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Magic, due to its high level of support for competitive play, including a pro tour with cash prizes, has attracted a ridiculous number and variety of competitive players over the years. Regnier literally was a competitive arm wrestler before he started playing Magic. The funnier part is that I know he played Pokemon competitively at one point too. Of course, the friend of mine who dragged me to the only Pro Tour qualifier I ever attended was a big high school athlete before he got into gaming. He's well over two bills and used to leg press about half a ton. And played Pokemon compettiively after he got out of Magic.

Fun fact for poker buffs: David Williams, 2nd place finisher in the 2004 World Series of Poker main event, started with Magic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Williams_(card_player)

Competitive and Pokemon should never be in the same sentence.



Ozymandias, King of Kings

Did you not see the "Magic" logo on the right margin, nor the cards on the table?

I read it as an statement of surprise expressed as incredulity as opposed to literal disbelief of the facts I gave.

Well my boy used to play with soldiers coming down from Fort Hood so I could understand that. Nothing like a then 10 year pwoning dudes who shoot really really big guns while his then 6 year sister draws horsies and such for the soldiers to take with them on their next deployment.

Thank you Mannahnin. Gotta love trying to express incredulity with only italics...

Ozymandias, King of Kings

Bah. You guys are no fun.

JohnHwangDD wrote:blood angel: Nothing forces anyone to "pummel" anyone. If the point is to have an enjoyable game, then trying to grand the opponent down with a fast massacre isn't sporting. Recall that there's another human being on the other side of the board, so perhaps it's better to play a bit less aggressively so both players can have some fun.

There are two types of people in the world. When they lose badly-

One blames their opponent
One blames themselves.

Which is the better sport I wonder?

Depends. If they "blame" their opponent by admitting that they were outplayed, that is great sportsmanship. If they blame themselves and throw their dice across the room, that is bad sportsmanship.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

As in the one who blames their opponent or his army for the loss and dings the sports/comp score because obviously he was a WAAC asshat...

There are two types of people in the world:

One thinks the world can be divided into two types of people.

The other thinks that’s a misleading oversimplification.