Cascade Games Blog

GP Seattle hotel

cascadegames — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:13:44 +0000

There are a few days (until Feb 9th) to book a room in the official hotel for GP Seattle. Take a look – the hotel is really nice.

Tim

Emerald City Schedule

cascadegames — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:45:09 +0000

Standard	4:00 PM	$10.00	Bring your standard deck and win a sealed set of Magic.	Factory Sealed Magic set. Pack prizes based on attendance.
Friday Night Magic – sponsored by Cardhaus Games	6:00 PM	$25.00	Build a deck with 6 packs of the current block.	Cardhaus Games is bringing promo foils in addition to the FNM foils go home with Cardhaus promo foils – 4 wins get 4 promo foils, 3 wins = 3 foils, 2 wins = 2 promo foils. 1 or 0 wins = 1 promo foil.
Saturday	Start Time	Entry Fee	Event Description	Prizes
Magic Intro Pack League	10am- Late	$15.00	Pay one entry fee and play all weekend. Receive a Free Intro Pack (deck) when you register. Earn a Magic card after every match, win or lose.	Magic cards and Magic Promo Cards
Sealed Deck	11:00 AM	$20.00	Players build a sealed deck with 4 Magic packs.	First place get Max Protection Supplies for a year (details at bottom of page). Additional pack prizes based on attendance.
Standard	2:00 PM	$10.00	Bring you standard deck and win cool prizes.	1st pack wins a Pete Venters unique art playmat
Sealed Deck	3:30 PM	$20.00	Players build a sealed deck with 4 Magic packs.	First place get Max Protection Supplies for a year (details at bottom of page). Additional pack prizes based on attendance.
Mini-Master – For Uncut Arena card sheet	5:00 PM	$10.00	Each player receives a recent Magic booster and adds basic land to build a deck. Single elimination. Players still in the event receive an additional booster at the start of each round and add it to their deck.	Framed Uncut Arena card sheet sponsored by Top Deck Hobbies
Mini-Master	6:30 PM	$10.00	Each player receives a recent Magic booster and adds basic land to build a deck. Single elimination. Players still in the event receive an additional booster at the start of each round and add it to their deck.	First place get Max Protection Supplies for a year (details at bottom of page).
Late night draft	Onging	$15.00	Draft 3 packs for the current block, single elim	1st place 6 packs. 2nd pace 4 packs. 3rd – 4th place 1 pack
Late night “Win a Box”	Onging	$15.00	Bring you standard deck, single elim.	1st place get a box. But you already knew that.
Sunday	Start Time	Entry Fee	Event Description	Prizes
Magic Intro Pack League	10am – Hall closes at 5pm.	$15.00	Pay one entry fee and play all weekend. Receive a Free Intro Pack (deck) when you register. Earn a Magic card after every match, win or lose.	Magic cards and Magic Promo Cards
Standard	11:00am	$10.00	Bring your Standard Deck and win	We haven’t decided yet but it will be cool
Mini-Master	12:00 PM	$10.00	Each player receives a recent Magic booster and adds basic land to build a deck. Single elimination. Players still in the event receive an additional booster at the start of each round and add it to their deck.	First place wins a great magic prize pack!
Mini-Master	2:00 PM	$10.00	Each player receives a recent Magic booster and adds basic land to build a deck. Single elimination. Players still in the event receive an additional booster at the start of each round and add it to their deck.	First place get Max Protection Supplies for a year (details at bottom of page). Additional pack prizes based on attendance.

Side event at Next PTQ in Seattle

cascadegames — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:47:25 +0000

We will be running a $20 entry fee 8 player draft event at the next PTQ in Seattle.

First place wins MAX protect collecting supplies for a year.

Prize package is planned to be

8 portfolios
4 Mini Portfolios
15 Deck Boxes
3 Premium Deck Boxes
30 Packs of Sleeves
6 Packs of Premium Sleeves
1 Battle Counter
*Plus more Max goodies!

(there max be some slight changes. Prizes will be displayed prior to the event.)

GP Seattle – bonus for players.

cascadegames — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:11:34 +0000

Our friends at Fantasy Flight Games are giving sleeves to everyone who plays in the Main Event at Grand Prix Seattle.

If you want to check out sleeves go to http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=86

When the actual sleeves arrive I will confirm here and share which sleeve images we will have.

As with all offers – I need to say “while supplies last”.

Grand Prix Seattle participation card

cascadegames — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:20:17 +0000

Just in case you didn’t see it on Wizards site.

Thanks for your feedback.

cascadegames — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:12:35 +0000

I’m making changes based on all your feedback on the side event schedule and will be posting the final schedule on cascadegames.com as quick as I can.

Tim

GP Seattle side event rough DRAFT – feedback please

cascadegames — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:52:14 +0000

I would like to ask players for help in building a side event schedule for GP Seattle. I though I would post a DRAFT of the schedule and ask you what you think. I’m going to start with times and event formats. Please assume the prizes will be awesome (trust me on this one). Once I have a firm schedule I can insert in the prizes. Lets just focus on times and formats – please either post your comments here or send me an email.

Day	Start Time	Format
Friday	noon	Grinders – Sealed
Friday	6pm	Standard
Saturday	2pm	Standard
Saturday	4pm	Legacy
Saturday	6pm	Modern
Saturday	8pm	Sealed
Sunday	9am	Sealed
Sunday	11am	Modern
Sunday	1pm	Standard
Sunday	3pm	Legacy
Sunday	4pm	2HG Sealed
Sunday	6pm	Standard

Again – please get me your feedback as quickly as possible as I need to have this finalized as soon as possible.

Tim

PTQ dates set in Seattle

cascadegames — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:08:16 +0000

Sorry for the date changes for the Seattle PTQ’s this season. There were some schedule conflicts getting everything squared away was really rough with the holidays. The good news is that the dates are set now and I don’t expect any changes.

I’m looking forward to a solid Modern season. I really don’t know what to expect in terms of attendance in Seattle but we will be ready if attendance is high – just in case.

For the other cities where I used to run the PTQ’s – I want to thank the players and judges. It was privilege to be able to organize events for you and I hope to see you at GP’s and conventions in the future.

Tim

GP Seattle – Judge window

cascadegames — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:45:11 +0000

If you want to judge at GP Seattle please go to DCI Family. org and apply. The application window is open now.

Tim

Did you see the Pro Tour and GP announcements?

cascadegames — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:19:35 +0000

Wizards just posted the news on the next seasons grand prix’s. Lots of good news including

GP in Vancouver BC in June

First place in GP’s get a Pro Tour invite

and all GP’s will have a $30,000 cash prize pool.

details at

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/172a

Tim