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Saturday 19 May 2012
Coming Events
At SoCalASL the fun never stops…

I want to take the opportunity to post a rundown on what’s going on with SoCalASL, and give a preview of some of our coming attractions.

Our Monthly ASL events: We’re currently running four ASL events each month; two in Los Angeles, one in Orange County and one in San Diego. On the 1st Saturday of each month we meet at Gameology Games in Montclair (San Gabriel Valley.) On the 3rd Saturday each month we meet at Emerald Knights in Burbank. On the 4th Saturday we meet at At Ease Games in Poway (San Diego County.) All of these Game Days follow the same format: show up at the appointed time, pair up and play. All skill levels are welcome and everyone plays, no exceptions. We always break for a group lunch in the early afternoon. On the 2nd Saturday of each month we run The Barricades Project in conjunction with the St. Crispin Irregulars Game Day in Anaheim. In this case the format is a little different. We have two teams playing an ongoing Red Barricades Campaign Game. Everyone who shows up at the appointed hour is welcome to join in on one side or the other. Again, everyone is welcome and everyone plays.

Our Field Trips: We’ve recently organized group trips to the Littlefield Museum in San Jose and the Planes of Fame museum in Chino. Our next Field Trip will be to the Angeles Range (off the 210 in the San Fernando Valley) on June 30th. We have several members who have volunteered to bring their W.W.II vintage firearms for those who might like to try them, but it’s not limited to that. Bring what you have and enjoy a day at the range. When we wrap up (probably in the early afternoon) we're going to mosey on over to The Bear Pit for some Missouri style barbecue. As with all of our field trips, friends and family are welcome.

5th Annual Burning Wreck Barbecue: We're going to repeat last year's highly popular venue and format. On October 27th we shall return to St. Crispin's Knights of Columbus Hall in Anaheim for a day of ASL with our theme "Playing the Big Ones". And while we're busy killing cardboard, Harmon Ward and the St. Crispins crew will be whipping up our killer sit-down barbecue dinner.

West Coast Melee XVI: The biggest ASL event in the west will return to Crowne Plaza Hotel in Irvine from February 21st to the 24th. Plan on four days of fun and ASL. I'm pleased to say that we have the event contracts in hand, and there will be no change to the pricing over previous year.

I hope you're able to join us at some of our coming events!



Posted by Jim Aikens on Saturday May 19 2012 - 00:46:03 Read/Post Comment: 0printer friendly create pdf of this news item

Sunday 12 February 2012
WCM XV Update
Believe it or not, West Coast Melee XV is less than two weeks away. I just want to pass along a progress report as to where we’re at, and what’s in store.

I’m pleased to report that pre-registrations are solidly ahead of last year and the custom dice are selling well. The facility contract with Crowne Plaza has been signed and paid for. Dave Lucey, the hotel’s director of sales, told me today that we’re at 35 room nights booked. That’s on track to match last year’s record setting room night bookings. If you have not yet booked a hotel room, Crowne still has rooms available and will honor our group price for a few more days. If you ave trouble booking your room, please let me know.

The show will start at noon on Thursday, February 23rd, and if you’re up for a little competition, we’ll get the Micro-Mini going as soon as enough guys are available. We’ll open the hospitality suite at 3:00 PM. Be sure to come up and join us for a sandwich and a beer or soda.

We’ll start The Melee at 9:00 AM on Friday morning with the “Close Combat Phase”. Players will attempt to compile the best record throughout the day in open play. At some point in the morning we hold our Club’s annual meeting. At that time also we’re going to present the plaques to last years’ winners. We’ll launch our first mini-tournament in the afternoon.

On Saturday the players with the top 8 best records will begin the single elimination “Hand-to-Hand Phase” of The Melee. For everyone else we’ll have a couple more mini-tournaments available. The action will wrap up on Sunday with the final round of the “Hand-to-Hand Phase” and the last rounds of the Saturday mini’s, plus open play for everyone else.

While all this action is going on throughout the event, we’ll have Dave Nicholas available to assist new or rusty players with our "7-0 Leaders" program. We’ll also have the map for the historical module “Slaughter at Ponyri” set up for those who haven’t seen it yet. And throughout the weekend, we’re going to have a special event: our Random Prize Giveaway. Thanks to the efforts of Scott Thompson, we have several hundred dollars in ASL products to give away. Everyone who pre-registered will receive five tickets for the Giveaway. Tickets will also be available at the door at $1 each. Periodically throughout the weekend (at pre-announced times) we’ll draw tickets for specific items, with the biggest items going late Saturday night.

WCM XIV is going to be great. I hope you can join us!


Posted by Jim Aikens on Sunday February 12 2012 - 00:46:13 Read/Post Comment: 2printer friendly create pdf of this news item

Saturday 21 January 2012
Let the WCM pre-registrations begin!
The long-awaited pre-reg materials are now available for download. Just hit the big green button on the top of this page that says “West Coast Melee XV Info” and you’re on your way! The link to the hotel is on the flyer as well.

