[HLL]Announcements

[Vazdru]

registration has been launched for next season: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1208.0

timetable for Season XXVII:
May 18th: standing orders for Season XXVII get locked
May 19th: price pool gets locked
May 26th: registration will be closed
till May 29th:
* posting deck-codes
* sending deck-lists to judge
* transfering fee
May 30th: pairings announced for first round of Swiss
Jun 12st: game day round 1

the standing order hasn't changed much since last one
as reaction there were some reports missing during season XXVI we decided to use some stimulation to change this:
positive way (incentive): best report will be awarded with 50% discount for next season
negative way (sanctions): Each player that should have written a match report during the season and did not do so, will have his/ her (potentially acquired) prices reduced by one playerpoint (PP) at the end of the tournament.

we are also offer a "Modified Banned-List Season" just as an experiment. If you wanna try out, how Highlander would actually look like without fetchlands and/or with a more restrive banned-list you can join here: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1209.msg12702#msg12702

[Dr. Opossum]

According to the standing orders, we play 4 rounds followed by top 4.


Pairings for Round 1:




This round ends: Jun. 12th at 9pm


If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

[Dr. Opossum]

Pairings for Round 2:




This round ends: Jun. 26th at 9pm


Please check your points!

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

[Dr. Opossum]

Pairings for Round 3:




This round ends: Jul. 10th at 9pm


Please check your points!

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

[Dr. Opossum]

Pairings for Round 4:




This round ends: Jul. 24th at 9pm


Please check your points!

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

[Dr. Opossum]

reminder:

please send your results of 4th round + report to Dr. Opossum via PM instead of posting it in this thread

The results and match-report of the last swiss round will be gathered by Dr. Opossum. She will publish the results as soon all results are available.

Result + report already send:
Bat vs. Tazi
olii vs. Stefan82
iulus va. GoblinPiledriver
Payron vs. Vazdru

[Dr. Opossum]

New deadline for Round 4!

This round ends: Jul. 31th at 9pm

[Dr. Opossum]

Final Standings:




Please check your points! The final standings (and therefore also the playoff structure) will be "locked in" tomorrow. As soon as the final standings are locked, the decklists will be uploaded and the first round of the playoffs will start. Please write me a PM, if you have any questions or have found an error in the final standings.

[Dr. Opossum]

Final Standings are "locked in"!

Semi Finals:

1. Goblin Piledriver vs. Payron
2. Bat vs. iulus


This round ends: Aug. 14th at 9pm

Uploaded your decklists here: http://mtgpulse.com/event/25478#339382

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

[Dr. Opossum]

Finals:

Payron vs. iulus


This round ends: Aug. 21th at 9pm

Decklists: http://mtgpulse.com/event/25478#339382

If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!

[Vazdru]

Thx to Dr. Opossum and all participants of recent HLL season, I enjoyed it like always.
After 61 games in the books of season 27 we have a new and old champion Payron who played Oath-Combo this time for back-to-back victory. Congratz mate!

Decklists of all participants are uploaded to mtgpulse: http://mtgpulse.com/event/25478#339379
All reports can be found here: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1212.15 - Dr. Opossum will award the best report. Its writer will receive a 50% discount for next season's starting fee.

As first price Payron picked Savannah (rev, ex) + Drowned Catacombs. Cards are in transit, have fun with!

Preparations (especially refill price pool) for new season are in progress. Stay tuned.

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Season 1: Sturmgott (1st) - Guardian (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 2: MErcator (1st) - Mythrandrir (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 3: Vazdru (1st) - MErcator (2nd) - pyyhttu (3rd)
Season 4: MErcator (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 5: Nastaboi (1st) - Coldcrow (2nd) - Georg B (3rd)
Season 6: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Sturmgott (3rd)
Season 7: Nastaboi (1st) - Firestarter (2nd) - marchhare (3rd)
Season 8: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - -jfk- (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 9: marchhare (1st) - Goblinepiledriver (2nd) - -jfk- (3rd)
Season 10: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - Tabris (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 11: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - helle (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 12: Tabris (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Nastaboi (3rd)
Season 13: coldcrow (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Maggot (3rd)
Season 14: ChristophO (1st) - Syras (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 15: Syras (1st)
Season 16: pyyhttu (1st) - Payron (2nd) - Syras (3rd)
Season 17: Vazdru (1st) - hamsert (2nd) - Pacifist (3rd)
Season 18: Goblinpiledriver (1st)
Season 19: ChristophO (1st) - Nastaboi (2nd) - hamsert (3rd)
Season 20: hamsert (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 21: Goblinpiledriver (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Vazdru (3rd)
Season 22: captain-kaiiak (1st) - ChristophO (2nd) - Maqi (3rd)
Season 23: TaZi (1st) - Maqi (2nd) - promole (3rd)
Season 24: Maqi (1st) - TaZi (2nd) - dsck (3rd)
Season 25: TaZi (1st) - K0d013e4st (2nd) - Payron (3rd)
Season 26: Payron (1st) - dsck (2nd) - TaZi (3rd)
Season 27: Payron (1st) - Iulus (2nd) - Goblinpiledriver (3rd)

[Vazdru]

derStefan82 is rewarded with 50% discount on next HLL season's starting fee for his forth round report:

derStefan82 (BUG-Combos) - Olii (Jeskai) 2:1

game 1:

Mulliganed a hand with 'Marsh Flats, Counter spell, Emerald Charm, Exploration, Brainstorm, Urborg, Darkslick Shores' as no business.
Kept hand with 'Noxious Revival, Marsh flats, Sultai Charm, Impluse, Mir's Guile, Evasive Action, Demonic Tutor', was a bit distracted and did not think long about this hand.
Normally I would have mulliganed this because of 1 lander. Kept it because Guile should be good vs control and DT for business.

