... so, what to do with it?

Personally, I would like to find out who the other Australians are in the forum, and where they play. I suspect that some people from my venues read HC Realms, but I have no idea who they are!

Yeah I agree ZC. So here's some vital information to start off with;

-Where are you (city)?
-What is you local playing group and venue like (if you have one)?
-Which other Realmsers do you know personally?

I'm in Ballarat myself, the only judge in town. Years ago when I first got into HC, it frustrated me to no end that there wasn't any way for me to access LEs unless I drove down to Melbourne, which is about an hour and a half away. So I got a Melbourne judge to sponsor me and become one myself.

We have one tournament a month, with about a dozen players (although usually not everyone can make it). A very good group of guys- they're all great sports. My venue is the Games Cove, which is a really great little games shop in town and one of only 3 places you can buy clix (one other not having any figures later than Crtical Mass, and the other being K-mart!). Unfortunately their store doesn't have much space so we can't actually play in there. We play in the basement of a different store, which is actually really handy since the space isn't used for anything else so we can leave it set up all the time.

I know at least one guy from my playing group comes on Realms. His username is CensusTaker. We actually met through realms! Top guy, who unfortunately doesn't get to come to tourneys much because he's the lead singer in a band, which keeps him very busy. He's a really good player too- often plays very themey teams but is always dangerous to face. Very sharp!

I do know one Sydney realmser who goes by M.O.D.O.C. - I met him when I came up to Sydney a few years ago for the nationals, in my attempt to get Galactus. I came really close, making it through all the qualifiers undefeated, but then got knocked out in the semi-finals.

I know you're in Sydney too ZC. I assume there's a few venues around there. What are they like?

ooo...I didn't see this.

Anyway, I've never played HC Only collecting (So far) [108 at last count )
There is, from what i can see, no Playing groups on the gold Coast... I only know of one other HC Player/Collector. I've kinda Brought Every HeroClix Booster pack from Tweed heads to Surfers Paradise and everywhere in between... I'm happy about that fact

Hey Status, my uncle lives on the Gold Coast. He told me he's seen clix singles at the markets up there a lot, so that suggests to me that there has to be a decent amount of players up there. Although, he might've been looking at Mage Knight or something- I'm sure he probably wouldn't know the difference.

In fact, I met a clix player from Qld (might have been Brisbane though) when I went to the nationals. Try doing a search on the Wizkids site for any events in your area. You'll probably be surprised.

ZC we can also use this forum to discuss anything that has to do with australia that no one else would care about. Such as the aussie rules grand final, or what's happenning in Lost at the moment (I've always been too scared to go onto the Lost thread in Another Realm in case our clixers across the Pacific would give away spoilers).

Okay, I just did a search on your behalf. Here's all the venues I could find in QLD that appear to be active with upcoming tournaments:

Samford Gaming Club
St Paul's Anglican Church
Samford Village QLD Australia

Fastbreak Sports
1 Chapel Street
Nundah QLD Australia

Comic Warriors Annerley
Shop 18 Annerley Arcade, 478 Ipswich Rd
Annerley QLD Australia

Ferny Hills Gaming Club
55 Ferny Way
Ferny Hills QLD Australia

Any of those near you at all? There could be more (I notice my venue didn't show up in the search for some reason).

- I'm in Sydney (obviously).
- These days I mostly play at Sydney Games Centre in Burwood (on Sunday afternoons) and the Tin Soldier in the city (on Thursday nights). I used to play a lot with the UNSW Gameplayers on campus in Kingsford, but those were obviously very informal games.
- I'm not sure what names the people I know might go by here. I do know M.O.D.O.C., and indeed he was at the Tin Soldier this Thursday night.

Venues in Sydney: SGC in Burwood is probably the main one - there are tournaments there every Sunday from 2pm until about five or six pm (depending on how organised everything is that day). Every week is a different "format" (tomorrow is a 600 point game in which all your characters and cards have to come from the same expansion), and it would be great to have that announced online so that if somebody doesn't know what it is one week, they can check the forums and find out.

People pay $5 to play, but that money goes towards buying boosters that are opened so that people can pick figures out in the order that they placed in the tournament. So even if you don't come first or second, there's a reasonable chance that you'll get a unique or a character that you want or need from the prize pool.

The Tin Soldier is a very friendly venue, but because of time limitations (playing after work on a weekday) and space (there isn't as much of it as there is at SGC) the tournaments are smaller and shorter (one or two reounds, depending). However, they are very friendly, social games, and we tend to have some "experimental" formats. One week we played "Everybody has Steal Energy on every click, and other forms of healing don't work" - that was fun.

I suspect that there might be games run at one of the game stores out in western Sydney (there's one in Blacktown and in Penrith) ut I haven't been out that way in awhile so I don't have that info.

It's nice to see some Oz people

I am from Perth, mainly a collector, been in from IC.

It seems that South Australia has a group of players, as I have traded with Keef from Adelaide.

None are near me.

the nearest is in Brisbane at a shop called the Daily Planet...I think...they do the weekly games...

I'm wanting to start something up, Like a weekly game, But there are some problems with that, 1: Finding a Venue, 2: Find the People to show up, 3: I need to learn how to play

I have a friend who was sent to Townsville by the company he works for. There are no clix players up there. They still have Unleashed sitting on the shelves, and he's the only person who's been buying the comic store's new Sinister stock.

at least he has a place to BUY Sinister...well, any Booster for that matter...
I had to get mine from K-Mart, who didn't have a lot...and i brought them all...

I visited Aussie-land in '95. Probably my best vacation ever...even got to meet the Queen of England on the way over.

I'm so jealous of y'all...especially Cairns and Melbourne residents.

i have thought of popping into SGC every now and then but alas, neither the SGC website or wizkids site lists HC tournies, and i'm just to lazy to call.

Hi there
i'm currently running tournaments in 3 venues

The Toy Collector
Elizabeth Town centre

The Toy Collector
Ingle Farm Shopping centre

CBM Gaming
23 Charlotte st
Smithfield

any one interested in playing contact me at [email protected]
yournaments are held every 2 weeks in all venues

also if anyone wants to trade send haves and wants lists to me

[email protected]