#518: ESPN2

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Games, Magic The Gathering, Leisure, Game Design, Mtg, Ccg, Mark Rosewater

4.8 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

For many years, Magic was broadcast on ESPN2. This podcast looks back at that time and talks about the experience from behind the scenes.

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0:00.0	I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.
0:05.7	Okay, so today's topic was a request for my blog. Somebody asked, wanted me to talk about ESPN 2,
0:13.0	which I'm going to. Okay, so for those who don't know, so ESPN is a sports channel. I assume you all
0:20.7	know that. It's a pretty famous sports channel.
0:23.1	But there are so many sports that they couldn't all fit on one channel. So, you know, the more
0:28.6	popular sports going to ESPN, you know, your football, your baseball, your soccer, whatever.
0:33.8	But you're slightly less popular sports, you know, fridge pulling or tractor racing or whatever.
0:43.5	They had a second channel they called ESPN2.
0:46.0	I don't even know if ESPN2 is still on. I assume it is.
0:49.0	So anyway, there was a point in time where magic was on ESPN2.
0:55.0	So today I'm going to talk a little bit about how that happened,
0:58.0	about some stories about being on ESPN2,
1:02.0	and just sort of fill you in on an aspect of magic
1:05.0	that many of you might not know.
1:07.0	Okay, so for this story, we were going back in time,
1:10.0	back to 1997. Okay, so for this story, we were going back in time, back to 1997.
1:13.4	Okay, so a little setup for you.
1:16.1	So 1996 was the start of the pro tour in, I think February 1996, in New York City at the
1:22.9	Buck Building.
1:24.7	So what happened was Scaf Elias, who, one of the early playtefters, who was one of the
1:31.5	East Coast playtefters that designed antiquities. They did Ice Age and alliances and
1:40.8	fallen empires. Scaf really came to believe that part of making the organized play system work is having an
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