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So I'll hit you with some rapid fire questions.

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What was your favorite part of doing the event?

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For me, just getting to play in a large scale event again.

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I played in a whole bunch for Magic.

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Like I remember doing a bunch of like the sealed grand prix's and I'm used to playing

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in 1500, 2000 player events and it was fun just to be back in that situation again.

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I like that.

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What did you say?

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Did you have a favorite part of the event?

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Yeah, to piggyback off what you just said, been to Magic events with Cliff years ago

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and Dunsign events.

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And at that moment it was very, still very intimidating for me.

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I'm not like the best card player ever.

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So it, even though you're doing like a draft or a sealed or something like that, pretty

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casual, it's still kind of intimidating.

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You're playing across from somebody that has probably played for years and you haven't

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at this event, it didn't feel like that at all.

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And I really liked that.

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I feel like there's a lot of people new to card games in general, which is weird for

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me because like that used to be me.

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So I am kind of teaching them a little bit.

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I feel like Lorcan is at a very beginner friendly phase right now.

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That's awesome.

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I love the accessibility part of it.

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Great call out.

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Cause yeah, Magic can feel like an old boys club.

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When I tried to get Olivia to play Magic, it was 2009.

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So the game had been around for 20 years and you've got 50 million cards that you need

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to know and learn and everything like that.

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And if you've been doing it the whole time, all the important ones stick with you.

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Like I'm sure I'm looking at Maximize this.

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You could probably look at any card from at any point.

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And if it was a card of importance, you'd know exactly what it is.

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That's right.

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No matter you verbatim Oracle text, current rules, text, you just know it.

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That's right.

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The Lurkana crowd is definitely more laid back than Magic.

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And I think that's just cause it is a much newer game.

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And it also is a more open environment to bring people in.

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There were a lot of little kids, a lot of adults and I mean, we're adults, but like

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generations older than us.

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That's awesome.

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People in their sixties and seventies they're playing because Disney brings more people

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in than the game itself.

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Oh yeah, absolutely.

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So I know you had said that one of the things you liked was just that there was a larger

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female presence.

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Oh yeah.

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I don't know if it's the game specific that it's a Disney thing.

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It's open to everybody.

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Everyone will be interested.

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Magic is more of a boys club.

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Yeah.

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It's nice to have a bigger female presence in something like this.

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It also contributes to me being less intimidated and that's really nice.

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Absolutely.

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I agree completely.

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I think that leads into the age of the game.

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Like Magic was all guys and it's so much a bigger game that even if 5% of the Magic population

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is women, you're still flooded out at maybe half a percent.

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It feels like in Lurkana you may be 15, 20 or 30% of the crowd.

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There's still room to go to get more used to the nerd space.

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But I also feel like the nerd gaming space is more open.

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People are more willing to enter it because there's not as much stigma behind it as there

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used to be when we were growing up.

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Oh yeah, absolutely.

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Nerd has become like a catchphrase or something that you can take a deep dive into, not a

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term you describe to somebody who doesn't quite fit in in the standard sense.

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So I'm glad to hear that there's a lot of different kinds of people who are drawn to

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the game and that they're keeping the atmosphere open for everybody to enjoy the game the way

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they want to enjoy it, which I think is great.

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The one thing I forgot to bring up during the day Sunday when we were playing the constructed

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side events, I had something come up with the two game format.

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If nobody has won after the second game, if it's a tie in a single elimination event,

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they do sudden death.

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So it's the first person to gain lore wins the game.

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And it was a blue red mirror match and we ended up on like turn six before we won, but

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it was like Teepo, Teepo, Sisu, Sisu, Brawl, Hiram.

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And I ended up winning like turn six and the judges surprised that it ended that quickly

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and that we had so many answers for each other's things.

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That is pretty back and forth for so few ink out of those decks.

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I looked at my open hand, solid develop your brain and everything else was not a Teepo.

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So it was like easy six did not have a Teepo off the mulligan, but I found double Sisu,

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Hiram and three Brawls.

