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Keyforge Goes to Texas or Overseas Nationals · Archons Corner

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Oh my ex is living taxi. It taxes is a place I'm doing in
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love too, but my ex is living taxi. Hello urkey Forge gamer is.
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This is Christian Peterson from Ghost Galaxy, and you're listening to our Kohn's
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Corner. Oh, what's going on? Everybody? I am the one,
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the only, the w oh okay. I joined here by the normal cast
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of misfits. We got big z Hey. Hey, we have the Elf
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from the South, soily Elf. Oh nadies, we have our Kohn's Corners,
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Resident pH d, Doctor Sheep, Squeaky Sheep left, Squeaky Sheep is
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Squeaky Sheep your alternate account? Maybe? Is that your like dinner account when
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you're like testing decks that you don't want anybody to know about. That's Oh,
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that's losers ship. Speaking of losers, we got the Choke Show drazz
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Cary. Hey, thanks, Waky, no problems to ye, it's been
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it's been a few days. Uh. And we have the ewak yst of
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ewak ewak Jr. Hello, key Forge community. Is so good to be
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here, so good to hear your amazing silent voices. Crowd, I miss
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you, dearly family silent. We can make up for that. There's enough.
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There's enough talking from all of you. But we have big news everybody.
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There's still chance for Sheep to get a world invite yet. The nationals
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championship list was just released. You she flying around the world? Ye,
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coming in Canada. Sheep can go to uh, Greece, Sheep, I'm
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doing that one. He can go clay against the five people in Chile France,
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isn't it Yeah? Finish Yeah, France finished none the ninth. How
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did we get no information on that? I need to know, like who
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got invites? Like that? It is on our kanokana they have the top
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four results. Maybe you should have watched that awesome stream they have oky,
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No, there was no stream. Let's see, there's a Danish national championship.
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There is a Gerban one. You can go to the UK for the
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English National championship. Oh, there's a lot. There's the Dutch National Championship,
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the Swedish A lot of these are at the end of the month.
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The Swedish National Championship, the Polish National Championship, the Chilean National Championship,
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the one where Sheep is going to upset jam at the Canadian National Championship.
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Nice. Oh, God, there were only sixteen people in the French National
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Championship. Well, I mean it almost seems like the French one, like
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nobody heard about it. Exactly sixteen players in both events. It's almost like
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they're the same players because they got the play in both. Almost like awesome.
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And I think the last one, did I say Brazil Brazilian National Championship,
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You haven't, but I haven't. Well, there's gonna be one in
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Brazil too, if you want to go to h to Brazil. No Australian
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National Championship though, not enough players. Just just Pirate spread out spread,
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I mean, like all Australians living like three cities. Yeah, but those
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cities are very far apart. I mean, an Australian National Championship would just
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be declaring Pirates champions. I have to believe. I have to believe it,
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heart of hearts, it's not just Pirate. We've got Ave. He's
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down there, right yeah, Phil, Phil might come back just there you
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go. That's like three yeah, So I mean somebody's guaranteed the world's invite.
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Fire still used to play down there. Maybe maybe that's like I don't
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know one thing I do want to talk about that I found kind of funny
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is the Well, this is actually just jam and I'm just gonna poke fun
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of him because he just wanted to make sure that the that a Canadian won
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the Canadian national Championship, which if you if I did, is dan Canadian.
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No oh, master's deck, sir, I played. I was an
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honorary member of the Canadian national team for the Archons corner right, how'd that
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go for you? Sheep? A firm second place? I think it did
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say that on the play bat. Yeah, it certainly does. I will
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bring I will bring that play Matt to Canada. Oh, I suppose it
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was Canada. That's basic. Yep, I forgot about it. I was
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Canada versus USA, so it didn't really matter. But well, I'm gonna
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go ahead and back us up to these national championships. One. I actually
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in our lost cast from last week. I had asked for this information,
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and I want to say thank you. I think the pictures honestly look amazing.
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As a little bum that's you know, these are all stock footages.
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Oh, hands down, but it's in one central spot. We can kids
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in class. Hands down. Yeah, I can go ahead and be real
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you will for using stock footage from like Adobe Photoshop. They put it together
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so we can see who the organizer is. We can see the tournament size,
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you can see when the dates. I know, I would hope you'll
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be able to put it together. Didn't they have to fill out a request
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form or what would you like, a permission slip or something like that mail
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Jeremy had to spend Jeremy, it will spend like five or six minutes collecting
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all of these images on. Some of this stuff is now being done by
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Josh. But have they spent more time getting different pictures? Would that have
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provided us anything? Yeah? Nothing at all. Like the fact they put
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pictures on here already says to me they wasted time, like we didn't even
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need these pictures. Okay, well I disagree. I think that it pops.
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I think it's nice to see the international representation. I will tell you
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that there were some that surprised me. I was surprised to see the Chilean
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national championship, which is super cool. Did you say the Polish national championship?
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And I just missed that one ship? Okay, Greek is still unannounced,
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so we don't even have the information. But again I asked and I
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appreciate that it was put together in one spots, and I think that's important.
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I know that some individuals were concerned. Okay, you know there's limited
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spots to be able to get to worlds. There is a prize pool of
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fifteen hundred dollars for airfare and hotel for it. Specifically says, yeah,
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it travels Oucher, Well, it's it's still got to pull sixteen people.
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Yeah, but you just you like just walk outside and be like, hey,
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you, I'll gave you twenty bucks to play this. M I don't
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think the collusion was there. I do think that we can pull sixteen people.
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Okay, this is this is a very interesting cast. Already. I'm
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gonna say, yeah, wait, sheep, sheep, you she read the
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bus and then just drive around Wisconsin picking up folks and wearing you know,
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US flag t shirts and sweat shirts and just drive them all to Canada with
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KeyForge decks. Just bring like sixty people. Well they have they have enough
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Canadians plane. We don't have to do that. But if we had gotten
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our six stop cruise, we would have certainly made sure we had sixteen players
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go to that mm hmm. Some of them might have been you know,
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people that work out the ball. Might it might have been our wives going
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on and the cruise with us. Just sit and concede for two games,
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honey, you'll be fine. Yeah, And then she would freaking play and
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beat me, and I would go if I could convince my life to go
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that might she would beat me physically and then with the deck against your dad,
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Are you are you can do a Jar's wife did to me back when
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Koda was around. I give them a deck and then she beats me with
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it. I mean, even if you beat here in the game right like,
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you're not winning well, I mean, I guess it depends on the
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level of care. Is this really the yes top deck? It was a
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DT deck that was second place second it was a third team player event.
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Man, you can't. I don't give a shit. Thank you for your
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donation. Okay, so what since we have bounced to there one? I
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do appreciate Arkon or Canada being able to keep tally of important information like this.
