It was in the X—2 bracket where I witnessed one of the most disgusting displays of poor sportsmanship and condescension during a Magic tournament which is saying a lot: I arrived home to the following message on AIM from Kate:. I was destroyed; one of the only people in the world I trusted had just made it clear that she no longer wanted anything to do with me. It was in this moment of intense hatred that I decided I would temporarily ignore the other aspects of my life and qualify for the Pro Tour.
There are two issues of note here:. Never before has it been possible to simply decide to qualify. In years past, there was always the requirement that you had to win a PTQ or Top 16 a GP in order to do so, and you could never count doing one of those as a sure thing. I only decided to take Magic seriously after coming back from a certain international journey in January of , and the improvement I made over the next few months allowed me to qualify for Pro Tour: I was now officially on the grind: This event was before I was fully adjusted to the new PWP system—before I came to the most important realization of the post-Elo world: A corollary to this realization is the acceptance that winning a tournament was now Plan B; Plan A was simply to earn enough PWPs to stay in the Top , which affected some of my deck-building decisions: It also impacted my play—rather than replay every excruciating turn of the matches I played especially those I lost , the matches stopped mattering, I stopped putting my hundred percent into it, and I made some nonzero number of game-losing errors that could have been avoided by giving a shit.
You can find a more detailed report from the event here. Met and played against both Bill Boulden whom I beat and Jon Corpora who crushed me and had the nerve to ask if I talked during matches while he was beating down with his multiple bombs. Get an offline message from Kate: Going through all these tournaments makes me realize how much I suck. Having something constant to look forward to every day demarcates them.
Third article up on SCG it was not particularly well-received—topic was way too niche. Slept overnight in a subway for the first time not the event alluded to in the opening, which happens during the second sleepover. Almost have to spend a night camping out with Occupy Philadelphia, but am lucky and find a bus that was running very far behind schedule. Wizards also announced that Worlds will now count for competitive and not just professional PWP, essentially killing any chance I have of qualifying for the Pro Tour. I wrote an open letter on my old blog dieplstks.
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