[Announcement ] Legacy - 07/19/08; Syracuse, New York; $1000 cash prize Legacy

When: ***07/19/08*** 12:00 noon (registration begins at 10:00am)
Where: Play the Game Read the Story, 2nd Floor Carousel Center Mall (Syracuse, New York)
Format: Sanctioned Legacy (Deck Registration required)
Cost: $30 at the door $25 pre-registration (online, over the phone or in the store)
Website: www.playthegamereadthestory.com


Prizes:
1st Place: $400 (15 players)
2nd Place: $200 (25 players)
3rd and 4th: $100 (30 players)
5th - 8th: $50 (40 players)
Door prizes:
1 10th edition picture Hypnotic Specter artist print
1 exodus picture Paladin en-Vec artist print
1 Sea Drake
1 Abyss
1 Mana Drain

These door prizes will be given away if there are 45+ players

The event will be x rounds of swiss based on attendance with cut to top 8.

Questions, comments and concerns are being handled by Rob Clark. We are looking into a few judges for this event. JUDGES FOR EVENTS CANNOT BE IN THE EVENT THEY ARE JUDGING! If you are interested please email Rob @ rob@playthegamereadthestory.com.

This event will be the one big event to earn extra PGMCKU points!

A city and state would be nice to know

added but in we're in Syracuse, New York. If any one needs directions here is the address:

9808 Carousel Center Drive
Syracuse, New York 13290

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Originally Posted by TrialByFire

A city and state would be nice to know

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Main Store - Carousel Center Mall

Address:
9808 Carousel Center Mall
Syracuse, NY 13290

Phone: 315-472-4263

Hours:
10am-9:30pm Monday thru Saturday
10am-6pm Sunday

Directions:
NORTH - Take I-81 South to Exit 23B (Carousel Center Drive)
SOUTH - Take I-81 North to Exit 23 (Hiawatha Blvd)
EAST - Take 690 West to I-81 North to Exit 23 (Hiawatha Blvd)
WEST - Take 690 East to Exit 8 (Hiawatha Blvd)
NYS Thruway - Take I-90 to Exit 36 (I-81). Follow above directions from the North.


(I'm not familiar w/ the place, I just looked up www.playthegamereadthestory.com ...which, by the way, is set up so you get a 404 error if you exclude the "www." ...)

Wow!!! I hope this event goes as well as the last one. I am looking forward to this and plan to attened!!!

Jesus fuck. I might actually have to give you guys money for this.

edit: oh, wait. Washington>LKSFDJIUSYDFHKJD

edit2: That's an incredibly top heavy payout structure. You might want to rethink it a little bit.

My God...I'm there.

yeah sorry for that 404 error about the website, that should be fixed in the near future, i added the link to our website in the original post.

Thanks,

Rob

Holy Shit.

You might want to consider prizes for 5-8 as they are essential if you want a big turnout.

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Originally Posted by Getsickanddie

Holy Shit.

You might want to consider prizes for 5-8 as they are essential if you want a big turnout.

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considering, any changes to the prizes will be posted

Rob

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Originally Posted by Getsickanddie

Holy Shit.

You might want to consider prizes for 5-8 as they are essential if you want a big turnout.

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QFT...adding prizes for 5th - 8th would increase the turn out...people will be more willing to travel if they know they can come away with something for making top 8.

If you only have the $1000 cash to put up, I think most people wouldn't mind:

1st: 400
2nd: 200
3rd: 100
4th: 100
5-8: 50

$400 for 1st is still quite a bit of money, a fist-second split is easier, and 5-8th at least come away with their entrance fee and gas/food money.

That said, if you have an additional $300 to put towards this event, I'd suggest $75 for 5th - 8th tacked on to the original $1000 payout for top 4.

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Originally Posted by freakish777

If you only have the $1000 cash to put up, I think most people wouldn't mind:

1st: 400
2nd: 200
3rd: 100
4th: 100
5-8: 50

$400 for 1st is still quite a bit of money, a fist-second split is easier, and 5-8th at least come away with their entrance fee and gas/food money.

That said, if you have an additional $300 to put towards this event, I'd suggest $75 for 5th - 8th tacked on to the original $1000 payout for top 4.

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I like your second suggestion a lot. Adding that little extra would make this tournament like a combination of a Mox tournament and a DLD, which would make it much more attractive in my opinion. There would be the excitement of a very large first prize without the bitter disappointment of making top 8 and walking away with nothing (Which I have experienced first hand. It sucks even more than scrubbing out.) All that the extra $300 needs to do to be profitable is attract more than 12 extra people, which seems very likely to happen.

Do you realize that this tournement is the same weekend as another one already scheduled? Granted it's onthe other side of the country but people from syracuse, rochester, and virginia are already planning on going to that one. Perhaps you could schedule it several weeks later or earlier so we could go to this?

