{"id":2840,"date":"2015-12-08T09:55:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T14:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67272bb316.nxcli.io\/dicemasters\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2016-10-13T13:42:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T17:42:06","slug":"the-wizkids-open-is-back-and-better-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizkids.com\/dicemasters\/the-wizkids-open-is-back-and-better-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The WizKids Open is Back and Better than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\"><i>Program expands outside the US to Europe, Latin America and Canada &#8211; offering awesome tournaments and prizes to players and retailers<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\"><b>Hillside, NJ \u2014<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\"><b>\u00a0December 8, 2016\u00a0<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\">\u2013\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\">WizKids is pleased and excited to announce the return of their popular &#8220;WizKids Open&#8221; series of in-store tabletop game tournaments for 2016. The 2016 WizKids Open program includes a series of regional tournaments, held at selected friendly local game shops, where players will battle it out in HeroClix, Dice Masters, and Attack Wing games for supremacy and amazing prizes.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\">While previous WizKids Open events were limited to stores in the United States, WizKids has begun a global expansion by opening up the tournaments to retailers and players in Europe, Latin America and Canada.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\">At the WizKids Open events, which begin in February 2016 in the US, players will not only be battling it out for a chance to win their regional titles, but also can earn eligibility to participate in the National WizKids tournaments.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\">While participating stores in Latin America and Canada will be revealed in the coming weeks, with Europe following shortly after, WizKids Open 2016 US locations include:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif; color: #000000;\">Battleground Games (Modesto, CA)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif; color: #000000;\">Coliseum of Comics (Orlando, FL)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif; color: #000000;\">Chicagoland Games (Chicago, IL)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif; color: #000000;\">Games and Stuff (Glen Burnie, MD)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif; color: #000000;\">Eternal Games (Warren, MI)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif; color: #000000;\">Highlander Games (Boonton, NJ)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif; color: #000000;\">Millennium Games (Rochester, NY)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif; color: #000000;\">Dragon\u2019s Lair (Austin, TX)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif; color: #000000;\">Olympic Cards and Games (Lacey, WA)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\">Players should register immediately, as WizKids is going to be giving away significant prize packs to players chosen randomly from those who have pre-registered for the US events by 1\/15\/2015. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\"><b>Don&#8217;t wait &#8211; sign up for the WizKids Open 2016 now!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\">To learn more about WKO 2016, visit:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/win.wizkids.com\/wp\/wko-2016\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\"><u>http:\/\/win.wizkids.com\/wp\/wko-2016<\/u><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\">\/\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-wko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizkids.com\/dicemasters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizkids.com\/dicemasters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizkids.com\/dicemasters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizkids.com\/dicemasters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizkids.com\/dicemasters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wizkids.com\/dicemasters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizkids.com\/dicemasters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wizkids.com\/dicemasters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizkids.com\/dicemasters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wizkids.com\/dicemasters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}