Congratulations to our Autumn Season participation winners, Nathan W. (Qld), Nick S. (VIC), Challonge ID MountainStu (Vic) and Jesse (SA). We are thrilled with the level of participation so far and the player base continues to grow. We want to make sure that the game is always fun and enjoyable for everyone to participate and ensure that no matter what the result, everyone has a great time. The Autumn Season Participation Draw Results run through random.org can be found here.

Details for our Winter Season are now available on our Organised Play page. The format remains the same for points, how they accumulate and the levels of prizes available. But the exciting thing is Goku, Super Saiyan God is back in the prize pool for Championship winners! So get to as many events at your local store as you can. The more practice you get, the better chance you have for these great prizes. It’s also great preparation for Regional and National Championships happening throughout August to October – which will also accumulate Championship and Participation points!

We’re excited for the coming months so don’t forget to check out the Organised Play Calendar and our Facebook page for all the events on in each state.

Game on!
– Trent (@TAKGames_Trent) and Kyp (@justkyp).

Our Movie Collection preview card for today’s release is a great one for those people who have been waiting for a little more impact in their Orange Physical beatdown decks.

Orange Smash has a fairly decent damage output, up there with a modifier of +4. The personalities I have heard people talk about for Orange in this fashion are Nail, God Goku, Vegeta and quite possibly Turles. With the exception of God Goku, with all of these MPs starting in bracket B a boost to damage is a blessing. Added to buffs that can be created through either the personality powers or drills, it can land some tough punches that will have most opponents sitting at 0 quickly.

The part that I like is banishing your drills to bring them back at the end of combat. If you tie this in with Orange Torching Drill it can add to the mill you create. It can also help protect some of those drills that you may require, by having a way to bring them back and not be targeted in the field by your opponent’s effects.

This card builds on an aspect of Orange that a lot of players of the Old Z game have been wanting to explore, with physical beatdown. Teaming it with Nail, using this card in combat with Orange Uppercut moving into Nail’s Dashing Attack you’re starting to hit for some big number of stages. Come back tomorrow when we will preview a new Blue card that will help more aggressive Blue builds deal with passive board control decks even more.

Game on!

-Trent (@TAKGames_Trent)

We are always working to ensure that all players have a fair, enjoyable and safe place to play the Dragon Ball Z TCG. And to help ensure this we have today issued our TAK Games Organised Play Guidelines. These rules have been set out to help players and Tournament Organisers understand what may or may not be fair play within the game.

The organised play guidelines document can be found here: Organised Play Guidelines

The document discusses a range of different issues that may arise during the course of a game or tournament. At the heart of this though is the ability for Tournament Organisers and players to work together to ensure that genuine errors are not harshly punished.

If you do have any questions please feel free to get in touch with us at dbz@tak-games.com.au and we’d be more than happy to help.

Game on!

-Trent (@TAKGames_Trent) and Kyp (@JustKyp)

Congratulations to our Summer Season participation winners, Kenny N. (NSW), John C. (VIC), Chris P. (QLD) and Ryan V. (TAS). We are thrilled with the level of participation so far and the player base continues to grow. We want to make sure that the game is always fun and enjoyable for everyone to participate and ensure that no matter what the result, everyone has a great time.

For the Autumn Season of TAK Games Organised Play, we have taken a considerable amount of time to look at results, listen to feedback offered on our Facebook page and the DragonBall Z TCG Australia group and improve the outcomes for all players. The Autumn Season started on the 1st of April 2015 and will run through to the 30th of June. This is a great time to finish as our next season will coincide with the release of the new Movie Collection booster set. The changes we have implemented for Autumn Season are:

• For Winners prizes, only your best 8 event results over the course of the season will be added for your season total Championship points.
• Participation points will always accrue, no matter how many players show up and no matter how many tournaments you attend, in order to give you more chances for participating.
• In the unlikely event that anyone in the Top 4 are tied on total number of Championship points, our Organised Play page has been updated with our method of solving tiebreakers.

There will be prizes again for the Top 4 overall players, and four participation players. Prizes for this season, at this stage, will be:

• A choice of Heroic Energy Sphere or Villainous Energy Sphere (1 available)
• A Piccolo – Stoic alternate art promo (1 available)
• A set of all promotional cards available in the Autumn Season (1 available)
• A Panini Dragon Ball Z playmat

In addition to this, the top player in each state will receive a $50 TAK Games store credit, redeemable for singles on the TAK Games online store. To aid players in finding events, we’ve set up an organised play events calendar so you can use this as a reference.

Last but not least, TAK Games will be at PAX Australia in Melbourne from the 30th of October to the 1st of November 2015. We have something special planned to tie in with accumulated Championship points so keep an eye out for an announcement. Let us know what you would like to see in the way of events at PAX Australia.

Game On!

– Trent (@TAKGames_Trent) and Kyp (@JustKyp)

February is shaping up to be a big month of TAK Games Organised Play Summer Season events. Affiliated stores are holding events all over Australia in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. We have been thrilled to see all the great comments and the great times people have been having with the game, and hope to see more. So that you have a good view of what’s planned for the month we thought it would be best to give you an run down of who has tournaments when.

As part of this, TAK Games is happy to announce the addition of a few new stores to help you get your fix of DBZ TCG action. You will find regular tournaments at Anime Exchange (Ipswich, Qld), Good Games Brisbane (Spring Hill, Qld) and Good Games Melbourne (Melb CBD, Vic) to add to the list of great places already holding awesome tournaments.

How is your meta fairing? Is Captain Ginyu making an impact, or has something come out of left field that has you stumped?

Places near you will be;

New South Wales

Good Games Burwood – Events fortnightly on Sundays

Queensland

GUF Brisbane – Sunday 15th of February
Anime Exchange – Saturday 21st of February
TAK Games – Saturday 28th of February

Victoria

TAK Games – Sunday 8th of February
Good Games Box Hill – Events fortnightly on Saturdays
Good Games Melbourne – Fortnightly from the Saturday the 15th and Tuesday the 24th
GUF Werribee – Saturday the 21st of February
GUF Ballarat – Events every Tuesday evening

 
We look forward to seeing more results before the next set hits!

Game On!

-Trent (@TAKGames_Trent)