First Pick:

Orlando Tragedy, community response

 

SCG, CoolStuff Inc. WotC responds to tragedy in Orlando: https://www.facebook.com/StarCityGames/posts/10153645888357918?pnref=story

http://www.coolstuffgames.com/orlandounited/

https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13417418_10156943948340307_2347061472124889359_n.jpg?oh=f4476b54ac7d9cc5fba1793c9adfa348&oe=57D679DB

 

Gather the Townsfolk:

MTG Goldfish has Deck Search http://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck_searches/new

 

Craig Wescoe offering private coaching: https://www.facebook.com/craig.wescoe?fref=ts

 

Jeff Hoogland quits MTGO: http://www.jeffhoogland.com/2016/06/farewell-to-mtgo/

 

Desperate Ravings:

Access Magic: Eldritch Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ-TQCKuPFA

 

#TeamNahiri v. #TeamSorin http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/stone-and-blood-2016-06-15

 

The Red Zone:

Ban Miracles:

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/ban-miracles/

 

Going Infinite

Sleep In Specials at Constructed GPs.

 

Just like Playmats before it.

 

Limited GPs still provide a service - prereg’ing your pool for you. This doesn’t fall from the sky. HOWEVER - You should still have the free option of showing up an hour before hand to register and build.

 

Professional Event Services hosted GP Columbus w free online deck reg - yet Sleep In Special still cost $20. This $20 is absurd.

 

Platinum Pros & Hall of Famers don’t have to pay for Sleep-In-Specials because WotC says so. Now it’s time for WotC, and the pro community, to help stand up for everyone else.

 

#FreeSiS

 

https://twitter.com/_DavidOchoa/status/740280665623531522 - Ochoa talking to PES

 

https://twitter.com/2Plowshares/status/741515761286402049 - Having to purchase due to flight

 

https://twitter.com/SamuelHBlack/status/741513853259939840 - as someone who gets it free, wotc needs to step in

 

https://twitter.com/TJCollectibles/status/741652732549947393 - weird reply by TJ Collectibles; condescending tone

 

The Finisher:

 

For those of you who regularly watch first person shooters you already know what the Counterstrike: Global Offensive ESL Cologne Major event was, but for those of you that don’t it was a major shooty-shooty-bang-bang tournament that happened last weekend in France. And it’s relevant for us robe-and-wizard-hat poker folks because instead of using double elimination or round robin play, it used Swiss with a cut to top 8,, which is the first time a major non-turn-based ESport used Swiss pairings. So now that CS:GO has started borrowing ideas from Magic, what tidbit would you like to see MTG borrow from the big boys in ESports?