Stryfo
11-10-2015, 05:39 PM
So, a few months ago I was unsure of whether I’d be able to compete in the GP, and indeed it was possible that I would have been unable to attend had my school schedule lined up a bit differently. I played in a GPT about a month ago to get some byes, but other than that, I hadn’t been able to play much magic in the past few months. As an aside, I really miss the Seattle Legacy scene. I flew out on Friday night because I had obligations at the university until five and was picked up by my friend Zach, who is the person I have gone to all 3 of my GPs with, we talked a bit about magic and I decided to switch up my deck a bit the night before the tournament, moving Iona to the mainboard over Jin and cutting an echoing truth for a Golgari Charm (I really wish I just had two ETs).
I’m not going to go into all the details of the list, but if anyone has any questions on card choices I’d be glad to answer them. This is what I sleeved up:
3 Griselbrand
1 Tidespout Tyrant
1 Elesh Norn
1 Iona
1 Archetype of Endurance
4 Hapless Researcher
1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
4 Brainstorm
4 Careful Study
4 Entomb
4 Reanimate
4 Exhume
2 Animate Dead
2 Misdirection
3 Izzet Charm
4 Force of Will
1 Swamp
2 Tropical Island
2 Badlands
4 Underground Sea
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Polluted Delta
SB:
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Thoughtseize
2 Duress
1 Echoing Truth
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Jin-Gitaxias
1 Golgari Charm
1 Darkblast
2 Pithing Needle
1 Snapcaster
I’ve been playing this deck nearly exclusively for a very long time, and I have (up until a few months ago) put a ton of testing into the deck. I still put a lot of thought into things even when I can’t play in events. I really like this build of the deck and think that it was within a few cards of being optimal for me. Anyways, onto the report:
Round 1: Bye YAY, I watched some friends do battle, one of which was playing a list very close to mine, much victory.
Round 2: WHEEEEE another bye, actually it’s kinda boring not being able to play the first few rounds, but hey, free wins are free wins I guess.
Round 3: Zac Forshee on ANT.
I win the die roll and keep a mediocre 7, something like brainstorm izzet charm, jace, reanimate, 3 lands. I lay underground and my opponent leads on duress. I brainstorm in response and find the entomb, I put back entomb and reanimate and show my opponent Jace, Izzet charm and lands. He takes the izzet charm. I draw and cast Jace. He cantrips and passes back. I cast entomb into reanimate on iona and he concedes.
Game 2 I keep a very strong hand, it ended up being a turn 2 or three with force backup. I careful study into a second force and put griselbrand into play, this earns the concession.
Round 4: Nathan Band on Miracles:
I don’t remember who won the roll, but I remember keeping a sketchy 6 with only a trop. My opponent plays an early top and on turn four runs out counterbalance with double force of will backup. I lose.
Game 2 my opponent makes a mistake with clique and I end up winning through surgical snap surgical.
Game 3 he drops an early containment priest and clique, I am unable to find an izzet charm or a green source for the decay and I die quickly to the two creatures. After the match he showed me he had 12 cards for the matchup in his sideboard. Sometimes magic cards is hard guys.
Round 5: Sergio Ferry on 4c Delver:
This guy was fun to play against, we were chatting for most of the match and it was refreshing for me, as I like to talk a bit when I play. I don’t remember games one or two, but we take one a piece, with me taking game 1.
Game 3 I am on the play and lead Hapless. He probes me seeing a hand with some reanimation, anti-hate, and some cantrips but no big creature. He taps his mana for something (maybe a DRS?). I draw and hit sphinx, I discard it to hapless and cast reanimate to play around daze, the sphinx comes into play and I am quite far ahead for the rest of the game.
Round 6: James Erickson on Aggro Loam:
Another guy who was fun to talk to! This is shaping up to be a fun tournament. He drops a karakas on turn two, not yet knowing what I’m on. When I EOT entomb I have to tank for a bit because I have to decide between drawing more cards or putting something like Tidespout into play. I decide Griselbrand is the better line, because I suspected STP. I draw a bunch of cards and eventually get Griselbrand back into play alongside the archepig. I am surprised so many people think of this card as winmore, it’s like a tutorable pithing needle on karakas that attacks and blocks! IT WAS GREAT ALL WEEKEND. He can’t quite deal enough damage before I start lifelinking things back.
