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Unofficial ASL Products | |
| Kansas City Irregular ASLers | ||
| Scenario Packs | ||
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| Producer Name: Kansas City Irregular ASLers |
| Country of Origin: United States |
| Still Active?: Yes |
| Commentary: Over the years,
a number of producers of ASL materials have emerged from the ASL
tournament scene. Tournament organizers create scenarios or other
products for their tournaments, then later decide to release such items
more widely, often to help support the tournament. The Kansas City
Irregular ASLers became one of the most recent such producers when in 2007
they released a "Pusan Perimeter" scenario pack in limited numbers for
attendees at the March Madness tournament in Kansas City, Kansas. The March Madness tournament was famous in the 1990s for giving attendees great ASL tchatkes ranging from personalized leader counters to rare scenario packs (thanks to its association with third party ASL publisher Kinetic Energy); the Kansas City Irregulars seem interested in reviving this tradition (announcing more scenarios to be released at their 2008 tournament). The main people behind the tournament (and thus presumably any related ASL products) seem to be Dan Best, Paul Works, and Tom Meier. |
| Title: Pusan Perimeter Pack: Korean War ASL Teaser | |||||||
| Publisher/Date: Kansas City Irregular ASLers (2007) | Product Type: Scenario Pack | ||||||
| Contents: 6 scenario, rules pages, divider, 4 1950 bazooka counters | |||||||
| Country of Origin: United States | |||||||
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Commentary: Perhaps the most unexpected and unheralded ASL release in 2007 was the Pusan Perimeter Pack, a boutique item created by the so-called Kansas City Irregular ASLers for attendees at the 2007 March Madness ASL Tournament in Kansas City, Kansas. In the 1990s, this tournament was well known for giving out exciting ASL items to tourney attendees, thanks largely to its relationship with third party publisher Kinetic Energy. The Pusan Perimeter Pack seems to have been an effort to recreate this excitement, though the minimal prior announcements about the pack means that it might not have attracted many additional attendees. Most people in the ASL community only heard about the existence of this item months after the tournament when a copy of the pack was offered for sale on E-bay. The publisher claims that only 50 (numbered) copies of the pack were produced, a claim that, if true, would make the Pusan Perimeter Pack one of the rarer and more collectible ASL items. The six scenarios are all set along the Pusan Perimeter (the last-ditch defensive perimeter held by the US and South Koreans following the North Korean invasion until they broke out of the perimeter in the wake of the Inchon invasion) from July through September 1950. They appear to be tournament-sized scenarios. Because the pack is billed as a "teaser" (presumably for the long-in-the-works Korean War ASL module), it is not clear if the scenarios were fully playtested.
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