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Ewok Fumbles, Sheep Gets Pissed, and Wookie Gets Stalked Gen Con Keyforge Nationals · Archons Corner

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  Speaker 1: That's what you have. But we're gonna get rolling with this.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. I am the one, the only,
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  Speaker 1: the w oh okay I e shure, I am here
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  Speaker 1: by most of the misfits. We got the pH d
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  Speaker 1: of key Forge doctor Sheep Yep, still a misfit. We
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  Speaker 1: would have e walk, but he can't seem to figure
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  Speaker 1: his way out of the corner. He'll he'll be in
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  Speaker 1: We're assuming shortly in draft courts on special assignment this week,
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  Speaker 1: Super super special assignment. We got two guests this week.
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  Speaker 1: We've got mister helm Key who joined us for our
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  Speaker 1: key Forge Adventure.
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  Speaker 2: Sure welcome low Keith Orge community.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a key Forge player, but he was on
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  Speaker 1: the keyboardge adventure uh and a fan favorite local car
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  Speaker 1: high local car.
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  Speaker 3: Oh lou.
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  Speaker 1: So we are going to go over our fabulous trip
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  Speaker 1: there and back again to gen Con. There were there
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  Speaker 1: was there was laughs, there was tears, there's anger. A
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  Speaker 1: table flipped at one point. I might have made that
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  Speaker 1: last one up, but for whatever reason, vaulta he walk
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  Speaker 1: has vaulta sault on here for some reason. Anybody know
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  Speaker 1: why he played volk assault Okay, he walked played once
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  Speaker 1: at gen Con.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and we played once at the store.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was volta Sault.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: He said he had a better time at the thing
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  Speaker 4: if it would come over here with all these things.
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  Speaker 3: M M.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody want to ping him? Oh, you know what I
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  Speaker 1: can do? I don't even know why I would ping him?
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  Speaker 1: Why don't I Just where do you go?
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  Speaker 2: There?
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  Speaker 1: He is? Hello? Hello, So we've already started. But you
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  Speaker 1: played one Vault Assault at gen Con. I didn't you
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  Speaker 1: have this right right front center at the very top
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  Speaker 1: of the notes? Yeah? Why did you enjoy yourself? How
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  Speaker 1: was a vault of Sault?
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  Speaker 2: So on Sunday, I had the pleasure of being able
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  Speaker 2: to qualify for top eight for an event we'll talk
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  Speaker 2: about later, but that had already actually finished, and as
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  Speaker 2: I had two lovely members from our traveling team who
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  Speaker 2: we're playing on Sunday, I was looking for something to
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  Speaker 2: do and I partially thought about going had in wandering
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  Speaker 2: our hall and I saw that there was a group
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  Speaker 2: that was playing fulth Assault. So I had a two
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  Speaker 2: dollars generic ticket and I decided, you know what, let's
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  Speaker 2: try this out. We tried it out at our locals
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday, and I figured it was a great time
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  Speaker 2: to be able to go ahead and play. We ended
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  Speaker 2: up playing a five player game, and the background that
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  Speaker 2: I had actually from Tuesday helped to run that a
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  Speaker 2: little bit smoother, but it was It was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun. So shout out to my other four friends
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  Speaker 2: who were there, so Eric Waters, Pat Mhala and Jason.
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  Speaker 2: So if you are not familiar, Eric is definitely in
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  Speaker 2: our discord.
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  Speaker 1: Is someone who he's in the audience right now.
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  Speaker 2: Get that shout out to him. Man and I gave
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  Speaker 2: a shout out because he actually I came Sunday with
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  Speaker 2: no KeyForge, no tokens, nothing, and the only reason I
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  Speaker 2: was able to play this faldasault is because he had
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  Speaker 2: an extra deck. He actually had his arc on deck
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  Speaker 2: from the day before and so that's what I got
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  Speaker 2: to go ahead and throw out right away. So it
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  Speaker 2: was fun. It was a wonderful experience. I can also
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  Speaker 2: give a shout out to Jason was very very famous.
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  Speaker 2: You should see Jason Wallace from the War the warcaf
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  Speaker 2: So go check out Tobin and Jason. But it was
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  Speaker 2: great to be able to play with those two. And
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: for both Mahala and Pats, they seem to have some
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  Speaker 2: key forge experience, but it had been a while before,
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  Speaker 2: like it had been a while since they had last played,
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  Speaker 2: so to see some people coming back and enjoying it,
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  Speaker 2: we had a blast. It was much more enjoyable the
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  Speaker 2: second time around than it was the first time. So
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  Speaker 2: first time we had a lot of amber control. There
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  Speaker 2: were three rant and rives in the Woe deck alone.
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  Speaker 2: This we actually sped it out up in a couple
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  Speaker 2: different ways. There was a finanate rupture that was played,
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  Speaker 2: and so that definitely sped things up, and it actually
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  Speaker 2: ended up that three people had individual key sheets to
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  Speaker 2: be able to finish on that last turn. So it
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  Speaker 2: just came down a turn order of who's going to finish,
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  Speaker 2: which made it a rather interesting and fun game. I
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  Speaker 2: will still argue that some of the individual cards are
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  Speaker 2: some of the individual boons, I should say, because those
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  Speaker 2: are what you're kind of picking up and playing, they
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  Speaker 2: are more powerful than others. I had a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of fun. I jumped out to an early lead just
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  Speaker 2: because I had a massive arc on deck turn one
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  Speaker 2: as I was going first head double Recklessness and the
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  Speaker 2: sixth the sixth place boon was actually gone, so I
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  Speaker 2: ended up with the five, which allowed me to draw
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  Speaker 2: on extra three cards. So recklessness not as great there.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a pretty brutal start, and I already
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  Speaker 2: had six amber for that first key, so much much
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  Speaker 2: faster start. But it was overall a great time.
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  Speaker 1: All right for the most of you who know gen
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  Speaker 1: Con starts on a Thursday, not on a Sunday. Weird story.
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  Speaker 1: But we went down on Wednesday to get all set up.
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  Speaker 1: We had stayed well, you guys were in the camper.
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  Speaker 1: I stayed in my own tent and my personal luxury tent.
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  Speaker 2: We appreciate that you helped us out in that manner.
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  Speaker 2: I could still hear you snoring all the way through
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  Speaker 2: the camper into your tent over the fan, Loca car.
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  Speaker 2: I believe you had the the best statement here and
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  Speaker 2: that one morning after getting up. How far away could
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  Speaker 2: you hear Wookie as we were walking back from the
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  Speaker 2: bathroom and facilities there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I was probably a good twenty thirty feet away,
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  Speaker 3: and I could hear him snoring.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, crystal clear, So we appreciate you listening.
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  Speaker 1: Crystal clear, this is all incorrect, sheep. Did you hear me?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: But I could feel the ground shake.
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  Speaker 1: Steve could you hear me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I was too busy spooning with Sheep.
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  Speaker 2: So so this is really why Sheep and Steve here,
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  Speaker 2: mister Steve could not hear this snoring that there was
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  Speaker 2: other activities that are being had much fatization, But Loca
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  Speaker 2: Car and I were just trying to be able to
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  Speaker 2: stay alive and try and get some sleep. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: luckily we just fell asleep before you and hopefully he
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  Speaker 2: didn't wake up.
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  Speaker 3: Well. The perfect thing is when Wookie's alarm goes off
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  Speaker 3: and he keeps snoring over top of it because he
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  Speaker 3: can't hear it because of his own snoring. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's the joy of the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, your alarm sounded like a video game. I thought
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  Speaker 2: lok Car the first day was playing a video game,
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  Speaker 2: like with the music on full blast, and it was
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  Speaker 2: like this panic attack mode that was on some different
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  Speaker 2: survival video games that I play, and it was just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was the most wretched noise I've ever heard. And
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea how you did not wake up
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  Speaker 2: with that.
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  Speaker 1: I normally do wake up to that. However, I was tired.
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  Speaker 1: You guys kept me out. We passed my bedtime.
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  Speaker 4: They did warn us of feral cats, but none of
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  Speaker 4: them would come anywhere near us.
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  Speaker 2: Nope, nope, no raccoons.
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  Speaker 1: Cat You're welcome. That was Wednesday. We went and got
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  Speaker 1: our badges, had all the fun stuff. But Thursday is
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  Speaker 1: where the fun begins. Thursday was sealed. You walked. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us a little bit about sealed.
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  Speaker 2: Sealed happened all right, moving, fantastic, So it was glorious.
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  Speaker 2: We all got deck. We showed up nice and early.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good time in that manner. I know
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  Speaker 2: that Josh has asked for some feedback about basically how
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  Speaker 2: the different events were run at gen Con, So anyone
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  Speaker 2: who is in the audience who was part of Genkin
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  Speaker 2: experience please provide some feedback as to time for arrival
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  Speaker 2: and set up. I think it could definitely be sped
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  Speaker 2: up a bit getting to keyboards earlier. But hey, man,
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  Speaker 2: there is good.
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  Speaker 3: There's one piece in the same place as us at
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  Speaker 3: seven hundred and fifty players, and they got them registered
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  Speaker 3: in about half.
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  Speaker 2: An hour yep, thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm not sure why we need a full hour
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  Speaker 3: for keithbirdge for registration for significantly less people.
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  Speaker 4: Because nine o'clock means roll at nine, nine twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: Because here's the problem, like some five do.
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  Speaker 3: We think that's conditioned behavior though, because you say the
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  Speaker 3: registration being so long and they'd be so generous.
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  Speaker 1: Condition absolutely, I mean the problem is that, like I
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  Speaker 1: definitely agree with all of you, Like, if it's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be nine, it's nine. If you're after nine, well
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry you've missed the cutoff and no longer allowed
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  Speaker 1: to come in. I mean, there's definitely some late entrance
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  Speaker 1: to the party, there's no doubt about that. But uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're gonna have to hurt some feelings for
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  Speaker 1: people to understand, like nine o'clock does not mean nine
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  Speaker 1: to twenty.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean the short answer is it we need
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: to be able to just speed up. If we can
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  Speaker 2: get through, if one piece can get through seven hundred people, Hey,
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: you're in your app, you're in your spot. There is
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: no reason that we can't do it in a half
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  Speaker 2: an hour. You get your decks. Then the next half
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: hour you're making your deck and then we are ready
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  Speaker 2: to go. And that should be twenty minutes ten minutes
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  Speaker 2: ago ahead and pay while they have us ready that
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  Speaker 2: we should be ready to fire at ten o'clock for sealed,
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  Speaker 2: and we should be ready to fire at nine thirty.
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  Speaker 2: It's just something that we.
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  Speaker 3: Can so late. I mean, I don't know, maybe I'm
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  Speaker 3: too used the old ball to our days, but I
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  Speaker 3: feel like starting at ten it's like wasted most of
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  Speaker 3: the morning. I'd rather start at nine. Do I registration by
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  Speaker 3: nine and get going, get going open decks or go
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  Speaker 3: going with the first round pairings.
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  Speaker 1: I would uh, I would agree, Like I think getting
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  Speaker 1: there by nine, like that's that's plenty of time. We
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: were there by like what eight thirty most days?
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: Yep. We consistently hit about eight point fifteen eight oh eight.
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  Speaker 2: I know you guys were always harassing me. Oh, we
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  Speaker 2: need to keep we need to get going. We need
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: to get going. Man, We're sitting there for over an
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: hour waiting, and then it's another hour after we hit
• 11:50
  Speaker 2: nine o'clock, and then it's another half hour after that
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  Speaker 2: before we play. We were definitely there early.
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  Speaker 5: It was fine, Fine, we need time to find the
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  Speaker 5: poop easy?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, we well, we we definitely had plenty of time
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  Speaker 2: for that.
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  Speaker 4: The question for the poop easy was was important. There
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  Speaker 4: was plenty of time to visit the bath.
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  Speaker 1: Who much?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe all right, So so we get we get our decks. Boys,
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  Speaker 2: how did your decks look? You got three decks? We
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  Speaker 2: can go ahead and alliance them if you want.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: I threw mine in the poop easy because they were bad.
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  Speaker 1: I had. Let's see, I had a okay Mars pod.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what Sunday says my Unfortunately, me and
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  Speaker 1: Sunday had to play and the deck went off. It
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  Speaker 1: did not perform like that for any of the other games.
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  Speaker 1: I had a very okay Mars pod, a subpar Geistoid pod,
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of my pods I could have played
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  Speaker 1: Shredder with and no one would have batted an eye
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  Speaker 1: at me.
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: Nice local car.
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  Speaker 4: How did your decks look?
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: I had a deck and I had a bunch of trash,
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  Speaker 3: So that was kind of how that went, I mean
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  Speaker 3: afterwards looking at it. Yeah, the deck I played as
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: a straight ARCon deck was in the nineties for SaaS,
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  Speaker 3: and it's the sort of deck that you know in
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  Speaker 3: a field and any other set, I would probably have
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  Speaker 3: a really good chance of going top four, if at
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  Speaker 3: definitely top eight. But you know in this meta where
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  Speaker 3: you can if you don't have the burst e Mars
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: and you don't have the key abduction and the extra
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: charge and the winds of death. Good luck getting anywhere
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  Speaker 3: much so fun deck. I had a lot of fun
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: playing it and playing ARCon and people ever being surprised.
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: But definitely the best three pods were just already in
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  Speaker 3: the deck, and if it was pick one play it,
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  Speaker 3: it probably would have done quite a bit better.
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  Speaker 2: But into you weren't the only person who actually asked
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  Speaker 2: for that format to be able to return pick one
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  Speaker 2: out of the three and play it. That's very interesting,
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  Speaker 2: it was said my three decks, sheep, I'm gonna skip
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: over you for a bit, because you actually had a tournament.
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  Speaker 2: Boys and girls, I went oh two and and to
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  Speaker 2: make things worse, I skin in all three decks and
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  Speaker 2: none of them were horrendous. I've actually seen a lot
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  Speaker 2: worse with our gr they did not really work well together.
