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Hey,

I can think of two instances off the top of my head where the nationals schedule was changed because of player input, but I think in both cases it was changed for the next year not for the current year.  So it is definitely worth while to have this sort of discussion.

I am surprised to see Booster moved to Thursday.  Despite never playing in it, I've always thought it fit well on the last day of the tournament.  For the competitive players, it gave them time to see the new cards before they had to make decisions about building a deck with them.  For the casual players, Booster is a good chance to unwind and socialize in a less stressful environment after two long days of competition.  It also surprises me to see it switch with Sealed - 2 Player because in previous years it has been a requirement that Saturday events all be multi-player so that festivities can wrap up earlier on Saturday and people can get out of town if they need to.

The pairings become very interesting with the Booster change.  Unlike Type 1 - Multi, Type 2 - 2 Player should be able to get a respectable number of participants against Booster, but I'll be very curious to see how the Type 2 number is affected.  I expect that Booster will fail to outdraw T1-2P for the first time in several years.  We would finally get to see if there's a decent number of people interested in T1-MP now that it's not paired against Booster with new cards, except that it's now paired with Teams, which in many ways an improved variant of T1-MP.

Pairing T1-MP with Teams seems wrong to me.  It feels kinda like pairing T2-2P and T2-MP together.  Honestly, I kinda think we should drop T1-MP entirely.  My only hesitation to dropping it is that I don't know how Teams will go over at nationals (that is THE big unknown in all of this) and if T1-MP has a chance at a resurgence when not paired against booster.  If Teams does well and T1-MP does poorly this year I'll definitely be pushing strongly to not have a T1-MP event at nationals last year.

Tschow,

Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly

yeah i was going to take like thursday off and go site seeing, but the changed it maybe i can skip sat and go.

T1-Multi is my favorite so I would be sad if it ever got the boot.  I will be playing it on saturday for sure.

I agree Korunks. I really dislike Teams as an official category.

Quote from: SirNobody on March 31, 2010, 03:09:54 PM

If Teams does well and T1-MP does poorly this year I'll definitely be pushing strongly to not have a T1-MP event at nationals last year.

Yea, I will always be pushing not to have a T1-MP event at nationals last year.

Kirk

Or any year

Quote from: Captain Kirk on April 01, 2010, 12:08:18 AM

Quote from: SirNobody on March 31, 2010, 03:09:54 PM

If Teams does well and T1-MP does poorly this year I'll definitely be pushing strongly to not have a T1-MP event at nationals last year.

Yea, I will always be pushing not to have a T1-MP event at nationals last year.

Kirk

Or any year

That would be said for those of us that like that category.   

Thank you for listening to our concerns and being gracious Rob!

Rob, thank you so much for listening to our concerns, as always. This is what makes Redemption awesome.

~Marti

Thank you guys for your willingness to flexible.  I know it is not required of you guys to listen to us, but it is so awesome that you do.  Keep being awesome and making Redemption awesome.  Kudos guys, Kudos.

Since T1-Multi and Boosters are NOT going on at the same time, do you all think that MASK can be revised?

If I end up coming, and if I decide to come on Thursday (unlikely), I will for sure be participating in MASK. I hate T-1 multiplayer altogether and would shed nary a tear if it were dropped, so playing spoiler is ftw.

Since T1-MP is taking place all by itself, I'd bet there could be a lot of MASK players willing to play this time around. I would definitely sign up to ruin speed decks in T1-MP if I were to go.