Top Deck Games 2013 Eternal Series UPDATED WITH NEW INFO!

[Iron_Chef]

Hey guys!

As we approach the end of the year, I have some information for you!

The final event of the 2013 TDG Eternal Series will be on December 14th.  It's a Legacy tournament with 40 duals being given out as prizes.  It's the last chance you have to earn points towards qualifying for the FREE Eternal Championship event we're holding, which is Sunday, December 15th!

The championship event is a free, invite-only event for the top 32 players in attendance.  So yes, even if aren't in the Top 32, come on out, because if there are no-shows then it will pass down! It will start at 11:00 am on Sunday, December 15th.  You'll need a Modern deck, a Legacy deck, and a Vintage deck!  We will be allowing 10 proxies for EACH format, to make it easier for everyone to be able to play.  The event will progress as follows; Round 1) Modern, Round 2) Legacy, Round 3) Vintage, Round 4) Modern, Round 5) Legacy, Round 6) Vintage.  We will then cut to a Top 8, where they will play out in the same order (T8 Modern, T4 Legacy, Finals Vintage).

A few people have asked if the Eternal Weekend events count towards this.  They do not, since I wanted this event to be there for the guys who come out, month after month, and play at Top Deck Games.  I will be announcing the 2014 Vintage Series soon, so stay tuned!

Invites pass down! If you're close, come on down anyway!

Prizes:

1st: $400 credit
2nd: $200 credit
3rd-4th: $100 credit
5th-8th: $50 credit

Also, we will be holding a $1000 Vintage event on the same day, for anyone else who has made the trip down with those who have qualified.  It will start after Round 2 of the Championship event, to be available for those who 0-2 drop and still want to battle.  Entry fee is $25, 10 proxies allowed, decklists required.

See you guys there!