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I had not seen basically top four from either Alliance or Arkon for the
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France National Championship. I know that coverage should spend more time being focused on
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key Forge I'm sorry. At the beginning of the year is is tricky,
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but I will say that going ahead and looking at the top four, for
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ark On actually talk as a well own individual who's here. Vice Fats was
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someone who I had not seen, so that's interesting. Pettibot and Goude are
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both there in the top four. Unfortunately they don't make they don't have the
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they don't have money the stipend to be able to get over for the travel
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voucher. On the Lions side you can see Jelapanos. Apologies if I'm saying
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that wrong. I've not actually seen that individual. Tonio I've I've seen or
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heard before. Laxie I've seen before, Pettibots I've seen before. So again,
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some individuals who are known, but it made Yeah, he made two
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both events. Look, I feel you, Bro, I've been there,
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and I also look at Goude here and I'm pretty sure this is a nice
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tie deck with the squiggly symbols. So no good, it's really good.
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Yeah. So if you look at the archon Dak coming from Mashitaka, it
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is a known mm dak. It's got da, it's got it's got pips,
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it's God's Mutants, not a ton of Mens five. But again as
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a pretty solid player, that's there. Now, go ahead, ze,
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what did you see coming in in second with nest Star. It is a
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dark Titans deck. There you go. It looks like a dark tidy stick,
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which means it's not great. I mean it's gonn hard. Look,
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it's gotta Mexico cards plus does double Eddie. It's got one card that manipulates
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the tide. So which is Amber vac first dress cost to jump into defend
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dark tidings here? No, no, no, no, I'm not defending
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Uh it's got action. What's that? I said? You have to protect
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your reputation after Philly, So I mean year old, I have no reputation?
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Yeah, what did without knowing the Dakoton player? What does jump out
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is the trip brain drain that's there, over and nonfathomball that seemed to immediately
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pop from unfath bounce from bubbles. Wasn't seeing a ton that was there?
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For logos? You have double ed I Howling Pitt Macabooy hydro catalogist a little
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bit there forgive or forgets the logos again, we'll push out cards. I
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don't know what more it's doing. It's got the double submersive principle, but
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only one manipulates time. Don't forget about the matter maker. Yeah you have.
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You haven't a united action here in Starlin's gack together Triscoff. But it's
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it's a low board presence. It's efficiency of seventeen. I don't know,
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I mean jump off the page right, it's not got a cup of water.
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I had to look at what that card was. I forgot each eyeboard
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creature and robot creature. Maybe that made the difference. That is how it
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made Jay second place. I mean what what bounced out, What jumped out
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to me was the seventeen printed amber and so you're pushing the macabooye hydrocalager.
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You can get a little bit coming from that too, and then you have
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some amber increase, key key increase with that. What I actually standing out
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was the triple brain drain going on. Yes, totally dismant you can totally
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dismantle your opponents game plan at key points. Well, in picture, woe
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hasn't whoa just made it to the UK with the last two days, so
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this would have been pre woe people maybe I mean a lot of people.
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While what we've played key Forge consistently throughout the pandemic. Not everyone has.
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There's been a lot of people who've left. And frankly, new cards do
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cause some issues. So if you're not super familiar, yeah maybe from low
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and yeah d to Europe and win every national championship, That's what I'm saying.
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She then have a big then have a big party bus. Most of
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these voices are on ports right, like yeah, alrighty did I lose everyone?
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Are we all here? No? No, we we just we just
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quiet. At the same time, like meteously, we're trying to figure out
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what kind of Viking gear we need to go conquering. Now, I will
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say on the Lions side, that dirty, dirty dirty word was a World's
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Collide. So there you go, Wookie. I know you have been looking
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at worlds Glide. But triple Zoom with key to Diss Heartbringer you got triple
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Edi Neutron Shark double I G and triple Stealth Mode Veil, double Kirby sixteen
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printed Amber twenty three speed. You got you got some work going on here.
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The Lion's decks look really really a point. I think overall, their
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Alliance fielded decks were way better, way, way better than their arc on
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the field of decks. That's interesting. Maybe they've just spend more time in
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Alliance over in France, or maybe they just literally took all their best decks
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and told they combined both. They're playing indifferent. Yeah, they can play
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in both, so that doesn't make sense either. So I'm not sure what
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the hell is going on there. All right, well, let's get into
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the Miniature Market sale. Who wants to uh piss on this fire this on
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it? It was fantastic, you know exactly what I'm saying. It was
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like Christmas into a lot or whatever September. So for the lists, I
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know a lot of you know what's happened, but can you guys explain to
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those who may not who might be listening. Miniature Markets is, Well,
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Miniature Market is they knew it was my birthday and then then the next thing
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happened. So Miniature Miniature Market is a game store that also has a pretty
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solid online presence. They're based out of Saint Louis if I'm correct, I
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have no idea, but they do actually have a a brick and mortar Star
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Well, it's they're a larger a larger store and all of a sudden they
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put up a sale. And what was the sale? Boys? Was it
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eighty dollars for a Yeah, eighty for et displaying. So that is way
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cheaper you can get whoa whoa whoa now, way cheaper you can get it
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anywhere. Ells right, these are new right folks in folks overseas may not
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have even had the opportunity to buy it at full price yet. And uh
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oh definitely throwing them up for eighty USDA box And and you had to act
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fast. Yeah, I did fast. So I did not get it.
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I did not get any So you're welcome Europe. Very sad, very sad
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that I did not get any rule. These key forage rules live in the
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US. I never lose. So I will say, in my opinion,
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this is not a gig issue. This is coming from Asthma Day who should
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be Oh, this is a gig? Is it? Because this is where
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I want to be able to make sure we're super clear. Why do you
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think this is? This is a gig issue in the aspect of they are
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doing absolutely nothing two support game stores or price or value of their product.
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I agree with not supporting game stores, but I don't see the discounts on
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this as being on them update one the character a day. Oh man,
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you know that you're in the audience. I, as arbitrator, am giving
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you full right. It is okay to have an open hand slap as you
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see these gentlemen this weekend perfectly. Wait are you saying to slap Josh?
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I don't think you get to give that permission. You don't just to you
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said over a month ago. Next week you'll see it. I saw it.
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It got taken down real quick though it was. It was like up
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and then gone. You guys are off what you guys have drove in another
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direction. So as a game company, you can put some game companies do
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enforce minimum advertise prices and minimum sale prices. Does GG do that or does
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Asthma Da do that? Well, it's it's not a function of both.
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I think I'm you know what, I'm not one hundred percent sure. I
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know Asthma Day does it with their products. Like if you get asthmadd products,
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you can't even list that stuff on Amazon anymore like you used to,
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like they had them, Like you're not allowed to sell it under this price
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under a penalty of death or whatever. Well, penalty of losing your status
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agreement with us. So like Asthma Day clearly can enforce that stuff if they
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want, and Gig can probably ask for it if they want, which they
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probably haven't. Right, But what's actually going on here is the problem is
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there isn't that much product actually moving, which isn't great, right, Like
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based on the number of death being scan this isn't going crazy, you know.
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Like I finally sold a few boxes to some people the day before the
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sale, so yeah, I felt, yeah, thank you. Here you're
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one hundred and twenty five dollars, which I gotta get for selling those two
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cheap. And then the next day you can get them for eighty bucks.
