News from KL

[Raph]

Hello people,

the meeting in KL took place. Fried Meulders, Frank Karsten, Luis Scott Vargas, Ruud Warmenhoven and myself were attending. On WotC's side, Chris Galvin, Scott Larabee, Helene Bergeot and Devin Low were attending.

The meeting lasted two hours and a half with questions asked and answers given.

We will work on a summary of the meeting with the others and post it here as soon as it is ready.

I am personnaly happy with how it went. Do not expect too much though!

Raph

[Chomps]

Damn it, Raph, post something, I am too curious =)

[mercenarybdu]

Way to go Levy! But wheres the APAC rep?

By the way, Evan just posted his latest Show on Youtube.

[gleemax]

I wonder if WotC will mention this meeting and what was talked about in the KL blog. Right now it says they're haveing technical issues, did they cut tech support too?

[mercenarybdu]

I wonder if WotC will mention this meeting and what was talked about in the KL blog. Right now it says they're haveing technical issues, did they cut tech support too?

They better post it in the Blog or we'll be on their case until the cows come home.

[MagicRage]

They better post it in the Blog or we'll be on their case until the cows come home.

They really should. Announcing it on the PT coverage would be and open & upfront move on their part, indicating further an effort to communicate with the players. Additionally, it highlights this website which means more people join the MTGPU which means when they deal with the MTGPU they are dealing with a larger percentage of the player base and the MTGPU representatives are recieving a higher amount of opinions.

Of course, Wizards (at least the people with power of this sort of thing) may not want to give the Union more teeth/members/recognition nor acknowledge there is a problem any more than absolutely neccesary, regardless of what the lower-down-the-totem-pole people want.

[mercenarybdu]

They better post it in the Blog or we'll be on their case until the cows come home.

They really should. Announcing it on the PT coverage would be and open & upfront move on their part, indicating further an effort to communicate with the players. Additionally, it highlights this website which means more people join the MTGPU which means when they deal with the MTGPU they are dealing with a larger percentage of the player base and the MTGPU representatives are recieving a higher amount of opinions.

Of course, Wizards (at least the people with power of this sort of thing) may not want to give the Union more teeth/members/recognition nor acknowledge there is a problem any more than absolutely neccesary, regardless of what the lower-down-the-totem-pole people want.

They may not want to say that we exist through the blog but sooner or later the truth will hit the fan.

[wombat45678]

Okay so I just watched the latest Evan Erwin Article "The Magic Show" on Starcity games and now it seems that not only is Two Headed Giant Champs going to be cancelled but so is States. Am I misunderstanding what's going on? Did WOTC just cut two more tournaments? I mean my face looked something like this when I saw the article:

Like WTF WOTC? Was this even discussed at the KL meeting? Or was the entire Magic Community just blind sided?

[gleemax]

Okay so I just watched the latest Evan Erwin Article "The Magic Show" on Starcity games and now it seems that not only is Two Headed Giant Champs going to be cancelled but so is States. Am I misunderstanding what's going on? Did WOTC just cut two more tournaments? I mean my face looked something like this when I saw the article:

Like WTF WOTC? Was this even discussed at the KL meeting? Or was the entire Magic Community just blind sided?

Um, your a little slow on that news. When they annouced champs being cut they also mentioned states. The two kinda go hand and hand, it's just that champs is more international so it got the higher press. When people talk about one they mean both most of the time.

[wombat45678]

Okay my bad, sorry for the misunderstanding.

[Raph]

The PT is over (for me at least!), but it takes some to write the report of what happened on Thurday. I'll write it on my way back home, so expect it sometimes next week.

Raph

[verbal]

Thanks raph!

[gleemax]

The PT is over (for me at least!), but it takes some to write the report of what happened on Thurday. I'll write it on my way back home, so expect it sometimes next week.

Raph

Yeah that sucks, I read the KL blog. Man you had like the perfect Merfolk hand, but those tree-folk were just a bad match up. Ash-kicking indeed.

[fatguy_poolshark]

The PT is over (for me at least!), but it takes some to write the report of what happened on Thurday. I'll write it on my way back home, so expect it sometimes next week.

Raph

Wow nice way to give a guy who hasnt read the blog yet(PTQ this weekend) a heart attack. I was like WHAT the situation is bad enough Raph is quitting... time to start selling cards Then i read gleeax's post and assumed hes right.

[Ereinion]

Just in case someone has missed it, here's a kind of summary of Wizards' official standpoint regarding the changes to OP:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=mtgevent/ptkl08/qanda