There were 32 players at the Pasadena Regional on Saturday, June 16th at Game Empire in Pasadena. If you're ever in the Los Angeles area, be sure to stop by Game Empire. The store has friendly staff, lots of games and a huge play area. One of the best stores that I have evr played in.

Outside of the 57 at FFG's Days of Ice and Fire event, California had the three-most attended in the United States. KingdomCon on April 14th had 32 player, Kublacon on May 27th had 30 players and this one had 32 players. The other California Regional, Fresno on May 12th had 18 players. Way to go Team Cali! You guys rock!

Here are the standings after Five Rounds of Swiss…

Player's Name House Agenda Restricted Card Points
1 - Tiny Grimes Martell The Maester's Path Narrow Escape 25
2 - John Bruno Targaryen Knights of the Hollow Hill None 20
3 - Ram DeLeon Greyjoy None (Aeron Damphair) Fear of Winter 20
4 - Brooks Mitchell Greyjoy Kings of Summer Fury of the Kraken 20
5 - Christian Na Stark City of Shadows Venemous Blade 20
6 -Chris Schoenthal Martell Knights of the Hollow Hill The Viper's Bannerman 20
7 - Jeff Lebow Martell Maesters Venemous Blade 15
8 - Corey Ivy Greyjoy The Maester's Path Narrow Escape 15
9 - Michael Grugal Lannister Power Behind the Throne Narrow Escape 15
10 - Nick Garrett Targaryen Knights of the Hollow Hill Fury of the Dragon 15
11 - John Deatrick Lannister Power Behind the Throne Pyromancer's Cache 15
12 - Ryan Jones Targaryen Knights of the Hollow Hill Pyromancer's Cache 15
13 - Jesse Gibson Targaryen Knights of the Hollow Hill None 15
14 - Eric Wood Greyjoy None Narrow Escape 15
15 - James Speck Greyjoy None (Aeron Damphair) Fear of Winter 15
16 - John Kraus Martell Knights of the Hollow Hill The Viper's Bannerman 13
17 - Jesse Mariona Stark Wildlings (All 3) Val 10
18 - Ben Tully Lannister The Maester's Path Castellan of the Rock 10
19 - Jim Kelly (aka Jimmy Bagels) Targaryen Knights of the Hollow Hill Pyromancer's Cache 10
20 - Alex Esposito Stark None (Kindly Man) Narrow Escape 10
21 - Ross Thompson Neutral Wildlings (All 3) Fear of Winter 10
22 - Gregory Sztain Targaryen The White Book Fury of the Dragon 10
23 - Andy Acevedo Stark Knights of the Realm Narrow Escape 10
24 - Matthew Morrese Stark Seige of Winterfell Fury of the Wolf 10
25 - Kyle Trujillo Stark The White Book None 8
26 - Geoff Colman Stark Knights of the Realm Narrow Escape 8
27 - Jennifer Wolchick Greyjoy None (Aeron Damphair) Fear of Winter 5
28 - Angela Steele Targaryen The Maester's Path Fury of the Dragon 5
29 - Keaton Laney Baratheon Knights of the Realm Val 5
30 - Jeremy Forbing Neutral Alliance (to Greyjoy) Val 0
31 - Peter Stobbe Stark Kings of Winter None 0
32 - John Thomas Baratheon None Fury of the Stag 0

After the five rounds of swiss, the Top 8 match-ups were:

1st Seed Tiny Grimes vs. 8th Seed Corey Ivy with Kevin winning

2nd Seed John Bruno vs. 7th Seed Jeff Lebow with John winning

3rd seed Ram Deleon vs. 6th Seed Chris Schoenthal with Ram winning

4th Seed Brooks Mitchell vs. 5th Seed Christian Na with Brooks winning

The Semi-finals were:

Tiny Grimes over Brooks Mitchell

John Bruno over Ram DeLeon

The final match was:

John Bruno over Tiny Grimes

Tourney stats were:

House Breakdown:

Baratheon: 2

Greyjoy: 6

Lannister: 3

Martell: 4

Neutral: 2

Stark: 8

Targaryen: 7

Agenda Breakdown:

