you guys have to do some video a place it on youtube. It would be cool to see some card play on video. ;D
Quote from: Nostalgic on January 19, 2011, 08:06:22 PM
Next time you guys have to do some video a place it on youtube. It would be cool to see some card play on video. ;D
This is true, it's the 21st century now!
I don't have a video camera myself, though I've been thinking about picking one up for some time. So I can spring for a camera if no one else has something available.
Quote from: HotRod on January 19, 2011, 07:03:14 PM
Quote from: Onslaught on January 19, 2011, 05:53:44 PM
Great photos, I love seeing stuff like this! I am so jealous of your ability to get so many OP players in the same place at the same time. I look forward to seeing more photos of your meetups in the future, and any reports about games would be really interesting.
We are very fortunate indeed.
I didn't even think about taking down notes of the games to do a tournament report with. :(
But I'll definitely try to at the next event!
Hopefully if we get 20+ people every 2ish months or whatever, we can make it worth the time/effort/money for out-of-towners to attend.
That's the hope, is that we can get a regular enough meetup/tournament going that even people who are too far out of Toronto to make it regularly might elect to make the hike once or twice a year. I got word of semi regular OP tournaments in Ohio, which is about an 8 hour trek from Toronto. I was thinking it might be fun to make a weekend out of something like that, assuming I could find out dates.
As for notes, that would have been a good idea. I am sure we can cobble together from what we know...
I was primarily using my Trick or Treat team of X-Babies, Ghost Rider, Morbius and Spider Woman, Krakoa as the battlesite. But I played a couple of games with my Avalon team as well - Prof. X, Cable, Bishop and Magneto.
HotRod, was using Heroes for Hire, X-babies, Hawkeye and The Reavers. Battlesite was the Sewers
HotRod's father, Mike, was using Heroes for Hire, Scorpion, Donald Pierce and I don't remember the 4th character. Battlesite was Morlock Tunnels.
ZippaHead was using an energy based team with Prof X, Dark Phoenix, and I don't remember his other two... my memory sucks. Help me out here HotRod...
John, another player from back in the old Days showed up. I loaned him a spare deck I'd built to experiment with. Spawn, Shang-Chi, Adam Warlock and Deathbird. He wasn't overly happy with the team itself (I believe his words were: "This deck sucks" :P) but indicated that he'd had a good time nonetheless.
Jack was using Nick Fury, The Hand, The Starjammers and 3 stat Spider Woman. I don't remember his site.
ZippaHead's Brother was on hand, and even though I played him twice, I don't remember for the life of me what team he used.
If anyone else remembers more, feel free to post it. Jack's brother and Cousin were also there.
As for wins and losses, I couldn't tell you about others. I beat HotRod, but lost to his father. Lost to ZippaHead, but beat his brother both games I played. Played two games with Jack, once with Trick Or Treat (which lost.) and Once with Avalon (Which won).
Next meetup, I'll make a better effort to track the games.
-BBH
The 4th hero in my dads deck was the Age of Apocolypse Colossus variant. Colossus spent most of his time face down in that deck due to the crossing KO. :P
ZippaHead's team was Holocaust, Professor X, Dark Phoenix, and Flash with Wundagore Mountain as a battlesite.
The deck you lent John did suck from what I saw during your game with him. :P
Jack's battlesite was the Outback.
ZippaHead's brother was using a fighting deck with Captain America, and Sabertooth. I don't remember the other 2, but I think they might have all been from the IQ set.
And yes, you did beat me, but that's only because you negated my draw 4 with your 3rd negate of the game! :P
Quote from: HotRod on January 20, 2011, 08:08:42 PM
The 4th hero in my dads deck was the Age of Apocolypse Colossus variant. Colossus spent most of his time face down in that deck due to the crossing KO. :P
ZippaHead's team was Holocaust, Professor X, Dark Phoenix, and Flash with Wundagore Mountain as a battlesite.
The deck you lent John did suck from what I saw during your game with him. :P
Jack's battlesite was the Outback.
ZippaHead's brother was using a fighting deck with Captain America, and Sabertooth. I don't remember the other 2, but I think they might have all been from the IQ set.
