The Ambition's Debt pre-release seems to have been a success. There were 128 Stronghold stores in North America that participated, and from the reports coming in, they all seem to have had a fairly decent turnout. Of course, there were some adventures in getting everyone everything on time, but that's part of the challenge of pre-release tournaments.

At the Y2C party, we had a total of 44 eight-person Ambition's Debt tournaments. At the start of the day (10am) we had over 160 people for the first round of those tournaments. As soon as people started getting knocked out of the first tournaments, we rounded them up into new groups and let them start the next tournament. Each player was allowed to play in three tournaments if they wanted so that they all had the chance to get one of each of the decks. We kept prizes simple for these tournaments, an Ambition's Debt poster to the winner, along with 10 picks from the "Box of Greed", and 5 picks from the box for the second place player.

Knowing that L5R players never go to even a sealed deck tournament without their cards, we also ran a mostly impromptu constructed deck tournament at 3:00pm. 64 players signed up and played to win the grand prize of an original piece of L5R art (donated by AEG, thanks!) from Imperial Edition - Dragon Helm by William O'Conner.

Since the tournament was single elimination, we decided that consolation prizes were in order. The people that got knocked out in the first round were allowed to draw three cards from the Box of Greed and received one of the generic booster packs of cards from Obsidian and ToV We added to that for each round, until we got to the final round, by which time the players got a rather nice handful of loot. Everyone seemed to enjoy this method of "rewards" so expect to see it make another appearance at conventions that we are at.

The Y2C event was, all in all, a lot of fun, with players coming in costume, and a lot of good competition on the card tables. AEG also ran some Clan War demonstrations, and at least one session of the RPG was run. Sensei Tony Kull and some students (including Dave Williams) did a kenjitsu demonstration that was very cool to watch, and of course, the evening finished off with Power Play Productions LARP, which was very well attended. Thanks to everyone who worked hard to make it a good event (Michael Brooks, Kim Gorsuch, David Wilson, Michael Wypzinski, and the rest of the Andon staff, Tess Zachary of PowerPlay Productions, and everyone from AEG ) and to all of the players who came and made it so much fun!

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