Rofl.
Whatever. I don't consider myself a pro. But since I play them all the time I figure I will have a good system to judge when I should go pro.

"Hey John, Matt. Think I should go pro yet?"
John "No not yet"
Matt "Are you crazy"

Me" hmm ok guess not yet"

Keep the $500.00 and not travel. :)

Although 3rd and 4th should either get the same money or play Not have it decided by tie breakers IMHO.

One of the irrelevant (and proud of it) team members here.

I am starting a pool. Darling Dave says he's back writing articles... how many more will we see before Indy? The over/under is 1.

I love you too, pervert.

Well out of the near 3,000 words you squeezed out, around 900-1000 of them were about you sucking. So about a third of your article. I'm being generous as well. Considering the whole 10k debate seemed to be stemming from your suck. I could have just been a dick and asked why you waste the front page with pointless articles.


Disclaimer: Just to let everyone know as well, I suck at this game something terrible, only winning two PCQ's out of the ten plus I've attended. Please don't see this as an attempt to claim I'm better than Mr. Spears, because I'm sure that just isn't the case. I'm just a bye donating money to Team Realmworx.

Who wouldn't love more money from the 10Ks? I definitely support that. I just don't want them to reduce the number for 10Ks. I think a lot of 10Ks provide people more chances to play in professional events which is a great thing. Reducing the 10K numbers would be a bad move because it would make the events more elitist.

Instead of increasing the payout, I think UDE should just focus on having more 10Ks so people didn’t have to travel so much. I think they are doing a good job with that. So far, there have been three 10Ks I’ve been to this year and my cost is always gas to get there and back, which is less than $100. There are a few more 10Ks I plan on attending this year as well.

I would like to see 10Ks move from the Golden Age format and support Modern Age. It would be a nice change of pace.

I think the Pro Circuit is the place for professional players to spend their money and go all out. There are 4 PCs a year that have great payout. I say, focus more on going to those and stick to the 10Ks that are close to home. I don't think most players what to see the same the same people in the top 8 every 10K. It gives others a chance to place. Hopefully UDE will keep pushing the 10K system so there are more for people to attend.

lasuther

As a hobby player who has a terrible national rank, and someone En-Kur would no-doubt label a "bye", I wouldn't mind if the bigger names in this game stayed home every once in a while so the rest of us could have a prayer at winning. At least maybe we could win a t-shirt or something. :)

No offense, but it's also good to see Curved Sentinels finally getting trumped. I think the next evolution of this deck will center around Armies of Qward.

And I thought of that Lightray-Cosmic Radiation combo when DSM first came out. It was only a matter of time before it got exploited.

Synth

Hmmm.

It would be nice to see the prize money for 10K events spread out a bit more past the Top 8. At this point, travel to a 10K is limited for me because of reasons already mentioned. If making Top 20 would at least pay for the trip I would try to make it to a few more.

I've been to 2 so far: SoCal, because it was at GenCon and NJ because it's close to me. Any father than a 5-6 hour drive (forget taking a plane) isn't worth it.

Ok so basically I get this from the unfathomable Mr. Spears:

1. "Pro" players don't want to travel out to 10Ks because there isn't enough free money for them if they don't take it all

2. The solutions to this problem is less number of 10Ks or paying out to a smaller number of people.

3. Pro players act a lot like the French when congregating at premiere events

I really don't see how this "problem" effects anyone but a small percentage of the player base, and therefore is not really a problem at all. In the end its really an inconvience to some players and advantage to those of us that usually don't measure up to the skill level of the higher level players. And lets face it....when it comes to a street battle between these two groups(and it will!) there are a lot more of us then you punk pros! :p

Check this out:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgcom/feature/263

Myabe UDE should do something like that. There really is no money in 10k's (maybe that explains why I havent attended one since Origins last year). This new MTG system blows everything UDE has done out of the water. I mean comon guys, free airfair and money just to attend big events? Thats pretty awesome.

Two riots in the Realms in one week? Hot stuff. Just remember, he left me off the Pro list. In fact, I think us scrubs could hold our own with even numbers. Especially with erick on our side.

It's rare that I agree w/ BAngel but...

That is f'in sweet. If UDE (or anyone else for that matter) wants to pay me to go events just tell me where and when :). Sounds like a very cool system they've got going there.

I think we're a few years off from that sort of club. :)

Oh man, the Pro Players' Club is ridiculous. I'd be all over that like white on rice.

I think a real Day 2 at the 10ks would be a good idea. Like someone said, the cut for X-3 usually ends up falling between 20th and 25th. I think it would be neat if they cut like they do at the PC--X-3 makes day 2--and play 3 rounds for the higher finishers on Sunday morning leading up to the t8 cut.

And, of course, I am in favor of more money. I don't see how anyone could not be in favor of more money.

I agree with that. X-3 (or whatever) for Day Two. Usually the second day becomes dead air for those who don't make Top 8.

I don't want to fan the flames here but...

$2,500 payout is a nice prize. Even $1,200. It's not a life-changing sum of money (at least for me). If that's not enough money for Vs pros to play super-hero cards professionally, then maybe you big shot pros should go into professional poker or real estate or law school or whatever.

Me, I just want a t-shirt.

Synthezoid
(Ducking for cover)

I think a more pertinent problem are judges who will enforce slow play rules. In detroit, every round was 60 minutes. a 30 minute round, then an extra 30 minutes on the people who, when time was called, decided that it would be best to take as much time as possible to do the most mundane of things.
For instance:
Quite clearly last turn of game. (meaning no one was drawing any more cards) Signal flare. Take 2 minutes to shuffle. faces of doom, shuffle some more. cosmic radiation. think about whether you will burn your opponent. radiation again, think about burning your opponent.
I have seldomly been as angry as I was watching everyone delay the tournament as long as they did.