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  Speaker 2: So the first deck I can go ahead and show
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  Speaker 2: for anyone at home following along is Pharaoh Ebanelf Boys Levesque,
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  Speaker 2: and to be honest, this is the highlights. I ended
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  Speaker 2: up with Geistoid in all three and none of them
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  Speaker 2: were great Geistoid. The two other geistoids from other two
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  Speaker 2: decks are Hoke, til Barbaric hold Fast Advisor and l
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  Speaker 2: Revie the Crassley Tired the Geistoid in the second and
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  Speaker 2: third decks frankly, well, the highlight is persaphone and shadies.
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  Speaker 2: It did have double winds of Death and Acto, but
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  Speaker 2: it's just not it's not doing what you want with geist.
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  Speaker 2: Theoids the Levere Crassley Tired had in Here Somewhere be
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  Speaker 2: our geist awesome and then it was spontaneous awakening animating
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: for singing scythe and I was pretty sad. I did
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and take a line with the Geistoid from Pharaoh,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: and in my opinion, this was still the best. This
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  Speaker 2: jumped out as the pod that I wanted to have
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  Speaker 2: right away. It had boo ecto energy, vampirism in here Somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: winds of death, and double cursed tomb. So yes, I
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: was playing a double cursed tomb and that is what
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: basically kept me alive. And I brought it in to
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: try and counter the Mars. If you're going to go
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: ahead and be playing your Mars shenanigans, you have to
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: really think about it. With those creatures going away as
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  Speaker 2: they die. That was the thought process. I did have
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: plenty of capture their double Dark Lamp Harvest Skimmer Ma
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: mattson lb Astray. So it actually did provide some interesting
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  Speaker 2: choices for me. The next choice as my second house.
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  Speaker 2: I had two Brobnar pods and I wanted this deck
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Hoketils hold Fast Advisor. I really wanted to play the
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  Speaker 2: Brobnar and I could not convince myself to play it
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: had double Might makes Right. Boys, double might makes right.
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  Speaker 1: Tell them your creatures, tell them it was.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't play it, and here is why. It had
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  Speaker 2: double soul bomb too. But the creatures here for the
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  Speaker 2: Might makes Right included earth Shaker, double Fiery Jark.
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  Speaker 1: I think you had a lifting buddy too.
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  Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 2: That was it. So the Fiery Jarks are not going
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  Speaker 2: to stick around, and the earth Shaker will clear the
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  Speaker 2: board for the little But I can't pull my max
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  Speaker 2: right with that. And I mean Sound the Horns is
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: great for getting to those three, but it just you
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: can't do anything with it.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: You're easily be haunted every time you play Sound the Horns.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yay, your good value. Yeah. So I went with
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  Speaker 2: a Robnard that actually could do something. It was it
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: was okay, burn the stockpile, Craftiness, riot lash out memorials
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  Speaker 2: have fallen, Double Recklessness, and then actually the Creature's Countryside Crusher,
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  Speaker 2: crim Tooth torch Uh Torchtooth and orn Rner's Skullface, Returning Giants,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Riggety cyber Giant and shock Herder. I could potentially put
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: out a brobnar board and then do something with it
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  Speaker 2: that did not happen in either game, and I had
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: pretty much Mars Shenanigans go off once. That's really what
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: was going off.
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  Speaker 1: And then highlight was when you lost the Cardboard Sheep
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: in Second Umber.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Uh against Cardboard Sheep. I did play each of these
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: decks as arkon because I figured that way they each
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  Speaker 2: get played versus the trash bin where they need to go.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, Cardboard Sheep definitely beat me, and he beat
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: me pretty handily on that too, So I even chose
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: poorly in the one deck. I mean, I just threw
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: them out, but yeah, Cardboard Sheep beat me as well.
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  Speaker 2: It was a real rough day on that Thursday. I
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: could not pull a win to save my life because
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I also played Second Amber, but I made a choice
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: to wait out around because there were three of us
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: and there was no need to take a bye. And
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: then I played the next round and I lost as well.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: So some days you have it, some days you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday was not my day, I.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Think, And I played a game when I otk'd you.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Ah. Yeah, actually that was the best draw that I had,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: And that whole day I was up two keys and
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: like four amber pushing for key three. You had zero keys,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: and then you're you're like boom, otk with my with
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: my sealed the Lion's deck, and I'm like, yep, this
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: is why I'm O two and I'm out because I
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: got nothing. What I could really do actually with my
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: deck is I could take your amber and then I
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: could go ahead and let it go away. But that
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: doesn't work when you face Mars and their rule of
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: sixeing you and pushing pretty hard, and that's pretty much
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: what I face. So uh shout out to fire spray Man.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: You had my my name all weekend long, but I
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: lost at time. Yeah, yeah, I was waiting for that one.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: It was two keys to two keys, and I lost
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: two amber versus one amber. I made one key literally early.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I think it was like turn three. Yeah, No, we
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: didn't get to three keys. It went to time and
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: I know on Amber, but I didn't make the second.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Keys and you lost to number to one number.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: No, it was two keys. The two keys. I actually
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: my first key I forged pretty early. I want to
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: say it was turned three, but the rest of the
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: game I could not gain Amber. Once he got his
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Mars going and once he actually got his Amber control going.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: We both did have Memorial as the Fallen, which zapped
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of Amber two, so that was really
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: really sad. And then game number two, I played Mescato,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: which is Lyle from Krit from Camp Crit so shout
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: outs because Lyle's been on their cast before.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: You had it right the first time, All right, I did.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: It did look right, and I don't know when I
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: messed up, but it is crit Camp. But Lyle was awesome.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: This game.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I'll technically lost that time again two keys to one.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Two of the keys forged out of my three keys
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: that day. That's right, I forged three total keys that
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: they were ecto charge. So I just yeah, it was bad.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: It was real bad.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Been that bad boy purges itself.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Well, so yes, unless you have older geistoids, but if
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: you actually look at the individual sass on these decks.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: They're not rated poorly. Boys like this is an eighty
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: three and eighty three and in eighty two, so you
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: look at it and you're like, you should do something,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: but none of these have any out correct And that
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: was really what it equated to, is that, eh, I
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: think the one Geistoid is a thirty one, and that's
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: what I used. It was okay, it was a great
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: line with Curse Tomb, but I did like to see
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: when I brought out the second Curse tumter. Some people
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: like played no creatures to purge, So if you're not familiar,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Curse Tomb enhanced each creature with no amber onic games
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: destroyed purge this creature. So that's why I'm trying to
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: purge out creatures. I just didn't have enough amber pips.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I played as many as I could, but that wasn't there.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: But it says if there are no creatures in play,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: purge Curse Tomb. So I know again Stlyle like he
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: perched the first one, he was all happy, and then
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I brought out the second one, ruining people's days. But
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: that was my experience.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Cheap.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: How'd you do, my friend?
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Well, I didn't suck like you guys.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Oh I saw it. I saw hardcore man, that is
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: for sure. You did not you. You hit a top eight.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Easy to do when you got a good Mars pod. Well,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: a decent Mars pod.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I did get I had a good Mars pod.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: It was double Proliferator, a rebel, a doctor X one abductomatic,
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: three brain darts, two plague winds, and then whale PM plants,
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: which I think got used once in all the games
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: I ever played, so that that worked out pretty well.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: And then I had geistoids that it had one in
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Here Somewhere and one Wins of Death and double lb
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: Astra and one grim Reaper. That's enough to play that pod.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: But then it also had the demo Eldergeist, which is
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: that guy that lets you if you're haunted your creatures
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: with amber when they're dead. You also gained that amber.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: So that led me into my third pod, which actually
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: ended up being stronger than I expected, being unfathomable disappointment
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: that it was. It gave me double stir crazy, double
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: wrath or ruin, and a single drag net, and I
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: used all those wrath and ruins to always put two
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: creatures back and just that hand choke into a lot
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: of GR decks is huge, right because GR is not
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: actually very efficient, not hand efficient, So like giving them
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: mixed creatures back to hand all the time really really
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: gave them a hard time.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: So that end sealed for Thursday. Congratulations to Hurricane Relic,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Doctor Sheep, Fabulous Thing, Doug Tator, Aviator, Liquid Squash, Fosmunt,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and Sith all hitting that top eight. At that point,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: we go to the hall. What the now? The poop easy?
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: We go to the vendor distracted, very distracting. We go
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: to the vendor hall. We poke around. I think we
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: only really well, we tried at one game, which was
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: what was that game called?
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: We definitely did Dungeon.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Carts, Dungeon cart, Yeah, dungeon KRT, Dungeon cart. You guys
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: love dungeon car.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: It was the game that allowed to go from last
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: to winning in one urn.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: He wasn't last, he was third.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: No no, no, well so well sort of yeah. So
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: there's a turn order dungeon cart. You're essentially playing Mario
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Kart's style asque racing game. Your cart then is trying
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: to make it through a course and your trying to.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: A it's a Mario card.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: It's a Mario kart board game.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Mechanics are too good a problem.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: So that was it is that I actually started at
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: the rear of the pack. By the time we made
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: it through the first turn. I believe what he was
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: that you and I who both collected like the double.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Cards.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, pope.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: But those power ups helped, and then it sent the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: catch up mechanic. I was pretty close to where everyone was,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: but because I was in the back, I got more
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: powerful catchup cards. And to be honest, those two cards,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: as the player who is introducing it to us said, well,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: these are the two most powerful cards from the game.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: And I'm looking at both of them, going, oh, they're
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: both in my hand right now. So I only got
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: two of them, and they were very very powerful. One
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: you were limited with the game of being able to turn.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: It's a hexagon ol board and you would turn a
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: sixty degree facing Okay, you could turn once. The card
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: that I really abused was at the very end. It
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: allowed you to just follow the optimal line and you
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: could turn as much as you wanted and just go straight.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: So that was.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Something tells me everything. I mean, we played the game.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: There's two boards going. I don't think we were playing
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: it right.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: But well there's a question about the the bouncing or
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: bombing drifting. Yeah, the bumping because somehow Sheep managed to
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: go ahead and use his big fatty cards in order
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: to bump Who did you bump?
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Was that.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: It was Wookie? You bumped him like.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Chick across the board?
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was all across the board like where typically
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: everyone else like eight spaces.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: We were mind you you start this game in like
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: third gear and you want to go three spaces to
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: start with. And I think the max anyone got moving
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: points by the time we finished was was eight. Anyway, Yeah,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: doesn't count because those cars are just flat broken.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: No. No, the turn before the turn before that, I
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: had twelve as well. I actually pushed it there. That's
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: where the card on top of it, because you'd want
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: to ideally slow down, and I'm like, nope, I can
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: now play this card and push it further again. But no,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: we played. Everyone was sad because I came from the
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: back and I won. And I told you ahead of time,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: this is a race. But you have to be the
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: hair for the tortoise, and you guys wanted to be
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: the hair and I was content being the tortoise until
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: I rocked your world.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: If you tried to cheat and go across a wall. Initially,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: well I.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Said this there was no wall enough, let's end this
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: here you go.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so no, it was fun, but it was not
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: our game.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Now it was, and we all said we would not
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: give them eighty dollars for this game, although lots of
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: other people.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: A lot of people did. I also feel the person
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: who was running the demo was could have used some
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: better explanation.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Well, and to be fair, we're hitting the hall after
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: the keyboards tournament, so it's already four thirty ath early.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: It's more like five o'clock. They've been in there for
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: seven hours having the demo the game. Be happy, encourage
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: people to play and enjoy it, right, So I imagine
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: after seven hours of doing that, you're you're you're running
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: on fumes if you're demo in a game. So appreciate
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: the guy who demoed it, but yeah, it you know
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: what was really lacking experience.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I feel like we should ask someone here who might
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: have been in the vendor hall for that amount of time.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's the vendor hall, but demoing games for that
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: amount of time. If only there was someone here who
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: could do that.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I can definitely tell you about for hours,
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: we have a sucker rather exhausting, so when you're getting
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: near the end of that eight hour shift, yeah, that
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: that is a little tiring.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: And then coming through.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, but Stumpy Robots would have been fun
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: because we could just beat whale on each other and
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: that would have been the whole point.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm kind of disappointed you guys didn't want to,
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: you know, sign up for grinder.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Still feel like they could have named that better. But anyways,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: went and met up with Steve after that.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: We still grinding, we needed.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: To, yeah, And then then we went to the JW.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Marriott to meet up with Sydney and play some board
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: games right free load off of our awesome Marriotte super
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: rewards that we also did.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: That that is a bonus as well.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: Sometimes but it's not who, it's not what you know,
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: it's who you know. Yeah, I think we're all supermooches
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: and I approve.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I approve. What did we play?
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, considering what our lodgings basically being like twenty five
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: dollars a day, basically, the way we went so yeah.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Of course, Hey, there was only two inches between your
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: knees and the board while you're taking a pooper. So
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: we did.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: We did not have to be easy as the establishment.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: No, you had to go to the JW. Marriott family bathroom,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: which you have wag room you needed.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, So we came up with this. We know that
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: dass core is known for his Dass Corps experience and
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: speakeasy is being able to find cheap. I I go
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: ahead and deem you the poop Easy, because man, you
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: you had a site for We're in.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: The good bad.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: If you think I'm telling people where the poop Easy is,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: You're nuts.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no no. You managed to find
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: that in the space. It was amazing. It was tucked
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: behind a little escalator. There was like nobody in my clues.
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: You don't talk about the poop Easy.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Now the reason for this, right is how many thousands
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: of people were there at gun Con. It was sold
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: out that we show up Wednesday and there were.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: The seventy five thousand people.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sevy five thousand people. They're all sharing not many bathrooms,
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: to be blunt.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: So I found a restroom that I went to.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, actually on our way home. We thought about just
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: going ahead and bringing in a U haul trailer with
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: a one stall yes, that we could convert it.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: We're one of those locked stalls.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: I think I think this is the way to go
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: in the future because there is very limited space and
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of people putting some fluids and food
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: in their system.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: We don't know how much people would actually play to
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: use a deluxe poopysy, you know where it's private, it's
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: air conditioned, it's got top of the line toilet paper.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: I came up with a name, but I got Cook's
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: on the way out. It should be called the Butler.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: That's pretty good.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, well we'll well into this.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: We have gone ahead and put this in the Butler
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: for for you. But I'm telling you, I've been at
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: weddings where you've had kind of essentially a pickup trailer
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: that has a series of toilets in so this isn't
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: unheard of.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: But yeah, those are the lots.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Just he wants to go all the way like he
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: wants he wants to feel like royalty.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm telling you that the money from Gigi is
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: no longer there, and so we're just gonna have to
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: go ahead and shell this out ourselves.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Then, yeah, I know this is a but we have
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: to figure out how to monetize pooping now.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Could we get more people to play key Forge? If
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: you know, part of your event entry got you a
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: ticket to the poop easy.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: Butler?
