A Whos Who of the Magic Pro World.
MICHAEL A ZEBERLEIN
Hi all,
I would like to see someone (preferably a big name pro ie wiesmann)
to post a Whos Whos for the pro magic community. It would
be neat for the readers of this newsgroup to know alittle
about all these guys. I would be willing to compile a whos
who but I really dont know that many pros being from the
east coast and not going to any of the pro qualifiers. So if
your a pro of sorts please send me a email on who you are
and what your accomplishments have been in the last few years
in the magic tournament circuits. I will compile this and
post it so all can read your outstanding achievements. This
is a form of recognition and positive egotistical posturing. ;)
I would really like to do this so go ahead and write me.
The people I know personally and have heard about so for that
I think would qualify are:
Personally Mike Long
Dave Mills
Heard alot about.
Justice
Immordio
Chalice
Unger
Weismann
Hogan
Lestree
Poulter
Stern
Robert Hahn for his schools of magic Iloveit
and probably alot others but i dont know who you are
and i havent heard of you.
Some interesting info would be how long you have been
in magic, Your age, Your real job, If you go to school.
Your interests. What region of the country you live in.
What crews you hang with ie La gang ect.
any other information that you think the magic community
might find really cool and interesting.
Once again I think this will be good reading for the people
who have just entered the game. It beats reading the
newsgroups and wondering Who the heck are all these knobs
tootin their horns over who started what and when.
So go ahead and mail me your magic bio and Ill hopefully
post a kick ass Whos Who of the magic Professionals.
Mike Zeberlein
Necrodeck Tournament statistics
2- firstplace
2- secondplace
1- bombed.
Bored of Necro and switching now to erniegeddon.
The Timster!
In article <4m5fl8$8...@doc.jmu.edu> MICHAEL A ZEBERLEIN wrote:
>Heard alot about.
>
> Justice
> Immordio
> Chalice
> Unger
> Weismann
> Hogan
> Lestree
> Poulter
> Stern
> Robert Hahn for his schools of magic Iloveit
> and probably alot others but i dont know who you are
> and i havent heard of you.
Don't forget us in MA! Loconto (obviously) and Jim Lemire come to
mind...
-The Timster!
Andrew Marshall
In article <4m61fa$j...@news-e2d.gnn.com>, TheTi...@gnn.com (The
Timster!) wrote:
Speaking of my neck of the woods (NE) I'll have to add Hammer to that list.
--
Andrew Marshall
amar...@mail.trincoll.edu
Steve Wyeth
> Hi all,
> I would like to see someone (preferably a big name pro ie wiesmann)
> to post a Whos Whos for the pro magic community. It would
> be neat for the readers of this newsgroup to know alittle
> about all these guys. I would be willing to compile a whos
> who but I really dont know that many pros being from the
> east coast and not going to any of the pro qualifiers. So if
> your a pro of sorts please send me a email on who you are
> and what your accomplishments have been in the last few years
> in the magic tournament circuits. I will compile this and
> post it so all can read your outstanding achievements. This
> is a form of recognition and positive egotistical posturing. ;)
> I would really like to do this so go ahead and write me.
> The people I know personally and have heard about so for that
> I think would qualify are:
> Personally Mike Long
> Dave Mills
> Heard alot about.
> Justice
> Immordio
> Chalice
> Unger
> Weismann
> Hogan
> Lestree
> Poulter
> Stern
> Robert Hahn for his schools of magic Iloveit
> and probably alot others but i dont know who you are
> and i havent heard of you.
Aren't most of these people (if not all of them) American? What
about everywhere else? Magic does seem to suffer from an
American bias (it even spells its words in American fashion
rather than 'International English')...
Steve.
(PS I expect that the above will be treated as the rantings and
ravings of a 'whining limey' - and they probably are! :-)).
Robert S. Hahn
Also sprach MICHAEL A ZEBERLEIN (STU_MA...@vax1.acs.jmu.edu):
: Personally Mike Long
: Dave Mills
: Heard alot about.
: Justice
: Immordio
: Chalice
: Unger
: Weismann
: Hogan
: Lestree
: Poulter
: Stern
: Robert Hahn for his schools of magic Iloveit
: and probably alot others but i dont know who you are
: and i havent heard of you.
Thanks for mentioning my name with the above list, but really, I must
protest putting me up there with those guys just yet. I am but a mere
scribe, as they say. If I win the Pro Tour II, then you can quote my name
in the same breath with Lestree and Justice. :)
However, being a scribe, I do have some contacts with The Duelist and I
will speak to them about doing some kind of an article (if someone isn't
already assigned to it) on the personalities of the Pro Tour -- or at the
very least, try to find the time to compile something for the Net
community.
-The Sophist
--
Robert S. Hahn rsh...@is.nyu.edu
NYU Law School, '97 http://pages.nyu.edu/~rsh9395/index.html
"They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of
people whose profession it is to disguise matters."
