PTQ Weekend

The PTQ, short for Pro Tour Qualifier, is coming up this Sunday (31st).

It’s a relatively big deal to do well in and if I win it, which the odds are against me, I qualify for the Pro Tour of Magic (duh), which even being on is an accomplishment.

 

It’s a long grueling day of competitive Magic, which I’m getting into more and more as I get better. While, I like staying in the shell that is casual Friday events, I can always dream of doing better. This is my first constructed, build your own deck and play it, that I have been too in awhile, mostly because not being able to afford the rising costs of Magic cards. The deck I’m playing is a friend of mine and I have have tested it against a gauntlet of mainstream decks to prepare myself as best I can. This is also my first PTQ that I’m going into with a DCI rating of over 1700, The DCI rating system keeps track of players and how well their doing, this also doubles as a reward incentive program for playing in more events. Every event that you win gains (or subtracts) from your total a variable amount based on your opponents number and the K-Value of the event.

 

But aside from the information that affects the two, and only two people that read my blog. I can only hope to garner wishes of luck, if you care enough to send them. I will be posting a detailed report written, hopefully on-site if I’m diligent enough and will seem like a foreign language to those who no little or nothing about the game other than that it’s expensive to play.

 

As long as I get a good nights sleep in the hotel and a decent breakfast in the morning I should be fine

My goal is set to do better than 3-2, 3 match wins and 2 match loses. Once a player gets to two match loses, it is considered that he/she is out of the tournament

Home Alone

I recently opted out of going to the beach with my brother and mom. My reasons are that I often don’t get a lot of enjoyment out of sitting on the beach or swimming in the water, especially since it’s ice-cold or full of jellyfish, and most of the tourist attractions there that are fun cost a lot of money, which I don’t have.

I figure, why not just stay home alone, rent some movies/games, hang out with friends and not be bugged by my family.

 

I’ll see how it works out

It’s only a week

SBCG4AP Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner, in review

SBCG4AP, which is abbrivated from Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People, came out with it’s first episode today, entitled “Homestar Ruiner”. This is created with help from from Mike and Matt Chapman and with the actual game being created by Telltale Games, the same people responsible for the new Sam and Max episodes, which I also recommened.

The summary of the episode starts with Strong Bad “Checkin’ the Email” and recieving a request from a email writer, the emails in this game are generated by the Bros. Chaps to help with the storyline of the episode.

The request here is to beat-up Homestar, however, Strong Bad learns about the Free Country USA Race to the End of the Race (FCURTER in the game), which homestar is competing in. Strong Bad sabotoges Homestar and causes him to get into a whole mess of trouble. The aftermath if which leaves Homestar mopping around the House of Strong. Strong Bad “races” to undo his acts of mischief by dressing up as homestar, again, cleaning his criminal record, etc.

Various Side quests are present, like trying to find lost game manual pages to “Snake Boxer 5″, a game playable on Strong Bad’s FunStation, but collecting the pages will unlock “the super secret forbidden mode“. You can also make your own Teen Girl Squad, this list can also go on.

With all the cool extras, dialog and coolness factor of walking around Free Country USA and saluting the Strong Badia flag, it’s worth the 10$ purchase on WiiWare or 8.95 on TellTale’s website for your PC

I recommened this for H*R fans with a rating of 8/10 and 6/10 for non-fans.

GraphJam.com

All of these are random

Most of them appeal to my sense of humor

Thanks again to Peter B. for the link