It’s a hot and sunny day in Avondale, Arizona! The first round of the third Dragon Ball Z Regional Tournament has started here at Play or Draw, and players are ready to find out who the newest players to qualify for the World Championships will be!

Here are the event vitals:

Total Round 1 Players:  88

Blue Protective Mastery – 18
Red Enraged Mastery – 18
Black Devious Mastery – 24
Orange Adaptive Mastery – 11
Namekian Knowledge Mastery – 15
Saiyan Empowered Mastery – 2

Today’s event will be 7 rounds of Swiss with a top cut of 16.

Feature matches are being recorded by Top Tier DBZ and will be posted sometime later in the day. So far notable players that have graced the camera are veteran player Brian Valdez and real life rockstar Elliott Gruenberg.

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Fresh off of last week’s Regional, the DBZ TCG heads to Gen-Con for events this Friday/Saturday/Sunday!

Friday – Sealed Deck

If you are participating in the sealed deck event Friday at 4:00 p.m., please come to Hall B and look for the Green tables numbered 59-64.  You will need your event ticket, and we will only take generic tickets if some pre-registered players do not show up.  Standard rainbow rules will be in effect for this event, which will use Premiere Set starter decks and Movie Collection booster packs.

Saturday – Worlds Qualifier

The Worlds Qualifier will start at 10 a.m. but we will be there ahead of time for registration.  It is strongly recommended that you arrive early and with your deck list completed so everyone can start on time.  You can also stop by on Friday and turn in your list and event ticket to skip the Saturday rush.  Also held in Hall B, the Qualifier will be on the White tables numbered 15-46 with our registration area by tables 45 and 46.

For those of you that want to be updated on the results from home, we will have a frequently updated blog post rolling and for live streaming coverage, visit http://www.nextlevelz.com/stream.html.  Both of these will also be up and running on Sunday for the Top Cut rounds as well.

Sunday – Top Cut

Continuing on from Saturday, the Sunday event is for Top Cut players only and will start at 10 a.m. on Green tables numbered 51-56.

We look forward to seeing everyone in Indianapolis and we hope those of you that can’t make it will follow the action online!

Hi folks! Check back throughout the day for live coverage and updates from the first Regional of the season!

Also, check out the live stream from Wild Things Games for a look into the action: http://www.twitch.tv/wildthingsgames

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Round 1 is underway! Metagame breakdown at a glance:

Black – 21

Orange – 10

Red – 14

Saiyan – 7

Namekian – 14

Blue – 16

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Round 2 is about halfway through, and the competition is heating up! Some end of round action:

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Gohan Namekian at the top table in Round 5! Two rounds left until Top Cut.

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Top 16 is underway!

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T8: Namekian Piccolo, Blue Piccolo, Black Krillin, Blue Ginyu, Namekian Slug, Red Tenshinhan, Namekian Slug, Black Wheelo

T4: Blue Piccolo (Jacob S.) vs. Blue Ginyu (Elmer W.)

Red Tenshinhan (Matt R.)  vs. Namekian (Bryce S.)