#SaturdayStorytime - The first of many In honor of the upcoming rogueinvitational I’m going to tell a couple stories from the inaugural Invitational in 2019. This year was the sanctional qualification system and the invitational offered higher prize money than any other competitions around. It took place in June so athletes who were already qualified were excited to use it as a tune up comp and because of how many people had qualified at the time you could earn a games spot with basically a top 10 finish in the field. When they were firing this up and looking for interest some agents and managers were talking to athletes and it got pitched as this: “2 day comp for 50k, not a beat down, more of a showcase”. For a 2 day comp you don’t need as big of a prep phase because there’s less volume. No brainer. Yes across the board. More on that later… (this is what we call foreshadowing.) I was in good shape in 2019 and had been beating on basically anyone who stepped up to the plate other than ...