[Announcement] Tournament, Sat. 3-4-06, Garden City, Michigan

[cancerstix]

Where:  Pandemonium
1858 Middlebelt
Garden City, MI 48135
(734)-427-2451

When:  Saturday, March 4
   Signup begins at 1:00pm
   Tournament starts at 2:00pm

Format:  Legacy, REL1
   Swiss rounds with cut to top 4, or top 8 based on attendance.

Entry Fee:  Only $3

Prize Structure:  All entry fees returned as prizes PLUS
One dual land randomly awarded.  1st place receives $2 of every entry.  2nd place gets $1 of every entry.  3rd place gets the Toilet Bowl award.  Last place gets one Unhinged, “Rod of Spanking”.  1st and 2nd place prizes are guaranteed.  Only 8 players required for full prize support.

Drinks and Snacks are available on site.  Pizza can, and probably will be, ordered in for dinner.  Other fast food restaurants (McD’s, Burger King) are very nearby, if you don’t want in on the pizza.


Please feel free to PM me with any questions.  You can also email me at umbowta@yahoo.com

[urza_insane]

I will most totally be there if at all possible. Thanks for posting this!

Also: Is this sort of a one-shot thing or is it going to be weekly/monthly etc?

[SpencerForHire]

This one seems more likely.  Perhaps you will seem Team Predict in full force.  Time to start taking days off work.

[cancerstix]

Is this sort of a one-shot thing or is it going to be weekly/monthly etc?

  This is very likely to be a monthly thing.  I will make announcements of future events as plans come together. 

[SpencerForHire]

I just confirmed the day off. 


==Trash Talking past this point==
Expect Team Predict to steal your prize pool.

[urza_insane]

Do you know if 1.5 events are still taking place on thursdays at pandemonium? I had heard about them, but haven't been able to go to any.

Thanks!

[IndyTerminator]

I'll see if I can be there.

[emidln]

I'll be there and I'll be bringing down a friend or two from KU.

Finally, a legacy tournament in Michigan.

[SpencerForHire]

I'll be there and I'll be bringing down a friend or two from KU.

Finally, a legacy tournament in Michigan.

Coincidently Im going to hang out with a friend from KU in a little while.. she used to play magic too.  Im wondering if I can fanagle something...

[cancerstix]

Do you know if 1.5 events are still taking place on thursdays at pandemonium? I had heard about them, but haven't been able to go to any.

Thanks!

Yes.  Pandemonium is still hosting weekly Legacy on Thursdays at 7:00pm.  Its a really casual environment on thursdays, which usually ends up being a round robin style, unsanctioned tournament, comprised of players testing out deck changes.  It can sometimes get interesting between a couple DTB's, but most often it's all in good fun.  Pandemonium will sanction any thursday night event if 8 or more players, who want it sanctioned, show up to play.  The most I've seen there on a thursday was 16.

[KrzyMoose]

I'll be there.

So that means you've already lost.

And you think I'm kidding...

</trashtalking>

[cancerstix]

Awesome!  Glad you can make it.  I hope you bring that trash you played at the GPT.  Then all your talking will be trash for sure.  There will be no trips to the finals table for you.

[SpencerForHire]

Ahhhaha, I made some noob plays last time.  You will definately not get off so easy this time.

[emidln]

I'll be there. I'll be playing mad comboinh out on my way to the finals, where I predict I'll draw all of the land in my deck after mulling to 4 each game.

Just wait, either Flame Vault, Iggy Pop with Leylines, Solidarity (with secret tech), or something completely different.

And if I get my third tabernacle before Saturday, I might even go 1998 Prison on the area. Who knows, except I won't be playing Threshold, Confidant, or Goblins, because DTBs suck.

[SpencerForHire]

I love how people always hate to play DTBs because they feel it takes less skill.  DTB are the only the way they are because of the people that pilot them.  With that in mind, expect to get beat by a DTB.

== AKA ==
Expect me to DTB you over the head.

[cancerstix]

== AKA ==
Expect me to DTB you over the head.

You're going to Dirty Tea Bag him over the head?  Please make sure I dont have to see that. 

As far as the Meta goes, you'd better plan on seeing the DTB's represented by capable pilots.

[KrzyMoose]

I hope you bring that trash you played at the GPT.  Then all your talking will be trash for sure.  There will be no trips to the finals table for you.

Psh.  Hell no.  My janky UR/w Control deck is gonna lay the smackdown. 

So yes, there will be a trip to the finals table for me.  In fact, I might be so far ahead in points, that I get byes into both of the finals spots.  So there might be, in fact, two trips to the finals for me.  We'll just have to wait and see.

[emidln]

I hope you bring that trash you played at the GPT.  Then all your talking will be trash for sure.  There will be no trips to the finals table for you.

Psh.  Hell no.  My janky UR/w Control deck is gonna lay the smackdown. 

So yes, there will be a trip to the finals table for me.  In fact, I might be so far ahead in points, that I get byes into both of the finals spots.  So there might be, in fact, two trips to the finals for me.  We'll just have to wait and see.

My 3-spheres loves them some Control decks. Can you hear that sound? It's off in the distance. Thought not. It's because you don't make any sound when you don't play any spells because I resolve 3-sphere, Smokestack, Time Vault, and say "pick up your deck."

Now would be a great time to maindeck those Pithing Needles and Null Rods.