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Like that's ridiculous. It's not for long. But that's the problem is that
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we have too small of a community. It is a very eclectic group already,
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and when it pops open that we have the costs for eighty bucks,
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we are not building up our local community. It's sitting with well, this
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is where groups that people are going to go. It's similar to the dollars
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sale for m Yeah, it's mostly fine because almost all of this product went
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to people who already buy two buch product anyways, But there are certainly a
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few people who bought their two or three buxes here and now are not going
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to buy any more product from their local who like is having a hard time
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still getting it sort of. I guess I don't actually know. We haven't
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had to replace our order yet to be told, yes or no, so
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I don't know what the stock levels look like. But this is just like
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again, you know, how are you ever gonna have key Fords were thirteen
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dollars when you can constantly get it like super cut right, But that's the
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only time that like this is the first and longly time we've seated that cut
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rate for a while, it happened thus far. Yeah, that's what we
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said the first time we got boxes for like sixty or seventy bucks of the
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old sets, and then they were fifty, and that they were forty,
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and that they were twenty. I still think that's just actually like the Minister
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market messing up. I think when they did a pricing model, they did
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an error and how they coded it because you saw one price on another like
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on one screen, and then it discounted it further on and on the second
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screen. And I don't think that was supposed to have it. Yeah,
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because that discount also showed up in a shipping discount, so it was pretty
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weird. I don't I agree. I don't know if they intended, although
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they are honoring so that's really nice. Yeah, yeah, they did honor
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because I've got it and I paid what I paid, so that's I think
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they were intending to sell it for one hundred dollars, dis downing it twenty
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percent from there, probably what they had in their system that like one twenty
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five or something which would make sense, like that's what it would have been
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after twenty percent, and they then double dipped that percentage again in their portal
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because they messed up how they coded it. So if you got it,
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you've got a great deal, like not target level deal back in the deal.
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Actually it was actually right around that kind of discount level. The target
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discount was pretty good. So yeah, Anyways, there was when I saw
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the sale, which I think was pretty early. It really first got leaked
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on Reddit that I saw that. That was the first place I saw about
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it was on a Reddit post, and then it was I don't know,
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half an hour forty five minutes after that, it made it over to all
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the discords, and there was one hundred and twenty five boxes when I looked
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at first they went first. Uh yeah, they went pretty fast. So
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uh, Z's already got his giant pile. My measly six boxes. I
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got six boxes has not even shipped yet, so I think they went from
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bigger smaller. Yeah, you definitely purchase prior to me. Yeah, they
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were like, we only have to unwrap this palette. We can just send
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it to Z's house. So let's do that back there. They're moving their
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warehouse just to your basement. That seems fair. I would store all the
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g If you're having problems finding boxes, hit up Z. He'll sell you
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boxes at one hundred and thirty dollars. Maybe we'll see that that sounds cheap.
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Yeah, but this does prove a problem for the at least the local
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gaming scene, because there are plenty of local game stores out there that are
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having trouble moving this product. Maybe. I'm sure at this point in time,
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how many did you even look at how many games Universe has by us?
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They have six decks left in the one open box. Yeah, it's
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one open They started with three boxes, they're down to six, which will
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disappear probably the next time we show up. And then my question is is
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will they order more because they have six on opened or on touched two players
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starters, Well those will remain probably untouched, would be my assaut How many
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decks coming at two players starter? Is it two or just two learning decks
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and two sealed decks? Yeah? Well you get I want to say the
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sealed decks is what everyone's looking for, because I mean the two decks,
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what is it are they're half decks right? Yeah, they're pre in a
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certain order. Ye. So with learning instructions, yes, well the problem
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is most of us there already know how to play, so they need so
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So this is where the real question comes in in the Wookie is that what
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is needed? They're amazing tools, but what are we doing to really reach
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anybody who's new there? Was? Well? This this is a universal wee.
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So that's that's us at the local game store. Well, this is
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what I'm trying to explain, so that the idea is first and foremost for
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gg with marketing and their connections, Second with the stores do they even know
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it? And three with the player base. What are all three of us
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universally doing in order to be able to help, and part of this conversation
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actually started. I don't know who else was there, Duncan. Duncan had
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talked about his local scene, and this is why it came up. That's
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right now. They were looking at going ahead and trying to re change.
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They had some individuals who were pretty hardcore, people who had streamed, people
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who were content producers. But when the pandemic happened, when the algorithm is
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lost, some of those individuals just simply moved on to other games and they
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haven't come back, and they're not really interested in coming back because it's a
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great game, but there's nothing that we're really doing to lure now. This
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was something that was said to me, and I apologized Duncan from saying it
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wrong. But I, personally, JR. E. Walk enjoy the Vault
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Tour. I think the camaraderie, the group, the fun that's happening there
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is amazing. But the Vault Tour is really set up for our high end
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players right now. There is very very very little for the stores and for
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anyone who's new coming in. And this is the conundrum that we find ourselves
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in. We've talked about it, but if it's products. Go ahead,
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I'm gonna lay this out there for you. Okay, what is the social
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media presence of KeyForge? Next day scored, Facebook, Redding? Well,
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you're zero. It's not on Twitter, It's not it's not well x whatever
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you want to call it. Nobody cares about Twitter. Most people care about
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Twitter. Twitter is most people do not care about Twitter. We don't get
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me wrong, right, Like, they're active on the discords, but they're
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not doing a community outreach on other platforms potentially. Well, and I'm going
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to get into that. They do nothing for content producers, absolutely nothing.
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They gave us one sneak preview card and pretty much if you asked for it,
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you got it. You didn't even really have to be a content producer.
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The content being produced for KeyForge is extraordinarily limited. Ninety nine I would
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tell you ninety five percent of all KeyForge content is TCO. It's all Twitch
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streams on TCO. It's all she's just playing on TCO while we're recording.
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Well, I mean, nobody's starting a game for me to join, right,
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So there's plenty. There's just Amber Medias does a fantastic job with his
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videos. I like Amber Media's videos. I think they're really engaging and they're
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really smart. I have ideas, but I don't have the time to produce
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them. It's just I don't have it. But there's no there's no key
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Forge news channels. There's there's a hand I mean, how many podcasts do
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we have right now? There's there's kPr for a news channel. Sure this
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is bad Penny Press. Yeah. So when you're talking news, that's essentially
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it's key Forge with friends. It's what we've turned into versus competitive key Forge
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podcast right, and we're talking about what is the local news? Okay?
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Right? But this isn't this. I mean he's just going on that there's
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nobody there's Because there's only three thousand players, there isn't much content, but
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this is content. Content drives people wanting to play. Lorcana wasn't even released,
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but there was just an abundance and oversaturation of content if you wanted Lorkana.
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It's not even out yet, but guess what, there's already content being
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produced for it, like and it's engaging content, but that hasent on a
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different scale than what it is. You're comparing this to. You're comparing this
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to Magic Games with quantities of players that like all there, you know,
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like there's that many players just in France for these other games as there is
29:37
total for key Forge, right, Like that's you're you're on just such a
29:41
different scale of player base. You're you're not going to have the same I'm
29:47
not all of stuff. I'm not going to tell you you're wrong because you're
29:51
not going to have the same level of stuff. But at the same point,
29:53
not all of our tours are streamed. Gen Con Nationals not streamed.
30:02
Is Dallas going to be streamed? I don't know. No, so Dallas
30:08
okay, But but again another another saying that may or may not be streamed.
