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Otakusphere - Fortress Hangout

Otakusphere - Fortress Hangout

Sun, Jun 21, 9:00 AM
From Otakusphere

Welcome and thanks for stopping by! **What is Otakusphere?** Otakusphere is Melbourne's newest anime, gaming and pop culture club. A place for geeks, nerds, weebs and all manner of other passionate individuals to get together, share their interests and meet some new people. This is OSs first event, and we've got some big plans in place for growth; trivia, cosplay, shopping, food and so much more. Come be a part of an amazing group of people and find your next favourite movie, anime series, cosplay inspiration or best-friend-forever! **What is involved?** This event is intended as a **casual hangout,** aimed at providing an introduction to prospective and existing members of OS. Agenda is basically: * Meet some new and old friends * Bring some boardgames and have a game * Food and drinks * Chat about all things anime, gaming and pop culture! Ticket includes a complimentary beverage (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) from the Fortress Bar under a limited selection. Come get a token on arrival and enjoy! **Where to find us?** * Table will be marked by a pair of plush birds. * Pull up a chair and don't be shy! * Fortress is a licenced venue. Photo ID/Proof of Age may be required on entry. **What if the event is full?** Due to limitations with the Fortress booking, ***no drop ins are permitted***. If you wish to join in but no places are available, join the waitlist. If enough are pending entry, the event may be expanded before the start time and extra availability will be released. Interest will be considered to make larger reservations in the future :) **Discord** All major communication and community chat happens on the OS Discord server, so come connect and say Hi :) https://discord.gg/AEkT4BqtHw

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Respawn Gaming Tekken 5 Tournament + Gamers Meetup

Respawn Gaming Tekken 5 Tournament + Gamers Meetup

Fri, Jul 3, 8:00 AM
From Melbourne Social & International Friends
4.8

Welcome to Respawnโ€™s Tournament Edition! ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ This time itโ€™s our third tournament special, Tekken 5! We will do this every first Friday of the month. The tournament lasts 1.5-2 hours depending on the players, starting at 6pm. ๐Ÿฅท Nothing to worry about as itโ€™s not serious, more casual. Prizes awarded to podium finishers worth $10-$100. ๐Ÿซถ RULES: โ€ข Registration Time: 6pm-6:45pm. โ€ข Tournament Start Time: 6:45pm. โ€ข All tournament participants MUST arrive by deadline 6:45pm. We cannot add players afterwards as itโ€™ll cause confusion. โ€ข Format: Swiss (If more than 8 players) & Round Robin (If there is less than 8 players). โ€ข You may pick ONLY one player throughout the tournament as itโ€™ll be logged into our Challonge. โ€ข No Cheat codes. 1st Place: $100 voucher presented by Melbourne Central Lion Hotel. ๐Ÿฅ‡ 2nd Place: Tekken 7 Official Marketing Poster. ๐Ÿฅˆ 3rd Place: Tekken: Funko Pop #174 Nina Williams. ๐Ÿฅ‰ Will you be the champion of our King of Iron Fist Tournament? ๐Ÿ† RSVP and DM us to officially register on our Challonge. Let us know which character youโ€™re using! (Can only select one). Please arrive on time before 6:45pm. โ˜๏ธ You can also come hang out, meet fellow gamers, and enjoy a chill vibe with great food and drinks. Spectator game stations available!๐Ÿฅค At the โ€œGamers Citadelโ€, we provide the consoles for you and this time have 2 multiplayer (2-4 player) game stations (A and B). For our board games area you are allowed to BYO! ๐Ÿ˜ฏ โ™Ÿ๏ธ Currently available are: Switch, PS1, PS2, SNES, N64, Cardfight!! Vanguard, Yu-Gi-Oh! and more! If youโ€™re bringing anything, please DM us so we can accommodate. โค๏ธ Conditions of entry are to either purchase any food or drink of your choice and we will provide you a reusable badge to show that youโ€™re one of us! Please return it when youโ€™re done.โœŒ๏ธ Whether youโ€™re a casual player or a hardcore fan, this is the place to be. Donโ€™t miss out on the fun! ๐Ÿคฉ Our games list is below! ๐Ÿ‘‡ Game Station A - PS2 - Dean: Designated Tekken 5 Tournament Special using PS2.. Game Station B - Switch - Michael: โ€ข Super Smash Bros Ultimate โ€ข Super Mario Kart 8 Game Station C - PS3 - Taran: โ€ข Mortal Kombat 9 โ€ข Crash Team Racing - 4 player Game Station D - TCG + Board Games: Pokรฉmon TCG YU-Gi-OH! TCG UNO JENGA BYO available! You can bring your own board games, controllers, equipment etc. ๐Ÿ‘ Top 3 tournament entrants earn prizes and will be announced via Instagram, Facebook and Discord. ๐Ÿ”Š Follow us on Instagram: @respawn.social ๐Ÿ“ฑ Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/phscMtBqpW ๐ŸŽง Find Respawn on Facebook: https://facebook.com/events/s/respawn-gaming-social-club-lau/940165205164472/ ๐Ÿ”— Visit our website for all info: https://intermingle.au/respawn/ ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป GET READY FOR THE NEXT BATTLE! ๐Ÿ‘Š

