CFB $3K event and the last of NorCal GPT

[Krimson Viper]

I genuinely wish the guys at CFB would pull their heads out of their ass and properly promote their events. Maybe more people would attend, like when I posted their first $3K event exactly a year ago and got their record high attendance. I'm only promoting this one because I might attend and would like a healthy amount of people to attend. The more rounds of Magic, the higher the justification I get to drive an hour and a half and drop forty dollars to play.

CFB $3K guaranteed payout with possibility of increased payout based on attendance.
Date: 02/26
$40 buy in, $35 buy in if pre-registered.
Comp REL
Opens at 10AM, begins at 10:30AM
Payout is store credit.
$1,000 First
$500 Second
$250 Third and fourth
$125 Fifth to eighth
$75 Ninth to sixteenth

http://channelfireball.crystalcommer...gacy_3k/533223

The last of Legacy GPTs in NorCal. GPTs are no longer a thing to WotC because fuck Legacy players
Great Escape Games in Sacramento
Date: 04/09 & 05/14
Additional info pending

[Fox]

Just to give some perspective to any in/around Portland interested in the 2/26 event at CFB (I think that's the one right next to the airport):
-best southwest flight I've seen is $73 going there Sat 2/25 departing 0645. best return flight (same airline) was Mon 2/27 departing 0645.
-driving looks like a 10.5hr ordeal each way.
-amtrak is....interesting I guess. The travel time starts at 1425 (2/25) and is an overnight trip arriving a few miles south of CFB at 0955; so technically enough time to get to the venue before 1100. The nice part is that a train also departs 2/26 at 2023 arriving back in portland at 1532 on Mon 2/27, so no need for a hotel at any point. The real issue, aside from travel time and tight timing window on either side of the 3k, is the cost assuming you actually wanted a bed, a table to play, and the ability to store cards in a private room (as opposed to under a seat or as checked baggage)....with two people in one room (2 beds per room) you'd be looking at $500 each roundtrip....and it doesn't matter if you had a party of 4 or more, it's still $500 per person. Other than not needing a hotel room and having a place to play magic/drink the beer the whole way, it comes with a shower and complementary meals.

Same info for the guys in Seattle:
-Southwest from Seatac is $210 on 2/25 and $202 on way back 2/27.
-driving takes on 3h or so.
-roughly $70 more but on the same train; your departure would be 0935 (2/25) and back in Seattle at 2012 (2/27).

Even with cheap plane tickets from PDX you're still looking at 2 nights in a hotel or saving more money at cost of ~20 hours in a car. While the train dodges hotel and almost all dining costs, it's still throwing down $500 (maybe only $400ish, see below)...but get enough people and you get to jam more legacy than you'd ever want (with private tables), potentially getting a seattle/portland mix.

Not as useful to the Seattle crowd but a $250 train ride down could be combined with $180 flight back to Portland at 2140 (2/26) or the $73 at 0645 (2/27) - I think this is the most cost efficient non-driving route factoring out cost of +1 day in hotel and cost of 4 meals preceding 3k were one to take the plane both ways.

Any idea how late previous 3k events have run?

[Krimson Viper]

Thanks for all that travel info! They used to start at 1PM, and did six or seven rounds, I can't remember clearly. Not going to lie, the whole hour and less than fifteen extra minutes until the next round. Maybe eight hours? Yeah, Bay Area players are slow ones, lol.

I would advise against Amtrak if it's arriving at 9:55AM the day of. The event starts at 10:30. Assuming you make it to the train station at exactly 9:55, you gotta deal with people traffic, get a car, deal with traffic(yes, Cali is overpopulated. People need to move out yesterday) and fill out deck lists and deal with the line at the event.

[Krimson Viper]

Important update on CFB's event: time has changed from 10AM store opening and 10:30 event starting to 10:30AM opening and 11AM starting. Important news for people who wouldn't mind taking the train from Portland.

One more thing, anyone looking to carpool? I live in the 707 area code.

[Krimson Viper]

One hundred and four people tournament and was paid down to thirty second place. I got destroyed playing Shardless. Plenty of punts, but my opponents played well as well. I'm still waiting on Great Escape to give out info and CFB announced today that they are going to have GPTs that are $1Ks as well, and they will be tracking in store progress to crown best player of the year. Big things happening at CFB.

[Krimson Viper]

Oh, I forgot to mention that because attendance was over a certain limit, prize pool jumped from three thousand to over four thousand. After a certain number of entries, CFB will put in forty dollars per person over that limit. I don't remember what the limit was though.

[CptHaddock]

Oh, I forgot to mention that because attendance was over a certain limit, prize pool jumped from three thousand to over four thousand. After a certain number of entries, CFB will put in forty dollars per person over that limit. I don't remember what the limit was though.