30:14
Nobody knows, right, you don't know where to tune in. You
30:17
don't know where you're gonna go. You don't have a dedicated team. And
30:19
even if it's even if it's TTR, fine, you know where to go
30:23
to get the stream. But there is no presence for GG to be like,
30:26
Okay, this needs to go to our channel, even if they're the
30:30
personalities, GG needs to be the ones that it goes to their channel.
30:33
This is our stream and it needs to be you know, TTR is a
30:37
fantastic job, like they are great streamers. They do it well, so
30:42
it just it has to be of high quality. Right, nobody's gonna watch,
30:47
you know, a thirty two bit TCO game, and if they do,
30:51
it isn't going to be for long. You can just go look at
30:53
the numbers and just see that even with the two thousand people in the community,
30:57
it's seven views. That's not pushing the needle anywhere. So there it.
31:03
Even if they stream it, it doesn't really matter because there is no
31:10
real way going on that gets this content in front of anybody. Like it
31:15
doesn't They don't need more key Forge content for key Forge players like you were
31:18
talking about earlier. It's much more on the thing where if this were me,
31:22
they're not. They aren't. They aren't paying the general community. Content
31:29
creators that have large populations of people that aren't key Forge players already, like
31:34
those are the people who have to know, like, there's no point in
31:37
making more content for the people who are already are already here. We have
31:41
to get the content in front of people, but more, but more videos
31:45
and more flooding of the market will get that into the algorithm and give it
31:48
get it there if people watch them. I think the numbers that you are
31:53
going to ever creating this is going to put it up there. But I
31:56
don't understand that stuff well enough to know well. I mean the hopeful,
32:00
the hope is you bleed someon to the magic community and somebody from Magic goes,
32:06
oh, what is this now? If it were Meda, I understand
32:10
it, But I mean, you're you're not looking to get a majority of
32:15
Magic players. You're looking to get a few few from Magic, a few
32:17
from lore Kana, a few from over here, from over here, get
32:21
them elsewhere. Well, I mean, then the game will stay a stagnant.
32:25
I think they missed a golden a golden opportunity to get the professor.
32:32
He lives in Seattle, literally lives in Seattle. He has done key Forage
32:37
videos before, he has the largest magic channel on the Internet. You could
32:45
have paid him some coin and he probably would have showed up, and he
32:47
probably would have played. He probably would have made a video for it.
32:53
And you're now you just get a bunch of exposure from people, I mean
32:59
magic in the state it is in because you have you have high ranking people,
33:02
you have post Malone playing this game. You've got I don't even remember
33:06
the dude, he's an older tight end from the forty nine ers plays this
33:12
game. You're getting big stars who play their game. Ewok was the tight
33:17
end, Yeah, the older tight end. Yeah, but excuse me.
33:22
You're getting people that have names derived with them and bringing them in and that
33:29
drives people to be like, oh, post Malone plays this game. I
33:32
want to play this game, even if it's somebody. Even if it's somebody
33:37
like the Professor. Oh, the Professor enjoys this game. I will check
33:40
this game out. I mean, let's be honest. He's done Wonders for
33:45
Flesh and Blood, He's done Wonders for a lot of other card games.
33:51
I'm just saying, like, and maybe that's the that's the marketing piece,
33:54
right, that just is it is what it is, like, the marketing
33:59
has to be better. You have to get this into the phase of a
34:02
lot of gamers and shoot your shot. It's got to be a bird shot.
34:07
It can't it can't just be targeted towards people who are already playing a
34:10
game. Because I brought this up many moons ago. There's going to be
34:13
a diminishing turn and people are going to leave. And if you're not filling
34:19
two shoes with one. You know, if you're not bringing two people in,
34:21
for everyone who leaves, the game's just going to go nowhere and eventually
34:23
it'll be nothing. My soapbox moment. Thank you for listening, Welcome,
34:30
Thank you for enjoying my ted talk. I love this community, but I
34:36
think you're already heading down that path. And while you're talking, we don't
34:39
have money coming in. Now. There's a big discussion about what happened with
34:45
the money from Game Found. I'm gonna tell you the second Game Found coming
34:49
out is really already put people on edge, let alone the game stores who
34:52
have not bought back in. I think that while there needs to be marketing,
34:58
I think we we Gg community as a whole has to be able to
35:04
re establish and connect with individuals. But the local game I think that they're
35:12
had like one. I think that we have to have sealed events. That's
35:15
where this game really thrives. Come learn, here's how to play, here's
35:19
this your starter, and then let's go ahead and enjoy the game for what
35:23
it is. The complexity from woe from DT it makes it difficult to come
35:30
in, but we got to do something, and if we're losing individuals because
35:37
the problem is if you're going to players, it's over. It's been on
35:40
the players for the longest time, and it's it's not just for them to
35:45
take the ball and run to it. It's not just a gig and it's
35:49
not just a player. It is a combined effort that will be needed in
35:52
order to be successful in my opinion, Like, and I'll tell you the
35:57
biggest problem with this game is there is zero return. Well I shouldn't say
36:01
THEO there is next to zero return if I go buy a deck. I
36:07
honestly feel like if I buy one, it's either going to be if it's
36:10
just the middle of the road junk. What's it worth? What what we've
36:16
you? You are on a thing that we've done on this cast, Like
36:20
yeah, no seven times yeah, I'm like, but I am. There
36:24
is a thin chance you make more than you paid for it. Most likely
36:30
you got a ten cent rare and you threw your money away too, Like,
36:32
well what is that? But but you have a better chance of making
36:37
money in other games. I feel you have better chance of making money and
36:39
other games and keep playing a hobbyist game to make money off of it,
36:45
right, But that is what that is what drives people? Why we've already
36:51
gone through this, We've already been like through the flesh and blood. Why
36:53
do people go to the do the flesh and blood things? Why are people
36:55
buying box after box of flesh and blood and magic? It's to buying these
37:00
unicorns. I mean there's just there's no unicorn. There's nothing special in here
37:07
that that is driving people. There's no magical foil, there's I mean,
37:09
we've got special track, so I a whole bunch of whoa for the purpose.
37:16
Yep. Well, I'm not wrong in that this game lacks the any
37:24
the I'm gonna crack this even though I care less, could care less about
37:28
playing this game stuff like it doesn't have that. But I don't think that's
37:34
that big of a deal. Like I don't play any of those other goddamn
37:37
games because that doesn't interest me. Although I am a gambler, but I'm
37:42
a gambler because I don't want to buy another thirty six hundred dollars deck and
37:45
I want to open it so again, because they're good at keyboards, decks,
37:52
moss so so I I asked chat gpt to generate a list of the
38:00
ten best position celebrities to promote key Forge by going playing show themselves on social
38:07
media playing it. So here's the list that chet GPT came up with.
38:14
So number one, will Wheaton right put it on the Tabletop web series,
38:20
assuming that's still even going. Number two, wait and do it anymore.
38:24
I believe he might be in the background now, but he's still there.
