Meandeck Open - Columbus, Ohio - 12/26/2010

[Mark Sun]

Better late than never


WHAT: Sanctioned Legacy Tournament, $20 Entry, Swiss + Cut to Top 8


WHEN: The store opens at 10:30 AM, Registration starts at 11:30 AM. The Tournament will begin at 12:00 Noon sharp.


WHERE: The Soldiery, 4256 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43214


PRIZE STRUCTURE: Cash payout. 80% of entry will be put into the prize pool.

1st Place: 40% of Prize Pool
2nd Place: 20% of Prize Pool
3rd Place: 10% of Prize Pool
4th Place: 10% of Prize Pool
5th-8th: 5% of prize pool each

A special note: There is a minimum $200 guaranteed payout, no matter the attendance!


Also,

There will be ONE FREE $80 CASH Prize side event. If you drop from the main event, you will AUTOMATICALLY ENROLL in a FREE side event, which will be single elimination. This will start at the beginning of round five. So do not leave! [Please note that this prize is taken from the main prize pool If you do NOT want to play in the side event, you must let the TO know!

These side events have been hugely popular. We generally will also offer a second side event, to begin at the beginning of round six, for $5 entry (if the number of participants allows).


If there are any questions, let me know! We had a pretty good turnout for the tournament after Christmas last year. Also, any additional information that is requested will be updated in this first post.



Thanks,



--M

[Koby]

This looks cool, but I'm way out of reach to Ohio.

How much does it cost to enter?

[Mark Sun]

This looks cool, but I'm way out of reach to Ohio.

How much does it cost to enter?

Whoops, fucked that one up. Tried to evade the generic Copy + Paste from the last one and type my own, haha. Entry is $20.

[Media314r8]

damn it, time to dust off a ~real deck~, I don't imagine I'll be going undefeated with 12post at the meandeck.
:3

[Zay]

I'll see if i can get someone to ride up to Columbus with me, and try to make it. It will feel good to not be playing Valakut and Pauper.

-Zay

[Kuma]

I'm going to try to get a car together to go to this.

[TnA_Will]

Zay where you coming from. I'm an hour south of Columbus and have some friends another 45min south of me coming. (Circleville and Waverly are the city names) If your close to either one of those places let me know and I can find you a ride for sure!

[Zay]

Thanks anyway but I just checked my face book and I have a car load.
It is funny I should know who you guys are. I live between Portsmouth and Waverly. Have any of you guys played at Ice Age (when it was open), Castle comics (when they had tournaments), Shawnee State Gaming clubs or when they was having the weekly legacy tournament in Peebles? Or do you guys play at Bainbridge?

-Zay

[Media314r8]

Goddamn it, fucking Christmas in retail, most likely I can't do it.

[Mark Sun]

I guess I'll post to let everyone know that Survival is still legal for this event, and Time Spiral is still not legal for this event.

See everyone on Sunday!

[Mark Sun]

Night-before bump.

Tournament is tomorrow!

[Media314r8]

Best of luck to all my COlumbus and Wadsworth peeps in attendance, sadly, the THREATENER didn't contact me, so I don't believe there will be any R1G1T1 "How many cards in Hand" -"Ummm seven" "Well, thoughtseize you?..." -"Conceede" this event. I hope.

Murry Christmas ev'ybody!

[sauce]

whats smenendian playing, some BUG fish list, ship the deets

[yawg07]

Top 8:
Survival (Elves)
Survival (W/G)
Survival (Bant)
Zoo
Merfolk
BUG Fish
Welder/Mud
Aeon Bridge

Top 4:
Survival (Elves)
Zoo
BUG Fish
Aeon Bridge


Top 4 split for $88 each :D
Woot! Aeon Bridge played so well for me today.

[lorddotm]

lets get some decklists.

[Mark Sun]

lets get some decklists.

I'll have them up tomorrow.

Small event today, only 22 people showed up. I went 3-1-1 with GW Survival, sadly was paired against Aeon Bridge in the Top 8, stopped two of his kill conditions, couldn't stop the third. Unfortunate.

[sauce]

damnit 22 people is not as impressive for going undefeated.

[Mark Sun]

damnit 22 people is not as impressive for going undefeated.

It's depressing that we only had this many people, compared to last year when we pulled in close to 40 people after Christmas.

I'll have the metagame breakdown and decklists up tonight, probably only Top 4 since the tournament was rather small. These need a lot more notice -- the next date is set to be March 6th.

[Hitman82]

I wouldn't be too down because of the turnout. Last year there was a GP and all the hype that comes with that keeping the numbers up for a while. Until there's another high-profile tournament, I would expect similar numbers. Another factor was probably the date chosen for the event. While you draw more players from the local community when you plan a tournament when they're home for the holidays, you also will probably miss all the other players from surrounding areas who would have come but didn't because they were home for the holidays. I haven't been a fan of planning tournaments close to holidays for this reason. If it hadn't been the day after Christmas, I would have considered coming with another player but as it stood, it wasn't even a consideration because it was the day after Christmas.

[Media314r8]

I actually would have expected a higher turnout. It may have been to do with the venue. We get 12-20 regularly at our weekly $5 Wednesday tournaments. I would have expected to have at least half as many more, as a CASH, MEANDECK, PUBLICIZED tournament should draw people willing to travel, as well as pulling all of the occasional local players.