[Results] Jersey Timewalk

[Nomad]

Quick TO report for Sunday's Type 1 in Princeton.  Original Thread.  Reasonable turnout, enough to make the Walk worthwhile...
Hopefully Joe or Roger will post some comments.  See Princeton Magic website for upcoming events

Final standings after 5 rounds swiss:
Rank   Name   Points   Win%   Win%   Win%   P/W/D/B
  1   Sigman, Kevin    12   54.6667   81.8182   53.9394   5/4/0/0
  2   Levy, Seth   Â        11   69.3333   75.0000   74.2525   5/3/2/0
  3   SucksJoe, AJ    11   58.6667   100.0000   60.5556   5/3/2/0
  4   Davis, Joe   Â       11   50.6667   77.7778   54.1364   5/3/2/0
  5   Folinus, Jeff    11   49.3333   77.7778   55.7424   5/3/2/0
  6   Blake, John    10   52.0000   63.6364   57.1919   5/3/1/0
  7   Sorino, Roger    10   45.3333   66.6667   46.5758   5/3/1/0
  8   Folinus, Kevin   Â  9   58.6667   53.3333   63.1313   5/3/0/0
  9   Coss, Nick   Â Â        9   52.0000   60.0000   56.9697   5/3/0/0
 10   Magyar, Pete   Â  9   49.3333   58.3333   49.6970   5/3/0/0
 11   Parisi, Bernie   Â  9   48.0000   58.3333   47.2727   5/3/0/0
 12   Cooper, Simon   Â  9   42.6667   63.6364   42.3939   5/3/0/0
 13   Portizo, Jae   Â  7   54.6667   54.5455   55.7828   5/2/1/0
 14   Knight, Michael   Â  7   54.6667   50.0000   61.0606   5/2/1/0
 15   Close, Andrew   Â  7   49.3333   54.5455   50.8889   5/2/1/0
 16   Mullarkey, Shawn   Â  7   36.6667   50.0000   41.7614   4/1/1/1
 17   Lamb, Brian   Â  6   61.6667   40.0000   69.6970   4/1/0/1
 18   Kessler, David   Â  6   54.6667   36.3636   55.0303   5/2/0/0
 19   Carpenter, Jason   Â  6   52.0000   41.6667   51.6667   5/2/0/0
 20   Evenpence, Colby   Â  4   64.5833   37.5000   63.8889   4/1/1/0
 21   Giancarli, Joe   Â  4   58.3333   40.0000   59.0278   4/1/1/0
 22   Eves, Gregory   Â  4   56.0000   27.2727   58.0606   5/1/1/0
 23   Cooper, Harriet   Â  4   44.0000   41.6667   44.0000   5/1/1/0
 24   Osborn, Alan   Â  3   52.0833   25.0000   51.7361   4/1/0/0
 25   Sherrif's Badge, Rusty   Â  3   37.5000   25.0000   41.6667   4/1/0/0
 26   Homrighausen, Carl   Â  0   51.8519   14.2857   54.1667   3/0/0/0
 27   Stern, Ethan   Â  0   48.1481   14.2857   51.3889   3/0/0/0
 28   Smith, Stephen   Â  0   40.7407   0.0000   47.6190   3/0/0/0

T8:
Kevin Sigman (UWG Grofish) bt Kevin Folinus (Oath)
Joe Davis (AK Tendrils) bt Jeff Folinus (UWB Confishdant)
Roger Sorino (UWG Grofish) bt Seth Levy (AK Tendrils)
AJ Grasso (UR Fish) bt John Blake (AK Tendrils)

Joe Davis (AK Tendrils) bt Kevin Sigman (UWG GroFish)
Roger Sorino (UWG GroFish) bt AJ Grasso (UR Fish)

Joe Davis and Roger Sorino split in final.

EDIT: Fixed AJ's deck

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[Gekoratel]

This tournament was a lot of fun and I suggest anyone in the tri-state area to come down for these tourneys.  Even if you do scrub out there’s still drafts being run all the time.  Nomad just so you know I wasn't playing fish I was playing T1T Confindant control.  It’s a control deck that used confidant for card advantage and tinker as the main win condition.  The deck is not heavily played so I'm not surprised that you didn't recognize it.

