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| Amazing Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (2) |
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| Amazing Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (2) |
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| Immortal Hulk (Bruce Banner) |
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| Immortal Hulk (Bruce Banner) |
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| Dormammu (Dormammu) |
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| Dormammu (Dormammu) |
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| Winter Soldier (James “Bucky” Barnes) (2) |
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| Winter Soldier (James “Bucky” Barnes) (2) |
Adepticon 2023 has now come and gone and I had a good time. I managed to play 8 games over 3 days, and had time to do some vendor hall shopping and meet up with some old friends, for me that is what AdeptiCon is about.
We played Marvel Crisis Protocol all weekend (Thursday/Friday/Saturday) and the nice thing about MCP events is, if you are no longer in the running, you can easily drop out of the event to go and do other things at the convention, and that is what I did. I am not a competitive player as I go for the comraderie.
Thursday started with the Affiliations tournament and I played one of the smallest affiliations with my "Winter Guard". I ended up going 0-3, but they were all fun games. There were still 2 more games left in the event, but we went to start our shopping and get some dinner.
Friday was the 2v2 Team tournament, and game #1 they put us on table #1 streaming to all the viewers. It was a tight close battle, but we lost by 1 point, 10-11. Games #2 was better for us and we managed a win in the event. Game #3 was another tight battle and lost by 1 point again, but it was really fun, all 3 games we had great time and left after going 1-2. It was going to be a long night as there were still 2 more games, so we headed out to complete some final shopping and dinner.
Saturday was Championship day and one last hoorah for my "Age of Ultron" roster. Game #1 did not start off to good for me, my opponent was nice, but you can tell right away these guys were serious for this event. The super fast play and not much chit chat was not that enjoyable. Game #2 was much better as I had a great opponent and we had a good time. I had the early lead in this game, but then fell apart and got another loss, going 0-2. Only the Top 8 were advancing to Sunday, and you needed a 4-0 record to advance. So with 2 loses, it was my final day for last minute shopping.
After my son was done (who played all 4 games), we headed out to Buona Beef for dinner and then went back to the hotel and packed our bags and headed back home.
The one good thing about this years shopping was, I managed to control myself and kept my purchases to the essentials and did not walk away with a new game (like I usually do), but it was tempting.
Here is a photo dump from the weekend.
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| Emma Frost (Diamond) (Emma Frost) |
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| Emma Frost (Diamond) (Emma Frost) |
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| Emma Frost (Normal) (Emma Frost) |
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| Emma Frost (Normal) (Emma Frost) |
Adepticon 2023 is finally here. I cannot believe how fast the first three months of 2023 has already gone by.
Last year at AdeptiCon due to scheduling conflicts I was only there for one day, so I did not play in any events.
This year, we are driving in Wednesday night and we have events planned for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and on Sunday will be our free day to shop the vendor hall (what we cannot get to Saturday after our event).
All events this year will be Marvel Crisis Protocol (MCP) since that is all I have been playing the last year and enjoy it the most.
Thursday will be MCP Affiliations tournament. Your entire roster needs to be from only one affiliation.
Friday will be the MCP 2v2 tournament where my son and I are teaming up with an “East vs West” themed roster.
Saturday is the main event for MCP, the AdeptiCon Championships with the Top 8 moving on to Sunday (wont be us, hence the Sunday free day). I’ll be playing my themed “Age of Ultron” list for one final event.
Our goal is to play all games on Thursday/Friday (5 games each day), but we shall see how we do and may elect to bow out earlier.
Come back next week for a recap and photos from AdeptiCon 2023.
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| Psylocke (Elizabeth Braddock) |
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| Psylocke (Elizabeth Braddock) |
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| Beta Ray Bill (Bill) |
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| Beta Ray Bill (Bill) |
