ALL STAR GAMINGNEWS AND EVENTS 22nd January 2008
 News
1.	Magic The Gathering Morningtide Pre-Release Report
Events
1.	World of Warcraft TCG City Championship – 10/02/08
2.	Magic The Gathering Grand Prix Trial Brussels – 10/02/08
3.	ASG  Monthly (Pokemon & Yu-Gi-Oh!) – 10/02/08
4.	ASG  Monthly (Pokemon, MTG, WoW TCG & Yu-Gi-Oh!) – 09/03/08
5.	Magic The Gathering Buckinghamshire 2HG County Championships –
30/03/08
6.	Magic The Gathering Grand Prix Trial Birmingham – 13/04/08
7.	Magic The Gathering Grand Prix Trial Madrid – 11/05/08
8.	Hemel Hempstead Games Club
9.	Maidenhead Games Club

DETAILS

NEWS SECTION
1)	MAGIC THE GATHERING MORNINGTIDE PRE-RELEASE REPORT

This weekend saw the Pre-Release for the companion set to Lorwyn,
Morningtide.  48 players pitched up over the course of the day to
compete it out for the chance to win one whole display (36 boosters)
of Morningtide.
Morningtide continues to play on the tribal theme, bring the important
of both creature race and class into the forefront of deck building
and drafting.  Players enjoyed the set, trying to find ways to best
utilise the new mechanics and walking away from the day with a new
standard deck in their mind, just waiting to get home to build and
test it.
After 6 rounds with their sealed decks the winner of the main event
was Ben Allen.   Our congratulations go to Ben for winning, and our
thanks go to all the players and staff that helped make the day an
enjoyable and successful one.
Our next Magic The Gathering event is on the 10th February and is a
Grand Prix Trial for Grand Prix Brussels.

EVENTS SECTION
1) WORLD OF WARCRAFT TCG CITY CHAMPIONSHIP – 10/02/08

Entry fee: £15.00
Format: Sealed Deck (6 MOTL Boosters)
Doors open 10:30
Tournament start 11:00
Holiday Inn
High Wycombe M40, Jct 4
Handy Cross
High Wycombe
Side Event Drafts
Entry Fee: £8.50 or 5 boosters of the current set
Format: 3 MOTL boosters
Prizes: 1st = 4 boosters, 2nd = 3 boosters, 3rd/4th = 2 boosters

2)      MAGIC THE GATHERING GRAND PRIX TRIAL BRUSSELS – 10/02/08

Entry fee: £TBC
Format: TBC
Doors open 10:30
Tournament start 11:00
Holiday Inn
High Wycombe M40, Jct 4
Handy Cross
High Wycombe
HP11 1TL
Side Event Drafts
Entry Fee: £8.50 or 5 boosters of the current set
Format: 2 Lorwyn Boosters & 1 Morningtide Booster
Prizes: 1st = 4 boosters, 2nd = 3 boosters, 3rd/4th = 2 boosters

3)      ASL MONTHLY – 10/02/08

Entry fee: Constructed £5, Draft (MTG, WoW) £8.50 Sealed (MTG) £15
Doors open 10:30
Tournament start 11:00
Holiday Inn
High Wycombe M40, Jct 4
Handy Cross
Side Event Drafts
Entry Fee: £8.50 or 5 boosters of the current set
Format: 2 Lorwyn Boosters & 1 Morningtide Booster (MTG) 3 MOTL
Boosters (WoW)
Prizes: 1st = 4 boosters, 2nd = 3 boosters, 3rd/4th = 2 boosters

4)      ASG MONTHLY – 09/03/08

Entry fee: Constructed £5, Draft (MTG, WoW) £8.50 Sealed (MTG) £15
Doors open 10:30
Tournament start 11:00
Holiday Inn
High Wycombe M40, Jct 4
Handy Cross
Side Event Drafts
Entry Fee: £8.50 or 5 boosters of the current set
Format: 2 Lorwyn Boosters & 1 Morningtide Booster (MTG) 3 MOTL
Boosters (WoW)
Prizes: 1st = 4 boosters, 2nd = 3 boosters, 3rd/4th = 2 boosters

