I'm pulling my driveway. We all know what that means. It's another drive to work.

Okay, so today I'm going to talk all about the great designer search three. Or better yet, what

I'm going to do is sort of give some background and explain sort of how it came to be and talk a little bit about it.

As of me recording this, we have not quite announced it yet. We're going to announce it very soon,

but I want this, I want you guys to hear this. My goal is I'm trying to aim in between people

entering and the show starting. It might be a smidge and it off, but that's my goal here.

So anyway, I want to sort of give some context to what's going on and give a little history.

I've had podcasts on The Great Designer Search, so I'll spend a little bit of time doing back up,

but I really want to spend more time sort of talking about how the third one came to be.

But anyway, let me start by a little background background because I always assume that people haven't necessarily

listened to my other podcast.

So let's talk about sort of where it came from and sort of the reason behind the great

designer search.

So it goes back to, I think it's 2006. So what happened was

my boss at the time was a man named Randy Bueller. You guys might know him as the, from the Hall of

Fame, Magic Pro Tour Hall of Fame. He was a pretty famous pro player. He did commentary for a long, long time.

Anyway, Randy was my boss at the time. And so one of the things that we often do on the development

slash sort of set and play design end of things is we often will go to the pro tour find players that have the

skills we need and then we will give them a six-month um uh what's the technical term i keep wanting to call

an internship not an internship technically um a contract a six-month contract gig.

And the idea is one of the things we're big in R&D is sort of trying people out before we hire them

and that we give people saying, okay, let's try this out and see how it goes.

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