Legends Awakened Prerelease News!
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We will do 5 small prereleases in MS, 2 will be done as team play events. I encourage players to stay in, but have never withheld the last two packs from a player that drops, I figure they are theirs not mine. Many of my players don't have a lot of extra money, many times at the end of the prerelease I will let them remake their deck with the last two packs, and we run a second one for free with the moified deck, that way they usually get 6 or 7 rounds of play in when generally it is 3 to 4 rounds. Sometimes if there is interest, I will let them take the extra 2 packs, use them as an entry fee for a team play side event, and then use the packs as prize support for a second event.
I like not having prizes, they just fuel cheating, friction, and many players won't be as helpful to a new player when a box is on the line. I will let a couple of players build decks early, then they are free to help and offer advice to the younger and newer players that don't know how to construct a deck, if there was a box of cards on the line, this could not happen. The net, that player that we attracted had a better experience that they would have had, and maybe we grow a new player.
So whatever I give away as extra is only done as door prizes! Taking the prize support away was the best thing they ever did for the Prerelease format.
I like not having prizes, they just fuel cheating, friction, and many players won't be as helpful to a new player when a box is on the line. I will let a couple of players build decks early, then they are free to help and offer advice to the younger and newer players that don't know how to construct a deck, if there was a box of cards on the line, this could not happen. The net, that player that we attracted had a better experience that they would have had, and maybe we grow a new player.
So whatever I give away as extra is only done as door prizes! Taking the prize support away was the best thing they ever did for the Prerelease format.
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ShadowCard
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It looks like there are two ideas about prereleases. One is that they are tournaments which should live up to that title with some kind of reward for its winners. The other is that prereleases should be a kind of "glorified league" where there is some play, a fair amount of trading, and a good amount of swapping of deck ideas/strategies, and a casual (almost in the extreme) environment.
There is a rewards on both sides I get the feeling from your post is that the only reward is a prize, to me the most important ones are that of a players accomplishment in winning, and also the satisfaction that they may have helped grow the game and attracted new players to the game!
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ShadowCard
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Should we play rounds until everyone has won atleast one game?
CameraMan, your rewards sound more aligned with what a league is. Not that those things can't or don't happen at a tournament, because they certainly do, but the point of a tournament is to find an overall winner of the event. If you're not going to preserve that goal, then it is not a tournament, by definition of a tournament. The winner of a tournament should get a little more of some reward (a pin, a winner's card like WotC used to do, some other idea) as the others. Otherwise, there is no point in being the winner, so a prerelease tournament is not living up to its title.
1 card from LA would also be agreat prize to me. I never said that, we always have a winner in each 3 age divisions, we take photos, make announcements, sent pics to newspapers, we make them feel special without handing them a box of cards!
How does that sound like league, league is free, leauge does not play down to a winner?
Look no mention of a reward as a requirement for a tournament!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament
A tournament (IPA [tərnəmənt]) is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses:
- One or more competitions held at a single venue and concentrated into a relatively short time interval. Some game clubs focus on preparing members for such tournaments. Chess clubs, for instance, frequently employ similar ranking systems, chess clocks, and etiquette to those used in chess tournaments.
- A competition involving multiple matches, each involving a subset of the competitors, with the overall tournament winner determined based on the combined results of these individual matches. These are common in those sports and games where each match must involve a small number of competitors: often precisely two, as in most team sports, racket sports and combat sports, many card games and board games, and many forms of competitive debating. Such tournaments allow large numbers to compete against each other in spite of the restriction on numbers in a single match.
PkmnManiac
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1. What does everybody think about the Pre-relase promo? (does this question deserve its own thread?)
2. Is Regigigas in this set? I know Heatran is, but wasn't there also another?
2. Is Regigigas in this set? I know Heatran is, but wasn't there also another?
pinkertonfan
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for once a card that will see a lot of play.
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