CodeMonkey said:You don't have a fedora. Liar!
Helping judge was fantabulous. The staff was fantastic and the problems were minimal. Thanks to the wonderful seniors who didn't cause any problems for your staff
Oh, and whoever made that Bacon EX card is my hero. Dave Schwimmer took it home to show Mike Liesek. I only wish I could have taken a picture to show the world.
DNA said:
Bad luck and 12 draw supporters, that's how...DNA said:CodeMonkey said:You don't have a fedora. Liar!
Helping judge was fantabulous. The staff was fantastic and the problems were minimal. Thanks to the wonderful seniors who didn't cause any problems for your staff
Oh, and whoever made that Bacon EX card is my hero. Dave Schwimmer took it home to show Mike Liesek. I only wish I could have taken a picture to show the world.
Not yet, anyway.
...Wait, Dave seriously took it home with him? Ahahahahaha!! Nice.
So, my Regionals adventure!
I was staffing both days, instead of playing. I woke up at 5.30am on Saturday so I could get there by 7am (it's a 45-minute drive, plus me preparing beforehand). I had a RH Great Ball for Rummage (turns out he didn't need it) and a judge shirt for Zero, who I found out was judging that weekend as well. Crazy.
The best part about being event staff is you get to see what the vendors are selling - and call dibs before the players are allowed inside. One of the other guys did just that, and snagged the only Flareon plushie being sold. I found out that he did that because he was actually a Rocket Executive (he even showed me the undershirt to prove it). I did the same thing later with Meloetta. Success.
We had a guy from TPCi there around taking pictures and such and working for the staff. I don't know if that was the case back in October or if there were TPCi reps all across the country, but this is the first time I saw one at an event like this. Really nice friendly guy.
My task on Saturday was that Zero and I would be in charge of alternately handing out Random Goodness (for all the divisions) and then doing random deck checks for Seniors. We ran into a few errors - one of which was that one guy put 2 shiny Terrakion on his decklist when he only had 1, and one of his friends went and traded for a 2nd one to help him out. Trippy.
All in all, Saturday was a big full day, and it was the day where I got to interact with the players the most. I saw a lot of old friends and met a lot of new ones as well! Here's the list of the Beachers I saw, in alphabetical order:
~Amt (The only one on this list I didn't actually talk to. I saw her there.)
~blargh257 (He got 4-0 right away and then scrubbed it and went 4-3. I have no idea how.)
~dmaster (Hadn't seen him since Arizona States, and it was really awesome to catch up with him again. Meaty asked me to hug him, but I decided against it.)
~Gistica (He offered me $100 to flip a table for an invalid move during a match. I never got a chance to do it. Best part about it: he was dead serious. I even saw the $100 bill.)
~Keeper of Night (As promised, I only spoke to him in one-word sentences.)
~Meaty (The guy I wanted to see the most. He came down with his friend Nigel, who was the only 8-0 in Swiss - impressive! He stuck around a little for Sunday, but sadly Nigel lost in T32...to the guy who eventually got 2nd.)
~Rummage (Head judge for Seniors. He's quite a taskmaster, but he takes his job very seriously and I respect that.)
~WPM (Bit of a shock to see him here; I honestly wasn't expecting it. He was sporting a really cool jacket, for which I complemented him.)
~Zero (Seriously, get a haircut.)
...I think there was 1 or 2 others but I probably forgot your names and I'm really sorry.
Here's a list of Beachers I didn't see:
~Elite Stride
~Emolga2254
~pokemonjoe
~Puff-Sun
Elite Stride was the only one of you I don't know if you were there. I don't think you were there on Saturday, and as for Sunday I was downstairs almost the whole day and thus didn't interact much with peeps.
I know a lot of you saw me and recognized me too. A lot more of you probably saw me and didn't recognize me. I was the judge with badge pins all over his shirt - 8 on each sleeve and 8 in the front, for a total of 24. Swag.
Saw the top-cut list on Sunday and found out one of the X-2s didn't make it. I was counting all the people I recognized who made it in, and I only saw a few: Gilbert R (won a Cities recently, I think he made it to either T16 or T8), Sammy S (32nd seed, bubbled into cut, and ended up going 2nd YEAH SAMMY!!), and Keith H (I think he lost in T32). Also, one of my friends in Seniors ended up getting into T16, and went as far as 3rd place with his deck.
