Pairings TCG

Players of Pairings TCG:

I won't beat around the bush. This entry marks the time for Pairings to go on indefinite hiatus. This decision was discussed and made yesterday, so that's why it comes so suddenly, but Dan and I agreed that this is for the best right now. There are many reasons why this is happening and I'd rather not disclose them because they are of personal nature, but this is the only solution I can think of right now. We're both very sad and we apologize to players and staffers both for choosing to do this now and quickly, but I don't see the point in keeping things open with a hiatus/closing notice, so that's why all games and services will be stopped immediately. Comments posted to services before this entry will be replied to, but game rounds won't be.

The reason we will reply to services, it's for players to log these in case the game comes back at some point. It is our intention to re-open Pairings in the future because both Dan and I have a lot of attachment to the game and there's still many more decks we'd like to collect (things we donated last release, for example), but there's no date set as of right now (hence the indefinite). I will discourage trading during this hiatus, but if you want to trade, it's not prohibited. I also recommend that you keep your cards in case you're interested in coming back in the future since we agreed that if we re-open, players will be able to keep their cards.

We really thank you for all the support you've given us for the last 3 years and for your constant feedback and interest in our game. I never thought it would last this long, but when we opened, I never thought there would come a day when it would stop either. I must also apologize deeply to players who recently joined: I didn't give you enough time to enjoy my dear game, but we really can't keep it going any longer for now.

As a last comment, I'd like to offer you a non-official/placeholder mastery badge that you can use if you'd like to have some completed decks with something akin to the mastery badge. These "masteries" will be able to be formalized (with the same image or another) if the game re-opens. You may get this template here.

I hope you won't feel to let down and we'll be sure to contact all current players to gauge out interest if/when we get a re-opening date.

Hello Pairings players!

The Christmas games are now closed, though you still have time to ask for your coupon if you played all games. 2015 is filled with new beginnings and Pairings is joining in with a few revamps. Thanks again to the players who gave us suggestions in the latest poll, we've considered lots of them for the new things that are coming.

First off let's kick off with the games: we're planning to have a lineup of 12 weekly games (only 10 will be active at the moment until we decide that to implement for the last 2), 6 biweekly games and 4 monthly games. Rewards for most games have been updated with a few exceptions. Reactions and Word Search will be retired as games and Pick a Pair will come back as a biweekly game. Discussion and Freebies will now be weekly games and Assemble will be on hiatus for a couple of months. There will be a new monthly game introduced towards the end of the month in place of Reactions, Dan and I are quite excited about it! If you have any game ideas that we can implement, you can share them with us!

Now onto services and other stuff: we have increased rewards for all type of donations (images for decks and graphics) but we also introduce an extra perk for players who donate: you may pick up a card from your donated deck from the release on top of your freebies! Trading Achievements rewards have been increased a bit as well as getting an extra card from Singles Claim weekly. We have added a new card pack to the Shop and you may purchase it every two weeks. This summarizes all the changes we have made for the upcoming year, hopefully you'll like them!

Deck donations are currently open and won't be closed until February 1st (though players who donated in December may donate again!) because all donations will go to the February release. Unfortunately due to lots of things going on because of the Holidays and other personal stuff, we didn't get to make a deck release for this month, but we bring you freebies nonetheless! The previous deck release will be open for freebies until February 7th.

You may pick up one card per each letter in HAPPY NEW YEAR. Only one per deck and the card must have the letter somewhere in the filename. You may also pick up 2 special cards, one number 20 and one number 15. These can be different special decks or the same. Please leave a comment with what you take.

Hello players! I have a few announcements to make, first off, due to the low number of donations and also because I'll be travelling on the 9th and I need to make lots of preparations for the trip, the release will be moved to the 13th. This means donations will close on the 8th and players will have until then to donate decks. Besides this we are still low on donations for the current member of Assemble. If you have donated to the deck already but would like to donate one more image, you now can as long as it fits the theme.

I will also like to announce we'll have our usual Christmas event starting on the 15th so look forward to it! I definitely am stoked for the upcoming event :D

On another note I'd like to thank all players who voted for Pairings for the TCG awards in the Spring round! We were awarded the "Best Old TCG" award so thanks a lot! We're really happy that Pairings has been around for so long and we hope we can keep it up until everyone has had their fair share of collecting haha. Even if sometimes things get slow, it's good to have a solid player base and Dan and I are happy to share our happiness with you.



A new round will be done for Winter this year and we have already been nominated for the same category we won in the last round so you can check out the nominees here in case you'd like to check out the other categories and make note of the voting date. We will have a reminder during that time anyway.

On top of that I'd also like to say that right now we're looking for one more mod to join us in the staff, you don't need photoshop dexterity or experience (though some basic html is helpful!) so if you'd be interested in filling the position, shoot me up a private message. Those are pretty much all the announcements right now! I hope you look forward to the event and if you wanted to donate some decks but haven't had the time, you get an extra week to do that!

I'm happy to announce that deck donations are open for real now! On Monday I completely forgot, I'm sorry. Besides that I'd like to remind all players who are participating in the Halloween event that they will have a chance to play the games until Saturday since all games close on November 8th.

We have 6 more leftover spots over at Assemble 25! If you haven't donated to this round yet, you are invited to do so! If you have already donated, you may donate another image. You would get rewards for both of them but you'd only be able to pick one of the two from the upcoming deck release.

We're pretty stoked to announce that Pairings TCG has been nominated in several categories on the 2014 TCG awards weeee!! To whoever nominated us a big THANK YOU! We're very excited to be a part of the TCG world and that players recognize our work and enjoy our game. We were nominated last year but the awards were never finished because Christina had to go on a hiatus so we're excited that this year we get to appear too.



So you can check out the nominees here and you can vote here!. You may want to check some of these TCG out as well if you desire to do so! You can start sending your votes in if you enjoy Pairings and want others to know about us! Voting will close on May 25.

The activity check was done in the last few days and today all members with no updates after February 1st have been moved to the inactive list. The next activity check will be 2 more months from now and hopefully we'll be able to keep it on schedule. Messages were sent to all the members who were moved to inactive list so they know what they can do to change their player status.

During this activity check though, we noticed that some players do not have their logs linked in their main posts and I'd like to request to all these members to add a link to their logs since sometimes it took a lot of clicking to check whether card post was updated or not and so on. Also, please keep in mind that DATES AND GAME/SERVICE NAMES NEED TO BE ADDED TO THE LOGS!! If you hadn't been including these before, you don't have to go back and edit them in, but it'd be great if you started doing it from now on. Rules on logs may seem too strict, but there are reasons for this and if for any reason cards are lost, a very detailed log can help you.

Also, please remember to apply for information change when you change the place your post is! We find deleted/locked/outdated posts sometimes linked in the members list and it turns out this is not the same one the player is using, I think I updated a couple links for some players, so they may see their new posts in the members list without having to apply to the info and status change post, but please try to remember to do this if you move your posts again!

We still have 10 spots left in the Valentines deck and 5 spots left in the Kiss deck at Assemble 20! If you haven't participated yet, please do, we would like to fill them up with donated images. If by the 27th there are still empty spots, a player who donated for one of decks (either kiss or valentines) will be able to donate a second image to the other deck. Rewards will be given accordingly for the image donation, but the player will have to choose just one of the two cards to pick up from the release.