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Bath

 Wednesday Night Magic at Bath Magic. Contact Paul for details.

Bristol

  Planar Chaos pre-release (Sealed Deck) – 20th January, Travelling Man, 8 Park Street.

  Planar Chaos pre-release (Sealed Deck) – 20th January, Area51, 230 Gloucester Road. Doors open 10am for 11am start. Eight-player flights at £15 each. More info here.

  Planar Chaos pre-release (Sealed Deck) – 21st January, Rotunda Centre. Doors open 10am for 11am start. Main event entry £17. Eight-player side flights at £15. More info here.

 Arena league, drafts and casual Magic play every Thursday from seven o’clock at Area51, 230 Gloucester Road.

 Games evening, including Magic, every Tuesday from 6:30pm at Travelling Man, 8 Park Street.

Cornwall

 Friday Night Magic at Black Sheep Games from 6:30pm. Ring them on 01872 320002, or e-mail Dave Philpott.

Exeter

  Planar Chaos pre-release (Sealed Deck) – 20th January, Clifton Road Games. 11am start, £15 entry.

 Friday Night Magic. 7:00pm every Friday at Clifton Road Games. E-mail Steven or ring him on 01392 259988.

Plymouth

  Planar Chaos pre-release (Sealed Deck) – 21st January, Quality Hotel. Doors open 10:00am for an 11:30am start. £15 entry. Side Drafts & Standard.

 Week Night Magic. Usually Wednesday at 7:00pm in the Hyde Park. E-mail Squeek or ring him on 07812 790942 for details.

Yeovil

  Planar Chaos pre-release (Sealed Deck) – 21st January, Witch Engine.

 Friday Night Magic and casual play on Wednesdays from 5:30pm to 9:30pm at Witch Engine, 7 South Western Terrace, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1NB. Contact Lorraine.

Cardiff Games – have occasional tournament reports.

Channel Islands Magic – what’s going on in the Channel...

Gloucestershire, pt 1 – Simeon Jones gets Brizel TV in Gloucestershire. Find out about Booster Draft as part of Friday Night Magic, and a regular draft day on the fourth Sunday of the Month.

Gloucestershire, pt 2 – Michelle Baker is Club Secretary of The King’s Summoners, who play in Dursley.

Gloucestershire, pt 3 – Jessica Brereton has recently set up a casual play group based in Stroud.

Gloucestershire, pt 4 – John Freeman runs casual Magic nights every Tuesday in the Basement Bar of his own pub: The Cotswolds Inn, 17 Portland Street, Cheltenham. All welcome and – as the licensee is the chief instigator and a Magic player – a good night should be guaranteed. You can phone the pub on 01242 526485.

Peterborough – find out more from Gnome Trader.

Portsmouth – Squirrel Games organise events from their shop.

Swindon – Tony Edwards runs tournaments on the second Sunday of each month. Doors open at 11:00 for a 12:00 start, at four quid per person. Drop Tony a line for details, or pop over to the Swindon website. You can now chip in on their forum.

 Claire says...

Thanks to all the players who have supported tournaments in Bristol and Bath, but I have decided to stop organising Magic events. I have some wonderful memories from events as a player, judge and organiser and wish you all the very best.

PTQ Prague – Bristol

Sunday 5th March 2006

Congratulations to Alastair McClare, who won the PTQ at Bristol for Prague out of a strong field of fifty-seven players. Alastair joins another local player, Paul Lim, who won the PTQ at Newport (see below) – so good luck to both of them in Prague!

The next event at Bristol is the two-headed giant Champs on Sunday 19th March, back at our old venue of the Stag & Hounds – which is within easy walking distance of both train and bus stations, and does a good Sunday lunch. Registration is at 10.00am for a 10.45am start. This is a Limited format tournament. If you are hoping to come, please pre-register on my new e-mail address: claire.will@btinternet.com

PTQ Prague – Newport

Saturday 11th February 2006

The finalists, watched by judge Iowyn and fan!

Thank you to the fifty-six players who turned out to do battle at Newport. The final top eight were:

Congratulations to Paul Lim who won the PTQ, beating Jan Johansen in the final.

Congratulations to Steve Woodward, who won the Bath Counties Event playing White Weenie (splashing red) against a small but select field, and Adam Barnett, who won the Bristol Counties Event playing a Mono-Blue Control deck.

Ravnica: City of Guilds Pre­release – Bath

24th September 2005

More than 80 players packed into the plush – though somewhat warm – new venue to enjoy the multicolour Magic of Ravnica. Having three boosters made it easier to find enough creatures and gold cards to build viable decks. After seven rounds of deep thinking (unless you were playing a Boros deck), Tom Demeranville emerged undefeated, his two Selesnya Guildmages leading an army of saprolings to victory (backed up by a Woebringer Demon)!

English Nationals

6th & 7th August 2005

Congratulations to Mark Knight, who came second at the English Nationals up in Donnington, losing his only match of the weekend in the final itself, to Richard Moore. Mark joins Rich and Sam Gomersall to form the English team for the World Championships in Japan later this year.

Saviors of Kamigawa Pre­release – Bath & Bristol

21st & 22nd May 2005

These two pre-releases were very busy. Congratulations to Steve Woodward and Manveer Samra, who won a flight each at Bath on Saturday, and to James King, who won at Bristol on Sunday. Speaking of that Sunday, thank you to everyone who helped to set up, etc., while the luckless TO (me!) was locked out of the venue – never had that happen before.

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Cornwall

Vini Gardner

Dave Philpott

Plymouth

  Squeek

  Phil Alexander

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  Hanrahan Highland

Bristol

Area51
230 Gloucester Road
Bristol
BS7 8NZ

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Travelling Man
8 Park Street
Bristol
BS1 5NF

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Rotunda Centre

82 Moravian Road
Kingswood
Bristol
BS15 8NF

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Cornwall

Black Sheep Games
Shop 4, St Mary’s Street Mews
Truro
TR1 2BE

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Mad for Miniatures
Unit 20
The Market House
St Austell
PL25 5QB

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Exeter

Clifton Road Games
16 Clifton Road
Exeter
EX1 2BR

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Newport

Hasbro UK
Caswell Way
Reevesland Industrial Estate
Newport
NP19 4YH

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Plymouth

The Hyde Park
88 Mutley Plain
Plymouth
PL4 6LG

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Quality Hotel
Cliff Road
The Hoe
Plymouth
PL1 3DL

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 Yeovil

Witch Engine
7 South Western Terrace
Yeovil
Somerset
BA20 1NB

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