GPT Colombus @Eindhoven, The Netherlands (the only European one) may 24th

[Roelke]

In the entire European continent there’s just 1 place where you can win Byes for Grand Prix Colombus! It’s in Eindhoven. So get your car filled with legacy fanatics and join the:

Trial for Grand Prix Columbus


This tournament is part of the Dutch magic competition (http://www.tinyurl.com/DNM2010).

Date: monday may 24th (Ascension day)
Location: Gameforce, Visserstraat 18a, 5612 BT Eindhoven, Netherlands
Format: Legacy
Entrance: € 15,-
Playoff: Top 8 Legacy

Prizes: The winner wil receive 3 byes for GP Colombus and gets a part of his trip paid. With 33 or more players top 2 will get byes, 65 or more means top 4 gets byes and 129 up means byes for top8! Exact prizepayout is shown below!

Rules Enforcement Level: Competitive
Venue opens: 10:00 uur
start: 11:00 uur
Side-events: Rise of the Eldrazi boosterdrafts (€ 13,-) and Constructed side-events (€ 5,-).
Pre-registration: Not needed! About 50 people pre-registered so far!
directions: http://www.gfmailorder.nl/ Or just use googlemaps. The venue is easily reached by train and just a few minutes away from the highway! Parking spaces are plenty (and free!).

With the current airtickets prices it’s nearly impossible to guarantee a ticket. The winner wil receive compensation based on turnout. If the compensation is enough to buy a ticket the winner will only get it if he goes to the GP. Otherwise the winner wil get the compensation anyway.


What’s to win?

minimum 32 players
1e place: € 250,- travel compensation
2e place: set Zendikar fetchlands (5 totaal) + DCI foils Cunning Wish and Regrowth
3e-4e place: 2 Zendikar fetchlands + DCI foil Ravenous Baloth
5e-8e place: 1 Zendikar fetchland

Minimum 48 players
1e place: € 300 travel compensation
2e place: 2 sets Zendikar fetchlands (10 totaal)
3e-4e place: 1 set Zendikar fetchlands (5 totaal)
5e-8e place Phyrexian Dreadnaught or Scrubland

Minimum 65 players
1e place: € 500,- travel compensation
2e place: 2 sets Zendikar fetchlands (10 totaal)
3e-4e place: 1 set Zendikar fetchlands (5 totaal)
5e-8e place: Phyrexian Dreadnaught of Scrubland
outside top 8: 16 matchpunten 2 Zendikar fetchland, 15 matchpunten 1 Zendikar fetchland

Minimum 80 players
1e place: € 600,- travel compensation
2e place: 2 sets Zendikar fetchlands (10 totaal) + Berserk
3e-4e place: 1 set Zendikar fetchlands (5 totaal) + Volcanic Island
5e-8e place: Phyrexian Dreadnaught of Scrubland + DCI foil Goblin Piledriver or Ravenous Baloth
outside top 8: 16 matchpunten 2 Zendikar fetchland, 15 matchpunten 1 Zendikar fetchland

Minimum 100 players
1e place: € 1.000,- travel compensation
2e place: 2 sets Zendikar fetchlands (10 totaal) + DCI foil Exalted Angel
3e-4e place: 1 set Zendikar fetchlands (5 totaal) + DCI foil Goblin Piledriver
5e-8e place: Phyrexian Dreadnaught or Scrubland + DCI foil Regrowth/Cunning Wish/Ravenous Baloth
Outside top 8 de top 8: 16 matchpunten 2 Zendikar fetchland, 15 matchpunten 1 Zendikar fetchland

Minimum 129 players
1e place: € 1.000,- travel compensation
2e place: playset Zendikar fetchlands (20 totaal)
3e-4e place: 1 set Zendikar fetchlands (5 totaal) + Volcanic Island
5e-8e place: Phyrexian Dreadnaught or Scrubland + 2 DCI foils (Regrowth/Cunning Wish/Ravenous Baloth/Meddling Mage/Crystalline Sliver/Goblin Piledriver)
Outside de top 8: 19 matchpunten 2 Zendikar fetchland, 18 matchpunten 1 Zendikar fetchland
Boosters voor 15-17 matchpunten

[practical joke]

1. I'll be there and you know it.

2. That e-mailadress make me think I can order a russian bride.

3. Try and stop me from winning the prices = )

[Skeggi]

1. I'll be there and you know it.
Me too.

2. That e-mailadress make me think I can order a russian bride.
Me too.

3. Try and stop me from winning the prizes = )
I'll fart in your general direction!

Anyway, so as I said, I'll be here too, so anyone who wants to witness the awesomeness that is I should come :wink:

[Mayk0l]

Think I'll be there. Isn't there a maximum amount of people that can sign up? GF is a pretty small place.

