Worlds 2011 San Francisco

[SpikeyMikey]

The last time Worlds Was in San Francisco, I was there playing in the type 1 side event. Pretty exciting stuff. It will be interesting to see if anything good in Legacy comes from the team portion.

Dave Caplan, member of the Legacy old guard and inventor of the Canadian Thresh deck that has recently seen such a resurgance just 2-0'd Brian Kibler to move to 5-0 on the day. Here's to hoping his streak continues. It would be nice to see one of ours perform well.

[Octopusman]

The last time Worlds Was in San Francisco, I was there playing in the type 1 side event. Pretty exciting stuff. It will be interesting to see if anything good in Legacy comes from the team portion.

Dave Caplan, member of the Legacy old guard and inventor of the Canadian Thresh deck that has recently seen such a resurgance just 2-0'd Brian Kibler to move to 5-0 on the day. Here's to hoping his streak continues. It would be nice to see one of ours perform well.

I also played in a Type 1 side event the last time Worlds was in San Francisco.
I was playing UR Fish.

I will be there tomorrow and Sunday. I'll play in as many vintage/legacy side events as possible and the main Legacy event on Sunday.
We have a posse of Legacy players in SF that we have grown over some time now and many will be present.

[Koby]

Some of the West Coast Legacy crew is heading up to play in the side events for this weekend. I don't think that there are any scheduled Vintage events however.

[SpikeyMikey]

I also played in a Type 1 side event the last time Worlds was in San Francisco.
I was playing UR Fish.

I will be there tomorrow and Sunday. I'll play in as many vintage/legacy side events as possible and the main Legacy event on Sunday.
We have a posse of Legacy players in SF that we have grown over some time now and many will be present.

Funny. I played a UGR Fish player in the second round. I stomped a mudhole in him one game with Holy Light. I played it and he looked at me funny and said "Holy Light?" I asked him if he needed to read it and he proceeded to show me a binder page full of them. It was janky, but it really did do a number to Fish. Every creature they had was 1-toughness. Goodbye Razorfin Hunter. Goodbye Cloud of Faeries. Goodbye River Boa!

[Esper3k]

David Caplan ended up 6-0 and undefeated in Day 1. Here's a link to the video of Rich Hagon talking to him about his deck:

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/worlds11/videodt7

Name dropping Nimble Mongoose was awesome.

[sauce]

woa, how did goobafish loose all that weight, he looks slim/fit now!

[Purgatory]

woa, how did goobafish loose all that weight, he looks slim/fit now!

I was surprised too, I watched the video earlier today, when it appeared on my youtube subscriptions, and I had to re-watch it now because a) I missed the Nimble Mongoose reference, and b) I didn't realize it was this David Caplan (I'm still a bit unsure :))

[SpikeyMikey]

He's up to 10-2. 3-2-1 in Modern will T8. So if he performs like he has been, he's a shoe-in!

[(nameless one)]

Go go go Canada!

[KevinTrudeau]

Way to go Dave Caplan! Would be awesome to see this stupid ass video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu1L5X727aw) have another concrete counterexample.

Only two people ahead of him right now— Conley Woods (12-0) and the infamous Craig Wescoe (10-2 with better breakers). LSV, Paulo Vitor DDR, Matthias Hunt (Minnesota represent!), and Tobias Gräfensteiner also at 10-2 but with worse breakers than Caplan. CF crew tearing it up.

Fucking awesome to see Matthias in contention for Worlds top 8 though. One of the nicest players you'll ever meet.

EDIT: Three rounds left. Caplan has moved up to second, tied at 36 points with Levy, LSV, PV, and Yuki Yoshioka. Conley's still in first sitting at a cool 42. Matthias, unfortunately, has gone 0-3 so far in the Modern portion, pushing him back to 32nd place.

[SpikeyMikey]

Way to go Dave Caplan! Would be awesome to see this stupid ass video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu1L5X727aw) have another concrete counterexample.

Only two people ahead of him right now— Conley Woods (12-0) and the infamous Craig Wescoe (10-2 with better breakers). LSV, Paulo Vitor DDR, Matthias Hunt (Minnesota represent!), and Tobias Gräfensteiner also at 10-2 but with worse breakers than Caplan. CF crew tearing it up.

Fucking awesome to see Matthias in contention for Worlds top 8 though. One of the nicest players you'll ever meet.

EDIT: Three rounds left. Caplan has moved up to second, tied at 36 points with Levy, LSV, PV, and Yuki Yoshioka. Conley's still in first sitting at a cool 42. Matthias, unfortunately, has gone 0-3 so far in the Modern portion, pushing him back to 32nd place.

Dave's locked into the T8. I was really scared for a bit; he sent me the domain zoo listing last night and I put it together on Workstation this morning and played out a few games. I was not at all happy with it. I think I lost less life playing Suicide Black back in the day with Flesh Reavers. But it did well enough to get him the 3-3 he needed to lock up T8.

