OverPower Championships 2014

[Meanstreek]

I believe Larry was planning on bringing a bunch of  prints too.

[poneill378]

Awesome! Thanks guys

[OP GOD]

Had a great Friday get together.

Good luck tmrw players.

Enjoy the videos later anyone waiting at home.

Let's have an awesome tournament and let's keep this momentum going. 

A new champion will be crowned today

Got your big boy cards??

Marcel
OP GOD

[chuu]

I'd like to thank Marcel for hosting this tournament, it was a great success, I believe this sentiment is felt by everyone that was there. We had 21 players and Duncan made an appearance mid-way through the tournament! Really feels like overpower keeps getting stronger every tournament.

[Kyoujin]

I agree.  Everyone who had a hand in making the tournament happen deserves a lot of praise and thanks.

Also, for anyone who's hesitant about attending any of these tournaments, I'd strongly urge you to consider attending any future gatherings, whether big or small.  This was my first serious tournament, and I will most certainly be attending the rest in the circuit next year. 

I had the absolute pleasure of being included in a really special community this weekend.

Chuu said it best: Overpower keeps getting better and better.

[breadmaster]

yep, thanks marcel.  that man was wiped out by the end of night

are we giving results, or waiting?

[AO user]

My first tourney was a blast.  I lost all ten games including pick up games.  To the uninitiated in overpower I'm spinning it as "I competed in the international championship iin Toronto."  But the ugly details will be posted soon enough.  Thanks to all.  Kyoujin, did we play?  Chuu your proxies are the bomb and the babe set gotta be legal at peace bridge, right Larry?

[Kyoujin]

Yes, we did!  I was on the business end of your Standoff Saturday evening!  A shame it wasn't one of the filmed videos, because it was pretty nasty

I shifted the Standoff from AoA Wolverine to the Jammers, as I literally had all their BBCs (Big Boy Cards).  I threw Professor X at Wolverine and out came The Dark Beast activator along with Acrobatics...

Also, and shame on me for forgetting, big thanks to Marcel and Amanda for insisting on driving me back to my hotel not once, but TWICE. 

[Meanstreek]

Just wanted to add my Sincere, Thank you to Marcel, Amanda, Jack, Dan and anyone else involved in putting this together. Sean, Thank you for the invite to the after party. sorry I couldn't stick around. Also a Special Thanks!! to all of you who stayed there with me, Friday night, after dinner ,until my wife showed up, it's nice to be part of a community that looks out for their own, even if youv'e only known them a short time. Maybe next year we can make the Zoo. Hope to see everyone in the spring.

[chuu]

Larry got three babe sets from me, that's gotta be enough to make them legal at peace bridge...lol

[drdeath25]

So who won this thing?

[Jack]

Full write up is coming soon.

Phil won. Andy placed second.

[chuu]

you're going to love how the 3rd/4th place father vs. son match was decided...lol

[theorangeking]

I also had a great time at the tourney. Thanks to everyone for the preparation, prizes, etc.; but also to all the players that participated.

A couple of things from the above questions. 1. Will the Babes set be legal? Not to skirt the question but I would like some feedback from the Forum. The proxy question is also part of item 2.

2. Along with the Babes, there was a discussion about making proxies legal at the Peace Bridge 2015 tourney. Will all proxies be legal? Before I even attempt at an answer I would like to put out a discussion question. Do we want new people at the tourneys? That is rhetorical; of course we do. So what should the cost of a competitive deck be for that person? Should it be $100, $200, $300 or more? I put together a deck at the OP Cup for one of the players. He was interested in purchasing the deck. It priced out at $380 (I did offer to sell it much lower). It was still too much for him.

If the cost of a competitive deck (including all the "big boy" cards) costs $300, how many new, and younger players, are we going to get at the tourneys? My thought is: NOT VERY MANY. So what can be done? Should we allow proxies?

That made me think about what my goal was with the store at these tourneys. I want to provide cards to players (or collectors). What I don't want to do is stop someone from coming to a tourney because they can't afford three or four $20 cards they need for their deck. So with that logic I am very seriously considering allowing proxies at the Peace Bridge tourney.

Also, regarding the store. I have customers all over the world. I get new customers every week. Allowing the proxies at tourneys will not impact me significantly. I would rather get new players involved.

3. Would it be fair to players who have spent $300 for a deck to compete against a player using proxies and spent $25 on a deck?  Hmm. good question.

Thoughts?

[chuu]

Here are my thoughts:

1) The only hard to get cards in the babes set are the 5AP,6AP,7AP,8AP and 5MP.  IF proxies are not allowed I feel that the babe set should still be allowed except for the power cards i just mentioned, it's not that i'm trying to push my cards, it's just that they are so much prettier than the current power cards, lol. I think allowing the normal babes power cards (excluding 5AP,6AP,7AP,8AP,5MP) would not put anyone at a disadvantage.  If people have trouble getting the normal 36 power cards for their decks then they are going to have way more disadvantages...

2) I think proxy legality should be determined by the tournament organizer.  but we do want to get new players into the game so allowing them would be a smart play.

3) This question is subjective, over the last 15 years, i have spent thousands on Overpower and i'll continue to spend more until I finish my collection.  The only reason I've spent all this money is to Play Overpower, that's all.  When I was in high school spending my limited funds on Overpower, I wasn't thinking "With these cards i'll be able to win tournaments"  I just wanted to play and that sentiment remains, I just want to Play Overpower.  Hell, if someone needed cards for a tournament I would have no problem lending them the cards, I'd probably even get beaten by my own cards...but I got to play...lol.