[Tournament] Feb. 21st 2009 Legacy DUAL FOR DUALS!!!

Time : Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Doors open at 9am
Registration starts at 10am
Tournament starts at 11am

Where : Jupiter Games
3701 Vestal Parkway East
Vestal, NY 13850
In the Campus Plaza

-1 Hour south of Syracuse, 2.5 Hours from Rochester, 4.5 Hours from North Va., and 2.5 Hours from Ct.

Format : Legacy – Sanctioned
Cost : $25
Judges : Head – Eli Kassis Floor – Carl Winter & Ryan Green

Prizes : 1st place – 1st and 9th round picks from prize pool!!!
2nd place - 2nd and 10th round picks from prize pool!
3rd-4th place - 3rd or 4th round picks from prize pool!
5th-8th place - 5th - 8th respective round picks from prize pool!
9th-16th place – Entrance into a free single elimination 8-man booster draft for a Mana Drain!!

-Prize Pool = All 40 DUALS!!! Picks will be chosen by playsets.
-All Prizes Are Guaranteed Regardless Of Attendance.
-40+people = extra duals for the top 8!

Random Bonuses :
There’s a Chinese buffet, Wendy’s, and an Apple Bee’s in the same plaza within walking distance. The store is directly across the street from Binghamton University. We have practically every card in stock with better prices than any other dealer! We are always buying (including our own prize support)! We are willing to run any side event anyone can think of, even poker tournaments. We are making arrangements to arrange for more seating for future events so there won't be a crowding issue.

Door Prizes :
As of yet, to be determined. This is for your benefit as there is no telling what will be popular this soon, but I can guarantee you that whatever is popular will be in the door prize and that door prizes value will exceed the value of 2nd place and depending on attendance maybe even 1st place. In this past this has included; Portal 3 Kingdoms product, Vault of the Dragons Promo Box, fetch lands, force's, resets, mana crypts, duals, and much much more!

If there's is a big tournament on this date like a PTQ or prerelease can someone let me know soon so I can change the date. If not the date will remain pretty ironclad.

I'll probably show. Shouldn't it be duel for duals though, not dual for duals?

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Originally Posted by That kid you all hate

I'll probably show. Shouldn't it be duel for duals though, not dual for duals?

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Star City Games bullshit.

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Originally Posted by Bryant Cook

Star City Games b.s..

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Does that mean there is a star city games tournament the same day? If so, do you know where it is at?

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Originally Posted by T-ORGANIZER

Does that mean there is a star city games tournament the same day? If so, do you know where it is at?

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There was a conflict with using that name for another event. Duel for Duals was trademarked or something, Star City Games was against the event and the coordinator for using it.

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Originally Posted by T-ORGANIZER

Does that mean there is a star city games tournament the same day? If so, do you know where it is at?

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No. Or, at least, there isn't a Star City event that day.

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Originally Posted by Bryant Cook

There was a conflict with using that name for another event. Duel for Duals was trademarked or something, Star City Games was against the event and the coordinator for using it.

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Has anyone challenged this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradema...criptive_marks

I'm pretty sure that "Duel for Duals" is so intuitive as to be well outside SCG's ability to trademark, much less on something derivative like a Magic tournament.

I guess I was wrong about the trademark part?

And really, isn't this a Dual Land Draft anyway?

Also, I (of course) can't make it, but I wanted to stop in and say that a free 8-man draft is one of the coolest ideas I've seen for lower table prizes in a long time. Kudos for that.

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Originally Posted by Bryant Cook

I guess I was wrong about the trademark part?

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It depends on whether they actually went to court, or their lawyers (or them) just sent a letter claiming infringement.

Because if it was the second one, that's like, just your opinion, man.

I can't wait for this. I plan to shoot for 11th place again.:tongue:

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Originally Posted by Pinder

And really, isn't this a Dual Land Draft anyway?

Also, I (of course) can't make it, but I wanted to stop in and say that a free 8-man draft is one of the coolest ideas I've seen for lower table prizes in a long time. Kudos for that.

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Thank you, it was my idea! :cool:

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Originally Posted by T-ORGANIZER

If there's is a big tournament on this date like a PTQ or prerelease can someone let me know soon so I can change the date. If not the date will remain pretty ironclad.

