San Diego Comic-Con Day Four

We're done! San Diego Comic-Con is done. Once I get home I'll be able to stop fighting this silly internet connection and be able to post some pictures. Hundreds of demos, thousands of fliers given out, and about two dozen celebrity spotting later and Press Pass ends San Diego Comic-Con. What a great show. Check back starting Tuesday for pictures and of course this week's spoiler. We're less than two weeks away from Wizard World Chicago and actual product. Man I love con season!

Backstabbing

Since I can't get the SDCC pictures uploaded I will give you a spoiler instead. This another one of the alternate image foil cards used for prize support. This will be one of the participation cards. The regular version of this card is in the Infiltrator Tactical Pack but it is not foiled.

San Diego Comic-Con Day Three

Man, what a day. A day that started at 5:30am is now coming to a close at a little before 10pm. I do love San Diego Comic-Con and would never want to miss it but man does it wear you down. I have some pictures for you to view, I will have a ton more of the booth, demos, spoilers, and just SDCC in general as the week goes on. At least until Wizard World Chicago starts in two weeks and I'll have pictures of that show. I would post the pictures now but blogger is giving me a really hard time. Hopefully I can get some uploaded tomorrow.

San Diego Comic-Con Day Two

Today was a incredibly tiring day and tomorrow will be about 13 hours so I'm going to just upload one picture and fight with blogger later. I've got some fun pictures of the show but this is a picture of the 24 panel where Ed Bolme and found out some great behind the scenes information on the past 24 seasons. Oh yeah, some insight into 24 Day 7. Maybe if we're asked nicely we can share some.

Check back later, probably all week once I get back into the office, for more San Diego Comic-Con pictures.

San Diego Comic-Con Day One

San Diego Comic-Con Day Zero

Preview Night at San Diego Comic-Con is always fun. About 50,000 people rush the convention hall looking for their favorite creator to sign something, the latest movie information, or the hottest con exclusive. Justin Beal and Jason Winter were at the Press Pass booth ready to answer questions and give demos.



And give lots of demos we did. I also got to sneak away from the booth a little bit and be a fanboy. The two images of the 24 toys from McFarland Toys look great. And of course I had to visit the Heroes booth, actual props, drool.

Well SDCC Day One starts very soon, I should have more pictures tonight or early tomorrow.

San Diego Comic-Con Day Minus One

Jason and I arrived at San Diego after two planes, five hours in the air, three hours in Phoenix, a crying baby, and all four time zones. Of course our luggage decided that three hours to find the plane from Charlotte to the plane going to San Diego didn't make it to San Diego. Hopefully it will show up eventually. Either way I've some pictures.

Everyone loves San Diego Comic-Con. You really shouldn't be reading this blog, you should be at San Diego Comic-Con.















The Lego Chewbacca is trying to rip Jason's arms off.














Man I love me some Indiana Jones.














Stuff we always bring to conventions, spoilers!

Mandy

The first Elite card. Why do I get to post the first Elite card for 24 TCG? Well it is 9:00pm and I'm still working, I just left the office an hour or so ago. Why am I working so late, well we have San Diego Comic-Con tomorrow, Wizard World Chicago in two weeks, and Gen Con Indy the week after that. Lots of stuff to do in so little time. I figure I can pass my exhaustion onto a little spoiler for you guys. Well enough about why I'm showing you the card, let's talk a little about the card itself.

Mandy is guilty of being a top-down designed card. I try very hard not to write top-down but sometimes it is so much fun. I knew I wanted Mandy to be in the preview set, she is one of my favorite characters in 24 and I wanted her to have a pretty strong and unique ability. The Sexy Assassin is in three seasons, kills numerous people, on and off screen, almost does in two major characters, and shows she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. As a 24 viewer you're never sure if she is alive or dead, when she will come back. Well as a 24 TCG player you can be sure she isn't really dead and will always come back. Her ability is very strong and mixed with the fixed Nina Myers can allow Nina to really start eliminating the competition. There are a few other cards that combo pretty well with her but we don't want to spoil them just yet.

Hopefully you'll find Mandy in one your Tactical Packs on August 15, yes that is right. 24 TCG releases three weeks from Wednesday at game stores everywhere. Make sure to ask your local game store to carry 24 TCG.

I'm off to San Diego Comic-Con tomorrow, I brought a few spoilers with me so when I get a chance to update the show I'll make sure to give some more spoilers, make sure to check back all week.

Tournament Prizes

In the next few weeks we're going to talk a lot about Wizard World Chicago and Gen Con Indy and how great the prizes will be there and those prizes will be great. Let's not forget about the local tournament prizes.

Local tournaments for 24 TCG are free to registered retailers and Tournament Organizers. Each TO or retailer may run one local tournament per week and the prize support will be mailed to the TO or retailer.

The prize support is made up of three cards, one winner card and two participation cards. One of the participation cards goes to the runner-up of the tournament, the other one goes to TO's choice, usually random or something similar.

