Dies to Removal

Fuck, my LGS seems stingy as hell now.

That's a very strange business practice.

I wish my LGS could regularly get 30 people to attend FNM.

That's actually insane.

The most I've seen at FNM was like 24.

It's a big store that does online sales. Plus they make enough regularly from people buying cards during the game days. At least that's what I'd like to believe.

But yeah, good players rack up so much in store credit without spending a dime. My biggest haul was $60 for second place when there was 60+ players one time. My best month was $140. Since it's a big store they have just about any card you can think of from Legacy to Un-sets to multiple foil copies of Standard cards.

They hold Super FNMs to win multiple copies of foil Mythics every other month or so, and those can get up to 90 people or more.

I wish I had a LGS that gave away $150-200 every week.

I was I had an option as to which LGS I went to.

Buzzsaw, If you don't mind sharing, where is that?

Stores doing break-even or loss FNM's isn't highly irregular, it's a great technique to get players into the store + coming back to purchase dice, sleeves, mats, etc. The number of players who just impulse by packs/boxes is mind-boggling.

Suga: Me too Though honestly, mine is pretty good. It's just 4 hours worth of driving every weekend that gets me. (1 hr each way, friday and saturday)

During good days my LCS had around 40-60 people per FNM. Yep, 3 large rooms full of people. And I'd say that around 20 of them could be considered very competetive players.
When I came back and started to play Sledge Red there were around 20-30 people, but no fresh blood. Everyone was competetive as fuck. Okay, there were 5 freshies maybe?
But then owner of the store started to screw around. Didn't payed out prizes (for winning FNM you were getting ... 3 boosters of older Standard's set?) and made both drafts and pre-releases expensive as fuck. So it's nearly dead from what I know.

Mines about a half hour away and with the fam, I have to choose which night I go wisely since I only go once a week. If there was something local, I could go more. But as it is now, I leave for FNM at 4:30 and don't get home until 11.

It's called The Monstore. It's about a 45 minute drive east of Los Angeles. It attracts a lot of the best players in a 20 mile radius, but lucky for me I live down the street from it.

Stores doing break-even or loss FNM's isn't highly irregular, it's a great technique to get players into the store + coming back to purchase dice, sleeves, mats, etc. The number of players who just impulse by packs/boxes is mind-boggling.

I'm definitely guilty of this. Hell, I'm guilty of it with singles too. When I missed top 8 at states I decided to go buy a Stormbreath Dragon as my "consolation prize" to myself.

I impulse buy a lot too. It's a bad habit. At least it's evened out by buying valuable cards with my store credit and selling it for cash at another place that actually buys high. I bought three Master of Waves weeks ago for the hell of it for $18 total, only to sell them at $14 each. Hurray for making $42 without spending any money!

Thought I'd share this here as well, since I had to upload it anyway for Raida (warning, ginourmous image): The missing card is All is Dust, since I actually play with that one.

Hmmm.... Helios you just gave me an idea what do to with the Three Kingdoms Zodiac collection I have.

My father-in-law bought us a snowmobile today.

Living in SC, the thought of owning a snowmobile is totally alien to me.

I imagine this is what deaf people feel like when their friends are talking about their bad-ass sound systems.

Living in SC, the thought of owning a snowmobile is totally alien to me.

I imagine this is what deaf people feel like when their friends are talking about their bad-ass sound systems.

deaf people...... friends are talking

I can't imagine living in a place that doesn't get snow.

Though I heard that hunting isn't bad down there.

60 posts to go. The wall crumbles today.

I'd say the maze crumbles, but that's a given.

Mr.Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

I can't imagine living in a place that doesn't get snow.

I live in Southern California. 60 degrees in freezing to us.

I live in Georgia. What is this 'snow' you speak of?

Nah, but if it snows here, it usually just goes to ice

Sallys.

-30 is freezing.

In nebraska, we get 100+ and -0 days!

Only 55 posts left to go!

Just to warn you all, I AM gonna try for the 20000th post ;P
Though that honor should proly go to RT

Well at least Southern California is the only place in the world snowboarding and surfing can be done within two hours of each other and the weather accommodates both.

My dream place to live would be San Diego, that city is so nice......

To be fair, one LGS is basically on-campus at Arizona State University (largest college in the US), and the other's at the boundary of two wealthy suburbs of Phoenix, so plenty of kids with allowance to blow on a TCG. Very glad they're so large because it really does take a lot of rounds to see the true machinery of your deck!

My dream place to live would be far, far away from civilization.

I'll do my best to make 'Thundercunts' the 20000 post. Or 'Cockgobblers'.

