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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#785: Scott Larabee

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

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

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I interview Scott Larabee, the esports senior league operations manager. We talk about his many years of running tournaments.

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0:01.0

I'm not pulling out of the driveway.

0:02.8

We all know what that means.

0:04.2

It's time for other drive to work, coronavirus edition.

0:07.8

So I've been doing all sorts of fun interviews, and today is no exception.

0:11.6

So I have Scott Larabee, the Esports Senior League Operation Manager.

0:16.9

So hi, Scott.

0:18.1

Hi, Mark. How you doing?

0:19.6

So you and I go way, way back.

0:21.1

So, yeah, well, we'll get, we'll get to that.

0:23.4

We'll get to that.

0:24.1

Yeah.

0:25.5

So let me start the question I've been asking everybody, which is, how did you first get into magic?

0:30.5

I first got into magic because a friend of my brothers, who was also a friend of mine, he was

0:37.1

more of a friend of my brothers, who was also a friend of mine, he was more of a friend of my brothers, though,

0:38.5

from high in high school. We were out of high school in 2000, it was in 1994, got a whole, you

0:47.7

knew I played games because we used to play computer games and all kinds of games.

0:50.5

And he's like, Scott, there's this new game I played. He was going to Caltech at the time.

0:54.6

And he said, this new game, it's called Magic. And he goes, it's perfect for you. He goes,

0:59.0

it's absolutely perfect for you. You really need to get it. And I said, okay. And then I didn't. And like,

1:04.5

three months later, he got a whole, I happened to talk to him again. He's like, so did you ever pick up magic? And I said, no. He's like, you really, really, really need to go get this. Trust me. So I did. I went over, I was living down

1:16.3

in Southern California in Costa Mesa at the time. And I went to the only game store I knew about,

1:21.0

which was over at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, a store called Gamesmanship. And I went in and asked about it.

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