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Originally posted by spikegif

You may as well make a 4th for the judge / orginizer to keep as I will not be playing and Epic play is my favorite format.

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Originally posted by Drakkengi

I like the hints. Now I've got to go looking through all the sets so I can make some educated guesses.

How come you're not playing Spikegif? I don't think we'll need someone to be fully dedicated to judging the event. I mean we never really have a specific judge at our regular events and I don't anybody has a problem with pausing a game for a second so someone can answer a question. There's enough players with decent enough rules knowledge to help answer those too. I just think you should play since, like you said, it's your favorite format and you're one of the best Epic players locally.

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Black Rose this Thursday - 500pt Epic

I will be bringing a warband what will beat the one that I brought last time, so thoes who want to try to copy it will get a suprise

Sorry to hear about the lousy turn out.   Well count me in for the Utah EPic Open.  Ill see if I can get a few others from Utah county to come join the fun too.  I hope we can get a tleast 10 peeps attending.

Sorry to hear about the lousy turn out.   Well count me in for the Utah EPic Open.  Ill see if I can get a few others from Utah county to come join the fun too.  I hope we can get a tleast 10 peeps attending.[/QUOTE]I am hoping for more then 10 :)

Hope you can bring some of them players up from Provo.  I spoke to a few last month about it, but not sure if they will be attending.  I have not way of contacting them.

The Epic Open is tomorrow!!!

All ready for this event?  any out of state players?? :)

14 players showed to the Utah Epic Open.  that was 5 more then the constructed event we held.  Thank you every one for attending!!  we did get 3 players from Provo area that came up that normally do not, and I was very glad they did.

I would like to thank everyone who worked on getting this event to happen and to Ahubb and zenthrus for the Trophies.

So who were the top placers that won trophies? Also what kind of prize support did everyone get? I know I always say that I don't like playing Epic much but I had fun with this event. Big events like our "Opens" are always fun and that is why I am really looking forward to doing the Utah Limited Open. I've actually been thinking about this and also preperation for the Limited qualifiers and Championship for a little while now and I have a few ideas. First, I think we should definately wait untill Blood War is out to hold the Limited Open since they are making it a set that should be especially good for sealed play and it will be the set used for the qualifiers and championship. So I was thinking somwhere between November - January would be a good time for the Open. I also think the Draft format is the most fun way to play DDM and the Maxminis Draft at Gen Con was the best event I attended while there. Now as far as practicing for all the big limited events that will be going on in the next few months I have some ideas that will allow us to play without going broke. The first idea is that when we purchase our cases or boosters when Blood War comes out, we can save at least a portion of unopened boosters (if not all of them) to use in Sealed practice tournaments. I will be willing to keep all of my boosters sealed to use and I can also lend them to players who either don't have that many boosters or are too excited to keep them sealed for a little while (trust me, I know how difficult that can be). The second idea can be used once we run out of sealed boosters. I know there are a few programs that can generate random sealed boosters of any set and they are pretty accurate as far as the slots go. So if someone has a laptop they can bring to tournaments then we can easily generate boosters for everyone and once you've built a warband from your pulls, you can just pull those pieces from your personal collection so you can represent your pieces correctly. I will also bring all my pieces so I can lend out whatever people need, so long as I have them. I've wondered if any of the stores like Black Rose would have a problem with us bringing in boosters to use for a sealed event instead of buying boosters from them to use but it wouldn't make much sense if they did have a problem with it. It's no different then opening up your boosteres at home and then bringing the pieces to use in a constructed tournament. But still, I will talk to them to make sure it won't be a problem. So hopefully we will be able to start playing some sealed games on thursdays at the Black Rose in the upcomming month, though I guess there's not too much need to start playing sealed more regularly untill after Blood War comes out. Anyway, sorry this was so long. I just had a lot of ideas that I wanted to get out and discuss with everybody. By the way, I don't want it to sound like I'm trying to just decide what should happen as far as tournaments in the next few months. These are just ideas that I hope will encourage people to come out and play and practice for all the big sealed events coming up without having to spend a ton of money. Obviously all ideas are welcome and I look forward to discussing them with our local community.

One last thing. I've heard some of our local players say they don't like to play 200 point constructed as much as other formats because they don't have enough of the good competitive pieces to make multiple strong warbands. So I just want to let everyone know that I would be more than happy to lend out any pieces that anybody might need as long as I have them. Feel free to ask me either in a post here, in an e-mail(legend_bob_marely@hotmail.com), or in person and I will respond quickly to help out if I can. I don't want to speak for Gerald but I kno he has lent me figures many times in the last two years or so that I've been playing, especially when I was new to the game and didn't have many pieces. It really sucks not being able to play competitive bands just because you don't want to fork out tons of money to buy the older hard to get minis to make your warband. In fact that's the biggest reason I never wanted to play Magic. Anyway, I obviously have way too much time on my hands. Rambe over.

So who were the top placers that won trophies? Also what kind of prize support did everyone get? 

First, I think we should definately wait untill Blood War is out to hold the Limited Open.

[/QUOTE]We sure will be waiting until Dec for this event.  Want to spread them out.  As for Draft or sealed, that can be talked about later along with weither we will allow you to bring in any 2 boosters or just have the boosters at part of the entry fee.