Game 2 he gets me with a containment priest, ouch.
Game 3 I consider bringing in my golgari charm, which I didn’t bring in for G2 just in case of Leyline. I decided against it and wouldn’t you know it? My opponent lead Turn 0 Leyline. Such fun. Anyways, my initial plan was to battle it out with hapless, because his hand seemed to be leyline and a bunch of mana. He lands a chalice which I decay and a lili at some point, forcing me to sac researcher. I hit an echoing truth at this time and next time he ticks up lili I ET the leyline and he is forced to discard it. I get Iona in the bin and bide my time for a few turns, while he puts a knight onto the board, which I decay. I was waiting to draw a second reanimation spell or a hapless researcher. He starts loaming and I draw a reanimate, which let me reanimate his knight and then animate dead my Iona, naming green to prevent him from loaming into karakas and/or depths. I kill lili and start attacking him until he dies. This game felt incredibly tight and I felt from the start as though my tournament was going to end sooner than I had hoped.
Round 7: Nick Loiacano on Sneak and Show.
Game 1 I have a solid hand and dump a griselbrand into the bin early off of either entomb or careful study, I forget which. My opponent led probe, island, petal, which I felt was a bit weird for a storm player, but I had forgotten about Sneak and Show, since I haven’t played in a while. He saw archetype and a bunch of other unimportant stuff. I draw a tidespout tyrant. On his next turn he plays ancient tomb and casts show and tell and realize I had misjudged my opponent’s deck. At this point I am hoping he puts in something that isn’t sneak attack. I drop Tidespout and he puts in a silly red enchantment, next thing I know I have 5 life and no permanents. But I like to live by Galaxy Quest, NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER. So I draw my card, it’s an underground that I play out and cast a researcher. On his next turn he draws and passes; sweet, not dead yet! We go to my turn and he ices my land, which turns out to be a likely game changing play. I draw another land and cast a second researcher, attacking for 1. We play draw go for a bunch of turns while I try to eat his counterspells with exhumes and animate deads, dealing two points a turn with the little researchers that could. Eventually he gets down to two life and draws a brainstorm. But my hand has 6 blue cards, 2 of which were force of will, and one of which was a misdirection. My opponent dies to the hapless beats. Chalk one up for the researchers.
Game 2 He once again drops a sneak attack but this time has griselbrand, he makes short work of me.
Game 3 I keep a hand with a badlands as the only land, but I have 2x animate dead, entomb, duress, and thoughtseize, which is pretty solid. He mulligans and I duress him on turn 1. I see 3x ponder, 2 lands, and a brainstorm, taking the brainstorm. He ponders and I entomb on the upkeep. Missing a land drop. He ponders again and I untap and miss another land drop, thoughtseizing him. I see a sneak, a REB, a force, a ponder, and a Griselbrand, I take the Griselbrand. And pass. He draws and casts a sneak. I untap, finally draw a land and try to animate dead his Griselbrand. It meets a force. Next turn I run the same play and it resolves. I immediately draw 7 and hit a needle for Sneak Attack. The game ends shortly after.
Man, I might be able to do this thing with luck like this!
Round 8: Zachary Wong on RUG Lands:
Game one I get an early griselbrand, but he has a maze, so I need another creature. I get the pig into play and start attacking. At some point he makes Marit lage and I have to chump it with griselbrand. I bring it back and drop a jace, chumping again. Jace flips and flashes back entomb in order to get tidespout into play. This ends the game.
Game 2 my opponent had a slow start, and I got to cast careful study or entomb on turn one, putting griselbrand away. He drops a chalice which I let resolve and I cast exhume, effectively ending the game.
SWEET MADE IT TO DAY 2
Round 9: Samuel Friedman on Shardless BUG:
Game one he keeps a slow hand with a nunch of grindy cards and dies to turn 3 Griselbrand.
Game 2 He keeps a hand of bayou, force, cage and nonsense. I decay the cage on turn two, thoughtseize one of the two forces he had, and overload the second one, all the while he was not drawing lands or adding to the board.
Awesome start, 8-1, and my friend Dylan who was on a similar list went 7-2, which puts 4c reanimator at 15-3 in Day 1 (13-3 if you take into account my byes)
Day 2:
Round 10: Eddie Caudill on Death and Taxes.
