April 13, 2025
Present: Alvaro (Mordakai), Bruno (Bruce), Ethan (DamienX207), Felipe (fisilva1), Marc (sarma72), Miguel (Siraynad), Ralph (Goblin King)
1. Welcome!
2. Review of agenda
3. Committee reports
a. Rules Committee – Ethan (organizer), Bruno, Felipe, Miguel
i. Committee report – We’ve been setting up our new discussion board, which took a bit longer than expected but we’re all set now and excited to really start digging in. We’ve also been talking about the back-end development of an official card-by-card database.
- TASK: Continue developing plan for card-by-card rulings and digests.
- TASK: Continue discussing whether certain cards/alignments are overpowered in the current tournament environment.
b. Organized Play Committee – Ralph (organizer), Marc, Miguel
i. Committee report – We’ve been discussing how to allow tournament coordinators to participate in tournaments while avoiding conflicts of interest when rules disagreements arise. We’ve also created a timeline for upcoming tournaments and we’re developing an online ranking database.
- PREVIOUS TASK: Review CoE Tournament Policies to ensure that they are upheld for all CoE-sanctioned tournaments moving forward. – DONE!
- PREVIOUS TASK: Create plan for 2025 tournament timeline and structures, including in-person Worlds and Online Worlds. – DONE!
iii. Council discussion about potential updates to CoE Tournament Policies
- Round times – The consensus is that the default round time for online tournaments like Online Worlds should remain at 2 hours until further research is done, but in the meantime tournament coordinators can be encouraged to extend the default time to 3 hours if their tournament is geared toward newer players. And paired players are also free to agree on a longer round time before their game begins!
- Mulligans – Historically ICE/CoE didn’t allow mulligans (i.e. shuffling a bad starting hand and drawing a new one), but we would like to consider whether this should be changed for sanctioned tournaments.
- Allowing spectators – The consensus is that we shall continue to allow spectators for online tournaments, but revisit whether to allow for Online Worlds.
v. Council discussion about developing an official ranking database that includes all sanctioned tournaments
- TASK: Reach out to wider community about our members hosting their own CoE-sanctioned tournaments.
- TASK: Continue development of online CoE ranking database.
- TASK: Develop potential mulligan poll with more background information, pros/cons, etc., and send back to Council to review.
- TASK: If necessary, develop potential round time poll with more background information, more objective language, pros/cons, etc., and send back to Council to review.
- TASK: Discuss pros/cons of spectating being allowed for Online Worlds and report back to Council.
c. Public Relations Committee – Alvaro (organizer), Felipe
i. Committee report – We have transferred administrator privileges for the CoE homepage and forum. We also met with thenamelessthing about his proposal to help with moderation of the MeCCG Discord channel, and potential integrations with the forum.
- PREVIOUS TASK: Contact Kodi to discuss moderation of forum moving forward. – DONE!
- PREVIOUS TASK: Meet with thenamelessthing about his idea to have the CoE assist with moderation of the MeCCG Discord server. – DONE!
- TASK: Move forward with Discord!
d. Game Promotions – Ralph (organizer), Alvaro, Ethan, Marc
i. Committee report – We’ve been discussing options for proxies, best ways to make proxies accessible online, video ideas, and traveling to more in-person events to spread the word! We also reached out to the Dream Card team. A few more ideas were brainstormed during this meeting, such as having regular teaching times for new players, and/or revamping the global player base map.
- PREVIOUS TASK: Reach out to Dream Card team to discuss their current plans and support needs. – DONE!
- TASK: Continue discussing global outreach efforts.
- TASK: Discuss idea to have regular teaching times for new players.
- TASK: Discuss updating or revamping the global player base map.
e. Web-Based Initiatives – Bruno (organizer), Ethan, Alvaro
i. Committee report – We contacted Kodi about Italian localization of play platform, and we’re still looking at how best to proceed for website.
- TASK: Continue discussing how to create translated versions of as many web-based resources as possible (e.g. the new CoE tournament rulebook, the CoE website, etc.).
f. Administrative – Bruno (organizer), Felipe
i. Committee report – We discussed how to finance CoE initiatives (tournament fees, prizes, etc.), but the concern is that we don’t have the infrastructure to handle money as an organization. Instead, the consensus is that we should encourage individual tournament organizers to do their own fundraising when necessary.
- PREVIOUS TASK: Discuss how to finance CoE initiatives. – DONE!
5. Adjourn
Next meeting: June 2025