September Tournaments

Here is a list of the weekly tournaments for the month of September. As always, tournaments are held twice a week (Saturday and Sunday). Unless told otherwise, all tournaments begin at noon (SHARP!). Please plan on arriving no later than half-hour prior. Also, please..please..please pre-register. All, fees are $5 more on day of the event.

Super Street Fighter II Turbo (PS2) - 09/01
2 of 3 rounds
Double elimination
You can bring your own sticks to this fight
1st place: 50% pot
2nd place: 25% pot
$5 - pre-register
$10 - day of event

Mario Kart Double Dash (GC) - 09/02
2 of 3 rounds
Double elimination
1st place: 50% pot
2nd place: 25% pot
$5 - pre-register
$10 - day of event

Tekken 5 DR (PS3) - 09/08
2 of 3 rounds
Double elimination
You can bring your own sticks to this fight
1st place: 50% pot
2nd place: 25% pot
$5 - pre-register
$10 - day of event

Gears of War (Local Round) (360) - 09/09
Gears of War (National Round) (360) - 09/15
4v4 Execution
Double elimination
Bring your own controllers and headsets
1st place: $200 store credit for local round & $2000 store credit for national round
2nd place: $100 store credit
3rd place: $50 store credit
Top 3 teams will also win custom Play N Trade GEARS T-shirts
$40-$50 - pre-register team of 4-5 players ($10 each)
Registration is limited to 16 teams
Please go to PLAYNTRADE.com/contest for rules and details

Super Smash Bros. Melee (GC) - 09/16
This is a DOUBLES tournament
4 stock, 8min time limit, double elimination
Random Stages: FD, PS, DL64, BF, YS, FoD
Loser chooses stage, winner changes character and then loser changes character
Bring your own controllers
1st place: Any 4 Video Games, not exceeding a total of $240 OR $200 store credit
2nd place: Any 2 Video Games, not exceeding a total of $120 OR $100 store credit
3rd place: $50 store credit
$20 - pre-register ($10 per person)
$30 - day of event ($15 per person)

Halo Trilogy (360) - 09/23 - 09/25
TBD
Still working on the details. It will be a FFA (Free For All)
Participants who play all 3 events (Halo 1, 2 & 3 Midnight release tournament) will compete in most slays or executions for all three days to earn big prizes. This will be a double-elimination with 8 at a time. (4 up, 4 down)
Rules will be same or similar to MLG.

Guitar Hero II (360) - 09/29
TBD

Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (DC) - 09/30
2 of 3 rounds
Double elimination
You can bring your own sticks to this fight
1st place: 50% pot
2nd place: 25% pot
$5 - pre-register
$10 - day of event

Gears of War (GoW) Results

For most, this introduction is not needed, but for those of you who have taken refuge under a, metophorically speaking, tourney scene rock, a thanks is in order for all of you who contributed to an awesome Gears of War tournament. Great turn out, fierce competition (The 1 vs 2 sniper come back comes to mind), and to be blunt, a kick ass time for everyone involved.

And as a result of a a sucessful tourney, a national tournament will take place, directly below are the rough details:

GoW National Tournament
9/9/07 & 9/15/07
4 v 4 Execution
Grand Prize: $2000 Store Credit. (That's 3 zeros. It's not a mistake)
Go to www.playntrade.com/contest for more information


A special thanks especially to our team of finalists!

1st place: Team "Host Shotgun" with Dusty McSpadden and Jason Culberson

2nd place: Team "Ganemis" with Mark Ayala and Vincent A.

3rd Place: Team "Get Beasted" Jarratt Wittboldt and Gilbert D.

And for the other teams that didn't make it? I belive a quote will suffice

"you lost... you could of won, but you lost!"

