Panini America, Inc joins the MGC as a sponsor and will be giving away lots of NBA Adrenalyn XL cards for people to collect and play! Panini America, Inc is your leading trading card manufacturer! With tons of great sets and series and the only license to print cards for the NBA, Panini America has products to satisfy the biggest card collectors as well as the brand new trading card fans. Don’t miss Adrenalyn XL, the new trading card game from Panini which allows you to play with your favorite stars online against friends or foes! For great cards, Panini is the only name you need to know! For the 2010 Midwest Gaming Classic, Panini will be providing game boards and packs of their Adrenalyn XL trading cards!  Be one of the first 1000 guests, and get a play board and pack of cards in the event goodie bag!  Also, Panini is sponsoring Sunday’s Family day, with another 1000 game boards and packs of cards while supplies last! Panini is also sponsoring the Saturday NBA Fastbreak pinball tournament, giving each entrant a pack of Adrenalyn XL cards with their entry, as well as the top four places earning more cards for their collections! Adrenalyn XL is the perfect card set for the new collector!  With a low entry cost and an easy-to-learn game that can be played by people of all nearly ages, it is a set that is fun for the whole family.   The cards feature codes on the back of the cards, allowing you to track your Adrenalyn XL collection online and play the game against others from around the world!

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Panini America, Inc Adds NBA Card Gaming Fun

If you haven’t pre-ordered your tickets yet, hurry to www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ before tomorrow night and get them now! If not, you’ll just have to show up early for your goodie bag! In less than 36 hours, the only way to get tickets to this year’s Midwest Gaming Classic will be to show up at the show and get them there. This is your last chance to save $5 by buying tickets in advance, as well as ensuring that you will get one of the first 1500 Midwest Gaming Classic goodie bags at the show. Those who preorder tickets will get one ticket to pick up a goodie bag which will contain: Killzone 2 t-shirt (courtesy of Sony Playstation 3) Copy of Dreamcast game Feet of Fury (courtesy of the GOAT Store, LLC) Special discount coupon to Six Flags Great America for more than half off (courtesy of Six Flags) If you haven’t pre-ordered your tickets yet, hurry to www.midwestgamingclassic.com/ before tomorrow night and get them now! If not, you’ll just have to show up early for your goodie bag!  

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Less than 36 Hours to Pre-Order Tickets

The first 1500 guest at the Midwest Gaming Classic will get a Six Flags coupon worth more than half off! The Midwest Gaming Classic has teamed up with Six Flags Great America to add another great goodie to the goodie bags that the first 1500 people will receive upon entering the show — a coupon worth more than 50% off a visit to Six Flags Great America! The coupons will give guests of the Midwest Gaming Classic the chance to visit Six Flags in the month of March for only $24.99, a savings of $30.00 off the regular single day admission rate!  With ticket prices that low, it will make April the perfect time to visit your favorite rides, shows and attractions at Great America like Raging Bull, Batman: the Ride, the Dark Knight Coaster, Superman: Ultimate Flight and more than a dozen more coasters and water rides! With a coupon this great, you’ll want to make sure you get to the Midwest Gaming Classic to get it, and that you get to Six Flags Great America to use it!  To guarantee your goodie bag including the Six Flags coupon, Killzone 2 t-shirt, Feet of Fury game copy and even more goodies that we’re working on, you can also pre-order your tickets!  Pre-order tickets end in less than 24 hours though, so make sure to do it quickly!

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First 1500 to get huge Six Flags discount

The Midwest Gaming Classic is known for having some of the most highly competitive tournaments, and this year a ton of sponsors have stepped up to make the tournaments even more lucrative for the winners.  Here is a list of sponsors, the tournaments they are sponsoring and the extra goodies competitors will get because of it! GameWorks Schaumburg – GameWorks Schaumburg is sponsoring the Midwest Pinball Championship for the second year in a row!  If you compete in A or B division, you will get a one-hour play card for the incredible arcade — including great pinball line up — at the Schaumburg, Illinois GameWorks! Panini America, Inc – The company behind the best trading card sets has a really cool new product – Andrenalyn XL gets you in the game by allowing you to track the cards you own online and play a very cool game of basketball against others from around the world!  Enter the NBA Fastbreak Tournament, and you’ll get a free pack of Andrenalyn XL trading cards, win and you’ll get a bunch more! J2Games.Com – This online game vendor is your source for just about any type of game you want!  J2Games is sponsoring the Tetris tournament this year, and awarding the winner with a great FC II Mobile portable NES system! goatstore.com – The long time Midwest Gaming Classic supporter has published five Dreamcast games, with the most recent being Irides: Master of Blocks.  Play in either of the Irides: Master of Blocks tournaments at the show, and you’ll be competing to win a copy of the special, very limited edition version of Irides: Master of Blocks LE courtesy of the GOAT Store, LLC! Hyperkin – If you want an awesome update for your favorite classic video games, Hyperkin is the company you want to be buying your systems from!  Hyperkin is donating one of their FC Mobile II systems for the main prize in the Fire Super Mario Speed Run challenge! Pepsi AMP Energy Drink – Need energy?  Get AMPed up!  Pepsi AMP Energy Drink will be providing prizes (and energy!) for a variety of tournaments throughout the weekend! 102.9 the Hog – Like rock? You want to tune into WHQG Milwaukee, 102.9 the Hog!  This station plays all of the greatest rock tunes, and also provides the MGC with support for the Speedy New Super Mario Bros Wii Challenge!  Don’t miss the entertaining finals, hosted by the Hog’s Gasman on Saturday! SEGA – Sega of America makes great games, and is providing the Midwest Gaming Classic with copies of their latest, greatest Super Monkey Ball game to be able to run the Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll Tournament!  Make sure to check out this and all of Sega’s other great games! Chiquita Bananas – What good would a Super Monkey Ball Tournament be without bananas?  Luckily, we’ll never know as Chiquita Bananas is providing the Midwest Gaming Classic with a year supply of bananas to give the winner of the Super Monkey Ball Tournament! FM 102/1 – This great local rock station plays tunes from all of the great bands that you want to hear, and is helping to coordinate the Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll Tournament! Again, a special thanks to all of these great sponsors!

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Tournament Sponsors Announced

For over a decade, whenever gamers wanted to play the most state-of-the-art console with the best games, they have known to look for the PlayStation® logo. This year, Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc has teamed with the Midwest Gaming Classic to ensure visitors to the show truly PLAY BEYOND. For over a decade, whenever gamers wanted to play the most state-of-the-art console with the best games, they have known to look for the PlayStation® logo.

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Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. Joins as Sponsor