Blue Bell Game Day #10! Ancestral Recall to 1st! Mox Emerald to 2nd! 11/20/2010

[mr.grim]

Cant wait for this event! Pmas will have to settle for the mox,cause the a-call is mine!

[Mr. Type 4]

Unless he decided to clone himself.....

wow, if I cloned myself and we play-tested everyday for at least one hour then you guys would all be in trouble.

[internalrust]

i look forward to the event nick and it will be nice to see you again since about 6 or 7 months ago.

[Cruel Ultimatum]

Will be there...a day early to boot!

[Iron_Chef]

Here's the current standings for the 2010 Player of the Year Race! (Remember WotC, this isn't your poty race, it's mine)


2010 Blue Bell Vintage Player of the Year Standings

Addesa, Jonathan – 21
Anthony, Shawn – 45
Ata, David - 16
Barton, Brad – 23
Bauer, Mike - 34
Beaver, Jeremy – 93
Berman, Hal – 12
Berry, Craig – 3
Berse, Sam – 90
Bhagat, Zohar – 12
Bilarczyk, Andy - 6
Brown, Joe – 22
Brown, Max – 120
Bush, Don – 9
Butler, Josh – 3
Byrne, John – 13
Caffrey, Michael – 9
Carey, Brian – 74
Carey, Ed – 18
Cavanaugh, Andrew – 9
Check, Andrew – 6
Chitturi, Ashok – 26
Chou, Willis – 6
Close, Andrew – 3
Conway, Scott - 4
Crotty, Joe – 3  
Cusick, Robert – 12
Davis, Jim – 3
Davis, Joe – 18
Del Paggio, Kyle – 20
Detwiler, Nick – 52
Di Donato, Rick - 3
Di Febo, Dominic – 106
Dixon, Tom – 15
Duffy, Sean – 18
Duffy, Shea – 6
Earley, David – 13
Edwards, Rob – 80
Egan, Mike – 33
Eisenhauer, Mike - 40
Elias, Matt – 168
Evenpence, Colby – 16
Farias, Andrew – 6  
Ferrante, Andrew - 9
Ferrante, Chris - 24
Ferry, Chris – 18
Fisher, Ryan – 42
Fitzgerald, Maura – 12
Flury, Mike – 6
Folinus, Jeff – 134
Forino, Vincent – 3
Freeman, John - 0
Frias, Lloyd – 25
Frias, Marc – 39
Fritz, Asa - 21
Fulmer, Allen – 31
Gans, Dave - 11
Gans, Jake – 106
Genter, Steven - 0
Gildea, Robert - 3
Glackin, Ryan – 83
Goldberg, JR - 12
Gorzkowski, Shawn - 6
Granberry, Brad – 147
Grasso, AJ – 15
Griffiths, Shawn - 56
Grudzina, John – 30
Gumina, TJ – 21
Hangley, James – 26
Hansen, Chris – 3
Harkins, Jesse – 6
Harris, Visna – 42
Hibbs, Shaun – 6
Higginbottom, James – 4
Hinkle, Chas – 49
Hixson, Pat – 6
Hornung, Mark – 49
Howe, Josh – 6
Hughes, Scott – 15
Hundertmark, Evan – 41
Imperiale, Jay – 15
Impink, Jack - 6
Ingram, Peter – 7
Jarman, Brad - 9
Jasie, David – 6
Jones, Brandon - 6
Jones, John – 21  
Kaynes, Michael – 4
Kazhdan, Joe – 6
Keating, Brian – 6
Keegan, Pat – 3
Kelly, Francis - 6  
Klomparens, Jacob – 3
Kohler, JP – 6
Kohler, Justin – 22
Konak, Ronald – 25
Koresko, Jason – 6
Kress, Karl - 48
Lalo, Josh – 13
Lane, Brian – 12
Lanza, Shaun – 6
Lapine, Mike – 6
Lawrence, Rob – 37
Levy, Seth – 3
Lewis, Christopher – 9
Li, Ici – 12
Lieberman, Eric – 6
Lind-Caro, Sean – 6
Lopategi, Aritz – 12
Lowry, Ian – 6
Lynch, Paul – 6
Magrann , Will – 21
Mann, Corey - 6
Markowicz, Eric – 71
Martin, Jesse - 28
Marucci, Matt – 3
Mastriano, Paul – 51
Materewicz, Chris – 111
McGrail, Rendan - 3
McGroin, Will - 6
Mercer, Matt – 24
Michaels, Anthony – 15
Milligan, Leigh – 3
Mirsberger, Donald – 12
Moes, Nat – 6  
Mossman, Matt – 9
Moti, Ted – 0
Motyka, Michael – 25
Mueller, Kyle – 3
Myers, Denton – 0
Noble, Mike – 42
Nocenti, Brian – 9
Nowakowski, Steve – 73
Pace, Joe – 104
Panzarella, Chris – 7
Parisi, Bernie – 33
Parisi, Matt – 3
Parsinitz, Ralph – 51
Perez, Bryan – 3
Petrunis, Chris – 6
Pikula, Chris – 34
Picozzo, Vito – 31
Pohling, Ross - 43
Pollack, Austin - 42
Potucek, Josh – 97
Probasco, Andy – 20
Punto, Al – 3
Quick, Barry – 10
Rappa, Ryan – 21
Reche-Salas, Javier – 6  
Reitnauer, Dave –60
Richards, John – 33
Ridall, Kelly – 6
Rine, Matt – 45
Robillard, Ray - 28
Robbins, Sean – 47
Rubinstein, Aaron – 12
Rumbel, Carl – 9
Sanchez, Juan – 19
Scarborough, Josh – 3  
Scalzo, Anthony – 9
Scheffenacker, Michael – 6
Seals, Keith – 58
Sharkey, James – 3
Shay, Rich – 9
Silverman, Steve – 3
Siow, Lucas – 15
Smith, Mike – 20
Smith, Noah – 9
Snyder, Brendan – 6
Snyder, Jareth – 0
Soppeck, Ted - 6
Sorin, Roman – 9
Stefanski, Adam – 6
Stein, Josh – 9
Talaga, Andrew – 10
Tanner, Joe - 9
Thomas, Brian - 6
Thompson, Nathan – 91
Thompson, Preston - 9
TImlin, Tim – 6  
Trinks, Will – 6
Turner, Tim – 6
Van Zundert, Marius – 9
Walker, Jason – 3
Wertz, Walter – 6  
Wiglusz, Josh - 14
Wolsky, John – 55
Wurtzel, Jeremy - 6
Yang, Jerry - 6
Zullnski, Seth – 1