It’s nice to see that the guy that beat me went on to make it to the finals.  Game 1 was very close with him resolving a Yawgmoth’s Bargain a turn or so after I dropped my confidant so I didn't have time to set up a counter wall.  Game 2 was also pretty tight we were both down around 2 cards I dropped a confidant which resolved he untapped and did a main phase darkblast which I countered with hardcast FoW because I wanted to either start chaining counters or hit a tutor for Time Walk.  The interesting part was during his draw step he decided not to bring back the darkblast which I thought was very odd because it would allow me to get to much card advantage for him to handle.  I had 4 turns with Confidant which hit 7 mana sources and 1 mana leak which he saw, after my fifth turn with confidant he played out Bargain again with FoW backup and preceded to go off.  It was a little more difficult than game 1 because confidant beat him down to around 8 life. 

I asked him after the game why he didn’t dredge back darkblast and it was because I had countered Yawgmoth’s Will so the only win condition left was 1x Tendrils so if he dredged it he would have no win conditions left in the deck.  I still think this may have been a misplay because with approximately 45 cards in the deck there’s only 6.6% chance of hitting it and allowing me to draw so many more cards will generally make going of a lot more difficult.

[ashiXIII]

This tournament rocked. Simon's awesome for doing these things. He makes almost no profit off them, and does them just because he's that awesome. The only problem I had with it was that I didn't get to play in the Skittles tournament due to playing in the top 4. Bad times. Good times on splitting power, though.  Jeff, as for the dredging Darkblast, it may have been a misplay, but I'm not sure. I had more than 2 cards in my hand, and I remember thinking it would only be a couple of turns before I could win. Looking back on this, I probably should've done the math in my head to see how likely I'd be to hit Tendrils (which I didn't do) and then guesstimate how likely it was that the Confidant would steal the game. If the second percentage is higher than the first, I should definitely dredge. There was always game 3 for me, also, and I likely could've kept control until time in game 2 if I had dredged it into the yard.

[Nomad]

This tournament was a lot of fun and I suggest anyone in the tri-state area to come down for these tourneys.  Even if you do scrub out there’s still drafts being run all the time.  Nomad just so you know I wasn't playing fish I was playing T1T Confindant control.  It’s a control deck that used confidant for card advantage and tinker as the main win condition.  The deck is not heavily played so I'm not surprised that you didn't recognize it.

OK, I have to say I never did anything more than glance in your direction while you were playing, somehow I'm loosely aware you were playing Confidants, probably from Gamer's Realm on the Friday night.

I was having second thoughts about running too many side events as it was a real struggle to try balancing 3 things concurrently.  Perhaps if I hadn't had so many people trying to pay entry fees with cards instead and the like at the same time it'd have been easier.
Oh well, if people like it, I guess I can manage...

Next event will preceed Waterbury by a week or two.  Ray suggested end of May for Waterbury to me.

[Gekoratel]

Yeah no offense taken I just thought I'd let you know.  I wasn't around for the skittles tournament that was being held but it seemed that the draft got started as soon as there were enough people to let it begin.  I know my brother is looking forward to showing up for draft's in the future and maybe he'll play some wacky new deck for the next T1 tourney. . . nah it'll probably be Oath.  If the next T1 event is towards the end of May there’s a chance I'll be able to make it down after finals.

I found out from my brother that the teacher who usually goes to Gamer's ended up winnning the draft.  This is cool because I helped him build his deck with some pointers on building a proper mana base.

[Kevin Folinus]

"I likely could've kept control until time in game 2 if I had dredged it into the yard." Most T8's arent timed and according to people that is a good thing for me [Inside Joke (Well not inside if you have ever played against me)].

Jeff...it is amazingly stupid you can't remember the "teachers" name..It is Jeff.

[Brainstorm]

Hey everyone, Roger Here.  I enjoyed the tournament. The prize support was great and I will be back for the next event hopefully. Things got a little hairy when the blue screen of death showed up on Simon's computer but luckily everything worked out.  Interesting highlights of my day include getting my first turn ancestral pyroblasted by my opponent in our first game. I questioned him subtly about it and he got pretty upset with me.  I would have been slightly less suspicious if he didn't "UN-sideboard" right before our first game.  It was later confirmed that everything was on the up and up.  I am a fan of deck reg sheets but if the consenses is not to use them I am fine with that.  If possible I would love if the events started a little earlier due to the drive and work etc...  Props out to Kevin for being the primary deck designer. I added some input but the deck is pretty much his.  Hope to see everyone at the next event. Do we have an exact date on that yet?
Roger

[ashiXIII]

There's an MCCC thing this Sunday for a Jet. I don't know if I'm going to be able to go, although I'd like to. It's their best prize yet.

