Gwinnett Daily Post

The Gwinnett Gladiators will open their 10th anniversary season on the road, but play the vast majority of their 36 home games on weekend dates.

The Gladiators' first game is Oct. 13 in South Carolina against the team that eliminated them in the first round of the 2011-12 season. The first home games will be Oct. 19-20 against new and old opposition. The Ontario Reign make their Arena at Gwinnett Center debut on that Friday and division rival Greenville is here the second night.

Two traditional holiday games remain on the schedule, Thanksgiving and the Martin Luther King Jr. Day matinee.

Of the Gladiators' 36 home games, 30 are designated to weekends on either Friday, Saturday or Sunday.

Gwinnett's schedule also features several Western Conference opponents. In addition to the Reign's visit, the Idaho Steelheads visit for a pair of games in January. Late in the season, the Gladiators travel to Salt Lake City and Boise. Those dates are part of a 10-game, three-week road stint. On either side of that, though, are two sizeable homestands.

The bulk of the season will be against division rivals, although a new face is included there with the addition of the Orlando Solar Bears. New franchises in Evansville and Fort Wayne make appearances at the Gwinnett Arena as well.

Gladiators 2012-13 schedule:

Oct. 13 at South Carolina, 7:05 p.m.

Oct. 19 Ontario, 7:35 p.m.

Oct. 20 Greenville, 7:05 p.m.

Oct. 21 at Greenville, TBD

Oct. 24 at Evansville, 8:15 p.m.

Oct. 26 at Ft. Wayne, 8 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Ft. Wayne, 7:30

Oct. 28 at Evansville, 6 p.m.

Nov. 1 Orlando, 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 3 Elmira, 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 4 South Carolina, 4:05 p.m.

Nov. 8 at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Florida, 7 p.m.

Nov. 11 at Orlando, 3 p.m.

Nov. 17 Greenville, 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 22 Orlando, 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 23 Orlando, 6:05 p.m.

Nov. 28 Ft. Wayne, 7:05 p.m.

Nov. 30 Ft. Wayne, 7:35 p.m.

Dec. 1 at South Carolina, 7:05 p.m.

Dec. 4 at South Carolina, 7:05 p.m.

Dec. 7 at Greenville, TBD

Dec. 8 Greenville, 7:05 p.m.

Dec. 9 Trenton, 4:05 p.m.

Dec. 13 at Greenville, TBD

Dec. 15 at South Carolina, 7:05 p.m.

Dec. 16 at Greenville, TBD

Dec. 21 at Reading, 7:05 p.m.

Dec. 22 at Reading, 7:05 p.m.

Dec. 27 South Carolina, 7:05 p.m.

Dec. 28 South Carolina, 7:05 p.m.

Dec. 29 at Greenville, TBD

Dec. 31 at Evansville, 8:15 p.m.

Jan. 2 at Ft. Wayne, 7:30

Jan. 4 South Carolina, 7:35 p.m.

Jan. 5 Florida, 7:05 p.m.

Jan. 12 Kalamazoo, 7:05 p.m.

Jan. 13 Kalamazoo, 4:05 p.m.

Jan. 15 at South Carolina, 7:05 p.m.

Jan. 17 at Greenville, TBD

Jan. 18 Florida, 7:35 p.m.

Jan. 19 at Greenville, TBD

Jan. 21 Greenville, 12:30

Jan. 25 Orlando, 7:35 p.m.

Jan. 26 Idaho, 7:05 p.m.

Jan. 27 Idaho, 4:05 p.m.

Feb. 1 South Carolina, 7:35 p.m.

Feb. 2 South Carolina, 7:05 p.m.

Feb. 6 at Trenton, 7:05 p.m.

Feb. 7 at Wheeling, 7 p.m.

Feb. 9 Evansville, 7:05 p.m.

Feb. 10 Cincinnati, 4:05 p.m.

Feb. 15 Wheeling, 7:35 p.m.

Feb. 16 Florida, 7:05 p.m.

Feb. 17 Florida, 2:05 p.m.

Feb. 19 at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Feb. 21 at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Feb. 22 at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Feb. 26 at South Carolina, 7:05 p.m.

March 1 at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

March 2 at Florida, 7 p.m.

March 3 at Orlando, 3 p.m.

March 6 at Utah, 9:05 p.m.

March 8 at Idaho, 9:10 p.m.

March 9 at Idaho, 9:10 p.m.

March 14 Orlando, 7:05 p.m.

March 15 Orlando, 7:35 p.m.

March 17 Orlando, 4:05 p.m.

March 20 Cincinnati, 7:05 p.m.

March 22 at South Carolina, 7:05 p.m.

March 23 South Carolina, 7:05 p.m.

March 30 Greenville, 7:05 p.m.