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, what twenty bucks to get a to get
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: a shot at the at the butler?
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: I mean I walked all the way down to you
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: guys from the opposite end of the convention hall just
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: for the better bathroom.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Dude, those bathrooms were rough. Oh, going to it off
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the exhibit hole, yeah nasty.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: I went into some things.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I went into one with sheep and it smelled like
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: bo and ass ipeede. I still had to go. I
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: left and went to a different one. It was bad, Yeah,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: it was.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: I mean the large con again, seventy five thousand people.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: It did sell out ahead of time, so they're just.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Again, I feel like we say this every year. Theorderant guys.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: I'm a big guy too. I understand the qualms of
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: ninety degree heat outside. You just you just keep yourself
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: a little a little old spice spray, you know, and
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: when you're feeling a little less than fresh, give yourself
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: a little blast.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Now I will speak when you say ninety degrees sheep,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I felt that the sheep shack really held up. The
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: air conditioning kept me pretty cool outside when we were
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: doing teardown. And the one day when we dropped you off.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I think that that was Saturday night. Those were the
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: two times it was pretty hot, Sunday being the worst
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: of them.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Because I turned off the AC during the day while
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: we weren't there.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: No one hundred percent. But I'm saying, like, I give
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: you real credit. The sheep shack was a comfortable endeavor
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: that I did not feel uncomfortable in the ninety degree days.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: So you did awesome. I mean, we were inside the
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: big convention hall and the stadium, but when we came back,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: it really was an enjoyable spot. So thanks man.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I had a fan.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I had a fan, all right. It was good.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Now you.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: Go ahead, go ahead and Steve well at night, you know,
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: let you uh raw dog it with your with your feet.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Was that that was out?
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Yea with the toes out. I learned. I learned so much.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I learned so much. Boys and girls. I'm just gonna say,
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: apparently I live a very very sheltered life. That is
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: what we learned. Speaking of so board games at JW. Merritt,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: we actually did have some fun on that Thursday. Two
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: highlights for me, I put them in there. Oh yeah,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: we played Adventure Party. So for all my board game
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: friends out there, Adventure party. Man. This is all about
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: storytelling and did we have some fun.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I would also just like to say some of us
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: are better at storytelling than others.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Accurate, some people are better at following the storytelling rules
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: as well than numbers.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Well you say that, I have one thing to say.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: Do I missed that game and only got the recap,
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: but it was well worth the price of admission.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of butt stuff happening in the recap.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Frostate exams.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: I personally believe that the best way to escape prison
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: is with the shrieking sheep. Sheephead that was you know, enjoyed.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah no, See, we needed to survive, so we
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: ate cheap and we were left with a head and
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: we had to use that in order to scare off
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: the guard.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: There was a shrieking skull.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: It was a shrieking skull.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you walked definitely tried to abuse me and our
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: in our fantasy world.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: It was amazing. So a great party game. I want
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: to call it a party game.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: With that's a party game, I want to call it
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: a board game.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: I mean the scoring on this game we were not
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: really worried about.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: But this, like all good party games, these stories were
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: very enjoyable.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I thought I liked that game, but I did really
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: enjoy Ai.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: So AI Space Puzzle?
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Is that actually the name is? That's just how we
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: remember this is?
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: No?
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I love it? Yes, I asked Chris Slater and I
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: was like, what is that? He's like, that's Ai.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, No, No, it's actually Ai Space Puzzle. I actually
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: pulled it from poor game Geek. So I did that
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: two to five players and talk a little bit about
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: this game. What do we have to do?
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: All I have to say is what I'm the clue giver.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Wookie understands what I'm saying, but you two have no
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: idea what's going on, and you guys keep convincing but
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: change everything and is screwed it all up.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: So Wookie got it right. No, no, Wook, you got
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: it right. I was a one hundred percent correct the whole time.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Y'all were wrong.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Sheep do you remember this the same way that Wookie
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: was right. Ah, yes, the time to say no, this is.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: The situation where clearly they communicate with like grunt instead
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: of language, and we could not understand.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: So the premise of this game is your bunch of
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: astronauts on a nuclear power vessel that's failing, and the
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: AI broken computer is trying to communicate with astronauts and
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: tell them how to basically shut down the reactor. So
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: is the clue giver. You're giving clues with just token
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: tile tokens and a certain number of them and such
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: to guide the other players so they can get the clues,
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: and then they have to figure out where they're moving
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: the astronauts to and with which which key to then
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: you know, shut down the reactor or safely is the
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: premise of the game. So and the AI at one
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: point and Wookie, Wookie understood every clue I gave him,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: but it was up to Sheep every time to convince
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: him that he was wrong, which was both frustrating and
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: quite amusing that, uh.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Well, we know, we know that Wookie is always wrong,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: so it was really difficult to believe that he was
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: actually right. But the actual board itself was a four
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: x four grid, and so placing those mepals out of
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: the specific color and a key to be able to
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: match later on. If you want a little extra challenge,
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: you can add in a pips die essentially, but another
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: die to be able to match. But oh, this this
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: we had a lot of fun. What's easy as you're
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: given a certain amount of depths or chances to be
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: able to move each round, depending on the round, it
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: was two or three movements, and then you'd essentially lower
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: it for your number of rounds. But the problem is
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: you never get feedback if you are correct in the
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: choice or if you're incorrect. So as we moved down,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: it then would come back to the computer to tell
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: us a clue, and then you'd move it down and
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: then the computer would tellus another clue, and eventually you'd
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: say we either have this or we've run out of clues.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: We always had extra. It's just the type of gamers
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: we were. And outside of the time where John you
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: were running this, we were successful. So it was fun.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: But it led to some great discussions, some arguments, and
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: overall good time. So I'd recommend it.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: All right, Moving into Friday. Friday was our Arkhan Tournament.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Twenty six players participated in ar Kan. How did everybody do?
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: I got to abuse Woki, so I had a great time.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: You did get to abuse me. I did not have fun.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: We would out back in the wood check so.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah they sure did. Glad you got knocked out.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: So I guess going off of that, I went too
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: and was like, oh, I might have a chance to
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: begin into the top eight, and then I ran into
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: Fabulous and in June and there went the rest of
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: my day. But then I jumped on stream and commentated
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: with Jeremy, which was a blast and really enjoyed that
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: almost enough fun that I'm like, maybe I'll just write
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: off Arkon and just do commentary from here on.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Jr. How was your Arkon experience?
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: My Arkon experience was actually enjoyable. After a pretty pathetic Thursday,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: going O two, I came in. I brought a deck
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: that was a tool deck. It's a gr tool deck.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: It actually had the nice awakenings border and I enjoy it.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: It is It's a fun, fun deck, and I think
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: that when you're playing in a tournament, that's an important aspect.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Can the deck do well? Does it have tools? Is
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: it going to go ahead and be successful, and then
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: do you enjoy it. If you do not enjoy the deck,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: do not bring it, even if it will go ahead
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: and win. I know there's some people who will, but
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: you're there for multiple hours. For ARCon Game one, I
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: faced Tron three seventeen, who was ross from Indy, So
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: shout out to you man. I did. This was on stream.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: I won three keys to two. He had scholar spam,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: and I pretty much shut down the scholars spam by
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: paying playing pester Growth. So I apologize to all the
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: watchers and viewers who went ahead and saw we both
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: missed the enraged tokens multiple times. That deck has eighteen
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: printed amber and pester Grove is just one of those
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: tools that if you're facing a ours pod or certain
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: groups in this case scholar spam, it can really limit
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: the ability to go ahead and be able to reap
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: right away. Now, unfortunately Ross only got off one of
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: the scholars, and that turn was before pester Grove came down.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: So pester Grove did slow the game down, but it's
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: still we finished with plenty of time. We missed a
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: couple triggers for putting out the big trigger that was
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: actually missed consistently was I'd fight with a creature and
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: then just forget to remove the enraged token. But it
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: just there's such a rarity that you would actually fight
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: with your enraged creature to still have it alive. It
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: had very minimal impact on the game. So we got
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: a couple of stops.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: There, no big deal.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Game two, I faced fire Spray again. So this is
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Jared Spray.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's doing trying talking about his matches.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Ye, how did you do in Arkhan? What were you
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: were playing on fallow.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: So on the way to gen Con, I got mugged
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: and Fraud ended up in somebody else's hands.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Nobody got nobody mugged you. It was not a mugging.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: Mugging set off to change the tire.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't mention that.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: So indeed you played Fraud. So then looking through his
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: left I'm fadomal to finished second to Fraud in Texas
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: with a deck called Lancelot that has triple ease and
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: lots of other cool stuff. So I figured I would
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: just play that because it's fun, and indeed it was fun.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: I got all the way to fifth place, but the
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: highlights for me were I did to beat June on
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: on ban Doola on strain. So that was that felt was.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: That because ban Doola I actually believe this or not
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: people Bandola did not. I don't believe Bandola top eighted right.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: Uh. It lost to me on like I had exceptional
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: lucky draws in my opinion going on in that situation,
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: like every every time June tried to play a good creature,
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: I was able to return a grim Reaper to the
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: board and just purge it. Uh. And you know, she
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: had like a bad witchcreen turn and I perched that.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: She had a bad jury return and I perched that.
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: And that's just how it went right. It was, it
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: was all she And then she got paired up to
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: an aoa deck that had double mimicry, and potentially a
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: different line of play might have worked out, but the
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: double mimicrys were able to capitalize on the good cards
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: and Bandola and went out.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I had to take on that deck.
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: I also had to take on that deck. That was
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: very cool. That was very cool. Deck from cast of
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: Ar also had like quad Director quad Zyx researchers in it.
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: And in the game he played against me. H, he
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: never even played a zyx. That's how fast landslide, just
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: like Shot out of the Gate did everything right and
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: was on T three and like five turns and he
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: just didn't get to get anything going.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: I think that deck on stream, no, I don't know.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: I think so it sounds very familiar, and I think
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: that's by the point I was out of the tournament,
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: so it's commented.
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: And then ultimately in the end, I got taken out
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: by the scholar spam deck that Wookie would play on
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: day two, and he scholar spammed the pants off me
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: one trainer and he still pulled off of five scholars
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: and pecks or on a turn pretty early in the game,
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: and I was like, whoof And that was the end
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: of me. That deck did everything it wanted to do
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: against me, and now and then I still had a
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: route at the end and then an event Horizon to
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: get me re haunted so I could reach Holler, and
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: I played a survey to discard the first action on
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: my deck and then played the event Horizon to try
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: to get haunted looking and then to get haunted. But
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: the next card was also an action, so and I
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: ended up one card short of being able to replay
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: Troller Capitae Alizamber and keep chaining that game for.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: E Yeah lookie year game versus Cost of Airs on stream. Okay, yeah,
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: it's uh Sheep's game versus Sydney is on stream as
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: well on our day.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: I remember because here's what I remember, because I remember,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: so I went one Oh, I was playing a new player,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: very new, and fraud struggled. It did not It did
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: fraud things, but it was not as clean as I
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: wanted it to be. And then then I got to
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: play you, and uh, yeah, you took me to the woodshed.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: That's that's for sure what The game lasted all of
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: what three turns?
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: Four turns?
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: I went a little longer than that. But my my
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: deck I like to run has a lot of hand
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: disruption and a lot of if you rely on action.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: It doesn't have Bryo, but has good ways to disrupt
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: it it has.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: It has, yes, I know, and that's that's good enough.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: And then to be honestly, I remember a lot until
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: I get went up to fabulous Thing, and I don't
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: remember the order in it. I remember I beat fan fabulousing,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: and then maybe I went to stream and it might
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: have been the other way around. We're just things just
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: kind of went my way. I don't know, fraud just
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: did fraud.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: Things, fraudulent things. Very Yeah, you played fabulous on stream
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: and fabulous scene was on a rat Catcher or aquadus
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: the rat Catcher.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: Not play fabulous on stream?
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Did I?
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: No? No, it's Gris Shammer here. Sorry, I think to
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: find the names.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: What was his name, Cavariver? I know I played that
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: on stream and that did fraudulent things. I I almost
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: felt it was so fraudulent. I kind of felt thirty afterwards.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: I was like, that didn't even seem fun for him
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: at all. I think that was the last game of
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: the day. Weird story. Uh uh not Swiss uh. Sealed
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: went to a top eight, but they took us all
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: the way to top four.
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there was only so there's forty players for Sealed, right,
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: so they kept us at a true top eight cut.
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: We showed up for ar Con there was only twenty
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: seven or eight of us.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: There were twenty six players for our gun and.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they went to a top four cut. And
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: you'll notice a trend as we move into so boys.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: I know I bounced out apparently because I lost discord.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Where did they leave you off here?
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: We don't know.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: We moved on.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: We were already through. But we are going to the JW.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Marriott right now. Oh that were we met up with.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: I forgot who we met.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: Did you hear me talk about fire spray?
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Yep?
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: And there was your net arch nymps this all weekend.
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was eleven as scam yep in Sydney.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, heard it off? Okay.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: So the only other thing that I had is it
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: did you know? I wasn't used to this from Roseville?
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: But I got to play Second Amber. So I played
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: Second Amber with the Papa and we had a blast there.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: And I will tell you one of the funniest games
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: happened because he had his new little pet Tack, and
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: he had key forgery out and I had ability to
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: purge one artifact. So I made the choice to go
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: ahead and purge the hologramophone and key forgery ended up
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: on the final turn it actually mattered, and so I
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: had to call.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Or is that only for Vault tours?