5)   MAGIC THE GATHERING BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 2HG COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS -
30/03/08

Entry fee: £25
Format: Sealed Deck - 1 Lorwyn Tournament Deck & 4 Morningtide
Boosters
Doors open 10:30
Tournament start 11:00
Holiday Inn
High Wycombe M40, Jct 4
Handy Cross
High Wycombe
HP11 1TL
Side Event Drafts
Entry Fee: £8.50 or 5 boosters of the current set
Format: 2 Lorwyn Boosters & 1 Morningtide Booster
Prizes: 1st = 4 boosters, 2nd = 3 boosters, 3rd/4th = 2 boosters

6)   MAGIC THE GATHERING GRAND PRIX TRIAL BIRMINGHAM - 13/04/08

Entry fee: £TBC
Format: TBC
Doors open 10:30
Tournament start 11:00
Holiday Inn
High Wycombe M40, Jct 4
Handy Cross
High Wycombe
HP11 1TL
Side Event Drafts
Entry Fee: £8.50 or 5 boosters of the current set
Format: 2 Lorwyn Boosters & 1 Morningtide Booster
Prizes: 1st = 4 boosters, 2nd = 3 boosters, 3rd/4th = 2 boosters

7)   MAGIC THE GATHERING GRAND PRIX TRIAL MADRID – 11/05/08

Entry fee: £TBC
Format: TBC
Doors open 10:30
Tournament start 11:00
Holiday Inn
High Wycombe M40, Jct 4
Handy Cross
High Wycombe
HP11 1TL
Side Event Drafts
Entry Fee: £8.50 or 5 boosters of the current set
Format: 2 Lorwyn Boosters & 1 Morningtide Booster
Prizes: 1st = 4 boosters, 2nd = 3 boosters, 3rd/4th = 2 boosters

8)   HEMEL HEMPSTEAD GAMES CLUB

Tournament Details
Every Tuesday Night
7:30pm – 11pm
Magic FNM Booster Draft & WOW TCG Constructed
£2 Club Fee, £7 Draft Charge, £2 Constructed Charge
1 Current Set Booster for Each Match Win
Old Town Hall, Cellar Bar, High Street, Hemel Hempstead, Herts.

9)   MAIDENHEAD GAMES CLUB

Tournament Details
Every Monday Night
7:30pm – 11pm
Magic FNM Booster Draft
£1 Club Fee, £7 Draft Charge
1 Current Set Booster for Each Match Win
WAMDSAD, Braywick Sports Ground, Maidenhead, Berkshire, Sl6 1BN.

weariness. They feel then their nothingness without knowing
it; for it is indeed to be unhappy to be in insufferable sadness as soon as
we are reduced to thinking of self and have no diversion.

165. Thoughts.--In omnibus requiem quaesivi.21 If our condition were truly
happy, we not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves
happy.

166. Diversion.--Death is easier to bear without thinking of it than is the
thought of death without peril.

167. The miseries of human life has established all this: as men have seen
this, they have taken up diversion.

168. Diversion.--As men are not able to fight against death, misery,
ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to
think of them at all.

169. Despite these miseries, man wishes to be happy, and only wishes to be
happy, and cannot wish not to be so. But how will he set about it? To be
happy he would have to make himself immortal; but, not being able to do so,
it has occurred to him to prevent himself from thinking of death.

170. Diversion.--If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was
diverted, like the Saints and God. Yes; but is it not to be happy to have a
faculty of being amused by diversion? No; for that comes from elsewhere and
from without, and thus is dependent, and therefore subject to be disturbed
by a thousand accidents, which bring inevitable griefs.

171. Misery.--The only thing which consoles us for our miseries is
diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this
which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes
us insensibly ruin ourselves. Without th