[Brainstorm]

Alas, I can't go to the mox tourny. Does anyone know if there is something on the 1st/2nd?

[ashiXIII]

Nothing I know of... Simon should do more of these. Like, 3 a week or so. How about it, Simon?

[Murphling]

Go Kev Sigman Sigman and Soriano!

[Nehptis]

Quoted from the original thread:

Nomad - "Interesting metagame, only one Stax in Method's absence, lots of AK/Tendrils - since John and Seth were key in designing the deck, perhaps it's understandable.  Quite a lot of fish, and some Birdshit/Threshold variants."

This seems to be a re-occurring theme in the PA/NJ area.  The last MCCC tourney showed a number of Storm.decs (IT mostly) and some Fish / Grow variants doing well.  Stax/Workshop.decs were few in #.  Oath, Goblins, and Gifts pop up, as well.  So, what does this mean for the next MCCC tourney and the NJ/PA metagame in general?  IMO, players must be prepared to handle Storm + Fish/Grow variants first and foremost.  Perhaps, it is a good idea to go completely rogue and leverage the surprise factor.  As long as the surprise factor can handle speed like IT Tendrils and weenie onslaughts from Fish and Grow.

At least we are finally starting to form a metagame in the region!

[Nomad]

This seems to be a re-occurring theme in the PA/NJ area.  The last MCCC tourney showed a number of Storm.decs (IT mostly) and some Fish / Grow variants doing well.  Stax/Workshop.decs were few in #.  Oath, Goblins, and Gifts pop up, as well.  So, what does this mean for the next MCCC tourney and the NJ/PA metagame in general?  IMO, players must be prepared to handle Storm + Fish/Grow variants first and foremost.  Perhaps, it is a good idea to go completely rogue and leverage the surprise factor.  As long as the surprise factor can handle speed like IT Tendrils and weenie onslaughts from Fish and Grow.

Not quite sure why Murphling decided to dredge up this thread, but you're basically on ther money here.  MCCC this weekend was dominated by IT and Black discard strategies, although one CS stumbled (and if you saw Eddie play, you'll understand what I mean here) into the top 4 split.

At least we are finally starting to form a metagame in the region!

Certainly seems so.  And the Jersey players have a long history of producing the goods at Waterbury, so lets keep it up.  I'm running another event on July 22nd, details in this thread, hope to see you there.

[ashiXIII]

This seems to be a re-occurring theme in the PA/NJ area.  The last MCCC tourney showed a number of Storm.decs (IT mostly) and some Fish / Grow variants doing well.  Stax/Workshop.decs were few in #.  Oath, Goblins, and Gifts pop up, as well.  So, what does this mean for the next MCCC tourney and the NJ/PA metagame in general?  IMO, players must be prepared to handle Storm + Fish/Grow variants first and foremost.  Perhaps, it is a good idea to go completely rogue and leverage the surprise factor.  As long as the surprise factor can handle speed like IT Tendrils and weenie onslaughts from Fish and Grow.

Not quite sure why Murphling decided to dredge up this thread, but you're basically on ther money here.  MCCC this weekend was dominated by IT and Black discard strategies, although one CS stumbled (and if you saw Eddie play, you'll understand what I mean here) into the top 4 split.

At least we are finally starting to form a metagame in the region!

Certainly seems so.  And the Jersey players have a long history of producing the goods at Waterbury, so lets keep it up.  I'm running another event on July 22nd, details in this thread, hope to see you there.

Eddie was IT, not CS.

[TimDeluxeIt]

@Nomad:
What Version of Oath gets played there and how well does it do?

[kev]

MCCC this weekend was dominated by IT and Black discard strategies, although one CS stumbled (and if you saw Eddie play, you'll understand what I mean here) into the top 4 split.

no CS in top 8
Eddie was the only IT in top 8, so i dont think it dominated by any stretch
also i thought drain decks were more plentiful/relevant at MCCC than discard strategies

[Nomad]

@Nomad:
What Version of Oath gets played there and how well does it do?

Last I saw it boards in Simic Sky Swallowers and otherwise runs such nastiness as heavy countermagic and Null Rods main.

Not overly prevalent, maybe 1 or 2 per tournament.

[ashiXIII]

The ICBM lists, for the most part, are what see play around here. Simon, congrats on the Charlotte Top 8.