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« on: August 21, 2004, 05:46:48 pm » |
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Post whatever you know or found out.
As of this posting, round 7 (of 8) will be starting shortly. Meandeck is in first (Smmenen with mono-blue) and second (CH4IN5 with Workshop Prison) right now.
There are about 150 people playing.
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« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2004, 06:12:05 pm » |
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T8 is shaping out to be:
Smmenen (mono-blue)
CH4IN5 (Stax)
Dave Allen (aggro shops w/3sphere)
lucienspirit (Belcher)
The other 4 spots are still up in the air
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« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2004, 09:57:19 pm » |
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All this information is being relayed to me by Hill Redwine who is at Gen Con and watching the Top 8 as it happens so try to bear with me.
Top 8 Match Ups:
Steve Menendian (Mono-Blue) vs David Allen (Aggro-Workshop)
Kevin Cron (Trinistax) vs Windfall (Control Slaver)
Akuma (The Man Show) vs ??? (Fish)
??? (TnT) vs. ??? (Belcher)
Smmenen has been eliminated by David Allen in two games.
David Allen has started the Semi-final match up vs. the Belcher deck which made quick work of his Top 8 opponent.
ZS
Edit: Updated the names of the players.
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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2004, 10:11:22 pm » |
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Dave Allen is in Game 3 with the Belcher Deck being piloted by Michael Simester.
The Control Slaver player vs. Cron is Windfall on TMD.
Tha Man Show defeat Fish |
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« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2004, 10:15:48 pm » |
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Thanks for posting these Im sure many others are interested as well.
Throme has won game three with a Chalice for 0 and 2 Trinispheres on the board.
Kevin Cron and Mark B. (Windfall) are going to Game 3 of their Top 8 Match |
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« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2004, 10:28:29 pm » |
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From the email terminal at gencon, you can read what i played here: http://www.starcitygames.com/php/news/expandnews.php?Article=7927I was the only X-0 after round six and conceded round 7 to my teammate kevin to gaurantee him top 8 as I could draw in. I lost to David Allen in a very interesting top 8 match that I'll talk much about later. As I write, Kevin is in game three with Windfall and David Allen has cleaned up his bracket. Steve |
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« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2004, 10:36:58 pm » |
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Mike B (Windfall) has defeated Kevin Cron (CHAIN5) in three games of their Top 8 Match up. CHAIN5 mulled to 5 in game 3. Windfall tinkered out a Pentavus and kept CHAIN5 from getting anything going with the help of a 1st turn Duress taking Wheel of Fortune, and Force on CHAIN5 Tinker, and a Mana Drain to counter his Welder.
Windfall will face Akuma playing the Man Show in the Semifinals.
EDIT: Updated with the name of the person playing the Man Show.
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« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2004, 11:19:10 pm » |
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Windfall (Control Slaver) has taken game 1 of the Semifinal Match vs. Akuma (The Man Show). Akuma scooped after Windfall played Thirst for Knowledge discarding a Mind Slaver into the graveyard the turn after a huge Yawgmoth's Will.
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« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2004, 11:37:02 pm » |
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Windfall has defeated Akuma in two games in their Semifinal match.
Windfall (Control Slaver) will now face Thorme (Aggro Workshop) for all the marbles.
Stay tuned.
ZS
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« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2004, 12:31:42 am » |
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Windfall has taken game one of the finals over Thorme.
In a possible rules snafu in game one Thorme tinkered into Duplicant targeting Windfall's 5/5 Pentavus. Windfall responded by making 2 Pentavite tokens and they resolved the Duplicant as a 3/3. I was always under the understanding that Duplicant only looked at the power/toughness in the lower right corner of a card not any counters that modified those numbers.
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« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2004, 12:34:07 am » |
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The [card]Duplicant[/card] looks at the card as it exists in the Removed From Game zone.
If Duplicant imprints a [card]Pentavus[/card], it becomes a 0/0 and goes to the graveyard.
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« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2004, 01:04:24 am » |
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Windfall has defeated Thorme in 2 games to become the new Type I Champion!!!
Congratulations to all of the Top 8!!
Special thanks to Hill Redwine for relaying all the infomation so I could bring it to you. He will be sending me pics and I will post them as soon as I get them.
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« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2004, 01:17:55 am » |
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CONGRATS WINDFALL!!!
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« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2004, 01:22:08 am » |
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Congrats to Windfall and YAY for playing CS.  |
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« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2004, 01:30:13 am » |
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Fantastic Job Windfall!!! I can't wait to read the report. Props!
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« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2004, 02:02:03 am » |
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« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2004, 05:15:51 am » |
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Congratulations to Windfall!
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« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2004, 06:26:48 am » |
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Truth be told, I would have been happy with either of those decks winning. But Control Slaver is really a disgusting deck that doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Case in point: "How Would You Rank the Top 3 Control Decks?"Really, only ONE person even mentioned Control Slaver here...the rest ranked 4CC, Hulk, and even LANDSTILL over it!! Widespread dismissal of such a powerful deck is bound to deliver results like what we saw. That, and Control Slaver really was the perfect deck for that T8 bracket because I know from personal experience that it cleans up against Workshop like few other decks. Congratulations WINDFALL  !!!! |
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« Reply #18 on: August 22, 2004, 08:04:58 am » |
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Congratulations Windfall! Glad to see Control Slaver doing well. Can't wait for the report!