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And I was like, I'm winning this game.

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Nice.

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Very cool.

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We use that awkward, I rule people may not be familiar with the segue into what was your

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least favorite thing about the event.

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The event specifically would be the two game format.

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It feels bad the whole time.

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Like when you win, even like for myself, it feels bad because it's like, okay, I now got

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seven points, which is more than your standard.

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I want in a best of three.

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Like the bonus point really is egregious in how quickly it propels you forward.

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Like we did the two game format at this point, a couple of months ago, a local game store

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and you had locked up the tournament after round three because you're the only person

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to win two, oh, two, oh, two, oh, right.

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You could have just, nope, I'm good.

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And still won.

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And like either doing the two game format to get rid of the intentional drawing into

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top eights for store champs.

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But you kind of get that anyway, if you've two, oh, two, oh, two, oh, nobody else can

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catch you.

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So you can just like, that's fine.

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I'm going to take a game from you and then concede.

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Right.

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Like, so you still end up with like, I think it's a feels worse.

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Absolutely.

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You can have this huge leap in points, which can definitely look a lot shabbier on paper.

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So that makes sense.

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I think it also, from what I've heard is it has that feeling when you're one, one of there's

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no resolution, which if you've played a lot of best of three, the point of the third game

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there is to break that and give you some final resolution.

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But without it, you can just be like, okay, so we're taking our three points each and nobody's

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getting that one bonus point, which kind of stinks.

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And like even knowing that at the end of round two, I had six points because I drew the first

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two rounds, knowing that if I had one two, oh, the next round and anybody that had two

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out lost, I'm still behind them, right, if they get no points around three and I've gotten

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points, points, bonus point, and I'm still beneath them is just like, that's where like

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they really feels bad.

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Absolutely.

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It makes it hard to want to climb that hill.

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Olivia, what was your least favorite thing or something that could use a little bit more

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tunings?

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The worst thing like for me was not at the event at all, but getting the tickets to go

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there was more stressful than it had to be, especially knowing how many people didn't

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make it to 150 people.

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No showed the main event.

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And then a bunch of attendees didn't show up knowing that that's crazy.

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Considering how me and Cliff were both each of our computers trying to get tickets through

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Eventbrite and what a struggle that was and just feeling like this is going to sell out

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in a couple of minutes.

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It sold out in 48 seconds.

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More stressful than the event, trying to get a ticket for the event.

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Yeah, I was lucky to get an attendee.

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We met a couple people that were there, like made travel plans and then showed up just

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hoping they'd get in.

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Yeah, so I played a girl on Sunday in one of the constructed events.

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She got an attendee ticket on Sunday.

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Her husband had gotten, or boyfriend I don't remember, had gotten a competitor ticket and

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she just came along for the trip and she showed up on Sunday morning and they're like, yeah,

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we have attendee tickets we can sell.

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Wow.

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She got to participate.

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She was taking selfies with everyone that she played with.

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It's like good for her that she was able to do that.

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I know like you guys, like that sucks.

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Right.

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Like my experience with like buying the tickets was like screaming at my computer because

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everything just spun and spun and spun and just, it's so unnecessarily stressful.

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I agree completely.

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As somebody who did that but had the opposite result, same amount of shouting, I'm sure.

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The frustrating thing for me is like, if you guys had known, like, oh, they'll be selling

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attendee tickets at the door.

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I would have definitely went.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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I've never seen it publicized anywhere.

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That's for sure.

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No one knows.

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People are no showing the tournaments and maybe they should, I don't know, take a hint

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from airlines and try an overbook maybe.

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I don't know.

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There's got to be a resolution for sure.

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So like for the event hall space, I don't know if you have a question about that, but

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like I can talk about the event hall space, was more than adequate to support more people

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than they had in there, which is great.

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We've been at magic events that are way too huge for the tiny little room that you're

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in.

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The Express Holiday Inn's conference room.

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Yeah.

