Well hello,
How are you?
I’m good thanks. How is the family?
Good to hear. Hey, is your sister still dating that jerk or do you mind if I mack it to her?
Whatever dude, you owe me a favor. Remember that time I wanted to watch Boxing and you wanted to watch Monday Night Football…we watched the game…I did THAT for you…
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Oh hi there, I didn’t see you come in. I guess you want something. A report of some kind.? Something about some city named Waterbury? Well, I’ll see what I can do. Let’s see what I can deliver.
TMD OPEN 7 TO TOURNAMENT REPORT
(Sound of Angels with Trumpets)
When we left off I had all this to say
http://www.themanadrain.com/forums/index.php?topic=23088.0Well, to quote Bob Dylan, “the times they are a changin’.�
After this past Waterbury(despite that stupid UK Scoring Error again), there is no doubt in my mind that I want to continue Waterbury for quite a while.
Why…well…it had to do with a lot of things. The main one, of course, is you!
Who me?!? Aww shucks, it’s nothin’
Yeah, time and time again, the integrity, positive attitude, selflessness, and comrodary of the Type 1 community keeps raising my spirit to a level I have never had playing Magic before.
From the Ashok donations, to the unexpected huge attendance for Type 4 and Magic Trivia, to understanding during the UK Error, to the many people who donated extra prizes, made cookies, volunteered to help, etc. TYPE 1 PLAYERS ARE WICKED AWESOME.
That being said, I want to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for being such a special community and for your continued support and participation at Waterbury. I often refer to it as a “grassroots� tournament, since it really grew out of nothing with all your support.
Now…as for all the specifics of this tourney report, I plan on doing it topically. I will just start writing paragraphs about all the people and things that went on during the weekend, and eventually I will (hopefully) have said all I want to say.
Setup the night before: One of the people that is most critical to the setup of Waterbury is one who very few of you actually know. He rarely plays type 1, and knows very few type 1 players. That being the case though, he always helps me set up tables/chairs the night before Waterbury and usually sells soda/chips/pizza during the day. His name is Scott Hughes, he is a great friend, and I felt the least I owed him was to thank him publicly for all his help.(Well that and I’m gonna buy him dinner!) We eventually met up with the great Jacob Orlove and drove back to my place for the night. Theresa finished up the Mox Cookies letting me sleep. She is an angel.
Theresa: You know that bolt of energy that never stops moving, the one that looks like a blond haired woman behind the Registration Table. Her name is Theresa. She devotes more time and energy to helping me put together and run Waterbury than anyone in the world and I am endlessly in her debt. In addition, the moral support she gives me is immeasurable.
Jacob Orlove, Aaron Rubenslein, Seth Levy, Derek McAtovey, Mike Spencer, Chris Kitzmiller, Jason LeDuc, Simon Cooper: This combination of hired staff, volunteer staff, and hired judges were AWESOME. One of the main problems with running Waterburys in the past was how I couldn’t handle everything that came up in a day by myself. All these people were a tremendous help. I can’t thank them enough and if you see any of these guys at a tournament, give them a pat on the back. With their help we were able to improve the tracking of penalties, increase the number of deck checks, sell pizza at multiple times in the day, run multiple events at once, and all in all run more smoothly(despite the UK error). I plan on hiring a few more in the future so that I could provide an even better tournament experience for all and going to find even more ways to compensate all these very professional staff members.
Liz del Cano, Sara Yarrington, Ashok Chitturi, Crazy Carl: These fine ladies and gents came forward with some very appreciated donations of prizes to add to the prize structure simply of their own volition. Liz donated some really awesome proxy cards with attractive scantly clad women on them. Sara made some of the yummiest cookies I have ever tasted. She put mana symbols on them and offered them up to the staff and feature match participants. Ashok donated some cool foil cards for round by round raffles, and Crazy Carl, VERY VERY selflessly donated an entire type 4 stack to be given away as the prize for the type 4 championships. Thanks goes out to all these fine people.
The Main Event(TMD OPEN 7): The event got off to a somewhat late start as a result of the horrible weather. It was announced that there were 186 players, but after some late entrants showed up, the total number was actually 191. Things were going well until round 2.
The UK Scoring System: Having happened at a Waterbury before(but at the time, not knowing what caused it), the pairings for round 2 went up and everyone noticed that they had a weird point value next to their name. The reason has to do with a bizarre feature of DCI Reporter which I just figured out happens out if you declick DCI Sanctioned Tournament, but still leave clicked DCI Point System. Apparently the UK point system is based on games and not match wins. As such, the tournament had to be redone on the computer. This meant that all 191 players names and team affiliations had to be reentered, all round 1 pairings had to be manually reentered, all round 1 results had to be manually reentered, all round 2 pairings had to be manually reentered, all round 2 results had to be manually reentered, before starting round 3.  Some random pairing was done to avoid pairings based only on similar game records was handled and all data was diligently reentered during the round and after a shorter stint of time(30 minutes) the tournament was full updated and up and running again. Seth Levy, in particular, was pivotal in this quick turnaround(which normally could have taken up to 2 hours). The other staff, which handled all other issues, were also incredible.
