European Legacy Scene: Big Tournaments? Please Contribute

[catmint]

It is sad that there is no "SCG"-like tournament series in Europe. In my opinion the potential would be there , but the language problem and probably a less heteregone [magic] community/culture make it more difficult.

So, I am looking for bigger legacy tournaments in Europe: 60+ people, so we do not have to wait for a BoM or a GP to enjoy a "real" metagame and not the same guys from your city over and over again.

Browsing the web, it is very difficult to find good information about larger tournamnets (potentially UK, Germany, France, Spain or Italy,...), because of the language problem and/or not enough information (price pool, expected players).

So please, post the information about your local tournament series or some special legacy event you know about.


The necessary information would be:

Date, Place
Expected Players or average players from previous tournaments.
Expected Prize Pool
Link to the website/event.

[xfxf]

Hi catmint, I'm glad someone started such a thread and I really hope that it houses some constructive discussion. I can attest to the language barrier being an important factor. I am living in France for the past 6 months and I don't speak French (although I learned a bit here it's not enough to have a comfortable conversation). I attended the weeklies here for a while and a couple BoM trials, but recently I stopped going there because there was no way I could blend in. Without speaking the language you are always an outsider amongst a group of locals and even people who speak English tend to ignore you once the game is over and continue bonding with their local buddies. The games are a little tenser if your opponent doesn't speak English either, because there are no ice breakers and every confusion about the game state leads to tension.

Having experienced that I think I would be hesitant to travel to a 100-200 player (anything less than the size of a GP to be honest) tournament somewhere in Europe. I'm sure the majority would naturally be locals who know each other and speak the same language and as "outsiders" who don't speak the language and are a minority, you'd struggle having an enjoyable time.

I also imagine travel restrictions being a probem with different visa restrictions and the number of different nationalities. For example, I'm a Turkish citizen and currently I can travel freely within the Schengen zone since I have a residence permit for France. But in a few months I'll be moving to the UK for work and after that I'll need a Visa for each and every European country. If you are living in the States you are free to travel anywhere and this doesn't apply to Europe unfortunately. So yeah, I see these being a problem for establishing something akin to the SCG series.

[catmint]

I would travel to a bigger tournament now and then and stay for a weekend with buddies/wife to check out the city. Now I am thinking about the LCL in Barcelona on the 11th of August.

However concerning a SCG-like tournament series I think you can easily get people to travel a lot more by having attractive prices and incentives to collect "league points" and if it is a big thing and everyone is looking at it constantly as a meta indicator like SCG, you can be sure that all the local scene will be there.

You can also make some small "leagues" within the series. i.e: CEE championsships over 8 weeks stopping in Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Zagreb, Prague or a Tour through some cities in a bigger country. I don't know why no magic shop is trying to setup something like this on a european level. With all the side-events & drafts it should be able to break even on the events and make money on sales.


But back to the topic: No responses yet.... I hope there ARE some big events in europe :rolleyes: and I would of course collect all the posts to summarize all the tournaments in the initial post, so everyone can get an overview.

[JDK]

The Italian UW Standstill/Miracle top 8 guy from GP Ghent told me there'd be a big Legacy tournament in Milan (in November iirc).

[Piceli89]

The Italian UW Standstill/Miracle top 8 guy from GP Ghent told me there'd be a big Legacy tournament in Milan (in November iirc).

September.

http://www.tipo1.it/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28070

[dunk]

Magiccardmarket is starting to do events in ( east ) germany, if they do well they might become some kind of successor to SCG. Right now I'm sceptical, but the market is as well know as SCG and actually the driving force behind card prices in Europe. I guess they might have the ressources, but either don't care, or lack experience. A friend and I already talked about a possible magiccardmarket series, if the logistics allow it. The biggest problem is that Europe is a bit behind with coverage, once the TO's would do some people would actually recgonize the events and there would be a spike in popularity. Thing is that non native english speakers would have to talk, but I guess people prefer understable coverage with accents to... french coverage.

[catmint]

Yes... we would have to bear with the beatiful :tongue: german, french and eastern europe accents, but a decent coverage is absolutely necessary!

[JDK]

September.

http://www.tipo1.it/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28070

Thanks. Would anyone mind translating the important parts into English, please?

[catmint]

Yes. That was actually the idea: To collect all regular (and maybe also semi-regular) big european tournaments with all the important data (in english) in 1 thread (& summarized post)...

