[Results] Princeton 4th June

[Nomad]

Lower than hoped for turnout, not good to clash with local con and GP in Toronto...

Oh well went ahead smoothly and had a blast running it.  Filled in as player #20, using my 4th choice deck (Kobold Clamp), not allowing myself mulligans or sideboarding all day, and still drew into the top 8, where I finally faced disruption.

Thanks to all who turned up, you make these events really fun to be at.

Congratulations to Joe Giancarli with his "Partiot Act" deck, which appropriately screwed the competition and went home with the power.

Full results below:
June4th06 Timewalk, Standings after round 5, 6/4/2006 11:26:33 PM
 
         Op-Match   PL-Game   Op-Game   Matches
Rank   Name   Points   Win%   Win%   Win%   P/W/D/B
  1   Palkon, TJ    11   60.0000   66.6667   65.5368   5/3/2/0  (Ravager Affinity)
  2   Folinus, Jeff    11   57.3333   85.7143   58.6667   5/3/2/0  (Oath)
  3   Blake, John    11   53.3333   70.0000   59.3853   5/3/2/0  (IT)
  4   Cooper, Simon    10   54.6667   70.0000   53.6667   5/3/1/0  (Kobold Clamp)
  5   Shane, Jason    10   53.3333   75.0000   55.2489   5/3/1/0  (Stax)
  6   Giancarli, Joe    10   53.3333   66.6667   56.0714   5/3/1/0  (UWR Fish)
  7   Rose, Marty     9   50.6667   60.0000   53.1667   5/3/0/0  (2-land Tendrils)
  8   Maurice, Matt     9   42.6667   63.6364   42.5108   5/3/0/0  (CS?)
  9   Aupperlee, Shawn     7   51.6667   54.5455   49.9242   4/1/1/1  (?)
 10   Cheaterpants, John     7   45.3333   54.5455   45.9394   5/2/1/0  (2-land Tendrils)
 11   Samuel, Eddie 'The Man'     7   44.0000   50.0000   48.9091   5/2/1/0  (Oath)
 12   Lee, James     6   56.0000   41.6667   59.8095   5/2/0/0  (Goblin Aggro)
 13   Giancarli, Brandon     6   50.6667   36.3636   55.3030   5/2/0/0  (Sui Black)
 14   SucksJoe, AJ     4   47.9167   37.5000   51.3393   4/1/1/0  (Stax)
 15   Kirk, Jeff     4   43.7500   37.5000   42.7083   4/1/1/0   (CS)
 16   Martin, Ethan     3   66.6667   40.0000   65.3175   4/1/0/0  (5C Combo)
 17   Sigman, Kevin     3   54.1667   33.3333   52.4306   4/1/0/0  (Threshold Gro)
 18   Smits, James     3   48.1481   42.8571   50.0000   3/1/0/0  (CS)
 19   Smith, Stephen     0   48.1481   14.2857   51.7857   3/0/0/0  (GWB stompy)
 20   Cheats, Jeff     0   45.8333   0.0000   48.2639   4/0/0/0  (Goblin Aggro)

T8:
Jason Shane bt Simon Cooper
Marty Rose bt Jeff Folinus
Joe Giancarli bt John Blake
TJ Palkon bt Matt Maurice

T4:
Joe Giancarli bt Marty Rose
TJ Palkon bt Jason Shane

Final:
Joe Giancarli bt TJ Palkon

Draft side event, final standings:
T1 4th June Side event, Standings after round 3, 6/4/2006 11:42:25 PM
 
         Op-Match   PL-Game   Op-Game   Matches
Rank   Name   Points   Win%   Win%   Win%   P/W/D/B
  1   Cooper, Harriet     9   61.1111   85.7143   59.7222   3/3/0/0
  2   Chen, Andrew     6   66.6667   66.6667   62.8571   2/1/0/1
  3   Lefevre, Charles     6   66.6667   62.5000   61.9048   3/2/0/0
  4   Martin, Ethan     6   44.4444   66.6667   45.2778   3/2/0/0
  5   Kirk, Jeffrey     3   66.6667   50.0000   66.6667   2/1/0/0
  6   Chady, Jeff W     3   55.5556   40.0000   55.5556   3/1/0/0
  7   Lefevre, Christopher     0   75.0000   0.0000   65.0000   2/0/0/0
  8   Smith, Stephen     0   50.0000   0.0000   55.0000   2/0/0/0

Again, thanks to all who came along.  Next tournament should be July 23rd if Ray's projected 29th-30th Waterbury proceeds.

[Gekoratel]

I'd be interested to hear how UWR fish deck beat Ravager Affinity.  It seems like even if the fish deck is lucky enough to get an early Null Rod that all of affinities creatures are just better.  The games where is doesn't get turn 1-3 Null Rod I can see it having any way to win.  Also I believe that the affinity player had Oxidize in the board which is a cheap and efficient answer to Null Rod.

[matyburger]

I'd be interested to hear how UWR fish deck beat Ravager Affinity.  It seems like even if the fish deck is lucky enough to get an early Null Rod that all of affinities creatures are just better.  The games where is doesn't get turn 1-3 Null Rod I can see it having any way to win.  Also I believe that the affinity player had Oxidize in the board which is a cheap and efficient answer to Null Rod.

I'm almost certain that in games 1 and 2, he hit turn 1 null rod (i'm sure he hit it in one of the games, i can't remember which one)... it might have been turn 2 or 3, but either way, it was early enough...

[Nomad]

I'd be interested to hear how UWR fish deck beat Ravager Affinity.  It seems like even if the fish deck is lucky enough to get an early Null Rod that all of affinities creatures are just better.  The games where is doesn't get turn 1-3 Null Rod I can see it having any way to win.  Also I believe that the affinity player had Oxidize in the board which is a cheap and efficient answer to Null Rod.

Kataki, I think...