[practical joke]

I'm stupid,

[Roelke]

about 140-150 is the limit.

[kroelai]

I'll be there.

[DerFern]

Is this event expected to host >150 people? A friend of mine and myself plan to visit you guys, too... Eindhoven is quite close to the german border, so it would fit quite good...

[Roelke]

At the moment I expect between 65 and 80 players, but that is depending on the number of German and Belgium people showing up (so it could be much more!)

[Elf_Ascetic]

Think I'll be there. Isn't there a maximum amount of people that can sign up? GF is a pretty small place.

GF has expanded.. Don't know when you've been there for the last time, but 150 people should fit.

I'll be there.

[Arne]

I'll be there too!

[Roelke]

GF has expanded.. Don't know when you've been there for the last time, but 150 people should fit.

I'll be there.

Exactly. 150 people might fit.

*checks out the awesome prizes when 129 or more people show up*

[DerFern]

Thanks for running a really smooth and exciting tournament. Everyone I´ve met has been really nice, kind and funny. If there is another larger Legacy-event @GF we´ll show up again... can someone post the Top8, please? I only saw one game (ANT vs. Ichorid) but could not stay any longer...

[matelml]

I was the ANT (actually NLS) player you saw playing against Ichorid in T8. The T8 was Next Level Storm, Ichorid, UGB TempoThresh, ANT, UB DarkDepths+StifleNought.dec, Reanimator and 2 things I can't remember, sorry. But we split the T4 for 150 euro cash p.p..

[Bahamuth]

I was the ANT (actually NLS) player you saw playing against Ichorid in T8. The T8 was Next Level Storm, Ichorid, UGB TempoThresh, ANT, UB DarkDepths+StifleNought.dec, Reanimator and 2 things I can't remember, sorry. But we split the T4 for 150 euro cash p.p..

One more ANT and Eva Green.

[emidln]

One more ANT and Eva Green.

Black-heavy top8 much? So much for being one of the worst colors in legacy.

[Roelke]

The top 8 decklists (in random order)

More about the tournament: over here! (http://benelegacy.nl/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2050&p=66457#p66457). But you need to read dutch or use google translator.

79 people showed up.

Eric Brinks
1 island
1 swamp
4 undergrounnd sea
1 watery grave
3 polluted delta
2 bloodstained mire
2 scalding tarn
3 urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 mox diamond
4 vampire hexmage
4 dark depths
4 phyrexian dreadnought
4 stiffle
1 grim discovery
4 force of will
3 daze
4 thoughtseize
3 spell pierce
4 dark confindant
4 brainstorm
3 lim dul's vault

side
1 not of this world
1 mindbreak trap
4 firespout
2 null rod
2 pithing needle
4 relic of progenitus
1 mountain

Mick Kroon
2 Ad Naseaum
1 Tendrills of Agony
4 Duress
2 thoughtseize
4 Mystical tutor
3 infernal tutor
4 brainstorm
4 ponder
2 sensei's divining top
4 lion's eye diamond
4 lotus petal
4 cabal ritual
3 chrome mox
4 dark ritual
3 underground sea
4 polluted delta
4 flooded strand
1 tropical island
2 island
1 swamp

side
2 chain of vapor
2 echoing truth
1 hurkyl's recal
4 dark confidant
1 slaughter pact
1 extirpate
1 thoughtseize
1 sadistic sacrement
2 reverent silence

Matteus Lamers
4 dark ritual
4 lion's eye diamond
2 cabal ritual
2 chrome mox
4 lotus petal
4 brainstorm
4 sensei's divining top
1 ponder
4 duress
3 thoughtseize
2 infernal tutor
3 burning wish
1 tendrills of agony
1 ad nasuam
1 meditate
1 doomsday
4 mystical tutor
1 badlands
4 polluted delta
2 underground sea
4 bloodstained mire
1 swamp
2 volcanic island
1 scalding tarn

side
1 tendrills of agony
1 empty the warrens
1 ill-gotten gains
1 sadistic sacrement
3 doomsday
1 shelldock isle
1 emrakul, the aeons torn
1 thoughtseize
1 pulverize
1 echoing truth
1 chain of vapor
1 slaughter pact
1 deathmark

Robbert Slavenburg
4 dark confidant
4 nimble mongoose
4 tarmogoyf
4 brainstorm
4 daze
4 force of will
4 ghastly demise
3 spell pierce
3 spell snare
4 stiffle
4 ponder
4 misty rainforest
3 tropical island
4 verdant catacombs
3 underground sea
4 wasteland

side
3 extirpate
3 phyrexian dreadnought
3 pithing needle
3 hydroblast
2 mind harness
1 submerge