I'm so happy to see him T8, especially given that he went 6-0 in Standard day one beating luminaries like Kibler en route to an undefeated day. If he can do that in the T8, we may have a World Champion that's a well-known Legacy player and like you said, we can shut Bill Stark up. Of course, he's lost three times to Conley (in the draft portion and tonight) and I think he's lost to PVDR and LSV today, meaning all 5 of his losses were to CFB members who are also in the T8. And he's still got to play more on MODO tonight. That's got to put a strain on a man.

I'm hoping he switches up the Modern deck for the MODO portion to something a little stronger. We shall see. If he manages to win both, that would be one for the record books.

[Esper3k]

Cool to see a Legacy player in the T8. Man, he's got a rough road ahead though. CFB is wrecking Worlds with none of the 4 players playing each other in the quarterfinals!

Caplan has to go through PVDR in the quarterfinals...

[SpikeyMikey]

Also an interesting Maverick list from Norway for the Legacy portion of the team finals. Splash r with Punishing/Grove.

[bakofried]

That list debuted at GP Amsterdam. Still a solid choice if Delver and friends are running around. I'm currently trying to grab me some Groves.

[Lemnear]

4 Times the exact same 75 in T8! That diversity ... not!

Believe me ... the dice will crown the champ this year.

[luckme10]

The last time we saw channelfireball results like this, I believe they had just unleased cawblade on the world.

[Deviruchi]

Come on goobafish!

[dschalter]

4 Times the exact same 75 in T8! That diversity ... not!

Believe me ... the dice will crown the champ this year.

It has not much to do with the format as whole (which is actually quite diverse right now) and everything to do with the fact that CFB are leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else right now.

Also, I think they are still doing swiss standings to decide who goes first, so that part of your claim is equally asinine.

[SpikeyMikey]

CFB is the new YMG. It's a collection of the best in the business. Having 4 in the T8 just shows that LSV has gone out of his way to collect the best players in the world.

[KevinTrudeau]

Caplan just beat PV! Looks like Wescoe is about to be knocked out by Conley as well. LSV/Richard Bland going to game five.

LSV just lost a very close game five. Was land light for a large portion of the game, and had the win if he'd have ripped a land on his last draw. Bland and Caplan on to the semifinals. Josh Utter-Leyton and Jun'ya Iyanaga onto game four, Iyanaga up 2-1. Josh wins PoY if he wins Worlds, otherwise Owen Turtenwald gets that title (since PV just got eliminated). Wescoe just forced a game four against Conley.

[bakofried]

I didn't know they had such good articles - I looked into them, and they're actually really good. I thought their articles would be primarily draft, but they have some good legacy articles.

[RaNDoMxGeSTuReS]

I'll LOL if all the Channel Fireball guys get ousted in the top 8.

[KevinTrudeau]

I'll LOL if all the Channel Fireball guys get ousted in the top 8.

It's about to happen. Wescoe has double Crusade and Geist plus removal for Conley's Hero of Bladehold.

[Nihil Credo]

I have Craig Wescoe mentally tagged as "scumbag", can anyone remind me for what it was?

[Esper3k]

I have Craig Wescoe mentally tagged as "scumbag", can anyone remind me for what it was?

He's the one who got Drew Levin DQ'd for gambling when Levin had the match won and then told his friend "you owe me X dollars!"

Thank you. ~NC

[KevinTrudeau]

Woah, spoke too soon. Woods wins! Pretty awesome comeback.

[Royal Ass.]

Are the videos posted anywhere in case you miss the live stream?

[dschalter]

Are the videos posted anywhere in case you miss the live stream?

They'll be posted on the main coverage page in a few days at most.

[KevinTrudeau]

Bland just swept Caplan. Iyanaga up 1-0 against Conley.

[Royal Ass.]

Thanks.


"coverage_blisterguy:
David Caplan has the coolest dice I have seen in a very long time. Everyone is shuffling up and getting ready to play "

What kind of dice does David Caplan use? :smile:

[I am the brainwasher]

Holy banana. That japanese player is driving me nuts with his infinite shuffling. So happy the judge told him that this might end up in a warning if he doesnt stop that... .
I hope conley still makes it soooooo badly:cry:.

[Esper3k]

Just started watching on this last game.

Good lord that was a stomping.

[jandax]

Watching Conley get crushed by Iyanaga just got me ripped. During the down time when Iyanaga was shuffling I did pushups

[I am the brainwasher]

Hell no!
Man, this feels just wrong... . There goes all the entertaining aspect of Worlds within seconds.
All charismatic players have been wiped out in such an awkward way. As I got to know how much of an awesome Top8 this could have been (with all that tense from the PotY), I am truly disappointed right now, cant even find the right words for it.
What are we going to see now, Captain Mc Shuffler annoying the F**K outta everyone while having Slagstorm in each opener?
Not even talking about that nonsense of lucking with Bloodbraid Elf in the MOCS, is it just me or did someone else (hopefully) noticed that Reid got Vampirics for free like 4 times or so?
Not that I am surprised that the card is nuts or something but seeing the game won just by that freakin Elf was incredibly lame/unskilled if you ask me, even if I think that his Victory was well deserved in general.

This.Is.Not.Cool.

[Esper3k]

Gahhh!

"No Cat Zoo"!?!?!

[damionblackgear]

How's he casting Kiki-Jiki with 3 blue and 2 red?

