If you've never heard of Legend of the Five Rings, it's a collectable-card-game (think M:tG) based roughly on a medievil orient (mostly Japan). The name comes from the classic "Book of the Five Rings", which, pardon my lack of history knowledge, as far as I know predates even the ancient Greek Olympics. Each of the rings represents an element: Fire, Water, Air, Earth, and Void. Logically enough, the logo, used to advertise the game and on the back of the cards, was one of five interlocking rings, arranged in a kind of flower pattern (imagine each of the rings as having its center at the point of an invisible pentagram).
At some point, this fact got the US Olympic Committee majorly pissed.
Since then, they've got the makers of the game (which since then has been bought out and transferred over into mega-gamesters Wizards of the Coast) to change the logo used on boxes and advertising to a "five coins" type of design. This was kinda annoying, but of no major consequence. The thing is, they've kept going, and they're trying to get the logos on the backs of the cards changed. This would obviously be a major problem. Imagine playing poker in a game where most of the cards are red-backed, with the exception of Queens and up, which have blue backs. This would lead to all sorts of problems with marked cards. As it stands now, it looks like WotC might give in, and this is making a lot of fans of the games really angry.
So remember, just because you don't call it Olympic, heck, even if it doesn't have anything to do with the olympics, doesn't mean you're safe.
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At some point, this fact got the US Olympic Committee majorly pissed.
Since then, they've got the makers of the game (which since then has been bought out and transferred over into mega-gamesters Wizards of the Coast) to change the logo used on boxes and advertising to a "five coins" type of design. This was kinda annoying, but of no major consequence. The thing is, they've kept going, and they're trying to get the logos on the backs of the cards changed. This would obviously be a major problem. Imagine playing poker in a game where most of the cards are red-backed, with the exception of Queens and up, which have blue backs. This would lead to all sorts of problems with marked cards. As it stands now, it looks like WotC might give in, and this is making a lot of fans of the games really angry.
So remember, just because you don't call it Olympic, heck, even if it doesn't have anything to do with the olympics, doesn't mean you're safe.
Ikura
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