The Games Club Bazaar of Moxen Trial and High Prize Event - LEGACY - 25th February

[Crispin Bateman]

Official announcement is here: http://forum.magicmadhouse.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=61

This should be the event for everyone with even the slightest interested in eternal formats. A legacy event, some high prize vintage worth cards to help break the barrier into that format, a travel award and byes to BoM, and finally booster prizes based on the swiss standings to ensure no one doing well walks away with nothing.

If there is only one tournament you go to in the next couple of months, it should be this one!

[Philip Dickinson]

sick prize support. looks like i'm going to have to bust out an actual real deck for this one instead of my usual parallax tide special...

[Crispin Bateman]

Just a bump to make sure everyone remembers this is happening on Saturday! :) Hope to see you all there!

[Dan Barrett]

I would be entering this, but I need to defend my Game Day title (plus that will have a higher PWP multiplier, right?)

[Crispin Bateman]

Mr Dan Barrett, the man who ALWAYS vocally goes on about how there needs to be good Legacy tournaments, with booster prize support as well as top end prizes, has a tournament made to fit his specific requirements, down the road from him, on a day when he is free and he chooses to play Standard instead for some more PWPs?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I will no longer take a single word you say with regards playing any tournament with any degree of seriousness Dan. Thus far all I've seen is talk and no actual turn up from you. :) This is some serious icing on that cake. 

As for everyone else; I'll see you at Legacy! :)

[Dan Barrett]

I said tournaments in general, not specifically legacy...

[Crispin Bateman]

It is also true that, to my reckoning, there have been at least 10 constructed tournaments, in four formats, run by The Games Club in London over the past eight weeks or so and your attendance at these events is a total of zero. Not that I'm bitching, I don't mind who turns up and who doesn't at the end of the day - I just hope everyone who does has fun, but I think it is fair to point out that the people (like myself) who are organising tournaments are far more likely to make sure we run the kind of thing that is wanted by players who actually turn up and play, than people who say they are going to come to events and don't.

[Dan Barrett]

I don't have to justify my attendance, or lack of, at magic events to anyone, I don't understand what point you are trying to make here other than "one player I know has a relatively busy life, maybe I won't run tournaments expecting him to always turn up".

[Crispin Bateman]

Of course you don't, Dan. I never suggested you did. What I am saying is that in the past you have been quite vocal on this forum about how you feel tournaments should and shouldn't be, to a level where other players and people organising tournaments have discussed your comments and looked at the points you have made. Usually this is a good thing, because by listening to the players, TOs make better tournaments. Specifically in your case, however, it becomes a case of 'here is a guy who likes to make noise about how tournaments should be, yet he doesn't come to them anyway,' and at that point it becomes 'why should anyone listen to him'?

That's all I was saying really. I think I have a pretty good reputation as someone who tries to make sure the tournaments that are run are ones players want, and I go out of my way to listen to player feedback and ensure that changes are made to tournament structure to make as many players as happy as possible, but that I'm done listening to players, like yourself, who make a lot of comments but don't actually turn up to the tournaments.

Perhaps I made a mistake in that I brought it up in this thread, rather than privately to you, but that's sometimes one of the pitfalls of chatting on forums like this. For that, I apologise; to you and also to anyone who is wasting their time reading this.

Back to the subject at hand - there is a great Legacy tournament on Saturday (and a Game Day Standard tournament as well!), and I hope attendance will be strong so that we can justify running similar events in the future; to that end, I hope that everyone who reads this decides to come and have fun and have a chance of winning byes and a travel award to BoM, as well as some amazing card prizes.
 

[Dan Barrett]

That's fine, you don't *have* to take my opinion into account when planning tournaments - in fact I would go so far as to say you should never make a decision based on what just one person/a small group says online, as it is highly unlikely they represent the views of your entire userbase, the majority of whom are silent. For the same reason I wouldn't tailor tournaments to the views of just those already turning up either, as you risk them becoming increasingly insular.

I'm very active on here/Twitter about Magic stuff because sometimes that will be the only Magic activity I'll get that week if I have other stuff planned for the weekend, and multiple short periods of activity are often possible where a block of half a day or longer is not. Sadly Magic can only actually be played in the latter!

re: Legacy on Saturday, I have a deck spare if anyone here needs one!

[Philip Dickinson]

why would you choose to play standard over legacy danielllllll

i don't even know if i can go to this. why is it that the year in which lots of constructed events pop up in london is the year in which i become reeeeaaaally busy :(

[Nick Lovett]

I want to play on Saturday - but I do not know if commitments might prevent me - we shall see later in the week.