New Hampshire Tournament 5/16

[Zherbus]

When: Sunday, May 16th, Registration 12 PM - 1 PM

How Much: Entry Fee: TBA

What: Type 1, 10 Proxies Allowed

Prize Structure:TBA

Where:

Myriad Games
8 Stiles Rd.
Salem, NH 03079
1-800-459-5516
www.myriadgames.com

Folks, this will likely be the regular NH event venue. Cividel and Dan came down to NH a while back and discussed the opening of a new store, and here it is. It's a brand new store and best of all it's right at the mass border so it's a quicker ride for many of you.

I'll be there and I hope to see as many of you as possible. As for the prizes, we're working on the structure now but it's looking to be either a pair of drains, a twister, or a workshop depending on the kind of feedback we get.

Any questions, shoot them at me!

Directions from Hadley

Directions from Waterbury, CT

Directions from Boston (38 Minutes!)

[Kowal]

I am _so_ there.

[Eastman]

Directions from Hadley

   We will try to make it up for this Zherbus.

[iamfishman]

Directions from Waterbury, CT

I take this as quite the invite...I will do my best to be there.

 

[Samite Healer]

With lots of luck I will be able to go.  It all depends on the schedule for my final exams.
Edit:  Damnit Jacob, stop posting before me!

[Jacob Orlove]

Bah, I'll be in California by then. Good luck with the event.

[Grand Inquisitor]

This is like 5 minutes from my old stomping grounds.  I'll be there, but I'm calling out big Z ahead of time.  I've taken out Germbus, now I want the guy who cycled 10 damn soldier tokens on my ass!

[Zherbus]

You got it, you and me. Either in the tournament or sidelines grudge style show down. I haven't lost to your Dryads yet and I still run 1 more Decree than I did almost a year ago.

Btw, thanks everyone. I consider it a personal favor to help get this set up.

[Toad]

Considering you didn't put the directions from Paris, I'm assuming you don't want to see the Toad.

  </3

[Pern]

Take a plane to Hadley,
and follow the directions from there.

[Zherbus]

Toad, I put directions from Boston which is where the major airport is!

[Klep]

Toad, I put directions from Boston which is where the major airport is!

Have you ever flown in to Logan?  It's nuts.  It seems like the plane is going to land in the water right up until it doesn't.  I can't blame anyone who doesn't want to fly.  

[Zherbus]

I can provide directions from Manchester airport in NH too... since it's all of 10 minutes from my house.

[nataz]

I think me and a couple of people from Maine are looking to come on down depending on the prize, and how my summer classes are going.

any idea on when the prize structure will be nailed down?

-thanks
Carter

[Zherbus]

I'm still talking to the person holding this one. It's somewhat dependant on entrants, but I think we're going to be well enough off to warrant a Twister or Ruby. I'll post as soon as I know.

[nataz]

That would be awesome, because I know power attracts lots more people then tourneys with similar (but non-power) payout.

After all, wining power = bragging rights

[wuaffiliate]

i hope this becomes an established tourney, id deffinately want to make the trip eventually, its shorter than waterbury .

[Mykeatog]

I do believe that this tournament will be for a piece of power.

Anyone from the boston area want to hook up a tog with some wheels?

[Zherbus]

The way it's looking, there is TWO other conflicting tournaments that were announced AFTER this one. This is especially odd since this is on a SUNDAY, not the normal saturday time most people aim for. I'm really fucking irritated about it and if I were a lesser person, I'd just delete the competing threads.

[ricflair411]

Zerbus I agree with you. I had my tournament scheduled about 2 months before the dscheduled date and a month later another store schedules a tournament for the same day.  It relly sucks because it cuts the attendace in half

[Zherbus]

Here's the official information:

Magic: The Gathering Type 1 Tournament

When: Sunday 16 May, 2004 @ 11:30 AM - 10:00 PM

Where: Myriad Games
8 Stiles Road
Salem, NH 03079  

When?:Sunday, May 16th

Onsite registration will begin at 11:30 AM and Swiss rounds will begin upon completion of registration after 1:00 PM

Entry: $15.00
Prizes

1st Place = Mishra's Workshop (Played)
2nd Place = 2 Mana Drains (Italian)
3rd Place = 2 Dual Lands
4th Place = 1 Dual Land
Best Sport = 1 Dual Land
For less than 32 players, prizes will be apportioned accordingly

Everyone who preregisters will be entered in a drawing for another Dual Land!

Seating is limited to the first 48 players, so be sure to preregister now to reserve your spot.

You may use any major credit card, PayPal (via Myriadgames.com), or cash to preregister. Payments must be received by May 15th to count as preregistration.

You may also preregister by phone by calling 1-800-459-5516 or (603) 681-0355.

There will be beverages and snacks available throughout the day and pizza available in the later afternoon and evening.

To help registration and reporting run more smoothly, please email your deck list to vintage@myriadgames.com and we'll have them printed off for you at the event so you can make any last minute adjustments and confirm them.

Note that if attendance is high enough, the Workshop will be replaced by an Alpha Timetwister. The attendance level is expected as such to be able to support the current prize structure which offers prizes for the T4.

[Kowal]

Ooooooh!  I actually rather want an alpha timetwister.

