Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 515 of the MD Goldfish podcast.

I'm Seth, probably better known to Safrat Olive, and we have the full crew here this week.

kicking things off with the owner of MTG Goldfish, Richard.

How are you this, mine Monday, Richard?

Good morning, Seth.

I was expecting some changes today, but I did not expect what we saw.

So I'm excited to break it down. Ah, We're going to get into that in just a minute. But first, we get another co-host in Crem. Good morning, Crem. How's it going today? It's going well. Had a fun weekend. Found out I'm not completely washed. Went to some RCQs. I got my top eights, but... Nice. Wait, does that qualify? What do you need to qualify? Do you have to literally win? Yeah, you have to win it all. Which is like, oh, man, I see why they, I forgot why there's so many of these, you know, remembering. VVTQs is like, there's usually only like single-seaters. At best,

it's a double-seater, so you have to either be first

or second.

Wait, wait. I got a side-tracker intro

real quick. For old man Richard,

would you say compared to five, ten years

ago, it's harder

or easier to

win a RPTQ or whatever that is?

I think it actually might be easier because now I think there's even more.

There's so much more and like they're they're happening like multiples there are multiple

RCQs on the same day and with that being said that means now it's not as intense i

remember like everybody would just go to like one store in the bay area like like in the city

and it would just be very hard because then it'd be like the thickest, like in the heaviest and most competitive people, all in one spot. Trying to get one qualifier. One invite. Aren't there way more slots at the pro tour now? We're getting very sidetrack. But I feel like the last pro tour was really big and that's probably also part of it right you knew more qualifiers

more people at the pro tour well are you gonna do more cram or are you are there more on your

schedule you're still trying to qualify yeah I just want to see if I could you know

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