Celebrate Pokémon Day at a Local Pokémon League

 

We are pleased to announce that we will have special Pokémon-themed gifts to commemorate the big day.

Get together with your local community to celebrate 30 years of Pokémon! On Friday February 27th, at 7 pm  and Saturday February 28th, at 11 am we will be running an events for fans of all things Pokémon. Whether you’re into trading cards to fill out your collection, taking part in fun battles, joining a Raid Battle in Pokémon GO, or just hanging out with other Pokémon fans—there’s plenty to enjoy at these Pokémon League celebrations.

We will have special promo items, including an adorable Bulbasaur promo card, 2026 Pokémon Day stickers, Pikachu paper visors, Play! Pokémon Prize Packs (Series 6), and a unique code for Pokémon GO digital items to be emailed after the event. 

That’s not all—as a PLAY stores we will also receive the following premium Pokémon TCG products as additional Pokémon Day prizes!

Mega Evolution—Phantasmal Flames Elite Trainer Box - this will be a prize for a Standard Tournament held on Friday evening for older players. Entry is covered in your normal £5 for our casual event. This will be a best of 1 event, so make sure you bring your best deck.

Mega Venusaur ex Premium Collection - this will be a prize for a GLC Tournament held on Saturday evening at 7pm, this is open to everyone and will also cost £5 to enter. (Prize packs will be given to all that enter)

Pokémon Day 2026 Collection - this will be handed out randomly to one player that attends our junior pokemon club on Saturday between 11am and 12pm.

Store Championship - Lorwyn Eclipsed

What Is Store Championship?

Store Championship is a structured, in-store Standard format tournament that follows the release of many Magic: The Gathering sets. It is an opportunity for your players to compete, earn commemorative promos, and gain recognition within your community.

Store Championship events are also great for competitive players and those that wish to level up their FNM experience. 

When is Store Championship?

Saturday 21st February 2026 at 2pm. (Rounds will be 50mins and best of three games)

What do you get for playing in the Store Championship?

Everyone that attends the event will get a promo version of Goblin Bombardment. The top 8 players will also get a full art promo version of Guide of Souls and the player fortunate or skill enough to win will also get a limited full art promo version of Ocelot Pride.

What will it cost and how to book your Store Championship.

Entry is £5 and you can book in person at the shop or on our website.

TNT - Halo Flashpoint League - The Result

Our Halo Flashpoint League has now come to an end and after five weeks we have our winner. In the final week the two players at the top of the league battled it out and although Jake (Binky) won the final game he could not quite catch up with Jake C-S who becomes this years first TNT Event Winner.

The final standings were...

TNT Kill Team League

 

Our Tuesday Night Tabletop event will be changing from Halo Flashpoint to Kill Team on Tuesday 3rd March. This will mean that next week is a practice week for players to get up to speed on the game and the new Crit/Tac Ops cards. We will be using the 2025 cards (these can be downloaded and printed from our discord channel)

Once we start, there will be eight weeks of games with players earning points for each game that they play. We will be preparing the board before the games (where possible) and trying to match up the players to ensure that games are played in different locations with different Crit ops as much as possible. We will have the following Kill Zones, Moroch, Chalnath, Octarius, Shadowvaults, Hive Storm and Tomb World.

Depending on the amount of players, it may not be possible for everyone to play everyone else, but we will try to pair the highest placed players against each other. Players should not play anyone more than once or twice (if numbers are low).Players do not have to take part each week but the more weeks people play the better chance they will get to win the overall league event.

When a player joins the league they will be given some objective markers and range guide. (Additional objective markers will be handed out at the end of the eight weeks). There will be a maximum of 16 players for this event.

In addition, each week there will be 4 post cards available (from a set of 8). These will be issued to the winner of each game during that week, with additional ones being issued randomly if there are less than 4 winners that week. If there are more than 4 winners each week then the Victory Points will determine who gets the post cards.

At the end of the league as well as receiving a certificate the winning player will receive this special medal. Players are welcome to change there teams during the event as they wish (it is the player rather than the team that get the points for each game) this is to prevent any player falling to far behind because they have chosen the wrong Kill Team and allow players to experience different play styles if they wish.

What is Pack Rush?

Pack Rush is a casual, fast-paced Disney Lorcana format where each player opens two booster packs (24 cards total) to create a deck, with games played to 15 lore instead of 20. Key rules include ignoring color identity, allowing any card to be used as ink, starting with two cards in the inkwell, and, if the deck runs out, shuffling the discard pile to form a new deck.

Core Rules for Pack Rush

• Deck Building: Open two booster packs and use all 24 cards to form your deck.
• Starting Ink: The two puzzle/token cards from the packs are placed into the inkwell to start with 2 ink.
• Ink Rules: Any card can be played into the inkwell, regardless of whether it is normally "inkable".
• Starting Hand: Draw 5 cards (instead of 7).
• Winning Condition: The first player to reach 15 lore wins.
• Deck Depletion: If your deck runs out, shuffle your discard pile to create a new deck.

Gameplay Tips

• Setup: Open packs without looking to keep it a surprise.
• Strategy: Because you cannot control your deck's composition, prioritize using characters and keeping your hand filled.
• Duration: Games are designed to be quick, often lasting only 5–10 minutes, making it ideal for tournament side events or casual play.

Riftbound Nexus Nights

 

Nexus Nights are your bread and butter weekly events. They’ll provide you with a regular opportunity to get together with your friends and play Riftbound in a relaxed environment in the way that best suits your local community. You can sling some 1v1, or throw down the gauntlet in a 2v2 or free-for-all brawl. 

When will these be : Weekly, on Sunday at 2pm (so more Nexus Afternoon than Night)

Format: Casual, whatever you want to play

Are there any prizes: Yes, all players that attend Nexus Night will get a 3-Card pack which includes promo cards (while stocks last)

What is the cost of these events? Attendance to these afternoons will be £5 and you can book you place now on our website.

Young Guns - Returning March 2026

We haven't organised a junior 40k club for younger players since we moved locations. This is something that we have been keen to remedy for some time. Having organised a learn to play day last year and seeing an increase in the amount of young players buying GW stuff and booking our tables we are pleased to announce the return of your Young Guns Club.

This will be for players under the age of 16 and designed to allow younger players to both learn how to play, improve their understanding of the rules, find other people to play against and most importantly have fun.

Our first event will be on Sunday 8th March from 10am through to midday and the hope is to run these events once a month. The initial event will only be open to a very limited amount of players so booking will be important. (Following that we will decide what a good number of players would be.)

This new club will be primarily run by Jake and the guy who organised last years tournament who is incidentally also Jake. There are a few of the older experience players that have agreed to help from time to time and if your interested in doing the same please let us know.

So if your a young player and this sounds like something you would want to do then please sign up for the first event soon. This can be done in the shop in person or on our website.