This thread is going to post upcoming events for Coliseum of Comics, Downtown Lakeland.

Address:
122 W. Main St.
Lakeland, FL 33815

Phone: 863-686-1350

Day/Time: Saturdays 3-6 PM

Judges: normalview & SFBull

Saturday, March 7th, 3:00 PM

Bare Knuckle Brawl!

Knock your opponents senseless in this no-range dust up!

First Place and Fellowship prizes for this event will come from the judge's personal stash!

The rules for this event are:
• 400 points Unrestricted (retired characters are okay)
• Full core
• No characters with range attack abilities of any kind. This includes TK and special powers that allow range attacks (see Arachne in Secret Invasion for an example)
• No characters with powers or abilities that grant the use of Hypersonic Speed
• Probability Control, Outwit, and Perplex are limited to a range of 6
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

Saturday, March 14th, 3:00 PM

Worst Team Face Off!

Build the worst possible team you can think of and then make your opponent play try to beat you with it! But beware, ‘cause they’ll be doing the same thing to you…

First place and Fellowship prizes will come from the judge's own personal stash!

The rules for this event are:
• 300 points, Unrestricted (retired characters are okay)
• All teams must be at least 290 points
• Maximum of one bystander token
• At the beginning of each game, you and your opponent will switch teams (you will play this game with your opponent’s team and they will play with yours)
• Full core
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

Saturday, March 21st, 3:00 PM

Size Matters!

This event will have you build teams starting with the little guys and moving on up to the biggest guns of all!

First place and Fellowship prizes TBA!

The rules for this event are:
• 500 points, Unrestricted (retired characters are okay)
• All teams must have exactly 4 characters
o 1 character worth 25-50 points
o 1 character worth 51-100 points
o 1 character worth 101-200 points
o 1 character worth 201+ points
• No bystander tokens
• No more than 1 feat per figure
• Full core
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

Saturday, March 28th
No Event

April events will be posted within the next couple days!

April Events

Saturday, April 4th, 3:00 PM

Reverse Dial Scenario!

Knock your opponents (and their dials) backwards! First Place and Fellowship prizes for this event will come from Dave’s personal stash!

The rules for this event are:
• 300 points Unrestricted (retired characters are okay)
• Full core
• All characters begin the game on their LAST click; all subsequent clicks of the dial are reversed (e.g. damage is clicked counter-clockwise, healing is clicked clockwise)
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

Saturday, April 11th, 3:00 PM

Mystery Battle Field Condition Buy-In!

Expect the unexpected and overcome adversity to defeat your opponents! $5.00 gets you in and First Place and Fellowship winners will walk away with Coliseum gift certificates. The more people that buy in, the greater the prize!

The rules for this event are:
• 500 points, Unrestricted (retired characters are okay)
• At the beginning of each game the judge will reveal a randomly chosen battle field condition for each map. This battle field condition may not be canceled by Ordinary Day bfc or by theme team bonuses; if there is a conflict between the Judge’s bfc and one chosen by a player, the judge’s bfc overrides the player’s bfc.
• Maximum of one bystander token
• Full core
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

Saturday, April 18th
No Event

Saturday, April 25th, 3:00 PM

Straight Up Heroclix!

No special rules in today! Build your best team and knock your opponent’s team senseless! First place and Fellowship prizes will come from Jeff’s personal stash!

The rules for this event are:
• 400 points, Unrestricted (retired characters are okay)
• Full core
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

Well, nobody showed up for this event (probably because we didn't get the posters up in the store in a timely fashion... my bad, guys) so we will reschedule this event as the first event in May. So save the date (Satuday, May 2nd) and bring your reverse dial teams!

The other May events will be posted within the next couple weeks.

May Events

Saturday, May 2nd, 3:00 PM

No Event

I forgot this weekend conflicted with Free Comic Book Day. Reverse Dial Scenario will be pushed back (again) to next week.

Saturday, May 9th, 3:00 PM

Reverse Dial Scenario!

Knock your opponents (and their dials) backwards! First Place and Fellowship prizes for this event will come from Jeff’s personal stash!

The rules for this event are:
• 300 points Unrestricted (retired characters are okay)
• Full core
• All characters begin the game on their LAST click; all subsequent clicks of the dial are reversed (e.g. damage is clicked counter-clockwise, healing is clicked clockwise)
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

Saturday, May 16th, 3:00 PM

Dynamic Duos!

