FlyingArrow wrote:
I think certain 'dead' games would have a good showing.
Star Wars:Epic Duels, for example. One copy of the game can support an 8-person tournament. I'm pretty sure it could sell out an 8-person tournament. Possibly 2 or 3 sessions.
Decipher's CCG was massively popular, and still lives on with a model similar to our own. People probably would like pulling out their old decks, but Jason made the point that we'd need a judge. If we had one, then I don't know whether it would be better to allow or dis-allow their Vset cards.
WotC's CCG would probably not get any showing at all, though.
Did anyone play the Monopoly/Trivial Pursuit sessions? I thought those were odd additions but if they had players, great.
As a side note, I just learned that WBC (World Boardgame Championships - convention in Lancaster, PA) had a Star Wars Minis tournament. If I had known I probably would have made the trip over for a day to play in it. They provided the squads for players - all WotC pieces. They apparently don't know about bloomilk or swmgamers or they probably would have advertised it.
Monopoly and Trivial pursuit both sold out before the convention but had no-shows at the time of the game. Trivial Pursuit did have 5 players (out of the 6) playing when I walked by and we will probably run it again.
It is very likely we will have an event similar to the WBC one at next year's gencon, where you get a premade squad and map and play with that for the tourney. Many people expressed that this would be a fun thing to do and we are looking into the possibility of doing it.
There used to be a group of guys who ran epic duels, didn't see them there this year. Again back to the judge part. If someone wants to step up and run some stuff, talk to James (jew3) and it is very possible that something can be worked out.