As announced by the German Office


Date and scheduled timetable:

19th of April, 2008

Main Event:

Registration: 08:00 – 09:00 AM
Player briefing: 09:00 – 09:30 AM
Start of Main Event: 09:30 AM
End of Swiss Rounds: 09:00 PM (21:00 – approximately!)

Top 8:

Top 8 Dinner: 09:00 – 09:30 PM (21:00 – 21:30; top 8 dinner will be provided by UDE)
Start of Top 8: 09:30 PM (21:30)
Finish: 01:00 AM (01:00 – approximately!)

Side Events:

Start of Side Events: 11:00 AM
Start of Win a Wii: 12:00 PM
Start of iPod Challenge: 04:00 PM (16:00)
Finish Side Events: 10:00 PM (22:00)



Location:

Veranstaltungshalle im Römerkastell
Naststraße 21
70376 Stuttgart

See google map for further information: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie ... b053e9c1e9




Main Event Information:

Entry Fee: 15 €


Format:

8 Swiss rounds:

- 5 rounds Constructed best of 3

Cut to Top X (depending on the number of participants)

- Top X play 3 more rounds of Draft best of 3

Top 8:

- Single elimination, Constructed


Legal Set Overview:

Servants of the Betrayer becomes tournament legal on the 18th of April, so it is tournament legal for the Darkmoon Faire Stuttgart!
Furthermore, the following sets are tournament legal for the DMF Stuttgart:
- Heroes of Azeroth set
- Onyxia’s Lair treasure pack cards
- The Burning Crusade promo cards
- Through the Dark Portal set
- Molten Core treasure pack cards
- Blizzcon 2007 promo card
- Fires of Outland set
- Feast of Winter Veil Collector’s Set
- March of the Legion set
- Crafted Cards
- Magtheridon’s Lair treasure pack cards


Prizes:

Participation
- EA card
- WoW TCG T-Shirt
- WoW TCG Commemorative Coin

Top 64
- EA card
- Playmat

1st: Dell XPS Laptop
2nd: Dell XPS Laptop
3rd & 4th: iPod Touch 32 GB
5th – 8th: Portable DVD Player
9th – 16th: Gift voucher 75 Euro from Amazon
12 Boosters
17th – 24th: 12 Boosters
25th – 32nd: 6 Boosters




Side Events:

All day:
8 Player Drafts (all day)
Entry Fee: 10 €
Prizing: 1st: 3 boosters
2nd: 2 boosters
8 Player Constructed (all day)
Entry Fee: 2 €
Prizing: 1st: 3 boosters
2nd: 2 boosters

12:00 PM:

Win a Wii (starts at 12 PM)
Entry Fee: 5 €
Format: Constructed Swiss rounds (depending on the no. of players)
Prizing: 1st: Nintendo Wii


04:00 PM (16:00):

iPod Challenge (starts at 4 PM)
Entry Fee: 20 €
Format: 6 Sealed Pack Swiss rounds
(maximum of 64 players)

Prizing for more than 32 players:
1st: iPod Touch 32 GB
2nd: iPod Nano
3rd & 4th: iPod Shuffle

Prizing for less than 32 players:
1st: iPod Nano
2nd: iPod Shuffle


Transport:

You may also see the google map with all information for public transport located at: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie ... b053e9c1e9

By plane:

At Terminal 1, you have direct access to the public transport (S-Bahn).
Take the
- S2 (direction “Schorndorf”)
- S3 (direction “Backnang”)

Exit at “Bad Cannstatt” (next station after the main train station “Hauptbahnhof”). The journey should take approximately 30 minutes to Bad Cannstatt. Train service is running from 5:08 AM to 0:08 AM.

Then see “S-Bahn station Bad Cannstatt to Event Venue” below.

By train:

From Stuttgart main train station (“Hauptbahnhof”), take the S-Bahn services:
- S1 (direction “Plochingen”)
- S2 (direction “Schorndorf”)
- S3 (direction “Backnang”)

Exit the next station, “Bad Cannstatt”, then see “S-Bahn station Bad Cannstatt to Event Venue” below.

For further information see the website of the public transport operator: http://www2.vvs.de/vvs/navi_efa/index.html
(you will most likely use “Hauptbahnhof” and “Altenburg” as destinations.)





Map of S-Bahn connections:



S-Bahn station Bad Cannstatt to Event Venue:

After exiting the S-Bahn, go to the bus station right next to the S-Bahn station called “Badstraße (Wilhelmsplatz)”. Take the bus services:
- 52 (direction “Borkumstr.”)
- 55 (direction “Nordbahnhof”)
- 56 (direction “Münster Bf”)

Exit at “Altenburg”. After a 3 minute walk, you’ll be at the event venue.

By car:

Please use google maps to find the fastest route to the location. Use the location data:

Veranstaltungshalle im Römerkastell, Naststraße 21, 70376 Stuttgart

Hotels:

Mercure Hotel Stuttgart Bad Cannstatt (4 stars):
Teinacher Str. 20
70372 Bad Cannstatt
Best rate for room per night (according to hotel.de): 49 €
See http://www.mercure.com/mercure/fichehot ... otel.shtml for further information.

