I just wanted to say the prize support for US nationals was absolutely fantastic for the top cuts.
What I got for my finals against UFS house was:
New Art
1 Binder with one of each card in all darkstalkers/realm of midnight (so I did get 1 kittie spike, ira spinta etc, re-animated)
New UFS lifecounter (only for nationals I think)
tons of promo packs with foiled red lotus and other pretty stuff like heel snipes, enkido's

Thanks for making this nationals worth it Steve and James.

this makes me wish i had gone.

Goddammit.

I HATE having fuel for rage inducing rants.

sir_shajir said:

It was, but think of the people who didn't top and only got 1 pack of promos for spending the money to go out there, the badge, hotel, AND events.

Shaneth said:

The bigger kick in the balls was that the non-top promo packs came in 2 different flavors: ones that came with 2 Abelia's Friendship, and ones that came with some character cards.

Can't complain too much since I received the former, but still...

Every name is taken said:

That's still better then last years. If you didn't make the cut you got a pack of foil commons and uncommons that weren't anything special.

Just wanted to agree with Shajir here, I am very pleased with the top 8 prize support I received:

Art Print

Plaque

Binder of Set 9 (full deadly ground and realm of midnight)

2009 nationals life counter

league cards, etc.

- dut

Personally i feel the prizes should always be better for the higher u get, espec in major events, sure hobby nights and stuff share the love but in the big events if u do well u deserve good stuff after all the hard work u have prob put in

Tuesday said:

I agree, but it wouldn't hurt or cost anymore than it already does to charge an extra $10-20 from each player to go towards splitting some boxes to both supplement top cuts and to provide some semblance of prize support for those who are basically doomed to walk away with 2 foil Iga Legacy.

i totally agree with the adding of cost to enter with prizes that go down the list more, but thats up to ffg to decide on entry fee to the tournament, but i would pay for good prize support

sir_shajir said:

Prize support wasgood for cuts, but the keyword is CUTS. Not that i dont like FFG, but getting promos was a good idea, but we really didnt get anything for signing up. Now on the way back from NATs Hughes thought of a good idea that most other card games do and that was GIVE A PROMO THAT U CAN ONLY GET BY SHOWING UP AT NATS OR 2-3 PACKS FOR SIGNING UP, and give more of thepromo out during rounds in promo packs or something.