Just wanted to let everyone know about a few holiday changes to the schedule. We will not be holding any events on Tuesday or Thursday thru the holiday season. We WILL however continue our Sunday Sanctioned Tournament tradition this Sunday (December 27th) at The Next Level. Hope to see you all there!
P.S. If anyone talks to Gary, tell him I need a photo of him for his tokens...;-)
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I am proud to announce that The Next Level will be having a "Soft" opening this weekend and we are invited! This Sunday and presumably every Sunday after we will be holding events at The Next Level! Our events schedule will be changing as well in the days to come, since we will now be a 7 day a week operation! So keep an eye on the blog, as we take the next step on this wonderful journey of ours. I will try and keep everyone as up to date as possible. The physical address for The Next Level is: 6947 University Blvd Winter Park, FL, 32792
If you need any directions or help finding the new location you can call us at (407) 376-9240
Can't wait to see everyone there!!!
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Well as you may, or may not know, we are going to be moving to a new location very soon (the exact date is not know yet, but I will keep you posted via the blog). I just wanted to let everyone know a little bit about our new location. It is going to be a LAN center over by UCF. The name of the center is "The Next Level". I got a preview of this place Saturday night, and let me tell you, this place is a gamers dream come true! The Rock Band room alone is going to be off the chain! They will be offering many different services, including video game tournaments! Imagine if you will a place where you can play in Magic tournaments and in between rounds hop on to play a few songs of rock band on a projector screen, or play computer games online, or just chill and catch up on a few things on Xbox Live! Also, after your done dominating the Magic scene, go whip up on some raids in World of Warcraft!!! Oh man, I'm starting to feel it already! Here is the website for The Next Level. I'd advise everyone to get on their forum and be a part of our ever expanding community! I'll see you there!
Now, I know I said that I was going to be doing a blog only once a week from now on, but I felt that this particular event was SO BIG that it needed it's own blog posting! This Sunday we held our biggest sanction tournament yet with 12 Player Slayers!!! Everyone was there to show support for Chris and his quest to become a Friday Night Magic tournament organizer. Now all we need are 4 more sanctioned tourneys and we are good to go! It was an amazing sight yesterday to see the Sub Shack filled to capacity! Tons of great plays and a whole lot of fun! Four rounds of craziness, followed by a quick cut to top 4. This tourney's top 4 was Chris, Clint, Justin, and Aaron. Justin with his Naya Zoo style deck made it into top 2 as well as Aaron with his mono-green Nissa's Chosen deck (now I don't feel so bad for him beating me since he made top 2...hehehe). In the end though it was a decisive victory for the man that traveled all the way from Gainsville to join us. Justin won 2 - 0 against Aaron in the final round! An extra large congrats on this one Justin, for winning our biggest tourney yet!!!
Oh Yea!!!
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This past week we had 2 tournaments that I personally can't believe the out come of... Big Chris has won the last two Player Slayer events!!! His new Grixis deck has been wreaking havok on all who cross it's path! Even Gary's ultra fast mono-red goblin deck didn't stand a chance in top two this Sunday. But then again, we're not sure if it's Chris' deck this time, or Gary's Buffalo Bills-esk ability to consistently come in 2nd place at our events that won this one for Chris?...;-) Either way, someone MUST stop the Madness!!! This Sunday we are expecting a pretty big turnout for our sanctioned tournament, so hopefully someone can put the Dragon back in his cave...:-D
The Dragon has left the Cave!!! Someone get him!!!
Sorry Gary, you almost had it this time...I have a good feeling about this Sunday though...;-)
See you all on Sunday for our Sanctioned tourney!!!
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Just wanted to make a quick shout out to one of our fellow Player Slayers... Steele Paxton made 21st place out of 190 people at States this past Saturday! Go Steele! Thanks to all who cheered him on, as he plowed thru the competition with his BA Jund Deck...:-D
That's how we roll baby!!!
I also wanted to take a minute to thank Frank for all the new headers he created for the blog. They look awesome, and add a nice flavor to things...Thanks Frank! I hope to get all of them on here soon. Keep checking back to see if I succeed in this effort...lol
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Just a quick reminder to those that may not know... This is our schedule for events at the Sub Shack!
Sundays @ 3 p.m. - Sanctioned Standard Format Tournament. Sub Shack food sales end @ 7 p.m. (So I can play some cards dang it!...hehehe).
Tuesdays @ 8 p.m. - Standard Format Tournament (Unless specified as a different tourney for that week) and Casual Play. Also don't forget to come a little early if you want Sub Shack food as the shop closes @ 8 p.m.
