Pro Tour AVR

[Thomas David Baker]

Hilarious match in the feature area round 2.  Nearly going to time in game ONE - Nassif threatening to ultimate Tamiyo and playing multiple Terminus' and Gisela and the 4/4 Soulbound that blinks versus Angel of Glory's Rise combo going up to ridiculous life totals and making ridiculous numbers of humans.  All while Nassif is on 4.  Cool stuff.

[Ben Titmarsh]

link?  or are you actually in Barcelona?

[Thomas David Baker]

It's on the mothership!

http://webcastplayer.wizards.com/

Nassif won the match 1-0 after getting a slow shuffling warning and playing seven extra turns instead of five!

[Thomas David Baker]

I can't believe Killing Wave is good.  Faith in Magic's compexity restored.

[Ben Titmarsh]

Strong showing so far from our lads.. after round 4:

21	Wright, Stuart [ENG]	12	68.00%
22	Finkel, Jon [USA]	12	66.66%
23	Black, Samuel [USA]	12	66.66%
24	Stoll, Kyle [USA]	12	64.00%
25	Nagy, Ferenc [HUN]	12	64.00%
26	Cox, Patrick [USA]	12	64.00%
27	Babin, Kyle [USA]	12	64.00%
28	Royde, Daniel [ENG]	12	64.00%

[Thomas David Baker]

Dan has to make Top 75 to stay on the train.  Looks like about 190 will make Day 2, which he has already done.  Keep the Rage going!

[Ben Titmarsh]

Getting higher!

15	Royde, Daniel [ENG]	15	63.88%
16	Kocsis, Gabor [HUN]	15	63.88%
17	Wright, Stuart [ENG]	15	63.88%

[Thomas David Baker]

Pretty sure Stuart won this round 2-0 in the feature match area, too.  Can't see Dan's results.  Keep it going!

[Philip Dickinson]

naming the pro tours after the most recently released set rather than the location makes the whole thing sound pretty awful. why did they start doing this?

[Tom Reeve]

Because it wasn't awkward enough losing 'I'm Xth on rating in the country' in favour of 'I'm a LEVEL TWENTY TWO WIZARD'.

[Dan Barrett]

because marketing.

Philip Dickinson said:

naming the pro tours after the most recently released set rather than the location makes the whole thing sound pretty awful. why did they start doing this?

[Tom Reeve]

(Marketing that makes people embarassed to talk about your product, or not be able to remember key information about it, is shitty marketing.)

[Thomas David Baker]

Dan finished Day 1 6-2 in 17th place one place behind Jon Finkel.  Stuart Wright 6-2 also in 25th.

Awesome.