Elections!

This Thursday is both the last officially organized meeting we have this semester, and elections. Yes, the time you, members of DAGGER, get to choose who will lead us into the next year, who will get to design puzzles for Puzzlehunt, and most importantly, who will probably be sending an e-mail every week telling people, "We have DAGGER going on."

Elections should not take particularly long and will be followed by a giant sigh of relief that classes are over as well as games. Once again, send me any requests for particular games.

War Against Fifth Alpha

Hail all,

In our past, our organization fought a horror known only as fifth alpha. Through a night, our organization ran a campaign against fifth alpha. Fifth alpha, or "Fifth Alpha Thingy" was not to be said, and all fun distractions must not contain fifth alpha in alias. This Thursday, all fun distractions will not contain fifth alpha. Things brought will contain Dominion, Dixit, San Juan, and so on.

Wayn

Gamer's Paradise Charity Tournament

Break is over and I'm going to be incredibly late to this week's meeting. Hopefully David will be able to bring the games to the meeting relatively on time in my stead, but I'm sure games will reach the room somehow.

In much cooler news, Gamer's Paradise Charity Tournament will be going on the weekend of March 30-31, 12:00-6:30 PM!
We are hosting five awesome tournaments:

Starcraft 2: HotS
DotA 2
Settlers of Catan
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Magic: The Gathering


All tournaments will have a $5 entry fee and have marginally attractive prizes TBA. All of your delicious money will be funneled through us and directly to Child's Play.

Starcraft 2 will be 1v1, best of 3, single elimination.

DotA 2 will be solo mid, double elimination, best of 3, unless we get enough interest to prove that we will have more than 3 or 4 teams.

Settlers of Catan will be run akin to these rules. They are subject to modification depending on the amount of participants.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl will be run by someone who knows more about the subject than me.

Magic: The Gathering will be a Gatecrash draft. Due to this, the entry fee for this tournament will be $15 as you are also paying for your packs.


Once the tournament days near we will have much more information, but if you are interested, feel free to send an e-mail to dukegamersparadise@gmail.com.

Not Quite Spring Break Break

If your past few weeks have been anything like mine, you can't wait for spring break to finally arrive. So, we are taking a break from any theme this week. However, since there will be an entire week of not school to plan things, I want to know what you guys want to see DAGGER do in the near future. I'm currently thinking of more Murder in the Dark and something similar to Nerf Wars soon.

In the vein of things DAGGER is hosting, I want to remind everyone that we are hosting a series of charity tournaments March 30-31. We already asked about any particular choices for a board game tournament, but there are still two events up for debate.

What we know we are going to have in some way shape or form:

Magic: The Gathering Draft

Starcraft II

Settlers of Catan

What we have to decide between and you can send long emails about why one is better:

DotA 2 or League of Legends

Super Smash Bros. Brawl or Melee

All of these tournaments will have small entry fees and small prizes (though I can't quite speak for the draft, MTG is an expensive hobby). All profit is going to go straight to Child's Play Charity though.

Regardless, I hope everyone has an awesome, not full of class, spring break.

Card Games on DAGGERcycles

I might've missed last week's theme e-mail, but not this week! This week we are going to play card games of all sorts. Really if most of the game is based around cards it would be a card game. Again, suggestions are welcome.

In additional other news, Helio and John have a surplus of Gatecrash booster packs and are looking for people to run a draft with all the packs. "We're thinking $2.50 per pack, so that would come out to $7.50 per person no prize support (or like $10 per person with 8 packs payout per 8 person pod)." Contact me, contact them, go to DAGGER, all are great options for joining in on this draft.

Anyways, hope to see you guys there!

P.S. We don't actually have DAGGERcycles; although if anyone wanted to donate one, we probably wouldn't turn them down.

Valentines Day!

It's the season of love and pointlessly expensive flowers! Many couples will participate in histrionic dates and EVERYTHING WILL BE BLINDINGLY PINK! Other people will basically ignore the existence of the holiday, and a few people will eat flavored chalk shaped like hearts. Valentines Day is arriving!

So basically we're just gonna have a regular DAGGER meeting with games and stuff.

DAGGER Community

Thursday is coming soon, and since we're in mid-October, we may as well have a pre-emptive Halloween theme. It's super happy fun time scaring ourselves into unity through combined pants-wetting terror. Ghosts, betrayal, and other horror games will be making an appearance.

I hope to see you guys this Oct. 19th!

P.S. Durham County library is planning on running board game nights and a Graphic Novel Club. Maybe contact me or check it out if you are interested?