The Cube Masters Series 2011

[wv]

Hi all,

I just wanted to put something out there -

If I organised this event for next year March, would enough people be interested?

Cube Masters Series 2011

1^st Place – Full set of Legacy Dual Lands (Revised)
2^nd Place – Full set of Ravnica Shock Lands
3^rd Place – Full set of foil Ravnica Karoo lands, foil Alara tri-lands and foil Ravnica signets

Entry Fee: £12
Cube Masters Series Card: Foil Mystical Teachings (with Cube Masters Series stamp) for each competitor

Using a 360 card fully-powered Cube, competitors will battle it out for a full set of Legacy Dual Lands through a series of sealed and draft tournament Qualifiers and a Main Event!

If you don't know what a cube is, go here immediately: http://www.cubedrafting.com/what-is-the-cube/

Qualifiers

Prior to the main event, four 8-man qualifying drafts will be played. The top four of each draft will qualify for the main event.

Qualifier Rules
 

• Three 15 card ‘booster pack’ draft
• Draft pools must be registered.
• MTG Swiss Draft rules apply, except for deck registration restrictions (players may change their decks between games and rounds)
• Three Swiss rounds of play

Main Event

2x Top 8 Qualifiers

• Cube Sealed event (60 cards per player, from a total pool of 480)
• 120 card 'Cube Reserve List' will be added to the 360 Cube for this event
  
• Sealed pools must be registered
• MTG Sealed tournament rules apply, except for deck registration restrictions (players may change their decks between games and rounds)
• Five rounds of play, after which the tournament will cut to top 8
  

Top 8 Final Knock-Out Event

• Three 15 card ‘booster pack’ draft
• Draft pools and decklists must be registered
• MTG  Knockout Draft rules apply, including deck registration restrictions
• 3 round knock-out

Notes

• The same 360 card full-powered cube will be used for each event
• The final Cube Card List will be publicly released 1 week prior to qualifiers
• Anyone can participate in this non-sanctioned event
• Entry Fees are used to pay for prizes, judges and venue costs only

[Thom Richardson]

i don't quite get how the sealed works.
how do you make 16 sealed pools of 75 cards out of a 360 card cube?

[Burak]

+1

[wv]

Excellent point -

I'll need to rethink this - it could be that each player gets a 45 card pool, but this might be too few cards to adequately build a deck. Does anyone have any experience with Cube Sealed Pools? What's the right number?

Thom Richardson said:

i don't quite get how the sealed works.
how do you make 16 sealed pools of 75 cards out of a 360 card cube?

[Paul Hodgson]

Quick Q - will you be making the cube list available beforehand for dissecting and strategising?

[wv]

The Final Cube List will be released 1 week before qualifiers.

The final list will be decided upon by a 'Cube Committee', namely all of those interested in helping me fine tune the final Cube List for the Masters Series! :)

More info on this to follow next week.

Paul Hodgson said:

Quick Q - will you be making the cube list available beforehand for dissecting and strategising?

[Paul Hodgson]

Plenty of playtesting required for tuning right? ;)



Warren Vonk said:

The Final Cube List will be released 1 week before qualifiers.

The final list will be decided upon by a 'Cube Committee', namely all of those interested in helping me fine tune the final Cube List for the Masters Series! :)

Paul Hodgson said:

Quick Q - will you be making the cube list available beforehand for dissecting and strategising?

[Antony Churchill]

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[Charlie Grover]

I've done 90 a lot and its probably too many; but it depends on the land and multicolour counts of the cube, but I reckon 80 is near to the right number

Warren Vonk said:

Excellent point -

I'll need to rethink this - it could be that each player gets a 45 card pool, but this might be too few cards to adequately build a deck. Does anyone have any experience with Cube Sealed Pools? What's the right number?

Thom Richardson said:

i don't quite get how the sealed works.
how do you make 16 sealed pools of 75 cards out of a 360 card cube?

[wv]

Hmm... well that would make a sealed event with a 360 card cube impossible. :(

Have you ever tried with 45?

That Ginger One said:

I've done 90 a lot and its probably too many; but it depends on the land and multicolour counts of the cube, but I reckon 80 is near to the right number

Warren Vonk said:

Excellent point -

I'll need to rethink this - it could be that each player gets a 45 card pool, but this might be too few cards to adequately build a deck. Does anyone have any experience with Cube Sealed Pools? What's the right number?

Thom Richardson said:

i don't quite get how the sealed works.
how do you make 16 sealed pools of 75 cards out of a 360 card cube?

[James Stevenson]

sounds awesome! where do we sign up?

[Thom Richardson]

it's obviously not ideal but as this is an unsanctioned event you could make 3 proxy copies for the sealed

[Simon Baldwin]

You could do a mini-sealed (4 boosters worth of cards, 30 card deck). I think they mentioned something about it on Magic Online a while ago, not been reading about MO for a while so don't know if they did do it or not.