Hi all. It's been a while since I wrote here. Sorry about that.
I've been fairly busy the last few months with school crap: teaching three sections of General Physics Lab, a upper-level graduate course in solid-state physics & serving as the preceptor to a National Science Foundation scholarship. I was also pretty addicted to Diablo II (don't laugh) for a while there.
In the meantime I did find some time for Magical cards. John Cuvelier and I made our way up to the SCG Open in Boston a few weeks ago to capture our last two points to qualify for the Invitational. We both played Metal Red in standard, putting up sub-par results (3-4 combined). In Legacy, I ran Belcher, while Cuvelier went with Welder Reanimator. We were both 5-2, and got paired for the final round. Cuvelier's tie-breakers were slightly higher, so I scooped to him, but he still finished in the bottom quarter of the top 16, while I fell to 34th or something (clean cut at 32).
With our ten points in hand, we both headed to Richmond for the Invitational, along with Michael Brady. Cuvelier and I planned to play Josh Cho's B/R Vampire list, but Cuvelier audibled to UWr control (to his own demise). Cuvelier finished 1-4, and ran some Legacy on Sunday, losing in the last round to miss the top 8. Cho and I both finished in the money with the vampire list, Cho in the top 32, while I got my first substantial top 8 finish in over five years (since I started doing research at the university) -- chopping the pot for $4250 a head.
Glenn Jones and Bill Stark must've been pulling for me to take down the whole tournament from round 1, as I had a whopping three feature matches (all with video coverage) over the day. Here are the links:
Round 2 (Pro Tour Champion Charles Gindy) here
Round 11 (Andrew Steckley) here
Quarters (Two-Time Grand Prix Champion Gerry Thompson) here
Steve Sadin has contacted me about writing an article for StarCityGames. I'm not sure how much I have to say, but I'm considering his offer, and am going to try to get started on something tonight/tomorrow.
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