Thursdays @ 8 p.m. - Casual Play and lots of it! Again Sub Shack closes @ 8 p.m. So if you're hungry, come early!
Tuesday's and Thursday's are, of course, a general guideline. We always go however the community wants at the time. Everyone want's to draft? We can draft... You guys want to play Plane Chase? We can DEFINATELY play a little Plane Chase... You wanna do a little EDH? You get the point. Because that's just how we roll in the Player Slayers Community... Oh Yeah!
Also please take some time to fill out the poll at the bottom of the blog. We are always looking for feedback from fellow Slayers! If you injoy reading this blog feel free to follow it with the link provided also at the bottom of the blog posts.
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This week we held several big group games at our Tuesday and Thursday events. PLANECHASE IS AWESOME!!! Sorry, just felt I had to say that...hehehe Aaron also introduced several of us to a new format called "Elder Dragon Highlander" or EDH for short. We're thinking about putting together a few casual games in this format sometime soon in the future (As it is great fun to play, and is designed around having a good time.). Here is a link to the rules so that everyone can get on the same page and see if they'd like to join in the fun one casual day. Check it out here. So, put together a deck sometime if you like, and come challenge us!
This Sunday we also held a Zendikar draft tournament! We haven't done that in a while right? This week's top 2 were Steele with his hand crafted White/Splash a little Red Ally deck vs. Justin and his Green/Red/White Creature Removal deck. I must say this was one heck of a match. Even though Justin came thru with a 2 - 0 victory, Steele didn't make it easy for him. This round lasted almost an hour in total! In the end Justin's victory was sealed twice with his Arid Mesa/Rampaging Baloth/...Swing for How MUCH? Combo! Congrats Justin on winning a great Draft!
This will make for an interesting token...:-D
Also, a quick update for everyone. We are going to be having sanctioned tournaments EVERY Sunday from here on out! So, make sure to bring your DCI numbers!...hehehe In addition, in case you didn't notice, I'm going to be updating the blog on a weekly basis now instead of a daily one. Now that we are having 3 nights of fun a week, I think it would streamline the whole process this way. Hopefully I don't piss anyone off... (Ya right, no one reads the blog. Who am I kidding?...lol).
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This week we had a fun tourney with some interesting twists and turns. The top two actually turned out to be Al's Vampire deck vs. Caeser's Jund Deck! That's right, Caeser did not play a mill deck this time!...hehehe And it seemed to have paid off for him. Caeser won in a 2 - 0 victory over Al for first place! Nice try Al, but I guess vamps just don't belong in Jund...
All Hail Caeser!!!
Now that we are sanctioned, we are going to be running a lot more standard format tourney's in order to get everyone prepared for the big sanctioned tournaments. We'll still throw a few curve balls out there (as far as tournament formats are concerned), but we'll keep everyone posted via the blog several weeks before the events...:-) Our next tournament is Tuesday November 10th @ 8 p.m. Also, our next sanctioned tourney is Sunday November 22nd @ 3 p.m. Hope to see everyone there!!!
One quick reminder... If you haven't registered with DCI yet, let Chris know and he will hook you up. :-D
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A few new things have happened recently in the Player Slayer community, and we are pleased to be able to bring this to everyone's attention. Two things. First, we are officially going to be having a Tuesday event at the Sub Shack. Our Thursday tournaments will be changed to Tuesday tournaments, and Thursday will be our "Casual Day" once again. Casual means whatever you want to play! We'll be having group games, team games, emperor games, casual games, and any other game anyone there would like to play every Thursday! The events will start at 8 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday. Just remember, if you want something to eat from the Shack, come a bit early...;-) The second big announcement is that we have an official "Tournament Organizer" within our ranks as of a few days ago! We will now be holding Sanctioned tournaments every other Sunday (at first) starting November 8th!!! We hope that these two new additions to our community's schedule will bring many good times to come at our future events. :-D
The Founding 5
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Be careful out there folks, we had a lot of sick ones this week. So many were sick in fact that we weren't able to hold a tournament this time around. That didn't stop us though! We still managed to have some pretty exciting group games and casual games! So, no 2 bits tourney this week, however there will always be another time around. Good luck to everyone in the community. We hope you all get better soon...
Also, we're holding standard tournaments at the next 2 events. So, as soon as everyone's well, bring your A game...;-)
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This week we had enough folks show for the "Tribes a War" tourney, but not everyone had the means to enter the tournament. So, what do The Player Slayers do in this situation??? Why Play the Game of course! We had a heck of a time with several "Tribes at War" 6 person free for all games!!! It was pretty cool too, because we all had different types of tribes. Zombies, Vampires, Goblins, Beasts, and even INSECTS!?!?! We all had a great time and look forward to rolling this format tourney out soon...
