Top 4's & Top 8's - POST RESULTS HERE

Like the old Top4/8 thread, this one is dedicated to recording the Top 4 and/or Top 8 finishes at local tournies. This information gives us a clear picture of what decks are doing well, where, and how consistently. This is extremely important in developing a defined metagame, and in accurately determining a tier structure for the new format. Everyone is encouraged to be as dilligent as possible in accurately recording local tournament statistics.

Please note that this thread is only for listing the decks which placed well, not for posting full decklists. There is a seperate thread for gathering winning decklists, which can be found here. Please use that thread if you have full decklists available for your top-placing decks. Also, please make an attempt to keep commentary to a minimum - this thread is for the collection of hard data.

When you post results, please make an effort to format your post in something resembling the following format:

Date: mm/dd/yy
Location: City, ST
Number of Players: #
Top 4 (1st-2nd split, 3rd-4th split)
Deck Name 1
Deck Name 2
Deck Name 3
Deck Name 4

EDIT: Please keep this thread limited to events containing 16 or more entrants. Announcement

09/24/04
Albany, NY
28 ppl

1st - UW budget Fish (no tundras) - unreg
2nd - WG Fat Stompy - Xenoq
3rd - 2 Land Belcher with Welder - unreg
4th - Survival Control - Me

Albany, step it up a notch! Both John C. and Zi placed. And John C. tried to pay as a Junior!

Date: 9/26/2004
Location: Rochester NY, Millenium Games
Number of players: about 37
We run our tournements a little different. Top decks:
R/G Survival
ATS
Suicide black splash green

Date: 9/26/04
Location: Syracuse, NY, Altered States
Number of Players: 16, I think
1st/2nd Split:
Psycatog (munkie)
U/w using Morphling and Engineered Explosives(Geoff, unregged)
3rd/4th:
UGMadness (Garvman)
ATS (Diablos)

EDIT: Updated Geoff's deck, and his name. -Di

Date: 09/30/04
Location: Mount Vernon, WA
Number of Players: 19
Top 4
1st - G/W Beats (played by yours truly)
2nd - Raffinity
3rd - Broodstar Affinity (with Platings)
4th - Mono G Stompy

Somehow, Landstill got knocked out of the top 4 yesterday, which was a strange event.

10/1/04
Albany, NY
23 players

1st - MBC ala Torment era... I know... WTF! Though it did wreck Belcher.
2nd - Life Plunge
3rd - GW Beats (it may be time to seriously consider this deck)
4th - Sligh (Cursed Scroll, Lavamancer build still playing Ball Lightning)

Fish and SuCo drew and didn't make it because of that draw!

Date: 10/2/04
Location: Houston, Texas (Horizon Games)
Number of Players: 24
Top 4

1st - The Rock(unreg)
2nd - Gobblin Sly (shadowsky)
3rd - The Rock(unreg)
4th - U/r Fluke Fish(unreg)

10/2/04
The Lucky Frog in Annandale, VA
Players: 21

ChK was allowed.

Top 5-8:
Solitaire (SpatulaOfTheAges)
BUG control (Ewokslayer)
Goblin Sligh (AzN Lightning)
Wildfire (Gumbi)

Top 4 (Split):
Wayfarer WW with E. Tutor (calosso)
ATS (BoTS)
Pox (Mad Zur)
Goblin Sligh (unregged)

Magic: Type 1.5-10/3/2004-Madness Games McKinney 10/3/2004

Location: Madness Games McKinney
511 N. Central Expwy.
McKinney, Texas 75070
United States

19 Players

Top 2 Split:

Welder Survival played by Rex P Kyle Jr.
Cruci BBS played by yours truly

3-4
Stompy played David P Sutherland
Tradewind played byChristopher M Houston

Massachussets
10/5/04
16 players

Top 8
1. UW Control
2. The Rock
3. BBS
4. Belcher
5. BBS
6. UG Madness
7. UW Control
8. Monogreen beats

10/9/04
Horizon Games
Webster, Tx
24 People
T4
1.ATS/w(unregged)
2.The Rock(unregged)
3.White Weenie(ehko)
4.UG Madness(me)

Massachussetts
this was another larger tourney connected to the first one i posted
10-13-04
40 people
around 20 of these peeps were just playing with a deck that they play with casually and not metagamed at all. The top 8 except Zilla Stompy were all very good players
1. UW Control
2. Goblin Sligh
3. Landstill
4. Landstill
5. Goblin Sligh
6. BBS
7. Monogreen beats
8. Zilla Stompy (very weak player but netdecks from here)

