Richard Sponholz and James Easteppe are joined by a very special guest, a founding member of New England Old School scene and prolific Old School tournament organizer, Dave Firth Bard. We talk about his history with the game, the growth and cultivation of the New England Old School scene, and most importantly in 2020, webcam Magic, as well as the recent LobsterCom webcam OS tournament he hosted. Can we finish the episode before James drinks himself into a stupor? No, but we can make it sound that way through the magic of editing!





00:00:00 Intro

00:02:00 Dave’s history with Magic

00:07:55 Discussing and loving ante, and “40k”

00:12:48 Webcam tournaments

00:17:55 The origins of NEOS, and the growth of the national OS scene

00:24:25 Southeastern OS scene, James’ history of verbally abusing Rich

00:27:10 The origins of Dave as tournament organizer

00:30:00 No one likes Worchester, MA

00:36:45 Dave recaps the webcam OS of 2020 (it is a lot)

00:45:40 LobsterCom 2020

00:46:00 The friday night boil

00:47:45 “7/11”

00:53:10 Beasts Old School 1.5

00:56:32 LobsterCom 2020 and Atlantic OS

01:02:20 The story of Atlantic OS and its philosophy

01:10:15 Worst sushi joint ever, and DFB and Rich finally meet

01:12:30 Workshop in Atlantic

01:18:50 Hymn and The Rack are good Magic cards

01:22:05 Drunk James talks about blue again

01:23:40 The Lightning Ball – EC Rules OS 11/21/2020, 4pm EST

01:24:45 James doesn’t know how time zones work

01:28:40 Closing thoughts

01:33:00 Outro

Total runtime: 01:33:31