Killer Joe
New member
The MML is comming up on the end of it's second season and we're at a fork in the road; on one hand it's becomming more competetive and on the other some of the founding members of GASP are no loger participating in the MML.
GASP started in 1999 as a group of friends who were always getting together and playing a variety of games to include Magic. A friend wanted to bring a different friend and others did the same and the group grew to about 15 gamers. So they agreed to have it once a month in a "Party Room" at one of the original friends apartment complex. BTW, the original group of friends are called The Royal Court it's kind of cool.
By the end of that year they had a lot of folks comming and they put together their very own "con" which is now called GASPcon{X} (this past month is was called GASPcon 7). But since the beginning they always had a large multiplayer game that they called "Chaos Magic".
After a year or so it dissolved because too much *bickering* was going on about rules and such no one wanted to play anymore. Then, a year or two later one of the original friends started it back up but made it a year-long, point-based league and called it the Rogue League.It ran two or three years until that "friend" disbanded it in December of 2004. That's where I stepped in.
At the end of that last game in December I had already designed the MML, in fact I solicited alot of help from you all: remeber the Serum Visions thing and all the variations I wrote about?
So the MML came to be and most of our rules were just like the Rogue League's such as: No Proxy Cards, No Vanguard Character Cards and no "ante" cards. They used to have the Virtual Howling Mine but I suggested a change to that which later became the "Serum Visions Effect" which, imo, is WAYYY better.
Now it's the end of year two for the MML and it seems to be doing okay, this year we had more participants than ever before some 20 plus *uniques* including Mooseman
But all of the "original" friends have stopped playing and this bothers me, alot. I just can't help feeling that they stopped playing because of the competetive environment I helped foster within the MML. I charied the MML it's first year because it was my idea and I won the whole she-bang. I'm in second place THIS year and am poised to win again.
Though it *irked* me to no end that some of the "original" friends would play 150+ card decks with NO FOCUS and play vanilla cards like Grizzly Bears and Healing Salve but then I'd play an end of their turn Rout and cycle a Decree of Justice with Mirrari's Wake in play *smash* on my turn.
One by one they stpooed playing until this past March when the last of them just flat out stopped playing and announced his "retirement" from playing Magic.
This is my quandry: Do I keep going to GASP and continue to play *Smash* type decks and therefore perpetuate a competetive atmosphere, or do I keep going and play Pre-cons from different sets; or do I just stop going.
Although I DID create this environment doesn't mean I HAVE to DO anything about it and just let it run its course and maybe put the brakes on me. However there are one or two others with the same instinct as mine who may not have the same self discipline.
Any comments are greatly appreciated. Thanks
GASP started in 1999 as a group of friends who were always getting together and playing a variety of games to include Magic. A friend wanted to bring a different friend and others did the same and the group grew to about 15 gamers. So they agreed to have it once a month in a "Party Room" at one of the original friends apartment complex. BTW, the original group of friends are called The Royal Court it's kind of cool.
By the end of that year they had a lot of folks comming and they put together their very own "con" which is now called GASPcon{X} (this past month is was called GASPcon 7). But since the beginning they always had a large multiplayer game that they called "Chaos Magic".
After a year or so it dissolved because too much *bickering* was going on about rules and such no one wanted to play anymore. Then, a year or two later one of the original friends started it back up but made it a year-long, point-based league and called it the Rogue League.It ran two or three years until that "friend" disbanded it in December of 2004. That's where I stepped in.
At the end of that last game in December I had already designed the MML, in fact I solicited alot of help from you all: remeber the Serum Visions thing and all the variations I wrote about?
So the MML came to be and most of our rules were just like the Rogue League's such as: No Proxy Cards, No Vanguard Character Cards and no "ante" cards. They used to have the Virtual Howling Mine but I suggested a change to that which later became the "Serum Visions Effect" which, imo, is WAYYY better.
Now it's the end of year two for the MML and it seems to be doing okay, this year we had more participants than ever before some 20 plus *uniques* including Mooseman
But all of the "original" friends have stopped playing and this bothers me, alot. I just can't help feeling that they stopped playing because of the competetive environment I helped foster within the MML. I charied the MML it's first year because it was my idea and I won the whole she-bang. I'm in second place THIS year and am poised to win again.
Though it *irked* me to no end that some of the "original" friends would play 150+ card decks with NO FOCUS and play vanilla cards like Grizzly Bears and Healing Salve but then I'd play an end of their turn Rout and cycle a Decree of Justice with Mirrari's Wake in play *smash* on my turn.
One by one they stpooed playing until this past March when the last of them just flat out stopped playing and announced his "retirement" from playing Magic.
This is my quandry: Do I keep going to GASP and continue to play *Smash* type decks and therefore perpetuate a competetive atmosphere, or do I keep going and play Pre-cons from different sets; or do I just stop going.
Although I DID create this environment doesn't mean I HAVE to DO anything about it and just let it run its course and maybe put the brakes on me. However there are one or two others with the same instinct as mine who may not have the same self discipline.
Any comments are greatly appreciated. Thanks
