NOBs 9 Results and NOBs X signup

[Ben Titmarsh]

Our pod was cut down to 7 this week to even out the other drafts.  Levi took the top spot with Ross in second and me third.  Things are looking tight at the top of the leaderboard! 

1    Ross    33
2    Ben    32
3    Kieran    21
4    Charlie    19
5    Levi    19
6    Russ    18
7    Nathan    14
8    Andrew    12
9    Maor    10
10    Simon    8
11    Rebecca    8
12    Ray    4
13    Dan Waine    4
14    Dan Royde    3
15    Marek    2
16    Amar    2
17    Paul    2
18    Phil    1
19    Allan    1
20    Joe    1
21    Mills    1

NOBs X

1. Ben

2. Ross

3. Kieran

4. Andrew

5. Levi

6. Amar

7. Russ

8. Charlie

[Ben Titmarsh]

You've got to draw the line somewhere.  If you start accepting 10, why not 12?  Having 8 people is a "normal" draft pod with normal tabling of cards etc. 

There is always EDH.

[Amar Dattani]

On this occasion I agree with Mr Baker.

I prefer to do 8 man drafts of normal sets as by the time the pack wheels there is often little of value left.

But a cube draft will have things that are decent even in the last 2-3 cards.

So it should be fine to let 10 people draft cube.

[Ben Titmarsh]

EDIT: I thought I agreed with this but I actually don't!

The issue with 10 man pods is not about card quality.  It's easy to see that you'll get the same card quality despite the number of people.  It's more that you lose the strategy aspect of working out what will table when evaluating a pick.

[Ben Titmarsh]

That said as with all things NOBS related, I'm happy to put it to a vote on the night and make it a 10 man pod instead of 8.  It's not like we are practising for the Pro Tour here!

[Thomas David Baker]

Don't mess things up for me ... I am just too much of a hippy I guess and want everyone to be included in the group hug even at the detriment of the draft as a whole.  But I will turn up early with my new EDH deck as I try once again to enjoy this terrible format and then either cube or M13 with the proles as is appropriate!

[Ben Titmarsh]

Power to the proles

[Paul Hodgson]

what time is drafto time?

[Ben Titmarsh]

I think we are aiming for 6:45 tonight on the off chance that we can get two drafts in!

[Kieran Symington]

You must love EDH really since you always try to make it work! Get there early enough (ie around 5:30) and we might even let you play with our exclusive early arrivals EDH club where you can play against Ross' Talon Trooper deck!

Thomas David Baker said:

Don't mess things up for me ... I am just too much of a hippy I guess and want everyone to be included in the group hug even at the detriment of the draft as a whole.  But I will turn up early with my new EDH deck as I try once again to enjoy this terrible format and then either cube or M13 with the proles as is appropriate!

[Russell Davies]

If we get to 12, you can always run a pair of 6-man pods which, IMO is fine.

Also, when drafting cube I generally prefer to draft 4 packs of 11 - it's definitely NOT a big deal, but it rewards signalling better and makes for a more interesting draft, just thought I would throw that out there  ;)