World Championships -C&J- T1 Side Event - 98 Players!

[raziel]

Huge! 98 players.
As of 1:00 a.m. PST round 7 was starting. Looking at 4:00 a.m. for it to wrap up. Maybe. I'm sure most of the guys will fill in the details today or Monday. Top 8 looks to be C&J, SoCal, and the Europeans. Zhalfirin was doing very well, maybe he'll fill us in later.

[raziel]

From lotushead

You heard it here First, Brian Woo IS the Legend of Magic (4CC) due to his taking home a BLACK LOTUS, beating out RANDOM-MISER (Texas) (ICT: Invincible Counter Troll UBR, minus the Trolls (in come Memnarch, Midslaver and Pentavus)...) who took home a sucky ass ANCESTRAL RECALL!!! Talk about Battle of the Banned! C&J's Louis (something with Workshops, I believe) took home the 3rd prize Pearl, and TracerBullet (SoCal) (I completely don't remember what he played. Get official/accurate coverage elsewhere soon) took home a mint Library. Congrats.

I don't think I saw or heard of a single deck playing with Mr. Teeth. (makes me wonder if Tog is indeed dead. Not a criticism of Tog. I'm just filling in details of the Tourney Meta)

There was lots of juicy drama at the top 8, but I will not discuss it here (but it exists! The DRAMA!). The final round involved Brian Wu's 4CC
outmising Roy's ICT deck. I'm telling you, drama!!!

Wow!
There was plenty of drama the whole week, no doubt about it. Well congratulations to the winners. I'm sure more news will trickle in.

[Akuma]

Well, I attended the event. I played UB TPS, things started a little rocky for me.

Round 1
I lost in two games to UR Stax. Game 1 my opponent drew his Strip Mine opening hand and resolved a Crucible before I could go off   Game 2 I made a STUPID mistake that cost me the game.

Round 2
I won, but I don't remember who or what I played against.

Round 3
I played against Mono U Fish (I believe). I lost Game 1 fair and square, then I made another STUPID mistake that cost me Game 2.

Round 4 - 7
I ended up winning out, but a 5-2 record was not enough to make Top 8. I ended up in 14th place. I played some amazing games during the course of Rounds 4 - 7, most notably against Hans (German player) who was also playing TPS.

I really enjoyed playing UB TPS, it was a lot of fun. I have played the deck before, but never opted to play it in a tournament. The deck performed well overall. It is much more of a finesse type of deck than the raw power Workshop decks I'm used to playing.

Pat (Tracerbullet) represented for our crew in the Top 8, taking home the LoA.

The finals was the Battle of the Banned:

The Legend of Magic vs. Random-Miser

 

[CF]

Some more details:

Kenny Öberg's stax (Ssapphire) lost to mad topdecking from 4cc in the top8
A friend of mine missed top8 on tiebreakers (also with stax, that deck is so nuts right now)
I got paired -up- to said friend after drawing a round (hey TracerBullet), so had to concede to "make sure" one of us got in the top8.

Not the best luck I've had, but then again - I won the whole trip so can't really complain :o)

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Chris