Dice and tokens baggie

I was all set to fake-whine about going to Worlds this year. How I:

  • Started Thursday with a thud by missing out on the pulp events and placed third or worse in every BR
  • Failed on Friday by forgetting my clix supplies and led my Teams campaign to a sorry 1-2 finish before dropping but still missed the limited seating Silver event due to having to go back for the aforementioned clix supplies AND still got only third places in every BR — including the one with my only chase wish, Aquaman 😥 — and actually LOST my clix supplies at the end of the evening
  • Sucked it on Saturday, not equaling the “at least one win in singles” goal that I met in 2022 OR having a winning record in the Theme event later AND missing all the BRs of the day
  • And slipped up Sunday, just falling short of my goal to win a 209 Apocalypse in the X of Swords SLOP event.

 

And yeah, all that happened. But as the title said: I had a blast!

  • Got all the buyables I wanted — and more. I really have to exercise more discipline next time.
  • Even my one dead-last-place BR finish got me 2 SRs … I love Worlds.
  • Oh, and how awesome was getting the first play time with a brand-new set? Not to mention sneak peeks at upcoming figs from Wheels of Vengeance. (A Blade on a motorcycle is coming! I wish I’d gotten a photo :( )

HeroClix Fan Appreciation 2023WoV glo bases

  • I was spared the grind of Pulp Worlds. I wasn’t ready at ALL.(Which meant more BRs)
  • Being a longtime Legion of Super-Heroes fan (see my first-in-competitive Top 8 ROC win in 2014 with the Legion or search “Legion” on this site) I was really really happy to run a comic-accurate Legion of Super-Villains team in Teams Sealed! Went 1-2 but this pulp force was competitive.
  • Speaking of Teams, here’s my roomie William K. Holland and my Georgia player friend Blant Archer!

Worlds Teams 2023

  • Someone found my troublesome dice+tokens baggie and I got it back!
  • I got to meet Heroclixin’ board member Tereso’s friend Curtis, who said that commonality took a lot of the sting out of the loss I’d just dealt him using my comic-accurate team of The Ultimates (Blue Marvel, Monica Rambeau, Captain Marvel, Black Panther and Miss America).

Curtis and me

  • In fact, I got to put faces and fist bumps to SO many names I’ve liked and respected over these clix years, such as Joe Pangrazio, Azarith Stryffe, Devin Owens, Simeon Bruce and Antonio Clark, just to name a very few!

Seriously, when the biggest disappointment is winning ANOTHER Genesis grand prize, that’s a good weekend!