Game 1: We are both pretty tired and sit down and get immediately deck checked, yuck. Unfortunately for my opponent, he wrote serra angel on his decklist rather than serra avenger and received a Game 1 loss, which would turn out to be incredibly fortuitous for me. He chooses to play and I mulligan a bad 7 into a no land 6, my opponent also went to and kept 6. I keep the six however because I am very greedy. I scry to see basic swamp on top, NICE. He plays a plains and passes. I draw the swamp, play it, and pass back, he drops karakas into stoneforge, boooo. I entomb for griselbrand, draw a second land and cast exhume, drawing cards to play around mana taxing effects. I dump the archepig into the yard during cleanup. He untaps, lays a land and passes. On my turn he bounces griselbrand and drops in a batterskull while I put an archetype into play and replace the griselbrand in the yard with careful study. He untaps and activates SFM, putting in a SoFaI which he then equips, gross. I take 8 and am quite low, but I don’t think trading with the archepig was the right play. I play a land and get griselbrand back into play, passing. He just plays a wingmare and passes, I entomb for elesh on the upkeep, knowing my top card is not a land from an earlier brainstorm, and draw the land for the turn to cast animate dead on elesh, wiping his board and letting me attack for 9 lifelink. He trades a flickerwisp for 8 damage (blinking the animate dead on elesh) and then concedes after his SoFaI draw wasn’t enough.
Round 11: Xin Sui on Shardless BUG:
Game 1 wasn’t interesting, he mulled to five and died to a fast griselbrand.
Game 2 was a bit weird, I remember killing his DRS and reanimating it at one point, and getting hit by strix and clique for a few turns. Later he played a sower which I countered. I eventually drew exhume and used deathrite to eat the sower, when I put elesh into play he was unable to draw out of it.
Round 12: Gary Wong on 4c Delver:
I don’t remember these games very well, since we played twice in the tournament. I remember playing around cards that I later learned he didn’t have in his 75. I also remember winning.
Round 13: Paolo Cesari on 4c Delver:
This guy’s deck was pretty nice, lots of those fancy new fetches and foils. I remember losing game one to getting stifled and wasted out, then dying to delver.
I don’t really remember what happened in Game 2, but I was able to take it down.
Game 3 I manage to put an iona into play using all of my resources, he has a pyro with a few tokens in play. I name blue and he attacks with tokens for a few turns while I do nothing, he is missing lands and not casting spells though, so I’m fine. I eventually put elesh into play and the white chicks get the job done.
Round 14: Adrejs Prost on Shardless BUG (Who we found out was my only loss Day 1 of Denver):
We each keep 7 and he lays a deathrite and passes, I have izzet charm so I let it go. I play lands and nothing else for a few turns waiting for my spot and he lays a second DRS and a goyf. I see about 20 cards without seeing entomb or a creature and die.
He gets me pretty dead in game 2 with early DRS and a mediocre keep from me.
Damn, x-2 now, and the pressure is on. What’s worse is that my friend Russ and I are now at the same record, we are hoping not to get paired because neither really wants to play the other.
Round 15: Russ Martin on Aggro Loam: Damn
This match is here, at about 3:30: http://www.twitch.tv/channelfireball/v/24751578
I got lucky, for sure, but I made the top 8.
Top 8: Gary Wong on 4c Delver:
Game 1: I lead hapless and he leads delver. I attack on turn 2 and he blocks, I snap off the trade because my hand isn’t doing anything yet. We both durdle for a few more turns until I draw a way to get a guy into play, he loses the turn after he found his DRS.
Game 2: I get a griselbrand into play and he responds by dumping a ton of creatures into play. I attack and am forced to draw cards twice, the first time because I needed action, the second to find a nonfetchland. I end up finding both in the top 14 (weird huh?) and put elesh into play. He the bolts me but I have the force, bringing me to 1, and he concedes.
Top 4: Christian Calcano on 4c Delver:
This match can be found here, at about 4:49: http://www.twitch.tv/channelfireball/v/24751578
Jeez his hands were good, my keep game 1 was playing around every card in his deck except DRS. My keep in Game 2 was I think generically good, but just not good enough to beat what he had. They kept talking about double DRS as if it mattered much, the only difference was that I had to kill both to get rid of the effect, he couldn’t actually activate both for creatures in a single turn because he only had one trop.