[kiblast]

Thanks. Would anyone mind translating the important parts into English, please?

there you go:

Following the tipo1.it OP structure

(introduction)

Artists: We're working on getting Mark Tedin (seems like the guy is not answering mails). If Tedin comes, Orizio will be present as well.

21-22-23 Sept 2012

21st: Modern- Sanctioned

Swiss+top8

Entry fee 15 eur Inscriptions 10 am, tournament starting @11 am.

Guaranteed prize pool

1° 16 U Shockland + Set Blood Crypt
2° 20 ZEN Fetchlands
3° Stomping Ground + Godless Shrine
4° Overgrown Tomb + Temple Garden
5° Verdant Catacomb
6° Marsh Flats
7° Arid Mesa
8° Sacred Foundry

INVITATIONAL Tipo1:

Starting 17pm, the best italian Vintage players (upon election on Tipo1.it) will play a small tournament for the Italian Vintage Champion.

+ Trials (Legacy and Vintage trials: entry fee 5 eur,1st wins entry fee for the main event-if you win a legacy trial you get Legacy main event entry fee, same for Vintage- and 1 bye for that main event)

22 Sept

Legacy

Swiss+top16 or Top8 (depending on size of tournament)

Inscription opens at 9:30 am, tournament starts @ 11am

(we advise pre-inscription through tipo1.it or by sending a mail to Stinfo )

Entry fee: 25 eur

Prize pool


1 40 Dual LAND Revised + Set Dark COnfidant FOIL
2 40 Fechtland + Set Wasteland + Set Force of Will
3 10 Dual Land White Border ITA ( 1 each )
4 Set Underground Sea + Set Snapcaster Mage FOIL
5 Set Tropical ISland
6 Set Tundre
7 Set Volcanic ISland
8 Set Tarmogoyf
9 Set Wooded Foothills Foil
10 Set Show And Tell
11 Set Bloodstained Mire FOIL
12 Underground Sea
13 Underground Sea
14 Tropical Island
15 Tundra
16 Savana
17 Taiga
18 Taiga
19 Taiga
20 Set Misty Rainforest
21 Set Scalding Tarn
22 Set Bloodstained Mire
23 Bayou
24 Bayou
25 Set Verdant Catacomb
26 Set Mars Flats
27 Set Mesa Arida
28 Set Swords to Plowshares BB
29 Set Stifle Signed
30 Set Engineered Explosives
31 Set Aether Vial
32 Set Mox Cromo


SPECIAL PRIZE Every round a random player will receive a special prize.
You win just by being there!

1°r Sword of Mind And Body
2°r Mystical Tutor
3°r Bitterblossom
4°r Bitterblossom
5°r Progenitus
6°r Beta Swamp Altered
7°r Selkie FOIL (I guess cold eyed Selkie)
8°r Pernicious deed
9°r Swamp Foil Unhinghed

Side events all day long, entry fee 5 eur

From 20pm Pimp stuff

Playmat bragging (1st prize, special playmat)

Pimp Tournament (should be Vintage)

16 players, 10 eur entry fee. Bring your pimpest stuff, send a mail to Stinfo with a scan of your deck to be able to partecipate.

19pm EDH tournament

Swiss+top 4, no sb, 5 eur entry fee

Prizes

1° Scrubland + Maze of Ith + Rishadan Port Jap
2° Eternal Witness Foil Chinese + Umezawa's Jitte
3° Arcbound Ravager FOIL
4° Rishadan Port Chinese
5° Pernicious Deed
6° Abyssal Persecutor
7° Maelstrom Pulse
8° Iona Shield of Emeria

Special prize for best player in both Legacy and Modern Tournaments.

23 Sept, Vintage

Swiss+top8

Inscription desk open @9:30 am, tournament starts @11 am

25 eur entry fee

1° Set of 5 Mox
2° Black Lotus + TimeTwister
3° Ancestral Recall
4° Time Walk
5° Mox Jet
6° Mox emerald
7° Mox Ruby
8° Mox Pearl
9° Set Polluted Delta
10 Undergroud Sea
11 Set Flooded Strand
12 Set Noble Hierarc
13 Set Wooded Foothills
14 Set Chalice Of The Void + Tolarian Academy
15 Horizon Canopy Foil
16 Horizon Canopy Foil


Budget prizes: for best placed budget decks

(no P9, no bazaar, no Wshop)

1° Ancestral
2° Mana Drain
3° Jace The Mind Sculptor
4° Jace The Mind Sculptor

Unpowered prizes:

(no p9)

1 Set of fow
2 JTMS

Special prizes: (same as for legacy)


1°r Gorilla Shaman Altered
2°r Steel Hellkyte
3°r Inkweel Leviathan Foil
4°r Beta Swamp Altered
5°r Beta Swamp Altered
6°r Lotus Petal FOIL
7°r Vampiric Tutor Foil
8°r Foil Island Altered

Special prize for best eternal player (last year was a beta sea if i'm not mistaken? Dunno about this year.)

Location:

CASA DEI GIOCHI
Via Sant’Uguzzone 8
Milano

How to reach location: http://www.casadeigiochi.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=34

Where to sleep

Hotel Ibis
http://www.ibishotel.com/it/hotel-1135-ibis-milano-ca-granda/index.shtml
Hotel Idea
http://www.initalia.it/hotel/expressbyholidayinnmilanbicocca.htm

Or just check any B&B or Hotel on Viale Monza, and take the subway to arrive there, it's easy.

Sellers:

INFO VENDITORI

The best collectors/sellers from all over Eu will be there.

Kaiser Soze from TANA DELLE TIGRI

Magic Frag form France

JK-Entertainment: http://www.jk-entertainment.de/

TROPPORICCO

Brian from Japan

Konqueror

Alban Lauter

The Mons


More or less all the infos are here. Send a mail to Stinfo for more infos and to pre inscript yourself for any tournament. stinfo@tiscali.it

Hope this helps, sorry for the poor editing but it took a while and I need to go to sleep as I'm working in 6 hrs.

Hope I see some of you there. It will be amazing.

[JDK]

Thank you very much! Looks promising and I am strongly considering to go there. :)

[spartan117]

Thank you very much! Looks promising and I am strongly considering to go there. :)

Philipp seems quite interested too, hope you'll come to the event :smile:

[Finn]

I wonder why Starcity does not just do the European tournaments themselves. It could be lack of resources. The crew work pretty hard keeping up with what they are doing now so Pete would have to train up a second crew and move them around Europe, get them all visas, arrange for lodging and convention rooms in a dozen foreign nations. Ah. Maybe I do know why.

[xfxf]

They could try to do a European leg of their Invitational Qualifier series. You know, the local store just takes up the franchise..

[Einherjer]

Philipp seems quite interested too, hope you'll come to the event :smile:

I will come. Mates are already gathered(atleast some) and a car(driver) might be found already. Hotel to go next and I can promise :)

Greetings

[catmint]

I'll be there as well...! this thread already paid off.
Maybe we should just get a subforum for european scene, with some sticky threads for regular big tournaments and normal tournament announcements like this.

[Hopo]

I will most likely attend as well, as kiblast advertised this to me earlier. Good to see more high profile tournaments in Europe as well.

[TkDodo]

I would love to attend as well, but I'm not in Europe for this tournament :(
Please keep up the good work and post more tournaments if you know any!

[Philipp2293]

Applied for holidays on friday and monday. Hopefully I get those days approved and also I hope I can make some guys from vienna join.

[Julian23]

In September, there's a WPN Premium Tournament in Nuremberg, Germany. 4 rounds of each Modern and Legacy with an insane amount of booster displays for the entire Top8. We expect around 70-80 players to attend.

Only downside? You have to first qualify by top4'ing one of the weekly Legacy events there. Glad I already did several times :D

[Phelix]

Im reluctant to go. Since the organizers cant be bothered to write an english version, why should I assume they have english language judges?

[Julian23]

Because everybody speaks English. The tournament itself was never meant to attract as many people as it eventually did. However, I guess it's not worth it travelling from Denmark to Bavaria in order to qualify first...unless you're looking for real competition. Three of the Top9 of Ghent was from that shop :-)

[JDK]

Because everybody speaks English.
Unfortunately, this is just a short-sighted assumption.

Anyway, I guess he was talking about the tournament in Italy.

[Jonathan Alexander]

Because everybody speaks English. The tournament itself was never meant to attract as many people as it eventually did. However, I guess it's not worth it travelling from Denmark to Bavaria in order to qualify first...unless you're looking for real competition. Three of the Top9 of Ghent was from that shop :-)

When exacty is that tournament going to take place?

