The Canadian Old School communities’ organizers hosted the very first Boreal Community Cup: a one-day webcam event on February 6. 

70 players from across the world battled for their community using the Boreal ruleset, effectively 4-Strip-Mine Atlantic. Thanks to the players and donors, the event raised $1,905 for Jeunesse au soleil (Sun Youth). And an especially big thanks to our judges, David Lachance-Poitras and Robert Hinrichsen, who put in a lot of work to make sure the event didn’t go too off the rails.

A look at some participants’ place space during the Capital Chaos Online Championships.

We did it! We hosted 33 Old School magicians for a one-day, 6-round webcam tournament. We sent $350 to the Ottawa Food Bank, earmarked for COVID-19 relief.

We really appreciate those who took the time to play in the event as we adjust to our new normal.

I can’t say the event went without hiccups. We were planning on using Wizards’ event software and it turns out some features were locked, so we scrambled to find a solution before the tournament started. Between that, and a few technical difficulties as people got used to their setups, we had a late start. Thank you for not giving us too much of a hard time about it.

We had a smaller contingent this week of 11 people as colds and flu ravaged players and even our original venue.

We played at a different Royal Oak location commonly used by Commander players so we were in good company of other Magic brothers and sisters.

We had a small, but mighty showing of 12 people with one newbie joining us.

Some players went from brews to their faithful decks, while others did the opposite.

We had 12 people join us so close to Christmas holidays.

We saw some spice come to play this month with a few typically mono-color players including a second color.