Flesh and Blood and other TCG Finance - Scam for $1000, then Go Again

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Lone Goat: Apr 16, 2003; When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.

Randalor posted:

Eh, at least F&B is a fun game to play.

apparently nobody actually knows how to play it though

https://twitter.com/matthewfoulkes/status/1454935548964048899
https://twitter.com/matthewfoulkes/status/1455594870685454338

https://fabtcg.com/articles/update-uk-national-championships/

quote:

Thank you to the team at Living Realms for hosting the UK National Championships and all the players who attended the event.

We are currently investigating some of the gameplay at the tournament. We realise that the level of interest in this event is very high, but it is important that we ensure a fair process as we conduct this investigation. We will let you know as soon as we have concluded this process.

Thank you for your patience.

bonus content:

https://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2018/09/matthew-foulkes-suspended-for-18-months-for-attempting-to-steal-flooded-strand-promo-mtg/

# ¿ Nov 3, 2021 01:50

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 01:12

Lone Goat: Apr 16, 2003; When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.

Drowning Rabbit posted:

So I just got lost in this discussion here. What is this initialism for OP program?

Organized Play, basically a structure for a professional tour/eSports system

# ¿ Nov 3, 2021 16:25

Lone Goat: Apr 16, 2003; When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.

Randalor posted:

LSS's rules committee released their findings on the Nationals tournament.

The TL;DR is that Foulkes was issued a Formal Warning for, as I chose to interpret the wording, "Being a dick". Basically, Round 1, he missed a trigger that put a token into play and discreetly put it into play without saying anything. Literally next turn, his opponent missed a similar trigger that put a different token into play, asked Foulkes if he could add it after the fact, and Foulkes called a judge on him. The misplays are a "Eh, people make mistakes" situation, which is fair, I think (they even say "ask any player and they can probsbly list at least 1 misplay they made in a tournament setting). People aren't beep-boop robots that can keep track of everything going on, especially in a tournament setting.

Discreetly putting it in into play and then not letting the opponent do the same is literally cheating. Yes the game might be complicated but if you have a habit of making beneficial whoopsies on your own stuff but have an eagle eye on when your opponent goofs, it's suspicious as hell.

I'd be incredibly leery of getting involved in this game if poo poo likes this can fly. Especially when it's a known sketchbag that's banned from playing another competitive CCG. Just make an example of this clown, he won't be missed.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2021 15:05

Lone Goat: Apr 16, 2003; When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.

just cheat when you're not on camera because gosh this is game is hard

# ¿ Nov 4, 2021 18:37

Lone Goat: Apr 16, 2003; When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.

Bob Quixote posted:

I don't know what would be weirder - if the scam stuff with the inflated box prices was a weird unintentional coincidence on the way to the creators trying to make a legit (if ugly looking) game, or if they set out to do a scam and it was so successful that they decided to actually market it as a retail product?

Imagine if this was a real game, and there's metagame shifts based on if the tournament venue was close enough to a forest and stuff like that.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2021 06:07

Lone Goat: Apr 16, 2003; When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.

ShaneB posted:

It would be nice for this thread to have been created with any intent besides talking about the distribution and financial aspects, because the game is really good.

it says finance right in the thread name my friend

# ¿ Dec 10, 2021 19:23

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# ¿ May 21, 2024 01:12

Lone Goat: Apr 16, 2003; When life gives you lemons, suplex those lemons.

Codeacious posted:

I had some of a thread for FaB written up the night before this one got posted, about purely the game itself since I've loved playing it. I contacted mods and they said I could still post mine, but nobody else here seemed interested in talking about the actual game so I didn't. If there's interest I'll finish it up.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2021 20:12

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