GPT in Indianapolis 4/15 results!

[Seraphim3577]

Only 12 people showed up for this event as it was a side-event for the 2hg ptq.

the 12 decks were:
2 Goblins (1 R/w, 1 mono-red)
2 4c Threshold
1 Alluren (Dyole Bledsoe)
1 Salvagers (Tash)
1 Suntower (R/G Stax, Emidln)
1 U/W/r Landstill
1 Hanni-Fish
1 Mono-Red Burn
1 Gaea's Might Get There (Domain Zoo)
1 G/b Rock

Top 4 was: 
1 R/w Goblins
2 Stax
3 Salvagers (lost to gobs)
4 Alluren (lost to Stax)

Goblins took the finals in 3 very close games.
I'd go into more detail, but i'm a little scarred by the tournament.
 

[Tash]

Goblins took it all? Wow, I really thought that Suntower would have owned up on it.

I'm working on my report for it, and the Gaea's might get there deck was really called 'Dark three deuce', made by Watcher487 over on the source. (The guy playing it was Kender_Leech on the source)

[Seraphim3577]

Goblins drew into 3x vial and infy land in game 3 which is apparently amazing against smokestax.

He won game 2 based off dumb luck since he had the win for 3 turns in a row but didn't see it with his opponent at 1.  He had a vial at 5 on the board and 1 mountain and drew seige-gang off the top to vial out and sack the tokens for the smokestack.

[emidln]

Actually, the play that he missed was Smokestack @ 2 with Mountain, Port, and Vial @ 4 out. He needed to stack adding a counter to vial, then smokestack sacs. He should have floated 1R and sac'd the lands, incremented vial, tapped to play SGC and killed me. But he didn't and this situation repeated for several turns. Amongst my many play mistakes, I messed up Barbarian Ring math which would have won me the game (where I played the land per turn from the yard before activating ring about 12 turns before I lost and was forced to activate factory to avoid death by mana burn).

Anyway, they were really close games and mistakes were definitely made by both sides. I hope I get a chance to settle the matchup at GP: Columbus since I beat the guy 2-0 in swiss. Perhaps we'll meet in early rounds and make fewer mistakes.

[Mr. Nightmare]

The fact that this GPT had 12 people pisses me off, since I know we'll have around 60 or more for the one in Rochester.  We had more people at our weekly Legacy event this weekend.  Nothing against anyone who does well, but winning 3 byes for winning a 12 man seems pretty weak to me.

[Seraphim3577]

The big problem for the turnout stems from the fact that there were 3 competing gpts on the same day.  With this many at any given time, it will be very difficult to get a high turnout, especially when Indianapolis is far from the middle of any large eternal scene.  The competition for the byes was pretty steep, though. 

I'm still scarred by the tournament considering my results, but I seem to do that (top 8 one large tourney, lose horribly in the next).

[Caboose]

Also, Indianapolis had a TBA date on the WotC site. I will NEVER attend a non-Gencon tournament in Indiana because of this. Completely unprofessional...I should report the owner to the DCI for fraud.

[Tash]

They did post it on the website for Passtimes, you just had to look a little harder instead of checking the easy list. That's what I did.

[Anarky87]

12 people, eh? We had that many people show up at the Parkland tournament to play for Trops. Had we combined forces we could have doubled the attendence to 24!! ZOMG.

[UrDraco]

The GPT in North Carolina only had a whopping 13 people show up. 4 rounds swiss that cut to a top8. From what I can remember the top8 was:

Angelstompy
Iggypop
UGr Thresh
Kobolds
B/W Disruption
UGw Thresh
RGbeats
and my super secret tech