Just some quick statistics from the Connecticut regional.

We had 20 participants hailing from DC, NYC, Boston, and Connecticut.

We did 5 rounds of Swiss and cut to a top 8.

Below are the numbers for house, agenda, and restricted card representation at the regional.

House
Baratheon 4
Greyjoy 1
Lannister 5
Martell 3
Stark 5
Targaryen 2

Agenda
Power Behind the Throne 3
The Long Voyage 5
Black Sails 1
Siege of Winterfell 2
House of Dreams 2
Knights of the Hollow Hill 3
The Maester's Path 1
Aeron Damphair 1
Quentyn Martell 1
None 1

Restricted Card
Burning on the Sand 1
Pentoshi Manor 1
No Quarter 2
The Viper's Bannerman 1
Fear of Winter 2
Narrow Escape 1
Val 1
The Hatchling's Feast 1
Orphan of the Greenblood 1
The Maester's Path 1
Fury of the Stag 2
Castellan of the Rock 1
Bear Island 1
Search and Detain 1
None(Not sure why) 3

Cut to Top 8 Swiss Record
1 Dennis Harrison 5-0 Martell - TLV - TVB
2 Mark Yocius 4-1 Greyjoy - Aeron Damphair - Search and Detain
3 Jim McGovern 4-1 Lannister - KotHH - Castellan
4 Dave Stromes 4-1 Targaryen - KotHH - The Hatchling's Feast
5 Aaron Glazer 3-2 Martell - Quentyn Martell - Orphan of the Greenblood
6 Morgan Stana 3-2 Targaryen - TMP
7 Derek Marantz 3-2 Baratheon - TLV - Narrow Escape
8 Eddie Westdal 3-2 Stark - Siege of Winterfell - Fear of Winter

Top 8
(1)Dennis beats (8)Eddie
(2)Mark beats (7)Derek
(6)Morgan beats (3)Jim
(4)Dave beats (5)Aaron

Top 4
(1)Dennis beats (4)Dave
(2)Mark beats (6)Morgan

Finals
(1)Dennis beats (2)Mark

In the end, Dennis with his Martell TLV took the regional by storm and went 8-0. Congratulations!

Just a quick note regarding the last sentence of the OP regarding it being 'my' deck (even though Im sure it wasn't his intent). I want to make sure I give the deck credit to Chad B. I changed roughly 3% of his list. Was a blast to pilot, but to be clear I had nothing to do with the original design of the list.

I had a ton of fun at this event. For a first regional in CT it was run super smooth. I'm surprised to see that 25% of the field was Lanni though as that is the only house I didn't see all day.

dcdennis said:

Part of the reason you didn't see Lanni is because I think only 1 Lanni deck was 1-0 after the first round. Your only shot at facing the other 4 decks would have been in the top 8 because of your undefeatedness.

Just a note of DC dominance, we had 5 players at two different tournaments that day, all making top 4 of their respective regional and 2 wins. This brings the combined DC/Wisc meta to 5 individual regional winners, including Chad B. taking the win at Days of Ice and Fire with the deck Dennis made his list from.

Isn't top 8 out of 20 a bit much? That's 40 %…

Khudzlin said:

*shrug*

I don't know. Top 8 was more fun for everyone and we had plenty of time.

Khudzlin said:

So long as the people want it and the venue has the time for it, I dont think anything is too much. We've had a 13 person tourney cut to top8 before. Gives the people who traveled more opportunity to play versus people that they normally wouldnt.

Khudzlin said:

Pssshhhhh, if it works for the NFL it should work for everyone!