Friday, November 6th, 2009
  
   

Recognizing Our International Players
By Brian Weeks

The Star Wars TCG and the IDC has fans from around the world. We've known this for years, but never knew from where. Well...now we do.

Thanks to a new website counter called Clustrmaps, we can now see where all of our visitors to the website come from. You can see this new counter at the bottom of the main page (or below).

Locations of visitors to this page

And, in addition to this counter, I have now added something new to the website: webpage translation. I've been wanting to add this feature to our website since the beginning of the IDC and now it's finally here. The technology is finally reliable and easy to install (and available for free through Google). This tool will be on every page throughout the site and should prove to be a great tool for all of our non-English speaking visitors. You can find this tool on the top menu for the website.

So, in closing, thanks to all of our fans the world over. I hope you enjoy the site update and thanks for sticking with the IDC!

Here's a few of our friends who have been keeping the game alive. Thanks! Email me any more "friends" of the IDC.

Thoughts or comments? Visit the message board thread for this article here.

About the Author
Brian Weeks (aka Skywlkr) has been playing the Star Wars TCG since its introduction at Celebration 2 in 2002. After playing the demo game and introducing it to RedneckJedi and Darthwalls, Team 'Dude Where's My Card' was created. He competed in three qualifiers, yet the closest he ever ranked was eighth. As a member on Rebelbasers, SWDuelist and a writer for the now defunct Diehard Online, he has tried to promote the game through information and interaction.

He is married, has a six year old son, is an architect, has been the Treasurer and Newsletter Editor for eight years for JediOKC (an Oklahoma City based Star Wars Fan Club), was the IDC Card Development Chairperson for Fall of the Republic and is now the IDC Public Affairs Chairperson. Despite all that, he still has time to introduce the game to new players…KEEP THE GAME ALIVE.

    
     
         

 
 
 


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