[Julian23]

http://pmtg-forum.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=5859

23rd of September 2012. Got to qualify by top4'ing one of the weekly Legacy tournaments on Saturday or top2'ing one of the the weekly Modern tournaments on Tuesday. Legacy usually attracts between 25-45 players, depending on weather, holidays etc. Modern is much smaller.


WPN Premium Event on 23rd September 2012:

1st: 6 Displays of the most recent or of an edition that's gonna be released within the next month. Organizer covers shipping.
2nd: 5 Displays
3rd & 4th: 3 Displays
5th-8th: 2 Displays

[Einherjer]

Hotel booked. Await me for the Legacy-tournament! Maybe I'll be going on site on Friday afternoon.

What is the maximum amount of Byes for the Mainevent? Is it 1?

Greetings

EDIT: And is the tournament being held in english?

[Jonathan Alexander]

http://pmtg-forum.de/wbb2/thread.php?threadid=5859

23rd of September 2012. Got to qualify by top4'ing one of the weekly Legacy tournaments on Saturday or top2'ing one of the the weekly Modern tournaments on Tuesday. Legacy usually attracts between 25-45 players, depending on weather, holidays etc. Modern is much smaller.


WPN Premium Event on 23rd September 2012:

1st: 6 Displays of the most recent or of an edition that's gonna be released within the next month. Organizer covers shipping.
2nd: 5 Displays
3rd & 4th: 3 Displays
5th-8th: 2 Displays

No trophy for first place?

[Philipp2293]

September.

http://www.tipo1.it/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28070


Just a few days to go, who is actually attending this? Also, if you notice an austrian guy with a Primeval Titan playmat and a foiled out deck don't be afraid to say hi. :smile:

[Jonathan Alexander]

Booked our hotel yesterday, staying from Thursday til Monday. Still not sure whether to play Vintage or the second Legacy event, but definitely looking forward to this. Who else is coming?

[Einherjer]

*waves*

Cant wait :)

[Mr Miagi]

About 3-4 guys from Slovenia will also be there. Main legacy event on the Saturday looks awesome, but I can't really say that modern prizes and side event legacy on the Sunday look all that exciting.

But I'm definetly looking forward to playing a big legacy tournament and do lots of trading.. and hopefully obtain the last few hard to get foils (I'm looking at you Tarmogoyf, Jace and espically those friggin 7th ed foil Goblin matrons).

[catmint]

Viva Italia!

Where are the other tournament announcements? :)

[Alphez]

Im reluctant to go. Since the organizers cant be bothered to write an english version, why should I assume they have english language judges?

In case you are referring to the Italian tournament: I guess there is no English version because the TO himself can't quite speak English decently. Also, this tournament is a fixed event taking place every year (this is the 7th edition), so he probably expects people to be already aware of it.

I've been there for almost every edition and I can assure you that judges and staff can speak English and they make sure to make announcements both in Italian and English. Of course they won't have a perfect British accent, but still :tongue:



Main legacy event on the Saturday looks awesome, but I can't really say that modern prizes and side event legacy on the Sunday look all that exciting.

Knowing how the TO works, I believe he posted the guaranteed prize pool, i.e. the prizes that will be awarded no matter what. He usually upgrades prizes according to attendance. I guess with the two events you named he wanted to keep a bit on the safe side, as Modern isn't such an established format yet in Italy, and he was unsure about how many people would attend the Sunday legacy (vintage used to be very popular in Italy and he is probably afraid that the vintage event would "steal" many players from the legacy side event). I'm confident that in the end prizes will be adequate to attendance.

Guys, gotta come :wink:

[JDK]

Well, providing an official English information page/text should be standard, if you expect foreign attendance. If you, as a TO (generally speaking), don't speak English very well, just get someone who does.

I would love to attend the event, but I'm just a student and Canadian Threshold + GP Ghent weren't cheap. :D

[flounce]

Does anyone know where the results/ decklists are for this tournament?

[Philipp2293]

At least some Legacy info:

http://nerd-blog.com/2012/09/23/ovino-7-decklist-top-8-legacy/

[Julian23]

A friend of mine just told me he got the "Best Eternal Player 2012" award for being the best player in all 3 formats combined. He got a playset of the beautiful Player Rewards Wastelands and a fucking metal maindeck/sideboard-divider that has a picture of Jace and "Best Eternal Player 2012" engraved.

Oh and he played Dredge in both Legacy and Vintage. Pyromancer's Ascension in Modern.