[forcethewill]

I see ted moti needs to step his game up

[Cunningbeaver]

I guess I really did miss that many events.

[Iron_Chef]

So does Al Punto

[Will]

Will McGroin does too.

[mikekilljoy]

Looks like the Tower car is + 1 Dixon, but minus any and all Gans.

[KingSquee]

So does Al Punto

Don't you worry good sir, Al does not plan on Punto-ing this tourney tomorrow!

(Hee hee, just noticed separate entries for me and my alter-ego in the PotY standings, I guess "technically" I should have 86 pts then, for what it's worth as Elias still has a ginormous lead.)

[mikekilljoy]

Looks like the Tower car is + 1 Dixon, +1 Gans, and - 1 Rob.

Fixed

[Hagrid]

Need we even put John Wolsky on the list???

[forcethewill]

Tower of calamities car! WooooO get there

[Bibendum]

But my Radio is busted, how will I make it without it?

[Iron_Chef]

We had 63 players show up today.  The three most popular choices were various forms of Jace Control, Aggro MUD and Dredge.

[toor]

Who top 8ed.

[voltron00x]

Top 8 info...

Quarterfinals:

Scalzo (Dredge) defeats Keeton (ANT?)

Nowakowski (Tezz) defeats Elias (Bob Tendrils)

Dixon (Keeper) defeats Carey (Oath)

Berse (MUD) defeats Reitnauer (MUD)

Semifinals:

Scalzo defeats Nowakowski

Berse defeats Dixon

Finals:

Berse defeats Scalzo

[Samoht]

i refuse to be categorized under jace control.  that is all.

[Kameli0n]

Will decklists be posted of this event?

[voltron00x]

I assume so. The last ones weren't done b/c Nick had surgery on his arm.

Nick, if you need help with this, let me know; I'd also like to do an article on the metagame from this event, if you can bring the decklists to NJ next Saturdasy.

[Teps]

Gush Cobra was pretty popular, looks like Beaver's deck is catching on pretty fast.

[personalbackfire]

Gush Cobra was pretty popular, looks like Beaver's deck is catching on pretty fast.

Yet nowhere to be found at the top tables....
Jk Beaver, I love cobra!


Cobra Stasis coming to a tournament near you!

[KingSquee]

Was hoping to finish better than 3-3 after starting 3-0, but oh well sometimes Magic happens... like mulling to four without seeing a colored mana source or fetch in any of those hands against Mr. Reitnauer Game 3 Round 5, and it was all downhill from there.

This was my first Vintage tourney since Gush was unrestricted and IMO the format is now very wide open and enjoyable. Since I got in my customary amount of testing before the event (none) I ran my usual Noble Fish with some tweaks (+ 3 Gaddock Teeg, + 3 Negate, - Mystical - Rebuild - Goyf - 3 Pierce). Reasoning for swapping Pierce for Negate was I wanted some form of hard counter available if Teeg was in play. Teeg was there to help against Gush and Jace.

But after seeing some of the decks that did well I'm thinking of switching up for the next big event I can make, probably Grudge Match II. I really like what Mr. Type 4 was running, though I did beat it round 1 (and lost to it round 6 when piloted by Mr. Morford). I also like the hot mess Mr. Hangley was running, and abusing Gush and Cobra seems fun, even though for some reason they only run 1 Fastbond, why would they DO that?  

[Prospero]

Clearly Fastbond should be unrestricted.  I believe Mr. Hornung has already started his first draft of complaint to the DCI.

[minusblindfold]

Gush Cobra was pretty popular, looks like Beaver's deck is catching on pretty fast.

Yet nowhere to be found at the top tables....

That's because i put the deck down

[personalbackfire]

Gush Cobra was pretty popular, looks like Beaver's deck is catching on pretty fast.

Yet nowhere to be found at the top tables....

That's because i put the deck down

Yes this has everything to do with you and your horrible deck choice... haha

[minusblindfold]

Just wait until i get cobra's in there. Then we'll see who is laughing.

[Seismic Assault]

I really enjoyed coming out for this tournament.  Was an awesome time catching up with people.  Looking forward to the next one big time!

If anyone is going to be in and around Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving, you should come down to Mr. Nice Guy's for some more Vintage action.  I've got some space if anyone is interested and needs a place to crash.

[Evenpence]

How do I even have any points at these?  Do I get points for trolling?  O.o