I’m Famous

Well sort of, not the sort of fame that Paul the Octopus or Mani the Parakeet gets but my face actually made it into a magazine. That card game I was playing actually had Football Weekly as one of their sponsors and issue 407 had a write up of the "2010 FIFA World Cup Adrenalyn XL TCG Tournament" a 2 page spread. Seems there was a reporter there for the magazine and as we were all whipping out our handphones to get that photo on stage, the reporter must have taken a picture as well as the left page shows the bunch of us at the tourney. Probably will keep this edition of the magazine, so can tell my kids about it and how daddy made it into the top 8. They even spelt my name correctly in the winners circle.

It's not the first time I've won a Trading Card tournament. In 1999 I participated and won the Star Wars Trading Card Game tournament. Singapore hosted the regional championship (all of asia) won that one and the prize was a fully paid trip to the US (Virginia) to participate in the Star Wars TCG World Championship at what they called DecipherCon, I did not make it pass the first round but it was a really cool experience to represent Asia. There were representatives from each of the states in the US, European countries and Australia. All in I think it came to about 80+ participants for the final, there were side events at the Convention attended by hundreds of people. Next up was the Lord of the Rings TCG I actually was a judge and organiser of these events, so help set up weekly gaming sessions and tournaments, still have those cards and played quite a lot of it. When Marvel and DC had their TCG card game out I participated in a few which were held monthly at Suntec at that time. I even won 1 event. I even participated in New Zealand as I just so happen to coincide my holiday with a weekend of gaming in Auckland, of the 200+ participants from all over New Zealand and some coming from Australia. I think I was the only non-NZ/Aus player I came in 23 and just miss the money pool as the top 22 players progressed. That's probably one of the last events I participated in till now. I also collected the World of Warcraft cards but did not really get into it after the first few expansions.