Unstablecornbread(Brent) and TheIneffable(BK) won the trivia contest and received his art as prizes. Just fantastic. I asked to buy some of his pieces. Unfortunate that he wasn't allowed to sell there as he could have sold his entire collection. He also had one piece made into a 3D life counter.
As far as the Foil Balance I was under the impression a judge provided those and had a stack of them. Don't lose sleep over that. Those things were trading for cheap there. They've come down a lot.

BK - I wasn't going to get into this "annoying banned people" posting thing, but please don't call him Legend. That just bothers me. That name belongs to someone else here on the boards. Two different people. When refering to Brian Woo please use one of the many names he's been given or uses. Thanks, Tom

Just wanted to say it was great to finally match faces to names. Tracerbullet, Akuma, Robert the Swordsman.
SpikeyMikey and David I remembered from San Diego. Jaco you were playing when I got there. I'll catch you next time. What a bunch of great guys.
Hopefully Christiaan will post his thoughts on the event and top 8.

Jeff - Unless one of the top 8 guys asked you not to post because there going to, go ahead and fill us in on all the details. It was a great week for sure, I know the Socal guys (great guys) went close to 36 hours without sleep if they drove straight back. Hopefully they stayed over. Events of this size should start at 10:00a.m. 98 players!

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Wow!
There was plenty of drama the whole week, no doubt about it. Well congratulations to the winners. I'm sure more news will trickle in.

Huge! 98 players.
As of 1:00 a.m. PST round 7 was starting. Looking at 4:00 a.m. for it to wrap up. Maybe. I'm sure most of the guys will fill in the details today or Monday. Top 8 looks to be C&J, SoCal, and the Europeans. Zhalfirin was doing very well, maybe he'll fill us in later.

Football Score
Us 51, Them 7
 
The event starts in 15 minutes and I'm an hour away. I'll post the results later. I'm still going  to cheer on the C&J crew and meet the rest of the California players.

This morning before going in I had to stand outside and enjoy the view of San Francisco. Worlds is being held right next to the Bay. The Golden Gate Bridge is off to the left, Alcatraz Island is straight ahead, all surrounded by the waters of the San Francisco Bay. Probably what inspired me to write all this.

Inside I spent the morning standing in lines getting my cards signed. If your not playing that's what you do. I have to say all the artist have been great about signing and doing art. Prior to that I had been play testing with my sons Brent and Phuong. That's what I call them, sons. Just something we started a while back.

I have to say there's quite a bit of power floating around. I think Saturdays T1 looks to be huge. The competition looks to be very good. If you're coming expect the best. This won't be a twenty man tournament. The C&J table has had people buying up Type I cards just for this event.

Today I also played a game with Richard Garfield. That was fun. Wizards supplies the decks, reach into a box and pull one out. Mine was marked WW w/equip on a plastic card. I open it up and see it's all new cards, with new faces. It's funny because Garfield and I are doing, and thinking the same thing. I say hold on I'm an old guy I have to read these first, I don't know all these new cards. He says same here with a laugh and a smile. We're bonding.  To keep it short he go's down in 4-5 turns as I had a hand full of little men. I ask if he'll sign the rest of my power cards. So that completes the last of my signed Richard Garfield cards. With that I depart for the day.

Anyway as it turns out I'm not 100% sure I will be there in time for the big T1 event. As life would have it my real son has a Saturday afternoon football game. Usually these happen on a Friday night under the lights, but it's an away game. I'll be cutting it close. I'll see you guys when I can.

Good luck to all of you.

Signed Lotus by Garfield and Rush today. Mr.Garfield in gold ink, Mr. Rush in silver. What a great day. Freebie deckbox has new set artwork on it with built in life counter. The artist Seishirou Ookubo, fantastic artwork. It must be seen to be believed. Unfortunately it's not for sale. He does have 6 pieces up for silent auction for charity.

If anyone wants to view the cards up for prizes, they're in the case at the C&J booth.

It starts.
Free Worlds deck box for first 1000 people thru the door. Now to get my stuff signed, playmat drawn on.

Front page updated.
Wizards isn't kicking in for prizes. So it's prizes for first thru fourth. But keep in mind it's over $1500.00 in power cards. Four lucky players are going to walk in, pay a $10.00 entry and walk away with a Black Lotus, Ancestral, Emerald, and a LIbrary. Sweet.

Look for most of us at the C&J dealers table when we're not playing. Most of the guys will be playing in side events all thru the week.  Looks to be a very exciting time.
I'm a bit surprised there isn't more interest from the rest of the country. Worlds won't pass this way for another 4 years.

I know that most of us can only post in the basic forums. So I'm starting this thread to get an idea of who's coming. I know that C&J will bring in 20-30 people by itself. So post if you will be making it.

Here's the info as a reminder:

San Francisco Vintage Challenge (sponsored by C&J Collectibles)
Constructed Tournament using the Vintage (Type 1)-format rules.
This is a Sanctioned event. No Proxies allowed.