[Mr Miagi]

Recap of the legacy event: started 2,5 hours late. Rounds took almost 2 hours, i kid you not.. :really:

But props for the sandwiches which were really tasty and to dealers for having bunch of pimp stuff. Unfortunately no foil goblin matrons :cry:

[JDK]

Recap of the legacy event: started 2,5 hours late. Rounds took almost 2 hours, i kid you not.. :really:
Isn't one Italian stereotype that they are always late? ^^

[jandax]

28 October, Dutch Legacy Champs in Eindhoven. Max ~200 players

linky to forum, google translate heps (http://benelegacy.nl/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4488)

[catmint]

200 players is nice... but no good flights...

[jandax]

Yeah, you'd have to lucksack a good flight into Eindhoven. Most people who show up are Dutch, or from the BeNeLux region and Germany. A few French and Danish make it, maybe they're expats like me. Probably the only American who shows up...

Anyways, I've been to the last three over the last few years and they've always been super sweet events. Starting on time, run like clockwork. Only once have I seen an unruly player who got DQ'd for being a sleazebag. But the judges handled that like a boss, too. Top 16 gets duals, 32 gets boosters and stuff. Top 8 won't pay for any plane tickets but if you're missing anything for a deck you basically have it.

[Seirei]

Well it's nice to see that there are actually some bigger tournaments in europe.

One question, how much experience should one have before attempting to go to such an event?
I have the feeling that there will be a lot of realy good players with crazy decks, so I guess someone like me who's only playing magic for two months now would go down horribly, right? ^^

[jandax]

Probably, but big events have a buzz about them. Big events in Legacy being +100 players probably, but either way, any big Magic tournament is just a blast to be in. As long as your expectations don't exceed your level of preparation you won't be disappointed :wink:

[Cire_dk]

Well it's nice to see that there are actually some bigger tournaments in europe.

One question, how much experience should one have before attempting to go to such an event?
I have the feeling that there will be a lot of realy good players with crazy decks, so I guess someone like me who's only playing magic for two months now would go down horribly, right? ^^

Do not worry about it. A lot will depend on your pairings. Play magic for the fun and a big tournament will reward you straight away because it is fun. It is also a great oppertunity to gain legacy experience. This will be my 3rd Dutch Legacy championchip and I played best during my first tournament.
So do not expect top 8 straight away but have fun and join us in Eindhoven.

See you there :smile:

[Einherjer]

@other Guys from Ovino7: I was wondering if all of you received the Planeswalker-Points already... I did not yet :P

Greetings

[Seirei]

Haha thanks for the encouraging words. I'll probably keep an eye out for future events and strenghten my skills and my deck untill I find an event that's close enough. To be fair, 650km doesn't seem impossible, but I guess I'll pass on the Eindhoven event, we'll see.

[spartan117]

@other Guys from Ovino7: I was wondering if all of you received the Planeswalker-Points already... I did not yet :P

Greetings

Me neither, but they're coming :wink:

Also, for those saying we italians never write reports for the community, check the following links please.

DAY1 http://www.tipo1.it/forum/viewtopic.php?p=456774#456774

DAY2 http://www.tipo1.it/forum/viewtopic.php?p=456777#456777

DAY3 *to be posted soon*

I'm the guy who made it to the third place of the invitational with NLT btw, the main event was a total blowout :S

[Philipp2293]

I think I've watched you losing to a screw against something like Big Zoo in Round 7 or 8 of the main event.

I've had a pretty mediocre result with GW Maverick, 4-3 drop, after a first round bye I faced Miracles, 4 Combo and Burn. :mad:

Yet I can't wait to come again next year.

[spartan117]

I actually won that match, I was playing against punishing maverick. Lost G1 due to screw, won g2&g3 on the back of the sheer awesomeness my deck is :tongue:

[Einherjer]

Yet I can't wait to come again next year.


Same here :P Was a very enjoyable event, though I failed quite hard too :P

Greetings

[cyberjar]

There are to much Philipps here ^^
Milan was great, event with the "little" tardines :wink:
Next year i'm gonna try to defend my title :cool:

[cyberjar]

Anybody knows, why there are still no pwp for the Ovino7?

[Fl0do]

Hi, I want to mention that there will be an event at the end of this year in Hanau. 3 days of Magic with a big tournament for Highlander, Legacy, Vintage and a Modern PTQ for Pro Tour San Diego (Pro Tour Gatecrash?). There will also be a lot of little Sidevents over the course of the weekend.

http://www.planetmtg.de/articles/artikel.html?id=6278&typ=2&action=comments

[Fergun]

There is a Legacy tournament in Poland, on 9.12, in Bydgoszcz. The details aren't known yet, but the guaranteed prize is 1000 PLN (~250 euro) for the winner.