"Reistance" with Christion and George M
"Salvation" with John H and Luke T
"Sharp Dressed sexy men" with Tommy T
"Shooter McCoy" with Ari L
"Skyes the limit" with Skye Y and Blue Y
"Team 7" with Chris B
"The Hit" Chris R and Kevin R
"The Warbirds" with The Johnstons
"Transformers" with Romone D and Louis S
"Troops of Hell Chaos" with Peter B and David B
"Volcom" with John M and John P
"1337 Sauce" with Eric M
"Do work" with Andrew J and Vince G
"Dublins Twins" with Tom P and Charles P
"Finest" with Brandon K
"Flaming Cheese and Ricearoo" with Russel and Reece
"Game Over" with Elfrin M and Sean R
"Get Merked" with David D and Geoff H
"h2o" with Zach W Zak E
"Hippie and the Pope" with Daniel F and Parish S
"Running over old people" with Jones T and Albert B
"Phx Elder Gods" with Jose O
"Resevoir Dogs" with Cash C and Kyle D


Enjoy the pictures! They only show about a fraction of the madness.
Also check
http://s204.photobucket.com/albums/bb91/pntchandler/GoW%20Tournament%207-22-07/
for ALL tournament pictures.

Gears of War Tournament

Join us on Sunday, July 22nd for one of many weekly tournaments held at the Play N Trade store at Chandler Fashion Center. This week's featured tournament will be Gears of War for the XBOX 360.

2v2 Elimination. You will need a teamate for this one.

All prizes will be split between teamates.

1st Place: $100 store credit
2nd Place: $50 store credit
3rd Place: $25 store credit

$10 - Pre-registration
$15 - At the door

The tourney begins at noon. Arrive early to reserve your spot.

Grand Opening!

3 Systems / 3 Games / 3 Genres

We proudly announce the Grand Opening of Play N Trade Chandler offering the ultimate gaming experience! The two-day event will be held Saturday, July 7 and Sunday, July 8, and features an epic triple tournament, with the grand prize winner receiving a 47-inch 1080p LCD monitor from Westinghouse Digital Electronics. The grand prize winner will be the gamer who has the best combined score from playing three different consoles – the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360, and the Wii. The triple threat competition will be played on the next gen systems to promote the newer technology for customers to experience and therefore encourage trades to lower the cost of these new systems.

Registration is free and begins at 10:00 am. on Saturday, July 7. The tournament will start at noon, and will be continued at noon on Sunday, July 8. Winners of the individual console game competition will each receive a $100 in-store credit. Prizes for all tournament contestants will be awarded, including T-shirts, swag bags and much more.

Ole Energy Drinks will also be provided and served by the Ole Girls. Rock out with Fitz from 98 KUPD, noon to 2pm during the promotion and live broadcasting onsite.

During the Grand Opening Play N Trade will also offer an extra 10 percent in-store credit for used game trade-ins, a “buy two used video games and get one free” special, and all accessories will be 10 percent off the sticker price. The best part, the first 500 participants will receive a FREE Insider Club membership just by spending $20 during the Grand Opening.

And the fun doesn’t stop after the grand opening. We offer weekly tournaments where you can crush your friends and total strangers and rake in the prizes and you can demo games on any one of our twelve 37” HD TVs and 109” HD Projector. We also offer the best trade prices and we can clean your disks and repair those old consoles. And don’t forget, we sell new and used games, consoles and accessories, enough to fill 3,000sf.

Play N Trade offers the ultimate gaming experience. We provide an atmosphere that is inviting to everyone from the casual gamer to the hard core enthusiast and we’re here to make sure that everyone feels welcome and receives exceptional customer service. We invite everyone to come out for this very special event as we celebrate the opening of greatest video game store you’ve ever seen!


Play N Trade: Chandler is located at the Chandler Fashion Center, 3155 West Chandler Boulevard. Store hours are 10:00 am. to 10:00 pm. Monday through Saturday, and from 10:00 am. to 6:00 pm. on Sunday. The telephone number is 480-726-PLAY.
www.playNtrade.com/CHANDLER

Phoenix New Times

If you do not read this free paper, for the nudie section, you should at least pick it up to check out our ads. We're running these for 6 weeks, and at $385 per week, they're quite pricy. That's what you get for advertising. We're not even open yet. Pick up a free copy at your local Circle K. Even just to read the nudie section.

A Store Is Born - Week 1

Folks,

We've started construction on the store. Not much to look at, but it will give you an idea of the layout. If all goes well, we will be complete in 3 weeks and open end of the month of May. In the meantime, keep checking back weekly on the progress. We're going to educate you on how to build the the biggest and best brick and mortar video game retail store in the country.


