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Jay Coffman Memorial Tournament

By ManaNation.com ⋅ October 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅ Print This Post

Ben­nie Smith, in his col­umn on StarCi­tyGames announced the fol­low­ing tour­na­ment infor­ma­tion. Though Man­a­Na­tion had no direct con­tact with Jay Coff­man we felt it only right to reprint this infor­ma­tion in hopes of spread­ing the word and increas­ing the memo­r­ial tournament’s atten­dance to honor a lost mem­ber of our community.

The Jay Coff­man Memo­r­ial Tour­na­ment — Novem­ber 22nd

I wanted to alert you to a very spe­cial Magic tour­na­ment next month in Rich­mond, Vir­ginia. Last year the Magic com­mu­nity lost one of its bright­est when Jay Coff­man suc­cumbed to can­cer after bat­tling the dis­ease for nearly a decade. Jay was a huge fan of Magic and played from its very first days and con­tin­ued until his ill­ness made it impos­si­ble. He was a deck­builder at heart and loved com­ing up with new and inter­est­ing ideas to sur­prise peo­ple at tour­na­ments. He was hugely instru­men­tal in pop­u­lar­iz­ing the Vin­tage (Type 1) Magic scene as part of a group of inno­va­tors based out of Rich­mond, which helped spawn the Star City Power Nine tour­na­ment series that began right here in Rich­mond. Jay appeared in Star City’s online cov­er­age of one event (I believe the third Power 9 tour­na­ment), where his bru­tal “Stax 5/3 Hybrid” deck took him to a 2nd place finish:

Top 8 Pro­files, by Ben­nie Smith
Quar­ter­fi­nals Roundup, by Ted Knut­son
Semi­fi­nals: Rocky McCum­bee vs. Jay Coff­man, by Jim Fer­raiolo
Finals: Jay Coff­man vs. Eric Miller, by Ted Knutson

Sun­day, Novem­ber 22nd Rich­mond Comix in con­junc­tion with the VAComi­con are going to cel­e­brate our friend by hold­ing a Magic tour­na­ment to ben­e­fit the Massey Can­cer Research Cen­ter at MCV, the peo­ple respon­si­ble for giv­ing us extra years with Jay. There’s going to be a ton of spe­cial prizes and all pro­ceeds will go to a very wor­thy cause.

Here’s the link to the details on Jay’s tournament.

If you’re in the area, I hope you’ll find the time to come out play some Magic in Jay’s honor!

Orig­i­nally posted in Ben­nie Smith’s “You Lika the Juice?” on 10/23/09 — link

Some infor­ma­tion taken from the link that Ben­nie directs peo­ple to for fur­ther information.

Where: Crowne Plaza hotel in Rich­mond VA
When: Sun­day Novem­ber 22nd. Reg­is­tra­tion open at 10am. Rounds begin at 11am.
How much: $25
For­mat: Stan­dard

Comments

  1. Hey guys, I really appre­ci­ate y’all spread­ing the word!!

    –Ben­nie

    Bennie | October 23, 2009, 6:21 pm | #

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