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This weeks tourney has an interesting story to it. We were supposed to hold a Zendikar only tourney. But, since no one ever reads the blog (and I'm not bitter about that...xD), no one knew that it was Zendikar only this Sunday. So, of course we defaulted to Standard format. Aaron (who actually read the blog...Thank you Aaron...:-)) came prepared with his Zendikar only deck and had to make a few changes to it. And guess who won this week?! Aaron won his first ever Player Slayer tourney with a deck he had to put together on the fly!!! Gotta love those Zendikar Vampires!...Muahahahah Now let this be a lesson to everyone, if they would have just read the blog and made a deck, this wouldn't have happened!!...But, I'm not bitter...Not me...:-P Big Congrats Aaron, you are the man this week sir!
And he takes a BA Photo too...Hell's Yeah!!!
Don't forget, this Thursday is "Tribes at War"...Check out the latest events update here.
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This week's 8 person Tourney came down to 2 founders duking it out for the number 1 spot! Clint vs. Chris... And the winner is... Clint! His 2 - 0 victory has proved to most here that his new Bant deck is a force to be reckoned with! Congrats Clint!
Disturbing...xD
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This weekI was actually able to play in the tourney for the second week in a row....hehehe And this week I won! My vampire Grixis deck won out against Cisco in the top 2 with a score of 2 - 1. We still split the prize though...:-D Here's the main combo for this deck. Better luck next week guys...;-)
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After a long and hard fought 8 person tourney, this week it came down to 2 founders for the top spot. Nate's Vampire Grixis deck, and Clint's newly formed Bant deck! I lost this weeks tourney to Clint, but it's ok, because all that mattered was that I 2-0'd Cris in the final 4....xD Congrats Clint on your decisive victory!
I'm looking forward to next Sunday's Standard Tourney!
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All of the votes have been counted and the October 25th tourney will officially be a "2 bits" competition! So get those commons and uncommons ready to roll!
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We (The Founders) have been toying with the idea of having a 3rd day of events through out the week at the Sub Shack. This is a pretty big decision for all of us, and we would like to have input from all in our community about the idea. What day should it be? Does it sound like something you'd personally be interested? Or should we just not do it at all? We value all that come to our gatherings and we would really like some feed back on this one. So, we ask that next time you're at one of our events, pull one of us aside and let us know what you think about the idea. Something really cool just might happen from it...;-)
The Founding 5
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Here it is, the events update for the next few weeks...
Sunday October 11th @ 3 p.m.: Today we will be holding the first ever "Cycle Back" tournament. This tourney will be the same as a standard tournament, but will allow all cards from the last cycle (Lorowyn, Shadowmoore, Even/Morning tides). But you guys knew about this one already, right??? :-D
Thursday October 15th @ 7:30 p.m.: Tonight is a Standard Tournament.
Sunday October 18th @ 3 p.m.: Today we'll be holding a Zendikar block tournament, so Zendikar only on this one guys...;-)
Thursday October 22nd @ 7:30 p.m. This Thursday will be a new tournament style. It's called "Tribes At War"! The idea is simple. Same standard format rules apply, however your deck has to have a "Tribal Theme". Meaning, that 75% of your creature cards (and yes you must have creature cards for this one) must be of the same type. For example, Vampires, Dragons, Angels, Demons, Goblins, Elves, Soldiers, Wizards, Merfolk, Artifact, or any other type. The only exception to this rule is that you can not have an "Ally" deck for this one. As allies would have a distinct advantage over all the other types. Good luck on this one guys, I hope it streches your deck building skills a bit...:-D
Sunday October 25th @ 3 p.m.
UPDATE: THE VOTES HAVE BEEN COUNTED, AND WE WILL BE HOLDING A "2-BITS" TOURNAMENT THIS SUNDAY!!!!
This Sunday will come down to a vote from the Player Slayer community! You will have the opportunity to vote on this one at either the October 11th or October 15th event. No more voting after those two days, as folks need time to prepare their decks. We can either hold a team tournament this Sunday (The rules for which are here.) OR We can hold a "2-bits" tournament. The idea behind this tournament is the same standard rules apply except that you can only use common cards and uncommon cards to build your decks! Also, if you can't make either of the October 11th or 15th events to let us know your vote, you can email us at ...
Founders@theplayerslayers.com
Good luck and happy voting!
Thursday October 29th @ 7:30 p.m.: This Thursday we will be holding a Standard format tournament.
