Hi all,
- Introduction - While all the world's players sadly gather themselves in circle around the PsychhhhhAtooooog's Tomb, I must tell you about another win of the usual 4C-HulkSmash here in Italy.
On the other hand, we didn't found that his matchups were so bad.
4C-C and all the other forms of control decks are under control when you are playing Hulk, excluding some good build of Slavery.dec.
A lot of our usual StormBased.decs can be doomed with the right amount of Duresses, Counters and Speed, while Aggro not have been a problem with our maindeck configuration
The tourney was an huge one and we gather 90 players this time.
It was a sanctioned one with good prizes as usual. So no proxy allowed.
We have a decent mix of good powered decks and good hate unpowered ones.
REL2 this time because of the lack of an head judge of the appropriate level.
The Top8 is really interesting.
We have a solid equilibrium among the major different archetipes played, with a good preference for playing a deck that can win in an huge turn.
1 Control-Combo ( 4C-HulkSmash! )
3 Pure Combo ( 2 TPS and a 3C-DAR-gon )
2 Aggro-Combo ( 1 StackerMonobrown and 1 Welder-MUD )
2 Aggro-Control ( 1 3C-Control-Madness and an Ru-ControlDenialDeck )
Excluding the pure combo decks, anyone of the other decks can play both the role of definition really well.
These are the Top8 1 Roberto Gallea (Hulk Smash)2 Diego Fasciolo (Tentrix UB)3 Marco Marotta (Welder Mud)4 Mauro Bonino (Divoramondo)5 Davide Foresti (Stacker)6 Maurizio D'Isanto (Chill's Benga Kiodo)7 David Beduzzi (Tentrix UB)8 Ruggero Moroni (Madness URG)Despite the final results, these are the
Final Standings after the last swiss' round - - Are Unpowered Decks[/b]
1) Davide Foresti ( StackerMonobrown )
2) Maurizio D'Isanto ( RU-AggroControl )
3) David Beduzzi ( UB-TPS )
4) Ruggero Moroni ( 3C-Control-Madness )
5) Marco Marotta ( Welder-MUD )
6) Diego Fasciolo ( UB-TPS )
7) Mauro Bonino ( 3C-DARgon )
8) Roberto Gallea ( 4C-HulkSmash! )
