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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Not yet. We're still three months out, it could be another month yet before there's anything.

    I would expect it to be on pastimes.net before wizards.com. Pastimes has a mailing list you can subscribe to, but I don't know how much they use it.
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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Quote Originally Posted by Mulletus View Post
    I was just looking at the Grand Prix page and noticed that Eternal is not a rating that gets you a bye. It says Constructed/Total. It this a typo?
    Grand prixs and such only go by constructed and limited ratings. As far as i know, eternal ratings have no point whatsoever. BTW I am making arrangements to top 8 this bitch. Will I see any of you there?
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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Forget watching the website. Next time I'm at Pastimes I'll ask about why it hasn't been posted.

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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Total rating takes into account the sanctioned legacy matches that you have played fyi.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mulletus View Post
    I was just looking at the Grand Prix page and noticed that Eternal is not a rating that gets you a bye. It says Constructed/Total. It this a typo?
    No typo. Since you get Total, no Legacy byes this time around.

    They updated the PEIP with the thresholds for Total byes, btw - 1850 / 1950 / 2050.
    “It's possible. But it involves... {checks archives} Nature's Revolt, Opalescence, two Unstable Shapeshifters (one of which started as a Doppelganger), a Tide, an animated land, a creature with Fading, a Silver Wyvern, some way to get a creature into play in response to stuff, some way to get a land into play in response to stuff (a different land from the animated land), and one heck of a Rube Goldberg timing diagram.
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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Woot. Total Byes>Eternal Byes, at least for me. Frowns on the threshold changes.

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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Quote Originally Posted by Leftconsin View Post
    Forget watching the website. Next time I'm at Pastimes I'll ask about why it hasn't been posted.
    Please do, and let us know what they say.

    Quote Originally Posted by cdr View Post
    No typo. Since you get Total, no Legacy byes this time around.

    They updated the PEIP with the thresholds for Total byes, btw - 1850 / 1950 / 2050.
    dam... 1850... Dont think i'll be able to get that high. 1800 i had a shot (a small one, but a shot). Guess i'll just have to win a trial.

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    Total ratings are higher on average than constructed/limited/composite/etc, so that's right where I expected them.

    Quote Originally Posted by RoddyVR View Post
    dam... 1850... Dont think i'll be able to get that high. 1800 i had a shot (a small one, but a shot). Guess i'll just have to win a trial.
    Your Total is 1935, as far as I can see.
    “It's possible. But it involves... {checks archives} Nature's Revolt, Opalescence, two Unstable Shapeshifters (one of which started as a Doppelganger), a Tide, an animated land, a creature with Fading, a Silver Wyvern, some way to get a creature into play in response to stuff, some way to get a land into play in response to stuff (a different land from the animated land), and one heck of a Rube Goldberg timing diagram.
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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Quote Originally Posted by cdr View Post
    Your Total is 1935, as far as I can see.
    think you might have me confused with someone... i get 1750 total and 1693 eternal.... unless i'm looking in the wrong place (would be a real nice surprise to find out i'm actualy at 1935...)
    http://webapp.wizards.com/personal.aspx

    Edit: ye, i'm not Rodney.

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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Ah, sorry. You just need to X-0 a 32k tournament like Rodney.
    “It's possible. But it involves... {checks archives} Nature's Revolt, Opalescence, two Unstable Shapeshifters (one of which started as a Doppelganger), a Tide, an animated land, a creature with Fading, a Silver Wyvern, some way to get a creature into play in response to stuff, some way to get a land into play in response to stuff (a different land from the animated land), and one heck of a Rube Goldberg timing diagram.
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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Quote Originally Posted by cdr View Post
    Ah, sorry. You just need to X-0 a 32k tournament like Rodney.
    Not sure what a 32K tournament is, but i'm hoping that X-0ing the mox tournament tomorow in hadley would get me well on the way. And if it doesnt, then i wont feel bad for not pulling off the X-0 cause it wouldnt have helped all that much with the rating anyway.

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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Quote Originally Posted by RoddyVR View Post
    think you might have me confused with someone... i get 1750 total and 1693 eternal.... unless i'm looking in the wrong place (would be a real nice surprise to find out i'm actualy at 1935...)
    http://webapp.wizards.com/personal.aspx

    Edit: ye, i'm not Rodney.
    Mine is like 1795 total and 1723 eternal. I guess not playing often enough makes for a really slow ascent.

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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    K-value is the maximum points you can get per match win (ex 32), and half that (ex 16) is the average you get per match win (specifically, if your rating is about the same as your opponent's).

    If there's decklists and significant prizes, a tournament is Competitive REL (Rules Enforcement Level). If a level 1 judge is HJ at Competitive REL, the k-value is 24k. If a level 2+ judge is HJ, the k-value is 32. The default value for tournaments is 16.

    This is one of many really good reasons to push organizers to use sanctioned judges for competitive events.

    http://www.wizards.com/dci/downloads...KValue0904.pdf
    “It's possible. But it involves... {checks archives} Nature's Revolt, Opalescence, two Unstable Shapeshifters (one of which started as a Doppelganger), a Tide, an animated land, a creature with Fading, a Silver Wyvern, some way to get a creature into play in response to stuff, some way to get a land into play in response to stuff (a different land from the animated land), and one heck of a Rube Goldberg timing diagram.
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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Do you know where we can find info on GP trials leading up? Not the Friday grinders; usually there are GPTs in nearby locales (I'm thinking Indy, Detroit, Louisville, etc) in the weeks leading up, but I can't find any info.

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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Well Wizards aint posting any info yet, pasttimes' website has a list of events at the GP, but no details on its location or anything... however one of the events they have, the Pro Tour Honolulu Trial, has this info listed in its "poster":

    Pro Tour–Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
    2009 Qualifier
    Illinois 3/8 2009
    Extended Format

    At Grand Prix Chicago
    Schaumburg Convention Center
    1551 N. Thoreau Dr.
    Schaumburg, IL 60173

    Registration 9am
    10am start
    Cost $25


    Which assuming that this isnt info just randomly copied from some previous Chicago event, means we know that the GP is actualy like 24 miles outside of chicago... yuck for those of us not planning on driving there.

    People going on the train(s) want to charter a bus to get us there from the trainstation?

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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Just got off the phone with Pastimes, spoke with a gentleman who stated it was down between (2) locations, and the decision should be finalized and posted by tomorrow. One had an attached hotel & the other had 'like twenty' hotels around it according to the gentleman on the phone. Now if only Wizards would get off their collective ass & post GPTs....since this is less than 2 months away...
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    For people worried about flight prices, check on Southwest Airlines. I was originally going Jetblue ($658, two tickets, round trip), but for about half the price I got to fly out of Hartford, CT as opposed to pain-in-the-ass JFK/LGA. My friend got a round trip out of Durham, NC for $89.

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    “It's possible. But it involves... {checks archives} Nature's Revolt, Opalescence, two Unstable Shapeshifters (one of which started as a Doppelganger), a Tide, an animated land, a creature with Fading, a Silver Wyvern, some way to get a creature into play in response to stuff, some way to get a land into play in response to stuff (a different land from the animated land), and one heck of a Rube Goldberg timing diagram.
    -David DeLaney

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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    I just got off the phone with a guy from Pastimes. He said it was at the Schaumberg Convention Center. The address and everything is on the Pastimes website.

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    Re: [Announcement] March 7-8: Grand Prix Chicago 2009

    Not going to lie...as someone who's lived in the area their entire life, that doesn't seem like the best place in Chicago for an international event such as this. It's probably a nice facility though...I'm just wondering if somewhere on the O'Hare campus would have been more convinient.

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