- I play Flats, Bayou, Guile (which leaves me without blue, that's why I should have mulliganed initially)
- Olii play tapped Clifftop Retrea
- I'm still not in the game and forget my upkeep Mirri's Guile and draw Forest
- Olii plays Snow Island
- Me upkeep Guile seeing Spell Snare, Inquisiton, Dark Depth, draw Depth, DT to make sure my next land drop which get's negated
- Olii plays Mutavault
- Me upkeep Guile seeing, Spell Snare, Inquisition, and some none land card (still no blue and only 2 mana producing lands), play Inquisition seeing, 'Bloodstained Mire, Polluted Delta, Azorious Charm, Electrolize, Elspeth Tirel, Force of Will', discarding Charm as it stops Marit Large, EOT Olii plays Electrolize on me going to 17
- Olii plays Bloodstained and attacks with Mutavault
- I find again no land in Guile
- Olii is playing Delta, Elspeth creating 3 tokens, EOT I play Noxious Revival for Fetchland (should I probably have done one turn earlier)
- Me drawing Flats, playing Flats
- Olii playing Windswept Heath and attacking with soldiers and going to 21 with Elspeth life ability, I'm going to 12, EOT I fetch for U-Sea, Brainstorm finding another land
- Me playing land, finding no real business yet so go with counter + impulse on hand and 4 open mana
- Olii is attakichng me with tokens again bringing me to 8, Elspeth gets him another 3 tokens , me EOT Impulse getting Intuition but 1 mana short playing it
- Me finding Thespian Stage with Guile playing it
- Olii is attacking me for 6 so I go to 2, he goes to 27 because of Elspeth life ability, EOT Stage and Depth are creating a Marit Large
- Me attacking him with Marit Large to 7 playing Crop rotation Main Phase during my turn hoping that he keeps Force for something I might play afterwards and does not see Crop as relevant unfortunely he counters so I'm dead on board


game 2:
Mulligan a one-lander without combo potential. Keep a mediocre hand with 'Sunken Ruins, Emrakul, Remand, Counter Spell, Glacial Chasm, Intuition, Snow Swamp' cause I think double Counter + Intuition should be ok against control.

- I lead with Snow Swamp
- He plays Shvan Reef, Ancestral Vision
- I draw Mystical Tutor, play Sunken Ruins and have now the possibilty for eather counter or EOT Tutor
- He plays Serums Visions and tapped Clifftop Retreat, I play EOT Mystical for Demonic
- I play Demonic Tutor for Thespian Stage to hit my land drop
- He plays Mutavault
- I draw Urborg, play Urborg
- He plays nothing, I play EOT Intuition for Loam, Wasteland, Dark Depth getting Loam
- I play Delta go with double counter open
- He plays upkeep Ancestral Vision which I counter with Remand, he counters back whith Prohibit which I respond with my Counterspell, he plays Mountain (no blue Mana open)
- I play Loam for Wasteland, Delta, Depth, play Wasteland to destroy his only blue mana source, and play drawn Merchant Scroll to which he concedes


game 3:
I keep an aggressive hand with 'Doomsday, Counterspell, Remand, Force of Will, Tectoncic Edge, Personal Tutor, Scalding Tarn', I kind of like this hand against a slow deck as I have an early Doomsday with Force backup.

- He plays Misty
- I draw Mystical Tutor and play Scalding Tarn
- He plays Snow Island and I play EOT Mystical which he Remands
- I draw Spell Pierce and play Tec Edge
- He plays Flooded Strand and I play EOT Mystical for Dark Ritual
- I play Ritual, Doomsday fiddling with Cockatrice and Doomsday as I have played only 3 matches in Cockatrice during the last years and so I'm not that experienced
- He plays Mountain, Fact or Fiction seeing Absorb, Steam Vents, Councils Judgement, Spell Snare, Ponder taking Ponder, Absorb
- I play Brainstorm, Shelldock Isle
- He plays Ponder, Karakas
- I play Tec Edge -> Karakas, Shelldock into Emrakul -> extra Turn
- Play Tropical Island, attack with Emrakul destroy all his permanents and bring him to 3 to win with my next attack


Thanks for the games.

[Vazdru]

registration has been launched for next season: http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1236.msg12980#msg12980

timetable for Season XXVIII:
Sep 15th: standing orders for Season XXVII get locked
Sep 16th: price pool gets locked
Sep 19th: registration will be closed
till Sep 25th:
* posting deck-codes
* sending deck-lists to judge
* transfering fee
Sep 26th: pairings announced for first round of Swiss
Oct 9th: game day round 1

the standing order hasn't changed since last season

[Vazdru]

till Sep 25th:
* posting deck-codes
* sending deck-lists to judge
* transfering fee
Sep 26th: pairings announced for first round of Swiss

conclusion:

* league will use the current banned-list
* Kaladesh isn't legal for next season

[Dr. Opossum]

Pairings for Round 1:

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This round ends: Oct. 16th at 9pm


If there are problems or you have any questions, write me a PM.


Good luck and have fun!