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Highlander in Banská Bystrica

Started by Sworn, 09-08-2013, 08:22:28 PM

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Sworn

Hello everybody,
we tried to make some HL tournament (at the heart of Slovakia) to involve people who do not usually play our favourite format.
We gained some singles for the prices from the people involved around HL and we decided to let them choose (starting from the first place obv.) between single card or cash (or combination of both  :) ).

So for the participation, there were 17 people playing which is for experimental HL tournament normal. Hope it will be usual to have 20+ people on such tournaments...

Standings and decktypes:
1.   Dalibor Szegho (UG aggrocontrol)
2.   Juraj Linkes (Esper control)
3.   Roman Antal (Esper superfriends)
4.   Filip Feldmajer (Demonic Bant)
5.   Jakub Poliak (Jund midrange)
6.   Martin Plachy (Mono-R Hell)
7.   Mario Pastor (3C nonwhite-blood aggro)
8.   Jakub Tekel (Jund midrange)
9.   Kristian Moze (GW maverick)
10.   Matej Papso (Mono-R brainless burn)
11.   Jergus Mitter (UWR control)
12.   Marek Gir (UG midrange)
13.   Lukas Bordac (UWr twin control)
14.   Ladislav Majer (Mono-R goblins)
15.   Sona Vankova (Jund goodstuff)
16.   Viktor Habusa (BWg goodstuff)
17.   Vladimir Poliacek (UWR control)

We decided to play 5 turns and TOP4.
For prices there were a lot of singles like Zendikar fetches, Enlightened Tutor, some type II planeswalkers and goodstuff, korean Restoration Angel, equip Swords, Aether Vial, modern masters rares and shocklands...

Tornament was nice, prices was fine, if only more and more people start to play HL, cause we are having a lot of other HL tournaments around Slovakia, mainly in Trnava (each second month regularly) and sometimes in capital city Bratislava.

I will add top4 decklists to mtgpulse and I will try to add as much information about upcoming tournaments in future as well...


Maqi

Thx a lot for your efforts!

Hope the HL scene keeps growing in Slovakia!

Sworn

#2
Hello again,
we held an another of HL tournaments here, this time as the trial for the bigger tournament which will be in Prague during July.

More info about Prague Eternal:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Prague-Eternal/727078517316592?fref=ts

There were 17 people and this made a prize pool of: (Major) Scalding Tarn, True-Name Nemesis, Marsh Flats, Wooded Foothills (Minor) Mother of Runes, some Shocklands and some lower priced foils.

Tournament had 5 rounds and then top 4.

Here is the top4: http://mtgpulse.com/event/16544#233079

Other attended decks which I remember were (with no particular order): GB goodstuff, MonoU, MonoR, UR, URw hate, UGr goodstuff, RUG goodstuff, WW, MonoR goblins, Reanimator, 5 color goodstuff, WB aggro

Conceptual and very short report of my games (with BantZur! deck):
1. round: bye pls - WIN
2. round: MonoR burn, I was under heavy pressure both games, but tutored Thragtusk in first and Armadillo Cloak in second game sealed the deal for me - WIN
3. round: UR (without land hate): I managed to win the first game somehow, then the Thundermaw Hellkite along with card advantage eated my ass, but in the third I have tutored for loxodon smiter and next turn Thrun made quick victory. - WIN
4. round: Esper control (very hard deck to beat in our meta): I was trying to push with Thrun then TNN and sword , but flashbacked Day of Judgement along with Elspeth Sun Champion´s -3 ability somehow outclassed me. I was not so quick in the second game, so his card advantage was deadly for me. - LOSS
5. round RUG goodstuff - for top4 fight: I lost the first game in combination of his burn and "big" spells. In the second, I tried to outplay him and put Sigarda around counters which was succesful. And finally Zur appeared in the third where unanswered with his flight was victorious for me - WIN
Semifinal: Jund midrange: both games were pretty quick. In the first- Thrun, TNN and sword of FaI made it, and in the second start with T1 Mother of Runes, T2 Spellskite, T3 Clique, then Thrun and tutor for Sword of FaF was enough - WIN
finals: Esper control: AT LAST, cause second semifinal took so much time :( - so we just splitted the prizes and bye for the Prague and so were it  ;)

You should see some of these games on videos, cause friend of mine was capturing them with camera.

Videos (no commentary - not like coverage - just for visual mainly):

Round 1 (MonoR goblins vs URw): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvONHr13IP8
Round 2 (UR vs UGb): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGBU-XZVq8g
Round 3 (Jund midrange vs RUG midrange):
      - part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXpVIg07XOk
      - part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2i7Pn-vXEY
Round 4 (BantZur vs Esper control): Incomplete - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeWeeVchmZM
Round 5 (UGr vs UGb): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZRw9-X5ZKk
Semifinals (BantZur vs Jund midrange): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcnqVsfGVQQ

Thank goes to Lukino

Tabris

I am excited to see the coverage :)

Sworn

Added youtube links to videos in original message, but they aren´t like coverage...but I hope it might be interesting for you anyway  ;)

Tabris