Dobbler said:

if i do decide i can make the trip down i would probably be hitting you up for this offer (: saving any money always good.

The Moonboy Classic is now less than a month away!  I have already received three commitments for people staying at my place.  Let me know if you are coming!

Has there been a consensus reached on the format for Melee?  Will it be traditional rules, or will it indeed be the experimental scoring?

Yes, we'll be playing the melee with our objective rules in order to give them a trial run. Copied over from Facebook, here's the list of objectives, plus Tim's suggested names:

"Queensguard Award" 1) win a challenge as a defender while supporting a title- timing during winner determination before claim
"Aegon Award" 2) win a challenge against all opponents in the same round - timing during winner determination before claim
"Sad Sack Award" 3) lose a challenge against all opponents in the same round - timing during winner determination before claim
"Kill the King Award"4) win three challenges against opponents with more power then you - timing during winner determination of third successfully challenge before claim
"Faceless Man Award" 5) lower an opponent's power total during a challenge in which you are not the attacker or defender (not participating in) - timing during response window
"Monkey Wrench Award" 6) add or remove (blanking/stealing) an icon or keyword to an opponent's character in a challenge in which you are not the attacker or defenders (not participating in) - timing during response window

Glad he was kind enough to write those up for us and offer those suggestions. Along with that info, I'll mention that you get 2 points for each other player you beat at a 4 player table and 3 points each at a 3 player table. Ties are 1 point each. The total max points for a player should be 12.

I have had trouble posting on the threads for 3 days!  Ergh, these boards have become burdensome.

Quick update, as of now, I will have 5 people staying at my place (3 from Iowa, 2 from Kentucky), and possibly a group from Oklahoma.  We also have two from Arkansas coming to the tournament, so we already know we will have 5 states represented!

Booya! It sounds like this is getting bigger than I expected.

Who's coming from Iowa and Kentucky?

Pretty sure I'm attending, gotta represent Texas.

You can also count on 4 bringin' the ILL from Illinois.

Holy cow, this is awesome! I think this is turning into a real event!

Kennon said:

Its always been a real event, you wooden puppet you!

I officially will not be there.  I just found out I tore my ACL.  Sorry guys, somoene will have to teach everyone how to party this year…..

Dobbler said:

Have you met our friends and metamates? I still won't be convinced that some of them are playing until Saturday afternoon.

Also, Jeppedo, that really sucks, man.

So question, now that Reach of the Kraken is supposed to be available next week, it is not going to be legal for the tournament right?

I was asking Greg last night (since the tournament is mainly his brainchild) and he said that it will not be legal for the Moonboy Classic.

I really wish I could make this. Would be nice to meet you all again in a smaller setting than world's. Good luck to everyone. I can't wait to get a sense of the results. First 'Big' tourney since HoD was legal. I am going to go out on a limb and say an anti-HoD deck will win, like GJ Cancel Maesters (Canaesters?)