38:30
Yeah, he's a genuine passion for gaming, a significant following the tabletop gaming
38:34
community. Okay, Felicia Day, that's that's a good choice on that same
38:39
thing. Yeah. Yeah, Tom Vassel though I don't think Tom from the
38:44
Dice Tower, I don't think he would. I believes already the first round
38:52
on key Forge already gave it very positive reviews and talked about it a lot
38:55
on the podcast back then, like ze Garcia did review Wins of Exchange and
39:02
reviewed it positively. All right, Then it's got Matthew Mercer, so he's
39:10
the dungeonmaster for critical role, so that's interesting. Then it starts to get
39:16
more interesting. So number five Emma Stone. She's publicly expressed her love of
39:23
board games that even appeared to Jimmy Fallon's Box of Live segment. She showcase
39:28
for enthusiasm for playing games. Her broad up people could attract water audience.
39:31
The key forge okay, Emma Stone, I get my yeah, yeah,
39:37
I know right, the Emma Stone. I'm yeah all right. How about
39:40
this one? Uh? Number six William Dafoe les, Yeah, will you
39:50
have the fast distinct personality to people could attract unique audience. The key forage.
39:52
His association with the game could generate curiosity among his fans. Okay,
39:59
I know, right, Tyler, I don't actually know who that is?
40:05
Are you should? Tyler? It's not only actually one month gamer and host
40:09
of Vbsoft's E three presentations. She was the last host of Whose line is
40:14
it? Anyways? Yeah? Okay, okay. Then Stephen Colbert okay,
40:23
all right they cost a few millions. Yeah yeah probably mcdeck face. Yeah
40:32
that's what we did. Uh. Then we need then Ashley Johnson, who's
40:37
a number member of the Critical Role cast. Uh. And then number ten
40:42
Nathan Philon million. Yeah so right he's there. Yeah that could be good.
40:52
So overall this list is not bad. Jut GPT Jeremy get on it.
41:01
Yeah, reach out to William to phil dial like, hey, will
41:07
you ever heard a key? Yeah? I chat you know, reaches the
41:13
target audience. I bet you a CPT probably knows all these folks. You
41:16
know, absolutely, I think you asked the wrong question. Does it just
41:22
ask chet CPT? There I went, what's wrong with my question? Yeah?
41:27
Go ahead? I would I would say Internet personalities, not celebrities,
41:31
because I don't know if they consider them. I don't know if they would
41:36
consider like all those are celebrities, like they've done film and movies and whatnot
41:42
Internet personalities. So there's the kid with the toys Ryan's world. There you
41:50
go. Yeah he's older now, so maybe yeah he can play some key
41:52
Forge. Okay, I'm done. You're you're that's your extent swinging a miss?
42:04
Oh this is not I don't know suggesting people. I don't know who
42:07
you like. What do you gotta get? You gotta you gotta remember really
42:12
key Forge is a dad's game. So what are dad's watching? So you
42:15
gotta get this advertised on YouTube? D I Y channels? How do I
42:21
fix my broken drawer? And then it plays a key Forge? Ad alight,
42:28
that's one. Porn hump would be a good one. Oh the p
42:30
hub nice? Ah? Why could you imagine bump bump but dump bump and
42:43
then it's just it's the key forge roll right right you just cinematic music on
42:50
the intro, like where's the skip ad? I don't know? Oh bad
42:54
petty, Okay, where we go with this lock? That vault? How
43:05
many dollars do we owe you? Chair? I am so sorry, family,
43:10
I cannot can not keep this scroup wins. I don't know if the
43:19
kids are gonna listen to this one. There, Okay, here's another one.
43:22
It's not for me, but there is a huge crossover for wrestling fans,
43:27
like half you dorks are talking about wrestling. I was listening. Hey
43:30
hey, hey, easy crusher, Yes, go ahead. So I'm saying
43:35
there, and then maybe maybe we need to sponsor a monster truck. A
43:39
monster truck. Oh now we're talking fuzzy girl in the monster truck. Just
43:44
sponsor the Iowa State wrestling team. There you go. No, no,
43:50
that's a long kind of wrestling. Like no, no, you don't understand
43:53
how big I was. Yeah, I've seen it out of Marry, But
43:59
like, I don't know, can't we just be happy with how big we
44:01
are? Like I like our community, so I do love our community.
44:08
Z I will agree with that. But the community is getting smaller. The
44:13
numbers had our vts are a little sad to see sixteen at the French about
44:19
Oh, I don't know about France, but like I don't know if it
44:22
was. But the reasons why Seattle is small is because of how jam Pact
44:25
it was. The previous format sucked. They changed it. Had it been
44:30
spread out over a full season, whether we're having roughly one a month,
44:34
I think the numbers go back to what we would expect to the start with
44:37
with the community that we have currently, and then if it grows, it
44:42
grows whatever. And if it doesn't, I think that this is fine.
44:47
I don't think that we can leave it with just it's fine. I think
44:51
we need to have development from the grassroots in the game. I really feel
44:57
like when you're like it's fine, it's like that dog in the burning house,
45:00
like this is fine, perfectly normal, nothing to see here. So
45:04
the other comment that came from Duncan is that I believe it was Lewis's area.
45:09
They were able to play key Forge roughly six nights a week, if
45:13
I got that correct, and right now they've kind of just been pushed to
45:19
backburn and I believe there's only two stores where they're really showing up, and
45:23
that's you have stores that have just moved on and that is where that's that's
45:31
what hurts us. Okay, that's true. Like my region used to be
45:36
one of the most key Fords populated in the country. We went from six
45:42
stores to one and a half. Is that I mean there that that is
45:47
what happened from twenty nineteen to now No to nine though, I mean,
45:55
I don't know if you put a box on a shelf, if that does
45:59
much. Being in my store it sells, I don't know. I mean
46:02
that the other ones that doesn't, I mean, well they don't they don't
46:07
have boxes on those shelves. Well, but the biggest thing is like,
46:08
okay, so you put it. You just put a box on a shelf.
46:12
Then what I mean. I'm not saying that's a good start. I
46:17
will say that for our local Wookie we have had people the last two times
46:22
out. I wasn't there this week because of my daughter's game, but there
46:25
have been people would come over and just hey, what's this game? So
46:30
at least seeing us out there is getting people to at least come and ask
46:35
questions which hadn't happened in the past, no one has come in. But
46:40
also have we been super clusive, like we've been trying to invite you almost
46:45
feel like that over eager gamer, like, oh, hey, you're really
46:47
curious, why don't you come over and we'll go ahead and show you this
46:51
great game, and like it feels very awkward and so I wish, But
47:00
I mean Forage only fans still are talking. I mean, I think all
47:08
these all these ideas all heard our target demographic, right, I mean,
47:13
if we're all right, all targets chat GPT. Who are the top YouTubers
47:20
to promote key Forage? And I got a lot of the same stuff you
47:22
did. Number one Tom Vassel, Number two, Rado rent Through, Yeah
47:34
yeah, Rato cuts creators. Number three is shut Up and sit Down.