After 8 rounds of swiss:
1 Demick, Jared 20 69.9405 80 65.8022 8/6/2/0
2 Puff J., (WWW) (OFF) 20 65.1361 83.3333 61.6917 7/5/2/1
3 Philipe Leconte, Jean 20 63.5417 80 61.0858 8/6/2/0
4 Wilkins, Crossman 19 66.4583 70.8333 61.8488 8/6/1/0
5 Guerette Simon, (OWN)19 65.7292 76.4706 63.4252 8/6/1/0
6 Mann Jared, (POM) 19 63.0952 72.2222 63.9974 7/5/1/1
7 LeDuc, Jason 19 62.5 75 58.9538 8/6/1/0
8 Broderick, Pat 19 61.7708 68.4211 60.9661 8/6/1/0
9 Kassis, Eli         19 60.5442 73.6842 57.4259 7/5/1/1
10 Rozzero, Brian 19 57.2917 81.25 56.0858 8/6/1/0
11 Laplante Travis, (NAS) 19 56.9196 70.5882 54.1322 8/6/1/0
12 Pise Mike, (OFF) 19 55.9028 68.4211 54.9799 8/6/1/0
13 Magda, Matthew 19 55.5952 76.4706 53.1883 8/6/1/0
14 Merriam, Ross 18 63.5417 70 61.3025 8/6/0/0
15 Hatcher C., (NAS) (OFF)18 62.2917 66.6667 58.0378 8/6/0/0
16 Feinstein, Dave 18 57.8125 76.4706 56.0565 8/6/0/0
17 Chitturi Ashok, (TMD) 18 55 65 53.5765 7/5/0/1
18 Albergo, Patrick 18 54.6875 72.2222 55.052 8/6/0/0
19 Winter Carl, (TMD) 18 54.1667 66.6667 54.2068 8/6/0/0
20 Durney Ryan, (GWG) 18 54.1156 66.6667 52.6945 7/5/0/1
21 Chabot-L. Lany, (OWN)18 51.4137 65 51.6296 8/6/0/0
22 Yarrington Dan, (TMT) 18 48.9583 61.6667 48.1712 8/6/0/0
23 Menger, Douglas 18 48.4375 66.6667 48.573 8/6/0/0
24 Cleveland, Jason 17 54.5139 70.5882 54.662 8/5/2/0
25 Padinka, Stephen 16 68.2292 59.6491 64.0598 8/5/1/0
26 Perovich, Dan 16 60.119 59.6491 57.7296 7/4/1/1
27 Goscinak, David 16 59.8958 61.1111 57.4948 8/5/1/0
28 Meckes, Josh 16 55.9524 60 54.364 8/5/1/0
29 Dupuis, Eric         16 45.8333 63.1579 47.341 8/5/1/0
30 Parisi, Matt         16 44.2113 60 45.6893 8/5/1/0
31 McCormick, Alec 15 70.4613 54.5455 67.6381 8/5/0/0
32 Jones, Mike         15 65.997 52.381 63.7224 8/5/0/0
33 Del Cano Liz, (TMD) 15 60.878 61.1111 57.7019 8/5/0/0
34 Roche, Mike 15 58.3333 63.1579 57.0583 8/5/0/0
35 Meyst Rich, (TPS) 15 58.3333 52.6316 60.2666 8/5/0/0
36 Ward, Jon         15 57.8125 60 58.7706 8/4/3/0
37 Malone, Patrick 15 57.0833 61.1111 57.2005 8/5/0/0
38 Portizo, Jason 15 56.1161 63.1579 54.1305 8/5/0/0
39 Probasco Andy, (GGS) 15 55.9524 57.8947 54.5635 7/4/0/1
40 Creamer, Nick 15 55.878 55 53.5901 8/5/0/0
41 Ellsworth, Stefan 15 54.6875 59.0909 52.4653 8/5/0/0
42 Davis, Joe         15 53.8194 54.5455 54.3183 8/5/0/0
43 Bilarczyk, Andrew 15 53.6458 58.8235 53.5241 8/5/0/0
44 Blaha, Mike         15 53.2738 61.1111 49.1809 8/5/0/0
45 Browne Chris, (RFL) 15 53.125 60 50.8144 8/5/0/0
46 Gacioch Dan, (TPS) 15 53.125 57.1429 52.402 8/5/0/0
47 Neyssen, Matt 15 52.4554 52.381 53.9949 8/5/0/0
48 Carpenter, Jeff 15 50.5208 65 51.2435 8/5/0/0
49 Rudolph, Jeremiah 15 48.9583 64.7059 47.4922 8/5/0/0
50 Starr, Chris         15 48.0804 65 45.4782 8/5/0/0
51 McDonough, Greg 15 47.7083 66.6667 50.0433 8/5/0/0
52 Neiman, Luis 15 47.0238 60 46.8439 8/5/0/0
53 Conole, Aaron 15 46.1458 64.7059 45.2943 8/5/0/0