NAME   POINTS
Justin Kohler   70
Joel Lim   70
Thomas Dixon   69
Vincent Pau   69
Ryan Glackin   65
Shawn Griffiths   63
Seth Zullnski   61
Garrett Fehon   61
Tom Hertfelder   59
Rob Edwards   56
Matthew Bevenour   50
Lance Ballester   48
Josh Potucek   45
Mark Kinney   45
Mark Tocco   43
Sam Castrucci   40
Matt Elias   40
Jack Wang   36
Vasu Balakrishnan   36
Brad Jarman   35
Michael Motyka   34
Joey Manner   34
Steven Colby   33
Joshua Butker   31
Mike Noble   30
Bill Ling   29
Will Magrann   28
Bernie Parisi   28
John Jones   28
Christopher Pau   27
James Higginbottom   27
Sam Roukas   27
------------Guaranteed Qualified-------------
Calvin Hodges   27
Ryan Bergeman   27
Shawn Tappen   26
Allen Tran   24
Mike Egan   23
Matthew Szabo   23
Billy Mitchell   23
Tommy Evaristo   22
Avery Cayne   22
Zach Confalone   21
Ryan Layman   21
Edward Sockol   21
Jeff Folinus   21
Darrell Hundertmark   20
Michael Mahr   20
Timothy Kenney   19
Mike Tipping   19
Jake Taft   19
Oliver Greenwald   19
Jp Kohler   19
Samantha Reichert   19
Joseph Brown   19
Visna Harris   18
Joshua Southwick   18
Vincent Delorenzo   18
Ryan Johnson   18
Raymond Robillard   18
Joe Graff   17
Jack Kitchen   17
Frederick Michel   16
Josh Rhoades   16
Tim Turner   16
Nick Membrez   16
Joshua Schaeffer   16
Dominic Difebo   16
John Grudzina   16
Luke Cuccurullo   15
Daniel Hutchison   15
Christopher Hein   15
Adam Conn   15
Steve Nowakowski   15
Chris Kelsey   15
Greg Fenton   15
Scott Hughes   14
Jason Hwang   14
Christopher Lewis   13
Eric Pigeon   13
Royce Walter   13
Nick Detwiler   13
William Sees   13
Matthew Murray   13
Joshua Richards   13
Allen Fulmer   13
David Ata   13
Daniel Lessoff   12
David Fleischmann-rose   12
Timothy Mcginty   12
Abhishek Choudhurt   12
Kitchen Mesko   12
Mike Midiri   12
Nicholas Dijohn   12
Jake Moldowsky   12
James Johnson   12
Adam Ezegelian   12
Christopher Varosky   12
Kieth Seals   12
Richard Sim   11
George Ingoglia   11
Aj Grasso   10
Michael Defiore   10
Allen Abendroth   10
Jonathan Lacker   10
Alex Bastecki   10
Mike Giaimo   9
Kyle Dodge   9
Bernard Liberati   9
Mario Diliberto   9
James Wohlmacher   9
Cliff Clark   9
Scott Seligman   9
Adam Najman   9
Charles Hinkle   9
Pedro Quintero   9
Gabriel Mcmullen   9
Andrew Waxtel   9
Zacharie Silverstein   9
Mylus Honsman   9
Roy Reese   9
Bryan Smith   9
Jonathan Geras   9
Edward Carey   9
Eddie Slimak   9
Evan Hundertmark   9
Brett Krodel   9
Jose Ramos   9
Andrew Varsallona   9
Paul Mastriano   9
Allan Tran   8
Bastien Lebayle   7
Case Johnson   7
Hale Simon   7
David Matthews   7
Andrew Close   7
Eric Johnson   6
Ian Hendry   6
Omar Hernandez   6
Eric Markowicz   6
Patrick Dickson   6
Nick Eldering   6
Jamie Poole   6
Ralph Betesh   6
Ben Katz   6
Frank Glenn   6
Jack Ridall   6
Mark Strassman   6
Matthew Long   6
Kyle Black   6
Nate Coy   6
Chris Kvartek   6
George Magou   6
Ryan Fisher   6
Chris Laiacona   6
Scott Ranweiler   6
Mike Kovalchick   6
Joe Davis   3
Mark Mcgarry   3
Michael Nicotra   3
Ian Phillips   3
Louis Moll   3
Dan Glantz   3
Michael Ruggiero   3
Zachary Schulz   3
Alexander Finchler   3
Mark Strassman   3
Charles Williamson   3
Brandon Thrasher   3
Brandon Pascal   3
Drew Rosen   3
Brian Carey   3
Michael Herbig   3
Minhaj Abedin   3
Roland Chang   3
Andrew Fleming   1
William Trinks   0
David Mccrae   0
Jeremy Hines   0
Julian Palermo   0
Justin Okeefe   0
Dylan Grimes   0
Derek Miller   0
Nick Coss   0
Jonathan Leone   0
Ryan Mckinney   0
Adam Twardowski   0
Nicola Dipasquale   0
Erik Mulvaney   0
Vito Picozzo   0

[A.-1.]

Wow. Just wow. I'll try my hardest to make every remaining Vintage event. No promises about the other formats though.

[John Jones]

Wow. Just wow. I'll try my hardest to make every remaining Vintage event. No promises about the other formats though.

Note: Comes from the guy who literally missed 1-2 events in the past 2 years.

[Grantselrich]

The idea of a 3 format super tournament is crazy cool.

[Pokey]

Great!  I can't wait to play modern!  



On a serious note, slightly higher stakes seems cool.  Also, I would wager that GP Charlotte had more of an effect on last month's attendance than proxies or whatever else.

Where will the legacy tournaments be announced?  I may be interested in those if they don't conflict with vintage.

[Kameli0n]

What is modern?

[Thecheese]

I just bought a modern deck. I'm in for this

[mr.grim]

Oh happy days!
In the words of the Joker, " It's simple play the vintage"!

[Cruel Ultimatum]

Good think I sold my legacy cards for vintage cards with the upcoming proxy changes 

Anyway I love the changes and the triformat event sounds sweet.

[Thecheese]

Is there a top 8 at the end of year format. If so, does the higher seed get to choose the format?

[Samoht]

Wondering the status of this event? It's been getting bantered about on Facebook by the guys in the region and we're a little fuzzy on the details. Any word coming down the pipeline? Psyburat? Iron_Chef?