Well, I tried, but in the end came up short. I had to run out to catch my plane back to California, but I made my flight and had a great weekend. Thanks to all the players out there that made the event a blast, and thanks to Zach and Dylan for driving me around and giving me a place to crash.
I’m not going to go into all the details of the list, but if anyone has any questions on card choices I’d be glad to answer them. This is what I sleeved up:
3 Griselbrand
1 Tidespout Tyrant
1 Elesh Norn
1 Iona
1 Archetype of Endurance
4 Hapless Researcher
1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
4 Brainstorm
4 Careful Study
4 Entomb
4 Reanimate
4 Exhume
2 Animate Dead
2 Misdirection
3 Izzet Charm
4 Force of Will
1 Swamp
2 Tropical Island
2 Badlands
4 Underground Sea
4 Verdant Catacombs
4 Polluted Delta
SB:
3 Abrupt Decay
2 Thoughtseize
2 Duress
1 Echoing Truth
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Jin-Gitaxias
1 Golgari Charm
1 Darkblast
2 Pithing Needle
1 Snapcaster
I’ve been playing this deck nearly exclusively for a very long time, and I have (up until a few months ago) put a ton of testing into the deck. I still put a lot of thought into things even when I can’t play in events. I really like this build of the deck and think that it was within a few cards of being optimal for me. Anyways, onto the report:
Round 1: Bye YAY, I watched some friends do battle, one of which was playing a list very close to mine, much victory.
Round 2: WHEEEEE another bye, actually it’s kinda boring not being able to play the first few rounds, but hey, free wins are free wins I guess.
Round 3: Zac Forshee on ANT.
I win the die roll and keep a mediocre 7, something like brainstorm izzet charm, jace, reanimate, 3 lands. I lay underground and my opponent leads on duress. I brainstorm in response and find the entomb, I put back entomb and reanimate and show my opponent Jace, Izzet charm and lands. He takes the izzet charm. I draw and cast Jace. He cantrips and passes back. I cast entomb into reanimate on iona and he concedes.
Game 2 I keep a very strong hand, it ended up being a turn 2 or three with force backup. I careful study into a second force and put griselbrand into play, this earns the concession.
Round 4: Nathan Band on Miracles:
I don’t remember who won the roll, but I remember keeping a sketchy 6 with only a trop. My opponent plays an early top and on turn four runs out counterbalance with double force of will backup. I lose.
Game 2 my opponent makes a mistake with clique and I end up winning through surgical snap surgical.
Game 3 he drops an early containment priest and clique, I am unable to find an izzet charm or a green source for the decay and I die quickly to the two creatures. After the match he showed me he had 12 cards for the matchup in his sideboard. Sometimes magic cards is hard guys.
Round 5: Sergio Ferry on 4c Delver:
This guy was fun to play against, we were chatting for most of the match and it was refreshing for me, as I like to talk a bit when I play. I don’t remember games one or two, but we take one a piece, with me taking game 1.
Game 3 I am on the play and lead Hapless. He probes me seeing a hand with some reanimation, anti-hate, and some cantrips but no big creature. He taps his mana for something (maybe a DRS?). I draw and hit sphinx, I discard it to hapless and cast reanimate to play around daze, the sphinx comes into play and I am quite far ahead for the rest of the game.
Round 6: James Erickson on Aggro Loam:
Another guy who was fun to talk to! This is shaping up to be a fun tournament. He drops a karakas on turn two, not yet knowing what I’m on. When I EOT entomb I have to tank for a bit because I have to decide between drawing more cards or putting something like Tidespout into play. I decide Griselbrand is the better line, because I suspected STP. I draw a bunch of cards and eventually get Griselbrand back into play alongside the archepig. I am surprised so many people think of this card as winmore, it’s like a tutorable pithing needle on karakas that attacks and blocks! IT WAS GREAT ALL WEEKEND. He can’t quite deal enough damage before I start lifelinking things back.
Game 2 he gets me with a containment priest, ouch.