WOW!! I like the lead time also.

Day after my berfday. I'm in.

Quicksilver:
i searched for any scheduled events and didn't come up with any... can you link me to that event please? i may be able to do this event the following weekend.

freakish777:
i am rethinking the top 8 prizes i may just be able to re-arrange them as suggested such that all of top 8 walks away with something. thank you for the suggested break down.

all:
suggestions on door prizes?

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suggestions on door prizes?

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Originally Posted by alteredstates

Quicksilver:
i searched for any scheduled events and didn't come up with any... can you link me to that event please? i may be able to do this event the following weekend.

freakish777:
i am rethinking the top 8 prizes i may just be able to re-arrange them as suggested such that all of top 8 walks away with something. thank you for the suggested break down.

all:
suggestions on door prizes?

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Here be the tourney that Quicksilver be talkin bout.http://www.mtgthesource.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=8485

As for door prizes, Goyf's no doubt.:wink:

Wow, me and Sacearuse are assholes./.

thanks for the link. any one know of any events going on the previous weekend 6/21/08?

Add prizes for 5-8th and I'm in too. It'll be a nice way to have fun (and get my ass handed to me) before heading off to grad school.

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Originally Posted by alteredstates

Quicksilver:
i searched for any scheduled events and didn't come up with any... can you link me to that event please? i may be able to do this event the following weekend.

freakish777:
i am rethinking the top 8 prizes i may just be able to re-arrange them as suggested such that all of top 8 walks away with something. thank you for the suggested break down.

all:
suggestions on door prizes?

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http://mtgthesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8485

It's stickied right above this thread.

I don't htink any of us won't be back from the tournement for the following weekend. You'd have to delay it at least two weeks for us to be able to attend. And we'd be traveling the two weekends before that as well.

Anyone from Western MA going? If so, I'm in.

So basically there can be no Legacy events other than the Washington tourney in the month of June because you want to spend an entire month on the road?

I don't know what you guys do, but how the hell can you afford three weeks of travel?

Anyway, I'll try to be there whenever it is. I also think prizes for 5-8 should be given. Hopefully this is a good turnout.

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Originally Posted by bigbear102

So basically there can be no Legacy events other than the Washington tourney in the month of June because you want to spend an entire month on the road?

I don't know what you guys do, but how the hell can you afford three weeks of travel?

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They work for a living, you?

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They work for a living, you?

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Hey now! Matt works. He's the best knob polisher I know.

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So basically there can be no Legacy events other than the Washington tourney in the month of June because you want to spend an entire month on the road?

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I never said they couldn't hold a tournement then if they wanted to, I was just informing them if they wanted the best turnout they might want to consider moving it.

They're gonna lose out on 4 from Syracuse, and maybe 5 from VA. It's not really all that big a deal, even if they run it the same day.

I won't be driving a car from rochester so they will probably miss out on that too.

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They work for a living, you?

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That's my point, if they work it seems like three weeks is a lot of time to take off.

Sorry if my last post sounded dickish, I was extremely tired and working on a paper when I posted, so I wasn't in a very good mood.

Rob, if you could post when preregistration ends for this that would be helpful, it sucked last time when it ended 2 days before the event and there was nothing mentioned about that on your website, especially when the event still looked available to buy.

Real jobs give you vacation time.

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Real jobs give you vacation time.

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QFT.

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They're gonna lose out on 4 from Syracuse, and maybe 5 from VA. It's not really all that big a deal, even if they run it the same day.

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I'd say that they'd be losing at least a dozen people. That's like a third to a fourth of average attendance to a torunament.

Unfortunate timing, really.

how well does 6/21 look to everyone? As of right now I'm looking at keeping on this weekend, but if there is a large interest in moving to the previous weekend I might.

Because people are roadtripping to Washington, I doubt moving it one weekend is going to increase attendance any. Might help the Syracusers, I guess.

The weekend of 6/21 is the same as Grand Prix Indi, I would not hold it that weekend.

I doubt to many would go to washington for a DLD where top prize is only 4 dual lands, but they could be crazy.

They're going across country on a vacation. And on the way happens to be a dual land draft...

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I doubt to many would go to washington for a DLD where top prize is only 4 dual lands, but they could be crazy.

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You, sir, clearly lack that what makes us Epic...

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but they could be crazy.

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Indeed we are.

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how well does 6/21 look to everyone? As of right now I'm looking at keeping on this weekend, but if there is a large interest in moving to the previous weekend I might.

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There are a bunch of us going to GP Indy that weekend, you might want to move it like 7/12/2008, its the weekend after the 4th and I don't see anything else going on...this would prob. get you the best turn out...