A full quarter of the field was Fish. Not joking. No wonder that R/G beatz pwned - it played multiple Fish decks in the swiss. It was the first deck in three months to get top 8 without Force of Wills.
It is important to explain that Joe and Travis didn't play out thier finals match.
This was the standings after the swiss:
1. Me
2. John Knight (RG Beatz)
3. Justin Schister (with Fish)
4. Joe Bushman - Tog
5. Craig Seaborn - Fish
6. Travis Hopkins - Super Gro
7. Jason Stinnet - Drain Slaver
8. Kevin Cron - Workshop Slaver
It is important to note that I sent in to Wompy the wrong results. Joe and Travis were in the finals but it was 10:30 before the finals were going to begin - and given that the quarter finals match between me and kevin was over 2 hours, they didn't feel like playing
. Therefore Joe Bushman, by calculation of standings in the Swiss won the tournament. I told Wompy that Travis did - but I was looking at round 4 standings
.
I should mention that this was a very draw heavy tournament. Most matches went to 3 games and in the 2nd round, there were eight players that had draws - all non intentional. This felt more like Chess than Magic.
The field had 2 Drain Slavers, 2 Dragon, 2 Draw7, 1 Workshop Slaver, nearly half a dozen fish, 2 Togs, 1 GAT, and a really nice selection of other decks.
Congrats to joe and travis for winning a very difficult tournament!
Steve