54 Daniels, Ben 15 42.9315 63.1579 41.628 8/5/0/0
55 Masley, Craig 15 42.128 60 44.8702 8/5/0/0
56 Vaillancourt, Samuel 14 56.994 64.7059 54.5599 8/4/2/0
57 Pinchot, Jesse 13 67.5283 57.8947 63.0728 7/3/1/1
58 Warshawer, Nathan 13 61.9792 50 58.0788 8/4/1/0
59 Mann Corey, (POM) 13 55.0595 57.1429 54.7093 8/4/1/0
60 Rieck Jeff, (RFL) 13 50.9673 54.386 50.5493 8/4/1/0
61 Schneren, Mike 13 50.8333 55.5556 49.1649 8/4/1/0
62 Richards, Jon 13 50 52.6316 49.2189 8/4/1/0
63 Bettencourt, Matt 13 48.1399 52.9412 48.5212 8/4/1/0
64 Magnus, Peter 13 42.6736 57.8947 44.5257 8/4/1/0
65 Zheng Jason, (FU2) 12 62.2222 58.8235 58.4021 6/3/0/1
66 Lally, Tom         12 60.9375 52.9412 57.6462 8/4/0/0
67 Pollack, Austin 12 60.2083 45 57.125 8/4/0/0
68 O'Beirne Terence, (WTF)12 58.7755 56.25 58.3349 7/4/0/0
69 Spencer Mike, (GWG) 12 56.7708 50 54.0388 8/4/0/0
70 Timoney Justin, (GGS) 12 56.622 50 54.3662 8/4/0/0
71 Blake, John         12 56.25 54.5455 55.1049 8/4/0/0
72 Lee, David         12 55.9524 50 53.9462 8/4/0/0
73 Lydon Mike, (RFL) 12 52.381 52.6316 50.3502 8/4/0/0
74 Yeung, Ling 12 51.7113 55.5556 51.1127 8/4/0/0
75 Behre Chad, (GWG) 12 51.0204 52.6316 51.8725 7/3/0/1
76 Cooper, Harriet 12 50.5208 52.381 52.1969 8/4/0/0
77 Hatch Jr., Scott 12 50.4082 58.8235 47.0382 7/4/0/0
78 Coss, Nick         12 50.1488 57.8947 49.9859 8/4/0/0
79 Vaisberg, Elias 12 48.9796 57.1429 51.3199 7/4/0/0
80 Wong, Eddie 12 48.0655 47.3684 48.6609 8/4/0/0
81 Goscinak, Kevin 12 47.9167 52.6316 49.2447 8/4/0/0
82 Murgo, Dom 12 47.5446 47.3684 48.9889 8/4/0/0
83 D'alfonso Rob, (GGS) 12 45.8333 47.0588 46.7144 8/4/0/0
84 Daliapes, Tom 12 45.625 47.619 47.4539 8/4/0/0
85 Varney, Charles 12 44.9405 52.6316 45.0395 8/4/0/0
86 Alan Baran, (POM) 12 42.7083 52.381 44.0974 8/4/0/0
87 Carpenter, Eric 12 39.5238 52.6316 43.1892 8/4/0/0
88 Rosenbaum, Matt 11 61.1607 43.8596 58.3228 8/3/2/0
89 Fico, Jessica 10 58.3333 52.6316 56.8668 8/3/1/0
90 Lamb, Brian         10 55.3125 49.1228 57.1272 8/2/4/0
91 Morelli, Chris 10 55.102 49.1228 54.0149 7/3/1/0
92 Best, Sam         10 54.8753 46.6667 54.6429 7/3/1/0
93 McNally Matt, (TPS) 10 54.3333 56.25 55.627 5/2/1/1
94 Parisi, Bernie 10 51.4739 46.6667 50.1436 7/3/1/0
95 W, Brett         10 49.0741 53.3333 49.7132 6/3/1/0
96 Bergenfeld Irina, (PM2) 10 49.0625 45 50.875 8/3/1/0
97 Ferman, Louis 10 43.9732 44.4444 43.9728 8/3/1/0
98 Santiago Mark, (TM2) 10 43.5764 47.3684 46.5505 8/3/1/0
99 Florkoski Peter, (FU2) 9 62.6984 40 58.524 6/2/0/1
100 Maher, Kevin 9 60 50 56.9487 5/3/0/0
101 Nelson Dan, (PSU) 9 59.5238 43.75 56.7892 7/3/0/0
102 Brown Jesse, (NAS) 9 59.2593 46.6667 55.8077 6/3/0/0
103 Fixler, Matt         9 58.3333 42.1053 56.8339 8/3/0/0
104 Kolbig, Kent 9 55.5556 50 54.5378 6/3/0/0
105 Farias, Andy 9 55.5556 46.1538 54.6561 6/3/0/0
106 Rivand Ugo, (OWN) 9 55 36.8421 55.3447 8/3/0/0
