2006 Legacy All Star Team (Voting Thread)

[Nightmare]

@Mr. Nightmare: Give us Minnesotans sometime, as we have very, very good players. Pat McGregor Top8ed one big event and Jesse Rivers is so fucking good at Vintage. Jeremy Zwirn is crazy good at the game. Joe Kaufman is like the best Aggro player I have ever seen. Josh Wesley is a good player.

I'm certainly not saying there arent excellent players across the globe. Keep in mind, however, that generally people who perform well in large events get recognition, and that we're discussing this year only. If those names come up throughout the next year, they could very well make my list about 12 months from now.

[TeenieBopper]

I don't plan on counting those submissions (I'm looking at you, TeenieBopper and Wastedlife).

It was a fuckin' joke, chill out.

[Bryant Cook]

It was a fuckin' joke, chill out.

He can't risk not getting his E-Penis off.

[Nightmare]

It was a fuckin' joke, chill out.

I'm chill.

[Getsickanddie]

He can't risk not getting his E-Penis off.

Bingo. This is fucking retarded. But I'll play along, just because I like to stroke e-penis...

Roland Chang
Herbig
Chris Coppola
Nick Trudeau
Dave Gearheart
Whatever the fuck Callosos real name is. While his play may be poor, his results speak loudly.
Both Hatfields
Jack Elgin. While he might be the Pete Rose of this list, his contributions to the format demand he make this list.

[Lego]

I vote for Gearhart ten times. And Herbig negative ten times.

If I had to really compile a list, it'd be something like this:

Herbig
Gearhart
Bardo
Anusien
Nightmare
Machinus
Jesse Hatfield
Alix Hatfield
Anwar
Jack Elgin (had to do it, sorry)

I noticed that Nightmare thinks Jesse Hatfield is Mad Zur, while Anusien thinks Mad Zur is Alix, and Jesse is Ob Freely. Can we get a ruling here? All I know is Ob has a quote from me in his sig, which makes him inherently cooler.

And Ben Kowal? He's a good friend and all, but did he finish anything anywhere? I saw him scrub out a couple times...

[foursquare]

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http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x...rlds06/stand18

Shaheen Soorani just got 9th at Worlds!!!! I love it when he constantly proves brown peoples Magic skillz.

[TeenieBopper]

I noticed that Nightmare thinks Jesse Hatfield is Mad Zur, while Anusien thinks Mad Zur is Alix, and Jesse is Ob Freely. Can we get a ruling here? All I know is Ob has a quote from me in his sig, which makes him inherently cooler.

Mad Zur=Jesse
Ob Freely=Alix

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

Shaheen Soorani just got 9th at Worlds!!!! I love it when he constantly proves brown peoples Magic skillz.

You ever notice it's always the brown people who get 9th place? What an interesting "coincidence".[/conspiracyofracistWizards]


Shaheen's a cool player, and I admire his deckbuilding style, but he's done little to develop anything for Legacy. Based on actual Legacy results, I'd have to say that I'd pick:


Jesse Hatfield
Mike Herbig
Chris Coppola (despite his raging hate-on for me)
Brian Diefendorf- A lot of top 8's last year. I guess he doesn't get attention for failing to finish in the top 2.
Zohar Bhagat- Did very well both at the Duel for Duals and at Worlds.
Eric Darland is apparently able to top 8 with anything. Eric Darland smote the ground with his surfboard and out sprung Richard Garfield with a pile of proxies and a sharpie, and thus the game of Magic was born.
Anwar Ahmed- A lot of 9th place finishes. Yup.
Phil Stolze- Someday he'll actually win with that thing.
Calosso Fuentes

That's all I can think of. Believe me, I wanted to put myself more than anyone else, but I can't really justify the handful of almosts I got as amounting to the same thing. I could almost pull it off on the back of deck design, but a) Clearly anyone attempting to alleviate this format of it's stagnancy with new decklists over the past year failed, and b) No one, when discussing basketball, puts a really good theorist on their dream team, so I don't see why we should with Magic.

I wanted to put more San Diego and German players on there, but I really don't know who's who there. They don't talk about themselves enough. I was impressed that Rodrigo Gonzalez beat me. That's supposed to be like, impossible.

[calosso]

Here are my votes.
They are not in order

Eric Darland(sexy_rector)
Alix Hatfield(Ob_freely)
Jesse Hatfield(mad_Zur)
David Gearhart(Deep6er)
Nick Trudeau
Adam Barnello (Mr.Nightmare)
Calosso Fuentes (Calosso)
Chris Coopula (Machinus)
Mike Herbig (Herbig)
Anwar Ahmead (AnwarA101)

[Alex_Van_R]

Here are my votes.
They are not in order

Eric Darland(sexy_rector)
Alix Hatfield(Ob_freely)
Jesse Hatfield(mad_Zur)
David Gearhart(Deep6er)
Nick Trudeau
Adam Barnello (Mr.Nightmare)
Calosso Fuentes (Calosso)
Chris Coopula (Machinus)
Mike Herbig (Herbig)
Anwar Ahmead (AnwarA101)

You forgot Alex_Van_R... and Atwa 2002... and Lukas Preus...

[on1y0ne]

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!

*Waving hand excitedly*

Can I be the All-Star Judge!?!?

/end sarcasm

[Bane of the Living]

In no real order..

sexy_rector
GRAH
Bardo
Deep6er
Lukas Preuss
Mr.Nightmare
IBA
Machinus
Herbig
Evil Roopey

[Atwa]

You forgot Alex_Van_R... and Atwa 2002... and Lukas Preus...

You wanted to vote me, while I've attended to only one tournament, made the worst playmistake ever there, which costed me not only the game, but also the rest of the tournament? I dropped that tournament 1-2, but it was a hell of a tourney.

We are talking about a hall of fame here, not a hall of shame.

But I do have to vote for Lukas though. We europeans must stand out for each other (and he's a good player too).

[Alex_Van_R]

You wanted to vote me, while I've attended to only one tournament, made the worst playmistake ever there, which costed me not only the game, but also the rest of the tournament? I dropped that tournament 1-2, but it was a hell of a tourney.

We are talking about a hall of fame here, not a hall of shame.

But I do have to vote for Lukas though. We europeans must stand out for each other (and he's a good player too).

I voted you because you speak Dutch.

[herbig]

But I do have to vote for Lukas though. We europeans must stand out for each other (and he's a good player too).

The correct phrase would be "come out for each other."

[Alex_Van_R]

The correct phrase would be "come out for each other."

We Europeans must stand on our feet! Inner fear, our worst enemy! REFUSE! RESIST!

No, Lukas has to be on the list, and Windux too.

[calosso]

You forgot Alex_Van_R... and Atwa 2002... and Lukas Preus...

Why would I vote for you? You guys have not performed well in any legacy tournaments.

[nickvo$]

This is Nick Trudeau, seeing as you guys don't know my handle. In regards to this All-Star voting, I would imagine the only players that should be included should be those who had several quality finishes in prominent tournaments this year. There are many quality players who represent this format well, and if someone wants to start a thread to list the best players in the format that might be a good idea, too. Remember that the best players in sports don't always make their All-Star teams, just the ones performing the most noticeably.

nick

[kabal]

This is Nick Trudeau

I'd vote for you. Considering the last two SCG tourney you played 8th & 9th and top 8'ing @ Legacy Champs '06 playing Landstill. A deck by many considered dead and unable to perform well.

Anyone that just plays Goblins and happens to get a top 8 spot isn't what I call a spectacular player.