Subject: Dojo is to competition as Inquest is to casual play
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 19:35:53 -0600
From: crnicoloff@aol.com
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc

Okay, so I was wrong.  The issue isn't, and possibly never *was* about the
Dojo.

The Dojo is simply a visible target to throw anti-tournament angst at.

People who play for fun think people who play in tournaments suck.  Oh, and
vice versa.  Cool.  Everyone wants to feel that what they do is superior, eh?

But yo, this is short, so listen up.  The Dojo exists to serve the competitive
players.  If you're not a competitive player, why bitch?  There's got to be a
place for everybody, right?

There's never going to be this friendly utopia where everyone just wants to
test their thallid deck in 15 player multiplayer games.  If you run
tournaments out of business, you're gonna wind up with some ex-Pro sitting in
your game, ruining everything with his tremendous deckbuilding skills.

Since you don't want those people playing Magic with you, let them have their
tournaments.  If they're after glory, by all means, get out of the way.
Remember, they're winning money, but you're winning good memories and fun
times.

Don't play Magic against a pro if you want to play for fun.  Inquest is your
Dojo - listen to their advice, build their wacky decks, send in your amazing
new card designs.  If you want to play and somebody whips out a card-for-card
Dojo deck, pick up your cards and walk.  You don't want that, don't do that.
There's no issue involved here at all.

If there's any issue involved here, it's the antagonism of pros by fun players
and vice versa.  Okay, so we're all a highly elitist lot, and let me tell you,
we can be elitist about ANYTHING.  Fame?  Fortune?  Name in the Duelist every
month?  HAH!  You sorry slob, you're a loser with no life who plays a FUN game
(got it, it's FUN you moron) for money and cheats the rules and everyone who
plays tournaments should GET A LIFE.  That sounds remarkably familiar.  For
what purpose?

Just elitist.  It shouldn't exist.  There's room for everyone.

PS - I never saw a "Dojo deck" copied card for card.  Some people are
builders, some people are tuners, very few are xeroxers.  Most just need a
kick in the right direction to get their ideas flowing.

- Catherine

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