The recent hobbies gathering event that our MtG community participated with was the second Iloilo Hobby Con last July 2015. It was a fun and fulfilled two days of Standard tournament and tutorial sessions along with the Magic Origins Iloilo Prerelease.

Starting 2016 was the finally planned Iloilo Game Festival. It was before named as Road to ICCON but I don’t know what really happened why it was changed. Anyhow, the scheduled date will be on January 16 to 17, 2016 and will held at the Shops @ Amigo. There are also other card game tournaments like the Cardfight Vanguard, Yugi-oh and introduction of board games such as King of Tokyo and recently released card games like A Game of Thrones LCG.

The Iloilo Game Festival event poster below:

More tournament info to be posted soon so just stay tuned.

I have initially planned this event September last year to help spread the knowledge of this hobby as well as to recruit new players from the younger generations. I was not able to push through though because of lack of contacts from the schools for their events like College and University week and related happenings. Anyhow, I just would like to share this summary of the things to do during an MtG School Drive:

1. Introduction and brief history of Magic: the Gathering TCG.
2. Awareness of the local MtG Iloilo Community.
3. Magic: the Gathering learn-to-play discussion and play session along with distribution of test decks.
4. Giving out of freebie decks for those who are interested and for further play sessions.

So far these four are the important aspects of this school drive in which I will focus more on learning and mastering the parts of a turn and the card types’ interaction. Hopefully for this school semester I will be able to start the first leg. Hobby Con was the last major gathering wherein I was able to tutor the new players and hoping this will be the follow up to their learning.

I will have another blog post in case there will be updates from my current contacts on the schools.

Until the next post.

The current MTG season will be holding a major event this weekend in the form of the 2012 World Magic Cup. This is the new version of Worlds wherein players from around the globe gather to compete their team and represent their country.

The 2012 World Magic Cup will be held at Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana this coming August 17-19, in Hall G of the Indianapolis Convention Center with a live webcast coverage.

I am hoping today’s representative of Team Pilipinas will be successful & bring home the title of “World Magic Cup Champion”. Good luck to you guys, Andrew, Zax, Jeremy and Gerald!

Information on the World Magic Cup 2012 can be found here.