[Goin Aggro]

At least it wasn't wescoe.

[TeenieBopper]

That was a crazy Team Finals.

[saspook]

How's he casting Kiki-Jiki with 3 blue and 2 red?

one of those was a cascade bluffs.

awesome game of modern.

[Esper3k]

Japan would've won the Legacy match, but I would've liked to have seen it, especially after Norway had won G2 by surviving an Emrakul attack.

So many punts in that Modern game...

[damionblackgear]

one of those was a cascade bluffs.

awesome game of modern.

Thought that got tapped to play the relic. oh well.

Either way, he could have swapped a red source to do everything he was doing anyway.

[Esper3k]

Heh best playmat at Worlds.

https://p.twimg.com/Aeu27MOCQAAxQ1r.jpg

[I am the brainwasher]

That is a good question.
I was kinda distracted by slinging fire at eachothers faces.
While you say that, I think that might have turned the game around dramatically, would be sad if that was on purpose (which it might have been though, but in the end it is way easier to dirt that off because it really looks like a small punt).
I am in general pretty unhappy not with the performance of the japanese players, but with their behaviour during the game. They seemed to kinda really tried to break games down to a staring contest from time to time (to an borderline penalty level) to get some sort of advantage, mainly because they are way better at staying calm in general (well, thats what it looks like at least).
The top of that in my oppinion was the Semifinals from Conley. You could literally read in his face: "Ok, I am pretty far ahead, why not piss him off a little with slowing down the game/shuffling significant to ensure the last game falls into my hands easily."
Dont get me wrong, I think it is totally fine using each advantage you can get as long as its fair, but this was so damn borderline that I am naturally driven away from liking the player to the slightest level (which is odd, he might be a very decent player allover).
I heard some other japanese Pro-player had some issues with stalling/slowplay too, so I for myself would show some respect to other players but more important to myself and dont behave like a narcoleptic sloth in coma to obtain those mental advantages (which are obviously really important if you play Magic on such a high level) surreptitiously.

[Esper3k]

How is it any sort of penalty gaining action to sit quietly when your opponent is doing things?

As long as you're not rude or slow playing, keeping calm under pressure is something most would think would be a good thing.

[oRen]

https://p.twimg.com/Aeu27MOCQAAxQ1r.jpg

Done by whom? Looks great!

- Superb G3 in Modern
- Wescoe lost epically
- Very good cast so far. I would LOVE to see more of that high quality casts.

Great evening for me.

[Esper3k]

No idea who did the playmat - I just saw it off of the twitter.

[Esper3k]

Rofl nuts trolling with slow rolling the Galvanic Blasts.

[Ahab]

4 Galvanic Blast to the face for 16? Epic. I don't get why he slow-rolled it, though. He could've just activated both Nexi (he had a Solemn out to get metalcraft).

Edit: Ninja'd

Edit 2: Gut Shot of course >.< Makes sense now.

[UnderwaterGuy]

Rofl nuts trolling with slow rolling the Galvanic Blasts.

Sounds like I missed the good part. Can you give me the link to where you are watching it?

http://webcastplayer.wizards.com/ is just saying it can't connect :/

[Esper3k]

Such a brutal beatdown.

[bakofried]

Double Inferno Titan usually gets there.

[Ahab]

Awesome Finals ^^
*Japanese Player reads Township* *Bland smiles*
*Plays Inferno Titan* ... "resolves"
*draws card* *immediately scoops*

[I am the brainwasher]

"As long as you're not rude or slow playing, keeping calm under pressure is something most would think would be a good thing. "

-That might be correct in general but a judge told him twice, at the second time that this will end up in a warning, to play faster. He looked like a million times at his hand and the boardstate for several times when there was no real decision-tree (not that there is one in general when you play Rampant Growth into Slagstorm into Titan...) which had also nothing to do with making sure not to do a misplay. He made it into the Top8 so he cant be that slow.
One thing is playing safe and doublecheck and the other is, as you said, slow play.

[Esper3k]

Yeah, I know Iyanaga got asked to shuffle faster, etc. but I am unaware of any of the Japanese nationals team members getting warnings for slow playing.

[Esper3k]

If missed the webcasts of the T8, here's a link to them:

http://www.manaleak.com/mtguk/2011/11/worlds-2011-top-8-matches-full-streaming-hd-videos-by-luke-gagnon/

[PhanTom_lt]

I played goobafish in R4 of Standard, he was surprised I recognized him. Sadly a mull to 5 and keeping below average hands lost me that match. At least I top4'd the Legacy side event on Sunday, was anyone else there?

[saspook]

I played goobafish in R4 of Standard, he was surprised I recognized him. Sadly a mull to 5 and keeping below average hands lost me that match. At least I top4'd the Legacy side event on Sunday, was anyone else there?

What happened in the legacy side event?

[goobafish]

I played goobafish in R4 of Standard, he was surprised I recognized him. Sadly a mull to 5 and keeping below average hands lost me that match. At least I top4'd the Legacy side event on Sunday, was anyone else there?

Was nice meeting you, despite our awfully boring games. I would have recognized your name if I had thought to ask your username on here.