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Mike PatnikSam Stoddard and I both cannot attend the next Pro Tour in Kuala Lumpur, so as an experiment he and I did coverage of the last PTQ in Columbus for that tournament. Tournament organizer Mike Guptil elected not to publish it on his website, so you can find it here instead.

I learned a lot while doing this, but the most important thing I learned is that I never want to not play ever again. I enjoy battling too much, and everybody had too much fun for me to not have that next time.

Thanks to Professional Events Services for helping us with this. They run the best events I play in. Also congratulations to Mike Patnik for winning the last available trip to Malaysia in the midwest.

Comments (5) Posted by Tom LaPille on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

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Wanderer’s TwigI haven’t updated this in a long time. My bad; writing on a real deadline and having to produce 2000+ words on one topic every week is more draining than I thought it would be. We’ll see what happens here in the near future. I don’t plan on abandoning this, but I probably will not do serious strategy writing here anymore. This site has served its purpose for me since it got Craig to cold e-mail me, so life is good. Of course, the cube information will stay here.

The Hollywood qualifier schedule is up. Who wants to win a ticket?

My schedule:

  • 1/5: Garden City, Michigan
  • 1/12: Cleveland, Ohio
  • 1/26: Louisville, Kentucky
  • 2/9: Columbus, Ohio
  • 2/16: Indianapolis, Indiana
  • 2/23: Vancouver, Canada
  • 3/1: Nashville, Tennessee
  • 3/15: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 3/22: Indianapolis, Indiana
  • 3/29: Columbus, Ohio

How bad do you want it? This season is probably the best opportunity any American player will have to go to their first pro tour that will happen for a while because of how many qualifiers there are. If you are willing to drive, you may even be able to hit one almost every weekend like this. Go make it happen. I’ll see you in Hollywood.

Comments (2) Posted by Tom LaPille on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

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Journey of DiscoveryI’m about to leave for Worlds. I don’t know what I’ll be doing there exactly yet, but stop by and say hello if you want to chat and hopefully I’ll see you Saturday night.

Travel safe and good luck to everyone who is attending.

Comments (7) Posted by Tom LaPille on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007