New Jersey Old School MTG

Wowza! What a weekend. Another Chit Chat Challenge World Champs is in the books! Somewhere between a peaceful lakeside retreat and an unregulated cardboard asylum, eleven brave souls gathered for the Chit Chat World Championship, a high-stakes, low-sanity celebration of Old School Magic: The Gathering. This was a great gathering, one that ol' Dicky G would be proud of.  The rules were simple: Play ATL ’93-’94 Magic. Talk trash. Don’t drop your cards into the lake. Wait your turn for the poop canoe. There are no bathrooms at the CCCWC so we had to take a canoe and row out into the water far enough to pee/poo. If you zoom in a little, you can see Jordan paddling his way back. There were lots of beers being drunk, so there was always a small line for the canoe. The Attenders: Parker – The dedicated host. Declared “it’s just for fun” moments before playing turn-one Library of Alexandria. Amy  – The LORD OF THE SMOKE PIT, the grillmeister, she made everyone feel at home, and made s...

  PREPARE FOR A REAL BLOODBATH OF TRUE  OLD SCHOOL MAGIC THE GATHERING TITANS! ITS  FIRST TIME ANNOUNCED PUBLICLY! The Chit Chat Challenge is an invitation-only, underground world championship for players of Old School 93-94 Magic: The Gathering, held once per year at a secret location. Known only to a tight-knit circle of Magic veterans and serious collectors, the event is as much a ritual as it is a competition — a homage to the origins of Magic, where skill, bluffing, and nostalgia collide. First held in 2000, the Chit Chat Challenge began as a private gathering of Magic veterans — former Pro Tour players, early collectors, and those who had never stopped playing with Alpha through fallen empires. Over the years, it grew into a full-fledged invitational with its own mythos, whispered about in old forums, collector Discords, and at GP afterparties. Its location rotates yearly, with venues ranging from candle-lit wine cellars in Vienna to dusty libraries in the Midwest. ...