Well, we made good use of our customer space this weekend
with the Magic the Gathering GateCrash Pre-release running both Saturday and
Sunday. It was our best attended
pre-release ever, though not our best sales weekend ever. We received 150 Guildpacks from WOTC and
could probably have used a dozen more to take care of latecomers that we had to
turn away. This is the first time I can
recall we have gone through all of the packs provided for pre-release
tournament players in the years since we started running them. Overall, we, and more importantly the
players, were very happy with this set.
Suprisingly, we had the highest number of tournament drops of any
pre-release that I can recall. A number
of players registered, then either left or played first round and dropped, usually
without telling anyone, Ergo we wouldn’t
find out until partially through or at the end of the round, when their
opponent would come tell us that no-one had showed. I don’t recall this proving such a serious
problem in prior pre-releases. All in
all, a very entertaining and profitable, made more so by the flexibility WOTC
allows us in running the event, made slightly less so by the salad dressing I
spilt on my pants halfway through the final tournament.
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