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: I think it's a Vault tour thing.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't actually see that, but I mean to
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: be honest.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: The only day that a Second Amber fired at all,
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: was sealed and I got a game in myself, and
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: then after that it didn't look like second number really
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: fired at all. But that's part of how few people
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: there were.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, second Amber did fire on both Thursday and Friday,
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: but there was only roughly four on sealed and there
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: were two or three of us for on Friday.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: And it's gen Con. I mean, if you're out of
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: the tournament, there is a lot of interesting things to
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: go do, so.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Correct and that was part of the feedback is hopefully
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: for the future, just the cost of gen Con putting
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: it in a very very different venue. I still think
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: that GG needs to have presence at gen Con for
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: their booth, but it would be much more advantageous in
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: my opinion, to be able to run one sealed event,
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: and that one sealed event would probably be your draw
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: and that's it. It should not be where Nationals is held.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: Or just be running sealed pods all day. If you
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: got enough of a draw, people.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: We go back to the JW. Marriott. Well I think
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: we went back visit Steve again, of course, to go
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: see Steve went back to the Marriott. Yeah, you mean, oh.
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: No, that's when Dan came No, that was Thursday when
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: Dan came and was messing with me when I was
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: trying to demo stuff.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you got.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: You mean the first moment that, yeah, the first time,
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: then Grinder in the stumpy robots over in the area.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: But wasn't that literally you had just started. This was
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: within the first ten minutes of you doing your first
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: shift with actual people leading it, and then Sheep's already
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: trying to mess with you.
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: It was like the second It was in the second hour,
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: but like basically ten minutes in where I was like
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: doing the lead demoing. So that was that was fun.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Cheap causes.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: Shacker Sheep problems. I don't remember what do we do
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: on Friday night? I mean I know it's the JW. Marriott.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: We met up with some of our KEYFODE friends. I
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: can't remember who we met up with.
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: Was that the night you guys had your uh your
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: scooter rally?
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Well, we had school.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: That was that was Saturday.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: We had scooter rallies many days Saturday.
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: I walked back with you.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: No, no, you walked back the second time.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. There there's that's a whole nother story.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: The heads.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Sorry, yeah, you know.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: About our stories. Because you were a working stiff.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, a.
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: Good time.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: And a bunch of other games.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: I remember the Pirate game. I don't know, I don't
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: remember what it was called. We were playing the pirate
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: game where you drew the tiles from the bag.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Oh that was Captain Flip.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, that was an interesting game.
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Captain Flip was actually up for Spieled a Jar
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: and uh, very appropriate if you have littles. I actually
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: brought it back my nine an eleven year old played it.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: And when I say play, it is very very quick.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: As gamers, that's a ten minute game with kids easily.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: You can go ahead and teach the rules. And it
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: finished in twenty So interesting.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: Fine, it's amusing.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Friday was a bit sad. I wasn't feeling one
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: hundred percent, so I was just kind of over in
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: the corner wanting to go back.
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: And well that's okay because sheep spent time and time
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: out on Saturday.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: So yeah, but speaking of Saturday, Saturday saw Alliance. How
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: many people showed up to Alliance fourteen?
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: I had thirteen?
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Thirteen It might be wrong, but thirteen and you know
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: the whole Oh you know, you're still in it as
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: long as you you know, you haven't lost twice. Well,
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: there was someone who decided that one loss was enough
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: and they dropped after the first round. So we went
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: from thirteen to twelve, which caused no end of headaches
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: with the pairing system.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, it caused a lot of headaches.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Well, they did make the decision to go ahead and
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: they were going to play out alliance, which is why
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: those of us who could make top eight and if
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: you didn't make it all the way. They said that
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: early on, before we started, they said, with thirteen players,
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: we're going to go ahead and play to a final two.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: No, that is said, that is not what they are go.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: Ahead, go ahead and recall.
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: So, yes, as they're saying we had forty players for sealed,
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: they told us we showed up. We played the top
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: eight as expected. Top eight happening on Sunday. Yes, we're
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: going to ARCon. There's only twenty seven or eight or
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: whatever it is. So they tell us we're gonna twenty six,
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: thank you, And they tell us we're gonna play the
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: top four and we get to a top four cut.
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: On Friday, we show up with thirteen players for Nationals.
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: Gen kind of Lions only thirteen players, and they tell
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: us we're gonna play tool all the way out and
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: probably not finishing it today. But it's not super duper
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: clear what's going on, but probably not finishing it out today.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: And that's where I had heard the two l oh
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: to our final two. So that's how I took it
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: from the interaction.
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: No, it was definitely two l O all the way
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: out until you're down to two players, and then that
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: switches to a best of three for.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, that was gonna be. That was gonna be
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: the finals on Sunday.
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: Regardless of how many lives either player had it.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Swich is the best of three, correct, But basically two
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: l ow until we get to to two will supposedly
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: play out on Sunday.
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we play, and we play, and we play.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: And hold on again gets.
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: Stream on like game two.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: No, No, that was game one being game sit.
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: Down against e Walk on stream and he wallops me.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: It was three to one. This this is what control
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: of the week, screaming cave can do boom. That was
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: foh ship oh no, it was amazing and it made
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: me feel very good after sheep going ahead and you know,
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: making it for top eight for both Sealed and ARCon.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: It was funny commentation.
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: It felt great, it was awful.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: It was great. A bullshit is what I heard.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, great commentary.
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: He absolutely wasted me. That is definitely what happened there.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: Well, it's okay. Game two. I faced JGG three fourteen,
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: so sloppy. Weller, there you go man on MM control
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: and he's going first, and he mulligans. He's got three
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: quicksel and Eaton's jar. He also has some other artifacts
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: that become very very important. Yep. He mulligan's into his
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: eating star and call in control of the week. I
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: actually do have a line. I had my grassing Vinest
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: was there, and it's a very very long line, but
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: I can basically I can go ahead, Yes, but I
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: have double phase shift, so I could go ahead and
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: hold on to that with a double phase shift with
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: the choda and the grass spot.
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: Like.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: There's it's a long line. I'm not doing that. It's
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: turned one. I played it out. He promptly purged it.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Great call. This game is done. This game was done
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: when you played the control. I just do I don't
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: have a hard R in that deck. I get key one.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: He is going ahead and archiving, pushing for key two.
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: Universal key lock has brought out. And here's where the
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: real call comes in. I make a call that he
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: is actually pushing to go ahead and forge that key
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: with nine. But the longer I wait, the more he's
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: able to archive because he also has auto encoder out,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: and so we're looking back and forth. He has auto
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: and coder.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: He also has you know the conceed buttons at the
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: top right right.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: Nope, there is no conceed button here. Man. This is
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: this is, this is nationals and we're gonna we're gonna
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: roll with it. What is the MM card that you
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: can archive a card or you can pull a card
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: out of your archives and will increase your key costs
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: by plus three. That is what was played, So that
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: actually was pretty important. We go ahead and we tax
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: back and forth, and eventually we get down to his
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: deck is in hand. There were three cards, and he
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: just rule of six the three cards over and over
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: to discard my hands and to go ahead and gain
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: a whole bunch of amber. And then that was it.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: So it was up to one.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: There's no he's blowing up a fiend to steal one.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: It's gott drop it and he's playing Implosion, which has
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: a drop hip, so he's just looping in mind fire
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: with the drop hips. So the whole goal that is
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: auto encoder everything away and then just getting this little
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: loop where you force your reported this card their whole
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: hand and steal six amber and clear the board.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: It's yeah, yeah, but.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: It's very very very very probably eating that deck alive.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: You would have. Yeah, So that is I took the
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: loss on there. It was pretty funny because we get
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: to it, like when when you have someone who does
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: the amount of work that JGG had done to get
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: two three cars, who.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: Likes maximum key forge time more JDG Josh or E.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Walk Oh.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: I think that we were both enjoying it, man, like
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: when you can see the amount of work that goes
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: into identifying that alliance and to be able to lean
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: into it, to be able to actually execute it. He
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: actually said do you want to now see after we
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: had gone through one cycle, do you want to or
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: like as we were coming into the first cycle, he
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: had played the first card but he hadn't ruled a
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: six them, and he's like, do you want to? Do
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: you want to see this? And I said yes, and
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: I got laughed at biologose, guys. Yes, like, if someone
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: has worked that hard to be able to purch I
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: am giving them credit to be able to showcase what
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: they did, and that's what Alliance can do. It was
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: a complete destroyed effect, but hey, it was It was lovely.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: He forged his key, and when it came back to
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: my turn, I had nothing like, here you go. And
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: then I, after we had gotten the second key, I
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: did concede for the third, So there you go, guys.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: I did concede, but that was just to save time.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: At this point we were under I think there were
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: five minutes left, and I did tell him we had
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: eleven minutes by the time he actually got to his seat.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: Now I am playing super super fast codal like boom,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: I play cards and I move on. I do think
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: that a lesser player could have gone ahead and easily
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: stalled for the win. I don't think that that's the
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: right play, and I will stand by the decision not
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: to do that. But JDG after day one went down
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: as the only undefeated person, so that was pretty cool.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Round three I gotta buye and then round four I
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: faced June and June Man. June has had my number
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: every time I've gone ahead and played her, so it
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: was really nice to play her. She was playing her,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: uh what is it the woe? Make me?
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: Woll make it, make it, make it, make it.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: Make Yeah, it's a but she did not. She didn't
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: see her near future lens Gen's either, and like that
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: game was over. I actually felt pretty bad. It was
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: three keys to zero, so I I made it in.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: I made it into the top eight. I faced Aviator.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: Actually I ended up finishing fourth, but Aviator's deck on
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: well right, Yes, this this is frog Legs deck and
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: it is the DT beast that it is.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: It's the back some key forge time because that deck
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: will when it wins, will take you know, half the
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: time to play the one turn, so it maximizes your
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: you know, your time with your friend.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, so I knew what I needed to pull, and
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: I needed to have control the week, and I needed
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: to play lots of control of the week. I did
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: not get streaming cave or control the week, so I'm
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: ulligan and then I drew horribly and you will find
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: on stream that I made a lovely play because I
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: now have six cards and I look down and I
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: go I'm going to play three cards. An Aviator was
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: so kind and looked across and goes, you know that
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: you're going first, and only gets to play one card
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: after your third card after the third card, but I
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: had I had shown wild Wormhole, but I had not
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: played it, so yes, I drew into it was pretty dead,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: and that also meant the other three discs were also
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: pretty dead. And on the second turn I did play
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: the rest of that logos, which was Wormhole, and that
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: Wormhole did allow me to go ahead and play Scrambler
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: Storm off of the Wormhole, and that's where my day
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: ended because that forced Aviator to actually wait a turn.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: Otherwise he would have gone off unturned two, but instead
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: he went off on turn three. I played some miscellaneous
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: disc creatures, which didn't matter. I didn't see control the
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: week at all, and he, yes, lookagar, he did take
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: probably about eight to ten minutes to place during he
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: was very efficient. I had no problem with that. But
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: it was a sight to see and he went off
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: any otk on me, and that was the end of
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: my day. My deck is not it does not have
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: the legs to be able to deal with him. But sheep,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: you did, you did have some experience though.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: I played games too. If anybody was curious.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, should we do well? This is
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: actual where I was going to lean into should should
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: we lean into Wookie? And you should tell us before
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: we get to sheep.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: My day sucked. I don't know you're talking about too.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: I beat up Seth. We had a mirror match of
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: our our our match in Roosevelt. I never left howse Sorian.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: Then June played her deck that was very very close.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, we were on stream for that one.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: That was pretty close. Couldn't get scholars spam to scholar spam,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: which is super frustrating when you put the whole premise
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: of your decks is to spam scholars, and you can't
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: spam scholars. And then then I played I played my
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: last game.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: Well while you're thinking, I see frog legs in the audience,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: and man, I got to give you a shout out.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: That DT deck for Alliance is a beauty. It is
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: a thing to be able to watch with so many outs.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: So it was it is really neat to see what
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: you put together. So well done there. It was your
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: third game.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: I played Aviator's Daughter Ah Drag yeah, and again, I
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: could not get scholar spam the scholar and or spam
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: and uh, but I did get aviator a warning. I
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: don't know if I yeah, I don't know if that's
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: winning at anything, but no, it's now. Yeah. At that
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: point I properly went to the to the convention hall
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: to meet up with my old man and that's it
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: for me and.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: Loco cart What did you decide to do? Oh?
