15th Anniversary Party attendants at GenCon,
32 of you will have the chance to enter a very special tournament during the 2010 GenCon Party – the Festival of Coronation Tournament.
To find out how to enter that tournament, check out the official forums!
You can find more information about Empire at War here. Watch for updates over the next few days.
The L5R Team
A panel of AEG employees will sit down for open mic Q & A Friday night from 7pm to 10pm. Those in attendance will be allowed to ask questions, and those viewing online via a live webcast will also be allowed to post up questions. L5Rchives will host the event and will act as moderators for questions.
The event will be held at the downtown Indianapolis Hilton, 11th floor Circle City Room. There will be 3 one-hour sessions starting at 7pm.
Tickets for the sessions will be distributed Thursday at approx. 10:30am in the CCG hall for the 7pm session, Friday morning at approx. 10:30am in the CCG hall for the 8pm session, and the 9pm session will be a first-come-first-seated line in the lobby of the hotel at 9pm. The tickets are free and one-per-person. Audiences of up to 50 will be cycled each hour.
You will be able to view the conference online at L5Rchives.com, as well as participate in the live chat and Q&A! Be logged in at 7pm Eastern Standard Time (11 pm GMT).
Pre-orders for the Gen Con Event Pack on the Alderac Store end today. Orders will be accepted until 10 PM PST Tuesday (5 AM GMT Wednesday). See you at Gen Con!
In continuing celebration of the 15 Years of L5R, we are proud to announce that 200 advance copies of Legend of the Five Rings: 15 Years of Art will be on sale at Gen Con Indy in the AEG Booth. Our friends at Bibliothèque Interdite have produced this 128 page book that features art from all 15 years of L5R, and from a huge spread of artists, including Matt Wilson, Quinton Hoover, Ron Spencer, Drew Baker, William O’Connor, April Lee, Steve Argyle, Jason Engle, Edwin David and many more too numerous to mention. The book will be on sale in stores later this fall. Check out some sample preview pages after the break!
Note that all sample pages are low-resolution.
Here at AEG, we are constantly striving to improve the quality of L5R product that we bring to you. As part of this ongoing improvement, we felt this would be a good time to give you an update on AEG’s plan to make a printer change. As you all know we have had some collation, scheduling and other print issues throughout the last year. Printing L5R is tough at times, and our printer partners do more than just print the game, they help us get it shipped and deal with getting it collated.
In our search to fix these issues we have found that there are only a few printers in the world who can do CCG sorting and printing. Sorting is the big problem, but paper is also important. We have searched all over the world for print partners from China to Italy and from Belgium to the USA. We are working with a few new print partners over the course of the next few sets so we expect some growing pains – but we have found that they can do so much more for L5R moving forward, in terms of packaging and special print runs, that it is worth the change.
We are also going to take this opportunity to make a few print upgrades, which may mean minor changes to the cards. This in turn will mean, starting with Imperial Gift 3, sleeves will be required through the end of this arc for tournament play. Given the abundance of good, quality sleeves, and the desire for most players to protect their cards from wear and tear, we feel the increased quality of the cards will far outweigh the need for sleeves for the rest of Celestial Edition. We expect the long-term benefit to be clearer printing, fewer collation issues, better quality cards, and more options for you.
Another new tournament policy for Gen Con will come into effect this year. In Gen Con’s main event, you can play whatever clan you wish on Saturday, regardless of what clan you used to qualify with.
Also, for this year only, players who won seeds prior to Gen Con (Kotei Winners, past European and Gen Con Champions, and Arc Champions) will receive those seeds at both Gen Con AND the World Championships. For this year only, you do not need to pick between one or the other.
We will keep you updated and look forward to your opinion, thoughts and constructive feedback as we go through this process.
Thank you,
The L5R Team
The Gen Con Event Kit is now available for pre-order here at the Alderac store. For the first time to celebrate the big event we are selling an amazing L5R polo shirt with the 15th Anniversary Logo on the front and the L5R Logo on the back. As a bonus, if you pre-order your shirt in the next two weeks we will be able to embroider your clan logo on the sleeve.
The clan logo is only available for pre-order. Event packs sold at the show will not have clan logos
2010 Gencon-Indy Event Pack Includes:
There is a strict limit of 1 Event Kit per customer (whether you pre-order or buy on site) and you MUST attend Gen Con in order to pick it up. If you pre-ordered an Event Kit and are unable to attend Gen Con, you may contact customer service afterward to arrange a refund.
The Event promo card pack is our largest pack yet. It is 18 individual cards making up a 50 card promo pack. That’s right, 50 cards. If you are unable to attend Gen Con but wish to own one of the packs, fear not for we will be selling the packs (before they become legal) in the Alderac store after the event for $30 USD. If you are attending the World Championships in Lyon, you may wish to hold off on purchasing this pack as the World Championships will have them available the same as Gen Con will. As a special treat, here is a preview of one of the cards from the 15th Anniversary promo pack.
We look forward to sharing our 15th Anniversary Gen Con celebration with you very soon!
The L5R Team
Esteemed members of the Imperial Court,
at the Divine Empress’ request, I hereby invite you to the glorious celebration of the 1st anniversary of her coronation during the Summer Festival.
Drinks, food, and gifts will be offered so all of you can celebrate this most joyous and noble of events. Entertainers from all around the Emerald Empire will perform for your enjoyment and the Empress’ and her Chosen’s pleasure.
