I started a joke!

First up an apology for the lack of posts on this blog over recent weeks. Work and family commitments have pretty much kept me away from Vs and the PC so I’ve not had much to share with anyone anyway.

However just a quick mention about a deck I ran recently at our Maidstone Monthly. Our monthly event is a Golden Age event with a mutual understanding that nobody plays the ‘broken’ netdecks that are kicking around. The week prior to this I had been mucking about with a Joker legend legal deck, running the Hatter/Ivy combo if I got evens or Ivy and Charaxes if I got odds, following this up with an assortment of Jokers and Scarecrows. The deck performed well going 3-0, although two of the opponents were running equally janky decklists.

Having enjoyed playing the deck I decided to modify it for our GA event, and after replacing a number of the cards was happy that it would be competitive although not dominant. What I didn’t account for was the fact that despite 6 search cards I’d miss drops regularly throughout the tournament and finish with my worst performance in 18 months, going 2-2, finishing 7th in a field of 9. Ouch! However on a happy note Cameron, who was well on his way to establishing himself as the worst player in the uk according to the UDE ratings succeeded in bagging 3rd place with a 3-1 record including a win over me in the fourth round.

So as the BeeGees would have sung, ”I started a Joke, but the joke was on me!”  

Quintessentially Quirky - When Worlds Collide

Quintessentially Quirky – When Worlds Collide      

 

Back in November, the UK had a series of Silver Age Elite Series tournaments dotted around the country. Myself and fellow London based VS enthusiast Amit (aka Amitverse on various forums) decided that the opportunity to play in some official tournaments was too good to pass up and vowed to attend as many as possible. An endeavour aided by the fact that they were all scheduled for different days across a 3 week period. There were 5 to attend, and I really wanted to test a selection of the decks that I had been toying with over the previous months.So I started making up a list of the decks I wanted to use. At the first one, I went with a Villains United team up version of the Jugg/Mags deck I used at the recent UK Nationals. It bombed slightly and I finished with a 2-2 record and 4^th place out of 5.

 

However, my love of Juggernaught had been re-affirmed. So when we were heading to Sheffield for the next tournament I knew I wanted to use the big guy again. As it was a Silver age Legend format, I also wanted to feature my favourite DC legend Darkseid. When I realised that they both wanted to break people’s resources I decided that it was something worth looking at. So I present to you the big two.

Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns Grow, pt1 (UK Nationals Tourney Report)

MIGHTY OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS GROW

 

The above title pretty much sums up the UK Nationals. It started off as a casual statement along the lines of, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to have a National Championship like they have on the MtG scene’, then it was thirty or so people, a venue and a handful of prizes provided by myself, Steve Garrett and Jason Howlett (trophy, playmat and EA bundle respectively). Finally with only a couple of days to go before the tourney we had a hatful of great surprises.

1)      Registration reached 49 people

2)      UDE Europe came up trumps with 25 T-Shirts, 16 Playmats, Hulk Trophies and more EA’s

3)      UDE’s Ben Seck informs us that the top 8 finishers will all receive invites to the World Championships

 

Here is an account of the event from the perspective of the guys and gals of Team Demon.

UK Nationals - The Other Decklists

Decklists for those not making top 8

UK Nationals - Top 8 Decklists

Well 7 of them so far anyway

Can people still see my sidebar/blogroll etc

When I visit my Blog the sidebar isn’t showing. Is it the same for everyone else?

Quintessentially Quirky - The Helmets Take Manhatten

Heres Garys tournament report from the UK Nationals along with his deck analysis of his BYOS Legend deck:

Quintessentially Quirky - The Helmets take Manhattan

 

(Well, London… and less take and more visit and get some photos….)

 

What does everybody want?

It would appear from a thread on Vs Realms that somebody has made a comment with regards my appearance resembling that of professional wrestler Al Snow. To be honest I find these comments extremely offensive, because I am in fact really Al Snow.

Unofficial UK Nationals - Standings

Rank	Player
1	Felix Hughes
2	Connor Phoenix
3	Josh Ralls
4	Roy Raftery
5	Josh Lockyear
6	Ben Waghorn
7	David Pyrah
8	Christian Dunn

This was the final standings after the top 8 playoffs, for full standings :