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: After I scrubbed out as arkon, I was doing commentary
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: the rest of the time.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: So, so it's great because every time I watch you
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: guys play at the local, I want to comment and
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: talk about how you're making misplays or should have done
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: this different he or something, And then I got to
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: actually do it live. Even you guys can even hear
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: me complain. So it's perfect.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but like you're just like half a step above mister,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: perfect for crazy plays that make no sense.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and this is a problem.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: How I'm just saying, you commenting on my place, I
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 4: like to comment on your place.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: You know I didn't miss a blast play. You know
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: that's because you.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: Know better than even well, I will say, as someone
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: who does this game, you can play. Still, I still
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: made plenty of mistakes and I am definitely human. So
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: that that is what I learned, and I think that
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: it can go ahead and humble others. That doesn't matter
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: how short a period of time, even my key forge
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: or how long you know, the long tournament's just your
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: mental block for a split second can have an impact.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: It didn't really impact the game because that game was
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: not in my favor and I did not redraw. But
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: it still feels bad when you should be playing one
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: card and you're playing multiple. Mister Steve, how did your
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: event go? Well, you were there Saturday because you're running
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: some games and then we'll get to Sheep and then
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: we'll come back to your late night game.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so Saturday, I worked again, worked a whole four
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 5: hour or eight hour shift. I did get a little
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 5: break during my eight hours, which was but in the
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 5: night I got to play in I played Battle Tech.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 5: I got a chance to play in their Masters and
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 5: Minions event, which is only run at gen Con. It's
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 5: like their premier event where you get a chance to
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 5: play against like authors, artists and game designers in that game.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 5: I signed up and got a chance to play against
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 5: one of the line artists Anthony Scroggins, which was it
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 5: was a fun game. He is I was told it
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 5: was going to be a casual game, but he is
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 5: a very good and very strong player definitely knew what
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 5: he was up up to and had had a plan.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 5: Uh set up my teammates and I uh started out strong,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: kind of struggled near the end, and at the end
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 5: my grasshopper, which everybody was kind of making fun of
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 5: the mech that I brought U ended up carrying the
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 5: day for my team. So that was exciting and that
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 5: took us to.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 5: It was I picked a mech that was short on
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 5: battle value, and to balance me out, my mech got
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 5: like bumped up to like John Wick levels of gunnery
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 5: and piloting and was just like could I mean.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: There were brons I think the hardest.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: To the head.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 5: Uh No, I was not taking cold shots, but like
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 5: my hardest role I think all night long was a five,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 5: and like there was a round where I needed zeros
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 5: and twos to hit things after I had knocked a
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 5: mech down on the on the ground prone next to me.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: So uh, per frame of reference, you were all two
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: D six basically meaning there's no way he could.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 5: Miss no like it was basically, no, twos are still
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 5: a hit.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 4: I thought were still a guarantee. There's there's still critical hits.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 5: There's no critical misses in that game. Okay, So so yeah,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 5: so it's a good time.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: It was a good time.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 5: I went home with uh uh the one I sing
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 5: about the event you go home with a with a
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: mech mine had been expertly painted by a camel speck
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 5: artist by the name of cracker Box.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 5: The figure I got was actually a prototype, so that
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 5: was pretty cool.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: Nice.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: The guy who walked on with the best prize out
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: of all of us in that car was a guy
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: not playing Keyfordge.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: Accurate.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 5: I feel like I won by not playing KeyForge.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: No true.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 4: Okay, so the number I'm all by yourself, not hanging
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: out with the cool kids.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: So you did, and.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 4: You did.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: Enjoyed the scooter Biker Gang.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: Well even outside of that, Even outside of the Scooter
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: Biker Gang, I had fun going ahead, and even though
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: I went two seals, I still had fun talking to
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: people playing KeyForge Friday for ark and I had fun
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: even with the numbers down. I enjoy the key Forde crowd.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: That's there. I enjoyed being able to play board games
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: over the jaw, like I had fun this past weekend. Boys,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. I can't go ahead and say
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: it was all let me reach.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 5: I probably had more fun not playing key Forge than
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 5: somebody else that day.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: Well that day, I agree with so sheep, let's talk
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: about your sadness. So I get knocked out, and there
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: was a little bit of a problem because numbers. So
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: give us a little backstory and then where you jump
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: in after both dragon Master and I get knocked out.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so there is round whatever, five, four, five.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, round five. I had just I just lost the
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: Aviator in round five.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 4: Okay, so there's round five and there are five of
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 4: us left. There's myself, there's e Walk, Aviator, dragon Master.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, that would be seven at that point I thought
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: there was five.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: At that they got to the point there was five.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 4: Drive after five. At this point you're going in, Yes, yes,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 4: there's five of them. It's Aviator and you and then
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 4: Ali was playing Jdge and I had the buy. So
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 4: at this point in the tournament, I get one of
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 4: the luckiest buys you can have because I'm just getting
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 4: a free pass into the top four which is better
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 4: prizes and I don't even have to play. This also
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 4: happened for top eight. Somebody got a free pass in
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 4: the top eight. This also happened in ARCon where somebody
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 4: just got to buy into the prizing grounds there too,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 4: which to me seems wrong, not great right to be like, yeah,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 4: randomly you get prizes and the rest of you. Now,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 4: you know, that's why the top cut is supposed to
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 4: be a hard cut and everybody's supposed to play to
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 4: get in. And they got rid of the you know,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 4: the medior from space eliminating people, and it's always playing
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 4: rounds now for top cuts. But that doesn't happen when
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 4: there's When there's prizes, but the top cut doesn't match
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: the number of prizes, it gets kind of messy. So
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: I get a bye into top four. Ah or watching,
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: We're watching what's going on. Dragon Master is not a
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 4: good match into JDG. She is not playing a deck
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: with artifact control. They have routes, they had thought about
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 4: this game. There there is a way she can win it,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 4: but it's it's not a very favorite match. So I'm
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 4: they're talking to GG staff and I'm like, so this
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 4: is now going to play out. The way this plays
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 4: out is in theory. You know, until the games are over,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 4: it's not a JDG is probably gonna win, and then
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 4: either Aviator or Ewok wins. It's messy if E wins,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 4: because then both Walk and I have had a buye.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 4: So we're not actually fully certain what happens in their
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 4: system in that situation. Supposedly it just goes to random buy.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: Well, i'd also played all three other players at that point.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 4: That also does.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: But if you're undefeated in their system, you cannot get
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 3: a bye except in the first round.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: That is not true.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: That's how it's currently coded. You.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 4: You are wrong what you're saying, Wikie, Okay, sorry, I
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 4: will explain. I will explain what they did and they
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 4: did not. It's not a buye. They changed the top cup, correct,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 4: which is not. What I was told is that they
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 4: have a contingency. Because this does affect me too, and
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 4: we'll get into that a little bit. What I was
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 4: told is the contingency is that the undefeated gets the
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 4: buye and the two lesser seeds are now pitted against
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 4: each other.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a top cut.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: That's not call it call it by call it a
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: top cut, call it what you want to call it.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: The sad reality is Wookie that we were told we
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: were going to play, with our early understanding to essentially
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: the top two. This now becomes almost impossible with what's there.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: We were told weeks ago we were going to be
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: playing till a top.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: The top eight, correct, and that was my understanding coming
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: into gen Con, which made it a real pain that
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: if you made more than one top eight you had
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: to basically choose, but that changed again. No, and this
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: is this is my frustration and was other individuals as well,
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: that we have to clearly communicate what's going to happen. Oh,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: it should also be a clear communication of what prizes
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: are available and then we should follow through with that.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, thank you, cause that didnt communicate clearly. But
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: if you don't follow through, what was the point of
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: the communication, Well.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: It's and I'm I mean I can show my frustration here.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: It really had very little impact because I lost. It
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: had an impact because they didn't know where to actually
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: see me or where to put Ali and myself at
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: the end. That's a whole nother story. But sheep, this
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: is worlds. This is World's again and I actually just
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: re listened to the episode, the recast with Sydney, you
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: and Wookie after we got back from Worlds and you're
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: talking about how this would be fixed and we were
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: hoping for that, and man, we're nine months later and
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: it's not fixed. This this is a train wreck and
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: a half because you can see, you can see exactly
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: what's going to happen. My deck is not paired to
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: deal with Frog Legs deck. Allie's deck was not paired
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: to deal with JDG. JDG ends up finishing undefeated because
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: JGG did not end up facing JDG did not face
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: you Sheep correct.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: Correct, and.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: So that that has it has an impact anyway, it's
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: it's real bad. You got three individuals? What what?
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 4: What?
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: What is GG? Because GG then goes ahead. From my perspective,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: they talk to each person sept well, they talk to
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: judging first. Then they want ahead and talk to each
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: of the three people who are still left between Aviator,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: between Sheep and between JDG. I'm going to tell you,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: as someone who is looking for transparency, man, bring the
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: three of them together and your judging staff. Judging staff
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: was a great call. Talk to him first, but after that,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: bring judging staff and the three of them over. Hey,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: here's what's happening. Make a decision. It's bad, but be clear,
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: concise what's going to happen, and make sure everyone's on
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: the same page at that point. But GEEP tell us
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: what happened.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 4: Okay, So they so like, what's going on at this
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 4: point in the tournament with three of us left is
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 4: I just had a buy so Aviator had not had
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: a buy. So because we were totally supposed to be
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: too l o Out, the way their program would have
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 4: worked is I would have played JDG. I am I
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 4: think reasonably favored in that game, So say I win it,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 4: then Jdg's in the X one bracket, so he gets
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 4: the BUYE. Then I have to play Aviator and JDG
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 4: essentially is getting a buy into the final two in
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 4: that case. So I'm not actually all that upset with
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 4: they changed. They're like, you know what, we're down to three.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 4: Instead of playing too l o Out anymore, we're just
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 4: gonna go to top cut now, JDG are in you
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 4: two guys playing right, which not what we were totally playing.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 4: I think, and this particular situation, it works out very similarly,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 4: but it is what it is. But like you was saying,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 4: they pull us each to the side privately, right, So
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 4: it's me, it's Jeremy, it's Josh, it's Marcus, and it's
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 4: g right. And they're basically asking me, what am I
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 4: gonna do if if I win this Alliance game because
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 4: I'm qualified and sealed an Alliance. And I tell them,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 4: I'm like, well, what I want to have happened is
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 4: I want to go win this sealed.
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: No, I was on ARCon, You're on an ARCon. Okay,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: I'm the top.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 4: I was fifth in Arkan.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 4: So I told them, well, what I want to have
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 4: happened is i want to win this Alliance game and
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 4: then I'll just concede to the other person, right, take
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 4: that invite and go play and sealed. And they're just
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 4: kind of looking at me and they're not saying okay,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 4: They're like, what are you gonna do if you have
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 4: to pick? And I'm like, well, if I have to
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 4: pick and I win Alliance, then I'm just gonna play
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 4: Alliance and take the guaranteed invite. It's not what I
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 4: want to do, but I'm like, if if I have
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 4: to pick one and I win Alliance, which I hadn't
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 4: done yet at that point, and I'm like, I would
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 4: take the guaranteed invite if I could only do one thing, right,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 4: And they're like, oh hey, and then we break apart,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, I'm leaving this little conference under the
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 4: assumption that I still can only play in one event
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 4: on Sunday. Right. They definitely did not tell me, yes,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 4: you can concede you could in theory, because I asked,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 4: specifically asked, can I go for qualifications in both? And
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 4: they didn't actually say yes or no. They were just
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 4: kind of cagy and said, what are you gonna do
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 4: if we force you to pick? So I took that
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 4: as you're only gonna play in one because I asked
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 4: the question and I didn't get an answer. And the
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 4: answer I'm going off of is still the one that
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 4: Josh gave us when everybody was asking him when after
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 4: the event was announced. It's like, what happens when you
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 4: qualify for multiple and it was a clear answer, you
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 4: can play in a single event on Sunday. So that's
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 4: the assumption I'm going in with. So they change it
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 4: the top cut, so I'm playing Aviator immediately. This is fine,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 4: But what is also going in my head here is
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 4: if Aviator wins this Alliance game, right, he is going
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 4: to stick with Alliance because he's an Alliance player mostly,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 4: and then he doesn't play and Sealed, where I am
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 4: also bracketed, and because of the way the brackets work,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 4: and we already played the day before, we also actually
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 4: know Aviator is paired against Wookie for arc On Finals,
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 4: so if he wins, it's generally good for me. And
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 4: if I win, Okay, I have the Alliance win and
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 4: it's okay, right if you watch that game, I'm not
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 4: very serious from the minute we sit down, right, I'm
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 4: clouding for the camera. I'm goofing off because the results
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 4: really don't matter. I'm already guaranteed to be able to play,
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: and Sealed Alliance is just a fat for me anyways,
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 4: right it is. So we start the game we're playing,
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 4: and I pull an epic punt where I forget the
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: EMP blast before I played my first key Abduction. Well,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 4: he has c sforge out and and then the deck
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 4: fails to loop to key Abduction four time. Still let
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 4: me win that game. It then goes to his turn
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 4: and Aviators playing out his loop out turn, and he
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 4: goes and he wastes not onto his mushroom Man and
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 4: draws cards right, and he draws man's eight power nine.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: Three three each unforged t.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 4: He's drawn five cards or something. He starts drawing, he's
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 4: moving him into his hand, and then Marcus realized, and
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 4: it was Marcus. Neither of us realized. Marcus realizes, hey,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 4: you just forge a key. The mushroom Man isn't that strong.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 4: You shouldn't draw that many cards. And then Marcus like, well,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 4: I think it's these cards. And he's just picking some
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 4: cards from his hand, and then they're kind of looking
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 4: at me like, well, what are we gonna do because
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 4: there are currently no action rules for overdraw, And I
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 4: was just like fine, I took the cards that he overdrew.
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 4: I shuffled hm, I threw him back out of his deck,
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 4: and I said, just draw the right number of cards
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 4: because I don't care about the results of this game
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 4: at all. And then he finishes this loop out the
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 4: DT deck does the DT deck. He forges the rest
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: of his keys, and he wins the game that turn,
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 4: which is fine, right, I punted. He played his turn
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 4: well and won like, I'm that upset with the game
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 4: in that regard. And then so we're finishing, I'm like, so, Aviator,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 4: what are you gonna do? And he's like, well, I'm
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 4: gonna concede alliance, get that invite and play and sealed,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 4: and I I lost it. I was really really angry
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 4: because I asked the question if that was alliable and
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 4: they they didn't say no, but they didn't say yes.
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 4: So I'm playing under totally different expectations of the results.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 4: So what's actually gonna happen? And I don't know. I
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 4: can't say if I actually sat down in that game serious.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 4: It doesn't mean I don't miss that because I actually
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 4: missed them. People asked earlier that day too, so that
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 4: wasn't in my head well that day. But I don't
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 4: know if I was sitting down serious at that game,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 4: if I didn't play it better, because otherwise had I not,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 4: if I used the MP blast I won that game
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 4: because they did play key Abduction three times that term,
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 4: all of them four keys, but.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: Right, so the first one.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 4: But my mindset is critical, which I was not sitting
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 4: to that game with a super serious mindset, and I
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: punted it. And that's the end of it. But then
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 4: when like Aviator is playing under different expectations that I'm
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 4: playing under in an event that has already changed how
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 4: it's being run three times just for that event, you
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 4: were gonna run top eight. No we're not. We're gonna
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 4: run too all. Oh, no we're not. We're gonna change
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 4: to a weird top cut thing at the end of
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 4: the event. It's just like, are you kidding me?
