Just over two weeks ago, the Design Team and Kyle headed to Indianapolis for Gen Con 2012, where we had the privilege of meeting players in person and running organised play events for the physical game.
What follows is a visual tour of our four days at the convention.
Day 1
We kicked things off with a 4-player Meltdown tournament at 10am. In the photo below, you can see the finalists, Demnchi and Orange Hat Guy, facing off in the background, with yours truly, GondorianDotCom, playing TrueGrit for 3rd place in the foreground.
Four Forum Folk Face-Off In Fight for First
The rest of the day was spent doing demo games for new players and retailers who were interested in stocking the game, along with more Meltdown tournaments. Many of our new players wanted to come back the next day for a bigger tournament, so we lined one up ...
Day 2
More demo games were done in the morning, and then the highlight of the day was a 16-player Sealed Deck event, where each player made their deck from a Class Deck and 2 booster packs.
With each player building from the contents of a Class Deck and two booster packs,
Sandra Trueblade and Katrin Shieldmaiden had never seen so much action.
The battle rages on whilst Jasmine Rosecult distracts our photographer with her two resources.
The winner of the tournament was none other than A1's own sexy-voiced Mage-master, NinjaDucky. He won a very special prize, which will be revealed later in this post.
Day 3
With our new players now building up reasonable collections, we were able to run an 8-player Constructed tournament on the Saturday. The final was between NinjaDucky and another forum user, Jobber, who ended up winning 2-1.
Later that day, NinjaDucky took on his arch-rival, Soothslyr (a.k.a. Design Team member, Luis). I have no idea what the result was, but it looks like they enjoyed themselves.
Mojumbo unleashes some Poison Gas on an unsuspecting NinjaDucky.
We finished up early that night (i.e. before midnight), so I headed out to a bar with Soothslyr to (unwittingly) learn the dangers of Long Island Iced Tea. The rest of the guys either got an early night or stuck around at the convention to try out some other games.
Day 4
The last day of the convention was pretty quiet. Three of us decided to take part in a Magic: The Gathering beginner's tournament with NinjaDucky, where pretty much everyone except me seemed to know what they were doing already. I guess they were using alt accounts.
The convention closed early, so we headed to Kyle's favourite day-time hang-out, with our special guest/stalker, NinjaDucky, who kindly took a photo of the team after dinner.
I wish I'd worn my Shadow Era T-shirt for this photo,
but it was in a sorry state from the night before.
We then presented NinjaDucky with his prize for winning the Sealed tournament two days previous. He was asked to pick a girl for us to base a card on for the next expansion. Below is his choice.
Double Fireballs all round!
This completes our brief visual tour of Gen Con 2012. Look out for another post soon, with more coverage of the 16-player Sealed event and the 8-player Constructed tournament, written by our very own Design Team member and Physical Official Organised Play Specialist, Mojumbo.
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