Looking for serious team members. Possible sponsors involved

apocchime · Joined: 28 Oct 2008 Posts: 13

you seem proud of those mundane accomplishments mason.
i hope curley bites down and takes off your nub.

nico · League Staff Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 898

Okay, her is what I see: a new player that is very confident about his qualities, and is not afraid to boast about it. I see nothing wrong there. I don't see him offending anyone, he is just stating his ambitions, and what happens? some old time players who are supposed to be more experienced and grown up start flaming him down for being ambitious.
What the hell is wrong with you guys? Let this kid live his dreams, nad see what he can do. If hemanages to pull of a sponsorship for him and his team: good for him. There should be more people like that who have the courage to go out on a limb and risk falling flat on the face.
I for one hope he will make it to the higher levels of play, and succeed in the pro-tour scene.
Somehow you sound like a bunch of people that failed to get on the train and now envy everybody who publicly states he wants to get there and boldy claims he has the qualities that take it to get there.

/me stepping off of his soapbox

Greetz Nico

X_MaSoN_X · Joined: 10 Dec 2008 Posts: 14

Thank you. =)

For the record, after talking to me a little bit, Curly has joined the team. We also did end up picking up Jan, who is a very distinguished player having already gained 20 pro points(10 from this season) and is currently tanked 79th overall in the world.

I am looking forward to this upcoming season. We currently have 4 of our members qualified for Austin, we have a solid MIRC channel with people who are not on our team but are still good players.

If anyone would like to keep in touch, feel free to join our forums on www.team-gdt.net

I intend on having the team finalised by the pre-release of zendicar.

DoomBring3r · Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 436

Good luck with your team, but please don't feed the trolls Very Happy

X_MaSoN_X · Joined: 10 Dec 2008 Posts: 14

Team GDT is finalized. If anyone is curious, feel free to check out this lengthy topic =P

http://www.team-gdt.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=489

coolcreep · Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 530

shit, if all it takes is a couple 4-4s as PTQs to be pro, I had better start printing out ads for draft lessons a la coolcreep.

Tird_Ape · Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 219

is 0-2 bye drop at ptq's good enough for your team?

Trotsky1 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 1459

I see no fault in what your doing and props to you for getting a team organised and having some ambition as nico said a healthy thing.

However I think you do need a reality check, your results are really nothing special, my first event was gp birmingham and i went 2-2 drop it was limited and prior to the tournament I had never played limited in my life I did not even know the cards in the set.

The next event I played in was a qualifer for nationals, it was my first constructed tournament I finished 3rd and qualified.

I did my first ever draft after the event and went 1-2 winning my first game, not many people win there first ever draft game.

By the time nationals came round I was playing magic-league every day and obssesed with magic, I made the top 32, narrowly losing to Sam Gommersal on the end of day 1 who went on to make the top 8.

I have since played in around 4 ptq's the worst I have ever done is 2-2 with an incomplete kami block gifts deck, I missed the top 8 by one win with ug madness in extd, I almost top 8 a kami block PTQ with a deck built around hairstrung koto as its only realistic way of winning unfortunatly in the bubble match my opponet had arti removal, my pool was awful. I top 8 a double blue envelope event for pro tour london, with a solid wb deck with nagoa bound ny honour and my mvp throar slitter. I drafted the UR splice archtype in the top8 a very hard to play archtype that I loved but often made mistakes that cost me the game with which was probably the wrong move anyway but I was also suffering from a gigantic headache, my opponet picked up on this and started rules lawyering about anything he could, which is the last thing you need someone doing to you when you have a killer headache, I totally threw game 1 with the win on the board. Shortly after the release of Ravnica I quit playing irl magic due to personal reasons.

I am no where near a pro player still and never will be as I've lost interest and I am certainly not a magic prodigy, yet my inital results are far more impressive than yours. I'm not saying that you can not achieve it and do not ever waste your time listening to people who tell you, you can not do things. You are going about it in the right way by getting a group but you still have alot to learn, I hope you see I'm not just insulting you for having some ambition I'm just trying to give you some perspective.

Haro · Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 265

_Bouncyer_ · Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 151

SugarShark · Joined: 22 Mar 2009 Posts: 247

I 0-6'd an Ice age block contructed qualifier

if I tie with you in a tourney prepare to lose 10 points