9 Andrea Giorgini (MW-Slaver)y
10 Giampiero Ronzo (MW-Slavery)
11 Marco Monfrini (UB-TPS)
12 Andrea Cipriani (3C-DARgon)*
13 Marco Leoni (WelderMud)
14 Ivan Lancini (MW-Slavery)
15 Dario De Palma (3C-DARgon)*
16 Claudio Bianchini (GayRed)*
17 Mattia Busato (3C-DARgon)
18 Dario Villa (StackerMonobrown)
19 Enea Salvaderi (MW-Slavery)
20 Francis Husson (St4ck$)
21 Alessandro Fava (3C-DARgon)
22 Lucio Castaldini (4C-Control)
23 Boris Piasentà (Food Chain Goblin)
24 Michele Balducci (StackerMonobrown)
25 Giacomo Mallamaci (M&M'S)
26 Andrea Garella (UB-TPS)
27 Alessandro Cappellini (Food Chain Goblin)*
28 Jonathan Sepolvere (GroAtog)
29 Alberto Ferloni (4C-Hulk Smash)
30 Marco Esposito (5C-Affinity)
31 Luca Chiassoni (3C-DARgon)*
32 Walter Zarà (3C-Control-Madness)
33 Luca Dal Secco (Keeper)
34 Stefano Vera (RG-Aggro-Madness)
35 Lorenzo Racchetti (URG-AggroThreshold)*
36 Yann Levet (StackerMonobrown)
37 Matteo Scataglini (Sligh)*
38 Davide Scorza (4C-Hulk Smash)
39 Tiziano Tassi (Ponza)*
40 Damien Levet (UB-TPS)
41 Giorgio Riccò (3C-TPS)
42 Pietro Cavalletti (UB-TPS)
43 Danilo Benvenuti (UR-Landstill)
44 Stefano Oppizzi (Keeper)
45 Daniele Villa (RG-Aggro-Madness)*
46 Maicol Beltrame (Elf.dec)*
47 Daniele Zubiani (Kobold Tendril)*
48 Daniele Chiucchi (4C-Hulk Smash)
49 Alfredo Casiraghi (MW-Slavery)
50 Matteo Cirigliano (GayRed)*
51 Germano Restori (WW)*
52 Roberto Sartini (GayRed)*
53 Fausto Michelotti (RG-Beatz)*
54 Marco De Rossi (Stacker-Metal+Staff.Combo)
55 Cristian Zambonini (???)
56 Francesco Sangregorio (StackerMonobrown)
57 Davide Bussola (GoBBo)*
58 Andrea Mauro Preda (Sligh)*
59 Riccardo Protasoni (WW)*
60 Marcello Boiardi (FishMonoU)*
61 Daniele Fabbretti (4C-TPS)
62 Cai Kai (Sligh)*
63 Paolo Bosi (GayRed)*
64 Nicolò Mazzucco (St4ck$)
65 Andrea Milano (Sligh)*
66 Giorgio Colombo (Sligh)*
67 Federico Gazzotti (4C-Hulk Smash)
68 Francesco Calcatelli (GAy-Red)
69 Nicola Landoni (3C-DARgon)*
70 Roberto Mandotti (StackerMonobrown)*
71 Riccardo Bandera (WW)*
72 Domenico Chionetti (4C-Hulk Smash)
73 Alessio Piccinini (Elf.dec)*
74 Enrico Dumas (Keeper)
75 Federico Chirichelli (4C-Hulk Smash)
76 Sergio Mascanzoni (RB-Vampire.dec)*
77 Alessandro Navone (UG-Oath)*
78 Marcello Gentili (MonoU)*
79 Carlo Feragotto (4C-Hulk Smash)*
80 Alessio Prolongo (4C.TPS)
81 Giuseppe De Luca (4C-Hulk Smash)
82 Giovanni Michelotti (UB-ScepterControl)*
83 Gianmario Cormacchia (RG-Beatz)*
84 Giordano Cerri (???)
85 Nicola Bertolazzo (Fluctuator.dec)*
86 Michele Mori (SuicideBlack)*
87 Nicholas Chiozza (WW)*
88 Giovanni Marino (SuicideBlack)
89 Matteo Turri (UWB.Aggro-Vampire.dec)*
- Unpowered Decks
In the Top8s, these are the matches through the finals
Quaterfinals
StackerMonoBrown vs. 4C-HulkSmash! @@@>> 4C-HulkSmash! Won 2-0
3C-ControlMadness Vs. WelderMUD @@@>> WelderMUD Won 2-1
RU-AggroControl Vs. 3C-DARgon @@@>> 3C-DARgon Won 2-0
UB-TPS Vs. UB-TPS @@@>> OMG!!! WHO could have won!!! 
Semifinals
4C-HulkSmash! Vs. WelderMUD @@@>> 4C-HulkSmash! Won 2-1
UB-TPS Vs. 3C-DARgon @@@>> UB-TPS Won 2-0
Finals
4C-HulkSmash! Vs. UB-TPS @@@>> 4C-HulkSmash! Won 2-0
As usual we made some cheap statistics:
Metagame Rate
Control 37%
Combo 23%
Aggo 40%
Powered/Unpowered Rate
58% vs. 42%
MoOoOOoOOore Statistics!!!!
4C-Hulk-Smash! - ********* (1°-29°-38°-48°-67°-72°-75°-79°-81°)
3C-DARgon - ******* (4°-12°-15°-17°-21°-31°-69°-69°)
UB-TPS - ***** (2°-7°-11°-26°-40°-42°)
StackerMonoBrown - ***** (5°-18°-24°-36°-56°-70°)
MW-Slavery - ***** (9°-10°-14°-19°-49°)
Sligh - ***** (37°-58°-62°-65°-66°)
GayRed - **** (16°-50°-63°-68°)
4C-Control - **** (22°-33°-44°-74°)
WW - **** (51°-59°-71°-87°)
WTFAreYouPlaying.dec - *** (35°-76°-89°)
Welder-MUD - ** (3°-13°)
3C-Control-Madness - ** (4°-34°)
$t4k$ - ** (20°-64°)
Food Chain Goblin - ** (23°-27°)
RB-AggroMadness - ** (34°-42°)
Elf.dec - ** (46°-73°)
RG-Beatz - ** (53°-83°)
Unknown Lists - ** (55°-84°)
4C-TPS - ** (66°-80°)
SuicideBlack - ** (86°-88°)
RU-AggroControl - * (5°)
UG-AggroControl - * (25°)
GroATog - * (28°)
5C-Affinity - * (30°)
Ponza - * (39°)
3C-TPS - * (41°)
UR-Landstill - * (43°)
Kobold-Tendrils - * (47°)
Stacker-ComboStaff - * (54°)
GoBBo - * (57°)
FishMonoU - * (60°)
UG-Oath - * (77°)
MonoU - * (78°)
UB-ScepterControl - * (82°)
Fluctator.dec - * (85°)
This type of division can easily show you which are the most efficient archetypes and the different results compared with the final positions.
If you look at the different position in the final classific you can realize HOW MUCH an unpowered deck poorly perform if compared to a powered one.
Now I divided them into play categories to underline the different deck-power-level among them
Control-Combo
4C-Hulk-Smash! - ********* (1°-29°-38°-48°-67°-72°-75°-79°-81°)
MW-Slavery - ***** (9°-10°-14°-19°-49°)
Welder-MUD - ** (3°-13°)
$t4k$ - ** (20°-64°)
Stacker-ComboStaff - * (54°)
Combo
3C-DARgon - ******* (4°-12°-15°-17°-21°-31°-69°-69°)
UB-TPS - ***** (2°-7°-11°-26°-40°-42°)
4C-TPS - ** (66°-80°)
3C-TPS - * (41°)
Kobold-Tendrils - * (47°)
Fluctator.dec - * (85°)
Aggro-Combo
StackerMonoBrown - ***** (8°-18°-24°-36°-56°-70°)
Food Chain Goblin - ** (23°-27°)
Elf.dec - ** (46°-73°)
5C-Affinity - * (30°)
Aggro
Sligh - ***** (37°-58°-62°-65°-66°)
WW - **** (51°-59°-71°-87°)
WTFAreYouPlaying.dec - *** (35°-76°-89°)
RB-AggroMadness - ** (34°-42°)
RG-Beatz - ** (53°-83°)
SuicideBlack - ** (86°-88°)
Ponza - * (39°)
GoBBo - * (57°)
Aggro-Control
GayRed - **** (16°-50°-63°-68°)
3C-Control-Madness - ** (4°-34°)
GroATog - * (28°)
RU-AggroControl - * (5°)
UG-AggroControl - * (25°)
FishMonoU - * (60°)
Control
4C-Control - **** (22°-33°-44°-74°)
UR-Landstill - * (43°)
UG-Oath - * (77°)
MonoU - * (78°)
UB-ScepterControl - * (82°)
Unknown Lists - ** (55°-84°)
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This is all for now, but I think that a lot of talk could be done about these results. 
What do you think?
MAxxMAtt