A word about the on-line pre-reg: due to difficulties we’re having with the PayPal plug-in, you won’t be able to pre-register using the SoCalASL on line store. You’ll need to go directly through PayPal. The payment info is on the flyer.

The pre-registration cut-off for both the hotel rooms and WCM is February 8th (yikes, that’s coming up pretty quickly…) Don’t delay booking a hotel room. The hotel will honor our group rate as long as they have rooms available, but they’ve been known to book out, especially on the weekday nights.

Please email me at jfaikens@verizon.net if you have any questions or difficulty.




Posted by Jim Aikens on Saturday January 21 2012 - 11:17:58 Read/Post Comment: 1printer friendly create pdf of this news item

Monday 16 January 2012
Trip to Chino this Sunday!
This coming Sunday (January 22nd) is our Club trip to the Yanks Air Museum and the Brewer Brothers Model Kit Expo at the Chino airport. Here’s the plan:

10:00 AM: We’re going to meet in the Yanks Air Museum parking lot (7000 Merrill Ave., Hanger A270, Chino, CA.) We’re allowing three hours to go through the museum and take in the expo. Judging by the promo flyer, there should be something for everyone.

1:00 PM: We’re going to regroup in the Yanks parking lot, then head over to the Planes of Fame Museum (Cal Aero Drive.)

5:00 PM: We’ll regroup again and head to some place for dinner. (Location to be determined.)

If you go to the Yanks museum web site (www.yanksair.com) and go to their special events page, you’ll see a flyer for the expo. The cost for the Yanks museum and expo is $11, but if you print and bring a copy of the flyer, they’ll give you $2 off. The cost of the Planes of Fame Museum is also $11. So if you bring your flyer, your cost for the entire day will be $20 each.

We’re breaking this event into two segments because if you have kids you might find doing both museums a bit ambitious. Also, for those who can’t make it in the morning, you can join us for the Planes of Fame museum at the appointed time. I don’t know if they’ll have a snack bar at the expo, but there’s only one restaurant at the airport, and it’s only open for breakfast and “brunch”. So I’d recommend having a big breakfast, and perhaps bring a snack.

Remember, guests are very welcome to this event. Judging by the number of people who have told me they’re planning to be there, we’re expecting a pretty good size group. I hope you can join us! And don’t forget your camera.

If for whatever reason you need to contact me that morning, my cell phone is 760-738-1437.

See you there!


Posted by Jim Aikens on Monday January 16 2012 - 22:48:02 Read/Post Comment: 2printer friendly create pdf of this news item

Saturday 14 January 2012
WCM XV is on the way!
Well, you might be wondering why we don’t yet have the pre-registration form and flyer up on the web-site. Trust me, its coming, and fear not, West Coast Melee XV is on schedule and will certainly be our best event to date. There is a lot going on behind the scenes, so to speak, that have prevented us from launching the pre-reg phase of our flagship annual event.

First, we really wanted to hold off getting our materials out until we had our new logo. As you all know, that has just been accomplished, and Fen Yan’s tank design is now our official SoCalASL logo.

Second, there’s the swag. As you all know, we try to release *something* at WCM; usually a shirt, or perhaps dice cups. We departed from that last year, in recognition of the sour economy we decided to not release any swag for WCM XIV. But hey, this is number 15 and we really wanted to do something special. After a lot of debating, planning, shopping, designing and haggling, the Club will release what we hope will be the first in a series of ASL Nationality Dice. We’re talking about a set of four dice in ASL Nationality colors, with nationality emblems in place of the “1”. Matt will have the artwork on the flyer, and the dice are on order. The idea is to produce something tres cool that the Club can make a few bucks on. The cost for the pack of four dice will be $15. We have delayed releasing the pre-reg forms until we had the pricing locked in with the manufacturer.

Sadly, there will be a downside to this. Although the dice are on order with the manufacturer, and you’ll be able to order them when you pre-register, they will not be in our hands until the middle of March. Matt will have the artwork on the flyer, so you can what you’re ordering, and man, I think these things are going to be the coolest upgrade to your ASL set since Stephan discovered the box-box trays at the Container Store. Assuming these are as well received as we think they’ll be, we plan to release more dice sets in coming years. Really, only our imagination limits what we can do for future releases.

The pre-reg info should be up in the next few days, and I’ll make an announcement as soon as it is ready to go. In the meantime, be sure to save the dates (February 23rd to the 26th) you don’t what to miss our biggest Club-wide event yet!


Posted by Jim Aikens on Saturday January 14 2012 - 00:05:41 Read/Post Comment: 1printer friendly create pdf of this news item

Tuesday 10 January 2012
And the winner is...
And the winner is: Design #1 SoCalASL Tank (black & white lettering.) Congratulations to Fen Yan, the winning designer.