I know I already said I'm there, but now I'm REALLY there.

[Zherbus]

I just want to reiterate that there will be 10 proxies allowed. Also the prereg link is here

[Myriad Games]

We currently have 20 players preregistered for the Type 1 Tournament tomorrow, so preregister now. Looking forward to a great event!

- Dan Yarrington
  Myriad Games
  8 Stiles Rd.
  Salem, NH 03079
  (603) 681-0355
  1-800-456-5516
  www.myriadgames.com

[Kowal]

This one is just for Zhindel.

So, this thing's happening in like 8.5 hours.  Who's coming?

I am.  Oh yes.  Mwaa haa haa.

[Dr. Sylvan]

***SPEAK NOW UNTO THE TMD ORACLE***

So, this thing's happening in like 8.5 hours.  Who's coming?

TMD ORACLE: "I'm not a player. I'm just a man. Who knows how to play."

[Zherbus]

This was easily the worst magic day ever. I didn't do bad, but I had a migraine from round 3 forward. I had 1 loss (and Kowal and I intentionally drew rnd 3 so we could play goof-off games instead) from some rogue Sundering Titan/Stacker thing that I had no idea played Tanglewire so game 3 (after conceding game 2 really quickly and winning game 1 pretty handily) when I had sided out Decree I was suprised by them.

By the time round 5 was over I had beaten Control Slaver, Gay/r, Suicide, split the mirror, and lost to WorkshopGoodStuff.dec (I really liked this deck, I need to bug GI for a list) but had the ever-present migraine which developed into nausia. I was waiting for rnd 6 to start, but the longer I waited between going outside for air and coming back in to sit, I grew more ill. I waited to see my pairings and was paired against Dan Richardson (Pernacious Dude). I hoped it would go fast and it did.

Game 1 he ate 3 of my 4 mana over the course of the early game. I fight back vomiting. The game lasted a long time but I just missed too many land drops and he did a fine job of killing the few I did play. I fight back vomiting. Game 2 I drew 7 blue cards, no lands so it's thrown back, I draw 6 with 1 land but lots of cheap stuff. I fight back vomiting. I have the 1 land while he plays his deck freely. I fight back vomiting. I decide I don't care I just want to go home. Dan is an excellent guy and player, I knew he'd be able to actually play the t8 while I would just fight back vomiting. Not waiting to see if I'd draw into mana after like turn 4, I concede. I fight back vomiting.

I leave rather quickly, since I was about to yak. Tyler and I speed back to Manchester and I drop him off. I fight back vomiting. I drive back home. I fight back vomiting. I get home and puke. I lay down. I get up and puke. I lay back down and sleep for 3 hours. I'm fighting back vomiting.

A sidenote: I have this sort of reverse curse in that I've never lost a mirror with 4cControl. Even when I've been losing, I came out of nowhere for the win. By splitting with Kowal before playing, I seemed to have bypassed the rules of said curse. Game 1, I sit on no mana and no wastes (We were just messing around so what I kept didn't matter) while he draws like 12-15 off LoA. Game 2 *I* have the LoA and thing I'm gonna be king shit. I drop LoA turn 1, he plays land-mox-timewalk-untap-land-ancestral-mox-sol ring-scrye for 2-go.

[wicketsnatcher]

Some people vomit, yes.

Others have a hole in their engine while cruising up I-290 in MA on their way to the tournament.

I think I'm destined to never play Dragon at a tournament.  Ray's car decided that it was about time to die.  And so it did.  And so we three magic players got to wait in the lobby of a motel for a couple hours until we got a ride back to CT.  w00t.

As a side note: results?

-J:tD

[Mykeatog]

GI and Hulk3rules didn't play out the finals..

GI gets 2 drains.
Hulk gets a shop.

[Grand Inquisitor]

Others have a hole in their engine while cruising up I-290 in MA on their way to the tournament

Suck.  So does this mean team CT will be transportionally limited in the near future, or is Ray getting it fixed?

results

It was a good size crowd, but I would have to say a bit on the inexperienced side.  The field was pretty diverse, and outside of team hadley, there were a lot of new faces.

Top 8 looked like:

Goblins (not even close to FCG)
>>>
Fish (Pernicious Dan)

Hulk (Hulk3Rules)
>>>
Forty 40's (Elyas Macheras)

Forty 40's (me)
>>>
Dragon

U/R Stacker
>>>
Rector Tendrils/Trix

T4

Hulk
>>>
Goblins

Forty 40's
>>>
Stacker


It was about 10:30 when Hulk's match was over, we were all exhausted, and he didn't mind taking the workshop, so we basically split with a grudge match to follow.

Amusingly, Hulk's Berserk was on loan to the indentured Eastman, and he forgot to board a proxy version.  He ended up killing people with Gush all day!

Thanks to Dan for hosting the tourney.  Its a great place to play: roomy, accessable, clean.

I was a little disappointed though:
1) Even with a 1 o'clock start time, round 1 didn't get going until 1:40
2) There was a strange emphasis on ordering pizza, which caused two half hour breaks in between rounds
3) The prize support was rather weak given the entrance and attendance.

I know its a new store, and they need to pay the rent, but hopefully future events will be better furnished.