Game 3 I consider bringing in my golgari charm, which I didn’t bring in for G2 just in case of Leyline. I decided against it and wouldn’t you know it? My opponent lead Turn 0 Leyline. Such fun. Anyways, my initial plan was to battle it out with hapless, because his hand seemed to be leyline and a bunch of mana. He lands a chalice which I decay and a lili at some point, forcing me to sac researcher. I hit an echoing truth at this time and next time he ticks up lili I ET the leyline and he is forced to discard it. I get Iona in the bin and bide my time for a few turns, while he puts a knight onto the board, which I decay. I was waiting to draw a second reanimation spell or a hapless researcher. He starts loaming and I draw a reanimate, which let me reanimate his knight and then animate dead my Iona, naming green to prevent him from loaming into karakas and/or depths. I kill lili and start attacking him until he dies. This game felt incredibly tight and I felt from the start as though my tournament was going to end sooner than I had hoped.
Round 7: Nick Loiacano on Sneak and Show.
Game 1 I have a solid hand and dump a griselbrand into the bin early off of either entomb or careful study, I forget which. My opponent led probe, island, petal, which I felt was a bit weird for a storm player, but I had forgotten about Sneak and Show, since I haven’t played in a while. He saw archetype and a bunch of other unimportant stuff. I draw a tidespout tyrant. On his next turn he plays ancient tomb and casts show and tell and realize I had misjudged my opponent’s deck. At this point I am hoping he puts in something that isn’t sneak attack. I drop Tidespout and he puts in a silly red enchantment, next thing I know I have 5 life and no permanents. But I like to live by Galaxy Quest, NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER. So I draw my card, it’s an underground that I play out and cast a researcher. On his next turn he draws and passes; sweet, not dead yet! We go to my turn and he ices my land, which turns out to be a likely game changing play. I draw another land and cast a second researcher, attacking for 1. We play draw go for a bunch of turns while I try to eat his counterspells with exhumes and animate deads, dealing two points a turn with the little researchers that could. Eventually he gets down to two life and draws a brainstorm. But my hand has 6 blue cards, 2 of which were force of will, and one of which was a misdirection. My opponent dies to the hapless beats. Chalk one up for the researchers.
Game 2 He once again drops a sneak attack but this time has griselbrand, he makes short work of me.
Game 3 I keep a hand with a badlands as the only land, but I have 2x animate dead, entomb, duress, and thoughtseize, which is pretty solid. He mulligans and I duress him on turn 1. I see 3x ponder, 2 lands, and a brainstorm, taking the brainstorm. He ponders and I entomb on the upkeep. Missing a land drop. He ponders again and I untap and miss another land drop, thoughtseizing him. I see a sneak, a REB, a force, a ponder, and a Griselbrand, I take the Griselbrand. And pass. He draws and casts a sneak. I untap, finally draw a land and try to animate dead his Griselbrand. It meets a force. Next turn I run the same play and it resolves. I immediately draw 7 and hit a needle for Sneak Attack. The game ends shortly after.
Man, I might be able to do this thing with luck like this!
Round 8: Zachary Wong on RUG Lands:
Game one I get an early griselbrand, but he has a maze, so I need another creature. I get the pig into play and start attacking. At some point he makes Marit lage and I have to chump it with griselbrand. I bring it back and drop a jace, chumping again. Jace flips and flashes back entomb in order to get tidespout into play. This ends the game.
Game 2 my opponent had a slow start, and I got to cast careful study or entomb on turn one, putting griselbrand away. He drops a chalice which I let resolve and I cast exhume, effectively ending the game.
SWEET MADE IT TO DAY 2
Round 9: Samuel Friedman on Shardless BUG:
Game one he keeps a slow hand with a nunch of grindy cards and dies to turn 3 Griselbrand.
Game 2 He keeps a hand of bayou, force, cage and nonsense. I decay the cage on turn two, thoughtseize one of the two forces he had, and overload the second one, all the while he was not drawing lands or adding to the board.
Awesome start, 8-1, and my friend Dylan who was on a similar list went 7-2, which puts 4c reanimator at 15-3 in Day 1 (13-3 if you take into account my byes)
Day 2:
Round 10: Eddie Caudill on Death and Taxes.