-- Sir Thomas More, Utopia
Ken Sheffield
ste...@dougal.logica.co.uk (Steve Wyeth) wrote:
[SNIP]
> > Robert Hahn for his schools of magic Iloveit
> > and probably alot others but i dont know who you are
> > and i havent heard of you.
> Aren't most of these people (if not all of them) American? What
> about everywhere else? Magic does seem to suffer from an
> American bias (it even spells its words in American fashion
> rather than 'International English')...
>
> Steve.
>
> (PS I expect that the above will be treated as the rantings and
> ravings of a 'whining limey' - and they probably are! :-)).
No whining limey post here :-) Maybe we haven't heard of the best players from
over the pond. Instead of just saying this list is just Americans, why not add
some players you know of.
Later,
Ken
Sweet Dods
>> Aren't most of these people (if not all of them) American? What
>> about everywhere else? Magic does seem to suffer from an
>> American bias (it even spells its words in American fashion
>> rather than 'International English')...
>>
>> Steve.
>>
>> (PS I expect that the above will be treated as the rantings and
>> ravings of a 'whining limey' - and they probably are! :-)).
>No whining limey post here :-) Maybe we haven't heard of the best
players from
>over the pond. Instead of just saying this list is just Americans, why
not add
>some players you know of.
And anyway, Bertrand Lestree, at least, is not American.
sweet do...@aol.com
Preston Poulter
On 1 May 1996, Andrew Marshall wrote:
> In article <4m61fa$j...@news-e2d.gnn.com>, TheTi...@gnn.com (The
> Timster!) wrote:
>
> > In article <4m5fl8$8...@doc.jmu.edu> MICHAEL A ZEBERLEIN wrote:
> > >Heard alot about.
> > >
> > > Justice
> > > Immordio
> > > Chalice
> > > Unger
> > > Weismann
> > > Hogan
> > > Lestree
> > > Poulter
> > > Stern
> > > Robert Hahn for his schools of magic Iloveit
> > > and probably alot others but i dont know who you are
> > > and i havent heard of you.
> >
> >
> > Don't forget us in MA! Loconto (obviously) and Jim Lemire come to
> > mind...
> >
> > -The Timster!
>
> Speaking of my neck of the woods (NE) I'll have to add Hammer to that list.
>
> --
> Andrew Marshall
> amar...@mail.trincoll.edu
>
>
The more complete the list obviously the better. But I do think you
should specify which players are net active. If this is for the Duelist
then it doesn't matter, but if this is for the general reference of net
newbies, and since your stated goal was to try to give them some grip on
who it was that was posting what, then it becomes more relivant.
Cheers,
Preston Poulter (aka "The Pompous Ass")
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Preston Poulter
On 1 May 1996, Sweet Dods wrote:
> >No whining limey post here :-) Maybe we haven't heard of the best
> players from
> >over the pond. Instead of just saying this list is just Americans, why
> not add
> >some players you know of.
> And anyway, Bertrand Lestree, at least, is not American.
>
> sweet do...@aol.com
In fact, according to the Dueslist, Lestree resides in England but
describes the Magic scene there as "not well developed." So it is
unlikely there will be many UK players to make the list. France and
Switzerland seem to do well. My friend Scott Larabee though, is
throughly convinced that the Japanese are going to do really well in the
1997 World Championships. The games was just officially released there
and is immensely popular (as with most things American when it comes to
entertainment.) Not to stereotype, but since the Japanese people are
renowned for their ability to take ideas and improve upon them we are
likely to be over run rather shortly (no pun intended.)
David J Low
Preston Poulter <ppou...@arcturus.oac.uci.edu> writes:
>In fact, according to the Dueslist, Lestree resides in England but
>describes the Magic scene there as "not well developed." So it is
>unlikely there will be many UK players to make the list. France and
>Switzerland seem to do well.
Australia won the constructed deck section of the Worlds last year... :-)
(Hey, gotta be jingoistic somewhere...)
>My friend Scott Larabee though, is
>throughly convinced that the Japanese are going to do really well in the
>1997 World Championships. The games was just officially released there
>and is immensely popular (as with most things American when it comes to
>entertainment.) Not to stereotype, but since the Japanese people are
>renowned for their ability to take ideas and improve upon them we are
>likely to be over run rather shortly (no pun intended.)
They've had English cards for close to a year, from what I can work out.
Still rough around the edges, but they've got an Australian coach now :-)
Regards,
David.
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John Immordino
In <Pine.SUN.3.91.960501...@arcturus.oac.uci.edu>
John
Jared Earle
In article <stevew.16...@dougal.logica.co.uk>,
>
>> Justice
>> Immordio
>> Chalice
>> Unger
>> Weismann
>> Hogan
>> Lestree
>> Poulter
>> Stern
>> Robert Hahn for his schools of magic Iloveit
>> and probably alot others but i dont know who you are
>> and i havent heard of you.
