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#TableTopDay Event

Dragons Eye Games

50/50 Drawing

Upcoming Events

Little Shop Of Stories

Joystick Gamebar

#TableTopDay Event 2015

#TableTopDay Event! International TableTop Day was founded three years ago as a way for the

world to celebrate tabletop gaming together. Every spring, fans host thousands of

events all over the world and every year, the event grows. TableTop Day 2014

was celebrated in 80 countries, over all 7 continents, and had over 3,000 events in

total. 2015 is going to be even bigger!

Dragons Eye Games This year our team will be hosting our very first #TableTopDay Event! Dragons

Eye Games in Canton has generously allowed us to use his store for this event!

The event runs 1pm—8pm on Saturday, April 11th. More information about

this event and what games we will be playing can be found on our Facebook

Page!

50/50 Drawing We have decided to up the hype a little bit for this event by having a 50/50 draw-

ing! In order to play you must come down to the store and purchase tickets.

Tickets are $2 each or 6 for $10! You do not have to stay in order to win but you

must come to the store in order to participate. The winner of the drawing will

receive 50% of the money we raise from selling the tickets and the other 50% will

be donated to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta through Extra Life!

The Wingèd Blades Newsletter Meeting 5 April 7th, 2015

Little Shop of Stories! Huge thank you to Kimberly and Lindsay (pictured) at Little Shop of

Stories for donating a $25 gift card #ForTheKids. This will be used

as a donation incentive and will be given away! Their store is located

in Decatur and it was definitely a nice little place to visit! When we

walked in on a Thursday evening we heard a story being read to a

group of small children which sets the perfect atmosphere. This was

no ordinary bookstore. The whole shop was filled with wonder as

several books were displayed along the walls ranging from children’s

books up to adults as well.

Team Stats Already we have raised a total of

$390! And we have 14 members!

Welcome to our new members!

Christopher Carter

Alyssa Michaels

Matthew Dobson

Keep up the great work! We are

already at 13% of our goal! Let’s

get more members too!

Upcoming events! Our team is hosting a

#TableTopDay event at Dragons

Eye Games Saturday, April 11th!

Look out for possibly our first 24

hour marathon on April 18th! We

are still coming up with ideas for it

so make sure you follow us on our

social media sites for updates!

As of April 09th, 2015

Thank you for your support! Let’s all support our local game shop!

You Just Got

Served!

The Extra Life Atlanta Guild hosted a Mario Tennis Tournament at Joystick Gamebar. I have never played the N64 version but I was pretty good at the Gamecube version so I thought, “Sure I’ll enter.” Myself, along with CJ, Sandi, and Nathan, all entered in for the tournament with our fellow guild mates.

The tournament went really well in my opinion. We had about 16 people participate in a single elimination style tournament. After a couple rounds I was warmed up and getting really good at it. My main man was Paratroopa. And in those few rounds I started to feel something that I have not felt in years, the N64 thumb pain. Man that brought back memories of hours on the N64

I went in with no real Intentions on winning. I figured I would give it my all and who knows, maybe I will make it to the finals. Well….

I guess you can say the champ will be returning one day!

Joystick Gamebar was a fun experience and definitely worth going back.

Joystick Gamebar

Right off Edgewood Avenue in Atlanta is an interesting little bar called Joystick Game-

bar. It is exactly what you might think it is. Upon first walking in you will see what all bars

might have, a bar, but also something else lines up the walls at attention that quickly

catches your eye. To us gamers this is something that we don’t see that often and to the

old gamers something you haven’t seen in years. These are, retro arcade and pinball

machines. It was like walking into an arcade again, but with beer!

They have a huge variety of games from Donkey Kong to Galaga and TMNT: Turtles in

Time to Rampage! Large TVs also displayed the high scores that have been achieved

by these arcade cabinets. Also for this day all quarters are being donated to the Chil-

dren’s Healthcare of Atlanta!

The food here was nothing like I have ever had before. I tried the pork fried rice and the

flavors were so unique and well put together. The rice felt like it was literally deep fried

and gave it a distinct texture.

Off to the side was a lounge room with sofas and in the center housed a TV with an N64

plugged in. I felt like I just walked into my living room from when I was a kid seeing that

N64 hooked up. The lounge was very cozy and was a great place to relax with some old

friends and made new friends as well from our Extra Life Atlanta Guild.

-Todd Michaels

Contact Us

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call or email us though if

you prefer.

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www.extra-life.org/team/thewingedblades

Facebook:

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Twitch:

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Extra Life Forums:

forums.extra-life.org/

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