107 Horvath, Dayton 9 52.7778 53.8462 51.3729 6/3/0/0
108 Carter Jared, (TMT) 9 52.7778 43.75 50.8082 6/3/0/0
109 Kansburg, Mark 9 52.2222 46.1538 54.2888 6/3/0/0
110 Greene Jeff, (HAD) 9 52.0408 50 49.3587 7/3/0/0
111 Kitzmiller, Chris 9 50.9259 50 51.0379 6/3/0/0
112 Matthes, Mark 9 49.6599 43.75 47.905 7/3/0/0
113 Houdlette Steve, (HAD)9 49.3197 50 48.0974 7/3/0/0
114 Crestfield, Alex 9 48.75 41.1765 51.1877 8/3/0/0
115 Bean Steve, (TM2) 9 48.3333 57.1429 49.3788 6/3/0/0
116 Magyar, Peter 9 47.9167 42.1053 48.9348 8/3/0/0
117 Berry Sean, (PM2) 9 46.875 40 49.7917 8/3/0/0
118 Huff Tyler, (TMT) 9 46.0884 47.3684 48.5202 7/3/0/0
119 Sousa, Mike 9 43.75 44.4444 46.2895 8/3/0/0
120 Greene Brian, (WTF) 9 42.7083 47.619 45.2197 8/3/0/0
121 Buda Jay, (FU2) 9 38.0208 45 40.278 8/3/0/0
122 Krosofsky Andrew, (PM2)9 36.4583 41.1765 38.9202 8/3/0/0
123 Handy, Keean 7 62.5 54.5455 59.1667 4/2/1/0
124 Santiago, Angelo 7 52.1542 33.3333 51.9048 7/2/1/0
125 Zelazny Ryan, (PSU) 7 51.8519 46.6667 53.9782 6/2/1/0
126 Banister, Phil 7 47.6667 53.8462 48.0031 5/2/1/0
127 Haras, Wade 7 45.5782 35.2941 44.8507 7/2/1/0
128 Jensen, Scott 7 36.0417 38.8889 38.5379 8/2/1/0
129 Ampula, Shawn 6 61.3333 45.4545 55.3147 5/2/0/0
130 Cesari, Paolo 6 60.4167 45.4545 58.3333 4/2/0/0
131 St. Laurent, Cole 6 58.6667 40 56.8182 5/2/0/0
132 DiPrete, Anthony 6 57.3333 41.6667 54.7203 5/2/0/0
133 Gordon, Mike 6 56.4815 42.8571 53.4547 6/2/0/0
134 McKinney, Mike 6 56 38.4615 55.8671 5/2/0/0
135 Russo, Aaron 6 55.5556 30.7692 56.4286 6/2/0/0
136 Miravalle, Andrew 6 54.1667 50 51.6667 4/2/0/0
137 Lonardo, Chris 6 53.7037 40 53.5714 6/2/0/0
138 Haney, Preston 6 53.3333 46.1538 49.5455 5/2/0/0
139 Grasso, Anthony 6 53.3333 45.4545 51.1026 5/2/0/0
140 Bressan, Chris 6 51.0204 37.5 48.8963 7/2/0/0
141 Bourgoin, Ryan 6 50.6667 36.3636 52.1096 5/2/0/0
142 Kowal Ben, (HAD) 6 50.3401 35.2941 50.371 7/2/0/0
143 Malizia, Steve 6 50 38.4615 49.3889 6/2/0/0
144 Reynolds, Bryce 6 47.3958 23.5294 48.8909 8/2/0/0
145 Cooper, Simon 6 46.6667 33.3333 49.7156 5/2/0/0
146 Montgomery, Collin 6 45.3333 46.1538 45 5/2/0/0
147 Rogers Joe, (WTF) 6 42.5926 40 43.895 6/2/0/0
148 Daliapes, Joey 6 41.6667 29.4118 43.5107 8/2/0/0
149 Sorrentino, Mike 6 41.6667 27.7778 43.0652 8/2/0/0
150 Kolodziej, Matt 4 52.0833 33.3333 50.9259 4/1/1/0
151 Kolbig, Ron         4 52 30 49.0909 5/1/1/0
152 Casey, Ron         4 50 33.3333 50.6481 4/1/1/0
153 Nielson Steve, (TM2) 4 44.7917 23.5294 47.2031 8/1/1/0
154 Genitle, Louis 4 39.8148 35.7143 42.3611 6/1/1/0
155 Steffens, Gary 3 68.75 40 66.3636 4/1/0/0
156 Monashi, Joshua 3 68.75 33.3333 61.3889 4/1/0/0
157 Corbin, Rachel 3 66.6667 50 56.5476 3/1/0/0
158 Perrault, Chuck 3 66.6667 37.5 60.7143 3/1/0/0
159 Clark, Adam 3 62.5 33.3333 58.8889 4/1/0/0
160 Rice, Steve         3 59.2593 37.5 58.7302 3/1/0/0
161 Anderson, Lloyd 3 58.3333 36.3636 51.5909 4/1/0/0