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Westchester.

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Yeah.

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So there was room, which was nice, like walking around.

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The only time it was ever cramped was when you're with a bunch of other people trying

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to look at the vendor booth or when these rounds are pairing and seating, everyone trying

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to get to their seat outside of that adequate space everywhere.

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My issues with the hall were it was a 10 minute Uber ride off of the strip and it was like

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a four mile walk.

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Right.

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From our hotel.

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So not a feasible walk.

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No, not at all.

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That was annoying.

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There was also, when we first got dropped off, whoever the parking lot attendant is

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was cursing and screaming at every Uber driver that was dropping people off.

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Like, I will have you towed if you don't just drop them and leave.

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Wow.

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So like a bunch of our Uber drivers are like, it's never usually like this or like I've

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never been out here before.

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Right.

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So like that was weird.

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The other issue, I understand that events like this are booked six, eight, 12, 16, 18,

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24 months in advance.

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I understand that.

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There's one bathroom for men and women.

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That's scary.

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Men or women.

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Right.

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When you have potentially 3000, I don't know how many attendee tickets they sell, but there

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was 2048 competitor tickets possible.

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So if it's half of that as attendees, you've got 3000 people in a room.

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For guys, it was 12 urinals and like six stalls.

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Right.

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Not a lot.

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I don't know how it was for the women's room, but obviously there's a lot less women at

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the event, so less of an issue with having a line out of the bathroom in it's like theme

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parks, but for guys, right.

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The line.

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Women also have the negative of they don't have a urinal.

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Right.

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The bathroom layout though was prohibitive because everyone would funnel out waiting

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for the stall and you would not know that all of the urinals were open.

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Right.

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Until somebody shouted down the line, Hey, all the urinals are open.

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Right.

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Where the little cafeteria was was laid out poorly in that everyone had to funnel in to

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get their stuff and funnel back out through the same spot.

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Oh yeah.

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That's just so you were never really sure if you were in line, weren't in line in somebody's

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way or whatever.

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Yeah.

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Awkward.

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The hall itself was very nice.

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Like it wasn't that it was like run down or dingy.

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It just like poor location.

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Right.

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Not the most ideal.

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Yeah.

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That makes sense.

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That all being said, would you do another Disney Lurkana Challenger event?

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I would.

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It's the only like very competitive Lurkana that we have.

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The store champs are competitive.

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I'll say competitive plus.

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Competitive ish.

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Yeah.

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I having played card games for so long, I like the big event feel like when you're playing

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for a lot.

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Right.

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Stakes.

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Would you be an attendee to another Disney Lurkana Challenger or a competitor for the

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main event in the future?

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At this point, I would be interested in being a competitor.

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For me, it says a lot, but Lurkana definitely feels like a more casual game.

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So being in the side events, it was a good time.

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Awesome.

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So Olivia confirmed too good for just a side event.

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Too good.

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Too good.

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Too good.

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So what would, if you had a piece of advice to give to somebody who was going to their

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first, if Seattle is going to be their first Disney Lurkana Challenger event and you could

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just give them one piece of advice, what would be the piece of advice you would give them?

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Other than your previous about be a good person if you have the opportunity to be excellent

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to each other.

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Don't play slow.

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Don't play slow.

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Put in like a little bit of time and effort before the event.

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Make it worth your time.

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Even if you live in the Seattle area, it's still a higher cost to play.

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You're still going out of your way to do it.

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Invest a little in yourself and play with your friends.

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Even if you guys all play casual, just play some games.

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Really make it worth your time.

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I'm not saying like set expectations of I'm going to win this.

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If you are new to the game, set your expectations up.

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I want to get to the 10 points to get some prize ball tickets.

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Absolutely.

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Go in with like a little bit of purpose and you can still have fun doing that.

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I like the combination of your two answers being kind of respectful.

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Be respectful of everyone's time.

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Be respectful of your own time and make sure you're trying to get the most out of the commitment.

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Like Cliff said, you have 45 minutes.

