Okay, I'm pulling away from the bus stop.

We all know what that means.

Actually, I don't know if you all know what that means.

What it means is my daughter, it was raining today, and so I drove my daughter to her bus stop,

and so she just got on the bus, and I am now headed to work.

On the plus side, it's raining, which means you might get a longer show,

because as we all have learned from this podcast, Seattle Drivers cannot drive in the rain.

Anyway, today, I thought I would do a topic.

That's kind of a personal topic to me.

I'm going to talk about the Magic Invitational, aka the Duelist Invitational. So I'm going to talk about

where it came from and then share some stories, some of my favorite stories from the Magic Invitational.

Okay, so where did it begin? It began many years ago with a magazine called The Duelist.

Now, I did a podcast on The Dueless, for those that have no idea what I'm talking about. It was a magazine called The Duelist. Now, I did a podcast on The Dueless,

for those that have no idea what I'm talking about.

It was a magazine that Wizards made.

In fact, it was the Dueless that got me first involved with magic.

I did the puzzles for the Dueless,

and it was my entry point into Wizards was through the Dueless.

So I was very closely affiliated with the duelist.

In fact, when I went to get hired, there was an argument, or multiple people wanted to hire me,

one of which is the duels was interested in hiring me.

So the agreement we made when I got hired was that I was going to be the R&D liaison to the duelist, which I was.

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