162 Joyce, Wally 3 55.5556 33.3333 52.381 3/1/0/0
163 Marinelli, Nick 3 54.1667 36.3636 51.9697 4/1/0/0
164 Demarsico, Jim 3 54.1667 33.3333 53.5354 4/1/0/0
165 Wickland, Jaris 3 52.0833 40 50.8333 4/1/0/0
166 Smith, Noah 3 52.0833 36.3636 49.4444 4/1/0/0
167 Reed, Chris         3 52.0833 30 53.125 4/1/0/0
168 Anderson, Erik 3 50.9259 31.25 51.9246 6/1/0/0
169 Mirtsopoulos S., (WWW)3 50.6667 20 47.7692 5/1/0/0
170 Burke, Brian 3 50 22.2222 51.1111 4/1/0/0
171 McAtovey, Derek 3 47.9167 33.3333 44.697 4/1/0/0
172 Genzano, Brad 3 47.2222 23.0769 51.3149 6/1/0/0
173 Tuthill, Dustin 3 46.6667 27.2727 47.9021 4/0/0/1
174 Roucoulet, Jeff 3 46.6667 27.2727 46.6667 5/1/0/0
175 Connolly, Miles 3 45.8333 40 44.697 4/1/0/0
176 Reis, Aaron         3 45.8333 30 47.4747 4/1/0/0
177 Safford, Ken 3 45.8333 25 47.2222 4/1/0/0
178 Puglimisi, Jonathan 3 45.3704 28.5714 49.1227 6/1/0/0
179 Edwards, Rob 3 41.9048 17.6471 42.549 7/0/0/1
180 Olney, Bruce 3 41.6667 41.6667 43.5606 4/1/0/0
181 Holloway, Jean-Paul 3 41.6667 33.3333 43.0556 4/1/0/0
182 Maurice, Ron 3 41.6667 17.6471 43.9872 8/1/0/0
183 Navickas Justin, (PSU) 3 41.3333 27.2727 43.8974 5/1/0/0
184 Leith Kyle, (WWW) 1 48.1481 16.6667 51.5873 3/0/1/0
185 Ochse, Joshua 0 66.6667 0 61.9048 3/0/0/0
186 Matthews, Paul 0 54.1667 11.1111 52.3548 4/0/0/0
187 Pierce, John 0 47.9167 0 50.2778 4/0/0/0
188 Toussaint, Sean 0 45.8333 11.1111 45.5556 4/0/0/0
189 Yerakes, Mike 0 44.4444 14.2857 38.8889 3/0/0/0
190 Posloski, Tim 0 44.4444 0 50.7937 3/0/0/0
191 Rodman, Brendon 0 37.037 25 41.0714 3/0/0/0
The top 16:
Top 16 can be found here:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~kmb8c/Wbury/(Thanks to Anusien for hosting them)
(As for Pat Broderick's list, in the busy weekend it got misplaced, the list you see is his day 2 list, which is probabbly the same and this is in the process of being confirmed.)
The top 16 went something like this:
Jared Demick defeats Dave Feinstein
Eli Kassis defeats Pat Broderick
Simon Guerette defeats Mike Pise
Crossman Wilkins defeats Matt Magda
Jean Philipe Leconte defeats Ross Merriam
Travis LaPlante defeats Jared Mann
Brian Rozzero defeats Jason LeDuc
Nate Pease defeats Chris Hatcher
The top 8 went something like this:
Eli Kassis defeats Jared Demick
Crossman Wilkins defeats Simon Guerette
Travis LaPlante defeats Jean Philipe Leconte
Nate Pease defeats Brian Rozzero
The top 4 was:
Crossman Wilkins defeats Eli Kasis
Travis LaPlante defeats Nate Pease
And by now, you all now:
Travis LaPlante defeats Crossman Wilkins
Top 16 Coverage: One of the shortcomings of Waterbury is the limited amount of coverage during the top 16. With increased staff support at the next event, my hope is that there will be two matches receiving coverage match each round of the single elimination, as well as 4,3,2, and 1 judges respectively attending to the top 16 through final rounds.