Hotel Krone (1 star):
Zieglerstr. 24
70372 Stuttgart
Best rate for room per night (according to hotel.de): 55 €
See http://www.krone-stuttgart.de/kont.html for further information.
Also offers airport shuttle according to website!

GHOTEL hotel & living (3 stars):
Wildunger Str. 5
70372 Stuttgart
Best rate for room per night (according to hotel.de): 95 €
See http://www.ghotel.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=18 for further information.

Hotel Krehl’s Linde (3 stars):
Obere Waiblinger Str. 113
70374 Stuttgart
Best rate for room per night (according to hotel.de): 82 €
See http://www.krehlslinde.de/intro.html for further information.

Hotel Berg (3 stars):
Karl-Schurz-Str. 16
70190 Stuttgart
Best rate for room per night (according to hotel.de): 49 €
See http://www.hotel-berg-stuttgart.de/ for further information.
Hotel Lamm:
Karl-Schurz-Str. 7
70190 Stuttgart
See http://www.lamm-hotel.com/index2.html for further information.

Hotel Traube:
Steubenstr. 1
70190 Stuttgart
See http://www.gasthof-traube.de for further information.

Parkhotel am Rundfunk:
Villastr. 21
70190 Stuttgart

More Hotels:
You can find more hotels at http://www.hotel.de/homepage.aspx
Or in our google map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie ... b053e9c1e9




(Youth) Hostels:

International Youth Hostel Stuttgart:
Haußmannstr. 27
70188 Stuttgart
Rates are around 25 € per night
See http://www.jugendherberge-stuttgart.de/ for further information.

Alex 30 Hostel:
Alexanderstr. 30
70184 Stuttgart
Rates are around 35 € per night. Appartments for larger groups are also available according to the website!
See http://www.alex30-hostel.de/ for further information.

Jugendgästehaus Hostel:
Richard-Wagner-Str. 2
70184 Stuttgart
Rates are around 25 € per night.
See http://www.realadventures.com/amenities ... -Stuttgart for further information.

Local Hobby Store:

In case you want to playtest on Friday already, we can recommend the following local hobby store:

Funtainment Stuttgart
Reinsburgstr. 82
70178 Stuttgart

To get there with public transport from the main train station (“Hauptbahnhof”), you have the following choices – S-Bahn services:

- S1 (direction “Herrenberg”)
- S2 (direction “Filderstadt”)
- S3 (direction “Flughafen”)
- S4, S5 or S6 (direction “Schwabstraße”)

Exit at “Schwabstraße”, this is the 3rd stop after the main train station (“Hauptbahnhof”). Again, a look at our google map (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie ... b053e9c1e9) might be of help.

Special side events on Friday (at the Funtainment Stuttgart):

Fight UDE:
Raid Challenge against Magtheridon’s Lair, played by an UDE rep.
Entry Fee: Free
Format: Teams with 3 players, no Hero can be played more than once, all Heroes need to belong to the same faction
Prizes: Successful teams get a Treasure Pack Magtheridon’s Lair

8 Player Drafts (4 PM – 10 PM / 16:00 – 22:00)
Entry Fee: 10 €
Format: Best of 1, single elimination
Prizing: 1st: 3 boosters
2nd: 2 boosters
8 Player Constructed (4 PM – 10 PM / 16:00 – 22:00)
Entry Fee: 2 €
Format: Best of 1, single elimination
Prizing: 1st: 3 boosters
2nd: 2 boosters


Further Questions:

In case you still have some unanswered questions, please refer to:

mailto:Darkmoonfaire@upperdeck.com

Prize support not comparable with a US DMF. So much for somebody taking the flight or a home entertainment system.

Awesome stuff Ray, thanks a bunch!

The participation EA 'should' be Solanian's Belongings. The Top X EA (ie 64) should be an EA Shadowfiend.

The playmat will most likely be an Onyxia playmat....the DMF ones don't seem to be in Europe.

If this was any other weekend i'd be there in a flash and have booked flights already. Now i got to try to get out of my termly meeting with my head tutor on the friday so that i can get an early plane out.

And i still need an oynixa playmat so thats good for me

*sob*
Hmmm. How many other weekends this year would be bad? I've got exams in the week of June 9th, so weekends before and after that are bad. Then I'm in Belgium bombarding cables with hard radiation for a week at some point and I don't know if they'd like me buggering off for the weekend. Then there are four more "going to/from uni" weekends, but if I know more than a month in advance, I just go to/from uni on a different day.

Anyone want to place bets on a DMF on any of these dates? Come on...

Ooooh yes!!!!

Stuttgart here we go! Time to get myself a kilt and start organising the Scottish raid :-P

Unless it was Australia, I'd take the laptop anyway. I can sell the laptop for the cost of the flight to most EU/US locations and still have change.

Not that I'd sell the laptop if I won.

Nor do I particularly need a home entertainment system.

Sad that if I take a night flight I probably wont have time to take part in any of the Friday side events, taking some easy Mag boosters sounds a laugh

Definately need to check the diary, but I think it's a go-er.

I can't book anything until I know if I'm playing or writing...

Where do you pick up that it is being run on Friday ?

Drafting all day? mmmm

Tyma, worth a car pool if we leave Wednsday?