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Grand Prix Washington DC

By ManaNation.com ⋅ January 9, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Print This Post

It seems that there has been a change to the Grand Prix sched­ule from Wiz­ards. We’re still try­ing to track down when the change hap­pened, but what had been ini­tially announced as “Grand Prix Bal­ti­more” has been renamed to “Grand Prix Wash­ing­ton D.C.”

This is likely due to a venue change, and with Wiz­ards push­ing Tour­na­ment Orga­niz­ers to no longer mis-represent the loca­tions of Grand Prixes, a rename had to occur.

The change doesn’t affect any­thing really other than caus­ing peo­ple to update cal­en­dars (such as our Pre­mier Magic Event cal­en­dar.) The for­mat and dates remained unchanged.

For those trav­el­ling to the United States from else­where in the world, it should be known that Wash­ing­ton state (where Wiz­ards is head­quar­tered) is dif­fer­ent than Wash­ing­ton D.C., the lat­ter being our nation’s cap­i­tal on the east coast of the coun­try. From which Bal­ti­more is only a few miles away from.

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Comments

  1. Yeah, Bal­ti­more isn’t too far… but for those of us in Bal­ti­more who were excited to have a GP ~10 min­utes from our houses, it’s dis­ap­point­ing to have it changed to a 45–60 minute drive. I don’t think I would have cared if it had orig­i­nally been announced as GP DC, but the fact that they changed it AND made no men­tion of the change (appar­ently expected no one to notice) is what really ruf­fles my feathers.

    C’mon Wiz­ards, at least respect our intel­li­gence enough to expect us to notice when things are changed. It seems really sneaky to go back and change the orig­i­nal announce­ment, as if it were that way the whole time.

    Joey Pasco | January 9, 2010, 4:47 am | #

  2. $200 says GP Toronto won’t be changed to say GP Mis­sis­sauga but it’ll be in Mississauga

    Shatta69 | January 10, 2010, 11:40 am | #

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