Store Championship Dates and Locations

By shmitty, in Star Wars: Armada

Store Championships season is fast approaching. It begins May 13th and runs through August.

FFGOP provided us with a list of locations that will be holding these tournaments: https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/op/events/2017-store-championships-may-august/armada/

and @Spaceman01 provided us with an awesome map of the locations: https://drive.google.com/open?id=153TfDXaVBSxKqpAjm2lw8cWxPn8&usp=sharing

Since it is up to individual stores to set their own dates for the tournaments I thought I would start a post that collected the dates of known Store Championships.

June

  • 3rd - Game Kastle - Santa Clara, CA
    • Flint's CCG - Kitchener, ON
    • Hobbytown USA - Kenesaw, GA
  • 4th - Around the Table Game Pub - Lynnwood, WA
  • 10th - Drawbridge Games - Pittsburg, PA
    • Critical Hit Games - St Petersburg, FL
    • Gameology - Monteclair, CA
    • Recess Games - North Olmstead, OH (Cleveland)
    • Game Night Games - Salt Lake City, UT
    • Games Plus - Mount Prospect, IL
    • Fair Game - Downers Grove, IL
    • Carboard Gaming - NOVA
    • Mage's sanctum - Austin, TX
    • Mission: Fun & Games - St. Albert, AB
    • Borderlands - Salem, OR
  • 11th - Game Kastle Fremont - Fremont, CA
    • Rook's Comics and Games - Bozeman, MT
  • 17th -
    • Justplay Games - Liverpool, UK
    • Dice Age Games - Vancouver, WA
    • Aether Game Cafe - Hoboken, NJ
    • Lost Ark Games - Stevenage, UK
    • Ready to Play Trading Cards - Columbia, SC
    • Bel Air Games - Bel Air, MD
    • Gate Keeper Games - Berkley, MI
    • The Game Preserve - Greencastle, IN
    • Enterprise Free Game - Levis, QC
  • 24th - Dream Wizards - Rockville, MD
    • War Boar Games - Bromley, UK
    • Siren Games - Vienna, AT
    • Paradox CNC - Fargo, ND
    • FFG HQ - Minneapolis, MN
    • Highlander Games and Comics - Boonton, NJ
    • Court of Gamers - San Antonio, TX
  • 25th - Sentry Box - Calgary, AB
    • Emerald Knights Comics and Games - Burbank. CA
    • Beanie Games - Stockton on Tees, UK

July

  • 1st - Jupiter Games - Binghamton, NY
    • Knightly Gaming - Lanark, UK
    • Compleat Strategist - New York, NY
    • Tabletop Shop - Newington, CT
    • Weekend Warlords - Loughborough, UK
  • 2nd - A Muse N Games - Winnipeg, Manitoba
    • Immortals, Inc - rocky River, OH
    • Spielsplatz - Ulm, Germany
  • 8th - Firestorm Games - Cardiff, UK
    • Games Hub, Edinburgh, UK
    • RIW - Livonia, MI
    • Dave and Adam's Card World - Williamsville, NY
  • 9th - Realm Games and Comics - Brea, CA
  • 15th - Games and Stuff - Glen Burnie, MD
    • Kirton Games - Crediton, UK
    • Game HQ - Oklahoma Ciky, OK
    • Pair of Dice Games - Vista, CA
    • Shadow Games - Rugby, UK
    • Epic Loot Centerville - Centerville, OH
    • Empire game Center - Streetsboro, OH
    • Titan Games - Champaign
    • Game Theory - Raleigh, NC
    • Game On - Prescott, AZ
  • 16th - Common Ground Games - Stirling, UK
    • Mr. Nice Guy Games - Monroeville, PA
  • 22nd - Mishap Games - Roanoke, VA
    • Pastimes Games - Niles, IL
    • Critical Hit Games - Aberdeen, MD
    • Atomic Games and Music - Muncie, IN
    • Get Your Fun On - Melbourne, FL
    • Dragon's Lair - Austin, TX
    • Chimera Hobby Shop - Fon du Lac, WI
    • Empire Games - Anderson, SC
    • River City Hobbies - Lacrosse, WI
  • 23rd - Element Games - Stockport, UK
    • Meeples Games - Seattle, WA
    • The Gamers Emporium - Swansea, UK
    • Bag of Holding - Bournemouth, UK
    • Geek Out Games - Clemson, SC
  • 29th - Patriot Games - Sheffield, UK
    • Crystal Dragon games and Hobbies - Niles, OH
    • Board Game Barrister - Milwaukee, WI
    • Little Shop of Magic - Las Vegas, NV
    • South Town Games - San Antonio, TX
  • 30th - Bristol Independent Gaming - Bristol, UK
    • Entoyment - Poole, UK

August

  • 5th - Redcaps - Philadelphia, PA
    • Knight Watch Games - San Antonio, TX
    • Wasteland Games - Duluth, GA
    • Wargames Emporium - Sheffield, UK
    • Big Orbit Games - Evesham, UK
  • 6th - Endgame - Oakland, CA
  • 12th - Olympic Cards and Comics - Lacey, WA
    • Island Games - NOVA
    • Tier 1 Cards & Games - Anchorage, AK
    • Meeples Madness - Flowery Branch, GA
  • 13th - Kayjay's Games & Hobbies - Melbourne, Victoria
  • 19th - Atomic Empire - Durham, NC
    • Athena Games - Norwich, UK
    • Games Keep - West Chester, PA
    • Myth Games - Calgary, AB
    • Jersey's Cards and Comics - Yorktown, VA
    • Quest Comic Shop - Carrolton, GA
  • 26th - Huzzah Hobbies - NOVA

Please post below as you learn of other dates, locations, and times.

