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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 15 Jul 2010 23:41 #3022

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With the posting of this thread, Season 8 is officially under way! Start contacting folks in your group and playing matches! You have until the end of Labor Day weekend. I'm planning on being less lenient about unplayed matches than I have been in the past, so please get 'em done! Six weeks should be plenty of time!

1. The league's players are sorted into four groups of five or six, with each player having a home map.

2. In the first round, each player will play two one-on-one matches against each member of his group, once on each player's home map. (You do not have to use the same book in both matches.) Players are responsible for arranging their own matches. It's easiest to just send XBL friend requests to everyone in your group and coordinate that way.

3. The first round will end after Labor Day weekend. Sometime around then, I will post playoff pairings.

4. All matches will be played with a TG goal of 7,000, no E cards, random lands and no sudden death. Time and round limits are the defaults (60-second turns, 95 rounds).

5. Results are to be reported as replies to this thread. As results come in, I'll update the first post of the thread with each player's record. When posting results from your match, it's fair to talk in general terms ("It was a race to the castle after he landed on my Level 5 land and lost his huge lead.") Refrain from specifics, e.g., "I just didn't have anything that could stop his Hive Workers and Peludas."

6. The two cepters with the best records from each group will advance to the playoffs, for a total of eight players. If multiple individuals finish round 1 tied for a playoff spot, a tiebreaker match on a random map selected by Dirk will decide who advances. (If three players finish tied, the tiebreaker game would be a three-player game.) If more than three players finish tied for a playoff spot, Dirk will devise some other tiebreaker.

7. The playoffs will be run as a tournament. Each round of the playoffs will be set up as a best-of-three matchup, with one match on each player's home map, plus one match on a random map selected by me ahead of time. If players are tired of their home maps, both players can agree to play a best-of-three series on three randomly selected maps. Playoff opponents will be chosen at random, but I will doctor the results so that two players from the same division won't face each other again until the finals, if they get that far.

8. Please don't drop out. If you do, you won't be allowed to participate in other leagues I'm running. I'll allow exceptions for family emergencies, RROD, etc., but in general, the only way to get back in the mix once you've quit on a league is to serve as a dependable alternate for a season.

9. Eventual league champion gets a $50 GameStop gift card from Andy. Runner-up gets a $25 gift card. If Andy wins the league, the second place person gets the $50 gift card, and we'll have a third-place match for the $25 card. If I win a card, I will award it at random to a player who completed all of his or her matches.

10. Occasionally, we’ll run into disconnect issues. If you disconnect from your opponent mid-match, both players restart the match, and may edit or change their decks if they choose. (If players don’t want to get bogged down with editing decks after multiple disconnects, they can agree before their first match to just keep reusing the same decks if they disconnect. But in the absence of such an agreement or if both players are unable to agree on the editing/changing of books, assume editing of books is allowed.) Unfortunately, disconnects are a part of the game, so try to be cool and get along with everyone. You’ll probably experience the frustration of a disconnect when you’re up big, but you’re also probably bound to get bailed out by a disconnect in a game that isn’t going your way at some point. Such is the karma of disconnects.

11. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the thread or send an Xbox Live message to Dirk Dorkelson.

Group 1
*KSThor (Eusia), 8-0
MadPimp007 (Mt. Etumer), 4-4+
Jessickuh (Alcyon III), 4-4
CC Andyman (Two Towers), 4-4
Lynx1263 (Omengald), 0-8 (all matches converted to losses over failure to answer messages)

Group 2
*Jasoya (Stairway to the Gods), 8-0
Yolise (Lalasati), 7-3
Hyosetsu (Alcyon I), 5-3
Derceto7 (Windmill), 6-4
Gagun3 (Colosseum II), 0-8
Panic Attack 10 (Alcyon II), 0-8

Group 3
*IVIad IVIaxx (Zanador), 7-1
*Dirk Dorkelson (Vaulting Horse), 7-1
I MFC I Tiagox (Arrow), 3-5
Punkroc Chef (Cravonia), 2-6
Yo What Is This (Colosseum III), 1-7

Group 4
*Goavibe (Grave Canyon), 6-1
PB49er (X), 5-3
exp4tri4ted (The Second Morning), 4-3
AcePrositter (Santana Village), 3-3
Willben20 (Phoenixion), 0-8

Tiebreaker 1: MadPimp007 (4-4) def. Jessikuh (4-4) on Eusia

Playoffs:

MadPimp007 (2) def. Jasoya (1) (Stairway to the Gods, Mount Etumeer, Grave Canyon)
KSThor def. Goavibe (forfeit)
IVIad IVIaxx (2) def. Yolise (0) (Zanador, Lalasati, The Second Morning
PB49er (2) def. Dirk Dorkelson (0) (Vaulting Horse, X, Alcyon III)

Semifinals:
IVIad IVIaxx (2) def. MadPimp007 (1) (Zanador, Mount Etumeer, Alcyon II)
KSThor (2) def. PB49ers (1) (X, Eusia, Windmill)

Finals:
IVIad IVIaxx (2) def. KSThor (0) (Zanador, Eusia, Phoenixion)
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 16 Jul 2010 03:12 #3024

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Sent friend requests to everyone other than ace prositter-it said his gamertag didn't exist so...
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 16 Jul 2010 03:22 #3025

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exp4tri4ted wrote:
Sent friend requests to everyone other than ace prositter-it said his gamertag didn't exist so...