Team Competition: Many of you know that I announced prior to the event that I would have full time help from Aaron Rubenslein and Jacob Orlove. I was looking for one more person, since Chris Hatcher had promised Travis LaPlante he would play on his team. For those who don’t know, Travis came back from Las Vegas, where he was living, in order to take Waterbury by storm, and lead a team to victory. Those were his exact words 3 weeks before the event started. Man, did he deliver. Chris Hatcher, Nate Pease, and Travis took home the team competition hands down with all three of their members making the top 16. Way to go TEAM OFF TWICE. It just goes to show…you can’t Beat OFF TWICE.
BYES: The byes for the event seemed to be a big hit. I expected fewer players to buy them and more to win them from vendors who included the bye as part of their prize structure. Maybe this will convince future TOs to offer them in advance and take the cost off the winner.
Type 4 Champs: This thing go many more people than I expected. Just under 50 people for the first ever Type 4 Champs is nothing to shake a stick at. Having never done this before, some things which weren’t expected cause slight difficulties, but we remedied them to the best of our ability. Among these:
1.) We really fell short on the number of stacks we could use. I was telling people earlier in the day that this would not be a problem. This was considering I only expected about 25 people or so would be up for this at around 10:30 pm. We were able to get enough stacks so that we had 7 tables of 7-8 people each. I would have liked to do tables of 6, and will plan more accordingly in the future.
2.) We had some small stacks, which when split among 7-8 people left small decks. As such, decking became an issue. I decided to make it such that a player could not be decked, he would simply keep playing with the cards at his disposal. This did not completely make cards like millstone useless, because it still limited the number of cards a player could draw into and use.
3.) Organization of tables. Next time, circular tables would be better.
4.) Number of people from each table. The winner from each table was sent to the final table. In retrospect, two from each table should have advanced.
5.) Other I may not be thinking of.
In the end it came down to Andy Probasco and Andy Farias. They agreed to a split in the end, and in the spirit of type 4, are sharing the stack. Special thanks again to Crazy Carl for your terrific donation of the prize structure. Much fun was had by all.
Magic Scattegories: Because we were running late, and since the whole world signed up for type 4, we didn’t end up doing Magic Scattegories. These prizes among others, which were supposed to be given out, as such did not find homes that night.
Other prizes: There are some things that got kind of brushed over. There wasn’t enough interest in play of the day, the oddest card/deck choice, and, as said, the Magic Scattegories didn’t get off the ground this time. However, I promised to give away prizes, and as such, I am holding to my word. I randomly picked player names just now and plan on sending prizes that were supposed to be given out to the following people:
Dustin Tuthill has a DCI textless Fireball coming his way.
Dom Murgo has a Stroke of Genius coming his way.
Mark Kansburg has a Italian Legends booster coming his way.
Preston Haney has a Renaissance booster pack coming his way
Mike Sorrentino has a Renaissance booster pack coming his way
Aaron Russo has a Renaissance booster pack coming his way
Anthony DiPrete has a Foreign Torment booster pack coming his way
Jeremiah Rudolph has a Core Set booster coming his way.
Free Mana Drains: The attendance was a bit better than the previous one. I took a little bit of the extra money and used it to recount my loss from the last one. I still had a little bit of profit for myself + an extra $200 or so. I was going to bump up the prize support, but to me, it is already quite top heavy. I love to spread around the wealth as much as I can. As such, I decided I would simply throw two free Mana Drain Rafflees. Well, not completely free. The entry cost for the first was actually very simple. Look around the room and either pick up a piece of trash, fix a tablecloth, or put a table plaque back in its place. All were happy to oblige. The only problem was later I realized I might have been sending the wrong message. I hope that people recognized that as “lets keep this place clean� as opposed to “lets make a mess so Ray gives away more stuff.� As an interesting anecdote, when I gave away the second drain, I advertised that I was raffling off an Italian Mana Drain. When the winner came forward, not only did I not have an Italian Drain, but I only had signed ones left. Accordingly the person got an English Signed Drain…much more than he imagined. I felt happy for him, since the look on his face was well worth it.
Day 2
Type 1 Mox Tourney: Actually, because of the attendance, after taking into account a percentage for the Day 2 cost to rent the ballroom, I upped the prizes to
1st place – Ancestral Recall
2nd place – Signed English Mana Drain
3rd place – English Chains of Mephistopheles
4th place – Grim Tutor
and booster packs for the rest of the top 8.
There were 73 players.
