I'm doing a study on competitive social gaming and I am posting a few survey questions below concerning mostly people who attend Friday Night Magic competitions. Please feel free to answer any or all the questions listed. Thanks!
1.How did you start attending these competitions?
2.Describe your first time competing in this format.
3.Do you usually attend these competitions alone or in a group?
4.How do you treat a newcomer or inexperienced player wishing to join the competition?
5.How vital to newcomer initiation is the mentor program at MTG competitions?
6.Is there anything about the competition format you would like to change? Why?
7.What do you and other competitors have in common beyond MTG?
8.What factors do you see as contributing to an enjoyable competitive environment? What factors detract from that?
1. Had an afternoon to kill in a new city, liked Magic, had $10 to spare.
2. Made awkward smalltalk with social degenerates, destroyed some kid who thought Concordia Pegasus was a Magic card, got in rules arguments with people who don't know the rules as well as they thought, won some games, lost some games, came in third or fourth.
3. Usually alone. If I have something social going on, I'll go somewhere else.
4. As blood sacrifices to the elder gods.
5. I have never heard of a mentorship program and I think it's stupid that one would exist.
6. There's enough divergence between shops that I don't think I can fairly generalize.
7. We are frequently in the same demographic of whiney pastey badly dressed and poorly hygiened twentysomeings. Sometimes we trade hits from each others inhalers while we shovel fistfulls of Cheetos into our filthy maws.
8. Rules understanding destroys competitive games. "I didn't know that worked that way" is not a sentnce that should ever be uttered in a competitive game environment. A well-produced, well-indexed and accessibly-written hardcopy techical rules manual should be distributed or made available to members of competitive game events. The rules .pdf does exist, but in the legalistic form and obscure source that it currently exists in, it is not something I expect more casual players to have read or understood.
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1.How did you start attending these competitions?
2.Describe your first time competing in this format.
3.Do you usually attend these competitions alone or in a group?
4.How do you treat a newcomer or inexperienced player wishing to join the competition?
5.How vital to newcomer initiation is the mentor program at MTG competitions?
6.Is there anything about the competition format you would like to change? Why?
7.What do you and other competitors have in common beyond MTG?
8.What factors do you see as contributing to an enjoyable competitive environment? What factors detract from that?
2. Made awkward smalltalk with social degenerates, destroyed some kid who thought Concordia Pegasus was a Magic card, got in rules arguments with people who don't know the rules as well as they thought, won some games, lost some games, came in third or fourth.
3. Usually alone. If I have something social going on, I'll go somewhere else.
4. As blood sacrifices to the elder gods.
5. I have never heard of a mentorship program and I think it's stupid that one would exist.
6. There's enough divergence between shops that I don't think I can fairly generalize.
7. We are frequently in the same demographic of whiney pastey badly dressed and poorly hygiened twentysomeings. Sometimes we trade hits from each others inhalers while we shovel fistfulls of Cheetos into our filthy maws.
8. Rules understanding destroys competitive games. "I didn't know that worked that way" is not a sentnce that should ever be uttered in a competitive game environment. A well-produced, well-indexed and accessibly-written hardcopy techical rules manual should be distributed or made available to members of competitive game events. The rules .pdf does exist, but in the legalistic form and obscure source that it currently exists in, it is not something I expect more casual players to have read or understood.