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Matt Brinkman wins the Hopper for the 11th person to pre-register. (No it wasn't an inside job, now if Nathan wins the Book of the Covenant, for the 21st person to pre-register, then you can begin to wonder.)

Right now we are at 18.

31st person to pre-register wins a Michael.

Registered

Ryan Ertmer from Oscosh WI  was #21 and wins the Book of the Covenant.

Yeah for Wisconsin players coming to the NC Regional!!!

Just like the T2 Tourney!

Here we go!!! 

Well, it wasn't my night if that's what you mean...
First round, the guy who won had a great draw with his dominants (without searching or drawing extra no less) and I couldn't draw enough early Heroes.

Second round I won at a table of 3. Nearly lost after getting my SoG/NJ (in hand) shuffled by A New Beginning. The opponent started with a Hero, changed his mind and pulled it back, I looked down at my phone for a moment and next thing I know he activated Hidden Treasures and shoved a Prophet with ANB into battle...

Third round I could not draw SoG (only one guy at the table did, using it with NJ) and lost that round too. I would not say I played poorly, but you always need a little luck to win in MP and I didn't have any tonight.

1st: Matt Brinkman
2nd: Nathan Voigt
3rd: Andrew Wester and John Earley

I was checking my cell phone frequently during our game Matt, you could have pulled it off.

Type 1 - 2 Player

1. Tim Maly
2. Gabe Isbell
3. 5 other people, but after crazy discussion we gave it to Chris Bany

Type 2 - 2 Player

All I know is that Justin didn't win, I think the winners name was Clark Something, Theision placed (2nd I think)

Thats all I got!

Really a 3 way tie for first in Multi? That's Crazy, I had to leave then, but still that's Crazy.

no head to head at all? with only 16 players and 3 rounds? I find that hard to believe, wait you said that Nathan and you played, did either of you play Scott?

Ok, If you never played Scott then regardless if Nathan did you have the same deal with 3rd place in type 1 and you go to Differential, which is a tie, cool! great job all of you. Especially Scott! Over 40 club represent! (even though I'm only 18...)

Nobody...

Here is my awesome summary of the tournament. (Sorry for any spelling mistakes, especially names.)

Type 2 Multi Player
1.) ?
2.) ?
3.) Jon Early (I think.......)/Andrew Wester (BOO!)

Notes about my games: Not much. My deck wasn't very good, I didn't have any searching cards so I really couldn't expect to play SOG every game/if at all. My second table was pretty sweet. I went last, and there was about a minute left. I quickly finished and ended my turn with seconds to spare, time just running out when Chris Bany draws.... that means we each get to go around for another turn! That normally wouldn't be "pretty sweet", but it is when someone plays A New Beginning in that scenario. My final table was against Andrew Wester, Jonathan Alstad, and Justin Alstad. That'd be a mouthful to say every time though, so we just called it "Austin vs. Alstad". It ended up being 7-6-5-4 (Andrew-Me-Jonathan-Justin)

Type 1 2-player
1.) Tim Maly
2.) Gabe Isbel
3.) Chris Bany

Notes about my games: Wow. Wow. Wow. I had a lot of close games, lets do them by the order I played them in!

Chris Bany: I don't really want to spoil his deck for anyone in the future to play it, but he made me say "bye-bye" to three of my dominants (No, they were not Glory of the Lord, Doubt, and Harvest Time.) within the first 3 turns or so. That pretty much changed the game, he won 5-4.

Tim Maly: I was really excited about this matchup. I was in 2nd, Tim was in first. I've had a lot of success/luck against Tim in the past, so I was fairly optimistic. I had a really cool opening draw, and he got a fairly weak hand. A little of this, a little of that, blah blah blah. Nearing the end I was up 4-1. I used SOG/NJ, he hasn't. I make a RA with a Captain band, and unfortunately he stopped me ;(. That left my deck with like 3 heroes left, and no usable enhancements for them! My speed defense couldn't hold out, this was another insane nail biter. Tim won 5-4.

Gabe Isbel: Ugh... best/worst game I played all tournament! I had a pretty sweet opening draw, but not the heroes I wanted. We both had to wait what seemed like a million turns before we could start on the offensive (him not drawing a hero, me not being able to get by the EC sitting in his territory because none of my enhancements matched my characters). I made two major mistakes, the first one being about half way into my game. I forgot to exchange for his doubler lost soul (I had Wanderer in my territory), so he gave me half and buried it; costing me 1 lost soul! Near the end of the game, I had just given him the shuffler. That put the score 4 (me, used SOG and NJ) to 2 (Him, still has SOG NJ). I play Harvest Time and grabbed the NT Only lost soul out of his deck (I thought that if he were to somehow draw cards and draw SOG, atleast he wouldn't be able to stop me with it). Instead of Claudia -> Simeon -> Jacob -> Captain, I attacked with Maharai -> Tribal Elder -> Jacob -> Captain. W00t, didn't have access. That ended up costing me the game (he still had one block, but I would have won next turn; before he drew SOG). Gabe won 5-4.

My other games were fairly simple, I had a better draw than my opponents.

Type 1 multiplayer
1.) 3 way tie between Scott Reuter, Nathan Voight, and Justin Alstad....

Notes about my games:
Round 1: Easy win. I had 2 "new" opponents.
Round 2: HOW DID SCOTT DO IT? Honestly, who uses a good sized defense in multiplayer (maybe 16 cards?)... and still wins? Oh well, he did it, props to him. Austin represents.
Round 3: My final game was probably my favorite. My goal was to make sure Matt Brinkman didn't win a game . 2 revealers were drawn on your opening hand, which revealed my revealer, Unholy Writ, FA, and... CM (I think. It was another dominant). The bottom line is Matt soooo cheated. He only offered 12 minutes for me to play a dominant after someone defeated his evil character, and he wouldn't use his burial to stop someone from getting their first soul. I tried to call Bill over so he could be disqualified, but it didn't work. The ending was kinda neat. The score was 3 (Matt) - 2 (Me), others don't really matter. Neither of us had played our SoG or NJ, but I was almost decked out and he didn't even put a dent in his draw pile . It was my turn, and I made a RA with ET and drew like 6 cards,  leaving 4 in my draw pile. He blocked with Women as Snares and I threw down Authority of Christ. No one could help stop me, and everyone started to cry (maybe exaggerating... just a little!) as he handed my my 3rd lost soul. Too bad I hadn't drawn NJ. Matt DON'd my Gifts, flipped his up, and RA'd with Hur. I threw down my SOG to at least get 1 more point, and he drew NJ from the gifts and won. The last 4 cards in my deck were NJ, Lost Soul, TSA (I think), and something I don't remember.


Type A
1.) Isabel Reuter
2.) Zach Chandler
3.) ?