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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Drive to Work #240 - Pro Tour with Melissa DeTora

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

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Mark discusses the Pro Tour with his carpool guest, Melissa DeTora.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know that means it's drive from work.

0:06.0

This is my second ever drive from work. So I'm here with Melissa Datoro, who has...

0:11.0

She had to come with me to work, so she's going home. We decided to do a second podcast, because I'm trying to milk as much material out of Melissa as I can.

0:19.0

So... Okay, so the topic on the right home for this one is going to be about the pro tour.

0:24.6

So I figured out that I attended most of the pro tours from 1996 through 2004,

0:31.6

and Melissa started attending pro tours in 2003.

0:34.6

Correct.

0:35.6

So between the two of us, we hit most the eras of the pro tour.

0:38.6

So we're going to talk about the pro tour then and now.

0:42.4

So when's the last pro tour you played in?

0:44.4

The last one I played in was Honolulu, so it was Protour Khan's of Tarkere, and it was

0:49.3

only like six months ago.

0:52.1

Yeah, see, back in my day, we never went to Hawaii.

0:57.9

So, uh, there's been like three or four protours in Hawaii, but that's all after I stopped going to pro tour.

0:58.8

Yeah, I've been to two Hawaii pro tours and they were awesome.

1:02.5

So, uh, one thing we used to do, they don't do as much is back in the day, um, we used,

1:07.8

the way they used to do it is there would be three pro tours

1:11.2

one would always be in North America

1:13.4

one would always be in Europe

1:14.5

and one would always be in Asia

1:15.9

usually Japan

1:16.7

and they do some of that this year

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