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: And then part of the reason Sheep that they had
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: to go ahead and run that is that after one round,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: I know they had twelve.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 4: Players that they had all bad decisions. I understand they
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 4: didn't have good decisions, but like, this isn't the first
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 4: time they run a crappy tiny tournament count wise, right,
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 4: crappy in regards to our turnout. Our turnout was bad
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 4: for Alliance, right, this is the first time they've done
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: that and had to deal with these problems. This is
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 4: also not the first time they've tried to run things
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 4: where people can cross qualify and they have to deal
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 4: with that, and they still were not ready to deal
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 4: with any of those problems, even though we've had them
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 4: it almost every Voltimer.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: I agree with that. The two l O just does
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: not work with a small player count, and they have
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: to learn from this they have tracked.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 4: But then it gets even dumber in the situation because
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 4: this now in past Sunday's play because Aviator does get
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 4: to sort of conceit alliance but not really conceited alliance.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 4: I don't know. He gets to play and sealed the
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 4: next day, right, and then he's dropping out of Arcons.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 4: So how does that impact Ark? Because Arcon's top four,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 4: they have four players. It's undefeated grish Hammer versus the
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 4: scholar Spam Sorry I don't remember your name. And then
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 4: it's undefeated Aviator versus Wookie. That is the bracket, right,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 4: So there's no the way the bracket is supposed to
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 4: work with the top four cut is there's no guarantee
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 4: anybody gets a World's invite. But what did they do instead? Wookie?
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: So Josh comes to me. So we're sitting there all
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: figuring it out. Josh comes to me and he's kinda
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: I'm chewing the fat and he's like, all right, well
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: we do. I am here to tell you that you
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: do need to play, and I am playing. I believe
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: it was the scholar Spam deck. So Basically, what I
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: was told is the contingency in this moment, for in
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: the event that this happens, is that the undefeated gets
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: what are we calling we're going into this contingency. I'm
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: still gonna call it to buy. The undefeated gets.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 4: The buy, they get pushed to the top cup, right,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 4: and the two and the two with a loss have
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 4: to play. And I kind of was like, I know,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 4: so in in the my situation, it was kind of
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 4: a crappy mess, and I don't think it really impacts
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 4: the final results that much. But in your situation, they
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 4: played to a top four with clear expectations was to happen.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 4: And then the organizers changed the the event to decide
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 4: who gets a free World's invite. By them changing it,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 4: they are picking who gets the World's invite, which is
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 4: not how tournaments are both to work. The organizers should
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 4: not be making decisions that impact the results of the
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 4: event in that way. Right, Like the players are going
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 4: to do things, they're going to wreck your tournament, and
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 4: the players have to deal with what they did. But
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 4: for the organizers to go in and be like, well,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 4: now we're just gonna grant this guy the free in
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 4: and you guys have to play, even though that it
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 4: was not what was on the paper, divine, the whole
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 4: weekend is garbage.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: Oh we also found out that unlike Vaults, where only
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: the top player makes it in for all nationals, one
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: and to make it in, which is why this matters
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: even more. So, Yeah, have fun there. Yeah, I mean.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 4: I said they said on that one. For both of
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 4: those are like, you two are guaranteed top cutting to
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 4: World's invite and you don't even have to play for it.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 4: You're just here there, you go, you have earned the
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 4: world invite because we didn't format our event in a
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 4: way that actually makes you play do it. It is
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 4: just it was just beyond unreasonable and in my opinion
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 4: right like the Yeah, clearly, I was pretty upset because
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 4: again I feel like this is like I went to
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 4: Vegas ran okay, Texas actually ran okay this year, but
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 4: I feel like every Vault tour I went to last
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 4: year I came back being like, oh my gosh, this
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 4: was run in a way that did not being adequate
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 4: or correct, and obviously, coming out of Worlds, I very
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 4: much had that feeling that they they punted that event
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 4: for making it understandable and clean. So this event was
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 4: by far the worst I've been to.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: So unfortunately they didn't clean up the problem from nine
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: months ago and then number two. This is a very
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: expensive event, which is why multiple players who normally would
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: be coming out for the vaults simply said no, we're
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: not willing to invest the money. There were individuals who
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: actually stopped by to say hi to KeyForge players, but
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: are like, I'm playing in other events versus what you
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: actually see here, I have to say go ahead.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 4: There were players who also stopped by and were saying
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 4: I didn't play this because they didn't want to play
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 4: double elimination like it was last year. So they have
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 4: also failed to communicate to get out the information meaningfully
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 4: to pair players that were not playing under the bad,
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 4: the truly bad double elimination system, and now we're just
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 4: under the interestingly bad at small player count to L system.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: I hear that. I'm still worry guys. We have twenty
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: six for Arkhon that's the lowest player amount that I've
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: ever seen, thirteen for Alliance. Like this, this was not
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: good and Sheep, I mean you went into.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: One holds. Let's talk about that here. In two seconds,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: we're going to take a tiny, tiny break. Okay, you
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: in that corner.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 3: Here go all.
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: Right, we're back, go go ahead, So we're we're all right.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: So Sheep, Uh the look on your face at this
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: point seeing everything implode one I hadn't sent Sheep into
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: sadness that I had not seen since World Were last year,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: and it was not good. I tried to talk, just
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: to be able to have a conversation with some of
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: the GG players, GG employees and other players. Almost there,
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: Oh dude, you gave me a look that if you
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: could have like chill force choked me, you were forced
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: choking me across that lot and you took off, and
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: then I'm like, oh.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 4: If you're gonna keep wasting time? Like the problem is
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 4: is you were having the same conversation we'd already had,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 4: and like this is another place I'm telling you. I
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 4: think what really triggered me on this is this was
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 4: just like being at work where I was like, you
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 4: do see what's going to happen here, and they go, no,
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 4: everything's gonna be great. We're gonna ignore all these problems.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 4: And then it happens exactly as you described it's going
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 4: to happen. And then you're just like watching the mess
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 4: and you're just like and they're just like everything's fun,
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 4: and you're like, this is not fun.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: The biggest problem that I know this is the same
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: thing that literally happened in November. We've had all this
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: time to fix this problem, and we just went, well,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: that'll never happen again. Yeah, and then it happens again.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: Speaking of the app, did work for the most part
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: throughout the tournament. The three tournaments. They did have a
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: couple of They did have a couple start of our Con,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. They did have some glitches, so
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: I know our Con was one of those, but overall,
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: no major issues. I will say playing.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 3: Crash, they weren't were familiar enough to know where to
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 3: go to fix it. Once they called Francisco, then they're like, oh,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 3: it's this button in this sun Okay, done.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 4: Got no comments.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no comment or to six weeks. But we have
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: we don't have that many players. We need to be
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: able to slim up the registration time. We need to
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: get to playing. We need to be able to know
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 2: that with a small player account, that it's not going
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: to implode when we get to the finals. As I said, earlier.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 2: You cannot go ahead and have a top eight cuts
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: with thirteen players just with the two l Oh, it
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: really Rex, No.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 4: It takes two. It takes three rounds, and we could
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 4: have had a topic.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: Yep, Okay, I did not.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 4: Actually going to going to a top eight cut with
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 4: thirteen players is actually faster than playing out too well oh,
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 4: because after three rounds you should be to eight players
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 4: I think, right, because you're thirteen, so then you're gonna
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 4: drop six, and then you're gonna have three. Just you're
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 4: gonna have three, so then you're down to ten. At
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 4: least four of those players are X and one, so
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 4: the bottom floor have to play. Bam, you're the top eight.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 4: Three more rounds done.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: But that's what you're talking those two.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I guess.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 4: It's about this. It ends up being about the same
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 4: number of rounds as we ran.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: But O, the big the biggest problem is still Sunday,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: Like you still have players that have that debt have
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: are gonna make top eight and all three and that
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: they got to make a choice on what they're gonna
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: play in.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: Well, I can go ahead and say congrats to the
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: Aviator and Doctor Sheep for making top eight in all
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: three events. So way to go, guys.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 4: Repeat, we really messed this up.
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 3: Made top cut in all of them too, top four
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 3: in top two.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, she you're just second.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 4: Well and then the crazy thing. And I don't know
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 4: how they actually prized it in the end or what
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 4: the article is gonna say, but prizing after Aviator went
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 4: out and sealed, they let them play the Alliance finals. Yeah,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 4: like so not only after being told you can only
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 4: play one, then they actually let them play both.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: Well, I know that you're upset about this. Hell, I
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: know you're upset about this, but I am frankly appreciative
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: that they played out that's game because the top game.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 2: Because frankly, to have to have to have a finals,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: to have a finals where you didn't play is just pathetic.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: And I will say that also.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 4: Don't know through but like message sent actions performed deviations.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 2: Just yes, all right, so we're on Sunday. But here
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: sheep sadness really was sheep depression. I'm gonna go ahead
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: and put this man. You were you were off.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 4: Done with everything, and everybody.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, so I went we we did go through the hall.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know where, dude, you've vanished, Sheep. I don't
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: know where you went.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 3: I reached you. No, no.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 4: Dog though, drop off freaking Steve's giant map.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but scooter.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 4: Scooter halfway across the country with a six foot long tube.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: But I forgot about the big fucking map.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: It was a.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 3: Actually, if you see it laid out, that's really nice.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: Trust this Matt Boys and Girls does not actually fit
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: across Sheep's trunk, just being parallel. We had to actually
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 2: turn it and a diagonal to fit it in. It
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: was that big.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: It's a.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 2: It was a BFM.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 4: It's my sixth Matt, but they roll it the six
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 4: foot way. I think it's weird.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, But anyway, she ended alone and I don't even
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: I was like, man, how did we end up alone?
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: So so we wookie you and I go back to
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 2: the hall and Sheep is gone. We message him. I'm
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: actually kind of worried.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 4: I'm not bothering to reply to you guys.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, he he he would not respond.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm telling you, if he could force choke me,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: he would have. I would have been dead, just deadded dead,
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: dead dead.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: If he cared enough, he might have really choked you.
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: But you were at least thirty.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So after talking with the employees, we come out.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: It is like four thirty and we're like, we're going
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 2: to hit the twenty eight hundreds all the way to
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 2: the east side.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 4: I'm not on the nine to three pm event.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, a nine to three. It's four thirty again. And
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 2: in this this did impact. Like I know, Eric Waters
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 2: at least had to drop. There were other individuals that
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: had to drop from different events. This was arkhon but
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: a time's got to mean something, especially at john Conn
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 2: when there's other things.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 4: I knew enough not to schedule anything else.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but anyway, Wookie, you and I we're going to
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: head back. We are, we're in the hall, we hit
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: the little boys room. We come out and we're in
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: the back and Sheep is depressed. Sheep we don't know
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: where he is. We're trying to find him. I'm also
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: You're like, hey, I really want this game. So I
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: bring out my phone and things get like little.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: I couldn't remember the name of the game. So we're
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: in the back and I'm like, I think it's this,
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's this. I still don't remember the name of
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: the game. If I told my wife she would remember,
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: but you couldn't buy it anyways.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 3: So the name of the game is Squat Springs out
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 3: the Crazies.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, it was it was. It was least on
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: the TV show.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: Murder, Only murderers in here.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, something like that.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: Okay, yes, only murderer is in the building. That's exactly
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: what it was. You couldn't buy it there. You had
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: to hide on Amazon. And I was like, that's dumb,
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: but it is what it is. So we're on our
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: phones and I feel someone touching me, and when you're
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: in a crowd of people, it's not overly strange. But
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: then again, we're in the back of the hall where
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: like I'm just gonna go ahead and say, this is
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: where the losers hang out, right like this?
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, this was not the losers. And I
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 2: will I will tell you. Long before you actually got tapped,
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 2: there were two individuals who were over on the side,
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: who were at a distance, probably about eight to ten feet.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: Away, but they were seen.
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: They were was wokie? They waited back it up.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 5: Did somebody mention what he was wearing that day?
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: We have not mentioned the Sasquatch in a pink flamingo floaty,
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: that's what I'm wearing.
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 2: And what did you say about this sweet, sweet Hawaiian shirt?
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: So when I came out, she immediately made fun of me,
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: because that's what she does.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 4: I got make fun of you.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 2: He was always making fun of you.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: He had made a comment. Okay, whether he was making
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: fun or not, well, you would have done that. He
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: had made a comment. And I said, listen, this shirt
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: gets the bitches. This this is at nine to thirty.
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: What this is before that? We're still in the morning.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: The morning.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 3: So yes, somebody too bright for that early in the morning.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 3: That's all I know.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: Somebody is now touching me at a convention. And it
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: wasn't me, wasn't she. I turned to find a young
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: lady in a Ghostbuster's costume and she says, I really
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: like your shirt. What was it? I really like your shirt.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: It reminds me of my dad because he's a big
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: hairy man. Can I take a picture? And I'm like, okay, yeah, sure,
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: go ahead. So she snaps a picture and then her
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: friend that is with her also in some sort of cosplay.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 2: She was Japanese anime like.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: Some Kwi Yeah yes, and she's like, oh, I like
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: pink too, because Ewok is wearing his pink ac jersey.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: She's like, as you can see and all she has
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: is a pink purse, and I'm like.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 2: It kind of like flips it up right.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: Like oh see, and flips it and shows shows shows
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: jair of that. Yes, her purse is indeed pink, and
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: at this point in time, I think nothing of it.
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, well, that was a weird interaction.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: It was. It was weird, and we brush it off
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: and we go tour the rest of the hall.
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: We go tour the rest of the hall. Finally find sheep.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: Is that when we picked up home Wreckers what is
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: it called Shipwreckers?
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 3: No Moonrakers?
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: That was close.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we ended we ended up going ahead and kind
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 2: of sneaking over where Moonrakers was. We asked, John, you
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 2: had actually told us kind of the rules. I said,
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 2: I want to play this like a hand going through
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 2: and so we waited and they showed us the rules
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: and then we ended up playing a hand. And this
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: is just as six o'clock is coming up on Saturday.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: So we finally all come together. We have found our sheep.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 2: He's in the corner of the Jada be married.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: I know before that I'm trying to find.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 2: Oh no, I was talking to my buddy Eric, who
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 2: placed Mac Warrior, and so I like, you know, trying
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 2: to be able to help encourage, and I was gone
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 2: for probably an hour. So that's where you probably ended up.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah somehow, Yeah, that is exactly how it was, because
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: you were still there and Sheep's like basically goes, fuck this,
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: I'm going to the jw are you coming or no?
