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

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

Whether you want to play in the Pinball Championships, Modern Classics, Retro Classics or Hybrid Tournaments, you can check out the details online now! All of the rules for all of the 2010 Midwest Gaming Classic tournaments have now been announced!  This includes all of the prizes for the tournaments, as well as rules and all of those fun details to get you ready to compete!  If you want to play in any of the tournaments, you’ll want to check these out. Specific new additions to the Pinball Tournaments are NBA Fastbreak, Orbitor 1 and Two Player Split Flipper tournaments.  Specific new additions to the Modern Classic Tournaments are New Super Mario Bros Wii, Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll and Irides: Master of Blocks. Make sure to check out the touranments page for all the details!

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Final Tournament Details Announced

The Bally title NBA Fastbreak was notable for having a link feature, but it is rare that you ever found them linked to play…  but at this year’s show, you’ll be able to compete against someone else to find out who is better! Bally’s NBA Fastbreak game introduced a new concept — using a couple parts, you could connect two games together, and players could face off head-to-head style in a unique, timed event.  Unfortunately, finding a location that had two NBA Fastbreak pinball machines was tough to do, and finding a location that actually had those two games linked was nearly impossible. At this year’s Midwest Gaming Classic, there will be two linked NBA Fastbreak machines for a tournament!  Qualify throughout the day by playing the game in the normal fashion that the game was played in, and at the end of the day the top players will face off against eachother in head-to-head pinball to see who the best player is! If you think that you can play this unique Bally game in both of it’s styles and be the best, you won’t want to miss this unique tournament!

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