Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Magic the Gathering Nationals 2008 Chicago: A Photoblog.

On the road with the boys to Nationals. With the top down. What could be better? Wait, what's that noise?






Captain Bondage Goth inspects a flat tire while The Fugitive Wizard observes. TooSarcastic takes photos and watches for drunken Illinois drivers swerving.





Yeah, that lug nut is stripped. What we need is...








An Illinois State Highway Tow Truck, and in less than fifteen minutes!



The doughnut is on! We are headed to Nationals. The venue is huuuge!



Ah. Here we are!



This is where the fun stuff happens!





That's one festive Goblin King!



That's Richard Garfield in red, giving me the eye.



Rich Hagon interviewing Richard Garfield, creator of Magic the Gathering.





That's one big stack of Menger Cubes!



Fugie laughs it up with an opponent in an 8 person Constructed flight. Then Fugie crushes him.

Judges open up several thousand dollars worth of boosters for a massive two headed giant sealed event.


Players draft online- to win the computer they are playing on!

This guy is seriously considering raredrafting that Graven Cairns for his fifth pick.
Rich Hagon hosts Magic: the Game Show.

A pack of Zebras walk by.

The WUBRG closing montage.









Sorry for the short post. I reckon CBG and probably Fugie will fill you in on the pertinent details of the trip in non-pictorial form.




T

7 comments:

Norm said...

Great visual post. I loved it.

Scoop_Phase said...

Awesome job CBG!

coyoeuglly said...

In the picture of the judges opening the sealed product... the guy with the fro is from Racine... I can never remember his named off the top of my head though... he has been to the store once or twice though... his gf's name is Megan though.

coyoeuglly said...

joe haynes is also in the background of the first garfield pic

Matt said...

I love it. Coyoe only knows Magic player's girlfriend's names. I wonder why he knows them?

major_luck said...

yeah, real subtle ;)

coyoeuglly said...

I know Jonathan and Julio's names