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It's interesting to note that in a metagame where there was a clear tier one deck (at GP Columbus), Fish failed to make any placings in the top 8, despite an overwhelming presence there.
Fish actually did Top 8 with Max Tietze playing an almost identical Fish list as the one I ran there. The number one reason Fish didn't do nearly as well was due to much lower % of the field actually playing Flash with a ton of random other decks still present. One main reason most of the Fish did poorly was because they metagamed for Flash and never played against Flash. If more players would have ran versatile lists like Max's (or even possibly tuned for a better mirror match), Fish would have put more in the Top 8. Another interesting thing to consider... how much of the Top 32 was Fish? Or Top 64? I don't think it was nearly as high as the amount of Fish that was there, but I'm sure there was still a ton of Fish in the mix within the Top 32 and Top 64. Too bad Wizards didn't at least make a metagame breakdown of archtypes for the Top 32 or 64.