Author Topic: Worst Pairing in a Tournament ? (Read 6132 times)

hi123 · « **on:** September 19, 2010, 01:36:04 PM »

What has been your worst pairing ever at a tournament? I mean, who were your opponents, that you said I have no chance at winning!

Mine was at the Ohio Regionals, 2010. I played in type 2, and the first Game I played had theese people~

BrianGabe

Captain Kirk

Robm

It was fun seeing the stratigie of experienced players... but seriously! How could I have one in that game! Especially when It was my first time playing type 2!

At least I had fun!

Warrior_Monk · « **Reply #1 on:** September 19, 2010, 01:51:33 PM »

Kansas City Nationals. last round T2 Multi. Eric Largent, Tyler Stevens, Justin Alstad.

Rawrlolsauce! · « **Reply #2 on:** September 19, 2010, 01:52:59 PM »

2009 Type-2 Only. My first type 2 game of all time: SirNobody
2010 Type-2 Only. My first opponent: Captain Kirk
2009 NC Regionals. My only 3 losses were from SirNobody, BrianGabe, and CdBany. All of those were really close games I could have won if I played better, especially against BrianGabe.
Every other tournament: That Ring Wraith guy.

YourMathTeacher · « **Reply #3 on:** September 19, 2010, 01:55:32 PM »

I don't know that I would call this my "worst" pairing, but certainly the most ironic:

My first ever tournament (as a participant) of any kind was in late 2006 at a local on Long Island, NY, run by Roy Cruz at his Walsh Conley store. My first ever tournament category was Sealed Deck, and my first round opponent was that summer's Sealed Deck National Champion Claude Fong.

FWIW, I won 5-4, with my final rescue made by a converted Pharaoh using a multicolor enhancement. I ended up losing 4-5 in the last round to Super Smash Brothers Brawl Champion Reggie Flores (CatintheHat).

Red · « **Reply #4 on:** September 19, 2010, 01:56:26 PM »

Quote from: Ring Wraith on September 19, 2010, 01:51:33 PM

Kansas City Nationals. last round T2 Multi. Eric Largent, Tyler Stevens, Justin Alstad.

Top table?

SomeKittens · « **Reply #5 on:** September 19, 2010, 04:32:25 PM »

Nats '10: First round T1: Roy Cruz. Last round: some prideful speeddecker who wants me to tell everyone how good he is.

lightningninja · « **Reply #6 on:** September 19, 2010, 04:57:16 PM »

Gabe, ReyZen, Rob Anderson. But then, after Gabe won 2 events already, they all teamed up on Gabe and I won.

Or maybe Gabe and his teams partner (why can't I remember his name!?!?) We lost, 5-1.

robm · « **Reply #7 on:** September 19, 2010, 05:22:37 PM »

Quote from: hi123 on September 19, 2010, 01:36:04 PM

What has been your worst pairing ever at a tournament? I mean, who were your opponents, that you said I have no chance at winning!

Mine was at the Ohio Regionals, 2010. I played in type 2, and the first Game I played had theese people~

BrianGabe

Captain Kirk

And, one other guy.

It was fun seeing the stratigie of experienced players... but seriously! How could I have one in that game! Especially when It was my first time playing type 2! At least I had fun!

that other guy was me.

hi123 · « **Reply #8 on:** September 19, 2010, 06:23:32 PM »

Quote from: robm on September 19, 2010, 05:22:37 PM

Quote from: hi123 on September 19, 2010, 01:36:04 PM
What has been your worst pairing ever at a tournament? I mean, who were your opponents, that you said I have no chance at winning!

Mine was at the Ohio Regionals, 2010. I played in type 2, and the first Game I played had theese people~

BrianGabe

Captain Kirk

And, one other guy.

It was fun seeing the stratigie of experienced players... but seriously! How could I have one in that game! Especially when It was my first time playing type 2! At least I had fun!

that other guy was me.

Ohh.. I didnt know you were on the boards!

Red · « **Reply #9 on:** September 19, 2010, 09:07:26 PM »

Daniel Whitten. Nuff said.

Prof Underwood · « **Reply #10 on:** September 19, 2010, 09:21:13 PM »

My first tournament (local in Northern KY at Ben Huntsman's house)
last round T1-2p - Jon Greeson (soul seeker)

My first Nats ('07 in Kansas City)
a) T1-2p - Ben Arp (DaClock) and Kevin Shride in back to back rounds
b) T1-mp - Justin Alstad, Gabe Isbell, some other awesome player

My most recent Regional ('10 Midwest)
last round T2-2p Kirk Dennison

DDiceRC · « **Reply #11 on:** September 19, 2010, 09:56:09 PM »

It could be Sealed Deck 1st round at Nationals in Pittsburgh when I played Rob Anderson and he cheated. Then cleaned my clock.

At our locals, we often have players like Roy Cruz, Justin Sangillo, Nick Archick, Claude Fong, Reggie Flores...I have to run separate events for newbies to keep them from crawling away from the game. Our T1s are usually so good that I gave up on playing T1 regularly and focused on Booster Draft. (And I will proudly for the rest of my Redemption career have the knowledge that for three weeks I was #1 in RNRS points in BD. I promise it will never happen again.)

Smokey · « **Reply #12 on:** September 19, 2010, 10:10:55 PM »

Getting the person you play against the most in round one (or someone in your playgroup).

browarod · « **Reply #13 on:** September 19, 2010, 10:24:32 PM »

This past weekend, Districts tournament. Gabe was visiting with his Disciples deck. He ended up sweeping all 4 events, lol.