Date: 10/15/04
Location: Albany, NY
Number of Players: 16 (weakest turnout we've had in a very long time)
1st: MunkieTog (BurningTog) - Me
2nd: ATS no Tutor - Norm
3rd: WW with Vial and P-Wave - unregged
4th: Belcher w Plunge and Spoils, no Gamble - Afro



Edited By peter_rotten on 1097985545

10/16/04
Horizon Games
Webster, Tx
20 People
T4
(top 2 was a draw)
1-2.ATS(unregged)
1-2.ATS(Overdosed_on_Viagra)
3-4.Wake(shadowsky)
3-4.Goblin Sligh(me, was borrowing ryan the MIZOR's deck)

This event was pretty crappy because the pairings were total ass. Apparently it was "Traditional Swiss" but I played nothing but scrubs. There were like 7 4-0s. Three of them were 8-0 and two were 8-1 (including shadowsky), the two 8-1s had to be randomly chosen to see which one made it into top 4.
I must also mention that A ZOMBIE DECK (OMGWTFBBQGRASS) was one of the other 4-0s, played by some young kid.

10/16/04
The Lucky Frog
Annadale, VA
23 players
4 rounds of swiss
Top 8
Ankh Sligh(unregged)
Land Still(unregged)
BUG control(ewokslayer)
WW(calosso)
Top 4 split but was played for results
BBS/g (CavernNinja)
U/W Scepter (Finley)
Top 2
ATS (BoTS)
WW (Obfuscate Freely)

10/16/2004
Game Empire
San Diego, CA
31 Players

5 rounds of swiss
Top 4:
1st: Landstill (by Broken Nut)
2nd: GRw Scepter Gro (unreg: Chris Montero)
3rd: Old School Sligh (unreg: Gene ??)
4th: Super Gro (DavidHernandez)

1st and 2nd were undefeated after 4 rounds and decided to ID into 1st and 2nd. The GRw deck is undefeated 3 weeks in a row and has taken 1st every time except this one (because of tie breakers).

I sat next to BrokenNut every match and watched his Landstill build (U/r/w) take down some good players. He earned every match win.

I've seen some requests for decklists. If this is not desired, I will refrain from posting them in the future...just let me know.

Landstill: standard U/r/w build replacing Mana Drains with Counterspells. Ran 3 Lightning Bolts and 3 Nev's Disk (with the fourth in the sideboard). Ran Swords to Plowshares and Fire/Ice, along with 2 Teferi's Response in the main.

G/r/w: I have this list but have not obtained permission to release it. I'll ask Chris if he minds.

Sligh:
4 Jackal Pup
4 Mogg Fanatic
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Incinerate
4 Chain Lightning
2-4 Price of Progress
4 Fireblast

3 or 4 Cursed Scroll
4 Ankh of Mishra
2 Powder Keg

I didn't see any more of this deck after it killed me...

Super Gro:

4 Quirion Dryad
4 Werebear
2 Mystic Enforcer

4 Force of Will
3 Daze
3 Misdirection
3 Stifle
2 Counterspell
1 Merchant Scroll (this should be a Mystical Tutor in my opinon)

4 Accumulated Knolwedge
4 Brainstorm
4 Opt

4 Swords to Plowshares

3 Island
4 Tundra
4 Tropical Island
4 Flooded Strand
2 Windswept Heath
1 Forest

Dave.

Decklists are most welcome, Dave, but they belong in this thread's sister thread.
Cool. Thanks.
-D

10/23/04
Horizon Games
Webster,Texas
23 Players
Top 4 split
1. Hulk Smash(me)
2. Enchantress(unregged)
3. U/R Control(unregged)
4. Sligh(unregged(

10/29/04
Gamer's Guild
Albany, NY
28 People

Top 4 split:
Aluren (Unregged, wtf?)
White Pile, A.K.A I Beat Red.dec (me)
White Weenie (unregged)
U/w Control (FyndhornBrownie)



Edited By CorruptedAngel on 1099265503

The Lucky Frog
Annandale, VA
24 People
4 Rounds swiss cut to Top8

Top8
Cavern Control (CavernNinja)
ATS (BoTS)
U/W Scepter (finley)
UG Madness(unregged)
Top4
Ravager (Obfuscate Freely)
Goblin Sligh (unregged)
Top2 Split
Solitaire (Deep6er)
RG beats (unregged)

The RG beats deck was very similar to Zilla Stompy, and I refuse to call it scrompy.



Edited By CavernNinja on 1099267299

10/30/04
Horizon Games
Webster, TX
20 Players

Top 4 Split
Bio-Enchantress(me)
Ponza(unreg)
Turbochant(unreg)
B/u/g Control(unreg)

Kinda awesome my team all top 4ed.
Crazy tournement where all tier 1 decks were dropping 0-2.