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Pete Hoefling
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SCG pushing hard on the marketing/spamming:
Originally Posted by Dice_Box
As they shouldSCG pushing hard on the marketing/spamming:
Vacation is scheduled, I'll be out there Thurs - Mon.
Has there been any developments on the possible Sourcer meet up?
Glad to see it as we know wizards ain't doing it.SCG pushing hard on the marketing/spamming:
Preregistered! Also picked up a couple of byes from a GPT.
Pallets upon pallets of sweet #GPNJ promotional swag arrived yesterday! Check out the pics at imgur.com/gallery/I0a40/, then preregister today at www.magicgp.com! #MTG
Best wishes,
Pete Hoefling
President, StarCityGames.com
www.starcitygames.com
NJ will officially have the largest judge staff ever.
Still waiting to hear back from my boss about whether I can go :/
Since Eternal Weekend is brought up alot in this thread: Do you guys know if there will be coverage, most ideally a stream?
There was last year, I'm sure there will be this year
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Great, now the whole GP has Ebola.
THANKS OBAMA.
I think the biggest thing is the deep seeded emotional understanding that the right play is the right play regardless of outcomes. The ability to make a decision 5 straight times, lose 5 times because of it, and still make it the 6th time if it's the right play. - Jon Finkel
"Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings."
Evan Erwin is on Reddit claiming that at the current pre-reg rate, NJ will be larger than Vegas.
In the same thread, Pete Hoefling is saying that their floor space should allow for 5,500-6,000 players
On a personal note, I've got hotel and airfare booked so I'm now 100% If anyone wants to split a cab or ride the train together from Newark, my flight lands at noon:35 Friday.
Aside from the massive SCG circlejerk, I wonder how an outcome this big is going to influence Wizards' view on Legacy.
Not much to do with legacy. Starcity organizing + in the northeast. And Wizards knows that. Legacy format is guaranteed reducing turnout from what it would be in sealed, or even standard.
“It's possible. But it involves... {checks archives} Nature's Revolt, Opalescence, two Unstable Shapeshifters (one of which started as a Doppelganger), a Tide, an animated land, a creature with Fading, a Silver Wyvern, some way to get a creature into play in response to stuff, some way to get a land into play in response to stuff (a different land from the animated land), and one heck of a Rube Goldberg timing diagram.”
-David DeLaney
It's interesting to compare this though to GP Orlando, which was hyped by SCG for months as well. According to Wikipedia, that GP only had 2277 players, and that was a sealed event for a format that was highly anticipated. I'm not sure how the SE US Magic community compares to the NE US community, but I think it says something that a Legacy GP might very well surpass a GP of a more 'desirable' format that had the benefit of the same TO and similar advertisement.
I'd also chalk part of the popularity to location and EV.
Location is obvious: There's tons of people in the Northeast, for whom a trip to Jersey is quite easy.
EV: The stuff that they're giving you for your $50 is awesome. That playmat will be desired for years to come. I'd imagine that the playmat alone could pay for your entry and I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear about round 0 drops. In addition, the side events look fantastic. If I was anywhere near NJ, even if I didn't play eternal, I would be all over coming to this GP.
I think the use of "not much" is misleading; it (nearly) implies, that SCG organizing + in the northeast + any format = this turnout. Legacy may not be the only format that could get this, but Legacy does have a lot to do with the number. Making up numbers, but if it's true that Sealed would get 7500, Standard would get 6500, Legacy would get 5500, Block Constructed would get 1000, Vintage would get 500, Extended would get 500 if it existed, Archenemy would get 500, and whatever else, under the same circumstances, the turnout is very much a statement with meaning.
When you're solely comparing to Standard and Sealed, you're comparing to a relatively small and heavy-hitting group of formats. And we don't even know for sure that those other formats would do better; people could be coming out for Legacy specifically. And yes, obviously, many more people on the whole play Standard and Sealed than Legacy.
re Undomian: Florida consistently has the lowest turnout in the eastern US. There's just not a lot of population in driving distance. You have to go to isolated western states like Colorado or Utah before you get smaller turnout. 2200 players for Florida is impressive. Vegas only worked because of cheap airfare and modern masters hype/being the most +EV GP to enter of all time.
re LOLWut: It's impressive for legacy, but Barook was wondering if this would influence Wizards. Highly unlikely that Wizards would add another legacy GP or something because of this turnout (if it happens, it'll be from GP expansion, but I dunno how much more they could expand GPs).
“It's possible. But it involves... {checks archives} Nature's Revolt, Opalescence, two Unstable Shapeshifters (one of which started as a Doppelganger), a Tide, an animated land, a creature with Fading, a Silver Wyvern, some way to get a creature into play in response to stuff, some way to get a land into play in response to stuff (a different land from the animated land), and one heck of a Rube Goldberg timing diagram.”
-David DeLaney
We're up to three next year which I'm quite excited about!
You say it "only" had 2277 players, but isn't that a pretty big turnout for a Limited Grand Prix?
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