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Wednesday 17 April 2024
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Grandmaster aims to trump world’s best JACK MALCOLM Mani Gardwell has played card games competitively for over two decades and is on the cusp of battling to become a world champion.
As one of 16 players who have qualified for the Grand Archive trading card game World Championship finals in Las Vegas, he believes he’s in with a chance. “The biggest thing from the weekend [qualifiers] was when
we finished, it gave me a sense of relief to back myself and be competitive at the top level,” he says. “There’s a legitimate chance I could be the first world champion of Grand Archive.” Grand Archive is a trading card
game (TCG) similar to Magic the Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh, where players build a deck to battle against an opponent and defeat their champion. With countless variations of strategy and play styles, Mani
says the game has rapidly grown in the region since its release less than a year ago. Before the game had been released, the company sent out a
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‘We’ve got to get out of here’ SARA HOLLYMAN Nelson Provincial Museum’s collection has been damaged after its Research Facility in Isel Park sprung a new leak in heavy rain last week. The team have been battling leaks in the building that has been “at the end of its natural life for a very long time”, according to chief executive Lucinda Jimson. But this is the first time the collection has suffered damage. Every time bad weather is forecast, the team springs to action, moving items from problem areas and
covering others in plastic. “We’ve got to get out of here,” Lucinda says of the building. During Thursday night’s heavy rain, a new leak burst through the ceiling and ran down a wall onto a table containing two boxes of historic papers. The damaged items, that had been moved from another problem area, consisted of books, pamphlets and other paper documents. Luckily, rarer, and more valuable items nearby were in plastic tubs or covered in plastic. Lucinda says the facility, which is home to over
200,000 items and 1.5 million photographs, has become essentially like a ‘Whack a Mole’ when it comes to water leaking in. “You block it up in one point and it comes out somewhere else.” Collections leader Shae Trewin spent Friday morning in gumboots, on hands and knees, soaking up water from wet carpet using towels and sponges. Now, around 10 dehumidifiers and fans are drying areas throughout the facility. “The team feels the responsibility of constantly See page 2.
Nelson Provincial Museum chief executive Lucinda Jimson with some of the objects that were damaged in last week’s heavy rain. Photo: Sara Hollyman.
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