An announcement can be found here:
http://norcalmagic.proboards79.com/index.cgi?board=winners&action=display&thread=1185096546&page=119 People came to play at Adventures in Games.
The field was
GAT x 7 or so (I am guessing)
Sliver Flash x 3 or so
2 Stax
1 Sensei's
2 Mono Black
1 ReapLace
and a few I didn't see.
Top 8:
Webster (GAT) Vs Ricky (GAT) Ricky wins
Paul Gaither (Sui-Black) Vs LotusHead (Serum Domination) Paul wins
Michael Painter (5c Stax) vs Junior (Sliver Flash) Michael wins
Luis Scott-Vargas (GAT vs Mike Saroca (Sliver Flash) Luis Wins
Top 4
Ricky Vs Paul: They are teammates, so Ricky scoops to Paul for a prize split if all works out
Michael Vs Luis: Luis Wins in three intense games
Finals:
Luis vs Paul.
Game 1 ended badly for Luis
Game 2 ended badly for Paul
Game 3 ended badly for Luis
Paul wins his first ever piece of power! Congrats!
Austin and Junior get paired up round one. They ID and play for fun.
Round 2, Junior owns Sui-Black with SliverFlash
Daniel and ?Josh? get paired against each other. Bummer.
From what I hear, the dude on the right was playing ReapLace, but he also happens to be the guy that has that blank foil card I mentioned in the Pimp Thread on SCG.
I RFG Serum Powder's openning 7 and am rewarded with 2 Mox, 2 Pithing Needles, 1 Shop, 1 Trinisphere on the play. The strength of my RFG'd 7 made Web mull to 5. Pithing Needle naming Strand. Pithing Needle naming Delta, Shop Trinisphere Go GG.
But alas, Web won game 1 and 3.
ShoeBoxTony took this pic. Hey, that's me!
My field. and for the record, my playmat is more pimp than Web's. Suck on that!
Jeff the Fob's Game Face
Michael Painter and his crappy ass proxies.
Erik Brown, armed with T2 decks and Block Decks had no idea there was a T1 tourney today. Doh!
Flash all you want Fob, I got a Trike on the field!
Our first game lasted literally
one second after mulliganing decisions were made. Land, Mana Crypt Flash, Hulk scoop.
My Leylines slowed him down enough to not kill me games 2 and 3. T.T <=- Fob crying
Junior Pwned Daniel's BombermanSensor build with a NIX on BLACK LOTUS for Teh Win! (not this game, maybe I have a pic. More pics soon, and Lists will be posted by the event organizers.
Actual documented footage of Luis vs JefftheFob. Turns out it was a ruse. Fob decided to be a scoop monkey to Louis's GAT skills.
Death by Nix. Junior had Flash and Echoing Truth in hand.
That's uh, a Dystopia for the GAT Matchup!
Double Flux Bitch! and 4 Saproling tokens! Austin lost in the end on turn 4 of extra turns.
That's THREE Sphere of Resistances on the field.
Just how does Sui-Black win a tourney? With these hands!
Don't worry, in the end, Paul picked Ancestral Recall.
This got Mulliganed. I'm no GAT player, but I thought that hand was alright. Luis? Care to explain? (Or Web on Luis's behalf?)
Luis just couldn't get a Tropical Island to stick. He had 2 Dryad's in hand for several turns, which could have been BIG by now.
My mini-report:
Austin and Junior had GAT and Flash in their possession, so I had to make a deck. I threw together Serum Domination (see Newb thread) and had a blast goldfishing it.
As I worked today until 1:30, had to pick up Junior and Austin 20 miles away in the opposite direction of the tourney, we were cutting it close to make the 3pm start time. Buy cutting it close, I mean we would be a solid 20 minutes late. I had Junior call to have them hold up for us, and Junior said if we are late we get a game loss. I had Austin call them up and Austin said they would give us a game loss for being late. I called them up and got them to just hold up the damn thing for 20 minutes. The players would wait. I was sure of this. They agreed (after I gave them info on where I actually was).
Walking into the store, my real life sideboard was still the "Claw"'s sideboard (ghostly prisons, etc), and had to scramble to get SOMETHING in there I could cast.
Luckily, as everyone was already seated with opponents, the store was (presumably) unwilling to reset the matchups at the moment, so Austing Vs Junior, LotusHead=Bye. Whoot!
I made my SB not completely suck. Props the the organizers for not giving us game losses.
Round 1: Bye
Round 2: Mono-Black by someone who didn't win the tourney. The kid scooped to Smokestack abuse, but only was actually locked out in one of our two games. As my Ruby got jacked last year, I need a Ruby, so I waited until after the matchup slip was signed to tell him what was up with Stax. Stax wont win unless it wins. If he waited out the Smokestack, I would be topdecking, and he would have 4 cards in hand, topdecking.
Go me.
Round 3: Ochoa.
Game 1 he kills me. He wins die roll, starts land Mox Mox, and in response to my play, casts Cunning Wish for Ancient Grudge because he has an Ancient Grudge about me killing him those first 5 or so matches. It works.
Game 2 I kill him. See above pics.
Game 3 he kills me. He got Ancient Grudge in openning hand (perhaps that's why he kept it!) and I die.
Round 4: Jeff Huang (Jeffthefob) Flash Slivers.
He wins die roll, and after mulliganing decisians, game one is over within one second of time. (He knew I was playing SHops)
Game 2: I mull a leyline hand into a better leyline hand, which gets nerfed by that one free spell (reverent silence?), but I somehow get a Trike on the field. And a factory. Apparently, that is good enough.
Game 3: Leyline, bounced, wasteland recusrion on green, a smokestack/Sphere or something, and Jeff bolted himself 5 times in a row with his mana crypt (WHEW!!!!).
Round 5: ID with Paul
TOP 8! I played 2 matches so far! (not to be a jerk to my round 2 opponent, but he shouldn't have scooped so quick. I was at 4 to his 20 one game even. I know I am not afraid of the "Sui Black Matchup", but....
Paul Gaither vs Me. SHOP AGGRO vs SUI BLACK.
I mull a crap hand, I get a worse hand with Serum Powder, and Mull into somthing like my first hand without the Sol Ring in it.
I die (I don't remember this game, but I am sure it involed 2 Hymn's by turn 2. Maybe a Hippy)
Game 2: I Serum Mull into 7 that put Shop, Serum, Sol ring into play, followed by a Razormane Masticore in play next turn, with Trike and Random card in hand.
I die cuz I scrubbed and Paul didn't. (I had a SmokeStack with 3 counters, and I upped it to 4 when I shouldn't have, had Factory and Ancient tomb on field to block negator but did something else, etc)
I died.
For my top 8 performance, I won NOTHING (it's all good, I did win a door prize of a foil Tog)
