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This weekend We’ve got a back to back Standard Event weekend with an MMS Qualifier on Saturday and a PTQ for Philly on Sunday! Saturday afternoon (about Round 4 of the MMS) we’ll have a trial for the MMS Series as well, get a few points for your qualification and lock a bye for the next MMS Qualifier!
All the events are standard Constructed and are both being held at the beautiful Monona Terrace. Registration begins at 9 each day with Round 1 beginning at 10am, plenty of time to get there early on saturday and hit the farmers market before we start! There are plenty of hotel options on each side of town. Few hotels in town are more than 15 minutes away from the venue, and there are a few in short walking distance right downtown.
Hope to see you this weekend!
Steve
Due to me being an idiot. Evan Erwin’s flight was misbooked for tomorrow instead of today. that means he’s not going to be here saturday. I called to change the flight and was told in one case that I couldn’t because the time was too close to the departing flight, and in another that it was going to be over 800 to make the change.
My apologies to anyone who was planning on coming to see Evan on Saturday. Please come back Sunday (or just come out on sunday if you have to pick a day) to see him. he’ll still be there Sunday till 4pm.
I’ve updated the side events (they’re all open to the public, so calling them public events, just seems silly!) and a bit of other information including details about the Longbox we’re giving away to every player in every side event we run (while supplies last, but I got a LOT of them!)
Check out the page HERE
Casper Gronneman takes a look at MC3 from a European Perspective. Fully translated article on the Starkingtonpost.com!
Many of you will have already seen this on “the mother ship”.
Big changes coming in year 2012.
Some bullet points:
The Pro Tour will become exclusive invite only events.
Regional Prereleases will end. (we’ll still have some of the largest prereleases around at Misty and Misty North though!)
MANY Grand Prix events will be added around the world.
At this time we believe that PTQs will be completely unaffected.
Head to the link above and read up!
Before anyone gets their hackles up over this, it seems to me to be nothing but win. I would expect with the larger number of GPs, we’ll see some smaller attendances, making them easier to handle/plan for. We’re currently hitting 1000-1200 in some pretty light markets. a few more will hopefully get this down into the 6-700 range a little more frequently. For Prereleases, we’ll hold them similar to what we have been for the time being. However, Misty Mountain North will be moving in the next 6 months, as our location in valley ridge mall is being eliminated for a new city project. Keep your eye out for information on the new location, which will hopefully be coming in the next several weeks to a month!
Steve
2 years ago we had Regionals.
Last year we had Nationals Qualifiers.
THIS year we have a Regional Nationals Qualifier!
Got it?
GOOD! National Qualifiers this year are broken into 2 different types of events over 3 weekends. April 16th, this Saturday, there are 17 National Qualifiers being held in regional locations around the country. Minneapolis is one of those places. The Regional Nats Qs are 8 slot qualifiers; the top 8 make Nationals. The following 2 weekends there will be 1 slot national Qualifiers all over the country in WPN Hobby stores. We’ll be hosting these 1 slot events in both Misty Mountain Locations as well!
Legion Events will host a Regional Nats Q at the Minneapolis Convention Center this year. We’re upstairs in Ballroom B. See you there!
Added: I was just informed that through priceline.com you can put in 3 1/2 star hotels for $45 and the Millenium hotel is accepting. Millenium is about the closest hotel to the venue.
We’ve had a little trouble securing an artist, so we’re adding a second gunslinger to the Regional Prerelease at Misty Mountain North on May 7th!
We had already lined up Evan “The Magic Show” Erwin to come and battle you for packs… and now we’ve added The Innovator, Patrick Chapin to the mix!.
Come hang out with us and claim your share of the packs Evan and Patrick will be battling for!
Check out the new video Patrick posted this week… Jace, Jace, JACE!
I’ve got Eric Descamps and Daarken lined up to come out to GP Kansas City (and working on a possible 3rd who I will announce once it’s confirmed!)
Zac Hill and Ryan Miller from WotC will be on site slinging spells and challenging your decks (and hopefully not giving away too many of my packs!)
Steve
(Duplicated from midwestmastersseries.com)
We’ve been working on a deal for a few weeks now and are pleased to announce that all Midwest Masters Series Regional Qualifiers (including last weekend’s event in Pittsburgh!) will provide points to the Wizard World/TCGPlayer.com $75,000 series as well as MMS points! TCGPlayer.com’s announcement HERE!
Each Midwest Masters Regional Qualifier awards $3,000 in cash prizes. The events will also award free passes to Gencon to each of the top 8 players (these badges WILL NOT pass down if someone scores multiple top 8 finishes!) plus Booster boxes, top 8 sleeves, top 8 playmats, plus limited edition sleeves for the judges and custom Gen Con sleeves not available anywhere else to be given away at random to attendees! and NOW TCGPlayer.com points!
TCGplayer.com Midwest Masters Double Qualifiers Will be hosted at 9 locations around the Midwest. TCGplayer.com Midwest Masters Double Qualifier events are Open to all players.
Entry Fee: $30
Format: Standard Constructed
Prizes
1st – 4th place: 20 MMS Points, Gen Con 2011 Badge and $500
5th – 8th place: 10 MMS points, Gen Con 2011 Badge and $250
9th – 16th place: 5 MMS points
17th – 32nd place: 2 MMS points
33+: 1 MMS Point
Players also receive the following TCGplayer.com Points towards the TCGplayer.com Wizard World Series $75K Championship:
1st: 30 TCGplayer.com Points
2nd: 25 TCGplayer.com Points
3rd – 4th: 12 TCGplayer.com Points
5th – 8th: 6 TCGplayer.com Points
9th – 16th: 3 TCGplayer.com Points
17th+: 1 TCGplayer.com Points
The EDVs have landed on the coast and are making their way across the country to Madison right now. We expect to have them in hand and ready to ship within the next 10 days!
