Lars said:

Why are the unable to buy them? I show up to the store and buy them. What if they can't get it within two weeks maybe it should be two weeks. Hey I only buy online and it is 3 weeks shipping so the rule should be three. Yes it is arbitrary unless their is some science behind choosing a week (and there is no science behind it just an unpublished decision made). Keep in mind some people will not be able to have access for up to a month after release.

The problem is it is an unpublished rule for a different point in the game. Don't hide behind something announced years ago so only old hats know about it. I know about it because I played back then but most people do not. Also realise there is a slightly different target for players now. Do they really want to drive players away with negative experiences like this. The fact is with out it published it can only cause negative experiences. I rule only a few know about cannot be good for the game. If you want to have a delay between legality then it cannot be too much effort to place those few sentences in the tourney rules.

like i said i ask nate the night before just to make sure the last pack was nto legal because there were card i wanted out of there he said no so i agree that they should put it in the touny rules

Venryk does make a very good point. There is no rule in the official Tournament Rules document about the cards having to be available for at least one week before the event for them to be legal for the tournament. Yes, those of us who have been around for years will remember it as a hold over from the old rules, but at present (and at the time of the LCG Regionals) it was not in the document. And no matter how much we talk about it being an official policy, the new players had no way of knowing about it (and perhaps should not have been made into an issue).

This is the main reason I am not highly motivated to attend these kinds of tournaments, and unfortunately, the higher level the event (and better prize support) the worse it gets.  All it took is one immature idiot, and he succeeded in making 2+ people possibly never attend again.  I added the "+" because people are going to read this thread, and decide that kind of thing is not for them.  If the actions of a few individuals discourages people from playing, FFG isnt going to continue to hold these events.

Well, let's not turn one instance of poor communication into anything more than it is, or was.

As far as I have experienced, AGoT is full of friendly, encouraging, helpful players.  Many of them go above and beyond in hosting outstanding tourneys at a highly competitive level.

Deathjester26 said:

QFT!

At the Tennesse regional I watched a player miss the cut because he was helping his opponent beat him.

I have played this game off and on from the beginning and you would be hard pressed to find a nicer more helpful group of gamers.

Venryk said:

At KublaCon, one of the best players in the field lost his first-round match to a woman who was playing for only the first time, with a borrowed deck.  I didn't see the game, but I can only assume that he was, for the most part, graciously playing solitaire against himself.