Well at least Southern California is the only place in the world snowboarding and surfing can be done within two hours of each other and the weather accommodates both.

The weather certainly doesn't accommodate both in the same season here, but interestingly enough there's decent surfing in Maine. I told this to a co-worker as we were boarding a plane a couple years ago and she didn't believe me - vehemently so. Then halfway through the plane ride she threw the in-flight magazine at me. It was opened to a page that was advertising new surf-boards, and the shop was headquartered in York, Maine.

LGS #1 does $5 entry and get a pack, or buy/sell $20 in singles for free entry, with the top 4 players at the end of each month getting bonus store credit. Also, attending enough events gets you things (5 per month for a free entry, 7 per month for a 100-pack of UltraPro sleeves, 9+ per month for another free entry; same for Drafts, both held twice a week). Don't even remember payout because I haven't made top 8 there in months, but I don't remember it being great. Also I keep wanting to buy $20 worth of singles for free entry since I 'need' the cards I'm buying anyway and it drains my wallet.

LGS #2 has only FNM every week: free entry, or $5 to double your payout. It also seems to be very common to split after cut to top 8 (since FNMs are about 6 rounds anyway and it's 1AM by that point), which is 5 packs to each person or $10 credit. So someone who pays the entry and can consistently top 8 gets 10 packs a week for
$5. I'm preferring this one (also the atmosphere is better, store is less cramped, etc.).

I remember a few months ago back in NC (when I was near Fate & Nuwen), one of the LGSes apparently had high-payout cash pool Standard nights every week that weren't too hard to win (Fate apparently took down a few with RG Sligh and made like $75 a night iirc?). If they're still doing those, I may have to go there when I visit in January.

Well at least Southern California is the only place in the world snowboarding and surfing can be done within two hours of each other and the weather accommodates both.

The weather certainly doesn't accommodate both in the same season here, but interestingly enough there's decent surfing in Maine. I told this to a co-worker as we were boarding a plane a couple years ago and she didn't believe me - vehemently so. Then halfway through the plane ride she threw the in-flight magazine at me. It was opened to a page that was advertising new surf-boards, and the shop was headquartered in York,
Maine.

I can't imagine people surfing in the dead of winter in Maine though.

A lot of people in college use to go get a cabin overnight and snowboard in the morning, drive down to the beach in the afternoon, and make a bonfire and swim at the beach in the evening. This kind of activity is only doable late winter/early spring.

We also have the desert within the same distance of the beach and mountains, but there's nothing worth doing out there other than riding ATVs/DuneBuggies and cook meth in RVs.

60 posts to go. The wall crumbles today.

I'd say the maze crumbles, but that's a given.

Double wall...we should be on page 500 with that post (yeah, it's the math of the thing for 40x500, but it's cool anyway).

We get everything here...joke in MO is if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it will likely change. Thus far this month we've have highs in the 80's, lows in the upper 20's, thunderstorms, sleet and flash-flooding. I guess you can't experience hurricanes, here, but our tornado activity more than compensates!

60 posts to go. The wall crumbles today.

I'd say the maze crumbles, but that's a given.

Double wall...we should be on page 500 with that post (yeah, it's the math of the thing for 40x500, but it's cool anyway).

We get everything here...joke in MO is if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it will likely change. Thus far this month we've have highs in the 80's, lows in the upper 20's, thunderstorms, sleet and flash-flooding. I guess you can't experience hurricanes, here, but our tornado activity more than compensates!

Yeah, give me a good old
hurricane or blizzard any day. There's no way I could live in areas where tornadoes or earthquakes were the norm.

We get everything here...joke in MO is if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it will likely change. Thus far this month we've have highs in the 80's, lows in the upper 20's, thunderstorms, sleet and flash-flooding.

Same here in Mississippi, but add 20 to both of those temperatures.

Regarding post 20K--

If y'all want after you derby to see who gets it, I can edit it and add a clan comment from anyone who wants it included there. If y'all like the idea, you can PM your comments and I'll add them with appropriate tagline.

Anyone see Cifka's RW Twin deck from Antwerp? Awesome.

We get everything here...joke in MO is if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it will likely change. Thus far this month we've have highs in the 80's, lows in the upper 20's, thunderstorms, sleet and flash-flooding.

Same here in Mississippi, but add 20 to both of those temperatures.

Nah, Helios, check again; I said that's the range we've had THIS month. KCMO goes anywhere from ~10-105 in a given year, with wind chills well below 0.

EDIT: Wait just reread; do you mean 40-100? Sorry if I misread...