Program expands outside the US to Europe, Latin America and Canada – offering awesome tournaments and prizes to players and retailers
Hillside, NJ —December 8, 2016 – WizKids is pleased and excited to announce the return of their popular “WizKids Open” series of in-store tabletop game tournaments for 2016. The 2016 WizKids Open program includes a series of regional tournaments, held at selected friendly local game shops, where players will battle it out in HeroClix, Dice Masters, and Attack Wing games for supremacy and amazing prizes.
While previous WizKids Open events were limited to stores in the United States, WizKids has begun a global expansion by opening up the tournaments to retailers and players in Europe, Latin America and Canada.
At the WizKids Open events, which begin in February 2016 in the US, players will not only be battling it out for a chance to win their regional titles, but also can earn eligibility to participate in the National WizKids tournaments.
While participating stores in Latin America and Canada will be revealed in the coming weeks, with Europe following shortly after, WizKids Open 2016 US locations include:
- Battleground Games (Modesto, CA)
- Coliseum of Comics (Orlando, FL)
- Chicagoland Games (Chicago, IL)
- Games and Stuff (Glen Burnie, MD)
- Eternal Games (Warren, MI)
- Highlander Games (Boynton, NJ)
- Millennium Games (Rochester, NY)
- Dragon’s Lair (Austin, TX)
- Olympic Cards and Games (Lacey, WA)
Players should register immediately, as WizKids is going to be giving away significant prize packs to players chosen randomly from those who have pre-registered for the US events by 1/15/2015.
Don’t wait – sign up for the WizKids Open 2016 now!
To learn more about WKO 2016, visit: http://wizkidseventsystem.com/wp/wko-2016/
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About WizKids
WizKids/NECA, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NECA, is a New Jersey-based game developer and publisher dedicated to creating games driven by imagination. WizKids first pioneered the Combat Dial system featured in HeroClix, the leading collectible miniatures game on the market, with over 750 million miniature game figures sold worldwide. WizKids continues to produce new proprietary game platforms and properties including the award-winning fantasy board game Mage Knight, the groundbreaking Dice Building Game engine used in the critically-acclaimed game Quarriors and Dice Masters, as well as its widely haled execution Attack Wing. For additional information, visit www.wizkids.com.
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