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They haven't posted the PTQ schedule for Honolulu yet so it's hard to tell but according to http://www.spellkeeper.com there is a PTQ in Montreal on that day(Feb 21st) and a PTQ in Toronto on Feb 14th according to skyfoxgames.com.

I plan on attending this.

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Originally Posted by T-ORGANIZER

Thank you, it was my idea! :cool:

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Thanks for coming up with it!

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Originally Posted by That kid you all hate

I can't wait for this. I plan to shoot for 11th place again.:tongue:

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I'm proud you set your sights so high. Go get em!

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Originally Posted by revenge_inc

They haven't posted the PTQ schedule for Honolulu yet so it's hard to tell but according to http://www.spellkeeper.com there is a PTQ in Montreal on that day(Feb 21st) and a PTQ in Toronto on Feb 14th according to skyfoxgames.com.

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5 hour drive is to far away to schedule around, I really only try to take into account tournaments that are within a 3 hour drive radius.

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Originally Posted by That kid you all hate

I'll probably show. Shouldn't it be duel for duals though, not dual for duals?

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Good. I'll start building Island.dec so I don't lose to the same friggin card three tournaments in a row.

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Originally Posted by rsaunder

Good. I'll start building Island.dec so I don't lose to the same friggin card three tournaments in a row.

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I am calling your bluff. I will catch you with nonbasics, and I will wreck you with magus again.

If this tournament actually gets 75 players or more I will double the top 8 prize structure.

The whole "duel for duals" thing arose when Dave Amrod called an event that right after SCG had their big 40 duals to first and gave out 100 duals thing. Pete Hoefling posted in the thread saying that Dave's tournament should be renamed due to confusing the two, and then myself and I believe Herbig and 2 or 3 other people made fun of Pete for about a week. It was pretty dumb. No actual legal stuff though, so te name is fine.

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The whole "duel for duals" thing arose when Dave Amrod called an event that right after SCG had their big 40 duals to first and gave out 100 duals thing. Pete Hoefling posted in the thread saying that Dave's tournament should be renamed due to confusing the two, and then myself and I believe Herbig and 2 or 3 other people made fun of Pete for about a week. It was pretty dumb. No actual legal stuff though, so te name is fine.

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I'm not to worried about it, not many magic shops affiliate with lawyers anyway and I don't they would get more from a victory than they would be paying in legal fee's.

Starting with the completion of this tournament I will be endeavoring to hold a tournament of at least this size in structure and hopefully attendance once every month as per the request of many individuals. I will keep the format Legacy as that seems to be the most popular. I will try to vary up the prizes from duals to credit to power and back again depending on what seems to work the best.

If anyone is interested in joining our email list of upcoming events and promotions pm me with your email address and i'll add it to our list.

Hmm, I'll go, but my car is probably not going to be in service for then. If I figure a way to get there from Rochester, I'll be there.

I plan on attending this with about 3-4 or more.

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Originally Posted by Irish_Mafia

I plan on attending this with about 3-4 or more.

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Super Sweet, car loads always boost attendance lol.

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Originally Posted by T-ORGANIZER

If this tournament actually gets 75 players or more I will double the top 8 prize structure.

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That would be crazy cool. o_o.

I should be able to get home from school for this. :cool:

I'm down to drive/go if anybody from NOVA or if Ditizio or Jimmy P. will be going to split gas costs.

yep, I'm coming to this. I have my car and it's not a bad drive from Geneseo. Lemme know if anyone wants to carpool.

I hope people are still psyched for this!

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Originally Posted by T-ORGANIZER

I hope people are still psyched for this!

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I am !

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I am !

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If anyone's going from anywhere in NYC or anywhere train-accessible from NYC, I'd be more than happy to chip in for transit costs.

Just want to remind everyone Conflux is Legal for this event..

Next Saturday the 14th of Feb. we are going to run a free legacy tournament at 2pm with prizes based on attendance. This will be a good opportunity to prepare for the bigger event the following Saturday and give people the opportunity to trade with each other to finish off their decks.

Im going to try and make it out there it depends on the wifes mood in letting me go. 8(

Accepting applications for passengers......send PM's.

I'm expecting about 20 local players for the free legacy today, I'll try and update with the winning decklists tonight. This tournament is a proxy 20 cards tournament so the decks will be as close to how people want them as possible.