Great news on the tournament expansion.  Now let's see if we can sell out 64 slots!

I'm in. Only 20 tickets left when I went to buy a short while ago.

 If I'm still playing AGoT, though, someone with generic tickets will be happy.

I'm in (assuming travel plans work out)

 down to 13 tickets as of 7pm, i am still quite amazed for adding an event the last week of registration how many people signed up for this!

And now only 6 left. Seems FFG made a very good choice picking up this property.

 Not sure if it has been discussed but wouldn't adding more players mean adding more time/rounds to the tournament?

 Heh, which is why I'v written off the remainder of Saturday (and possibly Sunday) in the event it takes that long.

 I signed Up. Didn't know it was going to be Bring Your Own.

My LGS thought it was going to be a box game like Ascension.

Now, I need to know how much it will cost at the con.

AND, I need a copy of the new rules.

Well, the FFG catalog lists it as $39.99 for the base set so I'd assume it'll be that price at the con. Regardless of the card distribution you'll be able to put together the 2 decks needed from one box set, though you may get more choice if you buy more than one (we don't know yet).

We all need a copy of the rules. FFG say they'll be out in time for the con, but they're not here yet.

 Dumb question:  the description of the event says that registration begins promptly at 5 PM. Is that for folks who didn't buy a ticket for the event beforehand or is this some sort of pre-tournament sign in?  I'm interested in joining but I have an event that runs until 6.

 As above FFG said they were going to provide the tournament rules not quite sure on the rules themselves. Of course the rules will be in the box set then it just depends on how fast you can learn a game in the madness that is Gen Con.

Timing wise i would like it to go another round or two with that many people attending the tournament.. though saturday nights are usually "celebration/last hurrah" nights I would be down for it. Registration may be a simple "i'm here and attending" possibly to fill out a deck list sheet? has anyone gone to the CoC or Agot tournaments at gen con that can chime in?

I played in their Call of Cthulhu tournament last year.  For that event (and Game of Thrones) they have you turn in a deck sheet, but this is typically filled out in advance and you just bring it to the tournament.  Since you won't have the cards until Thursday morning at the earliest, they may be expecting people to be filling them out at the tournament, or they may make the blank form downloadable so you're supposed to bring some copies to the con and can fill them out in advance if you want to.

Only 3 tickets left, if you still need one.

dboeren said:

Two :-) Jumping in with both feet on this one. I'm more of a board game player than a card game player, so this should be interesting. At least I may give at least one player an easy advance

Hoping they'll have enough games to go around on this one, especially since they doubled the tournament size. While I plan to buy mine first thing Thursday, like everyone else in the tourney (probably), I hope they don't run out before all the tournament players have them.

 does anyone know if you can pre order and pick up at gen con? that would solve a few things. Good thing I am getting my con tickets sent via snail mail do not have to wait on that line (i heard horror stories of last year's will call debacle).

as far as game experience don't recall much from playing back in the day but i imagine that ffg will change about some rules so even "veteran" players may have some trouble grasping the game play… at least initially.

No, there is no way to preorder and pick up that I've heard of.  Some of the small companies may offer such a thing but I haven't heard of FFG doing it.  Shouldn't need to unless they massively screw up anyway - they should be bringing a lot of copies.  Why are we assuming that they won't?

Will Call is a bad idea, get your tickets mailed to you in advance.  Best few bucks you'll ever spend.  Unless you live in town you're probably paying a fair bit to attend the con, I can't imagine why anyone would voluntarily give up convention time to stand in a line to save a few dollars.