TRAVISCON 4.0 Holyoke, MA. OCT 16TH & 17TH Cash prizes!Vintage and Sanctioned Legacy.

[JuggernautGO]

This will be the first of a new tournament series coming to the New England area. Next year, I plan to run 6-8 of these style tournaments between March and October. While we may no longer have the Star City power 9's to attend, the return of the TMD open in Waterbury, and these tournaments will try to fill the void.

The Moose lodge is in the past, we're moving on up to the East side to a swanky hotel in lovely Holyoke, MA, courtesy of Mr. Chris Hatcher. Hotel rooms will be readily available for all wanting to stay for both days.

Where:
The Holiday Inn
245 Whiting Farms Rd
Holyoke Ma
Hotel Phone #: 413 534 3311

Who:
Everyone's invited, even your hot mom.

What:
The return of the most epic tournament series to New England.
Saturday October 16th, Vintage 15 free proxy, $30 entry

Sunday October 17th, Vintage 15 free proxy, $25 entry

AND!

Sunday October 17th, Legacy, SANCTIONED, $25 entry

Both Vintage tournaments will be a cut to top 8 at less than 96 players, and a cut to top 16 if we have 96 or more players.
The Legacy tournament will be a cut to top 8.

Players will have the choice on Sunday whether to play Vintage or Legacy at the same cost.
Registration for both days starts at 10:00 am, with each tournament starting promptly at 11:00am.
On Sunday, the Vintage and Legacy tournaments will run concurrently assuring that there will be something for every magic player present to enjoy.

As was mentioned above, there is a special room rate catered specifically for players at this event. When you call to reserve your room that weekend, mention the $89.00 rate for the Magic tournament.

Also, and probably the most important item, there is a full bar just a few feet away from the event room, just waiting for Mr. Jimmy Hangley to get piss drunk at.

The prize structure:
I decided the way I'm going to run these from now on to guarantee that I never have to pay out of my pocket to run a tournament again is to use a structured payout similar to a poker tournament. Basically, my costs (the room and the judges) will be deducted from the prize pool. Everything else goes into the pot and is allocated.

These payouts are the same for both days and for both the Vintage and Legacy events.

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Approximate cash values with my costs subtracted:
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I'm looking forward to bringing back regular tournaments to the area, hope to see everyone there!

[MikeyFlowers]

Oh hell yeah

[konsultant]

While I agree nobody should ever be paying out of pocket to run an event with zero guarenteed prize support and no set first place prize I'm not sure how many people you will draw in with higher travel expenses. For instance there is my team here in Syracuse that travels to pretty much every Legacy event we can yet a trip to Holyoke, we traveled to numerous ones before they stopped running them, costs us about 100$ for the car ride not including entry fees. We are typically investing 50$ each on top of drive time and without even knowing what we are playing for I don't really see us making this trip. A member of our team is owner of Jupiter Games whitch runs monthly large events that draw in 70-150 people every month. (some events are considerably larger prize pool like the Lotus event coming up in October). My point is more he gaurentees atleast the top couple of prizes and adds to the pool only if the attendence is high enough. I understand the math behind the payout but from my stand point if you tell me I can win a Tabernacle or 28% i'd rather take the Tabernacle because I know what that actually equals.

[JuggernautGO]

I can only tell you what has occurred at other tournaments I have run.

June 2008
128 players showed up day 1
85 players day 2
both were vintage

November2008
86 players day 1
54 players day 2
both events were vintage.

By adding legacy for day 2 I figured I would attract a broader audience for both days, on top of that we have a room block reserved at the hotel for 89.00 per night.

Also, the first 10 people to book hotel rooms also get 10$ off their tournament entry day 1, and 5$ off their entry day 2. just putting that out there. 5 rooms left for anyone to get the reduced rates.

As far as prize support is concerned, I can guarantee you that 28% of whatever shows up will be far greater than a tabernacle.

Plus, you will have the 2 largest vintage/legacy dealers on the east coast in attendance with anything you could possibly need. Both Nick Coss and Jeff Anand will be there both days vending.

And there is a bar 10 feet from the event room.

There should be no question whether or not you should attend.

[JuggernautGO]

Coming up this weekend, hope to see a big legacy turnout sunday!