This week the GAMA tradeshow is occurring at Bally’s casino & resort in Las Vegas. This is the major north american industry tradeshow for game manufacturers.
Games Workshop is in attendance this year (see the floormap) and isn’t just manning a booth. They held multiple seminars including one Wednesday, March 16th titled “Build Community”
There was apparently some big news in there. BoLS has been told the following was revealed during the seminar:
GW will be returning to Organized Play!
Details of the Organized Play program are sketchy, and I’m sure the full program will be rolled out over the next few months. But here are the broad brushstrokes of what was reported from the seminar:
The Program will include Organized Play Systems for both Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar.
There will be a “campaign system” for each game.
Prize support is a part of the system.
The system will engage players at the Store, FLGS, and Convention level.
and the big one….
The Age of Sigmar campaign will include some type of “points” system!