ConnectiCon July 9-11, 2010 - Hartford, CT

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ConnectiCon will be offering a "FREE" (you have to be a member to participate) standard constructed tournament each day of the convention, with first place winning a booster box, 2nd getting 1/2 box, 3rd and 4th getting a 1/4 box. In addition to the free tournament we'll be scheduling booster draft events for every block from Urza's to Zendikar, we'll also be offering Revised Sealed Deck, Vintage, Legacy, Extended and Standard Constructed, as well as Elder Dragon Highlander events, and side drafts as they fill.

The organizers of ConnectiCon also host a monthly (2nd Saturday) event at the Newington Office and Conference Center, 705 North Mountain Road, Newington, CT 06111.

These events are called Member Appreciation Days (MAD), and are included in the cost of a membership for ConnectiCon, July 9-11, 2010 (an annual, 3-day, multi-genre convention in Hartford, CT). Currently a 3-day membership for the convention is $35, Friday Only $30, Saturday Only $40, Sunday Only $25.At our monthly MAD events, we run one Standard Constructed event $10 with a booster box added to the prize pool for every 8 players in the event, and a booster draft (block is players choice - we have Urza - Zendikar available, but the price varies between $15 and $40 based on the block played).

Hope to see some of you at our monthly events, and at the convention.

We will be offering a Vintage AND a Legacy event each day of the convention.

As the convention gets closer, I'll post more details about any Power9, Dual Lands, Fetch Lands, Mana Drains, unopened old school boosters/starters, that we'll have available as possibly prize support. Right now we've got 2 Arabian Nights Boosters, an Unlimited Time Walk, a Signed Unlimited Black Lotus, and a bunch of Revised Boosters and Starters.

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this may be a little early

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Well... I just don't want to get accused of being an idiot and scheduling my event for the same weekend as a Grand Prix or anything like that, and it is never too early to start promoting an event, especially a 3-day event, that should be quite fun =)

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Each day we will be offering FREE constructed tournaments (included with your membership) with the following prizes:

1st - Booster Box or 36 TIX
2nd - 18 Booster Packs or 18 TIX
3rd - 12 Booster Packs or 12 TIX
4th - 6 Booster Packs or 6 TIX

TIX can be used to enter tournaments at the convention, or to "buy" prizes including packs, boxes and singles.

The following card prizes available for purchase using TIX:

UNL Black Lotus, UNL Time Walk, UNL Timetwister, UNL Ancestral Recall, UNL Mox Sapphire, UNL Mox Jet, Beta Mox Pearl, Beta Mox Emerald, Beta Sol Ring, 4x of each Revised Dual Land, and other staple cards for Vintage, Legacy, Extended and Standard Constructed.

As an example of prize support an in-print booster pack (Shards, Zendikar, M10) has a cost of 1 TIX, actually most booster packs have a cost of 1 TIX, a Revised Edition Booster has a cost of 5 TIX, the UNL Black Lotus will have a cost of 325 TIX.

An example of our tournament prize structure:

An 8-man draft pod ($15 entry fee or 5 TIX) will have a prize pool of 16 TIX (2 TIX added to the pool for each player).

1st = 8 TIX
2nd = 4 TIX
3rd = 2 TIX
4th = 2 TIX

A 32 player constructed tournament ($10 entry fee or 4 TIX) would have a prize pool of 96 TIX (3 TIX added to the pool for each player).

1st = 48 TIX
2nd = 32 TIX
3rd = 16 TIX
4th = 12 TIX
5th = 10 TIX
6th = 6 TIX
7th/8th = 4 TIX each
9-12 = 2 TIX each
13-16 = 1 TIX each

If you have any questions please feel free to ask them. At some time in the future I'll post some scans of the Vintage stuff that will be available for prize support as well as update what their TIX cost will be.