After that was all said and done, and all the players got kicked out (lol), I was doing the deck checks for the T32 Masters (to be concluded tomorrow). There were a few...interesting errors, some easily resolvable, some really annoying (like having 4 Dark Patch and 2 Dark Claw in a list, but writing down Dark Patch for both entries - needless to say, his deck got 2 more basic Energy).
Then all the staff got taken out to California Pizza Kitchen and treated. I went home after that and man was I sore. All my limbs ached, my feet were really tender, and I woke up in the middle of the night from all the pain. Man, being flat-footed sucks.
Sunday!
The day before, I had asked one of the guys to hold one of the plushies for me (an Audino), because I didn't have enough money on me on Saturday (I wish parking at the Queen Mary wasn't $15 and so darn expensive), and plus, Audino wasn't all that popular. Sure enough, when I got there (imagine all my waking up and driving there exactly 1 hour later than Saturday), and walked by the stand, there he was, walking right up to me, holding it. He remembered. Good man. While I was at it, I snagged a Torchic plushie from the stand as well - which I later got offers for from two of the players. I wasn't quite ready to sell it off that fast
Although Sunday was VGC, I spent all day working with the top cuts that didn't conclude on Saturday: T4 of Juniors (out of T8), T8 of Seniors (out of T16), and T32 of Masters (out of T32) - so Jrs and Srs got one round of top-cut out of the way yesterday. I actually just focused on Masters top cut and spectating all those matches, plus running odd jobs for the head judge when needed. Emphasis on running. I ended up having to fetch the TPCi rep a lot for photo ops and stuff.
But at least I got to sit down! Nothing like yesterday.
Speaking of VGC, one of the guys at my league wanted to borrow my Cloyster for VGC - apparently it was a spur-of-the-moment decision to use on his team. (It was the same Cloyster that swept an entire team of Ubers.) I said he'd have to make it quick since I was on the clock, and he got there early enough that I could trade it to him. All the divisions for VGC had a T8 cut...he was in Seniors and got 9th. I'm a bit sad that he didn't pull through all the way, but...my Cloyster is no slouch.
I ended up checking out after the Masters top cut was over - funnily enough, the 1st- and 2nd-place finishers for Masters in TCG were the 31st and 32nd seed, respectively. I was a bit conflicted at the result - I wanted the 32nd seed (Sammy) to win, since he was a local and well-liked at tourneys around here, but I wanted the deck of the 31st seed (Alex) to win, since it was a really fun and interesting deck. Ah well, can't have best of both worlds.
Overall, it was a really full weekend! Here's all the goodies I got:
~Five plushies I got from the vendors (here's a picture for anyone who cares)
~60 packs of Boundaries Crossed (out of which I pulled 1 of each Cress EX, 2 Celebi EX, 2 Computer Search, 1 Crystal Edge, 1 Landorus EX, 1 WKEX, 1 FA Keldeo EX, a shiny Terrakion, and about a jillion Skyla/Swoobat/Grumpig)
~The above 2 items ended up cancelling each other out in terms of cost (lol there went my Christmas money)
~1 regular Flareon Regs promo plus 3 Staff ones
~A fancy-looking PTE Games token (it's not a coin because sadly it's not a legal randomizer)
~A treated dinner at California Pizza Kitchen (their pizza is good, just odd)
~A chance to hang out with all my old friends on the Queen Mary (I'm on a boat)
~Two Cloyster (to collect dust next to the awesome one I already have - gg Abram)
~I got 4000 miles on my car o.o
~All of which culminated into one heck of an awesome weekend!
I love you all.
DNA said:
Having N N's in the deck was hilarious. I totally forgot about that. Thanks for the reminderRummage said:
Here's my list of epic moments and sad faces, because you set the precident:
Someone I know had that happen to him in Round 7 in Seniors. He stormed off in a huff and I had to go find him. He was really out of it.King Arceus said:
I got to watch a T4 Cities Sigilyph vs Klinklang. That really did take forever. Game 1 was eventually won by the Klinklang player after a lot of clever plays, whereas Game 2 and 3 went like "Psydrive ALL the Klinks!"
Blah was at SoCal Regionals? Given how he lives in New York I think that's extremely unlikely.
CodeMonkey said:
Elite Stride said:
DNA said:
On Saturday I was giving out Random Goodness and doing random deck checks in Seniors; I wasn't much on the floor. On Sunday, I was judging the Masters top cut (32 and onward).
Those posters you liked so much in your youtube video? I hung those up. You're welcomeMamsPokemon said:
