Chad's Storming Terrorists

This is the deck Chad Storm used to win the first 24 TCG Championship. He defeated David 2 games to 1 at about 3:45 in the morning after playing 24 TCG since 11am the day before, what dedication.

Directive
Wave of Terror

Characters
Habib Marwan, Master Terrorist x2
Sherry Palmer, Out for Number One x1
Nasir Trabelsi, Aggressive Terrorist x2
Dmitri Gredenko, Ultranationalist x2
Hasan Numair, Bomb Specialist x1
Victor Drazen, Mad With Vengeance x2
Masher Abu-Marzuq, Handler x2

Events
Head Shot x2
Dedicated to the Cause x2
Fearless x2

Equipment
Ak-47 x2
9mm Parabellum x2
Kevlar Vest x2

David's Infiltrating Terrorist Deck

Or are they terrorizing Infiltrators. This is David Gerspach's Gen Con Championship 24 TCG Runner-Up Deck. David mixed Infiltrators and Terrorists along with some of the pumps and high war number cards available in his deck.

Directive
Wave of Terror

Characters
Habib Marwan, Master Terrorist x1
Nasir Trabelsi, Aggressive Terrorist x1
Mandy, Sexy Assassin x1
Assassin, Shadowy Killer x1
Nina Myers, Professional x1
Kevin Carroll, Alan York x1
Alexis Drazen, Hard to Kill x1
Ahmed Amar, Young and Dedicated x1
Dmitri Gredenko, Ultranationalist x1
Ira Gaines, Mercenary x1
Hasan Numair, Bomb Specialist x1
Victor Drazen, Mad With Vengeance x1

Events
Getting Personal x2
Well Trained x2
Backstabbing x1
Fearless x2

Agendas
Arm The Nuke x2
Infiltrate CTU x2

Equipment
M-4 Carbine x1

Gen Con Preview Championship

In the early hours of Sunday morning we crowned our first champion for 24 TCG, the Gen Con Preview Champion. Since the game isn't completely out yet, it is only the Preview Day Zero Tactical Packs it was only the Preview Championship. We'll crown our first World Champion at Gen Con Indy in 2008.

Since I've had this job I've now crowned three Champions at Gen Con Indy and they've all been the same person, Chad Storm. Chad Storm won the first FMA TCG World Championship in 2006, he successfully defended his title on Friday evening to become the 2007 FMA TCG World Champion, and on Sunday morning he was the first 24 TCG Champion.

Chad was able to outlast over 40 players in the swiss event and make the top 4 at the number four seed. Chad defeated Sean Gaboury and then played David Gerspach who had just played Erik Markanian (I will double check the name spelling when I get to the office on Tuesday so I apologize if they're wrong). Chad and David went the full three games, David taking Game 2, Chad winning Game 1 and the deciding Game 3. Erik was playing a mixed Insurgent deck, not really set up to one specialty. Sean was playing a mixed Analyst/Agent deck, Analysts for support and Agents to score points. David was playing a mostly Infiltrator deck with a few strong Insurgents splashed in like Victor Drazen and Habib Marwan.

Chad was playing a straight Terrorist deck with only Sherry Palmer splashed in. I will update both David's and Chad's deck when I get a chance.

Gen Con was great, hope to see you next year.

Gen Con Championship

Over 30 players signed up for the 24 TCG Gen Con Championship constructed event. It started at 8:00pm and is now set up with the Final Four. There are three Insurgent decks and one CTU deck in the Final Four. I will try and keep you updated but this is my third 16 hour day in a row, I'm a little out of it :)

Gen Con Update

Or lack of updates. The wireless network in the Budweiser Lounge this year aren't very good, I can't update as much as I would like to.

I will update as much as I can over the next few days but I am spending 16 hours a day between the tournament hall and the exhibit hall.

Keep checking, pictures and stuff are going to come, I promise.

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!