Part 2 of my tournament report from Riederich, the tournament that was held instead of the Realm Championship Season 5, has been put online now as well.

Read about the Draft as well as my top 8 match that marked the end of my success story this time: Suppe für den soul – Realm Champs tournament report part 2.

Last weekend, the Realm Championship Season 5 took place. Or at least it was supposed to; due to the licensing situation between Upper Deck and Blizzard, no official tournament could be held. Instead, the tournament organizer from Reutlingen, Matthias Jedele, took it into his own hands to run a tournament.

The “inofficial Realm Champs” attracted 53 players and pretty much all of the better German, Swiss and Austrian players showed up (well, OK, only 1 Austrian showed up). I was lucky enough to make it to the tops, but lost in the quarter finals.

You can read a lot more about the tournament in my tournament report that will be published as part of my weekly column (that’s taking a break from its break): Suppe für den soul – Realm Champs tournament report.

Unfortunately, my weekly column Suppe für den soul has to take a break – and I can’t even say for sure how long that break’s gonna be.

I’ve summed up all the reasons in the last article for now: Suppe für den soul – commercial break.

Upper Deck and Blizzard didn’t renew their license agreement. This means that from April on, Upper Deck is no longer allowed to publish the WoW TCG.

What happens next isn’t entirely clear at this point. In my weekly column, I tried to give as much background information of what happened and what might happen next: Suppe für den soul – What now?

This week, I’m talking about how to deal with defeat. The last few qualifier tournaments didn’t really go the way I intended, so it’s about time to look for ways to improve my performance again. And even if you’re not interested in the topic at all, you should like the picture I added!

Suppe für den soul – How to overcome defeat.

The Core format is shaking up the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. Although it took most players some time to get used to the idea of a Best of One format, the acceptance is now ever growing. Part of the reasons are the potential decks that can be built in the new environment.

This issue of my weekly column presents some of the fancier ideas I could come up with, so check it out: Suppe für den soul – Core Crazyness.

Last week’s announcement took most European WoW TCG players by surprise as they didn’t expect this year’s OP schedule to not contain any European DMF’s. However, not everything’s as bad as it seemed at first as European OP reps have now confirmed that there actually will be some DMF’s on this side of the ocean.

That’s still not all. With the introduction of the Core format, Upper Deck pretty much divided the player base with most experienced players thinking that a Best of One format can’t be any good at all. I tried to look a little deeper into the topic and came up with some interesting facts that support Upper Deck’s claim that the format will be good for the game.

Read more in my weekly column: Suppe für den soul – The WoW TCG OP 2010.

Most players that follow up with the current happenings regarding the WoW TCG have about the outcry started by Matt Markoff on the official forums. I felt like reacting to it; while I agree that something needs to be done and that voicing criticism is always a good way of showing the publisher you care, it’s important to do so in the right way. So this is pretty much part 1 of a longer article series that reads pretty much something like:

Suppe für den soul – The Pro Book of Etiquette.

This week’s column takes a closer look at the best cards from Scourgewar – the new World of Warcraft TCG set. Some of them are powerful enough to lead to a change in the metagame, so you better get your playsets of them soon!

Suppe für den soul – Scourgewar Top 10.

Happy new year!

Like I already stated a week ago, I was rather busy last week. So it should come as no surprise that this announcement comes a little late. Anyway, in case you haven’t read my article about the past year, you better check it out right away!

Suppe für den soul – 2009 in Retrospective.