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, I'll come. So we walk over,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: we take the little walkways over and Sheep immediately just
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: goes to the corner and just sits there, just not
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: does not want to talk to anyone.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, game, yes. So as soon as we had
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: gotten Moonraker, Sheep came over. He didn't find us, but
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: he found us with his doggie dog Park.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: Dog Park came.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I went for some retail therapy that works, dame
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 4: with pictures of puppies, make myself feel better.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: Did it help?
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 4: Didn't hurt?
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: Either way, Sheep Sheep does not having any of the
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: good party time that we're going to have.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 2: Oh no, Sheep Sheep sad depressed.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: Sheep man man, this this was all all a thing,
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: because Sheep's now like, I'm going back to the campsite,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: and I was like, yep. He's like, I'm going back
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: to the campsite. I don't I don't want to do anything.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be with people. I don't want
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: to see any of you going back to the campsite.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 2: And it's Sheep's car, so he flips me the keys
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 2: and says, I'll take into uber O. Do whatever. You
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 2: get them home because we're waiting for Steve, who is
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 2: going to be playing an event until midnight, midnight night.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 4: I definitely did not have the social energy in me
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 4: to deal with people until midnight.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: So this point, I'm like, what should I do? And
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to I think I'm talking to Sydney. I'm
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: talking to JR. One's telling me that he's he's a
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: big boy, he can handle himself. The other is telling me, ah,
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: you know, and I'm like, you know what, I'm I'm
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: going to do the good friend thing. I'll go hang
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: out with him within his puppy game.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 2: Dude, he did not want any of us there. I was.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 3: I got the memoir. I was like, I don't like people.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 3: I don't like people. Talking to me or being around me.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 3: I'm leaving, He's.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: Like, don't you come with me. I will get home
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 2: and you're gonna you're fine. You just stay here like ane,
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: even when it's leaving at all.
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, you know, I'll just use the
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: excuse of like I'm hungry because I hadn't eaten yet,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: and well I need to find food. And so we
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: all scooter back to the car.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: The best scooter ride of the whole weekend. I'm telling you,
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: I'm hitting a scooter next time I met gen Con
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: if I go.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: I told him that's the way to go, because that
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: was that was pretty awesome. I knocked down a road sign.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: It hurt.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 2: We were we were flying as a scooter gang, the
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: three of us. True fact, I'm a faster scooter than
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: all of these two mm that's the.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 4: Bable outweigh you significantly, yep.
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: And that's what I hear is that you're slower than
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: my scootering ality.
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: And all of our scooters are at different levels of charge.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 2: You know, all of these excuses, but I ended up
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: making it back. First, I did run into Sheep at
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: the very end because he abruptly stopped and I abruptly
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 2: stopped into him.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: Mine didn't have any breaks, so I almost get someone.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 2: It was a great time.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: So we get We go all the way back to
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: the campsite, and Sheep's basically basically just goes fuck off,
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: like get out of here. I want to be. At
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: that point, I'm like, okay, he really wants to walk.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 4: I had made myself perfectly clear from the start.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 2: I tried to encourage him that we could get food,
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 2: we could stop at the Dirt Stripper or the real
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 2: strip club. And man, Sheep wanted no part in this.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 2: He is like, I want to go ahead and sleave
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 2: my doggie game. I'm gonna listen to a book on tape,
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 2: and I don't want to be by anybody.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 5: I just didn't even stop at the VFW.
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 2: No, the VFW next to us was actually open with beer.
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 2: I did scream out that we could go get beer there. No,
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 2: I was shot down so many times.
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: So me and ewok go. We end up Jacket the Box.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, Jack in the Box was slow, but they
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: were good for you.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: Man, they were good to me. So I got my
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: Jacket the Box. I'm happy. We scooter her back to
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: the j and Ewok goes want a beer, and I'm like, ah,
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: I gotta play tomorrow. I really shouldn't drink.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 2: And I talked him into this because I needed a
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 2: beer and it was a great time to have a
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 2: beer on Saturday night.
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: I get a beer, I got a old Fast. Yeah,
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: you gotta drink, and we go back up and we
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: start to play Moon Rakers, moon Crashers, Whatever.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: Breakers, moon Breakers, Christ Yeah, Chris Steele, Locacar and I
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: love that game, and we were all over it.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: I was a big fan. Just Chris's and John's turn
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: to take forever.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 4: Oh maybe because they're good.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 3: He was just mad because he was like, all right,
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 3: I need this help and Chris and you are like, oh,
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 3: we can do this, but we can't do that. And
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 3: Woki looks at me and says.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 6: We don't need you, and I'm like, all I fine,
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 6: you don't need to be and then they could proceed
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 6: to completely with it because he didn't listen to anybody
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 6: thought he didn't need me, so that was fine.
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: It was it was literally like their turns were taking
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes a crack. No, yes, absolutely not at all.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 3: The whole game only lasted an hour and a half Wokie.
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: So somebody went, yeah, somebody went and got more alcohol.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 3: And well, so what happened is Ewok set himself up
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 3: to go hunting things and he burst it up to
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 3: one point away from winning, and Wookie's like, all right,
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 3: I'm out. And that's when everything got really fun and interesting,
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 3: but uh and different and interesting for wooking in a
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 3: different way.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: Well, somebody was like, I'm going to the bar and
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, can you get me another beer?
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: I'm out because my drink was pure brandy. There was
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: no there was no old or fashion in there. That
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: was just brandy on ice with a little bit of sugar.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 2: You're welcome.
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, It's like, well, I don't think she knew how
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: to make an old fashion. She just put brandy in
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: a cup. So their turns are taking for so damn long,
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I gotta piss, I gotta pee. So
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: I'm going I go into the third floor bathroom. That
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: place is booked like there are people, there's a line,
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, all right, well, screw that. I know
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: where another bathroom is downstairs. So I go downstairs and
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: who do I find but my my friend from the
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: from the vendor Hall, Ghostbuster.
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 2: Girl Ghostbusters are gonna call.
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: Not the Ghostbusters anyways, So you know, little chit chat.
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm contrary to popular belief. I can I can
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: be nice, social, social, you know, how's the I'm a
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: I'm a drink and half in so I'm really social,
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: not really social, but it's social.
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 5: Enough, and especially with that and especially with what your
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 5: old fashioned.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was just straight brandy, and you know,
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: we it basically ends, you know, a little bit of
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: small talk caused the con Everything going good, You're enjoying it,
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: having fun, YadA yatta, so on and so forth. And
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: then I'm like, okay, I gotta pee. You guys have
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: a good one. And I decide to break away, and
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: I think that's I think we're done at this point.
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: I'm wrong because I turn around and she's still there,
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: following me into the men's restroom and I'm like, Hi,
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: can I help you? And she's like, yeah, I'm coming
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: to help you, and I'm like, excuse me, and we
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: get into a little banter and turns out she wanted
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: to help your boy the Wookie in in in the
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: bathroom and we have to part ways at that point,
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: have a little interesting conversation. I'm not not going to
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: disclose here, but I've parted ways and now I'm like,
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: holy shit, this day has just gone from bad to worse?
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: What is going on?
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 2: And You're like, why am I telling why? I'm no
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 2: Custer girl anything like, because I've.
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: Told some I said some things, and I'm like, why
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: am I telling you any of this? Like what what
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: is going on? Like I'm I've clearly had too much
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: to drink already, only a drink and a half in,
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: but I need to just I don't know why I'm
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: telling you any of this. So again we we part ways.
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: I use the little boys room, and now it's time
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: to go back upstairs because I'm going to finish that beer.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 2: Did somebody help you or no?
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: No, nobody helped me. I helped I helped myself. That
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: might I want to change that. No, there was no shaking,
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: but I'm like, I'm gonna go finish this beer. I'm like,
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: first sheep, Now this what this day came Saturday?
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 4: It was a Saturday night.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: It's a Saturday night, and I'm like, this day can't
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: get much better. So I wait, I go, and I
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: explained to everybody upstairs and they're all just laughing at me.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, part in shock too, Like what was.
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: This the time of the Great sprite Debacle of twenty
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: twenty four.
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 3: Yes, this is when you spray your sticky Sidney's friend.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: It was a sprite. It was Sarah with an h
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: might have covered her in sprite, may or may not
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: have happened. We don't know. Jerry's still out on that one.
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: It happened. I don't know who shook my sprite, but
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: somebody did. So I'm like, all right, So I pound
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: my beer too, and I'm like I'm going, I'm going
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: downstairs to get another. And I'm like, man, just weird fighting. Like,
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: as I'm riding the escalators, I was like, man, weird
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: fucking day. And I was like, Gigi fucked up. I'm like,
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: woll no surprise there, but god, this is fucking strange.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: And I get down to the bar and I'm talking
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: to the bartender and oh boy, I seem to have
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: found my friend again.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 2: The ghosts attack again, ghost Galaxy and Ghostbuster.
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: So at this point I have decided I'm asking the
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: bartender to kind of hurry this along. Preaze, there's somebody
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: I am trying to avoid.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 2: In here, will you meet my dad?
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: And I don't remember if I told you guys this,
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: but I actually turn around because I am convinced that no,
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: if I turn around, she won't see me. Right in
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: my head, this is a real thing that's happening, Like
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: if I turn around, she won't see my face, she
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: won't know I'm mad your shirt.
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 3: No, no, you can see him across the exhibit hall
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 3: of that shirt.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: I'm a couple in and drunk me says this is
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: a great idea. So I'm like, yeall, just turn around,
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: nobody will nobody will see me. And then she comes
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: up to me. She's gonna buy me those drinks, and
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: she asks me to meet her hairy father or what
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: do you call it, sheep.
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 4: Somebody else. I'm pretty sure, Steve Bay it would have
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 4: been her pimp.
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, no, maybe probably maybe, I don't know, but either way,
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: she's buying me my drinks at this point, and like
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: me and the bartender have made eyes at each other.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: He's like, oh, I get Like he finally gets it
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: because like at first he didn't understand him, Like, hey,
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: I just kind of need to go. And I don't
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: know if you thought like I was trying to pull
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: a fast one on him somehow someway and it was like,
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: h whatever, And now he finally gets it because we
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: have we have locked eyes and the stare of death
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: of I don't want to be here right I need
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: the booze that you're about to give me, but I
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: don't want to be here right now as locked in.
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: We've all gotten that face. So she ends up paying
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: for my drinks and I'm just like, yeah, no, but
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: thanks for the thanks for the drinks, and I go
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: by run back upstairs.
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 2: And you hand me the beer and you're like you'll
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 2: never guess you'll again. And I didn't even know about
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 2: the second time, so I was I was just flabbergasted.
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: This is and I'm just like this is weird. And
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: then I think Local car was like didn't you tell
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: her where you were? And I'm like, oh shit, I did,
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, ah, there's a lot of people in here,
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: and then they're like your shirt and I'm like, yeah,
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: it did work for me the first time.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 5: Because of them tell her why you were at incon
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 5: and what you were doing.
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: I did. I did, But luckily there were no more sightings.
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 4: Which is too bad because I think I'm more upset
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 4: about missing Saturday Night than i am about the key forge,
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 4: because that's almost expected.
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 2: Now, well, you you also missed that. In the j
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 2: W Marriott, it was really difficult to get a table
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 2: or chairs. No, no, it is not arrested. Okay, you
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 2: would have gotten no, no, no. In the klingon jail.
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 4: I tried to find the clean on jail to put
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 4: you and there, Steve.
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 2: Actually she was looking for the cleaning jail for you, Steve,
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 2: So I will say that. But but we were short
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 2: two chairs, and Wooki was down.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: So when you get Wookie, you walk together. They've had
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: maybe a couple of drinks and were.
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 2: This was It's not a decision based on drinks. This
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 2: was a sane, clear decision that was made. I went,
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 2: You went and looked in the back. There was a
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 2: back door that was open, and then you just peeked
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 2: your head in and then came out. And I waited.
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 2: I did go and ask two to three other tables
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 2: if I could borrow their extra chair, and no, they
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 2: had other people there or no. It was apparently guarding
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 2: their important bags and they were unwilling to give us
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 2: a chair, so I could not get a chair, so
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 2: I opened the same So I opened the door and
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 2: I saw a chair. So I went in probably fifty
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 2: seventy five feet and there was a chair. However, as
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 2: I picked it up, it folded like cardboard in half
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 2: because the back had broke. And now I understood why
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 2: it was there. But oft in the distance, probably another
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 2: two hundred feet away, I think I see chairs. So
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 2: I walked all the way down and sure enough, it
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 2: was my lucky day. There were three chairs, so I
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 2: didn't want to be greedy. I only took two of
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 2: those chairs, one for Wookie and one for myself so
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 2: we didn't have to kneel. And I came out like
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 2: I was being a good person to help us get
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 2: chairs to make sure we could sit in game. I
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 2: didn't think this was any problem. I mean, if they
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 2: just had an extra stack of chairs there that people
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 2: could take, it would have been really helpful. And I
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 2: brought it out. We were literally outside the door by
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 2: five feet. I gave one to Wookie. He thought I
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 2: was his champion. I had returned with a chair, and
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 2: we sat down and played Moon Rakers, and like twenty
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 2: minutes later I see security coming through with the earpiece
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 2: and the glasses like their secret service, looking around, and
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm still wearing a red hat and a
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 2: pink jersey, Like this is the easiest spot if you
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 2: need to find someone. I am one five feet away
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 2: from you, but you walked right past me. There was
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 2: no effect. They did not bother. We were playing a
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 2: great game and Moon Rakers.
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: Was you j R? Sound like he was wearing an
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: easily to spot shirt or nothing.
• 2:02:07
  Speaker 3: They didn't have any sasquatches on it.
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 2: That's why, right, the sasquatch I was not Harry, that
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 2: is correct.
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: We gamed until like two am something like that. I
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: don't remember what it was. Steve came over.