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Be respectful of your opponent and give them the opportunity to play the game as well,

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but also make sure you're thinking through your important turns.

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Don't shortcut yourself because you have time to focus.

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Each game should take you about 20 minutes.

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You should have a touch of leftover time and that's where you can buy in those important

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inflection points in the game.

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Let me take an extra minute to think this one through, but perhaps not two minutes to

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think about your first turn ink.

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Let's have practiced enough to know that.

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I think that's fair.

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I think it's well said on both ends.

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Points out, hey, I think you are playing a little slowly.

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Don't be offended.

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No.

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Just be aware that maybe you are taking a little longer because you may not be aware

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of it.

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Just take it as like a constructive criticism that's not meant to attack or hurt you.

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Just hey, we need to make sure this game finishes.

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Yes.

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And I think to piggyback off you and advice I would give not having done a DLC, but having

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done way too many magic events is the judges are there to help you.

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They want to help you.

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Do not be afraid to call them over.

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If your opponent calls a judge on you, don't be upset.

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The judge can answer any question.

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It could be as simple as can you tell me what the text on that Donald Duck musketeer card

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does the one with bodyguard?

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Can you tell me how that works?

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Just to make sure they know, but they also don't want to ask you because they may indicate

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to you that that's the card they don't want you to play.

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That's the card they're going to have the most trouble playing around.

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That's their worst case scenario card.

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So they may need to pull a judge aside just to ask them the text on a card.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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They may be asking for an objective.

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How does this work?

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Yes.

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And then judges are supposed to not give anything other than an objective answer of bodyguard

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works as if it can be attacked.

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It has to be attacked.

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Yes.

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Exactly.

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It's just that could be anything.

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Call the judge when you need it.

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You don't have to be upset if somebody calls a judge they're there to help everybody equally.

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Don't feel like you're trying to intimidate the opponent and don't feel intimidated or

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bad in any way about a judge being there.

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They're just there to help.

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And I know there's a lot of negative stigma around judge calls, but I definitely am judging

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events and playing in events.

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I assure you, judge is happy to help and there's nothing wrong with calling a judge.

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All the judges that I interacted with were very nice.

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All of them just wanted the event to run as smoothly as they possibly could get it to

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run.

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Last thing, and if you've touched on pieces of it, I think throughout is what would you

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like to see different after worlds?

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We get into a new season of Disney, Larkana Challenger events.

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What would you like to see a little bit differently next time around?

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So I know this horse is dead in our conversations between me and you guys.

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I just want PPG to, I guess, be more aware of the amount of people that want to play

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the game.

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For sure.

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I hope that they are already working on finding a better site than Eventbrite to funnel tickets

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to.

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I hope they're looking at larger venues to house more people so everyone can play.

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I would like to see more vendors and I get that will come as the game ages where more

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people are getting into the space.

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The feels bad is that they did have a couple artists there, but you had to again run the

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Eventbrite Gauntlet to get a ticket for a specific time to go see the artists where

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they would sign two cards for you.

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And if you were playing in the main event and your time is, I'm saying like 1 30 and

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that's the middle of your round.

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Well, you don't get to go.

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You can't call a judge for a time extension to go over and get your card signed.

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I don't know if the ticket was like, hey, show up between two and four and playing in

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a bunch of magic events.

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It's not unreasonable for you to have two rounds that go to time depending on the deck

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you're playing.

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And you may not have at any point in those two hours time to go stand in a line to then

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talk to the artist or whatever it is because you're going to take that time to go to the

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bathroom, ram some food down your throat real quick, catch a drink, just take a breath.

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I think if I could offer constructive criticisms, it's just like a just honest, like, hey, we

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did not expect this many people would be this interested this quickly.

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You really surprised us with Atlanta and have blown our expectations out of the water for

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every single one since then we are working on fixing it.

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And this is our perspective timeframe of where the improvements will be implemented.

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That would be lovely.

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We see you and we're working on it would be great.

