Things have made a full shift to store base support now for prereleases. Both my stores DO still have prereleases, but they are being managed/handled from the stores themselves. please check the calendar/site of the store you visit for info on the prereleases, it wont be here any more!
the following is put up specifically by the Burnsville store, but both stores are operating the same way, so the info is good for both.
http://www.legiongames.com/dark-ascension-prerelease-info
we’ve got the following 9 vendors in house ready to buy your old stuff, and sell you new stuff!
Powernine.com
Star city
Channel fireball
Strikezone
Troll and toad
Blackbelt bazaar
Magic stronghold
Hobby goblins
Fusion gaming
Steve
all updated on the PTQ page here
Our first PTQ is just a month away in Minneapolis! Get your modern decks ready!
AAAaannnd already updated. had a date crossed from 2/25 madison to 3/3 minneapolis. those are switched now to have MN on 2/25 and WI on 3/3. there was a conflict with a pastimes PTQ in Chicago on the 25th, so we’ll get that PTQ a little farther away from chicago to give you guys some more options 
Steve
Here’s a great video featuring a bunch of great things to do in Austin, specifically south city.
In other news, Country Inn and suites has “sweetened the pot” for those of you looking for a place to stay and aren’t tied to being within walking distance to the convention center. In addition to offering shuttles to and from the venue, they are offering a small meeting room in their facility to be used for prep/drafting/whatever!
They have free parking and are offering shuttle service to/from the venue. Cost is $99 per night and includes free breakfast. call 512-380-0008 – ask for the “Magic the Gathering” rate, anyone who handles your call should be able to get you this special unpublished rate!
We have it worked out to get both 5x PWPs AND the full points/qualifications for both the TCGplayer event AND the SCG event at the GP Austin! woohoo!
Hey Magic players! It has come to my attention that the Premium level qualifiers (such as the star city games open IQs) that I had planned on running as sides at GP Austin to replace the PTQ that wont be made available to me will retain their 2x multiplier… despite being sides at the GP, the 2x for premium series Qualifiers stays intact.
So the question is this. Assuming I run a tournament with some prize money on it (lets say $2000 to start)… which is better:
option a) an invitational event that lands you an invitation to a larger event down the road (either TCG player or SCG) with a 2x multiplier
or
option b) a “normal” event that does not run an invite, pays same cash prize but gives 5x multiplier.
I am running this post over to legion events’ facebook page where I will create 2 comments. please like the one you would vote for. a fairly informal poll, but I’d like to get some data so I can provide the best thing for the players!
(if any of my friends down in texas promoting this to their southern friends who may attend the GP could push this out to their friends, I would greatly appreciate it!)
Vote away, and thanks in advance for your help!
Steve
I promised a super cool playmat for Austin… and oh man is it sweet. RK post did the “Rosie Angel” art as a piece for Legion Supplies and it’s being made into sleeves and deckboxes that should be on shelves at your favorite game stores by late november. I thought it was a perfect fit for the “keep austin weird” theme, so Neal and I hammered out a design that uses this awesome art, the flavor of Texas AND gives you plenty of space to customize. RK WILL be on site to add his awesome doodles to your mat, he’ll be there Friday afternoon, working like a slave all weekend and is sure to get some backlog, so make sure you get it to him early!
I’ll have a limited number of the deckbox and sleeves on site for sale as well!
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whoa, a month since the last update, that’s no bueno.
Too bad I’m coming back with bad news. WotC has disallowed drafts at prereleases, this is apparently not new news, but since the elimination of regional prereleases, I have been out of the loop on the details. I apologize that my info pages listed drafts, I only post the stuff here and not only on store sites because you’re all used to finding the info here, and I JUST found out today that info is wrong.
so sealed events only. no drafts. ALSO, due to a restriction down to 4 events only, we have to cancel 2HG on sunday afternoon. 2HG sunday afternoon is cancelled.
on the bright side of things GP Austin is taking shape, venue contract is in, vendors are lined up, hotel booking is squared… now if only i knew what format we’re going to be running! I promise you, if I knew I would tell you, I’ve been asking and asking what my format will be and keep being told “we’ll get that for you soon”. Soon as I know, YOU’LL know!
Have fun prereleasing (yeah I just verbed that) and dont forget states coming up Oct 15th, and a PTQ in Madison + a YGO Regionals in Minneapolis on halloween weekend! (Oct 29th).
Steve
In the vein of “Keeping Austin Weird“, I’m bringing one of the strangest people I know to Austin… RK Post! We’ll be doign a promo playmat featuring RKs art (with a modification on a great new piece he did for some new Legion Supplies deckboxes and sleeves). We’ll get that image worked up and posted as soon as we can!
RK claims to have “Nevah been to Texas.” I can’t think of a better place to introduce him to Texas than Austin!
Wotc Announced the location of PT#1 in 2012 plus new information on the first wave of Grand Prix to hit next year.
I’m proud to announce that Legion Events has been chosen to host the first Grand Prix of the expanded 2012 season in Austin, Texas! We’re a bare 3 months from the event, and a lot of work to get done before it gets here, so Check back for updated info as I’m able to complete and broadcast it!
(and before you ask; nope, I don’t know anything about the variable prize payout either. That was as much news to me in that announcement as it was to you!)
Steve
