I do know the power of the dark side

thanks to the charlotte crew for coming up and helping this informal event happen. thanks to arcane wonders for prize support for the event. and always a shout out for the great stl crew for making this so much fun.

and a special thanks to the surprise showing at the last moment of hanma. was cool of him to throw a book together  out of cards in my collection that were not part of my 12 decks. so a ton of lesser options. he was a great sport about it and did not expect to win. he had fun socializing and just playing. he was very rusty not having played for a couple years. and not knowing any of the cards that have been released. he said he has missed the event community. got caught up in nostalgia and considering appearing at gencon. hope that can happen.

as mentioned i played ac warlock. felt that since we were in sharkeys home turf that someone should be burinating the countryside. i set a lot of stuff on fire. fms, bears, trolls, beast masters etc. note most everything burned nicely. i invited others to roast marshmellows. 

first match was vs andrews fm. surging wave. then lash and fireballs. note his book was experimental and not rigorously tested. he blames arthur. hehe.
second match was vs mikes warlord. my book was a hard counter to this very fire susceptible book.
third was vs grizzlys famous straywood bm. very hard match. could have gone either way for a while. i got put on the ropes for a while. then managed to wrest control back and burnt everything to a crisp. i like my beastmaster well done.

a great time was had by all from what i could tell. thanks grizzly for the cool trophy.  and thanks to everyne who competed.  hanma is right. the community is so great. wish all who wanted to be here could have been. gencon hopefully for folks or perhaps mace, or next year con season.

misspoke. 2 rows. origins does not have any good way to determine which tables
are reserved or for how long.

ok today more in the middle back of hall a. about 5 rows from theback wall in the middle.

for folks arriving at the con. i am holding some tables near the back middle of hall a.

Seems to be shorter matches would also help the event completed quicker too.

   by this same logic a lot of people who left may have had the same opinion as the clear majority (55%) - a more likely possibility if the responses are an average. further the 50% you cite is incorrect. the poll numbers show  was closer to 40% think similarly to you. and there may be a lot who have no opinion either way. there are many who read the site but never post anything. so no real conclusions can be drawn from this.  nor can one conclude rules were the reason why folks left. perhaps that was the reason for some of them. we will not know. however that is not to discount some interesting suggestions. but to say hey the minority has it correct and we need to make serious changes does not follow.