Ironica · « **Reply #14 on:** September 19, 2010, 10:32:25 PM »

A couple of years back, my friend and I went down south to a state or regional tournament (don't remember). We randomly drew numbers out of a hat and ended up facing each other. The worse part was that the deck my friend was using was actually one of my own decks (I was evening telling him what he should have done while we where playing :p)

DDiceRC · « **Reply #15 on:** September 19, 2010, 11:10:40 PM »

When I went out to Pittsburgh for Nationals, I gave Justin Sangillo a ride. We arrived late, so random pairings were made of those who missed an earlier round. Justin drew...my son Robert, who had played him many times at local tournaments.

My best story like that is this year's Nationals Booster Draft, where I played one of my sons in the first round and my daughter in the second. And my daughter (11) won the second round game, crushing my hopes of a top-3 RNRS finish. (Yes, I finished 4th in RNRS.)

Ironica · « **Reply #16 on:** September 19, 2010, 11:27:08 PM »

Isn't it the pride of fathers to have their own kids get good enough to beat them :p

Warrior_Monk · « **Reply #17 on:** September 19, 2010, 11:53:30 PM »

Quote from: Red on September 19, 2010, 01:56:26 PM

Quote from: Ring Wraith on September 19, 2010, 01:51:33 PM
Kansas City Nationals. last round T2 Multi. Eric Largent, Tyler Stevens, Justin Alstad.
Top table?

nope. second to top. Nathan Voigt, James Roepke (who was actually in 12th or something), and a couple other guys (I think one was canadian...). it was a crazy battle...

The Guardian · « **Reply #18 on:** September 20, 2010, 12:15:09 AM »

Quote from: Ring Wraith on September 19, 2010, 01:51:33 PM

Kansas City Nationals. last round T2 Multi. Eric Largent, Tyler Stevens, Justin Alstad.

That was an epic game. At NY Nats 06, I had a couple of epic T2 MP games...for one round, it was me, Redemption Rocks, Tyler S and Will Tartak. Later in that same tournament I faced Eric Largent, Kevin Shride and Chris McCravy.

For 2P, my worst pairing ever was Kevin Shride in Round 1 of T2 2P at MN Nats 05. I had a great combo deck (back before the days of Speed Camp combo decks) but unfortunately for me, Kevin Shride had recently faced Ron Sias at Regionals where Ron used a combo deck similar in concept to mine. Right as I had everything I needed to unleash my combo, Kevin uses AotL on his own blocker to give me a LS but prevented me from locking him out for the rest of the game, which he went on to win.

fyero · « **Reply #19 on:** September 20, 2010, 07:12:49 AM »

the midwest regionals...i did place second tho

Ron Sias
Gabe Isbell
Jonathan Greeson
(person i cant remember)
I beat all these ppl but then when it was for first place i went up against MY DAD...and lost

XeroSplash · « **Reply #20 on:** September 20, 2010, 11:51:27 AM »

My first Type 2 game at any Nationals was in '02 against Chris Bany. I was able to beat him and that was his only loss, so he ended up 2nd and I was 3rd (bryon was 1st with his Elders that year).

Along with the game Justin said, in 2007, T2 MP had the second to top table as myself, Justin Alstad, Tyler Stevens, and Andrew Wester. I was able to pull out a win which put me in 3rd place that year.

I know I've had other "monster" tables in T2 MP, but I can't really remember any of them (thanx to Bany for putting the spreadsheets he does have on his website).

Eric "http://www.covenantgames.com/nationals/nationals.htm" Largent

Professoralstad · « **Reply #21 on:** September 20, 2010, 12:49:39 PM »

At NC Regionals this past summer, my first round was against Martin Miller (for those who don't no Martin, he was one (the only one?) to beat SoulSeeker in T12P at Nats this year). I was using Heroless, and I needed one play to go right, and I could have won (he was running out of offense, and I knew I could stop one of the two battle winners left in his deck). He played Mayhem, and attacked, and I blocked. He played the battle winner I couldn't stop, and it turned out he had drawn them both anyway...So the final score was 5-0.

That wasn't the worst part though. The worst part is that in a big tournament when you lose big the first round, you expect to play a new player/someone who may not have played in a lot of tournaments. I was hoping I could bounce back and maybe do well the rest of the tourney, but as it turns out, Gabe had handed Chris Bany a 5-1 loss, and so I got paired up with Chris...I lost 5-1. That is what inspired the retirement of the Heroless of the North.

TheKarazyvicePresidentRR · « **Reply #22 on:** September 20, 2010, 01:12:08 PM »

Honestly, I don't often count myself out. The one I remember the most was Burton reed at a florida local many years back.

swgamble · « **Reply #23 on:** September 20, 2010, 04:08:05 PM »

it was the first tourny i played and i won the first game because my oppenent had a really bad but then the second game i got placed against roy canaday and lost five-0

The M · « **Reply #24 on:** September 20, 2010, 05:43:21 PM »

My worst pairing was in teams was when I was at a local and I played with a 7 year old against The Hobbit13 and Martin Miller.
4-0 in the first 3 turns.
Held on for a 5-1 loss.
Next round:
Matt Brinkman and someone else
5-1ish.
Last place. YAY!

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Author Topic: Worst Pairing in a Tournament ? (Read 6132 times)

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