Magic Grand Prix this weekend in KL!
March 8th, 2010 | Published in Cards and Boards | 6 Comments
Well, it’s not often that us KL-ites play host to a world-level games competition. So get ready for one folks, happening this weekend!
Magic: the Gathering’s Grand Prix stops by Cititel Hotel, Mid-Valley City, KL this Friday and Saturday both days of the weekend. Grand Prix events see host to various tournaments and side-events, and this one will be no exception.
The biggest draw will be the combined cash prizes of up to US$30,000, as well as a full-blown Standard format Constructed play tournament.
Now, anyone can sign up and play for this tournament. Yes, no need to have an impressive DCI ranking / umpteen tournament wins – just show up with a legit Standard format deck, register and play. Here’s your chance to line up against an established Magic Pro, mano et mano! (Thanks to Michael Toh for this nugget of info.)
Some of your favourite Magic artists will be at hand to do artist signings.
Magic fans will also be fond to note that the exclusive foil version of Umezawa’s Jitte will also be available in this event. Well, as long as they have stocks!
Well, if you are scratching your head on who Umezawa is, he was actually a cool Legend card that appeared back in the Champions of Kamigawa block, Magic’s Japanese-themed expansion cycle which appeared way back in 2004.
(Check out the cool Wikipedia entry on the plane of Kamigawa here, which has numerous interesting additional links and references.)
Suffice to say, it’s darned rare for any internationally-organized and sanctioned Magic event to pop by Malaysia, so see you folks at Mid-Valley City’s Cititel Hotel this Friday and Saturday!
The events will start 12noon on Friday, and 9.30am on both Saturday and Sunday.
For more information, check out the official Wizards of the Coast announcement here.
March 8th, 2010at 7:17 pm(#)
I will be there….
March 8th, 2010at 7:43 pm(#)
Great man, see you there! Thanks for the quick clarifications too Mike!
Anyways, just to clarify some doubt ya’ll might have for this – Davin was just pointing out to me how vague the Wizards website post was.
The Grand Prix will basically happen over Friday till Sunday. If you wanna play in the main event, ie, the Standard competition, pop by Friday noon or Saturday 9.30am.
Events such as this get pretty darned crowded so do pop by early, just in case! Good luck everyone!
March 9th, 2010at 7:57 am(#)
My brother is actually flying in from Melbourne just to participate! Good luck, bro….
March 9th, 2010at 10:34 am(#)
Great stuff Wai Tsung! All the best to him then!
It will be an interesting event for all, with plenty of ‘internationals’ flying in to pit their skills with each other
March 13th, 2010at 10:07 pm(#)
Exciting day for my brother, he’s the only one who flew in from Melbourne for tourney. Managed to get to top 64.
May 3rd, 2010at 9:17 pm(#)
great post as usual!