[Day 2 Updates] GP Columbus!

[Peter_Rotten]

First, the link to WotC's update page.

Second, our our Day 1 Information.

Third, let's cheer for our Day 2 people.

In for Day 2
24 points
Dominic Lodovichetti (Happy Gilmore of CruBible-Typo-Fame) - 10th
Adrian Sullivan - 15th
Zohar Bahgat (power gamer) - 19th

22 Points
Alix Hatfield (ObFreely)- 32nd place

21 points
Eisel, Nick - 37th place
"Friendly" Phil Stolze - 48th place
Hammer, James (Pinder - damn you Artichoke Thread, damn you!) - 64th
IBA - 69th (figures, huh?)

20 points
Kaddy!!!!! - 80th
Diefendorf - 81st

19 points
Rusiecki, Jonathan (Mr. Nipples) - 93rd
Smenny - 102nd

Lastly, links to other forums to check for more updates:

SCG's thread
TML's thread
WotC thread

[SpatulaOfTheAges]

Updates on Round 10 are up.

So:

Happy drew
Adrian lost
Zohar drew
ObFreely lost
Nick won
Phil lost
Pinder lost
Jack won
Kaddy lost
The Dief won
Mr Nipples won
Smennen lost

[Peter_Rotten]

Round 10 standings

25 points
Dominic Lodovichetti (Happy Gilmore of CruBible-Typo-Fame) - 13th
Zohar Bahgat (power gamer) - 20th

24 points
Adrian Sullivan - 31st
Eisel, Nick - 24th place
IBA - 45th

23 points
Diefendorf - 51st

22 Points
Rusiecki, Jonathan (Mr. Nipples) - 58th
Alix Hatfield (ObFreely)- 70th place

21 points
"Friendly" Phil Stolze - 86th place
Hammer, James (Pinder - damn you Artichoke Thread, damn you!) - 95th

20 points
Kaddy!!!!! - 106th

19 points
Smenny - 117th

[kabal]

The Professor's Field Journal

"Experience the intense excitement of Professional Magic from the perspective of accomplished pro player Craig Jones as he plays and writes his way to the Top 8."

Maybe this has been there for awhile, but I just noticed it.

[SpatulaOfTheAges]

I think they put it up this morning. It was interesting. I think that playing Hulk-into-Conversional SB seems more solid than the reverse. But apparently Kaddy is playing the same general idea.

There were a couple Marylanders I think made day 2 and have S/Ns on the Source, but damned if I remember what they are, or their last names.

[laststepdown]

Major grats to Tim Galbiati, Richard Feldman, and Robert Vroman, all traveling from St. Lou to make d2!

[SpatulaOfTheAges]

Dom(Happy) 9-1-1 Hulk
Zohar 8-2-1 U/B Landstill
Alix(ObFreely) 8-2-1 Hulk
Jon(Mr. Nipples) 8-2-1 Hulk
Jack(IBA) 8-3 Hulk

[kabal]

Dom(Happy) 9-1-1 Hulk
Zohar 8-2-1 U/B Landstill
Alix(ObFreely) 8-2-1 Hulk
Jon(Mr. Nipples) 8-2-1 Hulk
Jack(IBA) 8-3 Hulk

Are they all playing "Jack Flash" or what?

[Phantom]

Do they cut to T8 at the end? What will their record have to be (approximately)?

[etrigan]

From the main coverage page:

Hulk Flash was on everyone's minds coming into the tournament and the deck has proved to be quite formidable - especially when you put it in the hands of one the best players in the game - but it only took one of the top 4 places. Paul Cheon and Richard Feldman shared slightly dented 8-0-1 records in the next two spots. Cheon was piloting Bigger Fish, a deck designed to beat both Flash and the Fish decks that were supposed to beat Flash while Rochard Feldman was playing something completely from left field - a green black deck filled with such cards as Masticore, Deranged Hermit, and Skyshroud Poacher.

Definitely Trinity Green.

[kabal]

Round 11 Standing are up, but Wizards has linked to the wrong location so click here instead or just change "gpstra07" in the url to "gpcol07"

[CleverPetriDish]

What is the minimum expected numer of points for t8?

And what is the thought behind ID-ing so early? It seems foolish.

[Peter_Rotten]

Round 11 standings

28 points
Dominic Lodovichetti (Happy Gilmore of CruBible-Typo-Fame) - 8th

25 points
Zohar Bahgat (power gamer) - 33rd
Rusiecki, Jonathan (Mr. Nipples) - 38th
Alix Hatfield (ObFreely)- 47th place

24 points
Eisel, Nick - 54th place
Adrian Sullivan - 56th
IBA - 67th
Diefendorf - 69th

23 points

22 Points
Smenny - 89th

21 points
"Friendly" Phil Stolze - 107th place
Hammer, James (Pinder - damn you Artichoke Thread, damn you!) - 110th

20 points
Kaddy!!!!! - 118th

[xsockmonkeyx]

Round 11

Pinder- Lost
IBA-Lost
HappyG-Win :)
Ewok-draw
Nipples-Win :)
Gekortel-Win :)
Stolze-Lost
Kadi-Lost
ObFree- Win :)

[Nihil Credo]

Whoa... Owen Turtenwald's Goblin deck, which went undefeated on Day One, is a pure pre-Flash list... I guess he dodged the combo on Saturday, but it's no wonder he lost to Szleifer, and I predict he's so not making T8.

[Bardo]

After the 11th round, Ben Tash ("Tash" on TMD), inventor of Golden Grahams, is in 34th place with 25 points. I'm pretty sure he's playing Thresh.

[FoolofaTook]

Flash-Hulk seems to be holding up pretty well so far. Szleifer's deck is really nasty in game 2 unless you're anticipating the Phyrexian Negators somehow. Duress and then a negotiator is a win against somebody who SB'd for Flash-Hulk.

[FoolofaTook]

Flash-Hulk seems to be holding up pretty well so far. Szleifer's deck is really nasty in game 2 unless you're anticipating the Phyrexian Negators somehow. Duress and then a negotiator is a win against somebody who SB'd for Flash-Hulk.

Oops, that would be Negators obviously. :) Been a decade since I played tournament Magic, 1996 to be precise. Catching up on the cards the last few weeks has been like a crash course in trivia. I'd have gone to Columbus but I knew I wasn't going to compete well with so many unknowns and Flash-Hulk in the mix also.

Back to the topic at hand: the Flash decks seem to be upholding the pre-tournament hype. As of round 11 3 of the top 4 and 4 of 6 were Flash. That's just gathered from the blogs of individual matches so far.

[Peter_Rotten]

Back to the topic at hand: the Flash decks seem to be upholding the pre-tournament hype. As of round 11 3 of the top 4 and 4 of 6 were Flash. That's just gathered from the blogs of individual matches so far.

Are you only referring to the blogs found on WotC page, or are there other ones located elsewhere?

[Peter_Rotten]

Round 12 standings

28 points
Dominic Lodovichetti (Happy Gilmore of CruBible-Typo-Fame) - 19th
Rusiecki, Jonathan (Mr. Nipples) - 20th
Alix Hatfield (ObFreely)- 28th place

27 points
Adrian Sullivan - 37th

25 points
Zohar Bahgat (power gamer) - 58th
Smenny - 67th

24 points
Eisel, Nick - 78th place
IBA - 87th
Diefendorf - 89th

23 points
"Friendly" Phil Stolze - 83rd place
Kaddy!!!!! - 99th

22 Points

21 points
Hammer, James (Pinder - damn you Artichoke Thread, damn you!) - 118th