From 77 to 20, One More Single Elimination Round Till Swiss!

As expected post-overload a lot of rush decks came out of the gates in round 2. All the matches were closely fought affairs with deck lists highly reflective of what I expected to see post-July 1st. Titans, TNB, GLEE Rush… Does anyone have the power to stop these decks dead in their tracks? Or are these archetypes going to push forward without challenge till the swiss rounds? Read on to see the results from round 2 and the pairings for round 3...

Firstly, I would like to say thank you for all the participants in round 2, not only did we get most of the matches out of the way before the weekend, but come Saturday evening only 2 matches had yet to be played. Thank you all for helping me make this tournament run as smoothly as we can.

Secondly, just as a reminder, as soon as you get the pairings, PLEASE contact your opponent to make some arrangements to get the match played. Also, be sure you read over the match rules and the OCTGN play guide as any questions you may have are probably already answered there. Considering we are in to round 3 right now, I assume everyone has had the opportunity to do this by this point (especially when realizing that was a pretense to signing up ;)).

On to Round 2’s Results and Round 3’s Match Information…

This is the LAST single elimination round before we move on to swiss, so this is still do or die for our online tournament participants. As before we are still playing 3 game matches, and all previous notes made for the current errata/ban still stands, so be sure both you and your opponent are comfortable with the rules before getting your game under way.

You can find Round 2’s Results and the Pairings for Round 3 HERE

All matches need to be played by MONDAY, JULY 4th at 11:59 PM CST. So, since this is a holiday weekend, it would be in your best interest in order to get your match out of the way as soon as possible. This is for a common courtesy to both yourself and your opponent.

Next, if you are interested in the Feature Match for Round 1 (Since I seem to be one round behind…) you can find it HERE. This match is between Profparm and JoFo and featured a Modern Age match up in a Golden Age tournament. Game 1 and 2 of this match is currently up, and Game 3 will be up shortly.

For Round 2’s Feature Match, you can expect it any day now as I work on writing up the report of the match.

Also, for those interested in the exploits of Team Online and Team NEJ (as well as the other teams, look back shortly for an update).

BE SURE TO REPORT YOUR MATCHES HERE www.vsrealms.com/league.php

NEJ still undefeated....

do us proud scarletspider!!!! ;)

For those looking for the Team Updates, right now we had four teams starting in Round 2 (Team Gabe, Team NEJ, Team Online, and Team Recon (with honorary cheerleader Stu) (or at least until I am told otherwise)…

The breakdowns of the teams were as follows:

Team Dream Team
scarletspider

Team Gabe
Profparm

Team NEJ
Zemel96
Raigekz

Team Online
spideysean102
tharyel
peterparker1897
Arctic Breaker
SpideyFriends
bjof45
Rjthegreat119

Team Recon
ReconVS (with cheerleaders)

After the 2nd Round, 1 team (Team Gabe) was knocked out after a loss to Team Online’s tharyel. The only other loss suffered by any team players was peterparker1897 who lost to scarletspider. The results standings at this point then look like this:

Team Dream Team (100% Win Ratio)
scarletspider - 2-0

Team Gabe - Out of Tournament 1-1 (50% Win Ratio)
Profparm 1-1

Team NEJ 4-0 (100% Win Ratio)
Zemel96 - 2-0
Raigekz - 2-0

Team Online 13-1 (92.8% Win Ratio)
spideysean102 - 2-0
tharyel - 2-0
peterparker1897 (Out of Tournament) - 1-1
Arctic Breaker - 2-0
SpideyFriends - 2-0
bjof45 - 2-0
Rjthegreat119 - 2-0

Team Recon 2-0 (100% Win Ratio)
ReconVS (with cheerleaders) 2-0

Games of Note for those Keeping Track of the Teams in the Tournament:
bjof45 vs. Rjthegreat119 -- Team Online forced against each other… Both these players know each others decks, its all a matter of who’s going to want it more…
Arctic Breaker vs. SpideyFriends -- Another Team Online match where teammates are forced against each other in single elimination.

Stay tuned for more updates…

(Edited to Reflect the Presence of Scarletspider... Sorry Dream Team)

Very Well done RDG....Looks like fun!

So we're losing 2 definate TO members? Thats harsh.

Well here I come swiss matches!:grin:

NEJ refuses to lose

Yea thats the only way Team Online can be stopped...By the draw!

It was bound to happen. Since you do have like 30 people in the tournament. But it doesn't matter since yall will still lose by draw or by NEJ crushing you. So there's no way around it:p

GO eddie11228!! GO swoops!! GO RECON!! GO TEAM ONLINE!! :p

EDIT: W00T!! TO is already 1-0 this round!!

Don't forget the good ole dream team is being represented by scarlet spider......give em heck brotha!

Yeah... our good friend scarletspider couldn't make it to PCNY to cruise with Number One Dream like the rest of the team. So he decided to strut his stuff in the online tournament.

Look out, playas! The Dream Team still has an undefeated combatant in the field, and he's out for blood! ;)

Yea i am sorry but i think that Recon Will dominate. Its just the way it works.

It will be TO VS Team Recon in the finals.

NEJ is good...But not Great!!!

30 Peeps the the tournament. I think not. Maybe that is NEJ math for you but what can you do.

NEJ is good but not great!!!

uh?


we won the last 2

for what reason would we lose this one

30 peeps.... exageration, because their team is so freaken huge


recon dominating, thats the way things work?

(insert pity for fierdogg)