Congratulations to Keenon "The Bob" Notae , the winner of Cosmic Oasis Super Qualifier II in Richmond, Kentucky on June 28th.

For winning this awesome event "The Bob" won: ROC map, Top 8 ROC hat, One Convention Exclusive, The ROC plaque, 100 Max points, dice, special Objects Plus other great prizes and a seat at the ROC Championship @ Dragon*Con in Atlanta.

To find out what team "The Bob" used as well as who the other top players were keep reading....

In KY, we love to ROC. The kickoff to the summer of ROC was with the second super qualifier for Cosmic Oasis in Richmond KY. This was a part of the Meeplefest gaming convention which also featured a large Magic PTQ and a very large Yu-Gi-Oh tournament as well.

Coming off of Origins, the meta game is about as varied as it's ever been. At our first super qualifier we had our Questions answered. This time we had them possessed. After 4 rounds of Swiss and a top 16 chalked full of talent and great teams, one person was left standing.


1. Keenon Notae (TheBob366) 300
Iron Pharaoh 110
- Utility Belt 12
- Ophidian 25
Shatterstar 73
- Parallax 25
Despotellis 30
- Adara 25

Keenon's team was scary and it truly owned the ROC Arena map all day long. The finals match was a great matchup between two skilled players piloting two great teams.


2. Marshall Lowing (BlackHearted) 300
Phantom Girl 72
Shrinking Violet 75
Agent 13 55
Madame Web 24
Blind Al 13
Entity 25
Phoenix Force (Agent 13, Shrinking Violet, and Phantom Girl)
-All shards 36
Sideline: LE Shrinking Violet, GF Shrinking Violet

I can honestly say that I did not expect to see Shrinking Violet in the finals. But Marshall made me a believer as he showed everyone just how good she could be on the right team.


3. Jason Alvey (Dark_Jedi_21) 300
Iron Pharaoh 110
- Adara 25
Speed Demon 110
Weasel 27
Power Battery (Green ring, Crossbow, Shield) 28

4. David Gauselman (Lotusguard) 298
Question 100
- Parallax 25
Worlds Finest Huntress 75
- Ophidian 25
Despotellis 30
- Adara 25
Power Battery (Green ring, Net) 18

Jason and David are both great players. Jason's Iron Pharaoh was a beast when paired with Weasel and Speed Demon. David was the champion of the first super qualifier and once again showed us just how meta Question is.

Just to make the top 4 was no easy task. They each had to overcome difficult matchups and some very talented players.

5. Ryan Van Noy 296
Iron Pharaoh 110
Phantom Girl 72
- Utility Belt 14
CW FF Scarlet Witch 50
CW FF Scarlet Witch 50

6. Matt Abbott (Stallion9769) 300
Iron Pharaoh 110
- Parallax 25
Lydea Mallor 79
Despotellis 30
- Adara 25
Astral Dr. Strange 13
Power Battery (Green ring, Net) 18

7. Chris Floyd 298
Iron Pharaoh 110
- Parallax 25
Iron Pharaoh 110
- Ophidian 25
Power Battery (Green ring, Crossbow, Net) 28

8. Scott Cunningham (Kyrazor) 299
Silver Centurion 161
- Parallax 25
Phantom Girl 72
Blind Al 13
Power Battery (Green ring, Shield, Crossbow) 28

9. Mitchell Burlew (MitchLovin) 298
Banshee 98
Bullseye 110
Astral Dr. Strange 13
Splitlip 20
Despotellis 30
Book of Skulls 27

10. Trevor McCoy (Hedonist01) 293
White Witch 87
Phantom Girl 72
- Utility Belt 14
Bizarro 75
Science Police Officer 45

11. Easton Brock (EastB11) 300
Shatterstar 73
Shatterstar 73
Black Talon 60
Despotellis 30
- Adara 25
Blind Al 13
Power Plant 26

12. Karsten Stump 287
Shatterstar 73
Shatterstar 73
Colleen Wing 55
Destiny 50
Phoenix Force (Assigned to Shatterstar, Shatterstar, Colleen Wing) 36

13. Marcus Williams (Plokun) 290
Bizarro 250
- Infinity Gauntlet 40

14. Luke Grace (Batarang96) 300
Shi'ar Imperial Guard 295
Engineer 3
Bat Signal 2
Elehaal Vine 0
Telephone Booth 0

15. Kelly McGuire (Kellyryan61) 295
M10 Iron Man 125
Resurrection Man 92
Splitlip 20
Store Clerk 3
Ophidian 25
Book of Skulls 30