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Sunday Gaming Meetup & Social by Respawn

Sunday Gaming Meetup & Social by Respawn

Sun, Jul 5, 3:30 AM
From Melbourne Language Exchange & Social: Make New Friends
4.5

Welcome to Respawnโ€™s Gamers Citadel! ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Come hang out, meet fellow gamers, and enjoy a chill vibe with great food and drinks. ๐Ÿฅค Entry is $3 or buy yourself a drink or food. ๐Ÿฒ At the โ€œGamers Citadelโ€, we provide the consoles for you and have two multiplayer (2-4 player) game stations (A, B, C and D). For our board games area you are allowed to BYO! ๐Ÿ˜ฏ โ™Ÿ๏ธ Currently available are: Switch, PS1, PS2, SNES, N64, Cardfight!! Vanguard, Yu-Gi-Oh! and more! If youโ€™re bringing anything, please DM us so we can accommodate. โค๏ธ Conditions of entry are to either purchase any food or drink of your choice and we will provide you a reusable badge to show that youโ€™re one of us! โœŒ๏ธ Whether youโ€™re a casual player or a hardcore fan, this is the place to be. Donโ€™t miss out on the fun! ๐Ÿคฉ Our games list is below! ๐Ÿ‘‡ Game Station A - PS2: 1st Game: ??? 2nd Game: ??? Game Station B - ??? - Dean: 1st Game: ??? 2nd Game: ??? Game Station C - ??? - Michael 1st Game: ??? 2nd Game: ??? Game Station D - TCG + Board Games: Pokรฉmon TCG YU-Gi-OH! TCG UNO JENGA BYO available! You can bring your own board games, controllers, equipment etc. ๐Ÿ‘ Follow us on Instagram: @respawn.social ๐Ÿ“ฑ Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/phscMtBqpW ๐ŸŽง Find Respawn on Facebook: https://facebook.com/events/s/respawn-gaming-social-club-lau/940165205164472/ ๐Ÿ”— Visit our website for all info: https://intermingle.au/respawn/ ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป

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Free Video Games (PC Provided)

Free Video Games (PC Provided)

Sat, Jul 11, 2:01 AM
From Free Video Game Meetup (PC Provided)

Hi everyone. My name is Calem and Iโ€™m hosting a free video game party (pc provided) This is my last ditched effort to make friends, I have no social circle or people I consider to a close best bro. Iโ€™m actually hurting quite a lot not having a best friend to talk to in my personal life Could you make a little time In your scheduleโ€ฆ. please for me? So Iโ€™m hosting an event to get to know new people and hopefully welcome them into my life as a new connection. I have prepared several games installed and ready to play You can bring your own laptop if you really want but I donโ€™t recommend it Some of the games are riddled with Trojan/viruses so I keep them on old laptops ready to play isolated. Games prepared Halo Cod1 Cs1.6 Cs source Generals Mohaa Bf1942 Quake3 Ut1 Killing floor1 Flatout2 Savage Warcraft 3 StarCraft 1

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Dinner & Board Games Fortnightly CBD (We Play Board Games Melbourne)

