Milford Complete Tournament Report

[technogeek5000]

Well, its a little bit late but here is what went down in Milford in case anyone cares.

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33 players - $20 Entrance fee


Prize Support

$660 taken in - $660 given out

$500 top 4
5-8 $20 + 3 packs
Rounds 3 & 4 Random match - winner $20


Top 8
Canadian Thresh beats RGw Aggro Loam
Aluren beats Enchantress
Survival beats UWB Landstill
UB Painter beats Goblins

Top 4
Survival beats Canadian Thresh
UB Painter draws Aluren
Top 3 split *

Top 8 Decklists
1/3: Matt McNally (UB Painter)
4 Polluted Delta
4 Flooded Strand
4 Underground sea
2 Tropical Island
3 Island
1 Swamp
1 Academy Ruins
4 Painters Servant
3 Dark Confidant
2 Trinket Mage
4 Grindstone
4 Force of will
4 Thoughtseize
3 Counterbalance
3 Sensei's divining top
4 Ponder
4 Brainstorm
3 Lim Dul's Vault
1 Echoing truth
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Tormod's crypt

4 Tarmogoyf
2 Tombstalker
1 Tormod's Crypt
1 Pithing needle
1 Engineered Explosives
3 Engineered Plauge
2 Krosan Grip
1 Gaea's Blessing


1/3 Chris Gosselin(Aluren)
4 Aluren
4 Tinder Wall
4 Intuition
3 Thoughtseize
2 Lim Dul's Vault
1 Living Wish
4 Brainstorm
2 Imperial Recruiter
4 Raven Familiar
3 Cavern Harpy
1 Spike Feeder
1 Man of War
1 Eternal Witness
3 Force of Will
1 Wall of roots
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Windswept heath
1 Bayou
1 Taiga
2 Tropical Island
4 City of brass
2 Gemstone Mine
2 City of Traitors
2 Ancient Tomb
3 Forest

1 Darksteel Colossus
3 Elephant Grass
3 Leyline of teh void
2 Pernicous Deed
1 Harmonic Sliver
1 Eternal Witness
3 Mystic Remora
1 Thoughtseize


1/3: Justin Brinner (Survival)
2 Sensei's Divining Top
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Survival of the Fittest
4 Thoughtseize
1 Harmonic sliver
1 Viridian Zealot
3 Tarmogoyf
3 Cabal Therapy
4 Aether vial
1 Shriekmaw
1 Genesis
4 Swords to Plowshares
3 Loxodon Hierarch
4 Eternal Witness
1 Offalsnout
1 Squee Goblin Nabob
1 Plains
4 Savannah
2 Bayou
4 Windswept Heath
4 Wooded Foothills
1 Swamp
3 Forest

3 Extirpate
3 Null Rod
1 Yixlid Jailor
2 Gaddock Teeg
3 Vexing Shuhser
3 Pernicous Deed


4th: Rich Meyst (Thrash)
4 Brainstorm
4 Ponder
4 Spell Snare
4 Stifle
3 Daze
4 Force of Will
4 Fire//Ice
4 Lightning bolt
2 Chain Lightning
4 Nimble Mongoos
4 Tarmogoyf
1 Rushing River
4 Tropical Island
4 Volcanic Island
4 Flooded Strand
2 Polluted Delta
4 Wasteland

3 Red Elemental Blast
3 Pyroclasm
2 Ancient Grudge
3 Tormod's Crypt
2 Sower of Temptation
2 Krosan Grip


5-8: Derek Brown(me) (RGw Aggro loam)
3 Wooded Foothills
3 Bloodstained Mire
1 Windswept Heath
4 Taigas
2 Plateau
1 Savannah
1 The Tabernacle of the Pendrell Vale
1 Nantuko Monastery
3 Forgotten Cave
3 Tranquil Thicket
3 Wasteland
1 Mountain
1 Forest
4 Mox Diamond
4 Terravore
4 Countryside Crusher
2 Wild Mongrel
1 Genesis
4 Burning Wish
3 Devastating Dreams
3 Life from the Loam
3 Seismic Assault
4 STP

4 Leyline of the void
4 Chalice of the Void
2 Krosan Grip
1 Life from the Loam
1 Devastating Dreams
1 Morningtide
1 Reverant Silence
1 Shattering Spree


5/8: Michael Misiaszek (UWB Landstill)
3 Flooded Strand
3 Polluted Delta
2 Plains
2 Islands
2 Underground sea
2 Tundra
3 Wasteland
1 Tolaria West
4 Mishra's Factory
1 Academy Ruins
1 Crucible of the worlds
3 Counterbalance
3 Hoofprints of the Stag
2 Bitterblossom
4 Standstill
4 Force of will
2 Sensei's Divining Top
3 Counterspell
4 Swords to plowshares
1 Decree of Justice
2 Propaganda
2 Engineered Explosives
2 Enlightened Tutors
4 Brainstorm

