Instead of 3 GPs, 1 per continent, you'll only have 2 GPs in the US. Not only that, the first GP will happen just 1 month after the Legacy GP in Japan from the previous year.
I guess Eternal Master wasn't as popular as Wizard has projected. Doubt the Europeans would bother to plan a trip to Kentucky for Legacy.
Do the north Americans? I mean its Kentucky and there is also GP vegasOriginally Posted by twndomn
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After 7 years of consecutive, well attended European Legacy GPs, this is certainly disappointing news.
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So, Kentucky in January...how far south is this? South past risk of snow?
Maybe a small chance. Even GP Memphis a year or so ago had some snows that probably led to lower attendance. People in the South are known for panicking about snow though. Least where I am, oftentimes cities don't have good snow planning. Louisville is around 290 miles south of Chicago if that puts things in perspective.
I haven't bothered with a GP in a while, but Legacy (thur/fri) Vegas the rest of the weekend (fri/sat/sun) sounds like a killer time.
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I went to Columbus without taking off any days of work, not recommended. Most people will be traveling to these events so Thursday Friday tournament is fine, without a job probably can't travel and play magic, with a job you have 10 months to request the days off.
No Europe or Asian Legacy GPs is lame, not that I would go but each one I think how great it would be, still 'planning' on going to Chiba this year.
After having such a good time at my first ever GP at Prague this year I was all set to go to whichever euro Legacy event was set next year. Seems like it is gonna have to be EE only thanks to the disregard for a large section of their playerbase.... :(
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2 days of all the cantripping action you don't want to see!
The GP Vegas weekend is the same weekend as EDC, so there will be 400,000+ ravers there. Hotel prices are already going up (and they typically double to triple closer to EDC).
Yeah, this is going to be a huge fucking pain!
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Well that fucking sucks. Cheers WotC.
Can anyone tweet at the organised play lady? I don't use twatter. She's currently super excited about the Team Pro Tour thing though so she probably won't reply.
Seems they treat everything like the legacy B&R list, they only give us something nice when they take something else away -.-
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Well I'm considering Kentucky and Vegas is pretty far out that I could certainly begin planning. Sucks for Europe though. Can't say that I'm surprised by wizards continuing to make poor choices though.
That sucks so bad, could go to prague this year and chiba is really expensive...
Why are they doing this? Legaccy GPs in Europe were allways well attend because of the rarity right?
Also numbers of GPS in Europe:
Italy 3, UK/France/Spain/Netherlands 2, Denmark/Czech R./Poland 1 - and Germany 0? Does somebody know why? MTG cant be that small here?
Afaik it's because of legal issues - money prices for what the authorities see as "gambling" are not allowed in Germany.
And here I was as a North Eastern American complaining about the fact that the Legacy GP's are at least 440 miles from me and no Modern GP East of the Mississippi River...
I feel for you guys in Europe and Asia... Legacy has always been huge in that part of the world, it's stupid that there isn't anything WotC supported for Legacy out there.
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As Philip said, its a legal issue. Once you opt to pay out in cash, you need a casino licence and have to deny access to everyone under 18 years. Its simply unnecessary conditions for WotC to fullfil, so they go to France instead
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If they didn't have the rights to some of the best IPs in the game they would have gone bankrupt years ago. Usually when a company does something silly its usually to make more money and understandable, but I honestly cant seem to understand how WOTC's actions would fit in this category. It is almost like they are actively trying to make their product as unappealing as they can. Under competent management MTG would be an absolute juggernaut in gaming, just look at how far hearthstone has gone despite being an inferior game, but unfortunately we have to settle for the mediocrity they love to deliver time and time again.
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