ANR Broadcast (2014-05-06)

[Eric Fong]

It's broadcast time! Late night, flying under the radar of the pesky net police.

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_Honor and Profit Released_

In case you missed it, yes, Honor and Profit is out! Go grab it from you friendly local game store! It's going to mix up the meta with a lot of new cards and tools. Jinteki will be everywhere, and if Austin took back-to-back wins at our two monthly tournaments with Jinteki without H&P, imagine what it will be like with it. Bring your decks!

_Regionals Season Starts_

Apparently, there's a regional in Portland, Oregon on Saturday. While it's unlikely that there will be a carpool, apparently their regional is currently only 9 people. A good place to steal a Nationals bye? You'll have to compete against some highly valued community members as well, but the biggest challenge: getting there!

_Upstalk Already?_

Rumors have also been flying about Upstalk, the first pack of the Lunar Cycle, landing in the coming month! However, it won't be legal for Regional, National, or Worlds tournaments. The clarification is that it won't be legal for Worlds, which makes it pretty silly if it's legal for Nationals and/or Regionals. But it's going to be here sooner rather than later, which means new cards, new strats, and new tools that lots of us won't want to use until Regionals passes. Or, "being on the boat" could be a long delay. Also, with so few cards spoiled from Upstalk, it's a datapack filled with mystery and an alternate numbering scheme! Good thing I don't sort my cards by number.

_Tournament Calendar_

The tournament organizers have entered their events on the event calendar. You should check there, and I'm sure there will be discussion and reminders as well.

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That's all for the Broadcast this week! I am not sure if I will be at Gamescape SF tomorrow (techincally today), and I think this will be the first Tuesday I've missed in a very long time. Apologies to everyone!

Don't worry, there will be plenty of regionals practice.

--Eric

[programmingisgood .]

Thanks again Eric.

Do you have a link to where they stated Lunar won't be legal for Worlds? It seems like most, if not all, of Lunar will be out by November.

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Brian Cronin

[Eric Fong]

If you go find the "worlds" ruleset for ANR, it specifically says in red letters "Upstalk will not be legal for this event." Also, as I think I mentioned, "on the boat" can be anywhere from a week...to a month or two.

[Thomas Carrieri]

I was wondering if I could get some ges in with you? Everyone says you are a great player when it comes to newbies.ive gone to a few events but have not played yet.
Thenks.
Thomas

[Eric Fong]

Unfortunately, I live in the south bay now, but I will be sure to let you know when I'm coming back to GSF on one of these Wednesday nights.

[mrmo...@gmail.com]

I would gladly come to you. Will you be at gamekastle tomorrow? 

Sent from my iPhone

[Eric Fong]

Welp, seeing how I was not at GKSC today, no I don't be...

Got stuck at work late, and then helped a coworker out after work. Next week, I will make sure to be there.