The winner card will be randomly selected from a pool of six alternate image foil rare cards. The participation cards will be randomly selected from a pool of six alternate image common or uncommon cards. The potential pool of 12 cards (6 rare, 6 common/uncommon) will change every three to six months depending on demand. This will be the only way you can foil versions of these cards.

There will be more details soon on how youc an sign up and run local tournaments. Press Pass is teaming up with Sony Online to create the online tournament site and it should be up and running in August.

As to the picture in this article, he is one of the first four tournament prizes to be given out starting at Wizard World Chicago and into Gen Con Indy. I'll make sure to spoil the other three at a later time. The other eight won't be available until September.

See you at Gen Con or Wizard World Chicago

Gen Con Event Schedule

The star of Gen Con 2008 is less than a month and that means it is time to talk 24 TCG tournaments. Talking tournaments also means talking prizes and let's just say for 24 TCGs debut we have some great prizes.

24 TCG at Gen Con including prizes. All tournaments will include extra prizes such as addition Tactical Packs, Elites, exclusive foils, and additional DVD box sets.

All price could change depending on Gen Con pricing structure. Please check with Press Pass at Gen Con if you have any questions.

Thursday 8/16

1:00pm
Tactical Draft (Each Player gets 3 Tactical Packs to build a deck)
$15.00 Entry
24 DVD box set to the winner.

6:00pm
Tactical Draft (Each Player gets 3 Tactical Packs to build a deck)
$18.00 Entry
iPod Nano to the winner.
24 DVD box set to the runner-up.

7:00pm
Constructed Tournament
$3.00 Entry
24 DVD box set to the winner.

Friday 8/17

11:00am
Tactical Draft (Each Player gets 3 Tactical Packs to build a deck)
$15.00 Entry
24 DVD box set to the winner.

2:00pm
Tactical Draft (Each Player gets 3 Tactical Packs to build a deck)
$18.00 Entry
iPod Nano to the winner.
24 DVD box set to the runner-up.

7:00pm
Agent Challenge (Each Player gets 3 Tactical Packs to build a deck)
$12.00 Entry
Each player who goes undefeated or defeats a Press Pass employee gets at least a share of box of Tactical Packs.

Saturday 8/18

11:00am
Tactical Draft (Each Player gets 3 Tactical Packs to build a deck)
$15.00 Entry
24 DVD box set to the winner.

2:00pm
Tactical Draft (Each Player gets 3 Tactical Packs to build a deck)
$15.00 Entry
24 DVD box set to the winner.

8:00pm
24 TCG Gen Con Championship
Constructed Tournament
$9.00 Entry
$500 cash to the winner.
iPod Nano to the runner-up.

Sunday 8/19

11:00am
Tactical Draft (Each Player gets 3 Tactical Packs to build a deck)
$18.00 Entry
iPod Nano to the winner.
24 DVD box set to the runner-up.

1:00pm
Constructed
$3.00 Entry
24 DVD box set to the winner.

24 Hours

It is Agenda Week with the 24TCG spoilers and I wanted to show off our only Agenda promo, at least to start. I will have more information on promo cards as we get closer to launch but for now let's spend time on 24 Hours.

This is a promo card to be given out starting at Gen Con Indy in August. We will continue to give it out at conventions and events Press Pass attends where we have at least 24 hours of events scheduled. The way to earn this promo is to play in at least 24 hours worth of events during the convention or special event we attend. It is as simple as that.

For those that can't attend our bigger events and the large conventions we will have a 24 Hour month in 2008 for stores to offer the same prize. For 24 TCG most of the promos will be non-exclusive gameplay. The only exclusive gameplay promos will be ones given out in mass, like cards inserted into a DVD set or the participation card for the world-wide Spec Ops Pre-Release in January. Almost every other promo will be either alternate image, AI foil, or AI preview. That means that people who can't participate in the events can still get the gameplay on each card if not the foil or alternate image. 24 Hours is an AI preview, 24 Hours will be printed in an upcoming set with a different image but you can get yours first starting at Gen Con Indy in August.

See you at Gen Con!

David Palmer, Man of Integrity

Today is Wednesday which is typically spoiler day and today starts the first spoilers for 24 TCG.

I'm lucky, I get to spoil David Palmer, one of my favorite characters in 24. David Palmer is also one of the best cards in 24 TCG. He is key to any Statesman or President based deck you want to make. He has a skill of 3 and Expert so when he gets going he can easily score you 4 points a turn. His reusable ability (provided you have enough time) to lower opponents War values will make sure he wins most missions he is involved in. He has Politics so he can use key cards like 25th Amendment and Veto. Other characters like Mike Novick and Lynne Kresge will also help President Palmer to victory.

This David Palmer is only available in the Statesman pack of the Tactical Packs released in August. He will have a regular version and a foil version in each Statesman deck. Make sure to check other sites because the main character in all six Tactical Packs are being spoiled today, some might be harder to find than others.