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Post by distractedcarnifex on Aug 12, 2021 22:27:45 GMT -5
Should we have a have a thank you to Shannon day where we bring him beer and cookies for being an amazing T.O. I could get behind that! |
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Post by lightcavalier on Aug 13, 2021 4:49:46 GMT -5
beer and cookies... now you're talking my language! lol but seriously, no thank you necessary. I went for many years living in a small town in northwestern Ontario where I would have given just about anything to have a store like Nexus, and a community of gamers to hang out with. Growing the community is my only goal. We just passed 10 years of club championship tournies. I remember several years ago as Justin said above, that we didn't have enough players to have tournies at all, nevermind those with 40+ attendees (covid aside of course). When it was time to rebuild things (well when I took over tournies and built this forum with Tommy) it was the goal to have the community first and foremost. I said I wasn't running tournies for the top 5% of players, I was running them for the OTHER 95%, because without them there were no tournies, there was no community, and there was no fun. Winning can feel pretty good. But nothing feels quite as good as seeing the newest player at the tourney win the biggest prize, and seeing what a friendly, healthy community of gamers looks like for new people to join, cuz for the longest time I never had that. And it sucked. I've also seen (in the past) new players get stomped by the "top players" and never come back because it wasn't fun. You can still have fun even when you lose (lost today and had a great game!) as long as it's a good game with a fun opponent. We're pushing around toy soldiers for fun after all, how can that be a bad time?  Anyhow... tangent over lol... basically it boils down to this game is supposed to be fun. When people need to be that cutthroat at these big events to win at all costs, all I think is that isn't fun for me. I'll roll dice at nexus instead thanks  Interesting. I will say that Kingston/Nexus has done a great job with being friendlier about gaming for a long time. I was playing 40k (and firestorm armada) here in 2006 through 2010 and the stores events were usually quite chill, or at least were more chill than my experiences in Fredericton that led up to quitting 40k at the start of 6e. I was very happy to see that things were still very friendly when I returned |
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