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 2: Steve came over. It was yeah, it was it was
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 2: one o'clock.
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you guys played until one o'clock and
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 5: then we uh walked and got the car up. That's
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 5: where Ewok saw some interesting fashion choices.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: Oh so that.
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 2: No, no, so on our walk. It is now Saturday night,
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 2: and I want to say Saturday night was the Blink
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 2: one eighty two concert. That was the night before that
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 2: was Friday. But there were people going out on the
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 2: town that were wearing very interesting outfits. You also had
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 2: the gen Con crowd, and so it was a great,
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 2: great mix of individuals and we enjoyed the walk back.
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 2: I drove Dan's vehicle very carefully with no issues. I
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 2: did not run over any kiddies or anything else. I
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 2: was not swerving left and let right like he does
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 2: with my vehicle.
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 4: It's a freaking mountain lion attacked your car. I was
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 4: just trying to save it.
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 2: I did not run over a mountain lion, and I
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 2: got everyone.
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 4: To run over a mountain line either.
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: He didn't swerve around it.
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 2: You swerve, no, but a lot of great scootering. I
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 2: have no idea how Ghostbuster Girl showed up. I did
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 2: not see Ghostbuster Girls second and third time, so it
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 2: made me a little bit sad. I really felt that
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 2: you could have called me in, like come down here.
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: No, I wish that was my imagination.
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 2: I am telling you. The more I think about this bookie,
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 2: the more I think that we were set up, that
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 2: we were easy mark.
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: So the more I think about it, the more I
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 1: think Dan was right. I might I saved my own
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: life that night.
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 3: I would have been at least your kidney.
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, I was about to be
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: in a bathtub full of ice missing a kidney.
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all good things happened at Juncon. But we made
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 2: it back, and uh, we were all super quiet, so
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 2: we did not wake up Dan right away. I really
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 2: had to hesitate, so I didn't run and jump on
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 2: you man. But we went out and mister Steve, what
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 2: did you go ahead and do with mister Wookie, because
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 2: mister Wookie's in a great, great manner. I brought some
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 2: water out, but we.
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 5: Uh cracked open some coarse lights.
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 2: Is that what you're tasting right now as well, I
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 2: believe earlier for this particular episode. Yeah, so mister Steve
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 2: was real good, and uh it's now like I run
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 2: into two o'clock and and I need to hop back
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 2: in because the nice laying arrangement has me at the
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 2: front head and then mister Loco car kind of next,
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 2: and then there's a space so i'd either have to
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 2: crawl over him, but he was waiting up, and I
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 2: was really worried that I was actually keeping you up, John,
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 2: and you were on your phone. So I'm like, I'll
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 2: go till two o'clock. And once two o'clock hit, then
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 2: I went in. They finished some time later, it could
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 2: be at any point. And then I and then I
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 2: hear on Sunday morning, the most annoying noise ever.
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: I don't remember who I. I was like, somebody wakes
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: me up because I am going.
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 3: To when you're drunken super the night before, like I
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 3: don't know if I'll wake up to my alarm, and like,
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 3: all right, I'll make sure you get up. I had
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 3: to wake him up three separate times before he finally
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 3: rolled out of his tent.
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 2: Shit, hey, you don't talk to me. You set your
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 2: alarm for Thursday five twenty in the morning, when we
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 2: need to be up at six.
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 2: So you and I are both up because we hear
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 2: our alarm and we're like, we're up. Here we go
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 2: and yeah, yeah, I did not punch you that morning,
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 2: but if arbitrator said I could, I might have.
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: All I remember is being walked up with somebody going
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: breakfast beer. I was like, and I thought about it.
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh I hurt, it all hurt.
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 2: See it all hurts. So we went and found We
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 2: went and found the poop easy, and we had plenty
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 2: of time. But you know, Alliance was essentially finished for
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 2: me in the top placement. They did tell us we
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 2: could get our prizes, but we had no idea where
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 2: we actually faced. So that was another debacle because it hadn't.
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 2: Both Dragonmaster and myself went out of the same realm.
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 2: But we're replacing. Yeah, one to four one was not
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 2: and so that matters. And so Josh is like having
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 2: a heart attack over this. He he was, and I'm like, Josh,
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 2: what is.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 4: Of a play matt And the difference of the deck
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 4: has a guaranteed revenant or not?
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 2: Correct? And so that that was it. Basically, just so
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 2: you guys are mine head, so prising, let's talk about
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 2: this is nationals now one and two? Do get access
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 2: to worlds? What prizing? Sweet sweet sweet prizing did we
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 2: go ahead and get? You may ask, Well, there was
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 2: a top eight matts. Yep, there was a top four
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 2: play mat and then you got a revenant deck. Otherwise
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 2: you just got an Awakenings deck and they were both
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 2: grim reminders. If you were the runner up, you went
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 2: ahead and got your revenant deck your runner up matts,
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 2: and you got a blue Teal book. And then the
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 2: champion got their Revenant deck, got their Blue Teal book,
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 2: got their little Key the super Key super Key, so
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 2: they got to see super Key first, and supposedly they
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 2: got three grim reminders. Yeah, it wasn't listed here, but
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 2: that's it. So for Ali and myself, we both finished
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 2: roughly what should have been the same place, but because
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 2: Alliance was all messed up, Josh was having our deck.
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 2: I said, what what, what's the prizing? Allie really wanted
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 2: the bands Matt, which was the top format. Top four
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 2: technically had me listed, so I said, Josh, don't worry
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 2: about it. Josh was freaking out because the placement was different,
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 2: but Allie's strength of schedule was stronger, so I gave
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 2: her the I said, great, I can have a mat.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 2: MAT's a man. It doesn't matter to me. So I
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 2: took the Revenant deck. She took the top format. We
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 2: got pictures with. I got pictures with both, and she
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 2: goes ahead and opens her Wakenings deck, which pulls a
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 2: Witch Queen deck, which I still have yet to pull,
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 2: and then everyone was making fun, which it actually was.
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 2: But again, it's a mat. It doesn't really super matter,
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 2: and we move on. And then later on I realized, Josh,
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 2: the reason I'm top four is I don't know what
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 2: about the strength of schedule. But my only two losses
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 2: were to Aviator and JDG, who are one and two,
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 2: so that would put me at a better spot. It
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 2: does not matter. It really has no impact. But another
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 2: reason why we need to have a top eight cut
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 2: and then you need to just do eight four to
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 2: two boom done. Prices. Yeah, they were pretty poor. I
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 2: know a couple people have talked about it why people
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 2: didn't show up. So I would love, love love to
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 2: see them actually updated or improved, like significantly for next year.
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 2: And my recommendation a little rough prising was pathetic.
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 4: Let's let's say it as a same was adequate to
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 4: the cost of the event, ignoring that it's gem Con.
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 4: But you can't put gen Con into that because nowhere
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 4: else runs sovan.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: I'm not putting my calculations into the event that it
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: was gen Con. I just know Vault tours what the
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: second place is getting. And I don't feel like I
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: was like, is Nationals below a Vault Tour?
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 4: Yes? Nationals is yes below a.
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: Vault significantly below a Vault tour?
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well so what's in between it.
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 4: Nothing? There's no in between Vault to UR and nationals.
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, once upon a time it would have been store
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 3: and then Prime or regionals and then nationals and then vaults.
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: I just felt that the second place prizing was a
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: little the prising in general was a little lackluster. Considering
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: we see what vts get and considering we see you know,
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, it's not even half.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 4: So I think a VT does have to be better
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 4: because they know they're designing those as fairly long distance
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 4: travel events.
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 3: They're the destination of themselves.
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 4: Most most nationals that are not US are pulling a
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 4: significant smaller regional area. The US and really Canada both
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 4: really suffer from that problem where our geographical area for
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 4: our nation is mosses like mar should be the same thing, right,
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 4: except all their populations a relatively small part. China probably
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 4: the same thing, right. Huge population large mass makes makes
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 4: one national kind of silly, Like you'd think nationals should
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 4: really not be nationals and they should be populations in
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 4: our base things. But for ease, they're named what they are,
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 4: and they are what they are. But yeah, it's US.
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 4: Nationals is always going to be a somewhat mediocre event
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 4: in comparison to other nationals because it was our size.
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: It was one hundred dollars to play in all three events. Yeah,
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure you've got price that it costs
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: me to play in a Vault Tour. Yes, but in
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: a Vault Tour, which I also got to play in
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: all three events.
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 4: You get more free stuff at a Vault Tour for
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 4: your hundred bucks. So that's actually better because either one
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 4: you get three decks but at volto or you get
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 4: a bonus deck too, the Bault Master being Yeah, So
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I I still don't particularly think the
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 4: cost of the event was unreasonable.
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 2: The problem. The problem is that it's at gen Con
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 2: and you're you're separating that out. I get that, but
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 2: gen Con the ticket alone without housing or food is addition.
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 4: It's not the vendor or the tournament organized responsibility to
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 4: offset the costs of gen Con.
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 2: And I but why this is why they could run
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 2: it simply in a different space and go ahead and
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 2: have a field event that's not part of the Vault Tour,
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 2: And that's the recommendation.
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not just saying like you had to about. What
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: I'm saying is like you look at the Vault Tour
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: and you look at my you know.
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 4: I'm just like, oh, yes, it was suggusted by more
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 4: than one person that maybe Nationals isn't for an. I.
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 2: The thing I do think that Gigi could do and
• 2:13:39
  Speaker 2: needs to do is establish what the prizes are ahead
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 2: of time. Coming into gen Con, we did not know,
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 2: so that again decreased our amount. And you can see
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 2: that when we have thirty eight, twenty six and thirteen
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 2: players playing in the respective events.
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 3: We went into finals not knowing what the prizing was.
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 2: Correct, and that that's something that can't happened. Like you
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 2: have to communicate, and you have to communicate early. Here's
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 2: the event, here's what the prizes are. Let people know.
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 2: Even if they're pathetic, which is what they were, let
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 2: people know and the people will still come out.
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 4: I still can't call the prizes pathetic. They're not inspiring.
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 4: I wonder what is a what is a guaranteed revenant
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 4: deck work?
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 2: It depends if it has nothing else in it is
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 2: zero and that's a.
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 4: Sealed guaranteed revenant.
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 3: I don't know they were going on the bay. I
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 3: can't remember how much, but it was like fifty dollars
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 3: or something at one point.
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 2: So while while you're there, you can go ahead and
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 2: see bad Penny did have a link to no No
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 2: to the nationals that are coming up, and this I
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 2: hadn't seen this, so this this actually was important to
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 2: me because I didn't know that there was a map
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 2: for the national championships, but I went ahead and pull
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 2: that information. So you had US nationals August fourth, first
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 2: through fourth. We finished that. Next up is the Brazilian
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 2: Nationals August twenty third and twenty fourth. Then the in
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 2: Denmark or our Danish is August thirty first. In September first,
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 2: Canadian and Italian are both happening on the same weekend
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 2: September twenty eighth and twenty ninth, and France finishes it
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 2: out October fourth and fifth. That's what's on the map.
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 4: Boys, Italian and grant AT's are at the same time
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 4: as ye gid dread vault.
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 4: I feel like those were scheduled independently of each other.
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 2: Yep, that's my hypothesis. But it's just if we want
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 2: to be able to grow the game, we need to
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 2: be able to communicate. We need to stick with our
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 2: decision that's made, even if it's a bad decision, and
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 2: we need to be able to work on low player
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 2: accounts because frankly, that's where we are. So the expectation
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 2: that we're going to have one hundred plus, like I mean,
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 2: there were two players that came in and asked, hey,
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 2: what of our numbers? Are they back? At what we
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 2: saw with FFG games FFG days at.
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: Three hundred, we're gonna be a three yeah.
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no like that. That's not realistic. But
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 2: we have a phenomenal group. So we're going to celebrate
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 2: what we have. But we can go ahead and make
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 2: this more successful by announcing what the prize there ahead
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 2: of time. What is what's actually happening for events. I
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 2: think they did a really nice job and again it's
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 2: streaming out so there's some improvements that are definitely happening.
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 2: But there's still some work to be done to continue
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 2: this process.
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: But big congratulations to Fabulousing, Grishammer and Aviator. Those are
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 1: your sealed ARCon and Alliance winners. Anything else we missed
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 1: from the weekend, all that jazz Our drazz Core experiencing
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: was poor, very or at best. Loca Car did bring us.
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 4: To a decent a decent bar that had some barrel
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 4: aged cocktails and they were.
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 3: They were okay, well we're just starting the week there,
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 3: and then the rest of the time we actually spent
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 3: board gaming and hanging out with people doing that as
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 3: opposed to a draftscore experience. So it was a poop
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 3: experience and it was a Sydney experience.
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: I guess I kind of thought that maybe we would
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: we we had plans. None of a came to fruition.
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 3: We we won't be sharing the pictures from Saturday night
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 3: of of how Sydney gets when she's had a few
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 3: in her somehow.
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 2: Spoken Steel is where we ended up, and actually it
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 2: was very good.
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 1: I had no problem with that. Yeah, you definitely went
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: with the winner of the smash Burger. Yeah, Smash was
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 1: the win. That was definitely.
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 2: I know the cost was but I enjoy playing key
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 2: for it. I enjoy the group. Uh, mister Steve coming,
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 2: mister Helmkey coming with us. You know, we had a
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 2: wonderful time and I would totally go ahead and do
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 2: that again. I do get a chance to see Kinky
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 2: Wookie here, so a lot of in jokes and fun
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 2: things happening.
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: Oh I forgot about the Kinky Wookie thing.
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 2: I know, lots of lots of great games and memories,
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 2: so things that I will forever cherish.
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: Alrighty well, I think with that being said, it's gonna
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: be a long episode. But with that being said, we'll
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: see y'all next week.
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, May the Forge be with you.
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: It's been fun. Oh, we gotta do draz Cours part.
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: What does dras Cours say? Nobody knows. We'll see y'all
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 1: next week.
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 2: Request, Miss, No one.
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 5: Knows it's you, Miss Jackson.
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: Don't knows to think someone.
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 5: No One's gonna find Miss Jackson. Jackson Jackson sho