So what pair of characters have the best team-ups? Let’s find out in this week’s battle. Prizes from this event will come from Dave’s stash!

The rules for this event are:
• 200 points Unrestricted (retired characters are okay)
• Full core
• Each team must have 2 characters (and 2 characters only)
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

Saturday, May 23rd, 3:00 PM

Kill ‘N’ Keep Kombat!

Got a lot of pieces you want to get rid of? Or feeling lucky and want to take a bunch of your friends’ pieces? Either way, this event is for you!

The rules for this event are:
• 300 points Unrestricted (retired characters are okay)
• Full core
• Kill and Keep format
o If you defeat an opposing character, that character is yours to take home!
o Watch out, because your opponents can do the same thing to your characters!
• This tournament will have only one big game
• Depending on the number of players, we will use the 4-sided maps with at least 4 players on each map
• Depending on the number of players, the judges may seed the map with additional characters for KO-ing fun!
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

Saturday, May 30th, 3:00 PM

Swarms versus Tent-Poles Buy-In!

So which is more effective: lots of little figures or a couple big ones? Build two different teams and find out! $5.00 gets you in and First Place and Fellowship winners will walk away with Coliseum gift certificates. The more people that buy in, the greater the prize!

The rules for this event are:
• 400 points Unrestricted (retired characters are okay)
• Full core
• Build two different teams
o One team can have a maximum of 3 characters (tent-pole team)
o The other team must have a minimum of 7 characters (swarm team)
• After rolling for first player, but before making the map selection, the second player must select which team they will play (tent-pole or swarm); the first player then will play their own oppositely built team (swarm or tent-pole)
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

At some point in June we will have this reverse dial event.

Reverse Dial Scenario!

Knock your opponents (and their dials) backwards! First Place and Fellowship prizes for this event will come from Jeff’s personal stash!

The rules for this event are:
• 300 points Unrestricted (retired characters are okay)
• Full core
• All characters begin the game on their LAST click; all subsequent clicks of the dial are reversed (e.g. damage is clicked counter-clockwise, healing is clicked clockwise)
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

Nevermind. I worked it out so that the reverse dial tournament will be the second week of May (schedule above has already been changed).

June is still totally up in the air, though I can assure you that there will be at least one buy-in.

Sorry for the delay, folks, but LOH (life outside of heroclix) caught up with us there for a wee bit. Anyway, we're back on track now for June, July will be posted soon, and Dave has already started a separate thread for the Chase event in mid-july (found here).

June Events for Coliseum of Comics: Downtown Lakeland

JUNE 20th, 3:00 PM

Call in the Cavalry!

How many times have things looked grim for your favorite characters, only to have their friends show up and save the day? Let’s reenact those nail-biting episodes today!

Prizes for first place and fellowship will come from Jeff's personal stash!

The rules for this event are:

• Consider this event 500 points, unrestricted (for theme team, feat cap, etc)
• Build two teams, both 250 points
• The first team must have at least two characters
• The second team may not have more characters than the first team
• Full core
• The game begins with only your first team in your starting area; the second team is off the map and all powers, TAs, feats, etc associated with the second team are unavailable at the start of the game
• If half (or more) of the characters on your first team are defeated, at the beginning of your next turn place the second team in your starting area
• If you have an odd number of characters on your first team, round up for determining when to bring in the second team (for example, if you have three characters on your first team, after two are defeated, bring in the second team)
• Characters on the second team may be given actions immediately after being placed in the starting area; there is no ‘first turn immunity’ for characters on the second team
• Players who defeat their opponent without using their second team will receive an extra 100 victory points
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

JUNE 27th, 3:00 PM

WAR!

Great leaders are born, not made... well, if they are Heroclix figures, they technically were made in a factory, but you get the point. In this brutal knockdown, build your team around an inspiring leader and take home the prize!

Prizes for first place and fellowship will come from Dave's personal stash!

The rules for this event are:

• 400 points, unrestricted
• All characters on your team must share a team symbol or keyword
• One character on your team must be over 80 points (The Leader)
• The rest of your team must be characters 50 points or less
• No feats
• The character designated as The Leader possess the power Leadership if does not already possess that power
• Full core rules
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

JULY EVENTS FOR COLISEUM OF COMICS: DTL!