That's pretty cool. Do you know if they are publishing decklists from the event?

[Krimson Viper]

I'm afraid I forgot to ask. I've been meaning to ask that since their events are large and should have some publishing, but I was on full tilt the whole day so I forgot to ask. Next $3K I'll see if I remember. I believe that will be in May. Hopefully they will start promoting by then and not getting free advertisement from me.

[Sparkii]

Top 8 lists were posted on Facebook. They might be posted elsewhere too, like the cfb website. Pushing for mtgtop8 or something. Apologies for formatting, just copy pasta. I'm the lands player in the top 4.

105 players, Top 4 Split

T4) Michael Beck (Just Ask Why Delver)
Maindeck
Creatures
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Stoneforge Mystic
1 Young Pyromancer
2 True-Name Nemesis
Spells
4 Force of Will
4 Daze
3 Spell Pierce
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Batterskull
Lands
4 Wasteland
4 Tundra
3 Volcanic Island
4 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
1 Misty Rainforest

Sideboard
1 Sword of Feast and Fail*
2 Grim Lavamancer
1 True-Name Nemesis
2 Red Elemental Blast
1 Retribution of the Meek
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
4 Meddling Mage
2 Rest in Peace
1 Wear / Tear


T4) Zack Wong (Lands)
Maindeck
Spells
4 Crop Rotation
2 Intuition
3 Punishing Fire
2 Gamble
4 Life from the Loam
1 Crucible of Worlds
3 Engineered Explosives
4 Exploration
4 Mox Diamond
Lands
1 Academy Ruins
1 Barbarian Ring
1 Bojuka Bog
2 Dark Depths
1 Forest
4 Ghost Quarter
1 Glacial Chasm
3 Grove of the Burnwillows
1 Karakas
3 Maze of Ith
1 Misty Rainforest
2 Taiga
1 Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
3 Thespian’s Stage
1 Tolaria West
2 Tropical Island
1 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
1 Wooded Foothills

Sideboard
2 Surgical Extraction
3 Krosan Grip
1 Trinisphere
2 Sphere of Resistance
3 Tireless Tracker
3 Chalice of the Void
1 Subterranean Tremors

T4) Joseph Cantrell (Aluren)
Creatures
1 Glint-Nest Crane
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Cavern Harpy
4 Baleful Strix
4 Shardless Agent
2 Parasitic Strix
2 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
Spells
4 Aluren
1 Sylvan Library
4 Brainstorm
3 Ponder
3 Abrupt Decay
4 Force of Will
Lands
3 Underground Sea
2 Bayou
1 Tropical Island
2 Island
1 Forest
1 Swamp
4 Polluted Delta
4 Misty Rainforest
2 Verdant Catacombs

Sideboard
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 Cabal Therapy
1 Abrupt Decay
1 Dread of Night
2 Faerie Macabre
2 Pernicious Deed
1 Hydroblast
1 Blue Elemental Blast
2 Fatal Push
2 Mindbreak Trap

T4) Denny Chan (Shardless)
Creatures
4 Shardless Agent
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Tarmogoyf
3 Baleful Strix
1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
Spells
4 Brainstorm
4 Abrupt Decay
4 Force of Will
4 Ancestral Vision
2 Liliana of the Veil
2 Hymn to Tourach
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Toxic Deluge
Lands
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Polluted Delta
1 Misty Rainforest
3 Underground Sea
2 Tropical Island
2 Bayou
3 Wasteland
1 Swamp
1 Forest
1 Creeping Tar Pit

Sideboard
3 Thoughtseize
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Fatal Push
1 Dismember
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Hymn to Tourach
1 Garruk Relentless
1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
1 Pithing Needle

T8) Kevin Ligutom (GW Aggro)
1 Bayou
1 Dark Depths
1 Dryad Arbor
2 Forest
1 Horizon Canopy
1 Karakas
1 Maze of Ith
1 Plains
2 Savannah
1 Scrubland
1 Thespian’s Stage
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Wasteland
4 Windswept Heath
Creatures
1 Birds of Paradise
4 Deathrite Shaman
1 Gaddock Teeg
4 Knight of the Reliquary
4 Mother of Runes
1 Qasali Pridemage
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Scryb Ranger
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
Spells
4 Green Sun’s Zenith
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Batterskull
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Umezawa’s Jitte

Sideboard
3 Abrupt Decay
1 Gaddock Teeg
2 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Qasali Pridemage
2 Sanctum Prelate
1 Scavenging Ooze
3 Thoughtseize
2 Toxic Deluge

