Friday at the TCG World Championships
by Mike Schramm 
Dec 1st 2007 at 11:30AM
The competitors are just getting started this morning in San Diego, but here's a wrapup of everything that went down yesterday at the WoW TCG World Championship tournament there.- First and foremost, they played some cards. Brad Watson, who we interviewed, is doing well, and Upper Deck also put together a huge list of the top constructed decks from Day One. Today, we hear, will be all about Draft decks, as players continue to fight for the Top 8. Here are the standings as of round 9.
- Manager of Organized Play Ben Drago made some announcements regarding the future of organized play for the TCG-- he rounds them all up on his blog. Looks like UD is going to choose a "TCG Player of the Year," and the contest starts right now at World Champs.
- Multiple TCG artists were in attendance at the event, including Blizzard's Samwise, a Warcraft icon (literally). Bloody Mary, he says, is his favorite card.
- There was also some chaos from the online game, as Blizzard reps went head to head against a Warsong Gulch, and brought everyone from Jaina Proudmoore to Hogger into the battle. Upper Deck: you've got to give us bigger versions of those pictures. That looks hilarious.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, Fan stuff, WoW Social Conventions, Blizzard, WoW TCG
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Killah Dec 1st 2007 12:13PM
Do you have a higher resolution of that image in the article?
Heartless_ Dec 1st 2007 6:03PM
I can't help but think that the WoW TCG is a subpar game sold by a fairly good hookline, the WoW in-game loot. I played the game, tried to love it, but in the end I couldn't help but feel the rules learned nothing from YEARS of Magic: the Gathering professional play.
Oh, and I played the game with the top WoW judge and we constantly debated the ruleset and its constant need for tricky and overzealous rulings.
UD could and should have done better.