{"id":18,"date":"2025-05-26T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-05-27T04:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T04:19:17","slug":"2008-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/2008-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2008"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/2008-Nightcrawler-Ben.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/2008-Nightcrawler-Ben.png 700w, https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/2008-Nightcrawler-Ben-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/2008-Nightcrawler-Ben-624x531.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Singles Championship (Ben Cheung)<\/summary>\n<p>Ben Cheung was crowned the first official Heroclix World Champion. He was also the first player to get to design an officially released Heroclix element. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clixnexus.com\/units.php?unit=WS047\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Web of Spider-Man #047 Nightcrawler<\/a><\/strong> (otherwise known as &#8220;Bencrawler&#8221;) had a chase variant: most figures had &#8220;Xavier&#8217;s Institute of Higher Learning&#8221; printed on the brick wall behind Nightcrawler. A select few said &#8220;Ben Cheung, 2008 Heroclix World Champion.&#8221; Bencrawler was a meta defining figure during his time in Modern and is still fondly (and not so fondly) remembered by players active during his reign.<br><br>Ben definitely set a high bar for champion designed figures to follow.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p>Italian National Champion: Stefano Cestari<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian National Champion: Stefano Cestari<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joepanc.com\/clixalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}