The finals standings after 7 rounds of swiss looked like this:
1 Pease, Nate 18 65.034 75 62.9775 7/6/0/0
2 Reed, Chris         18 49.4331 70.5882 48.9166 7/6/0/0
3 Kassis, Eli         17 64.2177 100 58.8324 7/5/2/0
4 Alan, Baran         16 60.1361 62.5 60.5669 7/5/1/0
5 Merriam, Ross 16 57.1429 64.7059 58.868 7/5/1/0
6 Davis, Joe         16 56.0091 73.3333 52.7131 7/5/1/0
7 Clark, Adam 16 55.102 64.7059 55.5952 7/5/1/0
8 Leith, Kyle         16 50.2041 66.6667 49.1176 7/5/1/0
9 Bourgoin, Ryan 15 58.2313 66.6667 59.4877 7/5/0/0
10 Buda, Jay         15 53.7415 61.1111 53.749 7/5/0/0
11 Pollack, Austin 15 50.2268 61.1111 50.4909 7/5/0/0
12 Ward, Brandan 13 59.5918 62.5 53.4029 7/4/1/0
13 Houdlette, Steve 13 58.0952 58.8235 56.0418 7/4/1/0
14 Wong, Eddie 12 63.2653 55 57.5814 7/4/0/0
15 Broderick, Pat 12 59.932 55.5556 56.3072 7/4/0/0
16 Mann, Jared 12 52.585 52.6316 51.3979 7/4/0/0
17 Vallas, Nick         12 52.1542 50 52.1565 7/4/0/0
18 Rodman, Brandon 12 52.0408 60 48.3586 7/4/0/0
19 Burlisoa, James 12 51.7007 55 51.7247 7/4/0/0
20 Bergenfeld, Irina 12 51.2925 61.1111 48.4325 7/4/0/0
21 Mocudlo, John 10 51.4815 54.902 49.9504 6/3/1/0
22 Steffens, Gary 10 47.8005 52.0833 46.4052 7/3/1/0
23 Durney, Ryan 9 73.3333 60 67.3077 4/2/0/1
24 Gacioch, Daniel 9 73.1481 50 62.4236 6/3/0/0
25 Conole, Aaron 9 64.8889 63.6364 58.8904 5/3/0/0
26 Carpenter, Jeff 9 53.8889 53.3333 50.0204 6/3/0/0
27 Maurice, Ron 9 52.7778 50 52.3361 6/3/0/0
28 DiPrete, Anthony 9 45.8503 41.1765 47.5943 7/3/0/0
29 Fico, Jessica 9 39.1156 50 40.4762 7/3/0/0
30 Yerakes, Mike 7 60 45.4545 59 5/2/1/0
31 Parisi, Matt         7 57.3333 41.6667 58.127 5/2/1/0
32 Rieck, Jeff         7 54.6667 41.6667 55.2479 5/2/1/0
33 Carter, Jared 6 75 40 65.6818 4/2/0/0
34 McNally, Matt 6 64.5833 50 60.4167 4/2/0/0
35 Greene, Jeff 6 64.5833 45.4545 58.4596 4/2/0/0
36 Wickland, Jaris 6 60.4167 55.5556 52.3485 4/2/0/0
37 Casey, Ron         6 60 50 52.674 5/2/0/0
38 Marinelli, Nick 6 57.3333 42.8571 50.6105 5/2/0/0
39 Magda, Matthew 6 51.8519 30.7692 56.412 6/2/0/0
40 Tuttle, Marc 6 51.3605 38.8889 49.2063 7/2/0/0
41 Greene, Brian 6 47.9167 50 46.6667 4/2/0/0
42 Daliapes, Tom 6 46.6667 41.6667 44.8485 5/2/0/0
43 Mann, Corey 6 44.6667 30.7692 48.6078 5/1/0/1
44 Corbin, Rachel 6 44.4444 50 52.3148 3/2/0/0
45 Lee, David         6 41.6667 100 41.6667 2/2/0/0
46 McGill, Sean 6 41.6667 50 41.0606 4/2/0/0
47 Mangus, Peter 4 59.2593 47.619 53.0556 3/1/1/0
48 Rubinslein, Aaron 4 59.2593 46.6667 60.3175 3/1/1/0
49 Padinka, Stephen 3 75 50 65 2/1/0/0
50 Jensen, Scott 3 66.6667 60 56.6667 2/1/0/0
51 Meyst, Rich         3 66.6667 37.5 63.1614 3/1/0/0
52 Pise, Mike         3 66.6667 37.5 61.1111 3/1/0/0
53 Anderson, Erik 3 60.4167 33.3333 56.6414 4/1/0/0
54 McAtovey, Derek 3 58.3333 42.8571 56.25 2/0/0/1
55 Rogers, Joe 3 55.5556 44.4444 51.8519 3/1/0/0
56 Seacord, Justin 3 55.5556 44.4444 46.2963 3/1/0/0
57 Huff, Tyler         3 52.0833 30 51.9697 4/1/0/0
58 TImoney, Justin 3 50 33.3333 50.5556 4/1/0/0
59 Skirianos, Jack 3 48 38.4615 45.03 5/1/0/0
60 Widmeir, Brett 3 44.4444 50 38.8889 3/1/0/0
61 Felton, Clifton 3 44.4444 28.5714 46.2302 3/1/0/0
62 Masley, Craig 0 83.3333 33.3333 67.7778 2/0/0/0
63 Anderson, Lloyd 0 75 20 75 2/0/0/0
64 Coyne, Derrick 0 59.2593 14.2857 58.5317 3/0/0/0
65 Forman, Louis 0 55.5556 25 54.1667 3/0/0/0
66 O'Beirne, Terence 0 50 20 55 2/0/0/0
67 Murgo, Dom 0 50 20 50 2/0/0/0
68 Rozzero, Brian 0 50 20 45 2/0/0/0
69 McKinney, Mike 0 50 0 55 2/0/0/0
70 Matthews, Paul 0 44.4444 33.3333 42.1296 3/0/0/0
71 Hangley, James 0 44.4444 25 52.3148 3/0/0/0
72 Kitzmiller, Chris 0 44.4444 14.2857 47.619 3/0/0/0
73 Mirtopolous, Scott 0 33.3333 25 40.2778 3/0/0/0
Top 8 can be found here:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~kmb8c/Wbury/(Thanks to Anusien for hosting them)
And the top 8 went like this:
Kyle Leith defeats Nate Pease
Ross Meeriam defeats Baran Alan
Eli Kassis defeats Joe Davis
Adam Clark defeats Joe Reed
And the top 4:
Kyle Leith defeats Ross Merriam
Eli Kassis defeats Joe Davis
And the top 2:
Eli Kassis defeats Kyle Leith after a prize split