Game 1: We are both pretty tired and sit down and get immediately deck checked, yuck. Unfortunately for my opponent, he wrote serra angel on his decklist rather than serra avenger and received a Game 1 loss, which would turn out to be incredibly fortuitous for me. He chooses to play and I mulligan a bad 7 into a no land 6, my opponent also went to and kept 6. I keep the six however because I am very greedy. I scry to see basic swamp on top, NICE. He plays a plains and passes. I draw the swamp, play it, and pass back, he drops karakas into stoneforge, boooo. I entomb for griselbrand, draw a second land and cast exhume, drawing cards to play around mana taxing effects. I dump the archepig into the yard during cleanup. He untaps, lays a land and passes. On my turn he bounces griselbrand and drops in a batterskull while I put an archetype into play and replace the griselbrand in the yard with careful study. He untaps and activates SFM, putting in a SoFaI which he then equips, gross. I take 8 and am quite low, but I don’t think trading with the archepig was the right play. I play a land and get griselbrand back into play, passing. He just plays a wingmare and passes, I entomb for elesh on the upkeep, knowing my top card is not a land from an earlier brainstorm, and draw the land for the turn to cast animate dead on elesh, wiping his board and letting me attack for 9 lifelink. He trades a flickerwisp for 8 damage (blinking the animate dead on elesh) and then concedes after his SoFaI draw wasn’t enough.
Round 11: Xin Sui on Shardless BUG:
Game 1 wasn’t interesting, he mulled to five and died to a fast griselbrand.
Game 2 was a bit weird, I remember killing his DRS and reanimating it at one point, and getting hit by strix and clique for a few turns. Later he played a sower which I countered. I eventually drew exhume and used deathrite to eat the sower, when I put elesh into play he was unable to draw out of it.
Round 12: Gary Wong on 4c Delver:
I don’t remember these games very well, since we played twice in the tournament. I remember playing around cards that I later learned he didn’t have in his 75. I also remember winning.
Round 13: Paolo Cesari on 4c Delver:
This guy’s deck was pretty nice, lots of those fancy new fetches and foils. I remember losing game one to getting stifled and wasted out, then dying to delver.
I don’t really remember what happened in Game 2, but I was able to take it down.
Game 3 I manage to put an iona into play using all of my resources, he has a pyro with a few tokens in play. I name blue and he attacks with tokens for a few turns while I do nothing, he is missing lands and not casting spells though, so I’m fine. I eventually put elesh into play and the white chicks get the job done.
Round 14: Adrejs Prost on Shardless BUG (Who we found out was my only loss Day 1 of Denver):
We each keep 7 and he lays a deathrite and passes, I have izzet charm so I let it go. I play lands and nothing else for a few turns waiting for my spot and he lays a second DRS and a goyf. I see about 20 cards without seeing entomb or a creature and die.
He gets me pretty dead in game 2 with early DRS and a mediocre keep from me.
Damn, x-2 now, and the pressure is on. What’s worse is that my friend Russ and I are now at the same record, we are hoping not to get paired because neither really wants to play the other.
Round 15: Russ Martin on Aggro Loam: Damn
This match is here, at about 3:30: http://www.twitch.tv/channelfireball/v/24751578
I got lucky, for sure, but I made the top 8.
Top 8: Gary Wong on 4c Delver:
Game 1: I lead hapless and he leads delver. I attack on turn 2 and he blocks, I snap off the trade because my hand isn’t doing anything yet. We both durdle for a few more turns until I draw a way to get a guy into play, he loses the turn after he found his DRS.
Game 2: I get a griselbrand into play and he responds by dumping a ton of creatures into play. I attack and am forced to draw cards twice, the first time because I needed action, the second to find a nonfetchland. I end up finding both in the top 14 (weird huh?) and put elesh into play. He the bolts me but I have the force, bringing me to 1, and he concedes.
Top 4: Christian Calcano on 4c Delver:
This match can be found here, at about 4:49: http://www.twitch.tv/channelfireball/v/24751578
Jeez his hands were good, my keep game 1 was playing around every card in his deck except DRS. My keep in Game 2 was I think generically good, but just not good enough to beat what he had. They kept talking about double DRS as if it mattered much, the only difference was that I had to kill both to get rid of the effect, he couldn’t actually activate both for creatures in a single turn because he only had one trop.
Well, I tried, but in the end came up short. I had to run out to catch my plane back to California, but I made my flight and had a great weekend. Thanks to all the players out there that made the event a blast, and thanks to Zach and Dylan for driving me around and giving me a place to crash.