47:42
Another creator they did do a number four is the Professor h Number five,
47:50
which you're definitely not getting. This one is Game Nights. Uh, they
47:53
only do magic, so I don't think you would even be able to go
47:57
for them. Tabletop Mins, Dice Tower News, one Stop co Op Shop,
48:04
Miniature Market board game. So that's what I got for As far as
48:08
YouTube channels, you know what that list is Sleeping on, Sleeping on William
48:15
Dafoe. Yeah, William Dafoe, I think it's you know that. Yeah
48:22
for sure, got that real big following on his YouTube channel. So Ben
48:27
Diesel plays board games like that, would be plays D and D or did
48:30
play? Yeah the h m hm he plays the Witcher Henry Cavill. Yeah,
48:43
all right, that's I know where others stand here. So before I
48:49
get pushed to the steak my cashing Jesus as your slipper. This going with
48:57
Rob Jeremy. That's where he's going. He's jail Jeremy is I think Ryan
49:01
Jeremy's in jail right now. I'm not gonna lie to okay, I promote
49:07
the game from jail, and it's probably it might be we might be all
49:13
affordable. He needs a guess. So one of the things that since the
49:22
next section is our Philly update, I will say that the Philly update,
49:28
there was an email that was sent out for us to be able to purchase
49:30
Master deecks if you were there, and to show interest if there was a
49:34
pin. One of the comments that I'd heard from people who had previously been
49:38
to Vault Tours is the difference in amount of product that was basically being given
49:45
to all the people who is there. There's nothing in stores right now.
49:51
So whether that used to be leaderboards, whether that used to be given at
49:55
old Bolts, well, but you can use you use it, and that's
50:00
why. So there's the pride you guys again, you're barking up a tree
50:06
that we've talked on seven times on this cast. The prize wall is not
50:08
coming back. It's too much fricking work for what it is. But this
50:14
is again why all right, I want to showcase both give me one,
50:17
give me one minute, and so what you're seeing is both in the store
50:22
and online. We have to be able to build the local grassroots. We
50:28
need to be able to get new people in. There needs to be some
50:30
way to encourage those who are there. Not for all of us old guard
50:34
who've already been around. We don't need another deck, but there should be
50:38
something. There should be something for showing up at a vet. I'm sorry.
50:45
The vault masters are nice, but getting the one deck there and your
50:49
three sealed woe for one hundred or seventy five plus your event ticket registration is
50:55
not what many individuals are used to to be able to go ahead and take
51:00
first in something for sealed and to get one deck is measley. Our local
51:07
store for Lacana can go ahead and push out more product there than one deck,
51:12
and it's not their major I understand, but I'm saying, if you're
51:16
having any game in your top, I agree with you, a local store
51:22
is going to go ahead and we're producing basically the same amount of thirty plus
51:27
people, and the product that's there is a is of more value and more
51:31
time people are putting their time to be able to be there. It has
51:35
to make it worthwhile. And so if we're only get seeing that one deck,
51:38
the question is what is that telling our community? Is it that we
51:42
just don't have the product? Is it that we just don't value or not
51:45
going to put it there? I don't know, but I'm telling you there
51:49
has to be something larger. What I saw at KFC was larger prize pools
51:54
for the individuals who won. That seems to be more in line than one
52:00
deck for going five And Oh, I don't know how I'm off. I'm
52:02
off my stop, but I don't know how to increase the Vault tour presence
52:07
or attendance. Have more players, have more players announced it ahead of time
52:13
and have good prizing and good side of stop having shit formats. Okay,
52:22
this is another one where I don't think a little better prizing because you also
52:28
can't do tons better pride and there aren't well I mean, until they take
52:31
away the cash prize at the top, you can't hand out a ton more,
52:35
and I don't none of us are going for the mediocre prizes either,
52:38
Like you want to bring something home, which is nice, but I wonder
52:46
how many playmates I actually sold at Seattle. How many of you knew that
52:52
the play mats were there and it was readily accessible component for even for Minnesota.
53:00
They announced it at Minnesota once, but they announced it once, but
53:04
I'm telling you it was content center in previous times. We have that to
53:07
compare. So I'm sorry, but that's what happens. I don't bring back
53:14
sealed. End of story spring back sealed. Sealed will increase your attendance,
53:20
but we also sealed allows everybody to feel like they have a shot. Neither
53:28
never shot. What's it? I will say? Sealed? It just does.
53:34
Seals allows everybody to feel like they have a chance, they have a
53:37
shot. I'm sorry, our con and Alliance just don't no matter how many
53:43
times you told me I bought this our conduct this day. Well, guess
53:45
what, that's great? I think for me, doesn't happen, doesn't happen
53:51
for me, doesn't happen for the other ninety percent of people who don't.
53:53
Just like old God decks out of will. So I mean, just the
54:00
fact of the matter is, bring back sealed. It allows people to feel
54:02
like they have a shot and are not wasting five to eight hundred dollars to
54:08
travel all this way. Go this way because I know Jarre enjoys the camaraderie,
54:13
but not everybody does. But the counter argument is why am I spending
54:16
five hundred dollars to go ahead and pull random three decks that could mean absolutely
54:22
nothing. Well, and I can hear that. Let's be honest, the
54:24
most attended Vault Tours pre pandemic, we're all sealed and that is a fact
54:30
that you cannot dispute. What is so why because you feel like you have
54:36
a shot. So the point of Vault tours is people who are more local
54:42
and within driving distance do feel like it's worth the hundred and fifty dollars to
54:46
go. It's not a better draw for long distance, but they can still
54:51
run double formats, yes, yes, I mean, but even that,
54:57
we can't be our field. There was tons of people who traveled for Sealed
55:04
tons how many people. I don't even remember the attendance at Indianapolis. That
55:09
was quite a large field for a Sealed Vault tour. I mean, yeah,
55:15
it was a New Worlds Collide was pretty much brand new at the time.
55:21
But like, there's no doubt that sealed is what Number one, it's
55:25
where the game flourishes the best, It's where it shines the best. And
55:30
number two, like, there's no doubt that just sealed is what draws people
55:35
to the to the show. So if we want to get people at the
55:38
show, you gotta you gotta do what the people want, right, Yeah,
55:47
I mean I hate to say this, but isn't this what Arthur's post
55:52
on Facebook was pretty much all about? Yeah, and there was challenges.
56:00
The challenges, sure, I think it talks about the leadership and where the
56:05
perspective is. I saw that very loud and clear. Yes, And I
56:08
think a lot of top players have said, yeah, the money is nice,
56:12
but that's not why I'm coming to play. So if the money is
56:15
not the draw, what does the money matter then, But we talked about
56:21
this before too. I understand we've talked about this before. The current formats,
56:24
the current prizes is all about bringing this like super top end elite kind
56:30
of crowd out that doesn't exist in this game. Well, it does exist,
56:36
but it isn't the it isn't the bring out a ton of people.
56:43
It's not the people that, like you know, played the game through the
56:46
pandemic and still continue to play the game. All right, well, yeah,
56:53
should we move into our Dallas predictions. Let's do it all right,
57:00
because we are long in the tooth already. I gotta bed, I gotta
57:02
wake up early to get on a plane. I as well, do not
57:07
have to wake up early to get on a plane. I have to wake
57:09
up early to go to work. But the run us through the predictions.