6.5) Brett Parise (Goblins)
Creatures
1 Kiki-Jiki Mirror Breaker
1 Tuktuk Scrapper
1 Siege-Gang Commander
1 Goblin Settler
4 Goblin Ringleader
3 Gempalm Incinerator
1 Goblin Sharpshooter
2 Goblin Chieftain
4 Goblin Matron
2 Goblin Piledriver
2 Mogg War Marshal
1 Stingscourger
2 Warren Instigator
4 Goblin Lackey
Spells
2 Tarfire
2 Pyrokinesis
4 Aether Vial
Lands
1 Pendelhaven
2 Plateau
2 Rishadan Port
3 Mountain
4 Wasteland
3 Scalding Tarn
4 Arid Mesa
4 Cavern of Souls

Sideboard
1 Pithing Needle
2 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
3 Magus of the Moon
1 Ethersworn Canonist
2 Mindbreak Trap
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Tuktuk Scrapper
2 Rest in Peace
1 Sudden Demise
1 Pyrokinesis

T8) Ryan Wilkerson (Miracles)
4 Flooded Strand
3 Scalding Tarn
2 Arid Mesa
3 Tundra
2 Volcanic Island
4 Island
1 Mountain
1 Plains
1 Engineered Explosives
4 Sensei’s Divining Top
4 Brainstorm
4 Swords to Plowshares
4 Ponder
4 Counterbalance
2 Predict
1 Counterspell
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Force of Will
4 Terminus
Creatures
3 Snapcaster Mage
3 Monastery Mentor

Sideboard
2 Wear / Tear
1 Kozilek’s Return
1 Pyroclasm
1 Containment Priest
1 Snapcaster Mage
2 Surgical Extraction
3 Flusterstorm
2 Red Elemental Blast
2 Pyroblast

T8) Michael Bernat (Esper Stoneblade)
Creatures
4 Stoneforge Mystic
3 Snapcaster Mage
2 Baleful Strix
2 True-Name Nemesis
1 Vendilion Clique
Spells
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Batterskull
2 Thoughtseize
4 Swords to Plowshares
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Ponder
2 Lingering Souls
2 Inquisition of Kozilek
4 Force of Will
1 Counterspell
1 Council’s Judgment
Lands
3 Underground Sea
3 Tundra
1 Swamp
1 Scrubland
3 Polluted Delta
1 Plains
2 Marsh Flats
1 Karakas
2 Island
4 Flooded Strand
1 Academy Ruins

Sideboard
2 Meddling Mage
1 Supreme Verdict
1 Zealous Persecution
1 Rest in Peace
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Pithing Needle
1 Notion Thief
2 Flusterstorm
2 Disenchant
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Duress
1 Ethersworn Canonist

[mistercakes]

glad to see brett in the top 8! i've played his list a bunch and it's a lot of fun.

[Sparkii]

glad to see brett in the top 8! i've played his list a bunch and it's a lot of fun.

He was my quarterfinals opponent. Always fun to see Brett there.

[Sparkii]

Rest of the top 16 was posted. Might get them on the main cfb website, they asked the editor about it.

T16) Joel Bouzaglou (BUG Delver)
[deck]Creatures
4 Delver of Secrets
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Tarmogoyf
2 Dark Confidant
1 True-Name Nemesis
Spells
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Daze
3 Force of Will
4 Abrupt Decay
2 Fatal Push
2 Thoughtseize
3 Hymn to Tourach
Lands
4 Wasteland
4 Underground Sea
2 Bayou
1 Tropical Island
3 Verdant Catacombs
3 Misty Rainforest
2 Polluted Delta
Sideboard
1 Vendilion Clique
1 Dread of Night
1 Liliana of the Veil
1 Leovold, Emissary of Trest
1 Null Rod
1 Pithing Needle
1 Murderous Cut
1 Sylvan Library
3 Surgical Extraction
2 Marsh Casualties
1 Invasive Surgery
1 Force of Will[/deck]

T16) David Jaques (Elves)
[deck]Creatures
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Wirewood Symbiote
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Elvish Visionary
3 Nettle Sentinel
3 Heritage Druid
2 Birchlore Rangers
1 Llanowar Elves
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Wren’s Run Packmaster
1 Craterhoof Behemoth
Spells
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Green Sun’s Zenith
2 Natural Order
1 Sylvan Library
Lands
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
4 Gaea’s Cradle
2 Forest
2 Bayou
1 Temple Garden
1 Pendelhaven
Sideboard
3 Abrupt Decay
3 Cabal Therapy
2 Surgical Extraction
2 Thoughtseize
1 Marsh Casualties
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Gaddock Teeg
1 Null Rod
1 Pithing Needle[/deck]

