Drafting the World Championship

[Thomas David Baker]

•  Yuuya Watanabe (2012 Players Championship winner)
•  Stanislav Cifka (Pro Tour Return to Ravnica winner)
•  Tom Martell (Pro Tour Gatecrash winner)
•  Craig Wescoe (Pro Tour Dragon's Maze winner)
•  Dmitriy Butakov (2012 Magic Online champion)
•  Josh Utter-Leyton (2012–13 Player of the year)
•  Willy Edel (Top Pro Points, Latin America)
•  Lee Shi Tian (Top Pro Points, Asia Pacific)
•  Eric Froehlich (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  Ben Stark (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  Shuhei Nakamura (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  Brian Kibler (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  Shahar Shenhar (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  Martin Juza (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  David Ochoa (Top Pro Points, at-large)
•  Reid Duke (Top Pro Points, at-large)

Pick three players and nominate one of them as your captain (for tiebreaking). 3 points for each win in the World Championship (including the Sunday).

That is some line up even without PV and LSV. How do we go about drafting it? Pick your top 3 including a captain for tie breaks and allow dupes? Or 1-8, 8-1?

magic.bluebones.net/ptdraft/ was quite fun at the last pro tour so let's do something similar for the World Championship.

[Louis Mackie]

if they explain cumulative tiebreakers again i will shoot myself

[Simon O'Keeffe]

I think Ross tried to pick the worst possible team!

There is a chance that he could surpass Paul to avoid the wooden spoon.

Also looks like Louis has locked up the win.

[Louis Mackie]

Charlie has 2 players in Top 4 also, so depending on how this round and top4 goes he could sneak past me

[Levi Hinz]

It's like, they want to explain stuff so that the more casual players can understand, but then they overexplain stuff that almost noone cares about

It's up there with "AND THERE OFF!  OMG THEY'RE PLAYING BASICS!  GUYS THIS IS AMAZING!  IT'S FOREST VS PLAINS!"  - Rich Hagon, every game

Louis Mackie said:

if they explain cumulative tiebreakers again i will shoot myself

[Louis Mackie]

Guess Sunday will be the decider!

If Reid wins: James wins.

If Josh wins: Charlie wins.

If either Shahar or Ben win, I win.

[Thomas David Baker]

LSV still rules though.

NAME	POINTS	PICKS
Charlie	72	Josh Utter-Leyton (24), Reid Duke (27), Yuuya Watanabe (21)
Dan R	72	Yuuya Watanabe (21), Ben Stark (27), Josh Utter-Leyton (24)
Louis	72	Craig Wescoe (21), Shahar Shenhar (24), Ben Stark (27)
Jim	72	Reid Duke (27), Yuuya Watanabe (21), Josh Utter-Leyton (24)
Simon	69	David Ochoa (18), Shahar Shenhar (24), Ben Stark (27)
Dan B	66	Josh Utter-Leyton (24), Reid Duke (27), Tom Martell (15)
Levi	66	Ben Stark (27), Yuuya Watanabe (21), Dmitriy Butakov (18)
Tom	63	Reid Duke (27), Shuhei Nakamura (18), Brian Kibler (18)
Glenn	57	Ben Stark (27), Willy Edel (15), Tom Martell (15)
Thom	54	Craig Wescoe (21), Yuuya Watanabe (21), Eric Froehlich (12)
Paul	51	Eric Froehlich (12), David Ochoa (18), Yuuya Watanabe (21)
Ben	51	Ben Stark (27), Martin Juza (6), Brian Kibler (18)
Ross	39	Martin Juza (6), Stanislav Cifka (15), Dmitriy Butakov (18)

http://magic.bluebones.net/ptdraft/

Pretty sure Kibler was robbed in some unspecified fashion.

LSV still rules but coverage question ... why the FUCK can't they show the scoreboard in standing order?

[ross miles]

With Sunday to go I remain hopeful of victory ...

[Levi Hinz]

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!

[Levi Hinz]

Oh dear....it's LSV...but he's with Menery...

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do here.

e: Options include watch magic, watch magic on mute, or seppuku. 

[Louis Mackie]

Or you could play the "mute whenever Sheldon talks and hope to unmute as soon as he's done talking" game

Levi Hinz said:

Oh dear....it's LSV...but he's with Menery...

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do here.

e: Options include watch magic, watch magic on mute, or seppuku. 

[Simon O'Keeffe]

Yes! Go Team Ireland!

[Thomas David Baker]

England lost to Singapore to go to 3-2. USA crushing.