Team Chicago invades Indiana regional?

[Deleted]

Hmmm...what an interesting development. It seems like Chicago is on the map now, taking 1st, 2nd, and 4th at yesterday's Lafayette Regional. By the way, we'd like to thank Keith and Dave for a wonderful tourney. Interestingly enough, these same two say New England is where it's at...how long of a drive is that? Maybe us "Windies" will come a 'knockin'.

If only we had a chance to play in the Mega Face-off...that would have been interesting.

For those who might have been curious, a Heatwave deck took it all (and a near-mirror build also took 4th, if only because the two had to face each other in the last round of swiss). I don't know if that is the same deck as what some of you might call AggroZycon or burn because I haven't seen any decklists for those, but it definitely wasn't control Zycon. Interestingly enough, Grimus, the disputed broken one, didn't even show his face, which was good for him anyhow (it would have been a Grimus massacre yesterday...I really thought there would be more of him. Pity). Plenty of Glye though, and a couple Sutraps...

But what I think is the coolest thing is...are you ready...Lady Phe'Ronde's archers...what? Yea. Our 4th team member, who wasn't supposed to play, decided to do so in the last minute. We had no deck for him, so I pulled out the old archer deck...it's almost the same one you can find on the ME website for cool deck ideas, just a little modified. Now granted, I can't say we expected good things, because he wasn't exactly our star player, and the deck isn't expected to beat some of the supposed top decks, like Grimus or Zycon control. Even Glye seems too tough...However, it did a lot better than I gave it credit for. Even though it pulled a respectable 8th place finish, it actually could have been a lot higher. The deck held its own even if our member suffered brainfreeze half the time...(Just kidding Al...we know you had a migraine and really weren't in the best shape to play.)
Actually, I have a bit more to say about this, so I'll start a new post seperately.

For now, I again want to say thank you to the sponsors and Lafayette our gracious host. It was really fun, both the tourney and the game itself. It sounds like we might have a qualifier here at home in Chicago. Maybe some of you will turn the tables on us. Good luck!

[shockyakaglye]

it would be awsom to see you guys over here in Mass

[Arashi]

Mmm, yeah. Same here. I'm always interested in facing new opponents! It sounds like you have some interesting decks that would be different than what you would find around here. I would be interesting to check out the inner workings of those decks. Congratulations to the winners!

[Deleted]

yeah, I was just saying the same thing to you guys on your posts. Maybe we'll see each other at GenCon...I know we'll be there...we just can't play. But I would still love to meet you Mass guys. The Sithmasters Keith and Dave speak very highly of you.

[synergy]

i have made a "heatwave deck" it is probably very similar. it is prety much LOTS of burn a few creatures and heatwave to finish or just kill. pyromancers are great in it. the deck is super fast.

[J]

i wood pay to have a few windys drop in on a tourny down here in mass, it wood be very interesting to see how u stack up against us top ranked players...... u kno ur curious so give it a shot

J out

[Arashi]

J said:

i wood pay to have a few windys drop in on a tourny down here in mass, it wood be very interesting to see how u stack up against us top ranked players...... u kno ur curious so give it a shot

J out

That would be pretty cool. I think that we and the windy's are probably curious about eachothers decks. If none of them can make it up here, we will still have a hell of a MEGA FACE OFF! It will be interesting to play against decks that we may have never even thought of.

[redshirt]

Of course, nothing would stop New Englanders from coming to the Windy City either...there's talk about having a tournament with a Xbox 360 going to the winner in July.

[Deleted]

Pay huh? Like transportation and everything? Wow...money must grow on trees out there. I think some of us Windies would actually go. I would anyway.

So are all the top-ranked players from that Mass. area? Who are you guys, I mean, screen-name wise?

I don't how we'd compare to you big-timers. Like I was saying before or on another thread, the Sithmasters speak highly of you all. I just remember we were flattered after the first tournament like two months ago that Dave and Keith were there, when they saw what me and the boys were doing with the Ring...it got restricted immediately afterwards. We were also the reason for that Must/May ruling they put up. It's so cool to be so close to the creators of a young game. It feels like you're involved in the evolution of the game itself. As far as our game skill, I think we do ok...of course there isn't a way to tell until we compete with more areas. As I was saying though, none of us Windies can actually play at GenCon even though we will be there for the FaceOff. I'd still like to meet you guys though.

[Deleted]

Oh, and about the regional happening in Chicago...it's very possible going on assuredly. It's up to us really. We are pseudo-working with ME to generate publicity and demo the game in our areas. If we can drum up enough excitement, the word is that the Sithmasters will sponsor a regional here at the end of July.

You guys would really come out?

[Arashi]

Well, I for one would love to come down for a tourney, but I really don't have the money for a plane ticket and whatnot.

As for the top ranked players they are:
#1 is me, Chris Norton.
#2 is Blaine/Jeffery Hatab (Synergy on the boards)
#3 is Jay Algarin (J on the boards)

[shockyakaglye]

im #14 and i play here in Mass

[synergy]

The person i (Jeffre Blaine Hatab) see at every tournement i go to is CHris. and he sees me probably at every tournament too. we are fighitng for #1 and we are goin to every tourney we can to get it.

[sojomojo]

Q why can't you guys play in MEGA?

Sojo out!

[Keith Katsikas]

They will be helping us judge the events at GenCon.