I would like to open a discussion on PPTQ's. I know it's spoiler season and we are all just drowning in hype and excitement for the prerelease, but there is another magic phenomenon that has been going on, PPTQ's.

• Fine as it is

I never really considered myself a grinder, big events are just too few and far apart geographically on the west coast to go to so many GP's and SCG events (the closest ones after LA are the bay area/ Sacramento ones, a mere 500 mile drive one way). But we did have PTQ's out here and they were fun. So they come out with this new system, they're gonna shoe horn in another layer of qualifier tournaments and put the lowest level of qualifiers at all the stores. And they are just going to let the stores go absolutely hog wild with the exception of the need of an L2.

• In a short post, maybe this would be fine. But this is a really long post, and personal anecdotes just take away from your message. Stick to the points.

So I have been going to PPTQ's pretty much every weekend since December as often as I could find a PPTQ. Over all, I would say I am less satisfied with the way things are now than the way they were before, and my main complaints are with the stores.

So there is no regulation whatsoever on how these PPTQ's are supposed to be run, the stores can choose their format, they can choose their entry cost, and prize pool. How could this go wrong? HOW COULD THIS NOT GO WRONG?!

• You don't need to say petty things like these. Just say You've been going to a lot of events and start explaining the problems.

Worldwide, well over 90% of these are standard. All of the store owners went totally conservative on this one; most FNM's are standard, standard singles are the most sold cards, and standard is the easiest format to provision for since they don't have to secure the product to facilitate a sealed tournament. Hell, if I ran a store, I'd run a standard tournament. Problem: NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO PLAY STANDARD ALL THE TIME.

• You could change this to some wording of - "90% of the events are standard, and not everyone want to play standard all the time" All you did was express a very short idea in a lot of words.

Personally, I picked up modern last year around the time BNG came out because I was tired of standard (even without PPTQ's!).

• Parenthesis are the most misused tool in all of writing. If you can leave the information out of a sentence, its usually best to do so. Otherwise, just combine it into the sentence.

"Personally, I picked up modern last year around the time BNG came out because I was tired of standard even without PPTQ's.

~~ I still continued to do a lot of drafting, getting sick trading value off of standard playable cards I no longer cared about anymore.~~

• Nobody cares and this has nothing to do with your argument. The more stuff like this you can leave out, the more focused you become.

I'm not going to edit the rest, but I hope this was at least possibly helpful.