3 Meddling Mage
3 Seal of Cleansing
2 Pithing Needle
2 Humility
2 Pulse of the field
3 Tormod's Crypt


5/8: Andrew Ammerman (Goblins)
4 Goblin Lackey
4 Goblin Piledriver
4 Gelmpalm Incinerator
4 Goblin Matron
4 Goblin Warchief
1 Goblin Shrapshooter
4 Goblin Ringleader
4 Siege Gang Commander
4 Aether Vial
4 Lightning Bolt
4 Pyrokinesis
13 Mountain
2 Stomping Ground
4 Karpulsan Forest
1 Barbarian Ring

3 Ancient Grudge
3 Tin Street Hooligan
3 Magus of the Moon
4 Mogg Fanatic
2 PyroBlast


5/8: Ray Robillard (Enchantress)
4 Enchantresses Presence
4 Argothian Enchantress
4 Elephant grass
4 Exploration
3 Savannah
2 Tropical Island
1 Tundra
1 Bayou
1 Scrubland
1 Plateau
4 Windswept Heath
6 Forest
2 Serra's Sanctum
2 Plains
3 Utopia Sprawl
1 Wild Growth
3 Lilting Refrain
3 Sterling Grove
2 Ghostly Prison
2 Replenish
2 Oblivion
2 Solitary Confinement
1 Words of war
1 Sacred Mesa
1 Flickering Ward

3 Planar Void
1 Aura of Silence
1 Seal of Cleansing
2 Choke
1 City of Solitude
1 Circle of Protection Red
1 Gaea's Blessing
1 Karmic Justice
2 Mind Harness
2 Thoughtseize

Meta
4 Aggro loam
4 Landstill
4 Survival
2 Ichorid
2 TES
2 Thresh
2 Imperial Painter
2 Goblins
1 Enchantress
1 Alluren
1 R/G Stompy
1 Elves
1 MUC
1 Spanish Inquistion
1 Affinity
1 The Rock
1 UGB Aggro
1 UW Control
1 UB Painter

*= Rich Meyst didnt want to split so he lost to justin and the 3 players left split the rest of the cash.

[Ebinsugewa]

*= Rich Meyst didnt want to split so he lost to justin and the 3 players left split the rest of the cash.

Owned?

[Jaynel]

Karma's a bitch.

[ParkerLewis]

Top 4
Survival beats Canadian Thresh
UB Painter draws Aluren
Top 3 split *
*= Rich Meyst didnt want to split so he lost to justin and the 3 players left split the rest of the cash.

I know this is not the point of the thread, but I'd like to understand. Sorry ;)

* So there were players A, B, C and D in the top 4, one table being A vs B and the other table being C vs D.

* A, B and C wanted to split the total four first prizes into 4 equal parts, D didn't want to.

Here's where it gets strange for me... :

* So they played C vs D match, D lost. And with that they declared that D was 4th and that Top 3 was A, B and C ??? Shouldn't they had to play A vs B, then pair the loser with D in a new match, the loser of said match becoming fourth ??

[Nihil Credo]

The thing is that there was only one first prize, the one for the winner. It was split 50/50 among the "finalists", and one finalist's half-prize was split 25/25 between A and B, while the other half went to the finalist C. It seems OKto me.

[ParkerLewis]

The thing is that there was only one first prize, the one for the winner. It was split 50/50 among the "finalists", and one finalist's half-prize was split 25/25 between A and B, while the other half went to the finalist C. It seems OKto me.

All right. If the prize lineup was indeed everything for the first place and nothing for 2-4, then as of his loss, D was the only one sure not to finish first (obviously). And then the split you described is fair, as being proportional to the chance of winning.

But then, how come there were prizes for 5-8 and so on, and not for 2-4 ??

[Nihil Credo]

I checked the opening post and it's indeed ambiguous. It only says "$500 top 4", without specifying if/how it was supposed to be divided in the first place.

[cdr]

I assume this wasn't sanctioned? In a sanctioned tournament, only the final two can split (and have it affect match results).

[rockout]

congratulations to mike m for making his first top 8 with random jank landstill

(mike m is me)

[Dxfiler]

Glad to see the Magic 500 prize structure worked for another store.

That's a wicked top 4 and good mix of decks in top 8 also.

Ray playing enchantress... ?:p

Thanks for the report.

- Dave