Tech Talk 40: Post Event Evaluation

 We are very excited for this week's Tech Talk! Vince and Scott had the amazing opportunity to sit down with Drew Nolosco, Brand Manager of the Transformers TCG, and John Schork, PR director of the Transformers TCG, about the newly launched "Organized Play Programs" (In-Store Support) by WOTC, potential future expansion, the current RotC metagame, and then some long conversation about the upcoming Siege: War for Cybertron I set dropping June 28!  Do not miss this exciting interview! 

 Scott and Vince from Tech Talk had a great opportunity to sit down with many members of the WotC Transformers TCG design/brand staff and discuss both the event at Gen Con (recorded on Saturday AM), the design of the game, and the future of the game.  Thanks to the staff for this unique opportunity!  Enjoy!  

Note: Audio is best you can do given the nature of a giant hall at Gen Con 

Drew Nolosco, brand manager of the Transformers TCG, was kind enough to sit down with Scott and Vince of Tech Talk again before his trip to San Diego Comic Con!  We discuss all things Organized Play, and admittedly Drew dodged no difficult questions.  Make sure you check out this honest and exciting conversation! 

Note: there were some technical difficulties around 40-50 in that persisted due to sensitive Mic issues, sorry about that, we did not want to edit out any of the really great content!

Join Scott and VInce as they discuss the recently spoiled Soundwave vs. Blaster product, including its legality at the upcoming Gen Con open, and the SDCC Omnibots!

You can also find the podcast on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcast store..search for Random's Thoughts and Tech Talk!

Since Vince could not attend Origins, he grills Scott on all the happenings that went on there. We go over the amazing performance of the team, including Dan's finals appearance, but most importantly we talk about the effects of the first Energon Open on Organized Play in the Transformers TCG..how it will be affected going forward. Tune in for a great look at the future of OP! 

Second half of the latest Siege Reveals, this time focusing on some really interesting and powerful new Battle Card Reveals!

Vector Sigma begins its full coverage of the Energon Invitational with an EXCLUSIVE interview with John Temple, Marketing Manager of Pastimes (company running the Energon Invitational and all Convention level Transformers TCG Events!)

Lots of Great information in the interview, and see our expanded coverage page for full event schedules, on site interviews, on site deck techs, etc. when the event launches (and before!)

https://vectorsigma.info/origins-2019-event-info

Scott and Vince talk about the recent Siege: War for Cybertron (I) preview cards, including the exciting new Optimus and Megatron! 

We decided to split the latest Podcast into two sections because even with a smaller number of spoilers, they were high impact ones!  First Podcast goes over the Battle Cards (and a discussion on Pierce) and the second is on Characters..let us know if you like the split!

 Due to Scott's Vacation, we had many Siege: War for Cybertron to go over and some other news so we decided to split the podcast into two "more easily digestible podcasts"..for the first one we go over recent Transformers TCG news: the potential information dropping over the summer convention series, the RotC metagame, and some general Wave 3 info.  

Stay tuned later in the week for part two where we go in depth over the new Siege Spoilers!