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[Thomas David Baker]

Antti Malinn in the 0-2 bracket then Travis Woo in the 1-2 bracket.

Poor Charlie.

3-3 going into Round 7 is pretty respectable though for the first time out.

You'll win the next one :)

Do tell us all about it.

[stevie_b]

Any ideas what deck he played? 

[Thomas David Baker]

No idea what deck. Looks like he dropped at 3-4 before the last round of the day.

Not a great day for the English ... Dan Gardner ended with 7 points and I don't think any of our 5-10 representatives made Day 2 :(

Although from Dan Barrett's latest tweet it sounds like some English people are having fun in Amsterdam ...

[Ben Titmarsh]

Amar apparently made top 8 in the 200 man PTQ... any more details on this dude?

[Simon O'Keeffe]

Grover played Doran, minus the Treefolk Harbingers that the top 8 decks had, but otherwise fairly similar I understand.

Amar almost made two top 8's, as he was 5-1 with two rounds to go in the second PTQ but unfortunately lost both of the last two rounds.

Rebecca won the 'Win a copy of FtV: Exiled & FtV: Relics plus infi boosters' tournament, beating Tiago Chan in the last round.

[Charlie Grover]

Yeah. The PT didnt go so well. I lost r1 to my fae opponent who tried really really hard to punt, but then made mistbind mistbind cryptic cryptic after trying to agony warp a 4/4.... r2 made a bad decision with my t2 double thoughtseize and then got a bad draw in game 3. r3 I won against Anti cos he isnt very good.. r4 this was the worst. Playing vs travis (obv living end) game 1 I think I have him when he tries to go off and I knight for my md bojuka bog.. he lets it resolves, cycles 3 street wraiths, and swampwalks me out. I kill them, but he goes off again and has leyline of the void since early on so my original guys dont return. g2 mull to 5 despite boarding in like 10 hate spells can never win. r5 easy win.

Draft went pretty well. I had a good deck with bad filler but amazing first 20 cards. Win round 1 against carlos romao (world champion number 2 goes down :D) but then manaflood against an atrocious RB deck g2 and 3, where either times I just need to draw a 4/4 (in my green deck) or my sword of vengeance to win. But fail, and drop at 3-4, but im pretty sure I should have played the last round with my solid deck.

Amar sadly misplayed g1 or 2 (dunno which) of his quarters with a solid deck to lose. Fireball is complicated, people!

[Thomas David Baker]

Pretty sweet that you beat two former world champions in your first PT (of many!) Look forward to watching you on the Top 8 webcast at the next one :)

[Ben Titmarsh]

Not quite on the same level, but Andrew Buchanan beat my (admittedly awful) draft deck in the final of the GPT Florence Top 8.

[Raymond Wat]

Congrat to all those who done well. Ben, you are getting closer and closer to winning proper. Better luck next time.

Ben Titmarsh said:

Not quite on the same level, but Andrew Buchanan beat my (admittedly awful) draft deck in the final of the GPT Florence Top 8.

[Amar Dattani]

I hate Fireball.

I won game 1 of my q/f and then mulled to 5 game 2. Basically at a crucial moment I completely tilted and forgot fireball splits damage evenly and therefore did 2 damage to a 3 toughness Air Servant.

This led to me losing the game rather than having a chance to win.

Game 3 I drew 7 lands in a row when all I needed was to draw one of my 3 outs to win. But my opponent had the negate so I don't think it would have mattered anyway.

You can see my top 8 draft deck here

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/even...

The 2 unknown cards are lightning bolt and fireball.

In the Saturday PTQ I was 5-1 and needed to win my next round so I could ID into the Top 8, but obviously go on to lose the next 2 matches. Fail.


But I had an awesome weekend overall.

[Dan Barrett]

I went 2-6-1 in sanctioned events (pro-tip: don't play decks/formats cold at a large event and expect to do any winning), but won a load of games with my new cube, which was good. Soul Manipulation returning Mulldrifter is sexy as.