The Arena Opens

The time has come! The time to test your skill, to make new friends and, most importantly, to play some ROBA! Tournament season is upon us.

Heel Turn Games is pleased to announce the inaugural events in its organized play calendar for the 2019 / 2020 season. The road to crowning our first world champion starts December 7th with Clash: London and Clash: Philadelphia, and proceeds into the new year with Clash: Cork on January 25th.

Clash tournaments are open sign-up. All you need to participate is a copy of ROBA and a champion’s attitude.

Format

Clash tournaments utilize the draft format with a single ban allocated to each player after first picks. The draft pool for these events includes all twelve published heroes from the Core set and the Welcome to the Arena roster expansion.

Tournaments will use the swiss system in the initial rounds, followed by a cut. Matches played after the cut will use a single elimination bracket. Full floor rules, along with our community standards and anti-harassment policy, will be published in advance of the events

Clash: London

Clash: London will take place in the Dark Sphere Megastore on December 7th.

Entry Fee: £10 on-site / €8 pre-register

Registration: On-site registration opens at 10:00. First round begins at 12:00. Pre-registration available via the Heel Turn Games webstore.

Address: Dark Sphere Megastore, W12 Shopping Centre, London, United Kingdom W12 8PP

Facebook event page

Clash: Philadelphia

Clash: Philadelphia will take place at PAX Unplugged on December 7th.

Entry fee: You must have access to the PAX Unplugged event via an appropriate pass. Other than this there is no entry fee for the event.

Registration: On-site registration opens 9AM at the Tournament HQ. Pre-registration for this event is not available.

Address: Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA, United States 19107

Note: There is a hard limit of 32 players for this event.

Facebook event page

Clash: Cork

Clash: Cork will take place at Warpcon, University College Cork on January 25th

Entry fee: There is no additional charge to enter this event, but you must also have purchased a pass for the Warpcon convention.

Registration: On-site registration opens at 10:00. First round begins at 12:00. Pre-registration is available via the Heel Turn Games webstore.

Address: University College Cork, College Road, Cork, Ireland T12 K8AF

Facebook event page

To the victor, the spoils

There’s more on the line at Clash tournaments than pride. Exciting prizes await those with the courage to step inside the arena.

In each round of the tournament, players who are still participating will receive a randomized full-bleed hero from the core set or the Welcome to the Arena roster expansion.

Players who qualify for the elimination rounds will receive a Bran playmat and a set of full bleed Deity promos.

For the champion: Immortality. In addition to an exclusive Itotia playmat, Clash Champions may choose a hero from the draft pool for that event. They will work in collaboration with Heel Turn Games to create an alternate-art design for that hero to be published as part of the next season’s event kit. That player will be credited, and their victory commemorated, on the card.

What the Future Holds…



This announcement marks the beginning of our plans for ROBA organized play. Events and community lie at the heart of Heel Turn Games’ mission and we want you to join us in this journey together. You may have noticed that at the beginning of this post I mentioned something about “the road to crowning our first World Champion”. To find out just what I was talking about you’ll have to stay tuned for more news but believe me when I say we have big plans for our events scene and we can’t wait to share them with you.

In the meantime, be sure to keep spreading the word. ROBA is nothing without you – its supporters, backers and fans.

Thanks for everything so far. Together, we’re gonna see this game achieve its true potential.

See you in the arena!

– Jack