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echiang777@yahoo.com wrote:
> I am certainly pleased that White Wolf has settled the issue promptly.
> This way, everyone can begin to make the necessary preparations ASAP.
I would think that for most people, "ASAP" is more 'As Soon as
Necessary', given the almost-15-months notice.
I personally feel
zero urgency to prepare anything about this before _this_ year's NAC
wraps up, for instance, and likely won't care much before at least the
New Year.
> I do have some concerns about the date however. It is my perception
> that when choosing a date outside of summer, you run the risk of
> scheduling conflicts. School, work, and/or family life may not be as
> amenable to taking several days off (or an entire week for the Week of
> Nightmares) when it is *not* during the summer.
On the other hand, the summer has numerous conflicts already, such as
people's desire to take vacations (often with their family/loved ones)
during the summer that do NOT involve VTES (I know, heresy!)
Also, Origins, Gen*Con, and DragonCon are already within a nine-week
span of summer, and will presumably all continue to have VTES events,
making squeezing a 4th major VTES event in there a bit much for WW
people, no doubt.
> November/December are poor choices because they may overlap with the
> holiday rush. I do concede that the Columbus Day weekend would be the
> best choice for the month of October. I would like to point out that
> Columbus Day is not as widely celebrated as it once was. It is still a
> Federal Holiday (so it's convenient for government employees) and
> primary/secondary schools have the day off. However, AFAIK most
> universities and companies do *not* grant time off for the holiday.
> Thus any NAC plans should *not* be under the assumption that players
> will have the upcoming Monday off (as college students and
> non-government employees may not).
Agreed. Choosing Columbus Day means some people will have the Monday
off, but don't schedule events as if everyone will.
> Assuming that the Limited and Constructed portions fall on different
> days, I'm curious as to whether people feel that Fri/Sat or Sat/Sun
> would be the best arrangement. My initial feeling is that Sat/Sun would
> be useful in allowing people to fly in just for the weekend. However,
> flying back Sunday night may not necessarily be feasible, especially if
> the Sunday tourney is delayed.
The Sunday tournament would be nigh-impossible to delay, given that
Gen*Con ends the convention at an earlier hour on Sunday. If held on
Sunday, the event would need to start early so as to end before the
convention kicks people out in the late afternoon. Which might be
convienent for weekend fliers.
> What sort of format will the Limited event be? From my experience,
> booster draft tends to be more challenging than starter draft but YMMV.
> How will card sets and drafting pods be determined?
Thankfully, we have over a year to discuss and determine this, since
Oscar's effectively asked us to do so.
> Finally, I'm curious how the combined score will be used for the two
> different events. Are the two events weighted equally? 40/60? 70/30?
> Will you simply add together the Rating Points (after factoring in
> weights) or do you have a different method in mind?
Again, we have a lot of time to discuss this, and Oscar's invited us to
do so in this thread (as opposed to dictating how it'll be.)
> With regards,
> Eric Chiang
-John Flournoy
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