I want to extend a very sincere thanks and a round of applauds to all four of our designers:

Fen Yan: Design #1 “SoCalASL Tank (b & w lettering)”, Design #2 “Southern California Tank and Design” and Design #3 “SoCalASL Tank (all white text)”;

Eric Visnowski: Design #4 “California Republic Tank” and #8 “California Image”;

Rob Feinstein: Design #5 “I want you to roll low” and #6 “Soldier Riding Bear”;

Mike Cirrincione: Design #7 “Come and mix it up”.

All eight designs were clever, original and well received. You guys rock!

I also want to thank the members who took the time to vote. As I previously reported, all of the designs received votes in the first round, though there were three pretty clear favorites. In the second round the vote was very close, and it literally came down to the last few hours before the deadline.



Again, congratulations Fen!


Posted by Jim Aikens on Tuesday January 10 2012 - 00:17:00 Read/Post Comment: 1printer friendly create pdf of this news item

Friday 06 January 2012
SoCalASL logo design, round II
Well the votes are in, and I want to thank everyone (and there are a lot of you) who took the time to provide your input. All of the designs received votes, but as I anticipated, there were 3 designs that clearly stood out in the voting. In fact, each of the 3 winners received more votes than the 3 highest scoring non-winning designs *combined*. And the winners are:

Design #1 (SoCal Tank with Black and white text)

Design #4 (California Republic Tank)

and Design #5 (I want you to roll low)

I would like you all to vote again, but restrict your choice to one of these three designs. And this time you can only vote for one of the three (no second preference.) We can use the same procedure as the previous round; you can vote directly off the website using the mechanism Paul has set up. Or you can email me directly, whichever is easier for you.

The cut-off for this round of voting will end at 6:00 PM Sunday. I will announce the winner on Sunday evening.

Posted by Jim Aikens on Friday January 06 2012 - 11:05:07 Read/Post Comment: 5printer friendly create pdf of this news item

Tuesday 03 January 2012
Vote Deadline revision
Greeting All,

Because we had a delay getting the process to work properly, I have extended the deadline to Thursday, January 5th. Please make your selection by then.


Posted by Jim Aikens on Tuesday January 03 2012 - 13:54:25 Read/Post Comment: 5printer friendly create pdf of this news item

Monday 02 January 2012
Logo Contest: vote now!
Ok, Paul has loaded the logo choices onto the website. Hit the Gallery tab along the top of this page (just under the green WCM button.) You’ll see several photo albums; one marked “Logo Choices”.

I’m going to allow everyone to make up to 2 choices (1st preference, 2nd preference.) If you make two choices, be sure to clarify which is your 1st preference and which is the 2nd. (I’m going to score two points for a 1st preference, one for a 2nd.) You can follow the directions that Paul has set up to vote. Or you can email me directly at jfaikens@verizon.net. You only have to list the number 1 - 8, not the title.

The voting will remain open through Wednesday, January 4th.

Please make sure you login in to the website first. Once logged in, please go here
Posted by Jim Aikens on Monday January 02 2012 - 14:56:15 Read/Post Comment: 6printer friendly create pdf of this news item

Friday 16 December 2011
Coming Club Trips
Due to popular demand, we’ve lined up a couple more W.W.II history trips in the next few months for those who might be interested. These trips are open to SoCalASL members and non-member friends and family who might be interested:

Where: Yanks Air Museum at the Chino Airport

When: 10:00 AM Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

We’ve talked about going to the Planes of Fame air museum at Chino Airport for quite some time. As it turns out there are two museums there, and the Yanks Air Museum is hosting the 14th Annual Model Kit Expo. The Expo will include model exhibits, vendor tables, re-enactments, a military vehicle display, W.W. II veteran’s symposium, HMGS miniatures, and a lot more, in addition to all the cool stuff in the museums.

The plan is to hit both museums on the same day, hence the somewhat early start time. The entry price for the Yanks Museum and expo will be $11 per person. There will be an additional charge for the Planes of Fame air museum. We’ll let you know beforehand what that will be. This should be a great trip; local, family friendly and easy to attend. We’re expecting a pretty sizable turnout for this.

And the drum-roll please...

We’ve nailed down a definite day for our long-awaited return to the Military Vehicle Technology Museum (aka “The Littlefield Museum”.)

Where: The Military Vehicle Technology Museum (aka “The Littlefield Museum”) near San Jose, CA

When: Saturday, March 31st, 1:00 PM tour.

We’ve booked the 1:00 PM tour on March 31st, 2012. Last time almost everyone flew into the San Jose airport that morning, then took rental cars to the museum (which is only about 30 minutes away.) We flew back to So.Cal. on the last return flight the same day. We will probably follow that same pattern again this time, though some might like to make the 14 hour round-trip drive, or drive up, stay over, return on Sunday. I will keep an eye on the airfares and keep everyone informed as we move closer to the event. In the meantime, save the date. You don't want to miss this trip!

Posted by Jim Aikens on Friday December 16 2011 - 18:56:57 Read/Post Comment: 6printer friendly create pdf of this news item

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