AWNINGS
If you saw earlier photos, you would think they're made from wood. NOPE! All metal. These are made out of aluminum and painted too look like wood. The paint job was so impressive that the landlord was fooled and as a result the previous tenant was required to install sprinkler heads.
Notice the metal cone-shaped objects in the middle the frame? We'll need to bring in a professional to move those sprinklers inside the store and some torches to cut those bolts out of the metal frame. We'll need to get a mason to fill in the bricks. Turns out the bricks were applied AFTER the awnings were installed.

LIFT

Check out the lift. I love this thing. We have high, 25ft. ceilings. We're going to run all the wires across these ceilings. Also, we need to mount all the lighting. Ledders are fine, but these contractors will spend hours up there.

LOSE A WALL, GAIN ANOTHER

The previous tenant needed a large, 800 square foot storage room and built a wall to separate the space. Well, we don't need a lot of storage, so we decided to open the space and use it for what else, more gaming. This back area will be used for old school gaming and best of all, PARTIES! Yes, we will rent out this back space for Video Gaming parties. Who needs a clown when you and your friends can teach grandma how to play on the Wii.

Oh, and for those who need an idea of what 800 square feet look like, just walk into any of our competitor's stores. Their entire retail space is approximately this size, give or take a few hunder sqare feet. We have additional 2000 sqare feet of breathing room in case claustrophobia decides to creap up on you.

CONDUIT

We wanted to give the place an industrial look. Notice the open ceiling and concrete flooring? We like that. So why not continue with that industial look by running all wires and cabling on the outside of the walls. We're got conduit all over the place. Don't worry, come next week the entire place will be painted black.

"WHO’S YOUR MUSE?" Contest

So you're having a problem locating ALL 9 MUSES. No problem! We're here to help. I've included pictures of every single muse right here. Any why not. After all, I've worked hard on creating them. It's up to you to solve them.

HINT: Check out our storefront for all 9 in detail. Just incase these pictures still have you confused.

MORE MARKETING

Folks,

We have four of these 22x28 posters displayed inside the Chandler Fashion Center. Three are located in front of different anchor stores and one in the food court. Check them out. They look very sharp.

Tell us what you think and drop by often. We'll have more things to show you soon.

MARKETING

Hey folks,

So you've seen pictures of the wrapped VX. Some of you may have even seen the vehicle on the road or parked at the Mall's valet. Let us know what you think. Drop us a note.

Moving on.

We are continuing to market the store and PNT name. Here are the pictures of the storefront. This is just the beginning. Many more to come. It's hard to see the watermark in the sunlight. We've made note of it and will make it more visible for future prints.

Speaking of future prints. Look around the Chandler Mall Food Court. Also in the next day or two you should notice 22X28 poster ads. See if you can spot all 4. They're spread around the mall.

NOW HIRING

PLAY N TRADE

Exciting new video game retail is looking for candidates that have retail experience as well as knowledge and enthusiasm for what we love, GAMING! These positions are for a mall based retail store.

Assistant Manager - Retail Store
Responsible for sale numbers & overall well being of the store, which includes:
-Staff schedules & supervision
-Assist with marketing strategies
-Establishing & maintaining excellent customer relations
-Making sales, returns & trade-ins
-Maintaining inventory & keeping track of loss prevention
-Receiving new stock/restock
-Organization & store setup
-Price updates for all inventory
-Changing retail & trade prices accordingly
-Ability to work off hours and weekends
-Physical activity in connection with store responsibilities

Potential candidates must have prior retail store experience, with at least one year in a management or supervisor role.

Sales Associate - Retail Store (FULL & PART TIME)
Responsible for assisting with store organization, which includes:
-Assist manager tracking stock levels & reorders
-Store maintenance & presentation
-Maintaining excellent customer relations
-Sales & trade-ins
-Customers calls
-Cleaning & testing discs & cartridge games
-Ability to work off hours & weekends
-Physical activity in connection with stocking & store maintenance
-Will report directly to store manager

Gaming retail experience would be an A+. References will be checked.
PNT Chandler employees will have great growth potential, salaries and benefits will be discussed during the interview process.

Email your resume to chandlermall@pntgame.com

www.playntrade.com/chandler

VX Vehicle Wrap