>about everywhere else? Magic does seem to suffer from an
>American bias (it even spells its words in American fashion
>rather than 'International English')...
>
>Steve.
>
>(PS I expect that the above will be treated as the rantings and
>ravings of a 'whining limey' - and they probably are! :-)).
Well, as a 'ranting limey' like myself, I would have tought you'd have
known Surrey's finest Frenchman would be amused at your referring to him as
American...
Also, seeing as Magic was created by Seps, you'd assume that they'd use
their own spellings for words, wouldn't you?
While we're on predictions, I say Lestree comes in the top 8 (he tanned me
in our booster draft a few weeks ago...)
Ok, so we want bios?
Bertrand Lestree, French, 25. Played in, and won, the French National
championship in 1994 alongside Domenic Seimens and Cyrille Martin De
Foucauld who were all in the top 4 in the 1994 World championship with Zak
Dolan being the only American to survive that far. Disqualified from the
1995 French Nationals (after qualifying in the top 16) for... er,
disagreeing with a judge. Invited to Pro Tour 1 in NY and came second. He
lives in Surrey, England while serving his National Service.
aside: Magic, Americocentric? In the regionals, of course. In the world's?
Look at the facts. 1994- top 4, 3 Europeans, 1995- top 4, 2 Europeans...
The main reason we hear about US players here is that the US gets free
local calls. Free local calls means cheap internet. Academic Internet is
also more prevalent than in the UK and mainland Europe. UK also has its own
fora in which we can discuss our ethnocentric twists on Magic.
(Ok, we all know why we hear more about the yanks is because the SHOUT
louder than us... ;-) )
Anyway, I'd better stop my wibbling while I can.
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In article <4m7qa7$s...@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, ua...@mck-uaii.mck.ncsu.edu says...
>> > and probably alot others but i dont know who you are
>> > and i havent heard of you.
>> Aren't most of these people (if not all of them) American? What
>> about everywhere else? Magic does seem to suffer from an
>> American bias (it even spells its words in American fashion
>> rather than 'International English')...
>>
>> Steve.
>>
>> (PS I expect that the above will be treated as the rantings and
>> ravings of a 'whining limey' - and they probably are! :-)).
>
In case anyone is wondering, Magic is in American English and has an American
bias because it was created in the US. Made in USA, therefore American. Most
of its players used to be Americans (may have changed, I dont know). All the
WotC (or most of them) people are American. If it was WotC and the Coast was
western England then Im sure it would be "International English" and have an
English bias. Its not anyhting personal, its just point of origin and
conveinance.
MUNICH
Steve Griffin
Preston Poulter <ppou...@arcturus.oac.uci.edu> wrote something like:
> In fact, according to the Dueslist, Lestree resides in England but
> describes the Magic scene there as "not well developed." So it is
> unlikely there will be many UK players to make the list. France and
> Switzerland seem to do well. My friend Scott Larabee though, is
> throughly convinced that the Japanese are going to do really well in the
> 1997 World Championships. The games was just officially released there
> and is immensely popular (as with most things American when it comes to
> entertainment.) Not to stereotype, but since the Japanese people are
> renowned for their ability to take ideas and improve upon them we are
> likely to be over run rather shortly (no pun intended.)
Well, The UK Nationals will be in Birmingham (the original one) in
June. If Mr Lestree plays, (which he can do as he's resident in the
UK) we'll be able to see just how developed the Magic scene is...
Regards
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"The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no
preferences" - Hsing Hsing Ming
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Magnar Sveen
>No whining limey post here :-) Maybe we haven't heard of the best players
>from over the pond. Instead of just saying this list is just Americans, why
>not add some players you know of.
Lestree? Blumke?
Later,
--
Magnar Sveen - mARSH mELLOW - msv...@telepost.no
Everything you know is wrong.
The Nomad
Preston Poulter <ppou...@arcturus.oac.uci.edu> wrote:
>In fact, according to the Dueslist, Lestree resides in England but
>describes the Magic scene there as "not well developed." So it is
>unlikely there will be many UK players to make the list.
Iain Macdonald?( 25th at one of the world championships, and the man I
steal all my deck ideas from...) Ollie Schnider?
I`m not sure about "not well developed". "Very different", possibly. I
only know the South, but the decks seem to vary widely: there`s only a
couple of Necrodeck players around at the moment, and the low
population density means there`s not the communication between players
that is found in the US: my personal "Magic Crowd" consists of around
25 people, as opposed to the hundreds I hear about in places like NY
and LA. On the other hand, I believe Iain`s pretty good by any
standards, and I can`t recall him winning a tourney down here
recently, so we can`t be that underdeveloped...
The Nomad
I play with original decks: someone else`s...
"My name was Mike. His name is Bob."