Author Topic: National Tournament Report (Read 24414 times)

sk · « **Reply #75 on:** August 04, 2009, 04:02:47 PM »

Additionally, there's be a bunch of slap-jack between fortresses, arts, sites, etc being put in play first between players since everyone is going at once.

Warrior_Monk · « **Reply #76 on:** August 04, 2009, 04:19:30 PM »

who won t1 multi?

Professoralstad · « **Reply #77 on:** August 04, 2009, 04:34:56 PM »

Quote from: Ring Wraith on August 04, 2009, 04:19:30 PM

who won t1 multi?

Brandon "lightningninja" West.

Warrior_Monk · « **Reply #78 on:** August 04, 2009, 06:41:15 PM »

ok, so that makes it...
NE=2
MW=1
NC=2
SC=1

and if you include teams, that makes it 3 for NC...

Red Dragon Thorn · « **Reply #79 on:** August 04, 2009, 06:44:40 PM »

Yeah, and heres some food for thought:

Gabe Isbell
John Earley
Kevin Shride
Jeremy Kemp.

Names missing from list:

Tim Maly
Chris Bany

Anybody care to tell me what the title of the list is?

DaClock · « **Reply #80 on:** August 04, 2009, 06:51:01 PM »

North Central players that went to nationals and placed.

Red Dragon Thorn · « **Reply #81 on:** August 04, 2009, 06:54:35 PM »

Tada,

Now of course I believe Chris got unlucky, but Tim should think about playing a different deck

Looks like people have got him figured out

STAMP · « **Reply #82 on:** August 04, 2009, 06:57:20 PM »

Quote from: Professoralstad on August 04, 2009, 04:34:56 PM

Quote from: Ring Wraith on August 04, 2009, 04:19:30 PM
who won t1 multi?

Brandon "lightningninja" West.

He also won Type NW.

ejberkenpas22 · « **Reply #83 on:** August 04, 2009, 06:59:28 PM »

Never met Gabe but I have heard nothing but good things...Good to see a fun, nice, good, and humble guy winning! If You are reading this Gabe I look forward to meeting you!

Gabe · « **Reply #84 on:** August 04, 2009, 07:11:42 PM »

Quote from: ejberkenpas22 on August 04, 2009, 06:59:28 PM

Never met Gabe but I have heard nothing but good things...Good to see a fun, nice, good, and humble guy winning! If You are reading this Gabe I look forward to meeting you!

Obviously you've never met me if you believe all those things to be true.

Likewise! Where ya from?

Alex_Olijar · « **Reply #85 on:** August 04, 2009, 07:12:35 PM »

Take a look at the last name there and you might get an idea.

ejberkenpas22 · « **Reply #86 on:** August 04, 2009, 07:14:01 PM »

I am from Pittsburgh, I am Mike Berkenpas' son (my source haha) and I just started playing again after having not played since the angel wars set came out.

Warrior_Monk · « **Reply #87 on:** August 04, 2009, 07:35:20 PM »

Quote from: Red Dragon Thorn on August 04, 2009, 06:44:40 PM

Yeah, and heres some food for thought:

Gabe Isbell
John Earley
Kevin Shride
Jeremy Kemp.

Names missing from list:

Tim Maly
Chris Bany

Anybody care to tell me what the title of the list is?

and those are only the people who went to nationals. Chuck Lamp (never played him, but after he won Regions for T2-2P, I thought I'd add him to the list), Justin Alstad, Nathan Voigt, Wild Bill, James Roepke, Matt Brinkman... ... they were all missing. I'm probably forgetting somebody too.

Alex_Olijar · « **Reply #88 on:** August 04, 2009, 09:51:00 PM »

The entire northeast besides the 4 or so that went are missing. And we still took 2 titles.

XeroSplash · « **Reply #89 on:** August 05, 2009, 10:04:40 AM »

Well, Rob just made an announcement that shot down most of what I just said...
I thought he wasn't implementing it until next calendar year, but whatever.

As far as intro-prep, I think there can be a lot of different hairy situations that occur, especially with the new territory-class enhancements. I can't think of any specific examples off the top of my head, but I do remember that an intro-prep phase did not seem like the best way to go about it. Allowing the second player to draw 3 should help enough that the intro-prep is not needed. However, this could be wrong and we might need to move to something like that.

Eric "BURNed by Rob" Largent

Prof Underwood · « **Reply #90 on:** August 05, 2009, 01:04:18 PM »

OK, thanks for the info guys. I really did want to understand the downsides of "intro-prep", and I can see where you're coming from. I agree with Eric "how could anyone not" Largent, that we start with the 2nd player draw 3, and then see if anything else needs to be done.

crustpope · « **Reply #91 on:** August 05, 2009, 01:42:09 PM »

Quote from: Alex_Olijar on August 04, 2009, 09:51:00 PM

The entire northeast besides the 4 or so that went are missing. And we still took 2 titles.

lol By the SAME PERSON! I think Nuge does deserve some huge credit. Everyone is talking about Gabe, but Nurge won the same number of Categories as Gabe did.

Alex_Olijar · « **Reply #92 on:** August 05, 2009, 03:42:01 PM »

And he did it in categories most people claim as "luckbased". Pwned that myth.

Prof Underwood · « **Reply #93 on:** August 05, 2009, 03:51:13 PM »

Quote from: Alex_Olijar on August 05, 2009, 03:42:01 PM

And he did it in categories most people claim as "luckbased". Pwned that myth.

I admit that I never would have guessed that someone would do this at a National tournament. I am amazed!

BubbleBoy · « **Reply #94 on:** August 05, 2009, 04:50:25 PM »

A little bit of luck and a whole lotta playing skill; that mostly sums up closed categories.

happyjosiah · « **Reply #95 on:** August 05, 2009, 05:05:17 PM »

I agree. I think sealed really does have a lot of skill. You know most of the cards in your opponent's deck, so it is kind of like playing against a deck you know very well.

Cameron the Conqueror · « **Reply #96 on:** August 05, 2009, 05:09:06 PM »

Quote from: BubbleBoy on August 05, 2009, 04:50:25 PM

A little bit of luck and a whole lotta playing skill; that mostly sums up closed categories.

I would switch the adjectives, especially in Booster Draft. I would even venture to say Booster is 80% luck and 20% skill. I played all my games well, but with drafting only 1 battle winner, I could do little.

Sealed is IMO 50/50. There is a lot more skill because the cards are quite more static.

Closed categories are IMO a lot of luck.

TimMierz · « **Reply #97 on:** August 05, 2009, 05:13:51 PM »

If you pick blue packs in Sealed in order to get AoC, then you're doing something wrong.

And if it's 80% luck, how did Sam win both events? Is he just that lucky?

STAMP · « **Reply #98 on:** August 05, 2009, 05:20:09 PM »

Luck can impact the outcome of a single game as I found out in booster. But Sam played several rounds (forget count) in sealed. Sam is just plain good. And if not for a single mistake in their team game against Gabe/Kevin, we'd be talking about Sam winning three events.

david warfield · « **Reply #99 on:** August 05, 2009, 05:21:17 PM »

i let sam win boster

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