The obvious categories are Any% and 100%.

Any% is easily defined as "start the raft cutscene".

100% is a bit trickier since you can explore and unlock stuff after the raft cutscene and there's a lot of hidden content.
My suggestion is to define it as "Fill out the inventory, costume hut and extras menu and finish with the raft cutscene".
This is quite a bit clumsier worded than "open every chest" but since there's a dummy chest and most of the last chests will only have yellow hearts in them they would feel quite arbitrary to collection rate.
There is an argument for open every chest though in that this wording would make it so you have to access most of the content but I personally think that seems arbitrary.
I'd love some input.

More arbitrary categories could include low%, reverse dungeon order, whatever%. The game is so open that you can run it however you want really. Bingo would probably be amazing if well balanced.

Considering how shit the in-game timer for ittle 1 was can we all just agree to use real time for this game from the beginning?

Please?

Update: The sealed is happening on friday at 13:00

Last year (and the years before since 2014) I've taught people MTG and held a beginner friendly tournament.
This year I'll pass most of that responsibility to the local game store Legend who will be returning this year to demo/sell board games and MTG products.
I'll be helping them out a bit with MTG stuff, especially the Sealed Deck tourney which will return this year.

For anyone who wants to learn or play at the event I know there are quite a few people who are going who are interested in learning the game or know the game who would love to play.
I'll also be up for teaching the game with legends demo decks and I'm pretty sure they'll be handing out some beginners starter deck things.
I myself pretty much only play competitive magic and so will bring a couple of modern decks and maybe a legacy deck (which will most likely only leave my hotel room if someone really wants to play.)
I'll try to find time to put together a commander(/edh) deck if someone wants to play that.

The sealed tourney doesn't have a date set as I'm not sure when the legend people will be there and what times are good for the most ammount of people but I'll try to tell as many people as possible about it during the event and the legend people told me we can host it any time really as long as they're there go sell us the packs.

Sealed Deck is a tournament format that's very suited for beginner because you don't have to own any cards beforehand and it's a good way to start your collection.
You need to know the basics of the game but as that can be taught on site it shouldn't be a problem if you're interested.
To play in the tourney will cost 160 sek which is the sale price for the packs you'll be given.
You get 6 unopened packs of 15 cards which you'll open and build a 40 card deck with.
Deck construction will probably take somewhere between 30-60 minutes and I and the other more experienced players will be glad to help you out if you're not sure how to do it.
When deck construction is done we'll be playing 4 rounds against different opponents with each round taking about an hour.
After all the rounds are played the player with the most wins will take home everlasting glory and possibly some other random thing.
Here's last years winner, Fatzke, with his foiled Need for Speed which was signed by all the tournament entrants http://bombch.us/ClKS
After the tournament you keep all the cards you opened and can trade with other people or build more decks to play with.
The tourney will take about 5 hours but you are free to drop out at any time if you've had enough.

If you have any questions or suggestions please post here or message me anywhere I'm available (I'm etholon in most places on the internet)

Hey yall I'll be hosting a sealed tournament like every other year. Same deal, I'll look into date and time. Talk to me somewhere if interested, I'll be hyping it up during the event aswell as teaching people MTG. Physical card games 4 lyf, digital card games are for nerds peace out.

I guess I should mention that sealed is a beginner friendly tournament format in which you open 6 sealed boosters and construct a deck from those. You need to know the basics which I'll gladly teach beforehand.

Hello!

I intend to host a sealed deck side event again this year.
For anyone interested in that or who doesn't know what that means I'll get to that so keep reading.


Magic has been pretty popular at previous ESAs with both old players and complete beginners and I intend for this ESA to be the same.
This year I'll be bringing some forty 30-card sample decks that I can give (for free) to people who want to learn the game.
So if you're interested just find me and I'll introduce you and your friends to the game and prepare you if you want to participate in the stuff mentioned further down.
I'll probably be bringing my Modern, Legacy and Commander (EDH) decks for any casual play during the event.
I also think there is a board-/card-/roleplaying-game store in Växjö and I'll be contacting them to see if they're open during the event if anyone feels like buying some magic stuff from them.


I'll also be bringing my cube for drafting. (http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/43831)
Cubedrafting is a way to play the game where you construct a deck out of a predetermined set of cards (a "cube") while 5-7 other players do the same with the same set of cards.
This is done by all the players only looking at and choosing cards from small piles that gets passed around the table to all the players.
When all the cards have been passed around you build a deck out of the cards you've gotten and you play a small tournament to see who managed to build the best deck.
After the drafting and playing is done all the cards are shuffled back into the box they came from and are ready to be drafted again at some other time.

It sounds weird and complicated but it's easier to understand in person and a fun way for new players to learn multiple aspects of the game.
So if you're even slightly interested in mtg it's a fun thing to do when the sample decks I bring start getting boring.
You don't keep any of the cards used in cube but you also dont need any cards of your own going in which is nice.
All the cards are from my personal collection and if you steal any of them I'll be sad :(


Sealed deck tournament side event!
This year, again, I'll be hosting a sealed deck tourney.
It will be the same kind of thing as previous years but this time we wont be doing it with M15 boosters (rip spectra ward).
Instead we will be doing it with the most recent release which at the time will mean Shadows over Innistrad + Eldritch Moon.

For anyone that doesn't know what I'm talking about, Sealed Deck is a tournament format that is very beginner friendly because you don't need any cards going into the tournament and the decks aren't super strong.
The format is played by each player opening 6 brand new booster packs (each containing 15 cards) and building their decks from that pool of cards.
The decks built will be 40 card decks including basic lands (basic lands are not in the boosters, I'll be providing those).
Depending on how many new players we have in the tournament I might not play in it myself but instead help beginners build their decks and help with rules and stuff during the tourney.
After the tournament you get to keep your cards and I'll be bringing enough basic lands that you can keep those and have more as well if you wanna try different colours.

Because the format requires you to open new cards I will be buying and bringing booster boxes for the event.
Because of this it will cost 150sek to enter the event. That is the same price I buy them for as I buy boxes containing 36 boosters for 900sek (divided by 6= 6 boosters for 150sek).
This also means that I'll need to estimate how many will join in the tourney as I don't want to buy too much. I will be buying a generous ammount as to not run out if more that expected want to join in though and the remaining boosters can be used for drafts and stuff so a few spares is nothing to panic about.
This year I plan to have a small prize for the winner of the tourney. Nothing fancy but a fun little trophy of sorts.


So yeah this post is way longer than I intended. I'll clean it up whenever I find something I wanna change and if anyone thinks anything should be changed or added please say so.

Thanks!