24 people played 6 rounds on a 60 minutes round time a small scale HL-tournament at Helsinki organized by Safe Haven (http://www.safehaven.fi). The winner Aleksi Väänänen played BR-Goblins (http://vaihdetaan.kapsi.fi/forums/index.php?topic=52281.msg204176#msg204176), which was a slightly tuned version from the previous build (http://vaihdetaan.kapsi.fi/forums/index.php?topic=49289.msg200958#msg200958) he piloted to victory at the Ropecon highlander earlier this year.
Standings:
Rank No. Name Points OMW% PGW% OGW% P/W/D/B
1 17 Väänänen, Aleksi 16 64,8148 73,8095 60,2653 6/5/1/0
2 1 Notkola, Miikka 15 59,2593 66,6667 54,7660 6/5/0/0
3 25 Tuomi, Sami 13 53,7037 63,8889 54,3162 6/4/1/0
4 16 Sjöblom, Max 12 65,7407 69,2308 58,9120 6/4/0/0
5 10 Leung, Tomi 12 58,3333 60,0000 54,8247 6/4/0/0
6 20 Timonen, Jussi 12 56,4815 56,2500 53,2845 6/4/0/0
7 7 Ihonen, Juha 12 47,2222 64,2857 46,7394 6/4/0/0
8 9 Hänninen, Kari 12 41,6667 62,5000 42,3810 6/4/0/0
9 3 Niemi, Joni 9 59,2593 50,0000 55,9440 6/3/0/0
10 18 MJH 9 58,3333 50,0000 56,4484 6/3/0/0
11 13 Railio, Juha 9 53,7037 57,1429 51,0185 6/3/0/0
12 15 Pyyhtiä, Tuomas 9 52,7778 42,2222 52,5743 6/3/0/0
13 12 Schalin, Ville 9 50,9259 52,3810 52,0319 6/3/0/0
14 14 Malm, Karri 9 47,2222 50,0000 50,4355 6/3/0/0
15 8 Ihonen, Joonas 9 44,4444 48,8889 43,1481 6/3/0/0
16 22 Toikka, Seppo 6 64,5833 55,5556 58,3333 4/2/0/0
17 23 Salama, Tero 6 53,7037 40,0000 51,9114 6/2/0/0
18 19 Valori, Kim 6 44,4444 38,4615 43,5450 6/2/0/0
19 21 Lagerspetz, Simo 3 66,6667 42,8571 63,4921 3/1/0/0
20 5 Flink, Jesse 3 61,1111 26,6667 56,1755 6/1/0/0
21 11 Remitz, Johannes 3 45,8333 40,0000 45,4545 4/1/0/0
22 4 Niemi, Miikka 3 43,3333 27,2727 46,8620 5/1/0/0
23 24 Jokela, Aleksi 3 40,0000 23,0769 41,6090 5/0/0/1
24 6 Ampuja, Sauli 0 44,4444 0,0000 50,0000 3/0/0/0
Meta was largely control heavy with the exception of couple of RGs, WW and lone MeatElf. As an exception, Juha Ihonen played an interesting combo deck with lots of land tutors, untap effects, and time walks. Another interesting take on deck design was Valori's Gifts-Loam, which was built around black shell with green and blue splash, utilizing Worm Harvest and Raven's Crime alongside other more powerful spells.
Deck lists were not collected so the observations were made only from seats near me. I constructed more or less a casual PrisonStaxx build which kept me busy anyway:
1 Academy Ruins
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Argivian Find
1 Argivian Restoration
1 Badlands
1 Basalt Monolith
1 Bayou
1 Blinkmoth Well
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Candelabra of Tawnos
1 Capsize
1 Chrome Mox
1 City of Traitors
1 Coalition Relic
1 Collective Restraint
1 Crop Rotation
1 Crumbling Sanctuary
1 Crucible of Worlds
1 Crystal Vein
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Darksteel Ingot
1 Defense Grid
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Engineered Explosives
1 Enlightened Tutor
1 Fact or Fiction
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Fire/Ice (Fire)
1 Flooded Strand
1 Frantic Search
1 Garruk Wildspeaker
1 Gemstone Mine
1 Gifts Ungiven
1 Gilded Lotus
1 Glimmervoid
1 Goblin Welder
1 Grim Monolith
1 Icy Manipulator
1 Island
1 Intuition
1 Karn, Silver Golem
1 Life from the Loam
1 Mana Drain
1 Masticore
1 Maze of Ith
1 Mind Stone
1 Mindslaver
1 Mishra's Factory
1 Mishra's Helix
1 Mishra's Workshop
1 Mox Diamond
1 Null Brooch
1 Pendrell Mists
1 Phyrexian Furnace
1 Plateau
1 Polluted Delta
1 Prismatic Lens
1 Propaganda
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Regrowth
1 Reshape
1 Ring of Gix
1 Rings of Brighthearth
1 Rishadan Port
1 Rushing River
1 Savannah
1 Scrubland
1 Seat of the Synod
1 Sensei's Divining Top
1 Smokestack
1 Snow-Covered Island
1 Static Orb
1 Strategic Planning
1 Taiga
1 Tainted Pact
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Talisman of Progress
1 Tangle Wire
1 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Thoughtcast
1 Thran Dynamo
1 Time Spiral
1 Time Vault
1 Transmute Artifact
1 Trash for Treasure
1 Trinket Mage
1 Tropical Island
1 Tundra
1 Underground Sea
1 Upheaval
1 Vindicate
1 Volcanic Island
1 Voltaic Key
1 Wasteland
1 Wildfire
1 Windswept Heath
1 Winter Orb
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Worn Powerstone
1 Zuran Orb
Sorry for the shitty alphabethical format, but that's the best I can do with my deck builder of choise now. I was positively suprised by the 12th. spot given the casual nature of the deck. The games tend to take longer with that build and especially games against aggro took time as board locking had to be gained inch by inch. Strangely enough, I didn't play against much controls. I chose the deck as was under an impression that the round times would be 70 minutes, but I guess a large turnout of players changed plans just before the tournament. Also another argument for choosing the deck was that this was probably the last time Time Vault can be played as ban of the card may be imminent due to the power-level errata.
Total board lock downs were reached a couple of times in form of Icy Manipulator, Rings of Brighthearth and Winter Orb + shitload of mana. In both games opponents scooped before the kill condition could be introduced in order to save time.
In couple of games the deck surprised by a fast early game combo in form of second turn Time Vault and a consequent third turn Rings of Brightheart = endless turns. Prior to tourmanent I tested the deck briefly against RG and Skies and the results were OK with 50% percent of games won. The deck is very sporadic: Some times I've got first turn Tangle Wire, second turn Masticore or something, sometimes I just draw mana artifacts and nothing else.
I lost my games against the combo build of Ihonen, RG, and some other deck I can't remember now.