First Episode of season 2 can be found here .

This is the first episode of three of our Gencon recaps.

The locals pronounce it "Clah-dig."

is it spelled Claddagh's? there's a bar here in Baltimore with the same name. We pronounce it like kuh-LAH-duh

Actually, as an Indianapolis local (even though the pubs are a regional chain), I pronounce it "CLAD-ah". Which is the pronunciation of the word listed on the front of their menus.

Hah, fail, guess my friends are idiots!

Hahaha, I'm glad that the bar pronunciation is the highlight of the episode.

I really figured it would be my story about Todd.

Wait, is that in this episode? Maybe that's in next episode.

It was really good to see/meet you guys too and hang out a lot. I for one had a blast despite my mediocre finish. I'd like to think i'll be back next year but we'll see how things go with that annoying thing called "life" between then and now. If not, hopefully we see some of you at Kubla again.

I exist in the AGOT circuit! Finally!

<--- Todd (Not as interesting as the Irish pub)

Enjoyed the podcast overall. Congrats to Greg and Zeiler on their strong performances at GenCon.

A couple of corrections and clarifications. 1) The guy who helped Will round 2 of the Melee and worked with me 3rd round to beat down Will was Jeff(darthjeff on the boards). 2) All the DC and Wisconsin guys were NOT running the same deck in Joust. I played 2 different guys in Swiss from those metas and one played Greyjoy/Winter and the other played Lanni/Maesters.

Over all it was an excellent podcast and I look forward to your next installment about GenCon.

I'm a DC guy and I played a craptastic Brotherhood deck.

I played Lanni/Brotherhood in melee and it did pretty well, btw.

Just as a heads up, Brotherhood sucks.

JackT said:

Depends on the meta my friend. Just like everything else. Here nobody really runs eastwatch-by-the-sea, or has any way to keep power of the house. Until Maesters there was no heavy attachment control in our environment so Mad Hunts + Devious Intentions was gg friend. Now its a little different, but they are still a potent force. In a targ heavy environment the joust champion deck won't stack up - enjoy not having any attachments. That being said, then you have almost no Targ tournout at a tournament, its something you don't need to worry about. Locations are strong when people dont run price of war/fleeing/new event, so a location based control deck works rally well, like the shadows builds. Up against 3 wintertime marauders and a bunch of price of wars not so much.

Ghaston Grey being played = Brotherhood sucks. *shrug*

Congrats again guys, looking forward to seeing you hopefully in Minny and then for sure in the frozen wastes of rural Nebraska in January (ish).

Yeah, depending on how exactly you count the DC/Wisconsin meta there were the following decks...

Martell/Summer, Martell/Brotherhood, GJ/Winter, and Lannister (no agenda?). In other words, that means 3-5 DC/Wisconsin guys were playing Martell/Summer (I can think of 3, but I suspect there were a couple more).

It may have felt like there were more people running the same deck though because of all the net-decking this year. A lot of people ran decks that were basically modified versions of Erick's regionals Martell build, and some of them did very well. In fact, I can think of two non-DC/WI players who made top 16 who net-decked the Martell/summer deck. I certainly don't think that was Erick's/Corey's fault.

Whether net-decking is a bad thing is an entirely different question. Hopefully next year there will be some chapter packs in between regionals and GenCon though, so that the GenCon environment doesn't feel like regionals 2.0 like it did this year.

On the podcast, nice job. I liked this episode...a little slower than others, but seemed very appropriate given it was the post-GenCon episode.

I'm really disappointed once again at the lack of interviews, but I will grudgingly say that this was still a good episode : ) It sounds like melee was more of a mess than I realized. I still think that the arbitrariness of the overall champion title makes any scoring system used to determine the winner arbitrary.

DId anyone listen to the Easter Eggs? I did catch a teensy bit of a conversation with Damon.

Damon's thing at the end was just awesome. That definitely made me smile.