July 4th, NO EVENT

July 11th, 3:00 PM

PRESS THE ATTACK!!!

Once more into the breach, clixers! In this event, even character can use the Masters of Evil TA and the Malice BFC is in play every round. So push your characters into the ground to bury your opponent!

Prizes for this event will come from Jeff's personal stash.

The rules for this event are:

• 200 points, unrestricted
• All characters can use the Masters of Evil team ability if they can not already do so; this is in addition to any other team ability the characters can normally use
  
  Masters of Evil ™ A character using the Masters of Evil team ability can be given an action when it has two action tokens on it. If it does, do not give an action token to the character after the action resolves; instead, deal it 1 unavoidable damage. At the end of your turn, do not remove action tokens from a character that has been given a non–free action and used this team ability during that turn.
  
  
• The Battle Field Condition "Malice" is in play every round and may not be cancelled
  
  Malice At the end of each player's turn, if none of his or her characters made an attack against an opposing character, that player chooses a friendly character and deals it 1 unavoidable damage.
  
  
• Full core rules
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

July 18th, 12:00 PM

CHASE TOURNAMENT (click link for full details)

July 25th, 3:00 PM

Powerhouse Battle!

We've had a lot of low-ish point games lately, so how about giving the big boys a shot? While there is no minimum point value for this event (you can play a swarm if you want), the limited number of actions per turn will favor the big guns!

Prizes for this event will come from Jeff's personal stash.

The rules for this event are:

• 900 points, unrestricted
• 4 actions per turn
• Full core rules
• All other normal Heroclix rules are in effect

we need more of the regular unrestricted battles. we use just our figures and whatever strategy we can come up with, no special scenario to give certain teams a boost. the best games are the simplest, and we would be able to use our pieces to their full potential and the compatibility of our pieces would be much easier to acomplish. but these tourneys are very enjoyable. i also love the pick a universe to represent battles, those are fun and only have mild restrictions.

Just out of curiosity, who are you? The screen name doesn't ring a bell...

Sure, if that's what people want. However, it seemed to me that people got tired really quickly of just plain ol' vanilla 300 or 400 points. But if there is interest in that sort of thing, sure, I'd be happy to do some.

I'd be very hesitant to do a universe restricted game, though. There are some players (myself among them) who only collect Marvel, or don't bother with Indy, etc. If we did, say, a DC only event, there could be some people left out in the cold.

I am wondering, though, what exactly is so restrictive about the tournaments we've had? For example, the first event this month was only 200 points (so no E-2 or Thanos, sure), but other than that you could do whatever you want. Same thing with the 900 point build, you can definitely squeeze just about anything you like into that and the only even sort of restriction is the 4 action part (but with some Leadership and some Avengers/JLA/Brotherhood/etc, even that isn't that big of a deal). I am just really curious if there was maybe one event in particular that stands out as, "No, I definitely didn't like that," or are you just indicating a general preference?

they've been pretty fun tourneys, dont get me wrong, i just think that most places try to add too much to the origonal games. and the universe, like just pick a universe to represent. like you use your marvel favorites, and i could use only dc. and the 900 point battle will be one of the best to go to, itll be pretty awesome. so like maybe once a month there could be a maybe just 400 unrestricted, or 500 or something. the creativity is pretty cool, but the 200 point battle was probably the only one i just didnt like. it was hit or miss, and cheese characters were guarenteed the win. but its all pretty fun

one thing i forgot to mention is the awesomeness of the call in the calvary tournament. that was by far the most fun scenario i have played in. just the right amount of difficulty, and it was just a smash-each-other-in-the-face-cuz-i-can type of battle. but it had a cool effect half way through. so i apologize if i sounded like i was complaining about the tournaments in my first response, i wasnt.

just noticed you asked who i was. yeah, the name was a nickname from school like 4 years ago. im daniel, use the avengers whenever i get the chance. ill make sure you know who i am the week after the chase tourney. i cant make that one, didnt try to sign up

just figured how to edit, otherwise i wouldnt have left three responses. im still new to this

another thought is a kill n keep, i dont know if theyre very popular, but ive never done one, and i think itd be cool. but youre the judge, so its up to you obviously