Sunday November 1st @ 3 p.m. This Sunday we will be holding a Standard format tournament.
Well that's it for this months schedule. I'm really looking forward to some of the new formats we haven't done yet...:-D Now, there has been some talk of us doing a Legacy tournament soon. However after some debate on the subject, the general concensus was that we should probably not do a legacy tourney until we have grown enough to offer some of the older cards to our community. The main reason for this decision is that we don't want to run a tournament where Slayers with vintage cards have a distinct advantage over those who don't. As there are some pretty nasty cards out there in the older sets. Some day we will hold an "Old School" tournament, but we're just not quite there yet...;-)
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Just a friendly reminder to all of the Player Slayer community. We are still fully stocked on ALL Zendikar products! And of course while the competition has jacked up the price on the new cards, just like they always do, we here at The Player Slayers have continued to refuse to charge extra just because we can. We have had to make a concession when it comes to Zendikar boxes though, and we wanted to make everyone aware of it. We are being charged slightly more for the boxes from our distributor (because of the vintage cards that have been popping up in some Zendikar packs), so we are unable to offer a "Box Discount" at this time for Zen boxes. However, $99 (our current box price for Zendikar) is the cost of 36 packs if bought individually, and our pack price still remains the same at $2.75 each. We do expect this to end when the second wave of Zen cards comes out, as they will not contain the valuable Vintage cards in them. We appreciate your understanding on this, as we continue on our quest to truly be "By the Players, For the Players"...
The Founding 5
Also, you can find our prices on every item we sell in store at the newly updated "Market Place" section of our website here.
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I've been posting quite a few articles recently about all the crazy upsets and interesting outcomes that have been happening recently at the Player Slayer events...This week was again, no exception. This weeks first ever Zendikar standard tournament was quite impressive. There were quite a few changes in deck ideas because of the shift in sets. Most folks stayed with their traditional colors, but the strategies were dramatically different. It was quite refreshing to see honestly. This weeks winner went against Clints new "Bant" deck. As I stated earlier, there were quite a few new strategies employed this week and Caeser was no exception. He actually won the tournament with a mono black draw deck! That's right folks, Caeser actually won a tournament without his mill deck!!! In a 2 - 1 victory Caeser defeated Clint in the top 2 this week. Congrats Caez... :-D
ALL HAIL CAESER!!! (That line never gets old...:-D)
Don't forget folks, this Thursday we're holding a Zendikar draft at the Sub Shack. Hope to see you there...
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And finally, the moment we've ALL been waiting for...Zendikar has been released!!! This Thursday the party started at 8 p.m. and didn't stop till 4 in the morning!! There were 2 big tournaments tonight, as well as a whole lot of Zendy fun! The first was the final Lorowyn Pre-Con tourney. And Clints infamous 5 color control won it's final standard tournament... Cisco came in a close second with his mono white spectral procession deck. Congrats Clint!
After the tournament was the biggest event of the evening. We finally tore into the "Zendikar Pyramids"! And oh so much fun it was....:-D
Mmmm....Zendikar....
And the final event of the evening was the first ever Zendikar Draft!!! We'll leave it up to Caeser to make a mill deck out of drafted cards and come out with a win...xD Good Job Ceaz!...
Here's another pic of tonights event...
Gary likes the Pepper...:-D
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Lot's of big upsets going on at the Player Slayer events as of recent, and this one was no exception! After a long, hard battle with his White/Red haste lifelink deck. As well as several appearances in top 2...GARY has won his first ever Player Slayers tournament!!!!!! He defeated Cisco in the final 2 this week! His constant focus and persistence just goes to show everyone that if you work hard at something it will eventually pay off! Here's Gary (and the Gang) in our first ever group photo...:-D
Who let the Goblins out?!?!?!
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I'll keep this one simple...I (Nate) got lucky with my packs and all the rare's were Red/Green. I was also passed a Red/Green rare when drafting. So, it's natural that I would win the tournament. No good deck building ideas, no great strategy, just good luck...hehehe I'm looking forward to building a damn good Red/Green deck now for the "Cycle Back" tourney...oh yeah!!! Oh, and I beat Chris 2 - 0 for the final match...:-D
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First off, I just wanted to tell everyone I haven't been able to update the blog recently, because I lost my camera with the pictures on it temporarily. But, I found it today, and now we're back in business! Don't expect it to take this long to update normally...xD Anyhow, this week it was all about RANDY!!! "Mr. I"m gonna 2 - 0 everyone except Chris in the top 2"! Randy came out very much on top this week with a 2 - 0 win over everyone but his top 2 rival Chris (whom he 2 - 1'd). Good Job Randy and GO WHITE WHEENIES!!!!
