I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time to drive to work. Okay, so today

today is another of my history podcast where I talk a little bit about the past. So aside

of today, I'm going to talk about the early world championships. I've talked about bits and pieces

of them, but I want to sort of give some context to the evolution of worlds.

So I'm going to talk today about the first five world championships, which would be 1994, 1995,

1996, 1997, 1998.

And I'm going to sort of talk about how they came about, how they evolved, what happened to them,

and then sort of shape up how

the world championship early on in Magic History got made. Okay, so for those that know their

magic history, Magic came out in 1993, premiering, roughly premiering at Gen Con. That is the first

place. Officially, I think it was on sale.

So, it was a year later, and they were going back to Gen Con.

And the previous year, they had been the toast of the convention.

That, you know, every year, usually there's one thing that just becomes fataka

the convention, and magic had been that thing.

So anyway, it was a year later. So the president of the company was a man named Peter Ackison.

He was one of the co-founders of the company,

and he was the president and CEO of Wizards of the Coast

for the first, I don't know, five or six years, well,

first five or six years of magic.

I guess he was also president for a few years before magic showed up.

Anyway, Peter really loved Gen Con.

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