The Core Four Event

[majofa]

xuru 2 - majofa 0

[vs. Fire Immolation]  LOSS
Was hoping he'd go with his mono-Air, he didn't.
Bad matchup for me, but I was able to Basilisk Blood his Phoenix.
In the end, I couldn't find my 3rd Dragon. He finished with 6 Hp left.

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58r 58r 58r 58r 58r 58s 593 593 593 593 593 593 594 595 595 595 595 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa
[vs. Shrieker Rush]  LOSS
My only other loss was in this matchup. Both times I couldn't find enough CC.
Still only lost by one turn.

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[majofa]

You seem to be my kryptonite :[

[Dragoon]

I'm gonna have to forfeit to xuru.  I'm down in Texas on a business trip and have been busier than I thought I'd be.  Plus I have a limited internet connection.  I was looking forward to my games with you xuru.  Sorry I couldn't show up in time.  Good luck against kevekev.

[xuru]

Yhm that is not a good news :/ i wanted to get some additionals points! aff:<


the winner of the final gets 60 points and the loser 30 points, am i right?

[Essence]

The player who defeats the entire tournament gains a 60-point bonus to his score.  2nd place gets 45, and 3rd place gets 30.

[xuru]

hmm thats interesting, even he got an advantage at the beggining ge got 362 points and me 366...
is sth wrong about my counting? :O

[Essence]

Great, let's get this final battle rolling!  Kevkev, xuru, Game On!

[Appawesome]

I bet Xuro will beat KevKev.

[xuru]

kevkev60614 - 1
xuru - 2

and

kevkev60614 - 1
xuru - 2

First match:

1st deck:

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f1 5f1 5f1 5f1 5f6 5f6 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5giI won.

2nd deck:

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 590 590 590 590 590 590 591 591 591 591 591 595 595 595Epic fail with this deck. I used wrong mark... in addition kevkev used air deck. No chance of winning at all.

3rd deck:

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5oc 5oc 5oc 5of 5of 5og 5og 5og 5og 5ol 5ol 5ol 7ms 7ms 7ms 7n5 7n5 7n5 7n7 7n7 7n7 7n7 7n7 7n7 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oeI knew, if i lose, i will not win the event, that's why i used so many upped cards


Second match:
4th deck:

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5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i7 5i7 5i7 5i7 5ib 5ib 5ib 5id 5id 5id 5id 5ie 5ie 5ie 5ie 5ie 5ie
5th deck:

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5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5of 5of 5of 5og 5og 5og 5oi 5oi 5ol 5ol 5ol 5ol 5ol 5on 5on 5on 5on 5on
6th deck:

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5f1 5f1 5f1 5f1 5f1 5f1 5f2 5f2 5f2 5f6 5f6 5f6 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2
I am pretty sure i hasn't used to many upped cards, but i have some strange feeling about that. Waiting for the Essence calculations.

Good games kevkev, some of them were very close and hard. Fortnately, everything went smoothly and there were no desynced games. See you next time!

[kev]

xuro beat me 2-1 and then 2-1.

Game 1 I hoped he'd go with an air deck, and he did not.  Easy victory for him:

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Game 2 I hoped he'd go with an earth deck, and he did.  xuru used the wrong mark but conceded when he saw the matchup:

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5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5ol 5ol 5ol 5ol 5ol 5ol 5on 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu
Game 3 I believe xuru researched and thus knew every card in the only fire deck I've used for this event.  He built a great counter, and beat me with it (??? are unupped fire pends):

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f1 5f1 5f1 5f1 5f1 5f1 5f6 5f6 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5gi 5gi
Since it was double elim, we had to play another best of 3.  I thought xuru would see that whoever won this best of 3, almost regardless of upped cards used, would win the event.  I thought he might try grabbys, so I went with air.  He didn't but I got what I needed from draws to win:

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5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5ol 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 7n5 7n5 7n5 7n5 7n5 7n7
I have a good many upped fire cards, so I decided to save them for the third game, reasoning that he's forced to use his best deck now to stay in it.  I settled on earth and he again chose a great counter:

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 590 590 590 591 591 591 591 591 77g 77g 77g 77h 77j 77j 77jWell I'd prepared an almost completely upped mono-fire deck for the Trials.  I did some math and thought I could get away with 20 or so upped cards in the deck.  So I switched out the brimstone eaters for ash eaters, in the back of my mind wondering why I bothered using  upped immo fodder in a Trials deck to begin with...

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5f0 5f1 5f1 5f1 5f1 5f1 5f2 5f2 5f6 5f6 7dg 7dg 7dg 7dg 7dq 7dq 7dq 7dq 7dq 7dq 7ds 7ds 7ds 7ds 7ds 7ds 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2Half way through the game I realized there were no immos in this deck.  That's a pretty important detail to get right.  Lol.

Congrats to xuru, who was only in the loser's bracket to begin with because he had to forfeit due to a scheduling conflict.  He's a tremendous competitor and absolutely deserves this victory.

[Essence]

Congratulations to our Top 3 Core Four Competitors:

xuru 526
kevkev 497
Dragoon 280

Majofa was close behind Dragoon with 270 points, but the 30-point bonus for 3rd place in the brackets also nudged Dragoon into 3rd place in the scoring.

Well done, everyone!

[majofa]

ah man no points for fourth?