Alex Lim

iOS engineer @Meta. I play Magic badly, play poker worse, brew coffee, eat sushi, and buy keyboards. Ex @airtable, @Twitch, @UWaterloo CS 2016.

[Alex Lim @mlex121]

Top 8 at MXP Oakland and qualified for RC Dallas on the last weekend possible!

Played BTL, dodged Scam/Mill the entire main event thankfully.

https://t.co/c9PA3fZvoW

Notes/Matchups in thread:

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@gazmon48 Story just reminded me of my first ever RCQ in season 1 where they had 2 (!) breaks

Naturally I finished at like 9:30pm

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@SlankyPotato @MatthewStefans1 @holopollock Grats! Happy for you and @MatthewStefans1

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@caro_irl @triskdkphl

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@MatthewStefans1 @fireshoes @kooterboi420 @SlankyPotato @holopollock @PluralIsMalexai @RoyYang94 Grats on the run!

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@winstonchamora @fireshoes @fauxg1ove

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@gazmon48

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@Olphelvan @fireshoes Thank god you didn't let the blink guy win

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@toothymtg1 what was the Storm player doing losing to this list

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@RolandMTG Snap left

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@winstonchamora @fireshoes Sorry about the breakers but nice run

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@fanahovamtg Same guy in 1st too

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Results: 1-4 lol

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Lessons for RC Portland. Feeling some Bant Airbending FOMO, might have to satisfy that in Milwaukee.

Results in thread

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@gazmon48 Extremely poor, at least if you're a normie like me but even for really good players I can't imagine it's ever "worth" the flight and hotel unless you enjoy it (which is my point above)

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@gazmon48 Another part of this calculus is if you're playing a good number of RCQs (i.e. going for 2 invites), this is "paid back" in entry fees for events where you don't cash

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@gazmon48 I still really like playing RCs and I've so far gone to all of them.

I see paying for an invite as saving myself a lot of weekends and I do place a pretty high value on that time. I'd probably pay somewhere around $200 for an invite? Especially if I can do so start of season.

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@gazmon48 (if given a choice)

[Alex Lim @mlex121]

@gazmon48 yeah I mean the finals, almost all the RCQs I play split the T8 and usually I'll do the finals re-split

I feel like the answer for value varies a lot, I personally take the invite every time