Dinner & Board Games Fortnightly CBD (We Play Board Games Melbourne)

Wed, Jun 24, 8:00 AM
From Melbourne Boardgames group (party and strategy games)
4.8

Hi everyone, Stella & Tarrant here ๐Ÿ˜ƒ It's board game and dinner time every 2nd Wednesdays! Everyone's welcome, new or experienced board gamer. Let's play board games together, meet new friends if you want, and also supporting local restaurant buying their food and drink, coz the event is free. ๐๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐‘๐’๐•๐, ๐œ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฅ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐š๐ง'๐ญ ๐ ๐จ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐, ๐œ๐จ๐ณ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ Meetup will be in the separate room at the back of their venue! ๐—ง๐—œ๐— ๐—˜: 6pm - 10pm (but the pub is open till later if you want to stay around) ๐—ช๐—›๐—”๐—ง ๐—ง๐—ข ๐—˜๐—ซ๐—ฃ๐—˜๐—–๐—ง: Meetup for dinner & drink while playing board games. Here's a one page PDF document explaining how it works - https://loom.ly/hTHo2cM. Basically, find some friends or make some new ones. ๐—•๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—ก๐—š: Bring your own games or play our growing board games library, teach others or join others games. We have flag system to help you find people to play with you. Here is the list of our growing games library, categories and with short description - https://loom.ly/fOKuaM4 ๐—™๐—˜๐—˜: Zero. Nada. It's a casual get together, we're helping facilitating the meetup. All I asked is to please order food & drink from the venue, don't bring your own food and eat there, as the venue is a pub, they are providing the venue for free So please help local business ๐Ÿ˜ƒ ๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—š๐—”๐—ก๐—œ๐—ฆ๐—˜: Feel free to post in the comment if you have games you want to bring and teach others, try to organise people to play. Or if you want to join other people's game. We have a group via Aftergame (app/website) where you can organise a game as well here - https://aftergame.app/groups/we-play-board-games-melbourne-meetup-by-meeple-university-1386 ๐—›๐—ข๐—ช ๐—ง๐—ข ๐—š๐—˜๐—ง ๐—ง๐—›๐—˜๐—ฅ๐—˜: Melbourne Central, level 3. Melbourne Central station underneath. There are various public carpark Wilson 300 LaTrobe and Secure Parking in the city. Or the Wilson carpark under Melbourne Central, entry is a set price after 5pm (at the time of writing). And then plenty of public transport in the city ๐Ÿ™‚ To connect more to fellow board gamers, you can join the Facebook group that started the event here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/WePlayBoardGames Thank you and hope to see you all then! Stella & Tarrant

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Board Games Night - Beginners Welcome @Southbank Saturday

Board Games Night - Beginners Welcome @Southbank Saturday

Sat, Jun 27, 7:30 AM
From Ludos Melbourne Games
4.9

We have a library of games that we think will suit all players, so bring a friend and have a fun night amongst like-minded people. If you have any suggestions please message G, Andrew or Sherman. Schedule: We will start at 5:30pm and play until 9:00pm. 2 Strike Policy Late-leavers: attendees who cancel within 24 hours of the event. No-shows: attendees who mark themselves as โ€œgoingโ€ but donโ€™t turn up. Someone who does either of these once will be forgiven but flagged. On a second offence, they will be removed. Long-time regulars will be afforded some leniency. Legitimate reasons will be considered for leniency. What to bring: Yourself! Feel free to bring any games of your own but neither is necessary to having an enjoyable time with us (no alcohol permitted). What we will bring: We will bring our library of games that we think will suit players of all experience and taste, tap water is available. Below is the list of games we make available to this event. We will bring a subset of these games. WAVELENGTH (2019) Codenames Duet Codenames Monikers The Resistance: Avalon Deception: Murder in Hong Kong Dominion: Second Edition Dixit 7 Wonders Sheriff of Nottingham: 2nd Edition Catan Splendor Modern Art Chinatown Landmarks (2024) Bang! Secret Hitler Mafia Crossfire Insider Wonky (2015) Love Letter 7 Flip And Way MORE List of banned games: Monopoly (any version)

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