New Rules Team

This is a little late but it is worth mention. The new rules team is as follows

Doruk Özaydın
Alexander Lewis Jones
Brook Cunningham
Loïc Hervier

Departing the rules team is

Chris Fuchs

The official announcement can be found here.

Race Points Update

Points have been updated for the Race.

Current Leaders
Military - Scorpion
Economy - Mantis
Politics - Scorpion
Knowledge - Spider
Spirit - Scorpion

With two weeks left there are still the possibility of an upset.

Rules change that affects Soul Jar

A little bit late on catching this, but there's been an official rules change:

Attachments with triggered traits or actions referring to "this Personality" refer to the Personality the card was attached to at the time when the trait was triggered or the action taken. Ongoing effects of such traits or actions do not change their reference if the attachment is later transferred.

The biggest card that this affects is Soul Jar, which could be used to resurrect multiple personalities by transferring it from the original bowed personality to an unbowed personality. The official announcement is here.

Results from Race contests

Todd has posted the results from several of the Race contests that were recently completed:

Koku Submissions

Most Total Koku
Mantis - 25330
Unicorn - 18580
Dragon - 13485

Largest Single Submission
Unicorn - 18000 - Ben Raisher

3000 Koku Bonus Points
Mantis - 8 pts
Unicorn - 6pts
Dragon - 4pts
Crane - 1pt

Personality Send In
Scorpion - 5 pts - Soshi Idaurin
Dragon - 3pts - Mirumoto Chojiro
Spider - 1 pt - Daigotsu Iemitsu

Poster Contest!

Notes on the Contest:
The AEG judges were given the files with no identifying marks on the filename, no Clan listed, no submitter name, etc. Since I was dealing with the files, I did not take part in the voting. After all were voted on the winners broke down as follows. I don't have time right now to post up the posters, but if the winners want to link theirs in this thread that's cool.

SERIOUS
5pts - Adventure –James Freeman-Hargis – Scorpion
4pts - Achievement - Tom Sarachan - Phoenix
3pts - Balance - Nick Grebneff – Scorpion
2pts - L5R Stronghold Store – Matt Tyler - Dragon
1pt - Iaijutsu – Kevin Blake - Crab

HUMOROUS
5pts - Deck Construction - Justin Breugger – Crab
4pts - Ashigaru - Mason Crawford – Spider
3pts - Pinnacle – Julie Ratliff – Mantis
2pts - Dueling – Daniel Bezerra – Dragon
1pt - Daimyo - Jean Phillipe-Davignon – Crane

Honorable Mentions

Knowledge (humorous) – Justin Breugger
We Play Serious L5R Here - Matt Tyler
Gaijin - Kevin Blake

Shosuro Adeiko Errata

The card Shosuro Adeiko has official been errated. Her ability should now read

Reaction: After a battle resolution or another player's trait or action resolves, if its effects destroyed one of your Personalities at Adeiko's location (including Adeiko): Give a target Personality a -3F/-1C token, and an additional -1C token if he is dishonorable.

This becomes effective March 31st. You can find the discussion on the errata here.

Kotei Week 4

And so week 4 is upon us. This weeks line up is

Mount Royal College Calgary, Canada
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Maguire’s Irish Pub and Brewery Saskatoon, Canada

Keep in mind the Canada Kotei's are test of stamina!!!!

For week 5 we have

Budapest, Hungary
Santiago, Chile
Cincinnati, Ohio

Kotei Week 3 Results

Drum roll please .........

Feeding Hills, MA

Military - Danny Schwartz - Unicorn
Farthest Traveled - James Matthews - Phoenix
Best Clan Attire - Benjamin Pattou - Unicorn
Theme Deck - Art Tebbel - Spider
Sportsmanship - Jason Mitchell - Dragon

Also at this event was the soon to be famous Kotei Coterie: Clan Cookie/Cake Contest. The winner of this event would be featured in a future story that was food centric. The winner of this event was Brian Corbin of the Unicorn clan. I am told the cake was fantastic and was made with real horses.

They should have saved me a piece.