NOW THAT'S AN UPDATE!Hello fellow HEX players, hope your Friday is a great as mineits hard NOT to be happy here at HEX HQ on APPLY SALVE TO YOUR FRIENDS RASHES FRIDAY! as you are aware every Friday we take a little time out to apply healing ointments to our co-workers rashes and flair ups, its not pretty work but the sweet relief is worth it! Jared was kind enough to smear healing goo on my break out... its a bit graphic but I thought you might like to see some pictures...YIKES... now that's a REAL friend...Before we dive into the update, lets roll back the clock to Monday, and the sweet sweet reveal of the MERRY CARAVAN! my absolute favorite of the groups making their way to the Frost Ring Arena. This merry making group is on the way to the tournament (or as long as the party holds their fickle attention), so who exactly makes up this team??? Its... Jovial ring leader Brosi-Buk, degenerate gambler Sir Timophy Turttleton, Queen of the witches Madam Zeota, drug addled Shin-hare philosopher Hap-Ei and the hard rocking best friend duo of Puck and Balthazar! So much fun, this rolling party is going to deliver a good time.. like it or not...now for some art!First up, is Madam Zeota the Queen of the Witches (she sees a party in your future!)then we have or good friend and party master... Brosi!Each group on the way to the big event will need a Herald and Standard Bearer... Carrying the flag of the Merry Caravan is Champion Puff the Rainbow!We also have the assorted merry makers enjoying the traveling bacchanal...like the Verdant Mixologist (Elf Bartender extraordinaire)and the fun loving Cocoon-o-Mancerand finally a better look at Sir Timophy doing what he loves best...Amazing, I love it so much....Now to the update, wow so much to process, yes we are going back to the Frost Ring Arena! the next 4 sets center around a pretty big story we have cooking and we think everyone is going to really enjoy it, we have a bunch of surprises in store and I don't want to spoil them, but yes... there will be a modest update to the PVE element of Frost Ring! Spoiler season is going into effect now and it will be hard charging, we expect this round of spoilers to roll out at a slightly quicker pace then last time, take that for what its worthLadder Sleeve Voting, did you vote? very slight margin between the two sleeves with the gruesome dreamthief in the lead, I guess we could use a little chaos-touched love on the sleeve selections, so its all good!I am so happy we are doing interviews with the community, when we get a chance to hear from someone like Fred and see everything he has done for HEX it really reinforces what I know about this game and the amazing community that supports it, that we are INCREDIBLY lucky. The amount of love and time he has poured into Hex is nothing short of astonishing and the benefit to us at HEX and everyone that plays the game is undeniable. Thank you so MUCH Fred, on a personal level you cannot imagine how much I appreciate everything you have done for the game. And he is right, rather than have the "I think" data driven conversations about the meta being solved or the format being broken, we can look to these tools and have some real facts, Jeff Hoogland calls this fact out frequently and I have to agree with him, its a huge advantage for us as a competitive strategy game.Don't forget about the HEX PRIMAL event coming up, still a little time left to get those qualifying tickets! And on the subject of tournaments, we have some more sponsored events coming up that I am excited to announce soonish!And finally, next week (June 5th) is HEX's official 4th birthday, OMG, simply unreal... it feels like just yesterday and also 100's of years ago we did that Kickstarter... I will have more to say on Monday, but here is a look at the sleeve everyone will get for logging in!So there you have it, big day... with more big days cominglove you all-cory