[Tourney] UL Mox Emerald - 5-Proxy T1 - Aug 28th - Durham NC

[brturn]

Hello, just a quick note about an upcoming power tourney in NC.  If this is the wrong forum, I appologize (can't post in the Tourney forum).

--Bryan

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5-Proxy Type 1 Tournament
Sports Cards Unlimited: Roxborro Rd. Location
Durham, NC
August 28th
2:00pm
$25.00

MapQuest: 4504 N. Roxboro Rd, Durham, NC 27704
Phone: 919-286-5585 or 919-477-4597

The 1st place prize will be a Pack Mint Unlimited Mox Emerald.

The Mox will be given away ONLY if a minimum of 15 players participate. If we have have at least 20 participants, 2nd place will get a choice between an VG-EX condition Unlimited Berserk or PACK MINT Unlimited Forcefield, 3rd will be the other card 2nd place doesn't pick (Berserk or Forcefield) and 4th place will be a Sealed Pack of Antiquities.

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO  PLAY WITH 5 PROXY CARDS, must be written or printed on a regular magic card.

[Sheik al Kaji]

Oh my God, whose idea was it to finally put up power? Mike's? Jason's? Brad's? Big Red's?

Could this mean bigger and better tournies at SCU?

[brturn]

There have been other power tournaments at SCU in the past, so I assume if the power languishes in the case too long they hold a tourney for it.

I won a Timetwister at the last one, and before that was a Mox Ruby.

--Bryan

[Doozer]

I live in the Winston-Salem area and I dont know much about durham tournaments or anything about the place where it will be held. Can anyone give me some more infor. Thanks

[brturn]

Doozer,

Not sure what info you are looking for, do you have a specific question about the tournament or venue?

The venue:

Sports Cards Unlimited is a card shop with two locations in Durham, NC.  They've been around over 10 years now and hold in-store magic tourneys.  They run T1 because there is enough local interest in the format and the turnout is pretty consistent (last year when I played, they had 10-15 people every week).

I've never actually been to the north Durham location (Roxborro road), but I've driven by it many times.  I belive it is larger and has more table space for tournaments.

Tournaments:

While they're not on the leading edge of tournament management, they do tend to be consistent.  They typically hold double elimination tourneys.  I tried to get them to switch over to swiss rounds, but the software for running the events is a little cumbersome to use.

For a power torney, I would expect 20-25 people to show up.

The metagame:

We're pretty low-power out here.  The top players (as of last year - I have not been to a tournament recently) consisted of about 5 powered and semi-powered players that are well read in the forums and play regularly.  I would say we lean towards control (3/5) while the other two tend to play a random tier 1 deck each tourney.

The other players will bring all kinds of random decks from sligh to sui to combo, etc.  And the kids typically bring a stack of big creatures with some utility.

Last year, we regularly saw: Enchantress, Draw-7, Long, Fish, GrowATog, MaskNaught, 4CControl, W/G Beatdown, PandeBurst, W/u Weenie, Dragon, Stax, TnT, Stompy, PTFunk, etc.

Hope that helps!
--Bryan

[brturn]

The Power Tournament is this weekend!   I hope everyone in the area will make it out and support the Type 1 scene in North Carolina!

--Bryan

[brturn]

Back again with the tournament results.  14 people attended (missing one sedan for this meta), and many excellent decks were represented.

4CC - Bryan (brturn), Doozer (doozer), Phil, Big Red
Fish - David (yare), Pete Jr.
Rector Tendrils - Dick
B/G MaskNaught - Phillip
Stax/Titan - Ryan
Hulk - Adam
7/10 Split - EJ
Belcher - Jared
W/G TurboGeddon - Pete Sr.
DragonAnimator - Little Ozzy

Phillip split with David (yare) for first place.  Congratulations, David, on your first piece of power!

There will be another Power Tournament next month, I'll post it in it's own thread to get on the calendar.

--Bryan

And lastly, some pics of the event: