May 22  CTRL-A: Toronto Edition!

This is the moment that all true Ontario-based anime fans strive for. Anime North is upon us, and we’re all super-excited for it! If you’re able to contain your excitement long enough to do other things, we have a few events this week that you may be interested in. See:

• Tuesday Meeting – Tuesday, May 24, 6:00PM, Room MC 2035. Please take note of the special day and location. Due to the holiday Monday, our usual meeting is taking place on Tuesday instead. We will likely talk much of Anime North, so if you want in on that action, make sure you’re there.
• Project Night – Wednesday, May 25, 6:00PM, Room SLC 2109. The saga of project night continues to be told this Wednesday. What might happen next? Some gaming? A project, perhaps? Stay tuned and find out!
• Games Night? – Friday, May 27, 4:30PM, Room MC 4058. I mean, technically we have the room booked. If you aren’t gonna be at Anime North on Friday, then feel free to go play some games.

Also worth mentioning are the upcoming Weiss Schwarz and Chaos card game tournaments. They are taking place on Saturday morning during Show 2 and Show 3 respectively, so they’re still quite far off, but if you would like to register for either tournament, check out the corresponding forum thread.

And of course, there’s Anime North! We’re gonna have a booth in the Sheraton Hotel where we’ll hopefully be selling some of our remaining t-shirts and buttons, as well as giving out some totally sweet brochures advertising the club. Aside from this, we’ll mostly just be enjoying panels and spending too much money in the dealers room, but if you’re craving CTRL-A events, we have a couple for you:

• Weiss Schwarz Workshops/Tournament. CTRL-A’s official presence at Anime North is primarily this. There will be two workshops held; one Friday night and one Saturday morning, where you can learn how to play or practice for the big tournament, taking place Saturday afternoon. For all the details, check here.
• Sushi Lunch/Dinner – Sushi-Ya Japan, Toronto. Details are still incredibly vague as it’s difficult to plan something around everyone’s schedules, but there is interest in eating sushi during Anime North. If you are interested, check out this forum thread.
• Gym Leader Squad – Not really an event per se, and it’s probably too late to join, but if you want to see six of your fellow CTRL-A members (myself included) dressed as Pokémon gym leaders, then you can try to track us down. We’ll even have that gym leader’s Pokémon with us (in 4th and 5th gen, so no worries) so feel free to challenge us to a battle! There may even be badges to be won.

Beyond that, if you’re still in need of a ride to Anime North, we have this forum thread that may be able to help you out. No promises though.

All said, this coming week promises to be a great one, except in the unfortunate case that you will not be at Anime North. If that is the case, then I apologize for making it sound so awesome, causing you to immediately regret your decision not to go.

Have a good one!

Dylan “the Shining, Shocking Star” Mead