Gijs van de Ven
4 carefull study
3 breakthrough
3 ichorid
3 bloodghast
4 cabal therapy
3 dread return
3 city of brass
4 undiscovered paradise
3 cephalid colliseum
2 gemstone mine
1 darkmore savage
4 golgari grave troll
4 stinkweed imp
2 golgari thug
1 flame-kin zealot
1 sadistic hypnotist
1 iona, shield of emeria
1 protean hulk
4 nacromoeba
4 bridge from below
4 putid imp
2 tireless tribe

side
3 chain of vapor
3 firestorm
3 null rod
2 ancient grudge
2 duress
1 ray of revalation
1 stern proctor

Marco van Vemde
3 underground sea
1 bayou
1 island
1 swamp
4 polluted delta
4 verdant catacombs
1 misty rainforest
4 entomb
4 reanimate
4 dark ritual
4 exhume
3 daze
3 ponder
4 force of will
4 brainstorm
1 show and tell
1 echoing truth
1 carefull study
4 thoughtseize
1 iona, shield of emeria
1 inkwell leviathan
1 empyrial archangel
1 sphinx of the steel wind

side
1 krosan grip
2 nature's claim
1 terastodon
1 blazing archon
1 akroma, angel of wrath
1 iona, shield of emeria
2 extirpate
1 perish
1 show and tell
3 pithing needle
1 coffin purge

Raymond Veenis
2 tundra
2 underground sea
1 mysti rainforest
4 polluted delta
4 flooded strand
1 island
1 tropical island
4 brainstorm
4 mystical tutor
1 tendrills of agony
4 lion's eye diamond
4 infernal tutor
2 cabal ritual
1 ill-gotten gains
4 dark ritual
4 ponder
4 duress
2 sensei's divining top
1 ad nauseam
4 lotus petal
4 orim;s chant
2 chrome mox

side
4 xantid swarm
2 echoing truth
2 krosan grip
1 sensei's divining top
2 thoughtseize
1 slaughter pact
1 wipe away
1 hurkyl's recal
1 chain of vapor

Job Meertens
3 polluted delta
2 verdant catacombs
3 bloodstained mire
1 marsh flats
4 bayou
4 mishra's factory
2 swamp
2 snow covered swamp
1 tomb of urami
4 dark ritual
4 thoughtseize
4 cabal therapy
4 dark confidant
4 nantuko shade
2 gatekeeper of malakir
4 vampire knighthawk
4 hypnotic specter
2 maelstrom pulse
4 tarmogoyf
2 nyxathid

side
3 tombstalker
3 krosan grip
4 leyline of the void
2 diabolic edict
1 gatekeeper of malakir
1 nyxathid

[jazzykat]

Wow, a lot of combo. Is the top 8 at all representative of the field because if it is I am surprised about no CB/Top if it is...

[Roelke]

There was a lot of combo (mostly ant builds and some belcher, dream halls). I guess the countertop players all got bad luck (since they were there).

[Cenarius]

There were Countertop decks, in fact there were like 6 or 7 countertop lists spread around the entire tournament.The problem was the amount of Goblins and Merfolk decks floating around.

Goblins/Merfolk > Landstill/Countertop.
Goblins > Merfolk
Combo > Goblins

There were 5 combo decks, 9 goblins decks, 4/5 merfolk decks, 5 landstill decks, 6-7 countertop decks, some eva green, some rock etc and some random decks.

I played against the homebrew deck playing Dreadnought/Confidant/Dark Depths. It was the only deck that I just could not win. I was the Tempo Threshold player with Ghastly Demise. My opponent had turn 2/3 Dark Confidant followed by a turn 3/4 Phyrexian Dreadnought. So, he went twice the nuts making me unable to kill his Phyrexian Dreadnought. Well, couldn't do anything about that.

[Nelis]

Wow, a lot of combo. Is the top 8 at all representative of the field because if it is I am surprised about no CB/Top if it is...

That's why we dutch aggro players are always bitching about ANT. It's too popular.

[matelml]

I don't think 5 out of 79 is too popular. It just performes really well.

[Nelis]

I don't think 5 out of 79 is too popular. It just performes really well.

Yes, you're right. Its just that its a nightmare for aggro players. And it 'always' top 8s.

[Windux]

I think if you had posted it earlier or in some german forum (zkforum), some german players would have come as well.
I just saw it on the 24th may and told it some friends and nobody knew about it :/

[BantFTW]

dutch people are the best combo players of the world I think...
If you look at the metagame you see alot of combo^^
and much combo get's top8 so