The Big Nationals Thread

[Ben Titmarsh]

So I'm unfortunately not going to be there this weekend, but I'd appreciate it if you could keep me (and everyone else who can't go) updated.

 

Best of luck guys!

[Dan Barrett]

North, obv

Peter Dun said:

who won the football???

[Peter Dun]

..... you guys are terrible, next year I'll play :)    (setting self up for a very very big fall here :P)

[Charlie Grover]

Sadly I was too busy grinding as im actually reasonable at football... I hear Glenn put up a good show though :)

[Glenn Goldsworthy]

unfortunately both the north vs south and the 5 a side matches were decided on who had the best goalie (he was awesome man), in the final of the 5 a side Dan hit 2 rockets and he made diving saves, nobody else would have even tried.  I did score 2 in the semi final but couldn't move for the final which was a bit awkward.  Was very good fun though

[Thomas David Baker]

I love that Charlie had the balls to play a Mox Diamond then let it die rather discarding a land that he had in his hand because he realized it wasn't the play.  It's a misplay but I like it.

 

[Charlie Grover]

I looked pretty foolish anyway, no need to make it worse :)

[Philip Rogers]

So what was everyones verdict on the weekend as a whole?

 

What should be kept or changed for next year?

 

Philip.

[Glenn Goldsworthy]

Don't have it in Sheffield (it was a dive), in the town center was great though. 

No PTQ's was terrible and a fairly limited number of older "cool" events, no historic sealed was a shame.

2hg draft cool, paying the same price as normal draft but with 2 less boosters in the prize pool is a total rip-off.

Football was awesome (obv not organised by you guys)

2 lots of M12 draft at nats is shocking but I guess we will always have double core from now on

This nats was nowhere near as good as Brighton or London but much better than the NEC.

Philip Rogers said:

So what was everyones verdict on the weekend as a whole?

 

What should be kept or changed for next year?

 

Philip.

[Peter Dun]

no ptq seems really really bad, in terms of making a value judgement, it turned off a lot of people who would have maybe gone to grind in (because there was always the ptq consolation prize)

[Philip Dickinson]

i think you should host nats at Donnington Park again. it was really fun having the venue literally in the middle of nowhere.

 

as a side note, combining nats with a gp (a la Brighton two years ago) was an excellent idea - how can it be arranged to do this again? I know London just had a GP but perhaps Manchester would be a suitable choice? or maybe go historic - Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Leeds.... Belfast?

[Dan Barrett]

It was mostly fine, the venue itself was nice and never felt cramped, being in the middle of a city was good (like Brighton was), no PTQs was a bit meh.

[Glenn Goldsworthy]

Phil Donnington Park was aweful, no hotels and in the middle of nowhere