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« Reply #19 on: August 22, 2004, 09:41:00 am » |
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Congrats from your lone teammate at home... I was jumping up and down when I found out. I have never been prouder, your hard work has paid off and now suddenly all those losses (COUNT EM: 6!!!) to you seem all that much more valid.
DETROIT TYPE 1 FOR LIFE!!!!!
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« Reply #20 on: August 22, 2004, 09:44:53 am » |
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Congrats to all who made the top 8, I'm really saddened that I couldn't congratulate you guys in person... or occupy one of those top8 spots.  |
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« Reply #21 on: August 22, 2004, 11:43:34 am » |
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I've been saying Control Slaver is the best deck in the format for the last 2 months or so. The deck was so solid over the course of my last 3 weeks playing Magic. Sadly I have a job now or I would have been playing Control Slaver at Gencon. With my list, I either won or split in the finals 14 tournaments in a row, including the mox pearl tourney in NH and the Cash tournament at the Cape. I honestly think it is the best deck, no question. I can't wait to see what Windfall's list looked like. The last time I saw this kind of mass misunderstanding of how good a deck was is the early days of super gro. I was going to post a report talking about how much of a conspiracy it is with TMD pushing 4cc and Fish like they are playable, but I'll save that for another day. Oh yeah, and congrats to everyone who made it down to Gencon. Showing that kind of support for the format we love can only lead to good things.
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« Reply #22 on: August 22, 2004, 01:37:57 pm » |
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Congratulations, Windfall, for winning, and double congrats for doing so with Control Slaver.
I am very disappointed not to have been at Gencon with my own Control Slaver deck.
Unfortunately, I had to cancel my plans to attend recently due to pressing business matters at work.
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« Reply #23 on: August 22, 2004, 03:29:16 pm » |
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I got the booby prize for finishing 9th. Then again I had two losses (I was the top 6-2), so that's to be expected.
Funny thing is, Windfall had the worst tiebreakers among the 6-1-1 players. There were two other 5-1-1 players who ended up drawing due to time in game 3 of the last round and ending up 5-1-2. If either player won, they would have bumped him out.....funny though, when I watched the two guys draw on time to end up 5-1-2 (17 pts), I got a last ditch hope I might make top 8 as the top 6-2.
nice job to all top 8'ers, everyone that high had to play strong for many hours to get that far.
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« Reply #24 on: August 22, 2004, 06:19:02 pm » |
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Hello everyone, my name is Tom Rotchadl, and I was the Fish player who made the top eight. I just got back from the Con, and wanted to say congrats to Windfall.
Good job sir.
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« Reply #25 on: August 22, 2004, 07:17:30 pm » |
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Hello everyone, my name is Tom Rotchadl, and I was the Fish player who made the top eight. I just got back from the Con, and wanted to say congrats to Windfall.
Good job sir. bastard, you knocked me out of the top 8.  (I was the Dragon player round 7) nice job though  Bill |
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« Reply #26 on: August 22, 2004, 08:46:28 pm » |
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Congrats Mark! I really enjoyed playing with you all summer and am glad to see that all your effort and hard work was so justly rewarded with such a sweet, sweet victory. LONG LIVE PANDEMONIUM T1! I'm going to miss it while I'm away at school. -The "anti-member" of Team Gone-fishin', the one you packed all that hate for and stomped into the ground on all but one occasion ), Justin |
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« Reply #27 on: August 22, 2004, 09:24:05 pm » |
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bastard, you knocked me out of the top 8. (I was the Dragon player round 7) nice job though Bill To be fair, I was lucky and had 2x Strip both games. Didn't even need to use the Stifles. |
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« Reply #28 on: August 22, 2004, 10:10:31 pm » |
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bastard, you knocked me out of the top 8. (I was the Dragon player round 7) nice job though Bill To be fair, I was lucky and had 2x Strip both games. Didn't even need to use the Stifles. yah, the first game was 3 wastes in 10 cards...but that's why we play them. I had a good hand with dragon, squee, two bazaars, but couldn't find an animate. I kept the hand because the animates are the easiest to draw into. Both games I was 1 mana away from going off (with FoW backup in both i believe), but denying mana is Fish's game. Mulliganing both games hurt too... |
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« Reply #29 on: August 22, 2004, 11:26:05 pm » |
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Here's a small update as to the Top 8 decks:
Gio (Akuma on TMD) from LA (one of two players from Team BHWC in attendance) wasn't playing The Man Show, he was playing a straight Black/Red (no blue, white, or green) deck that was basically the TnT skeleton, minus the green for Survivals, but with main deck Chains of Mephistopheles and Blood Moon instead. He piloted this to Top 4
Nick Trudeau (nickvos on TMD) from San Diego, and the other attending member of Team BHWC (Bitches&HoesWestCoast), piloted the red/green TnT deck I designed for him (TTTnC - Trinispheres, Tools, Tubbies, 'n' Crucibles) to Top 8. The deck and sideboard were teched out for the meta, and he went undefeated in the swiss (6-0-2), beating at least one Mean Deck member (Joe Bushman) that I know of. Had he gone first against his first round opponent in the Top 8 (Belcher), he would have at least won the first game; but as luck had it, he lost the die roll and lost the game on the second turn, ready to cast Trinisphere the next turn. I'm sure his report will be coming soon.
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