I'm indifferent. I think 150 points is better than 200, but don't care whether we include Luke or not. I know with certain players, like me or my friends, will still get out-played by people despite having Luke on our side.

You and your friends are getting better though. Plus JA will be offering you a few more pieces for the factions you prefer anyway : )

You gave me a great game with the vong when we were testing : )

But I will also never let this venue become certain people buying rares for the people always at the top. I will always help in whatever way I can to help anybody play better and get some prizes too.

I am currently working on something so everyone who plays at regionals gets a r or vr.

I think your wording is bit off. I won the event..so thats not anything thats going to surprise anyone, except maybe me : )

But what the event proves is that we have alot of people who can score in the top third (high enough to be picking packs/rares). You don't even have to be playing for that long. Paul is a great example, because was probably the newest player in the event except for his son and he got 5th. Steven doesn't get into the top 3rd every event, but he can probably pull it off half the time. Slie (an amazing player, alittle out of practice tho) ended up 2-2. Nightwalker who wins events quite often, ended up 1-3.

I would estimate that about 75% of our players can get into the top 1/3 at a tournament. That is huge. I am not sure how many people realize how great that actually is. Playing a game where your squad is the perfect counter to your opponents which allows you to slaughter them isn't much of learning experience. But when you play some really close games, win or lose...you learn alot and the close games are generally the best. Paul is another great example of this. He played me round 3 and gave me a very hard game and I loved the challenge he made it. Then he played an amazing game against Joelker. My understanding is the he lost by 1pt. 2 close games against good players who have years more experience playing the game. I would be willing to bet he learned alot from those games and has couple more ideas on how to do better next time and I am expecting I am going to be losing a close game to him at some point soon : )

Maybe Paul is just an amazing player and learns quick but I hope atleast part of it is that we really do work to help new players. I want the competition. I want to see everyone win an event. I would rather lose 4 close games where I played my best, than win 4 easy ones.

I know that now Nightwalker wins alot of events but it wasn't that long ago I was pushing him to play better. I saw him play some wow ccg and I could tell he was smart (despite his drinking problems...lay off the tequila). So I pushed him alot, and sure enough he has gotten blasted good.

Plus we are going to have a new set in less than a month...that always shakes things up. I remember Steven was going 0-4 or 1-3 every events and then Clone wars hit and got 4-0 and 3-1 in the two sealed events and then started getting 3-1 atleast every other event.

lol maybe it was to muchtequila that prompted my to put extra wookies into my squad over the point value...

When i first started playing my goal was just 1 wookie band to screw around with just for fun and now omfg so addicted to the game, like swm crack

Time for wotc to make the jedi wookies.....

OMG what happened?

Wow...that sucks I saw him 2 days ago!!!

Wow! My thoughts are with his family and those who were close to him. Thank you for letting us know Omnus.

tis' true

Heads up: The tournament Saturday will be sanctioned, (if we want), as will the tournament a week from Saturday.

What are the details regarding Regionals and whether it needs to be sanctioned in advance or not?

Regionals and Midnight Release Sealed I believe were both intended to be sanctioned, other imput omnus?

As for holding the tournament its up to the judge but i am sure we wont have any problems with holding it ^_^ ill keep in contact with you and saturday morning you can call myself and let me know when your on your way!