I don’t know who can be classified the MVP of Waterbury. On one hand, Travis LaPlante won the main event and his team placed all three members in the top 16 to win the team competition. On the other hand Eli Kassis both top 4ed the main event and won the day 2 event. What do you guys think?
Highlander: This was a nail biter. With two players entering, Jacob Orlove defeated Simon Cooper in a best of 5 finals. This begs the question: Where the hell are all the highlander players? We should at least get 8. C’mon people…I expect ya’ll to represent next time.
Texas Holdem: Some things had time swaps and we started the Texas Holdem at 3:00 pm. We had 20 something players and narrowed 3 tables down to one. In the end it was Shawn Ampula from the Binghamton group who took it down. Some people, however, drove down and arrived at 4:00 pm just to play in the Hold’em tourney. I felt bad because they didn’t know about the time swap, and as such got together a 9 person table. This was split between two winners, Jeff(meth.) from Michigan and a female player whose name I don’t recall.
Sept 94: Believed to be the big event of day 2, the attendance for this was dismal. Was it because so many people were still playing in the Second Chance Toruney? Maybe the threat of Balance decks scared everyone away. Whatever the reason, this certainly was a fun event for all who participated. I saw Goblin Kings with Gauntlet of Might, and Chaos Orb flipping made me laugh. Perhaps the next of these “timeline events� will have better luck. We will just have to wait and see. As for the winner, I don’t recall. The top 4 was Jesse Pinchot, Ray Fucillo, Ben Medd, and Jeff Pusner. I know the two that won, split, and I gave them their prizes. Maybe someone could chime in with which two it was. As a side note, check out the pimpiest deck in the world:
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~kmb8c/Wbury/Day2/Keith%20Johnson.jpgTeam Magic Trivia: Having the highest attendance that team trivia has had yet, we had 7 teams ducking it out in this battle. Among questions that stumped everyone were
“What is the only card to have the same flavor text all the way from Alpha to 9th edition?� and
“Besides Mistform Ultimus, what is the only creature of type Bunny?�
Boosters were awarded to each team with the winning team getting the most, including an Italian Legends Booster.
The Ashok Collection: Many of you have undoubtedly read this:
http://www.themanadrain.com/forums/index.php?topic=24424.0 and as such know how much I love the people who play type 1. That being the case, seeing the amount of stuff donated in response to the horribly wicked act that was done to Ashok was absolutely awesome. In case you don’t know, some prick took a full set of power and 4 Bazaars right out of a binder in Ashok’s hotel room. This person deserves to rot in hell. I asked people to search their hearts and donate something to help Ashok, master trader that he is, who will likely turn it all back into the stuff he lost. I myself have known that shitty feeling that results from having such a large amount of stuff missing, and so I led by example donating a BB Taiga, Italian Legends Booster Pack, Asian Sliver Queen, and some other stuff. By the end, people had donated 2 Bazaars, a Mana Drain, tons of cash and lots and lots of type 2 and 1.5 cards. Everyone did not have to give a fortune, but everyone seemed to give what they could afford. Having known Ashok for a long time, I know him to be a very selfless, giving person and I am certain it is these positive qualities, being known well by others, that caused others to be so generous.
Changes from after TMD Open 6: Remember how stressed I was with running Waterbury after the last event. A lot of things have changed: more staff, more preparation ahead of time, more financial stability, and more love for the Type 1 community. I can say assuredly I am back and refreshed. I am looking forward to running Waterbury in the future and, as always, making it better than ever.
As for other things, and I am sure there are some, they will be added in later. Let me finish off for now by saying this was a great Waterbury and I can’t wait for the next one.
Thanks so much,
Ray
