I'm pulling out of my daughter's middle school parking lot.

We all know what that means.

Actually, at this point, I think we all do know what that means.

It means I took my daughter to school, but it still means we have a drive to work.

Okay.

Today, so I've talked about how I thought, I think podcasts are a very good medium for telling stories.

And so today is a story day.

I'm going to tell the story of the first Pro Tour New York video.

New York Pro Tour.

Try that again.

I'm going to tell the story of the story of the first pro-tore video from

Pro Tour New York One. Okay, so let me fill you in so you guys remember what here, I did a podcast

on the first pro tour, in case you haven't listened to that. So Scaf Elias, one of the East Coast

playtfters, a member of R&D, he was actually an executive vice president.

Scaf realized that the key to making organized play work was that you needed to have an aspirational quality.

Not for everybody, but for some players, that there was something to work toward.

And so he did a lot of research, and he realized what we wanted was a pro-circuit, a pro-tore.

He spent a lot of time and energy, you know, talking to different people.

I know he talked to like beach volleyball and different sports that were smaller sports

that were doing a competitive circuit to try to understand how they worked.

Now, when I got to Wizards, I got there in the fall of 95.

They were planning to do the pro tour in

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