I like the changes to the daily events overall.  I do think we need something in between daily events and 2 mans though.  Like Andy said, some place to play fun decks or for people to play and get better.
Does anyone know why they don't run 4 man ques instead of 8 man's for vintage?  2 man ques fire off pretty often and I think getting to 4 people would be pretty easy.

Pushing the play point issues is going to undermine anything else your discussing.  If they wanted to payout in tradeable tix, they would have just used the existing ones.  Focus on what you can actually change, and worry about the other stuff later.

All that being said, thank you for putting the time in and writing this.  I think the idea that WOTC doesnt care about vintage and vintage online has always been incorrect and stuff like this is payed attention to. I also think they care a lot more about MTGO vintage than paper.  Its a section of the player base they don't currently have that will generate more mtgo $ for them.  Its win-win for them to make it popular online.

To be fair, I have no proof that the gambling thing is actually a threat.  Its just something I've read so many times I believe it now.

Simple version:
1) Packs were being given out at a fast rate than they were being drafted so they were being very devalued.
2) You can't give tickets as prizes cause of gambling issues.
3) They made a new ticket type to get around this issue.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the people most upset by the daily changes are the ones who played them and pretty much nothing else. AKA people who want to play for free or actually view MTGO as a way to make money.

I'm actually far more likely to pay attention to launch times and play in a 3 round event.  4 rounds with a lot of them going to 50 min was just too much time for me. Also, the changes to the 2 player ques should make them a lot more appealing.  There was a while cause of pack prices that winning didn't even get your your entry free back.  I do wish the payout was 35-0 instead of 30-5, but its a pretty minimal difference.  
I'm quite happy with these changes.

The daily events were totally lopsided with the rest of MTGOs payouts and I never understood why they ran them in the first place.  A lot of people were just playing dailies and nothing else, which is pretty bad for the MTGO economy and for wizards trying to make money on their product.  Really the events were just subsidizing a section of the player base to get to play for free while limited players payed for it.

I'm actually expecting a FoW reprint in this set as well as a few other cards.  Vamp is a perfect example of a card that is insanely inflated online just because so few of them were opened. 
This being the only option for me to play vintage unless i want to get on a plane, I'm very excited. 

Anyone else notice that these are 60 minute rounds for both events?  Is that new or did that change recently?

I want it!!!! 
My first deck was a ice age starter deck.  Nothing more and nothing less.  I used to play it against my friend who opened a jester cap and would always loose when he cast it cause I wouldn't have enough guys to kill him.  This went on for a while till we finally got some more money.

Didn't he tell everyone he was playing shops before it even started?  Savage

Terms of service?  Really?  What is the chance of wizards randomly deciding to shut your account down compared to your cards being stolen by some punk kid? It's not even close.  If they actually started to do this, it would send the market into a nose dive and everyone would stop playing.  For some reason I don't really expect them to decide to flush millions of dollars down the toilet. 

I'll be playing online.  I've been waiting for years for this to happen.  I still don't really understand the complaints people have about the interface.  I think it works quite well.  There are issues, but that's true of every game I have ever played. 

Have you ever had your opponent play a library on the play and you go land mox ice it on their upkeep? - Nope, this deck runs 2 moxes and most decks don't play library.

Have you ever killed two x/1s with fire/ice? - Yes, I have blow out a bad player with a card they didn't know was in the deck I was playing.  This will not happen in a top 8 against anyone good.

Have you ever killed an x/1 and dealt one to them, so they couldn’t misdirect it? - No, what decks run Mis-D and creatures?

Have you ever killed a jace after attacking it with a factory? - Yes, Fire Ice is better in this situation

Ice an early tinker>blightsteel so you get another turn to land jace or draw a bounce spell. - You dig 2 cards deeper with charm to find the jace or bounce spell.  Also, like you said, you can counter the spell.  The only situation where this is better is if jace is the 2nd card on top ofyour deck and you have no mana up with they tinker.

I'm pretty sure that kid was just trolling the thread.  I'm very interested to see how this card functions in the deck.  I've been playing the EE version of the deck at the cambridge local event for the past few months and had a lot of success with it.  My list is very meta tuned to the insane amout of contorl that was showing up when the event first started,  but I feel like this card would fit in great.  Fire / Ice had been pretty weak for me all around, and I had been considering cutting it for either Bolts or Lava Dart.  This card pretty much fixes all the complaints I had about fire / ice and should be at least a 2x in my build. 

Hmm, ok I could buy that.  Do you think it wants a fine counterspell, bun spell that functions almost the same as a card the deck has 2x of MD and a fine draw spell rolled into one?

Well, so long fire ice.  The new charm seems like it was printed just for this deck

I have to bail this week

Great turn out last night.  Hopefully those new kids enjoyed the format. 

Giving people access to different pictures for land is essential to cube.  You give them the option to bluff people into sinkholing the wrong land by playing lands from their hand with different artwork then then did in the first game...

Picking which of the 5 counters you have to use when your opponents down to 1 card is hard times.

My factories are just too fast for this format to handle

I'll still be showing up

So i found a 7th edition pack in a store that said Sampler accross the front.  I havent really been able to find any info on this online.  Does anyone know what these are? Are there rares in it or is it just one of the all commons starter booster packs?

I'll be there next week with Bobby and maybe one more

I hope everyone was nice enough to show Tezzatron what a Mana Drain looks like.  Welcome to the NE meta

This wont solve everything, but get a wallet chain and attach your backpack to your body.  Its cheap and very effective.  I've been doing this for years and never had any problems.

My intestinal fortitude seems to have returned.  Will be there tomorrow

Got sick and stayed home.  I'll be there next week

Date is wrong in the post.  I think you mean May 19th. 

I'll be there

Only cause I was forced to play fish.  I'll be back next week with a deck that doesn’t play grizzly bears to defend my title.

I'm planning on coming