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It was either at Gen Con 98 or 99 just prior to the L5R semi finals somebody had his backpack stolen right off the peg of the bathroom stall door which included the deck he needed for the tourney that was due to start in about 25-30 min. He obviously couldn't chase after the guy with his pants around his ankles and came back to the judges table in absolute tears about what had just happened. Everyone was pretty shocked and upset by this because there were a lot of very brazen thieves in the ccg hall that year pilfering backpacks and binders even from people who were mid game. It was so bad that year we had to place judges and volunteers standing at the ends of the isles to stop people from wandering in between tables during games and running off with bags.

Nobody wanted to see somebody get qualified only to now be dropped from the event because of a bunch of dishonest nobs. So the TO got on the mic and explained what had just happened and players and the event organizers all sprung into action and started pulling stuff from their binders, within about 15 minutes he had his deck rebuilt card for card so that he could compete. The response was so quick that it didn't even delay the start of the event, the players all furnished a bunch of the incredibly hard to get out of print rares and promos for his deck and then the TOs went above and beyond and gave him a stack of foils and event promos that were normally reserved exclusively for the event winners. It still stung that he lost his other stuff but needless to say it turned his day around and he was able to still play in the event. Nobody asked for their cards back even though some of them were fairly valuable and it was something that brought all 300+ l5r players together. It was really unexpected and impressive, it made me feel really proud to be at an event that had so many great people in the community, which I've never really experienced the same way when I was playing MTG or other games.