From: Daniel Duterte
[dduterte@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 8:48
PM
To: CardTips@pojo.com
Subject: Retraction of my
Letter
Okay, I forwarded a letter I wrote to Keith Strohm to
Pojo.
I would now like to retract my letter.
From what I understand, we've got STS's back.
That's a thread by Dark Master Trainer Mike opening the floor
for questions about the 1/3/2002 chat.
There was a chart illustrating the schedule for 2002.
The "STS-like Events" caught my eye. This is the 12th reply from the top
of the 1st page. I then inquired about these STS-type events in the 15th
reply of the 1st page, and the very next one, I got a response from
DMTM:
You have an open event at the Stadium challanges just like the
open event at the STS's.
3 of them! That is
one more then last year! They are the Prof. only Events!
In addition you
have a Prof. event at Origins! That will send the winner to the World
Championships as a Judge.
DMTM
I double-checked and asked again in the 19th post, and in the
21st post, he tried to clarify once again:
Let me be as clear
as possible. There will be 3 Stadium Challenges.
At these Challenges
there will be Two Championships that will feed the World Championships.
There will be a Prof. only Event that is open to Profs only.
There will be other tournaments that are open to people of all
ages.
I was going insane at this point, and started trying to tell
people on #pojo. But everyone was caught up in being shafted in the first
place. I have now tried to clarify it entirely, it seemed too good to be
true:
Okay, 1 more clarification DMTM, I
wanna make sure I get this absolutely right.
We've got these
open events similar to the STS with 3 divisions: 10 and under, 11-14, and 15 and
up. The only difference between the divisions are that 14 and under feeds into
the World Championship.
You are NOT saying
that 15+ can go to these events just to play in the side
events.
You ARE saying
that 15+ has its own event and will crown a champ and get recognized and
stuff.
Is this all
correct?
I haven't gotten a reply since I wrote it. I'm pretty
certain this is correct. I know a LOT of people will be happy, some may be
still bummed about still being shafted from World Championships, but we've got
STS events! We didn't complain at all in 2001, so if we've got MORE of the
same thing, this is going to be great!
Go WotC! Rebuttals and flames will be taken at my email,
give me your worst >=)
"If there's a door, we go in. If there's something we
can break, we break it. And in the end we blow the place to smithereens!"
- Selphie Tilmett, Final Fantasy 8
(go heels)