Edited by shmitty

Past Tournaments

May

  • 20th - Gamer's Armory - Cary, NC
    • Giga-Bites Cafe - Marietta, GA
    • Games Cafe - Independence, MO
    • Game Asylum - Aldershot, UK
    • The Deep - Huntsville, AL
  • 27th - Twisted Cauldron - Folkestone, UK
    • Comic Kingdom - Reno, NV
    • GTS Barcelon - Barcelona, Spain
  • 28th - Red Castle Games - Portland, OR
    • Sanctuary Gaming Centre - Mansfield, UK
    • Ibuywargames - Working, UK
  • 29th - Marquee Models - Harlow, UK
Edited by shmitty

Games And Stuff has Jul 15th listed via Nova Fleet on FB. Only other date I heard of so far.

5 minutes ago, Stasy said:

Games And Stuff has Jul 15th listed via Nova Fleet on FB. Only other date I heard of so far.

City?

7 minutes ago, shmitty said:

City?

Glen Burnie, MD

The Island Games in Centreville, VA also posted their date for 12AUG17.

Edited by Truthiness

Per the store owner, Heroes Comics & Games in Louisville is not hosting a store championship.

May 20 - Gamer's Armory - Cary, NC

August 19th - Atomic Empire - Durham, NC (This date has been reported by staff but not officially confirmed)

I've reached out to Hobbytown in Fayetteville, NC and Play It Again in Charlotte to get dates on theirs but nothing set yet.

Edited by WuFame

Dream Wizards in Rockville, MD is set for 24JUN17. I'll reach out to Carboard Games in Odenton (not Hanover), MD as well since they're in my neck of the woods.

May 20 - Giga-Bites Cafe, Marietta, GA

43 minutes ago, tracker7 said:

Per the store owner, Heroes Comics & Games in Louisville is not hosting a store championship.

I removed them from the map.

I have added Dates to the map also. Is there anything else that should be on the map?

50 minutes ago, Spaceman01 said:

I removed them from the map.

I have added Dates to the map also. Is there anything else that should be on the map?

You're missing the Winona one in Minnesota, but that's all I've seen.

Tentative date of June 17 for The Village Geek in McPherson, Kansas.

1 hour ago, Spaceman01 said:

I removed them from the map.

I have added Dates to the map also. Is there anything else that should be on the map?

This is awesome, thanks for putting this together man!

Is there usually a similar list available somewhere for other countries? I've been trying to google if there's anything in Finland at all, but I'm getting nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case, just wondering.

5 minutes ago, Villakarvarousku said:

Is there usually a similar list available somewhere for other countries? I've been trying to google if there's anything in Finland at all, but I'm getting nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case, just wondering.

FFG lets their European Distributor hand out Store Championship kits. So, they really don't have the list.

If it gets posted online, I will add it here.

3 minutes ago, shmitty said:

FFG lets their European Distributor hand out Store Championship kits. So, they really don't have the list.

If it gets posted online, I will add it here.

Yeah, makes sense. Thanks!

30 minutes ago, Villakarvarousku said:

Is there usually a similar list available somewhere for other countries? I've been trying to google if there's anything in Finland at all, but I'm getting nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case, just wondering.

In the uk our distributor doesnt tell us. We have to follow the facebook pages of individual shops. And of course that means only the shops we know about.

Finish Distributors

Fantasiapelit
Lautapelit.fi
2 hours ago, Ginkapo said:

In the uk our distributor doesnt tell us. We have to follow the facebook pages of individual shops. And of course that means only the shops we know about.

Finish Distributors

Fantasiapelit
Lautapelit.fi

Right. That's where I've been looking, but no luck so far. I guess it's just not popular enough over here.

Game Cafe, Independence MO

May 20

A Distributor will be able to tell you locations that ordered the kit , but they cannot give you Dates - because for Store Championships, it is entirely up to the Store to set their date and run it within the Time Period specified (May to August)...

So the distrib may give you locational details, but really, one way or another, you're hitting up stores.

I hate Double Posts.

Edited by Drasnighta

I'll be watching for dates for Jupiter Games in Binghamton NY and the two stores in Philly as they are my "home" turf.

We are shooting for July for Jupiter Games.

Roanoke, Virginia - Mishap Games - July 22