16. David Leverette 297
Highfather 130
Whizzer 120
- Utility Belt
Despotellis 30
Business Woman 3
Sideline: Takion

Top 16
David Leverette vs Chris Floyd
Matt Abbott vs Kelly McGuire
Ryan Van Noy vs Mitchell Burlew
Trevor McCoy vs Keenon Notae
Jason Alvey vs Karsten Stump
David Gauselman vs Luke Grace
Easton Brock vs Marshall Lowing
Marcus Williams vs Scott Cunningham

Top 8
Jason Alvey vs Chris Floyd
Matt Abbott vs David Gauselman
Marshall Lowing vs Ryan Van Noy
Keenon Notae vs Scott Cunningham

Top 4
Jason Alvey vs Keenon Notae
David Gauselman vs Marshall Lowing

Finals
Keenon Notae vs Marshall Lowing

For more information about Cosmic Oasis Super Qualifier II please visit: http://meeplefest.com/news/1451/

Also stay tuned for the next podcast episode of "The Quarry" which will feature the Cosmic Oasis Super Qualifier II, a interview with Keenon "The Bob" Notae along with other pertinent ROC information.

Congrats to "The Bob"-nasty build! I'm going to have to make the drive to one of these Kentucky Rocs before too much longer. Somebody have Spawn10 chained up in a basement somewhere during this one? JK, looks like a great event, wish I could have been there. Thanks for the detailed write-up.

Why do the pictures keep coming out sideways?

Wow. Marshall I know from local tournaments. Good guy, great player. Grats on a second place finish, buddy!

how I hate Wizkids for entities...

Can´t wait to see this thread get taken over by the people who wil say entitys are absolutely broken and need to get watchlists bc TheBob won with multiple of them. Of course completely ignoring the fact he played a well known meta team from the start, 2nd place only had an entity on a 13 point piece and there were only 7 out of 16 not playing an entity at all. I´m quite sure Bob won because he is a great player and not just because of his entitys. Congrats to him and to second place for building a great team as well!

Only saw one Lydea Mallor in the Sweet Sixteen. It's amazing how 25pts. can negate 79pts. eh?

Yeah. It's only a matter of time before the Knee-Jerks arrive. Hey, remember back in the old days () when they were all screaming that Lydea would break the game? She's gotta be Watch Listed?

Good times man, good times. Let the good times continue to roll!

Bob did indeed do a great job playing his team. On top of being the only person to beat me all day, he really did do it all on skill. The team was good, but I'm sure he'll be glad to agree that both his team and my own were both perfectly capable of.... What's a good term... Eliminating the other with extreme prejudice. There was no "sit down at the table and immediatly go well you got map roll good game." Ahh how quickly team base matches were over... We played right up until like 1 minute before time would have been called. I made a couple of positioning errors and they were thoroughly taken advantage of . Best game I've played in a while, can't wait to beat..cough..umm...I mean see The Bob for a rematch in GA later this month. Entities are fun. Anyone who plays it competitivly knows in heroclix you don't bring a knife to a gun fight...you bring a bazooka and expect to be fighting rocket launchers all day. Just got to get my ray gun from the future serviced and it's on.

It looks to me like you are making a pretty good case for those so-called complainers with just that statement alone. So many people playing entities, I wonder why that is? There is one point that I would like to make concerning the entities, before they came along we were seeing a great deal of diversity in team builds. It looks like those days might be over for a while. Just take a moment and look at the sheer number of Iron Pharaohs that were played. Shatterstar and Despotellis show up a ridiculous number of times as well. 7 out of 8 in the top 8 played entities, some teams having as many as three. We see a little more diversity at the bottom of the top 16, but obviously those teams did not do well against the more cookie cutter style teams we see at the top. I am certainly not bashing any of the players or trying to take away their achievement, I just think the entities might put us back on the road I thought we had steered away from.

The really funny thing is that it does not seem like that long ago that we were all worried about zombies. I have not seen them in a top 8 yet.

Gah!!!! Your right! How could I have forgotten them so soon? And apparently...so has everybody else.

Maybe we will see more zombie play when the entities get the nerf bat. My guess is that it will happen sometime after War of Light is over. I will not go so far as to say that I believe they are broken, just that they are very abusable. Especially when you consider they can be used in tandem with a resource. If Spawn10 is chained up in a basement somewhere, mark my word, he is probably finding a way to super break them as we speak. If anyone can get them watch list attention, I am sure it will be him.

And that's how I think they will be nerfed. They will not be allowed on the same build as a resource. Or something like that. And if that happens, I think resources will fade for a while...a long while in the meta play.

And as far as that rapscallion Spawn10 is concerned... he is soooo wired differently than the rest of us mere mortals. And that's why we all love him!