[psyburat]

Wondering the status of this event? It's been getting bantered about on Facebook by the guys in the region and we're a little fuzzy on the details. Any word coming down the pipeline? Psyburat? Iron_Chef?

We're working on finding a weekend for it, hopefully in December.

[Calvin240sx]

Wondering the status of this event? It's been getting bantered about on Facebook by the guys in the region and we're a little fuzzy on the details. Any word coming down the pipeline? Psyburat? Iron_Chef?

We're working on finding a weekend for it, hopefully in December.

2nd wknd will be open to run it.....

[Will]

Wondering the status of this event? It's been getting bantered about on Facebook by the guys in the region and we're a little fuzzy on the details. Any word coming down the pipeline? Psyburat? Iron_Chef?

We're working on finding a weekend for it, hopefully in December.

2nd wknd will be open to run it.....

I sincerely hope that this isn't the decided upon date, I have a final that Saturday.

[TakeYourTime]

While my goal is to work towards sanctioned Vintage, it is obvious that there is a lot of resistance from a lot of players (18 players last month).  That being said, I would rather see people play Vintage then not, so for the remainder of the year all of my large Vintage events will allow 10 proxies (all of them for free).

I appreciate the events where proxies are allowed. I just started vintage this year, so the proxies really help. Just to give you some perspective, proxies allow me to easily step into the vintage scene and I feel that this helps keep the meta healthy (otherwise we'd see nothing but hatebears from new players). Seeing other players with power and getting a feel for what a real vintage deck feels like gives me more motivation to collect real p9.

2nd wknd will be open to run it.....

I believe that there's a somewhat large Legacy tournament in Philadelphia on December 14--just something to keep in mind.

[Will]

Any updates?

[psyburat]

Any updates?

Nope.

[Iron_Chef]

We'll be running it December 15th, as to not conflict with the Philadelphia Legacy Series Championship that we're running on the 14th (that large Legacy event).

I will post current standings by the end of the weekend, if not today.

-Nick

[Thecheese]

Is there going to be a regular vintage touney in december?

[Iron_Chef]

There will not.  There "might" be one in between Christmas and New Years, but I'm still figuring out the details.

[Iron_Chef]

Updated!

[A.-1.]

Free? 10 proxy for each format? I would be stupid to not borrow Legacy and Modern cards.

[vaughnbros]

This sounds awesome and I will definitely be there.

[Worldslayer]

Question -

 What's the time allotment between formats like? If I own four tarmogoyfs, but I'm playing them in two formats, am I going to need four goyfs or eight (proxy or otherwise)? A.k.a. am I going to have time to desleeve/resleeve, or do all the decks have to be ready to go from Round 1?

Statement -

 Dammit. I was retired until I saw this. How in the hell did I sneak fifth? Guess I need to put on my robe and wizard hat one more time...

[vaughnbros]

Question -

 What's the time allotment between formats like? If I own four tarmogoyfs, but I'm playing them in two formats, am I going to need four goyfs or eight (proxy or otherwise)? A.k.a. am I going to have time to desleeve/resleeve, or do all the decks have to be ready to go from Round 1?

Use the same sleeves, I just fixed your problem

Statement -

 Dammit. I was retired until I saw this. How in the hell did I sneak fifth? Guess I need to put on my robe and wizard hat one more time...

Ummmm whose going to kill people with geist in vintage then if you actually retire?

[Kameli0n]

Does the standings of the top 32 have any relevance at all?

[jlim17]

I think I may have a deck for this event. Is Merfolk viable in modern?

[poggydude]

merfolk has been doing quite a bit better in modern, joel.  Master of waves is, in my opinion, the main reason to play the deck.  I like the splash black build because moderns counterspells are really poor comparitively you usually will want thoughsieze to stand for the disruption role.

[Thecheese]

I think I may have a deck for this event. Is Merfolk viable in modern?

So merfolk vintage, merfolk legacy, and merfolk modern.......one trick pony 

[jlim17]

Standard too! Four tricks. One pony.