The details will be probably posted here: http://www.mtgnews.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=134&t=60518 (it's in Polish, but you can use google translate).

Most players here speak good english, especially legacy players, so there should be no problems communicating.

[catmint]

Would love to go to Hanau - easy connection to Frankfurt. Unfortunately I'll be in south america at that time.

The polish tournament: Would it be possible to post the most imporant dates & facts in english in this thread?

[Fergun]

Sure, as soon as the organizer posts some detail, it might take them some time to do so, they just wanted to post the date early.
The only details right now is the date-9.12.2012 and the city in which the tournamet will take place - Bydgoszcz.
It's possible that there will be a smaller Legacy or Modern tournament on the 8th of december, but it won't have any guaranteed prizes.

[Seirei]

The one in Hanau sounds realy interesting, there's a good chance I'll be there.

[Nidd]

Biggest question: If there is no such circuit, then why dont we, the european legacy community, start it?
I think the potential is there.

[door]

Also for those in Scandinavia and around, there will be a 100 player tournament (http://poromagia.com/index.php?page=tournaments&tournid=644) in Helsinki on the 8th of December. The last year the winner got a foil japanese Sensei's Divining Top and a solid store credit. Some russian troops from Saint-Petersburg will land there. If you are sure you'd like to attend, it's better to preregister via organizer's e-mail.
And just in case someone is planning to visit Moscow, there will be a ~100-120 player tournament on the 24th of November with an incredible amount of useless packs in prizes and a challenge cup for the winner. It will take place in a restaurant so expect some insanity by the end of the tourny. The tournament thread is here (http://topdeck.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=15760) but it's in Russian, so you google translate or pm me if there's something you'd like to know.

[Einherjer]

Hmm, I could do some advertising here too :P

There will be a Legacy tournament on November 17th. We await 30-45 players to show up. The tournament will be held in Graz, in the southern part of Austria. For any further information contact me via PM here!

Prizes:
1) Moat
2+3) Tropical Island
4) Karakas
5-7) Bloodstained Mira
8) Marsh Flats

Greetings

[catmint]

Looking forward to win a Moat. :wink:
Come on you guys in Bratislava, Praga, Munich, Italy... Don't be lazy... Preregister and Philipp will have to bring on some better prices. :)

[NiRVeS]

Hi,

In France, there is a tournament series called the "CDF" (Championnat de France). I don't know many the details, but as I recall it consist of a main invitational tournament which is fed by a whole series of local tournaments. Local TO's are contacted (I don't know if there is cross-TO communication) and can have their tournament be included in the trial calender. Attending those tournaments earn the players qualification points of sorts, with bonuspoint for high finishes. Then, the top X (or maybe there is a cap) are invited to compete for a good prize pool/bragging rights/... . At least, that's how I've understood the series to be working based on a few announcements which crossed our border.

Speaking for my own region, Belgium, we have 2 tournament series worth mentioning.
Outpost Gamecenters, which are the leading gaming store franchise (3 stores: Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels), are organizing a tournament series called the "Outpost Opens" (formerly "Masters"). It consist of a few (5-ish) 3-day events, each containing a super-FNM (standard or draft) on friday, a large €1000 (store credit) sealed deck tournament on saturday and a large €1000 (store credit) Legacy tournament on Sunday. Intertwined with all their other tournaments (various regular tournaments, GPTs, PTQs) these also feed into some sort of player club system (http://www.outpost.be/website/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=350&Itemid=50). Participation: approx. 70-100 players for the saturday/sunday portions of the Open tournaments.

Specifically for Legacy, there is also the Belgian Legacy Cup, which as of matter of fact I am coördinating this year. It's meant to be the (un)official Legacy National Championship, and has been running since 2008. It consist of a series of trials througout the year, at places with strong Legacy scenes regardless of the proximity of a store. The trials award byes (2 for first, 1 for second) for the Main Event at the end of the year. The Main Event is open for everyone to attend, including foreigners - in fact, the Dutch came to claim our title 3 years back, an event we still mourn :(. It awards infinite bragging rights and a large garanteed prize pool (this year: all 10 duals for first, all 10 fetches for second). More information regarding the trials, the main event (details should be up by the end of this week), past results (we still hope to be able to retrieve some old decklists, I rebuilt the website recently) and the concept of the Belgian Legacy Cup itself, you can visit our website (http://belgianlegacycup.wordpress.com).

