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2 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2011 - 4:40PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 24, 2008
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This thread is for discussion of a Feature Article, which goes live Wednesday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2011 - 9:07PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 16, 2009
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I am filled with trepidation at this announcement. I kind of liked the previous structure of the World Championship. First invitationals, and now the World Championship? I remember excitedly following my favorite pros' progress through the standings, round after round, to see who would come out on top.
I feel like you just canceled Christmas.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2011 - 9:24PM
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I don't know or care enough about the pro players club to have an opinion on that. But the change to the World Championships sounds terrible. We lose so much with a 16 player tournament - no chance of surprise contenders (sorry Cole Swannack), no innovative decks that dominate the field (sorry Gab Nassif and Pat Chapin), no more impressive back-to-back top 8 showings since top 8 is now meaningless (sorry Tom van de Logt). And the justification is pretty weak - it's not like winning this version of the World Championships is going to convince anyone you're the best player more than the old World Champs did. At the end of the day all we have is a much less interesting tournament, which undoubtedly is a lot cheaper to put on.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2011 - 9:50PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 18, 2003
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This is terrible.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2011 - 9:53PM
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Wizards is cutting pro level events. This seems odd, considering that the 16 online PTQs for PT Honolulu are going to net Wizards/ Hasbro over $500,000 by themselves. That more than pays for the entire pro tour. They should be going to more PTs, not less.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2011 - 10:02PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 23, 2011
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Go SCG circut go! Reinstate your old player's club! Make the appearance fees unbelievably good! Make us want to grind in them all the time! Make your invitationals awesome! Make it so Wotc sees how bad this system is and maket them want to cry!!!
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2 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2011 - 10:04PM
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Go SCG circut go! Reinstate your old player's club! Make the appearance fees unbelievably good! Make us want to grind in them all the time! Make your invitationals awesome! Make it so Wotc sees how bad this system is and maket them want to cry!!!
This is not going to make them cry at all. They would be incredibly happy about this. People still buy their cards + they don't have to pay to host pro tours= Win/ Win for them.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2011 - 10:12PM
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Date Joined:
May 28, 2003
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I guess it's much easier to be on the coverage team if you don't have to worry about having so many of those troublesome players around having fun.
Wizards has decided to no longer take this game seriously. I don't really know why, but there it is.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2011 - 10:20PM
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Date Joined:
May 18, 2002
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I guess it's much easier to be on the coverage team if you don't have to worry about having so many of those troublesome players around having fun.
No, it's quite the opposite really.
Wizards wants us to have fun so much, that they're actively crippling high-level play, while making local FNM heavily weighted in their Planeswalker Points system, introducing mechanics specifically engineered to annoy "serious" drafters, and poisoning every non-"awesome monsters!" Modern deck that even approaches coherency.
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2 years ago ::
Nov 01, 2011 - 10:33PM
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This all makes sense, Magic is really growing right now, the player base is huge and therefore they feel the need to reduce the number of big tournaments. Wait, wut?
This move feels like they want to push MtG back to the kitchen table and perhaps the occasional FNM. We always get that half-hearted "you'll get something else". Yeah, just like we got something else when you removed the rewards programme. I for one think that this stinks.
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