5:00p.m. on Saturday September 4.
$10.00 Vintage  

1st. - Unlimited Black Lotus  
2nd - Unlimited Ancestral Recall
3rd - Unlimited Mox Pearl
4th - Library of Alexandria

As a side note. There's more going on during these 5 days. See Wizards website for plenty of other cool events.

Just wanted to mention we're just a few days away from the biggest T1 event on the West Coast.
Any updates will be posted soon.

I think there was about 20 players. 1st, 2nd, 3rd = C&J Crew

Where's Phantom Tape Worm and Saucemaster? This is the saddest trash talking thread. If it can't even stir up some good muck how good can the event be?

I'll say it again, forget this event and come out to San Francisco for the "real" World Championship Type 1 event.
Hell, I'll even draw the winner a picture to go along with the Lotus for first place if he or she wants.

Congratulations on a nice event. Glad to here the fellas did well. Looking forward to meeting you guys here in San Francisco.

Jacob wrote:

He's more like a guy that comes to play at C&J. He's not one of ours.

The original post has been edited 9 times with the most current information. This is also a great time to pick up on trade. Don't forget to bring out your trade and cash.

Brian - Posting like this only confirms that you are an idiot. You're burning bridges here and at C&J. Tom

Don't forget we gave the country Ronald Reagan for 8 years also. Of course New England gave us the first Bush. Who begot the second Bush, who begot...

World Championship? Surely wizards must realize a World Championship can only be held @ Worlds. Not Gen con. I mean, what could they be thinking. Look at that prize structure. I think you folks should skip this event and come to the real Worlds Type 1 event in California. Just look at this prize structure:

1st Unlimited Black Lotus
2nd Unlimited Ancestral Recall
3rd Unlimited Mox Pearl
4th Library of Alexandria
All for a $10.00 entry fee?

@ shortbus- If any of you guys make it out, first drink and lap dance is on me.

Just to update a few changes have been added to the top post. This is over $1500.00 in prizes being put up by Jeff McNally owner of C&J. This is the Premier Type 1 event on the West Coast. Only a $10.00 entry fee for this quality of prizes.

3 C&J players in the top 4. Looks like Ken wins it all. It'll be interesting to see what tech they took to Las Vegas.

Ken Johnson - Kilo here on Tmd
Brent Peterson - Unstablecornbread here on Tmd
Dan Messineo - no tmd account yet?

I just edited my original post to reflect the huge prizes being put up by C&J. With the quality of prizes being awarded this will certainly be a 60+ person event. I wouldn't be surprised to see it go much higher.
Edit:
There's a lot of talk that this may get close to 80 players.

Wizards scratched Heather Hudson from the artist list and added Henry G. Higginbotham in her place.

"TheLegendOfHomoErotics" - Requested name change? That's just too funny :lol:

Pat - Glad to hear you and the guys will be up. Does that include the San Diego guys too? I understand there will be vendors present too. Last I heard C&J will have a booth.
Maybe this will be a 50 plus T1 event on Saturday.

2004 Magic: The Gathering World Championships
September 1-5, 2004
San Francisco, California
United States of America

San Francisco Vintage Challenge (sponsored by C&J Collectibles)
Constructed Tournament using the Vintage (Type 1)-format rules.
This is a Sanctioned event. No Proxies allowed.

5:00p.m. on Saturday September 4.
$10.00 Vintage
There will be a Top 8. Prizes awarded 1st-4th.

Wizards website may not have these details, but here it is straight from the top, courtesy of Jeff and Phuong @C&J
This info will be updated regularly so check back.

 
Prizes for Top 4:

1st. - Unlimited Black Lotus - NM/Mint
2nd - Unlimited Ancestral Recall - NM
3rd - Unlimited Mox Pearl - Fine/EX
4th - Library of Alexandria - NM



This is over $1500.00 in prizes being put up by Jeff McNally owner of C&J. This is the Premier Type 1 event on the West Coast. Only a $10.00 entry fee for this quality of prizes.
C&J will also have a booth with lots of product available. They have a very nice selection of Type 1 cards.

C&J Collectables
5454-C Central Avenue
Newark, CA 94560
510-796-5790
www.cjcollectables.com
email:juzamjuice@aol.com

For complete info for other events check out wizards website.
 

Also for your information here's the latest list of Artists appearing at World.

Chris Rush
Anthony Waters
Scott Fischer
Daren Bader
Henry G. Higginbotham
Kim Graham
Seishirou Ookubo

Ducky - At least tell us what decks you faced. At the very least I would like to know how the match between you and Ken went, since that was your only loss. Also how did those Decree of Justice work for you? Can't say I've seen them in Landstill, but it's not a deck I always follow. I can see some advantages to White in the deck. Pretty sexy decklist you have there big guy.

"The Triple Crown of Vintage"
So we're talking 5 people at Who's on First, 8 people at Eudemonia, and 13 last night? O.k.