57:15
All right, we put on our poll. I didn't like average them this
57:19
time. I just kind of took the most popular vote from the fourteen or
57:23
so patrons that came through. So we have that, and then we have
57:30
each of us up to do our own predictions. Speaking of for our patrons
57:35
out there, better dot cards drop better dot cards, check out the website,
57:43
get uses scores and if high enough, patron, you can get office
57:46
scores in there too. Yeah, see his life miserable. I love doing
57:52
that. It's not making my life. Everybody submitted DT deck. Well that's
58:00
an easy store. Then sorry Smith the number two French national deck. Oh
58:07
god, f number two yeah, f minus four fishes. All right.
58:20
So for the ark On field in Dallas, our patreons are saying sixty percent
58:25
will be whoe, twenty five percent mm and then fifteen percent other. What
58:34
do we think? Guys think it stays right in at forty five to fifty
58:37
percent range for woe Yep, ask how much woe? Uh fifty five,
58:47
Wookie fifty six. I'm gonna go with the fifty. I met j I
58:55
met fifty. But I'm gonna tell you that my MM is where I think
58:59
I'm seeing a decrease. Uh elf, whoa percent as long as this isn't
59:05
going, as long as he isn't, price is right rules, I'm going
59:07
forty nine. It's not present, all right, I'm gonna go backwards,
59:13
elf, Amen ten r j al right, amen, MM, I'm gonna
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put at twenty. I am gonna go twenty five mm Wookie seventeen sheep fourteen
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dress twenty all right, then we can do the others later. So far,
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so top. The bottom we've ELF is our low at forty nine percent.
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Whoa, the patreons are at sixty percent. Whoh mm. The lowest
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is ELF at ten percent, and the highest is me and the patrons at
1:00:00
twenty five. I think people will see the DT dominance that came out in
1:00:04
France and adjust accordingly. I think the most variance with MM, we're all
1:00:08
pretty much right around there. They will remember they have a trash box of
1:00:13
DT. There will still be one DT deck, so one still be two.
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All right, top eight of ARCon we're coming off an archon we're six
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wow made top eight in Seattle, or patreons are saying four wodex to mm
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to other, let's go from the top draft or how many wodex five and
1:00:37
mm m hmm one and that leaves to remaining okay, sheep, how many
1:00:49
wodex bick top eight four four mm one? That leaves three remaining? Whookeie,
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whoa five h mm one? And to your main right there with dress,
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I'm going to my answers say one mm and trying to think of the
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decks actually know in the field and three no two two other, which leaves
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five. Yep, I'm right there with Wookie dress. Yeah, I'm a
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four one three with sheep. Okay, Elf, you know I think I'm
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gonna go five wow, two mm one other. Come on, you should
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just gone eight wow. Mhmm. That is not the well for our team
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with elf slide. But okay, we'll see. We'll see how many people
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show up for Dallas ark On. Our patriots are saying sixty five start of
1:01:54
the bottom. Elf. Oh, this is tough. I don't know how
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many today, Like it's real. Curly had ninety nine for ar Con,
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Minnesota had sixty seven, Seattle had forty seven. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
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hedge my bets and I'm gonna say seventy five. J h, I'm at
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seventy two, seventy two or seventy also seventy two, Okay, I'm gonna
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say sixty nine. Wookie guess ye seven, the lower run keep seventy eight,
1:02:45
all right, Sires drafts seventy nine, all right, high end of
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seventy nine. Wookie's are lowing in fifty seven? All said? This is
1:02:55
actually is this? Wait? People who signed up for eight. Sure,
1:03:00
how many people are gonna have a plan? This is how many people play
1:03:01
in our come. Oh, this is fine, it's fine. I think
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seven people aren't going to play, but six to eight of them will switch
1:03:13
over to Alliance all right. I mean also was one of the originally announced
1:03:16
vaults, so I think that there will be more people planning to go to
1:03:20
it because it is like just start like triangle of population has a ton of
1:03:24
people inside, right, how many people are actually going to play Alliance's all
1:03:31
said and done, our patreons settled around twenty, which is interesting. I'll
1:03:37
start this one. I'm gonna say eighteen Wookie should should we say if you
1:03:47
think this is a crossover or Independent is gonna be independent? Have to be
1:03:54
independent? This is for independent if it is, if it is a crossover,
1:04:00
it would basically be seventy five percent of our numbers up top. Like
1:04:02
this is okay, okay, So if there's done, if it is a
1:04:05
bean where you get to play both this, this won't matter. Uh so,
1:04:11
assuming double I get concurrent, what's your number? Seventeen? Uh drafts
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eight? Oh shit, j A twenty two, twenty two, thirty thirty,
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twenty two. The only time they've cracked twenty is when you could play
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in both yep eight bread. Well, I heard they were advertising Alliance on
1:04:42
p hubs, so maybe we'll get some more Yeah, yeah, mixing,
1:04:48
mixing those pots. Oh yeah, you know, I like it all right?
1:05:00
Whoa percentage? I think it's uh, I don't remember what the actually
1:05:03
from the other ones for, but so we're just gonna do WOA versus other
1:05:08
because the MM isn't as big of a deal versus the Alliance go So basically,
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what is the woe percentage for Alliance Trasper Ah fifty, Sheep fifty,
1:05:29
Wookie fifty one. I think we're gonna see an uptick in the woe as
1:05:38
this is the US, this is now mid September. People have lots,
1:05:42
like lots of chances to make more Alliance decks, and a lot of them
1:05:46
are doing it with woe. From what I've seen on line, I think
1:05:49
I'm going up to sixty here, jare I'm at sixty with you. Oh
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I'm at sixty as well. And our patreons are the low end of this.
1:06:01
And I still think it's just a healthy mix of the other as far
1:06:04
as the Alliance goes. But it's the top eight where we saw less Wow
1:06:11
DECKX hit top eight in Seattle most recently, when basically everybody could play Whoa.
1:06:16
I think we only saw two or three in Seattle where everyone could play
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Alliance. So this is where it gets our patreons go four two two four
1:06:26
woe two mm too other. I'm gonna do the same thing here. I'm
1:06:30
just gonna go to WOA versus the other because after a Whoa, it's a
1:06:34
pretty pretty even for Alliance, so drastic or how many WO decks are hitting?
1:06:40
Actually I started off, Oh if how many who decks hit top top
1:06:44
eight for Aliance, I'm gonna go for three, all right, at least
1:06:48
five or mains that's good, Jr. I've four two two well four four
1:06:55
wo dex. Yeah, I think we see a dip in Dallas. I
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think we're we're gonna see two wowdecks make top eight Alliance. Okay, oh
1:07:02
Wookie five. That's actually would line up more with the sixty percent that most
1:07:12
of us predicted. Sheep three three Draft Scorer well to be internally consistent,
1:07:19
since I said we were gonna have to immediately got to the top eight,
1:07:25
and I said fifty percent it has to be four. Yeah, fifty percent
1:07:30
woe being of eights is four, so yeah, logically sound programmer math.
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Alright, alright, how many infurnuses total this is between all events? How
1:07:42
many infurnases do we see? We did see a stark dip in Seattle.