Alliance: 1

City of Shadows: 1

Kings of Summer: 1

Kings of Winter: 1

Knights of the Hollow Hill: 7

Knights of the Ream: 3

None: 6 (2 - pure none, 3 Aeron Damphair and 1 Kindly Man)

Power Behind the Throne: 2

Seige of Winterfell: 1

The Maester's Path: 5

The White Book: 2

The Wildlings (all 3): 2

Restricted Card Breakdown:

Castellan of the Rock: 1

Fear of Winter: 4

Fury of the Dragon: 3

Fury of the Kraken: 1

Fury of the Stag: 1

Fury of the Wolf: 1

Narrow Escape: 7

None: 4

Pyromancer's Cache: 3

The Viper's Bannerman: 2

Val: 3

Venomous Blade: 2

I had a great time at the event. Even though I went 2-3, I think my first 5 games EVER playing Targ-Kingsguard was a success. I hope we can do some more awesome events at GE.

what is going on with House Baratheon??

Was the Valar Morghulis CP legal in this regional?

am i the only dumbass that had to look up where pasadena is?

Bomb said:

Yeah

dcdennis said:

Yeah

(Just so Fieras wasn't alone in his monosyllability)

mathlete said:

Maester_LUke said:

There were 5 california regionals, yes. They had 32, 32, 30, 16 and I think Fresno had like 24?

I can do a rough estimate of the number of unique players we had over the 5 events. Give me a few minutes to tally it.

My guess is about 60 unique people for all 5 events.

Pasadena had 32
Kublacon brought 15 more unique players
Fresno brought roughly 5 more
SF brought about 3
That right there is 55. I assume maybe 5 or so more unique players at kingdom con, but that's just an estimate.

Maester_LUke said:

Yea seriously, the Rose Bowl, the Rose Parade, JPL, ZANKOU chicken. How can you not know where Pasadena is?

I personally have never cared enough to look it up on a map. Knowing it's in California is satisfying enough!

I had a great time… and wrapping up the night at the pub awesome! Thanks for posting the tourney details, Mathlete, and congrats on another hard-earned title!

Also, I don't have the exact details on the rest of the tournies but I checked the Fresno roster and it looks like there 8 "uniques" out of 18 players total.

I was half asleep the whole time but that was fun. Hope I can manage to get some rest before the next one. I can't believe I actually had some wins! Congratulations to the winners.

Nicely done all! Way to go Mathlete. Of course you had to win 2 Regionals this year, in case any of us other winners started to think we could hold a candle. Awesome job!

Personally, I love that there are so many Regionals, giving so many opportunities for a Champion. I am waiting for the year when someone attempts the sweep!

LaughingTree said:

I have heard of none of that except the Rose Bowl.

dcdennis said:

Laughing Tree is infatuated with Zankou Chicken.

I'm trying to do a rough count between MN, IA & MO. MN had 51 for Joust, and only 1 Iowan made it to both events. He was the sole "crossover," IIRC. That would add up to 72. And of the 24 at Iowa, 10 attended MN or MO. So that's 86 uniques in the MN/WI/IL/IA/MO/OK region + plus a valiant crew of Canadians, 1 Bostonian, and 1 Floridian.

I'll be interested to see what percentage of Chicago went to MN, IA, MO, and Cincinnati tourneys. I don't think there was any overlap from the latter at any of the former.

I wish we had more participating (and densely populated) states near us so we could cross over too. Nevada applied for a regional but got shut down. Other than that (and portland) we had nothing west of MN.

Kubla pulled rings from out of state, and kingdom-con pulled a few players from UT and NV. ~Other than that, it's clear the rest of you guys hate us

EVERYONE in SoCal wants to see a regional in Las Vegas next year. A lot of us would have made the trek, and we may have pulled some players from AZ.

Maester_LUke said:

There were five total crossovers between OK and MO: Three of them came to ours, and two of us went to theirs.

Deathjester26 said:

Fixed

Foxxglove said:

Sometimes I think that socal forgets we exist.