After a long day of card flipping card shuffing, we are in the top eight and here are the results.

Swiss Champion Garett Brett (Dutpotd) Swiss Champion running Alex :.

2nd Mark LeBlanc Isn't on the boards. Running Felicia ::

3rd Brian Mitchell (Antigoth) Running All your Base Dhalism ::

4th Sebastien Fontaine (Iceman01) Running the Lone Chunner ::::.

5th Robert Forde Running Blanka ::

6th Scott Aston Running Karen:

7th Michael Urbanski running ZhaoDaiyu.

8th Giulio Capriotti Running Rera :

Top 4

Garett Brett vs Robert Forde

Mark LeBlanc Vs Brian Mitchell

Top 2

Garett Brett vs Brian Mitchell

Drum Roll please!!!!!!

And the winner is .........

Garett Brett With Alex:

The Curse was broken

Swiss Champ wins.

The Finals were taped, and will be place on UTUBE later this week.

Finally the swis champ curse is broken and dutpotd top 8's (and wins). congrats to antigoth for resurecting mill.

Hehehe, congrats brett, so i'll see you at the champions table?

Good showing Brian, I guess not too many people can sneak a couple of rules past you?
I'm surprised you ran the dhalsim deck, my favourite attack hurts it alot. (I-spin for the win?)

sir_shajir said:

but for the champs table thing, wasn't it that the event needed 30+ people, from what I heard there was something like 12(?) players.

oh and boo boring solitare alex...

hehe.

I don't think it should count for a table, there were just under 15 entrants. Nonetheless it was good practice for the upcoming nats, and going 7 straight matches no ties or losses gives me some confidence in my deck and some of the new techniques I was trying out.

And Kiit, it wasn't solitaire Alex. In fact, you will see the video but I won the finals without even using the attack that you think pre-empts 'solitaire' as you call it.

- dut

ps. I don't think i-spin would hurt brian all that much, he has 10+ cards that have enhance negation of sorts if I counted right, most of which he could drop straight in first turn with Dhalsim + playing more.

mind you, the 2 decks fronting i-spin (chun-li and felicia) did both top 4 (of 8) and I would be lieing if I said i-spin wasn't part of their strong showing

so the deck did not run dark force mirage body at all, if it did, its solitaire even if you didn't happen to play it...

and

boo spinta...

kiit said:

I'm still unsure as to why you call it solitaire... I play an attack my opponent interacts and needs to block it, can stop an enhance etc. They also play the entire game before that. Just becuase my OTK is sometimes a LONG OTK (i.e. I play a lot of cards) doesn't really make the game a one player game.

It would be the same thing as calling your Defender Loops as solitaire becuase it takes you 20 Mega Spikes or 10 Rera Kashima to kill someone? At which point you play against the checks in your deck... and worry about milling...

Don't even get me started on whether Spiral Arrow Lockdown every turn is solitaire... It is solitaire over 10+ turns sometimes not just one turn.

Anywho, yes the deck played Darkforce, I've been practicing with it for almost a full year, and since I started (i.e. Origins and release of Realm), and I am pleased to say it is refined so that the Kill turn is much quicker and involves less draw and is therefore more efficient.

- dut

sir_shajir said:

I wanted to run AYB Loop at a Regional event just to try and win it to prove the deck was for real.

2nd place isn't bad, but it isn't first.

Regarding I-Spin, As long as I can draw well, and my opponent doesn't pull a tag along in his opening hand, if I'm in a sprinta match-up it means that I can drop No Memories early to protect. Additionally Spins mean I don't need to drop Heirloom/Meat Eater to fuel the hobbiest.

Finally through Billiard Player/Dhalsim I can pretty much parachute the combo in on the kill turn.

So while Sprinta is annoying, unless you can loop spin, or hit me with Multiple Spins, and you can hit them early and often, Spin isn't as bad as some people think it is for the deck.

Also I didn't want to display what I'm running next weekend just yet.

BTW - I'm not sure if I'll get around to writing something more substantial about this...

Giant props to Garret, Sebastien, Mark, and Rob who made the Ironman drive to and from Calgary to come play in our regional!

You came out, showed us how it was done, and went home with a pile of prize support.

I look forward to hanging with you guys next weekend in Toronto!

And double props for putting up with me as I had to run the con inbetween everything, and being willing to feed my cats!!

It was a pleasure coming out to the Peg as always Brian.

Your cats were no trouble at all, TRIPLE props to you for easing our budget and letting us stay the nights at your place.

Looking forward to seeing you again this weekend, and best of luck fine-tuning whatever deck you end up putting forward come Saturday

- Garett

ps. I'm not going to have time to post a full report until later this week or early next, but I will definately get around to detailing Keycon and the great matches with you and the Winnipeg crew.

Congrat Garett and Bryant for the good showing... and all those who attends the tourney. Miss you guys in the Central and the West, see you guys in CanNat and maybe in Calgary Regional?

I working on getting the Regionals for July 17th-19th or July 24th - 26th. That is roughly eight weeks from now.