Hope this answers your call for feedback a bit :).

Tom

[Loxmatii]

hello, friends!

there will be big legacy tournament in Moscow. o_O yes,yes. Moscow. Bears in the street, Putin in the Kremlin and russian foil Jace, Tarmo and Bob (= this is Moscow

this tournament will be in a moth at 24 of November. If you have russian viza o_O and if you want to visit Moscow you will have no problem

Moscow legacy open 2012 is waiting for you

if this is interesting for you- write me. I will write all the information

I understand, that there is no enough time to get viza and so on, but I believe in miracles, so I wrote here this message

waiting for your questions (=

[catmint]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzycFeqNxIA
Tell us more... prices? players? time? side-events?

I've heard of a series (last one of 6 tournaments) where around 60 persons are expected:

Date: 10.11. 2012 - Legacy; 11.11. - Vintage
Location: Prague, Cerny Rytir - www.cernyrytir.cz
Entrance fee: 200 CZK or 8 EUR
All tournaments are DCI with the Top 8.
Beginning of registration: 10:30

[Einherjer]

Looking forward to win a Moat. :wink:
Come on you guys in Bratislava, Praga, Munich, Italy... Don't be lazy... Preregister and Philipp will have to bring on some better prices. :)

Yep, the bet is up! If there are more people! I will swap the Fetchlands from places 5-8 with Wastelands!

Greetings

[door]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzycFeqNxIA
Tell us more... prices? players? time? side-events?


I wrote some details earlier in this thread. See post #60. The entry fee is 20Eur, the prize pool consists of 5 boosters per person + medals and a cup. I doubt there will be any side events, but perhaps something will be organized on the next day.

[Fergun]

So, as promised, but kinda late, i'm posting more details of the event in Poland. The exact place is, unfortunately still not known, they are being kinda slow with it, but nvm.
Location: Bydgoszcz (https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bydgoszcz,+Polska&hl=pl&ll=53.064326,18.141174&spn=1.322024,2.469177&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=55.060677,79.013672&oq=bydgoszcz&t=h&hnear=Bydgoszcz,+kujawsko-pomorskie,+Polska&z=9&iwloc=A)
Date: 9.12.2012
Signups start at 9:00, the tournament itself at 10:00. If you would go, but it's too early, please write to me-I'm also coming from another city and if enough people complain about the time maybe we could conince the organisers to start later :)
Entry fee: 50zł (~12 euro)
Example prizes:
no. of players top 1 top 2 top 3 top 4 top 5 top 6 top 7 top 8
24 1000 300 150 150 60 60 60 60
28 1000 400 180 180 70 70 70 70
32 1000 500 200 200 80 80 80 80
40 1100 600 250 250 100 100 100 100
48 1200 650 300 300 150 150 150 150
56+ 1300 700 350 350 200 200 200 200
(Sorry for crappy formatting, not sure how to make it prettier-if it's unreadable the table is here (http://www.pegaz-gry.pl/modules/blockcalendar/calendar.php?id=74))
The prizes are in PLN, 1 PLN is about 0.2421 euro. They are in cash.

[Sloshthedark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzycFeqNxIA
Tell us more... prices? players? time? side-events?

I've heard of a series (last one of 6 tournaments) where around 60 persons are expected:

Date: 10.11. 2012 - Legacy; 11.11. - Vintage
Location: Prague, Cerny Rytir - www.cernyrytir.cz
Entrance fee: 200 CZK or 8 EUR
All tournaments are DCI with the Top 8.
Beginning of registration: 10:30

Sadly the Entrance fee/price pool doesn't make it worth to travel, still nice while staying in Prague, btw. the shop runs legacy series of similar proportions, 1 each month, DCI +1round, no top8

[yankeedave]

Big Standard and Legacy Tournaments here! (http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?24957-UK-5000-Standard-SCG-IQ-and-%A32000-Legacy-Event!-Doncaster-UK-12th-13th-of-January!)

[Fergun]

Ok, if anyone's interested, the details of the tornament in Bydgoszcz were al posted, laso in English, here:
http://mtgnews.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=134&t=60518&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

I'm hoping some people from outside Poland come to visit us :)