Oops. There isn't supposed to be a space in his Gamertag. I fixed it on the list. Just give it another go without the space, and it should work. Sorry about that.
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 16 Jul 2010 14:22 #3027

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sent request to everyone in group A but had to send KSThor cuz he had too many friends
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 16 Jul 2010 19:40 #3029

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First match against Wilben on his home map-final score, 13,810 to 525. Score is a bit skewed in my favor as he landed on a level 5, 5 chain territory right as the match was ending. He had a good, balanced deck and was carrying several items that could have given the deck I was playing trouble, but I was playing super-agressive. Fun game overall. :D
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 16 Jul 2010 20:42 #3030

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Second match against Wilben-don't quite remember the final score, but it was in my favor. It was more dice rolls that did him in-I had 4 level 4's all within 6 spaces of eachother, making it extremely difficult for him not to land on at least one every lap. He did take one key land from me, and pulled ahead for a lap or two (missing the little Boardwalk I had set up) but a few laps later, the dice were back to beating him up.

Overall a fun couple of matches. Good luck in the rest of the league! :D
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 17 Jul 2010 23:07 #3036

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I will be on vacation until next Sunday so until then I won't be able to play.
"You think I am persistent, right. I agree." - Ryvern, Culdcept PS2
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 17 Jul 2010 23:08 #3037

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Played my matches with Yolise.

First match was up and down, but I squeaked through at the end.

Second match went to Yolise. I just couldn't draw my trades when I needed them.
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 18 Jul 2010 01:14 #3040

I played a home match (Colosseum III) against punkroc chef. I forgot to record the final score, but it was something like 7,200 to 3,500 in favor of the punkroc chef. The game was neck and neck for the first half, but his creativity eventually got the better of me.
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 18 Jul 2010 01:16 #3041

well starting out this season with a win.. played yo on his home map... I won.. it was a good game... i might finely learning how to play.. lol.. gg yo and good luck from here on out except when we play on my map then well NO LUCK for you.. lol..
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 18 Jul 2010 06:57 #3043

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:| , Both matches against Hyosetsu were fun close games. In the end I lost at home and won at his map. Final result 1W, 1L.
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 18 Jul 2010 15:05 #3046

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sorry for delay but, i'm gone till the 21st,vacation. look forward to our games!
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 18 Jul 2010 18:15 #3050

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KSThor and I played the first of our league matches this afternoon. Thanks to the worst possible draw I could've had, KSThor got out to a big lead, and I watched pretty much helplessly as he pounded me to dust. It wasn't even close, but I shall have my revenge on Two Towers. :twisted:

After that, Lynx1263 and I played both of our league matches, and I was fortunate enough to win both of them.

Thanks for the games, guys, and good luck in the rest of your league matches!
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 18 Jul 2010 20:32 #3052

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:D Got lucky in both matches against Gagun3. I won both matches. Hope my luck continues. :lol:
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 19 Jul 2010 02:40 #3055

I won my second match against punkroc chef 7217 to 1268 on Cravonia.
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 20 Jul 2010 23:29 #3078

I lost to IVIad IVIaxx 7256 to 2999 on my home map of Colosseum III. It wasn't a total butt kicking, but it was pretty darn close. Fun game though.
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 21 Jul 2010 00:23 #3079

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Yeah - I sorta played a mean deck. But Yo had a good start and and actually had a great deck.

Good Game Yo!

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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 21 Jul 2010 00:25 #3080

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Punkroc Chef and I played our first match tonight on my home map Zanador.

I won 7856 to 4404. He had some wicked sick strategy which I've never ever seen before. I was shocked and scared, but pulled it off.

Good Game as always Chef!

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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 21 Jul 2010 08:49 #3082

I just wanted to apologize to my group for not being able to play any fo my games yet. This is an extremely busy week for me. However, my schedule shoudl free up Sunday for me to start being able to get some of my games in.

Looking forward to playing you!
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 21 Jul 2010 11:40 #3084

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Don't sweat it. This is my busiest time of the year. Shows, vacations, and work.

I might be free tonight to play some matches.
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 21 Jul 2010 19:56 #3088

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Played both games against Derceto7 today. First match was a real close race to the castle as we both reached 7000G. Second match, even though I got off to a slow start, the cards just weren't in Derceto7's favor. Thankfully my luck continues.
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 22 Jul 2010 01:44 #3090

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I played both of my matches against Tiago tonight. The first one was very brutal. I ended up winning 8153 to 235 on Arrow.

We played our second match and Tiago was looking for revenge... He was really sticking it to me and had an awesome spell that I forgot to prepare for. He was in the lead almost the whole game. I got some lucky draws and pulled it off in the end. Final score was 8993 to 6240.

Good Games Tiago! Good luck to you in the rest of your league matches.

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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 22 Jul 2010 01:58 #3091

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Won my first match against exp4tri4ted.
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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 22 Jul 2010 02:38 #3092

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Played Yolise both games today and took 2 losses... his home map was a nail biter came down to the last dice roll but alas he beat me to the castle (I was only 2 away argh!).

Second game I came out strong, faded and almost made a miraculous comeback but made a really stupid error that cost me the game.

(I'm starting to realize that I should start farming if I want to make real competitive decks :oops: )

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Season 8 groups, rules, results thread 22 Jul 2010 03:00 #3093

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First match against PB49er on X went terrible. We were running almost identical decks, though his had quite a bit more offensive firepower than I could deal with. Final score was his 7k+ to my 800-.

Second match on my home map went in my favor, though it was still nail-bitingly close. In the end, it came down to a lucky draw that kept me from landing on a big land that would have kept the game going long enough for PB to climb back to the top.

Both good games-good luck in the rest of the league.
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