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I like that.

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And that goes like with anything.

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If a company is having a hard time with something or struggling, just honesty with the community,

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we've all been there.

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Right.

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And I think it's good will.

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Absolutely.

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That you can buy a lot of respect from your community just by being honest.

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Yes.

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We're all understand.

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We're all people trying to make something work.

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It doesn't always just be honest, be transparent.

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Yeah.

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My, my hopes are something on truly the East coast because like from where we are, our nearest

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one was 12 hours away.

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Yeah.

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Can we go down to Atlanta or up to Toronto?

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You pick.

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Right.

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So Toronto would be 11 and Chicago is like a 12 hour, 14 hour drive.

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Yep.

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We had nothing in our general area.

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Which is unusual because normally we would get like a New York, Philly, Boston, somewhere

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in there.

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Right.

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I would love to see something in between DC and Boston.

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Absolutely agree.

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And like even a little out West, I would take Pittsburgh.

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Sure.

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It's not that far.

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I'd said to you beforehand, Vegas would have been the one for them to try five or 10,000

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people.

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I fully agree.

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Just because of what Vegas is with everyone wants to go there because there's so much

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other stuff to do.

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It's not prohibitively expensive to go to.

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You can make the trip prohibitively expensive, but that's on you.

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That's on you.

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Vegas Convention Center houses so many people.

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Realistically, the event could have been held in any of the larger casinos.

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Absolutely.

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They have hall space.

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Like when we were there, there was probably 25 other expos or conventions running.

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Pretty much always.

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From any field of work.

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MGM or yeah, any of those.

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There's always a convention going on.

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So like it could have been held in one of the large casinos.

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It would have been easier for everyone to get to.

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I get that they're new and they're trying.

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Yeah.

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The first step is an important one and hopefully we get to see improvement come with the choices

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for a second step at this point.

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Great call outs.

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Olivia, anything you would like to see?

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Yeah.

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Same thing.

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Like bigger events with more people in more cities.

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I love it.

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That way everyone gets a chance to go.

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Right.

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If we whiff enough times, right?

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Like I don't get to play the game at a high enough level enough times, there's no point

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me playing the game.

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If that's my intent is like Klaas said to be playing at a high level for high stakes

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and I don't get the opportunity to do that enough.

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I'm going to go, well, I'm going to move on to a game where I can.

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So far with everything Ravensburger has improved everything, whether it be low availability

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of supply, anything else in between, they have worked on improving.

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I have faith that they will improve on this.

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Fingers are crossed anyway that we'll be able to do it come the post worlds DLC events and

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hopefully we all get to go or at least those of us who really would like to play at that

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level would be very, very exciting.

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Might even be happy to see if they modified the store champs some and made them like GPTs

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or PTQs.

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Absolutely.

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Magic had the qualifiers where if you win the store champs, you get invited to go play

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in the larger event.

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Buy is there something in a larger event?

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Something like that can be really, really good.

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That extra little bit of sleep is a big deal.

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Yes.

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So yeah, I totally agree with you and I'm hoping that they're willing to expand, change

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things.

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Even if they change it and make it worse, I'm happy to see them trying and testing different

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things.

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Or if they want the store chance to be like more casual, give us events.

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That are qualifiers to get in.

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So then you can avoid the event, bright, call it.

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Absolutely.

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Like winning this guarantee.

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Here's your ticket.

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We've allotted 200 tickets, 200 of these tournaments will run across the country.

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You're guaranteed in and you get round one by.

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Yeah, that'd be awesome.

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Be a lot of fun.

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Well, I'm glad you guys got to go.

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I'm glad you got to have a good time.

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We look forward to hearing more hopefully from folks.

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We know who are going out to Seattle.

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Then from there we got continentals and then worlds to look forward to.

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I'm pretty excited to see how they both shake out at Disneyland and world respectively.

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So that should be pretty awesome.

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And we know that no matter how you do at one of these events, the only way to get that

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coveted to well is keep questioning.