Current Vintage Teams

[IHESM]

Nice Verhoeven (not to sure if he has account here)

*Nico van der Hoeven, nice typo

No offense, but especially Roy and Hero, alongside myself, have been playing that ever since Leviat posted it, and were winning tournaments with it before you probably even tried it - I would hardly say you put it on the map ^^

Yup, he started playing it after I copied the list Koen (Thug) played in Eindhoven (3rd place finish), and won Castricum with it.

[49 Cents]

I'm not denying that at all, I'm just saying that after I made T8 with it alot, the deck became a lot more known. I'm not trying to 'steal your honor' or something :/

[Dozer]

Team CAB is still out there. We are definitely underrepresented on these boards, concentrating on our Team Boards and a lot of real life instead. The team name is an abbreviation for Creatures Are Bad, which was more or less a consensus pro-tem name and then stuck. We don't really hate creatures. Only small ones (except for Gorilla Shaman and Goblin Welder).

Members:
Kim Kluck
Carsten Kötter
Benjamin Rott
Oliver Daems (of morphling.de fame)
Stefan Iwasienko (Womprax)
Hanno Terbuyken (me)
Lennart Freitag
Michael Wiese
Martin Damen
Maxim Barkman
Peter Matysek

Accomplishments:
Countless T8s and wins in Dülmen, Iserlohn, Moers, and at various other tournaments in Germany. (Honestly, noone keeps track of them.) We have two members in the Top 10 Eternal ranking in Germany, Maxim Barkman (#1, 1923) and Michael Wiese (#5, 1880).

Benny, Kim and Carsten are the major deck creators on the team. Benny created the original TnT, Kim was responsible for the first Drain-Slaver design in Europe, and Carsten has The Shining to credit himself with. We put Exalted Angel in 4cC. Kim and Carsten also were at the forefront of Belcher development when the deck wasn't widely known yet. Team CAB has collaborately developed the "Gifted"-deck as a parallel development to Gifts.fr (Toad is a registered member on our boards, so the connection is close).

How we work/ testing procedure
We communicate via our team boards mostly, but we have been slacking in the past months after the Gifts flurry. Right now, too many team members have too much real life, and we are spread all over Germany. One consequence is that we cannot test in person against each other except for rare occurences, and we rarely meet. A team meeting is in (secret) planning, and I personally expect a lot of good to come out of that. Almost all of our Team members are fully powered, but since power is not a common tournament prize in Germany, our tournament success does not remedy that situation.

We do not test much as a team, since we are located too far away from each other. Not even two team members live in the same city, so you can imagine that most of our collaboration comes from the team message board. Everybody has his own testing partners, and we then discuss results online, and also do some online testing against each other. The contribution of the team to the individual's success is mostly a few cards of tech and some wacky ideas which often work well. Oh, and sideboards, of course. Sideboard discussions are always very frugal, because we have different philosophies in building those.

We are the grandfather of German Vintage teams. We were the first, and we will still be there when all others have withered.

Dozer

[kirdape3]

Out of anybody else, Team CAB is the ones I respect the most.  We've tried working with some of them in the past, and while it didn't work out for various reasons their deckbuilding skills are mostly unquestionable.

[forests failed you]

Jeff "the Samite Healer" Anand has recently joined the ranks of the Vintage Avant-Garde.  Scarves, the Samite Dealer, and the Acronym V.A.G. ;;  Undisputably the pimpest team in Vintage

[Sgt. Pepper]

I really don't know or care that much about teams, but whatever happend to team Shortbus?

[rvs]

I really don't now or care that much about teams, but whatever happend to team Shortbus?

Wow