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I'll take the bet. If turtle wins this years nats, I will run up an escalator. Backwards.

Quote from: TheHobbit13 on February 03, 2012, 09:41:25 PM

I don't think its impossible, in fact I predict turtle will take nats this year. I can feel it in my feet. If I am wrong I will personally renounce the SQF in all its greatness and give all of my ques to RDT. I kid you not. Counter bets? 

I'll take this. If the deck that wins this years nats is a turtle deck I'll wear a Tim Tebow jersey to the award ceremony (i had to pick something that people on the boards would understand WHY it was embarrassing for me. Let's not start a Tebow discussion again.)

I was planning on using my speed deck for nats, but now I'm hands down playing a turtle deck.

I'll take the bet. If turtle wins this years nats, I will run up an escalator. Backwards.

That's crazy talk!   

I'll take the bet. If turtle wins this years nats, I will run up an escalator. Backwards.

From the last couple replies I think I can proclaim that you and I have balanced redemption. High five.

If anyone has a Tebow jersey please bring it to nats. I obviously don't have one and I am way too poor to buy one so we may have to improvise.

Quote from: lp670sv on February 04, 2012, 07:09:37 PM

Quote from: Master KChief on February 04, 2012, 03:21:57 PM

I'll take the bet. If turtle wins this years nats, I will run up an escalator. Backwards.

From the last couple replies I think I can proclaim that you and I have balanced redemption. High five.

If only it was that easy.  Many moons ago, I tried to balance T1-mp by creating a group called MASK.  It totally failed due to people who had talked all year about playing a different style of T1-mp, ended up playing Booster instead.  I suspect the same thing will happen here.  People will talk of playing turtles, and then we'll get to Nats, and everyone will still be playing Gardensciples, Sam, and Geneptians.

Ah but can these people really pass up the sight of me in a Tebow jersey? Can you imagine the self loathing on my face during the award ceremony? *shudder*

Quote from: lp670sv on February 04, 2012, 07:09:37 PM

Quote from: Master KChief on February 04, 2012, 03:21:57 PM

I'll take the bet. If turtle wins this years nats, I will run up an escalator. Backwards.

From the last couple replies I think I can proclaim that you and I have balanced redemption. High five.

If only it was that easy.  Many moons ago, I tried to balance T1-mp by creating a group called MASK.  It totally failed due to people who had talked all year about playing a different style of T1-mp, ended up playing Booster instead.  I suspect the same thing will happen here.  People will talk of playing turtles, and then we'll get to Nats, and everyone will still be playing Gardensciples, Sam, and Geneptians.

Yep. It turns out people want to win or get new cards. That's a real shocker.

I hold that the Nats winning deck will have some elements of an anti-meta deck. For a full-on anti-meta deck to win is absurd, and even placing is unlikely

 
Two years ago I made a deck in the airport, I think, that I had no testing, and no tweaking, and forgot some cards, and was one mistake to getting second place, and one block from first place. I got third in Boston with my A-Bomb turtle deck. Ring Wraith was making a similar copy last year and Nathan came and got me to critique. I fixed up his deck, and it ended up being a few cards shy of my original version, and it got third. I am not sure how close he was to second or first, but two years straight that "The Turtle", as I call it since it dominated two years at nationals, ranked. I think a fast offensive heavy deck, a balanced deck, and a turtle will rank 1-3. I'd bet that the balanced deck gets first, offensive 2nd, turtle 3rd.

Ooh, now I just need to hope that T1-2P and T2-2P are on different days. Seeing lp wear a Tebow jersey AND MKC vs. Escalator Round 2 would be awesome. But still not enough for me to abandon T2-2P in favor of T1.

I assume it will be at different times as most nationals other than MN pair them separetely, however you may have to give up your chance to defend your type 2 multi title.

If anyone has a Tebow jersey please bring it to nats. I obviously don't have one and I am way too poor to buy one so we may have to improvise.

I got you.

I don't know what size do want it to be.  I haven't bought it yet but I usually go with xl or xxl for jerseys (you can't keep it though) 

I assume it will be at different times as most nationals other than MN pair them separetely, however you may have to give up your chance to defend your type 2 multi title.

I have a good hunch that Jordan can play both t1 2p and t2 2p this year.