This won’t be a regular Court session. This is a opportunity for all of the Clans and the samurai of the Empire to join arms and partake in this year’s most anticipated event through various contests specially held for your enjoyment.
Bayushi Hisoka
Imperial Chancellor
So we are clear:
We look forward to seeing you at the L5R’s 15th Anniversary Party* held during GenCon Indy, from 7pm to 10pm on Saturday Aug 7th, at the:
Hilton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites
Monument Hall – Concourse Level of the Hotel
120 West Market Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
317-972-0600
For the Empire! Utz!
* The GenCon Exclusive Honor Event will be run during this party.
For the first time at GenCon, players from all Clans will get a chance to compete in a live performance contest!
On Aug 7th, After the Main and Second Chance Tournaments’ Swiss rounds are completed, AEG will offer the Clans and their representatives at GenCon the chance to match their skills through a Live Performance Contest.
One representative of each Clan will be asked to step up on the stage, and will have 3 minutes maximum to answer the following question before judges and the audience: “how would your Clan stop the Plague?“.
This contest will be filmed by the L5RChives crew on site and a live feed should be put in place for players all around the world to witness this event.
There is no limit to the amount of accessories, costumes and assistants a representative can have on stage, and the type of performance itself is up to each Clan (it doesn’t have to be a formal discourse).
If you can’t attend GenCon, you can help with any accessories or with the text of the performance, for instance, and be a part of this event.
Performances will be judged on site, according to originality, respect of the Clan values, entertainment value and overall quality.
Players will have 5 Minutes to discuss between themselves, in Clan Councils, what they will do with the Honor points they might receive.
The jury will use this time to decide on a top 4, and will award the following points:
- Winning Clan will gain 8 Honor points he can keep, or donate to the Empire.
- 2nd Place will gain 4 Honor points he can keep, or donate to the Empire.
- 3rd and 4th Place will each gain 2 Honor points they can keep, or donate to the Empire.
Ronin players can participate in this event, and any point they earn will go to the Empire by default, as it has been the case for the entire MegaGame.
Exact time and location of this special event will be announced as soon as all details are available, but enough time will be given to change into costumes and gather accessories after the rounds are over.
United the Empire will prevail. Divided it will crumble.
The L5R MegaGame Team
As is customary, several players – based on their achievements – are prequalified for the Main Event at GenCon Indy 2010. The list of players is available after the break!
2010 Kotei Winner List
All Kotei Winners of 2010 are automatically qualified for the Main Event (Aug 7th-Aug 8th).
Allen, Drew
Almgren, Robert
Alvarez, Ariel
Baltas, George
Barto, Aaron
Bellanger, Sebastien
Boyhan, Aaron
Cabrejas, Jorge Perez
Caperan, Gustavo
Chiriboga, Ryan
Christen, Kyle
Civiera, Andrea
de Moel, Hans
Dee, Douglas
Deichl, Ysarion
Demand, Matt
Despretz, Maxime
Diaz, Victor
Dornan, Chris
Emran, Omar
Frazier, Joe
Gardiner, Eric
Grillo, Francisco
Hernandez, Salomon
Hicks, Joe
Hooven, Howard
Italiano, Joe
Jacobson, Daniel
Jones, Nick
Kiyonaga, Case
Kleiner, Sebastian
Kowalczyk, Przemek
Labelle, Gilles
Lambrechts, Laurent
Larin, Philip
Laroche, Jean Baptiste
Mahadi, Mohd Adisa
Majlath, Balasz
Nagorny, Jeremy
Nicoll, Chris
Ornatov, Andrew
Paul, Evan
Penafuerte, Jan
Prins, Willem
Regalado, Mik
Ruddock, Dave
Simonaitis, Steve
Smith, Ryan
Spencer, James
Summerside, Jordan
Tunes, Michael
Valentine, Trevor
Wailing, Richard
Welsh, Eric
Wong, KC
Wong, Greg
Ziemba, Lukas
Past Champions
If they aren’t already qualified through other means (Kotei Win or GenCon Qualifier) prior to Saturday 7th, the following past GenCon and European Champions will get an automatic seat in the Main Event (Aug 7th-Aug 8th).
Barakat, Salman (2004 World Champion)
Bergstrom, Chris (1997 World Champion)
Carpenter, Ken (1996 World Champion)
Donnat, Christophe (2007 European Champion)
Earnshaw-Whyte, Eugene (2002 and 2007 World Champion)
Galazka, Sebastian (2002 European Champion)
Georgopoulos, Panos (2009 European Champion)
Kiyonaga, Case (2008 GenCon Champion)
Koutsikos, Tolis (2003 European Champion)
La, David (1998 World Champion)
Magda, Kamil (2008 World Champion)
Michalica, Jesse (2006 GenCon Champion)
Miura, Dimas (2004 European Champion)
Ornatov, Andrew (2009 World Champion)
Reese, Bryan (2003 World Champion)
Rigsby, Jonathan (2001 World Champion)
Rixson, Scott (2005 World Champion)
Swanson, Brett (1999 World Champion)
van Kraanen, Faber (2005 European and 2006 World Champion)
Walsh, Justin (2000 World Champion)
Arc Champion
If he isn’t already qualified through other means (Kotei Win or GenCon Qualifier) prior to Saturday 7th, the following Arc Champion will get an automatic seat in the Main Event (Aug 7th – Aug 8th)
Rojo, Pablo Garcia (Samurai Champion)
If the spelling of your name is wrong or you feel you should be on this list, please email megagameresults@alderac.com
