Grand Prix Brussels

[Thomas David Baker]

So I wake up to find the latest pairings include two English players at 5-0 paired in Round 6.

National Champion Dan Gardner versus Eternal Champion Steve Bernstein.

Epic battle.

Who else is there that we know?

[Tiff Leek]

go go gogogogoooooo

[Paul Hodgson]

Nice one Steve, take em down with the power of bling ;)

[Ben Titmarsh]

Go Steve!! Where are you guys following the coverage?

[Dan Barrett]

All foil now is it?

How can you lose!!!

[Dan Barrett]

Steve is now 10-2 I think, 12th.

Also I believe a shout out is due to Wei, I think that's him on 9-3 in 38th place?

I'm following on official coverage, but will ask tim to provide more on Twitter

Ben Titmarsh said:

Go Steve!! Where are you guys following the coverage?

[Ben Titmarsh]

I can't see the rankings on there... linkage?

EDIT: Got it

Dan Barrett said:

Steve is now 10-2 I think, 12th.
Also I believe a shout out is due to Wei, I think that's him on 9-3 in 38th place?
I'm following on official coverage, but will ask tim to provide more on Twitter

Ben Titmarsh said:

Go Steve!! Where are you guys following the coverage?

[Dan Barrett]

Returning to action at a startlingly early 8am on Sunday morning were the valiant 200+ players who had made the cut to the second day of this, the biggest Standard tournament of all time. The move to Summer Time (the clocks moved forward an hour during the night, so 2am became 3am and everybody got an hour less sleep than they should have done) didn’t seem to have slowed our players down and many of the matches were finished in short order. On table two the English player Steve Bernstein narrowly avoided being dropped from the tournament entirely for arriving late for the player meeting - despite the many warnings that the clocks were going to change. Luckily for Steve he recovered to wrap up a win over Geert Bosch to move onto a 10-0 record.

[Ben Titmarsh]

Hahaha, awesome. Steve is currently 12-2 and 7th place with 2 rounds to go. Will the top 8 be broadcast live?

Dan Barrett said:

Returning to action at a startlingly early 8am on Sunday morning were the valiant 200+ players who had made the cut to the second day of this, the biggest Standard tournament of all time. The move to Summer Time (the clocks moved forward an hour during the night, so 2am became 3am and everybody got an hour less sleep than they should have done) didn’t seem to have slowed our players down and many of the matches were finished in short order. On table two the English player Steve Bernstein narrowly avoided being dropped from the tournament entirely for arriving late for the player meeting - despite the many warnings that the clocks were going to change. Luckily for Steve he recovered to wrap up a win over Geert Bosch to move onto a 10-0 record.

[stevie_b]

12-2 with two rounds to go - lost to the bloody draft ally deck though!!

4th in the standing about to play a French guy called frank! Win and in!!!

[Ben Titmarsh]

Looking at the current top 8, only one player's tiebreakers are even close to Steves:

1 Gregoir, Christophe [BEL] 36 70.73%
2 Cipolleschi, Francesco [ITA] 36 69.25%
3 Nagy, Tamas [HUN] 36 68.36%
4 Giusti, Emanuele [ITA] 36 64.95%
5 Szoke, Zoltan [HUN] 36 64.51%
6 Godineau, Manuel [FRA] 34 66.92%
7 Bernstein, Steve [ENG] 33 76.66%
8 Seibold, Christian [DEU] 33 75.02%

[Paul Hodgson]

Stay on target!

[Dan Barrett]

Get there!

And when you play in the top 8, PLEASE ask your opponents if they have any trades so it goes in the coverage!!!!

stevie_b said:

12-2 with two rounds to go - lost to the bloody draft ally deck though!!

4th in the standing about to play a French guy called frank! Win and in!!!