Moose Jaw Gaming Community Growing with Longest-running Gaming Marathon in Province
The Moose Jaw Gamers Association has brought gamers and non-gamers together for over ten years, making an impressive wave in the community and using a shared love of gaming to give back to the city. Members of the MJGA bring all types of interests to the table, with a welcoming attitude to anyone interested in getting involved with some no-stress gaming. The group regularly volunteers at Moose Jaw’s high school tabletop gaming convention and runs board game afternoons to share new games with the public. They run a Discord channel for local gamers and are usually present at the Canada Day festivities on July 1 and the annual Sidewalk Days Festival every summer. The MJGA have also been nominated for a Moose Jaw Business Excellence Award several years in a row, recognizing their community-minded initiatives. The group hosts a regular Dungeons & Dragons Adventure League, open to the public and completely free to join in. Gaming sessions are bi-weekly, and ready for all levels of adventurers — both beginner and experienced. Because the organization is so focused on providing a welcom-
The Gamers Expo is open to all ages, and offers an impressive variety of gaming options for anyone to try their hand at.
ing environment for all types of gamers, they’ve also been able to grow Saskatchewan’s largest and longest-running charity gaming weekend. The Gamer’s Expo — known as GAX — runs twice a year in Moose Jaw and draws attendees from all over the province. Gamers bring their own personal gaming setups, either console or computer, or old-school tabletop games. It’s not just about showing off your gaming rig. The MJGA also has mini-tournaments of popular games organized throughout the weekend, a sea of tables featuring board games and tabletop RPGs, local vendors with gaming merch and a selection of raffle items to top it all off. The GAX event has been stead-
ily growing every year and now takes over almost every room available at the Moose Jaw Cultural Centre. The entire weekend is a fundraiser for the MJGA’s charity of choice, which usually focuses on supporting kids in the community. In 2019, the MJGA chose the Moose Jaw & District Food Bank’s new Mighty Munchies program, dedicated to providing snack bags for kids to take to school. Although Summer GAX 2020 won’t be taking place this year, the MJGA is hard at work planning fundraisers to help support this year’s charity of choice, the Creative Kids Saskatchewn Program, for 2020 and into 2021. Keep up with the Moose Jaw Gamers Association through their social media.
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