Don't make me ride over the hill and slap yer antlers around!
Quote by TCO: I see a future when Tournament players unassumingly join casual multiplayer games, and start insisting on rules and procedures. Its bad enough when you see the fireworks when this happens in two-player games. Multiplayer games are traditionally casual turf...
Okay, by your reaction I can see I haven't quite explained myself:
I was searching the internet one day last May trying to locate Card Shops in the Metro Pittsburgh area (pfft, like we actually HAVE a "Metro" area
) that sold magic cards. I stumbled across this one called Helm's Deep in Dormont (a neighborhood in Pittsburgh) but the store is now renamed The Main Event. Anyway, I saw they were granting discounts for GASP members (GASP stands for: Gamming Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania) so I clicked on a link they had provided for GASP's Homepage (
www.GASPgamer.com) and I found out about the Rogue League; a year-long, point-based, multiplayer, nonsacnctioned, Magic:The Gathering tournament <----Note: It said "tournament" Of course, it caught my eye and I contacted the chairperson for the league and researched it's existing rules and "House Rules"
I must've e-mailed this guy like 20 times just asking for clarification on the rules and he was glad to see me take such a unique interest in their league. I studied and memorized their entire rules book and began researching a deck that would best fit this format. Now I've said this before but all that research (not assuming anything, either) I entered and won June's Rogue League game....10 hrs. later.
I do like rules and since there was a donation fee involved with a ca$h payout at the end of the season (Dec), I expected everyone else to abide by the rules.
Six months later, I am now the chairperson for our new tounament game called The Multiplayer Magic League. I tightned up the loose ends with the rules and even posted them here,....somewhere.
It's working great! And, YES, once in a while we get tangled in a rules dispute but it's mostly from an uninformed stand-point rather than a "Newbie doesn't know the rules" stand point.
And, although I can be a "Jerk" while playing the game, I always take the time to give Kudo's where they are deserved and shake the hand of the opponent that "Takes me out of the game" (when that happens
).
Jerk examples: You can often hear me taunting another aggressive opponent by saying things like "Are ya gonna cast sumthin' or just stare at your mana!"
or this lil' gem: "Draw-Land-Cast-Attack-End Turn!" when they take too much time during their upkeep. I'm just "jaggin'" around (a Pittsburgh term meaning being jerky), but that's my game, well, at least for now.
When I play with my friends (Mooseman et al) I pretty much try to keep myself contained as these people are some of the nicest people I know and I want to KEEP playing with them.
Whereinthehell am I with my point?
Whatever. See you all Monday!