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Sunday September 27th @ 3 p.m. This Sunday we will be holding a standard format tournament.
Thursday October 1st @7:30 p.m. ZENDIKAR!!! This party will start at 7:30 and go all night long! There will be a final standard format tournament that will include Lorowyn block cards. This tourney will start at 8 p.m. SHARP! We have to allow enough time to finish the tournament by midnight. After midnight we will be holding the first ever Zendikar draft! I can't wait till this event goes down...:-)
Sunday October 4th @ 3 p.m. This Sunday we will be having our premier Zendikar standard format tournament!
Thursday October 8th @ 7:30 p.m. Zendikar Draft anyone??? :-D
Sunday October 11th @ 3 p.m. This Sunday we will hold the first ever "Cycle Back" tournament! This tourney will allow all cards from the standard format and it will also include cards from the last cycle (Even/Morning tides, Shadowmoore, and Lorowyn). This one should be interesting...
Well that's all for now. We're thinking of holding a legacy tournament soon as well. But, we'd like to give everyone a chance to enjoy Zendikar first, as well as get their new combos down. Legacy tournament coming soon!...You've been warned...;-)
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This Thursdays all common card tournament was quite a success! We held an 8 man tournament with lots of excitement! There were lots of cool deck ideas this time around, sparking the idea of a "2 Bits Tournament" which would include uncommons as well as commons. We'll probably hold that one sometime in the near future...;-) This weeks winner or should I say "Winners" were Clint AND Cisco. They decided to split the prize AND the token photo, just to prove a point. And that point is, you don't need rares and mythic rares to win a tournament, just good deck ideas and a bit of luck! Congrats guys!
:-D
Next Thursday we will be holding a $7 Shadowmoore draft, as a fairwell to this awesome set. Hope to see you there...
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Now that we finally know how much Zendikar we're going to be receiving, we can finally take pre-orders! Starting this Thursday we will be accepting payed pre-orders for all Zendikar products (Booster packs, Intro packs, and Fat Packs). We are getting a decent amount of product this time, but if you want to guarantee you get your Zendikar stuff, I would suggest pre-ordering it. We will be holding a Midnight event at The Sub Shack on October 1st, with a Zendikar draft at 12:01. There will be many festivities including a "Fairwell to Lorowyn" pre-constructed tournament. The last standard format tournament that will include Lorowyn block cards. That tourney will start no later than 8 p.m. in order for it to be over by midnight. We also have a few surprises in store...:-) We look forward to seeing everyone the night of October 1st!
The Founding 5
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This week was a crazy week... This week there was several folks who joked that Al and Gary would make it to top 2 this week before the tournament started. They said it couldn't happen... Then they said it SHOULD happen since neither has won a tourney yet... Then it DID happen!!!! Gary and Al were top 2 in this weeks standard tournament!!!! Al's Demon deck vs. Gary's Red/White deck! In the end it proved that Al's Demons were too much for Gary's Haste/Lifelinker's !!! Congrats Al on your decisive victory... Now it's Gary's turn...;-)
I think Al should get a Demon token to go with his Demon deck...:-D
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This week we held our first M10 only tourney! It was an 8 man Swiss style tourney with lots of cool combo ideas! The top 2 this week?... Cisco and Al! After a few rounds, Cisco won, and Al was done... Congrats Cisco for winning the first ever M10 only Tourney!!!
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Now, I know I said that I was going to be doing a blog only once a week from now on, but I felt that this particular event was SO BIG that it needed it's own blog posting! This Sunday we held our biggest sanction tournament yet with 12 Player Slayers!!! Everyone was there to show support for Chris and his quest to become a Friday Night Magic tournament organizer. Now all we need are 4 more sanctioned tourneys and we are good to go! It was an amazing sight yesterday to see the Sub Shack filled to capacity! Tons of great plays and a whole lot of fun! Four rounds of craziness, followed by a quick cut to top 4. This tourney's top 4 was Chris, Clint, Justin, and Aaron. Justin with his Naya Zoo style deck made it into top 2 as well as Aaron with his mono-green Nissa's Chosen deck (now I don't feel so bad for him beating me since he made top 2...hehehe). In the end though it was a decisive victory for the man that traveled all the way from Gainsville to join us. Justin won 2 - 0 against Aaron in the final round! An extra large congrats on this one Justin, for winning our biggest tourney yet!!!
Sorry Gary, you almost had it this time...I have a good feeling about this Sunday though...;-)
Mmmm....Zendikar....
Who let the Goblins out?!?!?!
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