DragonCon 2004 - tournament announcement

DragonCon 2004 will take place in Atlanta, Georgia from September 3rd thru September 6th. http://www.dragoncon.org/ The following V:TES events will be run during the convention: Friday 1 pm - 9 pm V:TES World of Darkness Draft Fee unlisted Description: V:EKN sanctioned booster draft tournament. A mixed (but fixed) assortment of 8 boosters per player. Two rounds plus a final. (2.5 hour final round starts at 6pm). Additional Master: Discipline cards will be provided, up to 2 per player. Saturday 9 am - 6 pm V:TES Dragon's Breath Tournament Fee $dragoncon decided (probably 3) Expect 40-50 players (10 tables) Description: V:EKN sanctioned constructed deck tournament. Three rounds plus a final (the final starts at 5pm?). Sunday 9 am - 12 noon V:TES Demo and Rapid Thought Tournaments Fee $dragoncon decided (probably 3) Expect 10-30 players Description: Demos for new players and continuous 9 player Rapid Thought tournaments as they fill up. Rapid Thought follows standard V:EKN rules except that each round is 45 minutes, libraries must be 60 cards, and the banned list is extended to include: Minion Tap, Blood Doll, and Tribute to the Master. Sunday 1 pm - 8 pm Fee $dragoncon decided (probably 3) Expect 15-25 players Description: Unsanctioned constructed deck tournament. Create your own vampires for your 12-card crypt. See construction parameters at: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/cac.html Monday 9 am - 4 pm Fee $dragoncon decided (probably 3) Description: Bring your own mix-n-match selection of 9 booster packs from any White Wolf sets (11 card boosters only, that is). Additional Master: Discipine cards will be provided, up to 2 per player. Remember: the grouping rule is not used in sealed deck tournaments. Two rounds plus a final (the final round starts at 2 pm).

The Lasombra wrote: > Sunday 1 pm - 8 pm > Fee $dragoncon decided (probably 3) > Expect 15-25 players > Description: Unsanctioned constructed deck tournament. Create your > own vampires for your 12-card crypt. See construction parameters at: > http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/cac.html Note: this URL isn't active yet. It will be up RealSoonNow(tm), though. :-) -- LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc. Links to V:TES news, rules, cards, utilities, and tournament calendar: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/

LSJ <vte...@white-wolf.com> wrote in message news:<qAiIc.234682$Gx4.1...@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>... > The Lasombra wrote: > > Sunday 1 pm - 8 pm > > Fee $dragoncon decided (probably 3) > > Expect 15-25 players > > Description: Unsanctioned constructed deck tournament. Create your > > own vampires for your 12-card crypt. See construction parameters at: > > http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/cac.html > > Note: this URL isn't active yet. > It will be up RealSoonNow(tm), though. :-) OK. It's up. http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/cac.html

>OK. It's up. >http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/cac.html I'll skip with criticisms of the point method since that has never gotten me anywhere before. While I'm sure this will get ignored as well, I think the last prize is a bad idea. I've always found that doling out prizes based on who makes games fun is exceedingly unfair, for instance more gregarious personalities are far more likely to win, and tends to produce behavior that may be not be desirable such as playing to be fun rather than playing to win (in this case, possibly something more likely in the later rounds when people don't think they will make the finals).

[ quoted text not captured ] While your critisizim of a prize for being "fun" is in no way invalid in a general sense, the whole "create your own clan" event is a completely absurdist venture from the get go, and as such, splitting hairs between "playing to win" and "playing to be fun" is mostly irrelevant. I don't think anyone who is going to be invoved in the create a clan event is going to be in the least bit concerened with winning the event overall, and the whole exercise will be one of, pretty much, pure gag material (i.e. the whole event will be lighthearted and no one will really care who wins). I'd see your point is highly valid if there were, say, prizes for "most fun player" in a sanctioned tournament. Create a clan, however, is not a sanctioned tournament, and is mostly intended to be funny. -Peter

I would like to play in several of the Dragon*Con Tournaments. Do I need to pre-register for these tournaments? If so, what is the process that I should go through in order to register for these wonderful events? Ira Knight

"Ira Knight" <irkn...@uncg.edu> wrote in message news:33ae5f0f.04071...@posting.google.com... [ quoted text not captured ] Go to www.dragoncon.org for details on how to register for the con and how to register (buy tickets) for each event. [ quoted text not captured ]