(Don't take these posts too seriously.)

[KrzyMoose]

Oh yeh?

You won't be able to resolve anything against my inpenetrable wall of 4 FoW, 4 C-Spell, 4 Mana Leak, 4 Remand, 4 Hinder, 4 Daze, 4 Force Spike, 4 Annul, 4 Absorb, and 4 Stifle.

You ain't got nothing on me.

(Yeh, this is getting old.)

[emidln]

Oh yeh?

You won't be able to resolve anything against my inpenetrable wall of 4 FoW, 4 C-Spell, 4 Mana Leak, 4 Remand, 4 Hinder, 4 Daze, 4 Force Spike, 4 Annul, 4 Absorb, and 4 Stifle.

Manlands FTW?

You ain't got nothing on me.

(Yeh, this is getting old.)

Yeah, I'm going to stop now. Seriously. I think.

[urza_insane]

Now would be a great time to maindeck those Pithing Needles and Null Rods.

I got a Null Rod in the board with your name on it. Time to Ph3@r.


Seriously though: good luck all, Michigan Legacy represent!

[SpencerForHire]

Ya'll better be happy, I'm just getting over being sick and I'm still coming (don't worry you are all safe from ze illzness) but that doesn't mean you are safe from me.

[emidln]

I was thinking this morning about Michigan legacy. If the people posting are the people that show, our meta would be 6+ people piloting well-tuned DTBs and we might all end like 3-2 with crazy tiebreakers every tournament. But even with 8-10 people, if the competition is that high we should be in for an awesome tournament.

Update: one of my friends can't make it so I have an extra deck to loan out if anyone has a person that'd like to go but doesn't have a deck to run last minute.

See ya'll there!

[KrzyMoose]

Meh.  Third place.  I expected better of myself X_x.

Nevertheless, I'm glad Team Predict made a strong showing.

Props to Dan for organizing the tournament.  I hear it's going to be a monthly thing?

Anyways, I might write a semi-quasi-detailed report later, but I didn't really take notes or pay attention too closely.

Round 1: 2-1 against White Weenie; 1-0

Round 2: 0-2 against Zoo (piloted by Dan); 1-1

Round 3: 2-0 against R/G Aggro; 2-1

Round 4: 2-0 against BW Confidant (piloted by Spencer ;_;); 3-1

Top 4: 0-2 against Threshold (piloted by Matt)

Battle for the Toilet: 2-1 against Goblins

So I finish in a dissapointing third place, and take home a toilet.  It was unfortunate that I had to play Spencer in the last round, as it meant one of us would get knocked out of contention.  It was also unfortunate that the damned Affinity kid forced Dan into a draw, which really messed up his chances of Top 4'ing.  But yeh,I should have beaten Matt, but my deck failed game one, and he had a ridiculous start of Compost, Mongoose, Mongoose game two.  Oh well.

There was a pretty good tournout; 16 players, I believe.  The meta-game was pretty diverse, as well as strong.  It was predominantly Aggro.  I think the only Combo there was emidln's Flame Vault Stax, and there was at least one Landstill/blue -based Control.

And the obligatory Props and Slops:
Props:
Dan, for organizing the tournament.
Dan, for showing up for the sole purpose of beating me, and succeeding.
Spencer, for the decklist.
Darren, for going 0-4, and winning the Rod of Spanking (and then getting it signed by the judges).
Matt, for owning me and taking First Place.

Slops:
The DBZ tournament that, for whatever reason, had more people than us.
Aforementioned Affinity kid, for screwing with Dan.
Matt, for owning me.

And I'm out.

*edit*
Oh yeh, I played BW Confidant.

*edit2*
Yeh, it was 0-2 against Dan.  My bad.

[SpencerForHire]

8th place with a score of 2-2
I don't suppose it was a big deal losing to Richard thanks to the fact that we had identical decklists and the entire game was decided by who had the better opening hand.  It was fun just the same.  I completely agree with all props and the only slop I must add is getting land screwed with a 27 mana source deck... Three times.

[Matt]

Whenever I hear ridiculously bad manascrew claims, my first inclination is to suspect the person's shuffling.

[SpencerForHire]

I would have thought so too.  However I shuffled excessively just to make sure that wasn't the case.  I first shuffled roughly 5-8 times the regular way (shuffling name?).  Then I pile shuffled into 6 stacks to mix everything up a bit.  Then I shuffled several more times.  It was pure luck to be fair.  Bad luck. It happens.

[emidln]

Congratualations to MasterShake for winning. I don't know if he posts on TMD, but he piloted his UGW Threshold deck well. Thanks to Dan for organizing a fun tournament too.

I ended up 7th at 2-2 after scrubbing pretty hard to decklist changes last minute. Slops to me for that, and slops to me for complaining so much. Maybe even slops to me for apparently not shuffling properly because I consistenty was manascrewed (no land) in a decklist that was running 27 land and 4 moxen.

One more thing, the goblins build at the tournament was running Goblin Goons. This seems to be good tech.

I'm looking forward to the next Michigan Legacy tournament I can attend!

[SpencerForHire]

MasterShake didn't win, our own Urza_Insane did.  Piloting, like you said, Threshold.  MasterShake got second with... Threshold.

[Bardo]

Congrats Urza_Insane.  I propose that the First Place winner write a report of their experience.