[EVERY FORMAT] - July 31 - August 2 - ConnectiCon, Hartford, CT

[Rock Lee]

After much deliberation amongst our staff, we devised a new prize support system other than - you get packs for winning. Instead, you get a TIX, a TIX has an intrinsic value of one normal retail priced booster pack ($4). With TIX you will then be able to choose what prizes you want based on their TIX value, some prizes will have a higher value than others, you will also be able to use TIX to enter tournaments instead of paying cash, so if you are really good, you might be able to pay for one tournament and play all the rest for free.

The Revised Sealed Deck as an example has a prize pool of 5 TIX (if I remember correctly, I don't have the prize chart with me - it might be 8 TIX/player) per player, with a cap of 8 players, and having a full event, prizes would be awarded as: @ 5 TIX/player: 1st = 20 TIX, 2nd = 12 TIX, 3rd = 6 TIX, 4th = 2 TIX. @ 8 TIX/player: 1st = 32 TIX, 2nd = 18 TIX, 3rd = 12 TIX, 4th = 8 TIX.

TIX are awarded to the top 50% of players in all events. If I remember correctly, a booster pack of revised will "cost" 5 TIX, so the person who wins the Revised Sealed Deck will get a revised starter, 2 boosters to play with and then either 4 or 6 more booster packs of revised, depending on the prize payouts. You can save up your TIX throughout the weekend to get one of the really big prizes.

Constructed events award 3 TIX/player, Draft Events award 2 TIX/player, 2 HG events award 6 TIX/team.

Sunday morning there is a free standard constructed event for registered members of the convention, first place is a Beta Booster + TIX, 2nd is a Arabian Booster + TIX, 3rd is an Antiquities Booster + TIX, 4th is a Revised Booster + TIX.

So am I correct in understanding that in the vintage event Friday morning, the top 50% of the people earn 3 'tix' regardless of placing? And ifnot, does this mean first place earns 12 dollar worth of stock, when everyone paid a 10$ entry?

[Nefarias]

After much deliberation amongst our staff, we devised a new prize support system other than - you get packs for winning. Instead, you get a TIX, a TIX has an intrinsic value of one normal retail priced booster pack ($4). With TIX you will then be able to choose what prizes you want based on their TIX value, some prizes will have a higher value than others, you will also be able to use TIX to enter tournaments instead of paying cash, so if you are really good, you might be able to pay for one tournament and play all the rest for free.

The Revised Sealed Deck as an example has a prize pool of 5 TIX (if I remember correctly, I don't have the prize chart with me - it might be 8 TIX/player) per player, with a cap of 8 players, and having a full event, prizes would be awarded as: @ 5 TIX/player: 1st = 20 TIX, 2nd = 12 TIX, 3rd = 6 TIX, 4th = 2 TIX. @ 8 TIX/player: 1st = 32 TIX, 2nd = 18 TIX, 3rd = 12 TIX, 4th = 8 TIX.

TIX are awarded to the top 50% of players in all events. If I remember correctly, a booster pack of revised will "cost" 5 TIX, so the person who wins the Revised Sealed Deck will get a revised starter, 2 boosters to play with and then either 4 or 6 more booster packs of revised, depending on the prize payouts. You can save up your TIX throughout the weekend to get one of the really big prizes.

Constructed events award 3 TIX/player, Draft Events award 2 TIX/player, 2 HG events award 6 TIX/team.

Sunday morning there is a free standard constructed event for registered members of the convention, first place is a Beta Booster + TIX, 2nd is a Arabian Booster + TIX, 3rd is an Antiquities Booster + TIX, 4th is a Revised Booster + TIX.

So am I correct in understanding that in the vintage event Friday morning, the top 50% of the people earn 3 'tix' regardless of placing? And ifnot, does this mean first place earns 12 dollar worth of stock, when everyone paid a 10$ entry?