1:07:47
I think there was only like, well there's less people, but I think
1:07:50
it would only be like eleven and ten coming back from like the thirty something
1:07:56
we had way back in Philly. Our patrons think Dallas is going to come
1:08:01
back into the inferno land and hit thirty seven between both events. Let's have
1:08:08
have Wookie start Wookie. How many infurnaces do we see in Dallas? All
1:08:13
right, that would be the lowest yet, so i'd be interesting because this
1:08:17
is total between both events. Oh wow, yeah, I'll stick with seventeen
1:08:24
cheap well because you had a low player count too, right, yeah,
1:08:28
yeah, that makes sense. What am I guessing? Total number of in
1:08:31
furnaces that hit hit hit play adding up both events. It's the plural fern
1:08:36
furnace and fern eye maybe drafts. How many infurnace do we see? H
1:08:48
thirty thirty. I'm gonna go with twenty five JR. Twenty seven elf.
1:08:57
All right, our Patreons hit the very high at thirty seven. The lowest
1:09:01
we have Wookie at seventeen, and several of us are in that high twenties
1:09:05
low thirties runners. So I feel like one of our patrions just trying to
1:09:09
throw off the numbers. Like one person put in two hundred. I think
1:09:15
one person is like eighty, and I was like, what, okay are
1:09:21
Interestingly enough, both of them actually did have a popular vote for our who's
1:09:26
gonna win ark on an Alliance the patreons with I think there's only like fourteen
1:09:31
patreons have put in it put in, but I think three or four put
1:09:35
sheep for the winner for ark On. So you have some fans you're you're,
1:09:41
you're, you still have fans out there Sheep and Double now has the
1:09:45
fan club. Apparently we have three people saying that Noble's gonna take down Alliance.
1:09:51
It's not fair when the guy makes three accounts so he can vote for
1:09:56
himself. Oh, I mean, I guess he is a paid d I
1:10:00
didn't actually check if he filled out, so one of those could be himself.
1:10:06
Yeah, that is three votes free one person like I guess Jason had
1:10:15
two votes, but he's not gonna be there. So let's see Drash who
1:10:25
wins ms ARK Deep Alliance? I do like somebody totally do you know what?
1:10:41
I'm looking into the audience right now? I'm gonna say Vargas is gonna
1:10:45
be there playing Alliance. I don't have no idea it's gonna be there,
1:10:48
and I don't think he plays Alliance. Let's see sports. I'm but who
1:10:53
knows. Let's go to Wookie. Wookie who wins our cry you're gone?
1:11:01
Wi huh? Try again. We didn't hear anything you said? All I
1:11:05
said because I didn't say anything. Drazz Car that's cool? Gets it done?
1:11:15
Wow? Who wins Alliance? Ctp Okay, he wins Ace jails Like
1:11:28
these pods are still off the printer. It's like figures are burning. It's
1:11:33
all lateral shifts. Watch would that even be good? I don't think so,
1:11:41
Babies, I don't know. He's what to your opponent that I am
1:11:45
calling for ARCon, That fraud is going to light it up? That is
1:11:47
cheap all right, and Alliance. I'm gonna go with my good friend Z
1:11:57
you jerk else who woods ARCon? So I'd like to credit Chet gbt frick
1:12:05
suggestions. So I think Aisha Taylor takes ARCon, and I think William Dafoe
1:12:11
is the underdog and Alliance. I love how these predictions have just spiraled into
1:12:18
nothingness. Show. I love it. I absolutely love it. The dumpster
1:12:30
fire that is the Ark Alliance for the Sheep who wins Archon? Uh frozen
1:12:39
tonton? What? Okay, I gotta go with some local some local stuff
1:12:46
Ryan. Okay, now his brother's brother Broom, Right, all right,
1:12:55
who is alliance? Are you? Oh? You have two votes here?
1:13:01
Uh? For me, I'm going to vote for Arcan. I'm going to
1:13:08
say I'm gonna take the other brothers Ander or the Wynn. There you go,
1:13:15
ARCon, and I'm gonna go with my boy Noble to take out the
1:13:20
second Vault Alliance Championship, then join the Patreons and and and take out William
1:13:30
Dafoe the top table. Yeah, I think Noble one can take out Smile
1:13:39
the whole time. And then well, if we end up being able to
1:13:44
play both, like maybe maybe Sheep takes it all down. Playing fraud on
1:13:50
both of them here works. Well, Oh no, I heard the faux
1:13:54
plays dirty. He's not the friend at the table. Okay, Well that's
1:14:00
what we got. Certain suite for the predictions this week. I think that
1:14:02
went much faster than last time, and we're getting closer to the world.
1:14:09
We only have one more of these to predict. Maybe we'll hear what about
1:14:13
the details soon? Well, we gave everyone the details last week. Remember
1:14:17
you need to buy a tip. Last DAR episode didn't go up because yeah,
1:14:23
recording gotta getta So I'll be there Monday, Monday, November six six
1:14:30
November Tuesday, November fourteen. Get some marshmallows. Start a fire right there
1:14:35
on their their parking a lot. Yeah, you're a master. Decks out
1:14:41
for your kindling. We like stopped by the ac trailer. We're gonna actually
1:14:45
get a trailer like a you know, move it into like a lout style.
1:14:49
Is it like a bus like one of those big like tours? We
1:14:53
should no, like a mobile home. We're gonna just guys, if I
1:14:58
like hit the lottery and retire, That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
1:15:00
get that bus. I'm gonna drive around from Vault Tour to Vault Tour and
1:15:04
like, you know, just catch a ride with Jeremy. He already does
1:15:08
us. Yeah, yeah, maybe I'll give Jeremy a ride. Corner is
1:15:13
just gonna buy a mobile home and put it. This is a creepy black
1:15:15
veil. No, I mean, that's what the patron funds are really for.
1:15:17
And I'm like, who's that kicking black in my seat? Right?
1:15:20
It's x Ray. Of course, all I'm picturing is dumb and dumber you
1:15:26
guys on a little scooter. That's it. That's what I'm picturing. Like,
1:15:30
there is that grassy area between like the the hotel and the games that
1:15:33
are we can just like turn that into like a hobo tint. I mean
1:15:38
in middle of Minnesota and November, what could go wrong? It'll be fun.
1:15:43
That's why you gotta get a fire wood. Just bring a negative fifteen
1:15:47
sleeping bag and you're fine. Okay, but yes, November sixth, to
1:15:53
remember fourteenth. Book all those days off. Book your flights. Now,
1:15:59
I'll see you there with shape. I'll transfer you some some PTO. I
1:16:03
don't think that's how it works, but I will, all right, I
1:16:11
need it, all right, all right, So that's gonna hit the chast
1:16:17
week. Yeah, I hope that shows a solid character for today, for
1:16:20
their one character day update. Yeah, he pace space for the Hub for
1:16:29
the Hub or the Graham. All right, that's gonna do it for us
1:16:32
this week. We'll see y'all next week. Be forging everyone. May the
1:16:41
forage be with you another time, where I will my welcome thing, my
1:16:47
transition meditation. I go there reaching night and I always come back to myself.
1:16:59
Now me for dead lie. My ex is live in Texas, and
1:17:10
Texas is a place I really loved to be. But my ass