And yes, you did beat me, but that's only because you negated my draw 4 with your 3rd negate of the game! :P
That, and I got maximum usage out of my inherent abilities! It's all about absorption, baby! But hey, if you feel that you lucked out, we'll just have to play again... ;) Are you and your Dad available for a casual get together at any point before the next big meetup?
That deck I loaned John rocks, in my hands it's a tough one to beat. Of course, I know how it's built and such. He can't be expected to maximize the use of a team that was just handed to him. ;)
-BBH
I used another deck: Captain America, Wonder Woman, Zealot and Spider-Woman (3 stat) with The Vault.
bamf (brother) used Beyonder, Mr. Fantastic, Deathbird and X-Babies.
My cousin used Heroes for Hire, Zealot, Juggernaut and someone else.
There will be video next time, hopefully we'll find someway to have it running throughout one of the matches. Video just wasn't practical enough with the camera we had.
ZippaHead's brother had Bishop and Kingpin in addition to Captain America and Sabretooth.
I am also jealous that you guys were able to get so many overpower players in the same place.
Every year, me and Onslaught try and invite as many overpower players to the San Diego Comic Con to play with us, but we usually only end up with 4 people, which is good for fun, but not enough to construct an actual tournament. If anyone of the Canada Crew is planning to attend the San Diego Comic Con, please let us know and we will get together for some games, and if we get at least 8, set-up a mini-tournament with some prizes and such.
Anyone plan on attending SDCC 2011?
Quote from: drdeath25 on January 21, 2011, 02:17:33 AM
I am also jealous that you guys were able to get so many overpower players in the same place.
Every year, me and Onslaught try and invite as many overpower players to the San Diego Comic Con to play with us, but we usually only end up with 4 people, which is good for fun, but not enough to construct an actual tournament. If anyone of the Canada Crew is planning to attend the San Diego Comic Con, please let us know and we will get together for some games, and if we get at least 8, set-up a mini-tournament with some prizes and such.
I'm suprised you guys only get 4 people at a mjaor convention in a state with roughly the same population as all of Canada. Hopefully we can get this thing big enough so it's worth it for you guys to come up here for a weekend. In the meantime you have my sympathy!
when is the SDCC? I live in northern california and I could conceivably attend, along with a few friends...
although if it was in SF it would be much easier as that's only a three hour drive for us.
Noble Kaz
San Diego Comic Con is July 21-24th this year. If you could attend and bring some buddies that would be awesome. I also live in San Francisco, and would be willing to let you guys carpool with me down there. However, you would have to take care of your own hotel, as my hotel already has enough people in it.
However, Wonder Con in San Francisco is April 1-3 this year, I do not normally attend, but i would be willing to probably go down there for a day and play some games with you guys.
Let me know what you think.
Cool! lemme talk it over with our group and i'll get back to you about Wonder Con. SF is so close that we could easily do Wonder Con and SDCC!!
i'll get back to you when i have the details.
Sweet, sounds awesome. Out of the California people I would probably be the only one willing to meet your group at wonder-con (if you decide to go).
But i am thinking if your group came to the SDCC, as well as the other people on this board from california who are already planning on going to the SDCC we could easily have 8-12 people to run a mini-tournament there.
Look at the "California Roll-Call" post you made for a list of people i know on here that are from california and have shown interest in attending SDCC. let me know if i am forgetting anyone so we can get our numbers put together.
help me remember name!
hey the guy with the mustard vest the mustache and the glasses....i recognize that face....i went to canada tournements back in the day my name is chris from cincinnati ...we started a thing called thge op cup back in the day thos canadians were awesome and tremendous hosts........i remember he had a family of players...youngest cudnt read yet and was playing...anyway wud love to remember his name cuz a combination of time and loss of braincells i have forgoten so many names lol. please let me know...oh and hey canada isnt to far realy lol
chris
That's Mike Sutton (Pass the Gestalt on the forums).
Quote from: op cup on July 17, 2011, 06:12:00 PM
help me remember name!
hey the guy with the mustard vest the mustache and the glasses....i recognize that face....i went to canada tournements back in the day my name is chris from cincinnati ...we started a thing called thge op cup back in the day thos canadians were awesome and tremendous hosts........i remember he had a family of players...youngest cudnt read yet and was playing...anyway wud love to remember his name cuz a combination of time and loss of braincells i have forgoten so many names lol. please let me know...oh and hey canada isnt to far realy lol
chris
Chris Vezina?