I'm not associated with the event at all, and in fact am not even attending, but based on the example, the answer to your questions seems to be "yes" and "no." Look at the example given for the Revised draft. That event has 5 TIX per player, with 8 players, for a total of 40 tix. Half of those TIX (20) go to first place. So every player in the Vintage event will contribute 3 TIX to the event, while only the top 50% will receive TIX as prize. So the bottom 50% will add to TIX to the top half's prize pool. Payout to the top 50% will make the prize support far less top heavy than we Vintage players are used to, but you'll certainly make your money back if you end up first. If you accept the claim that a single TIX is worth $4, than they are actually giving out 120% of what they take in.

[Rock Lee]

After much deliberation amongst our staff, we devised a new prize support system other than - you get packs for winning. Instead, you get a TIX, a TIX has an intrinsic value of one normal retail priced booster pack ($4). With TIX you will then be able to choose what prizes you want based on their TIX value, some prizes will have a higher value than others, you will also be able to use TIX to enter tournaments instead of paying cash, so if you are really good, you might be able to pay for one tournament and play all the rest for free.

The Revised Sealed Deck as an example has a prize pool of 5 TIX (if I remember correctly, I don't have the prize chart with me - it might be 8 TIX/player) per player, with a cap of 8 players, and having a full event, prizes would be awarded as: @ 5 TIX/player: 1st = 20 TIX, 2nd = 12 TIX, 3rd = 6 TIX, 4th = 2 TIX. @ 8 TIX/player: 1st = 32 TIX, 2nd = 18 TIX, 3rd = 12 TIX, 4th = 8 TIX.

TIX are awarded to the top 50% of players in all events. If I remember correctly, a booster pack of revised will "cost" 5 TIX, so the person who wins the Revised Sealed Deck will get a revised starter, 2 boosters to play with and then either 4 or 6 more booster packs of revised, depending on the prize payouts. You can save up your TIX throughout the weekend to get one of the really big prizes.

Constructed events award 3 TIX/player, Draft Events award 2 TIX/player, 2 HG events award 6 TIX/team.

Sunday morning there is a free standard constructed event for registered members of the convention, first place is a Beta Booster + TIX, 2nd is a Arabian Booster + TIX, 3rd is an Antiquities Booster + TIX, 4th is a Revised Booster + TIX.

So am I correct in understanding that in the vintage event Friday morning, the top 50% of the people earn 3 'tix' regardless of placing? And ifnot, does this mean first place earns 12 dollar worth of stock, when everyone paid a 10$ entry?

I'm not associated with the event at all, and in fact am not even attending, but based on the example, the answer to your questions seems to be "yes" and "no." Look at the example given for the Revised draft. That event has 5 TIX per player, with 8 players, for a total of 40 tix. Half of those TIX (20) go to first place. So every player in the Vintage event will contribute 3 TIX to the event, while only the top 50% will receive TIX as prize. So the bottom 50% will add to TIX to the top half's prize pool. Payout to the top 50% will make the prize support far less top heavy than we Vintage players are used to, but you'll certainly make your money back if you end up first. If you accept the claim that a single TIX is worth $4, than they are actually giving out 120% of what they take in.

Was just looking for confirmation that First place would receive more than ((Max Players)/2+1)th place. And if possible, if that breakdown follows the revised draft's distribution.

[ConnectiCon]

I'm going to guess that my lack of a response is why vintage had such a poor turnout.

The prize pool for each constructed event consisted of 3/tix per player, so an 8 man tourney would award a total of 24 TIX to the top 4 with half (12 tix) going to the winner. Not a blanket 3 tix each to the top 4 players.

I'll try and do a better job explaining it for next year we've got a lot of product left, and plan to get more, as we won't be on a GP weekend next year. I'm hoping we can acquire a full playset of Revised Dual Lands for the FREE Sunday morning tournament for 2010, the convention will be July 9-11, 2010 at the Connecticut Convention Center.