T16) Ian Linke (Death and Taxes)
[deck]Creatures
4 Mother of Runes
4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
4 Stoneforge Mystic
4 Flickerwisp
3 Phyrexian Revoker
2 Recruiter of the Guard
2 Mirran Crusader
1 Serra Avenger
1 Sanctum Pielate
1 Thalia, Heretic Cathar
Spells
4 Aether Vial
1 Sword of War and Peace
1 Sword of Fire and Ice
1 Umezawa’s Jitte
4 Swords to Plowshares
Lands
3 Karakas
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Cavern of Souls
1 Horizon Canopy
4 Rishadan Port
4 Wasteland
9 Plains
Sideboard
2 Containment Priest
1 Ethersworn Canonist
3 Faerie Macabre
1 Pithing Needle
1 Manriki-Gusari
1 Batterskull
2 Council’s Judgment
2 Path to Exile
2 Gideon, Ally of Zendikar[/deck]

T16) Nick Stieger, (Infect)
[deck]Creatures
4 Noble Hierarch
4 Glistener Elf
4 Blighted Agent
Spells
4 Invigorate
4 Brainstorm
3 Force of Will
3 Daze
3 Vines of Vastwood
3 Gitaxian probe
2 Crop Rotation
2 Berserk
2 Spell Pierce
2 Become Immense
1 Ponder
Sideboard
2 Flusterstorm
1 Submerge
1 Echoing Truth
1 Force of Will
1 Nature’s Claim
1 Krosan grip
1 Surgical Extraction
1 Pithing Needle
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Null Rod
1 Spellskite
1 Karakas
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Wasteland[/deck]

T16) Brian Sheets (Elves)
[deck]Creatures
2 Birchlore Rangers
4 Deathrite Shaman
3 Heritage Druid
4 Nettle Sentinel
4 Quirion Ranger
4 Elvish Visionary
1 Reclamation Sage
1 Rishkar, Peema Renegade
2 Craterhoof Behemoth
Spells
4 Glimpse of Nature
4 Green Sun’s Zenith
4 Natural order
Lands
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Gaea’s Cradle
2 Bayou
2 Cavern of Souls
2 Dryad Arbor
2 Forest
Sideboard
3 Abrupt Decay
4 Cabal Therapy
2 Nissa, Vital Force
1 Null Rod
1 Pithing Needle
1 Progenitus
1 Ruric Thar, the Unbowed
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Surgical Extraction[/deck]

T16) Brandon Semerau (Lands)
[deck]Spells
4 Gamble
4 Crop Rotation
4 Exploration
4 Punishing Fire
4 Life from the Loam
4 Mox Diamond
2 Engineered Explosives
Lands
1 Karakas
2 Tranquil Thicket
2 Maze of Ith
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Academy Ruins
4 Wasteland
4 Rishadan Port
4 Thespian’s Stage
3 Dark Depths
4 Grove of the Burnwillows
2 Taiga
1 Tropical Island
1 Forest
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Windswept Heath
1 Verdant Catacombs
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
Sideboard
1 Solitary Confinement
1 Glacial Chasm
1 Scavenging Ooze
1 Dark Depths
1 Pithing Needle
1 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben
1 Ethersworn Canonist
1 Chalice of the Void
2 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Bojuka Bog
2 Surgical Extraction
1 Karakas
1 Savannah[/deck]

T16) John Slater (Shardless)
[deck]Creatures
4 Shardless Agent
4 Deathrite Shaman
4 Tarmogoyf
Spells
4 Ancestral Vision
4 Brainstorm
1 Ponder
4 Abrupt Decay
1 Sylvan Library
2 Toxic Deluge
3 Liliana of the Veil
1 Maelstrom Pulse
2 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Force of Will
Lands
4 Polluted Delta
4 Verdant Catacombs
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Marsh Flats
4 Underground Sea
1 Bayou
1 tropical Island
1 Swamp
1 Forest
4 Wasteland
Sideboard
3 Thoughtseize
1 Duress
1 Night of Souls Betrayal
1 Scrubland
1 Swords to Plowshares
4 Meddling Mage
1 Null Rod
1 Pithing Needle
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Leyline of the Void[/deck]

T16) Jacob Walker (Sneak & Show)
[deck]Creatures
4 Griselbrand
4 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
Spells
4 Brainstorm
4 Force of Will
3 Gitaxian Probe
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Ponder
2 Preordain
4 Show and Tell
3 Spell Pierce
4 Sneak Attack
4 Lotus Petal
Lands
3 Ancient Tomb
2 Crystal Vein
3 Island
1 Mountain
3 Polluted Delta
4 Scalding Tarn
3 Volcanic Island
Sideboard
3 Blood Moon
1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
1 Flusterstorm
1 Grafdigger’s Cage
1 Pithing Needle
1 Pyroblast
2 Pyroclasm
1 Sudden Shock
1 Surgical Extraction
2 Through the Breach
1 Wipe Away[/deck]

[CptHaddock]

Here's a link if you guys want to look at the decklists in a prettier format. Real throwback event with RUG lands, esper stoneblade, goblins, maverick, etc.