Articles by Mike Whitaker
SAGA Melée cancelled
We regret to announce that this year’s SAGA Melée will not now take place. We’ll be in touch with entrants to ensure their refunds are processed according to their preference.
Magic The Gathering Tournament
The Rift are organising two tournaments for us this year – the second is a Magic The Gathering event. As before, tickets are available here, from the sidebar or via the store itself. Entry is £1o, including show admission (and … [more]
X-Wing Tournament
Local gaming store The Rift are hosting another X-Wing tournament for us this year. Entry (including show entrance) is £10, and you can sign up here or via the ticket links on the right (or in store at the Rift, of … [more]
Hereward III – the search for Harald
It’s that time of the year again – the website gets updated, the forms get redone, we send off to Vistaprint for the first batch of flyers… So, if you’re clutching a flyer in your hand from Hammerhead, you’ll be … [more]
Show Walkthrough
A huge thank you to Chris Malme from Posh Games, who some of you may have seen walking through the show during the morning with his Ricoh 360º camera on a stick. So, if you missed the show or would just … [more]
Harald Found!
To our surprise, and slight bemusement, a UPS delivery man knocked on our chairman’s door on Wednesday and delivered a box of 250 of Gripping Beast‘s finest Harald Hardrada figures! Bemusement because they were supposed to be delivered to a … [more]
Making the show better
We have a goal of making each show better than the last. To this end, we’d like your feedback on this year’s show, what you think we did well, what we can improve. If you would like to, please feel free … [more]
More on Harald
The bad news – Gripping Beast have heard from UPS and to quote the latter “we’ve lost it”. It has been diplomatically suggested they find it again PDQ. The good. We’re heard from the man himself! No, seriously,. Our chairman … [more]
Thank you
So that’s another show done. We’d like to say a big thank you to our headline sponsors Gripping Beast; tournament sponsors Gripping Beast (again), The Rift, Shire Post Mint, Banter Behind the Throne and Mantic Games; Wayne and Wargames Illustrated; Karen, Alison, David and Grant at the … [more]