Subject: NC state tourney Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 23:46:30 -0800 From: "Tei P. Lee" To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com hey Frank, Brandon Lee here to fill ya in on the North Carolina State tourney. Well it began just like most other tourneys up at Daddy Jims. I woke up at like 7:00 gave my friend Hutson Richarde a page and he rolled by my house at about 7:30 with his girlfriend Kristen driving. Well we stopped and got some gas then up to High Point for the tourney. We talked some and I showed him the deck I built for him since he didn't have the cards for academy (the deck I happen to be playing). I built him a suicide black/blue deck. blue for lobos and sideboard stuff. I tried to convince him he needed 4 duress's main deck but he didn't listen and elected to play none. WEll we arrive and greet the regulars Mike, John, Jed, Tim (ogre enforcer), and keith. It looks as though me mike and Keith are all playing academy and keith and mike are helping me with the sideboard. thanks for convincing me not to play the labratorys and playing the light of days instead. so completing my sideboard I help hutson play test some against my academy deck. a crowd gathers and watchs as stomp him in the ground 10-5. Well the tourney begins and John Scarth is talkin a lot of trash about how he's gonna win (yet again for the 3rd straight tourney of saying he's gonna win but just not coming through.) Well a question arises when the pairings are being called and Mike Kryzwicki and Tim Kryzwicki are called one after the other but a slip of the hand and a lapse in name calling and the pairings are changed....whoa I wish I could choose who I played first round too!! well anyway on to the rounds round 1 black John Spencer stands and decides to watch my game game 1 its starts off bad with first turn duress and a critter I fight back and I'm prepared to go off. I have to tap my ancient tombs and go to zero when I cast time spiral. John is watching me as I draw my cards 4 lands and 2 powersinks and a mox Diamond how weak is that? game 2 I board in the 3 light of days and he comence's with the same hand and I'm hurtin again. I windfall for two and have 4 artifacts an island and an academy. I got one colorless floatin and I scroll rack for two and whatdya know 2 timespirals with know way to cast them. 0-1 0-2 well it looks as though I have chosen the swiss gambit round 2 black again game 1 I tear him down on turn 3 game 2 board in 3 light of days draw my hand 1 mox 1 land 2 mana vaults 1 light of day 1 key and somethin else so I drop a first turn light of day game 1-1 2-2 in the mean time huts also 1-1 round 3 black/blue Joe Mucci Joes a fellow charlotte magic player that I've known for a while and I've playtested against his deck so I was ready. game 1 I go off on like turn 2 game 2 I'm a little unsure of what he sided in but I boarded in 3 light of days. we begin with him getting gobbs of blue mana and I'm unsure if he sided in counters or not I lay stuff but don't go off cuz I can't back it. Joe on the other hand has got no creatures so I'm not worried and can wait. I don't go off until turn 9 when he hurkyls recalls me in response to my spiral. lucky enough it doesn't matter cuz I get more and he's dead. 2-1 4-2 huts out now and is ready to go home round 4 Jay Camp playing black game 1 he exlodes with a lurking evil and a skirge and I can't go off game 2 I go off on turn 2 game 3 light of day gets dropped and he can only win with scroll and he never gets an active one before he dies 3-1 6-3 round 5 Paul Leone another charlotte player from Underground games game 1 can't go off before I'm dead game 2 chills in and I go off real early game 3 long ass game and I eventually drop 3 chills and I'm down to 3 but then I go off 4-1 8-4 round 6 Cory Stevenson the guy who loaned me my 4th time spiral we were both looking at drawing but my tiebreaks were bad so I chose to play. game 1 he applys mass beat down game 2 I go off early game 3 see game 2 yay 5-1 seeded 4th John scarth is this round had to play keith. john was 5-0 but didn't want to draw and they were both in anyway. Keith whooped him and came in at top seed at 5-0-1 and john in 3rd seed well top eight started with Tim Kryzwicki playing scarth. Tim whooped his ass bad 2-0 sorry John yet another tourney you failed to come through behind all the talk. I had to play Ken Nowell our future state Champion kens playing recurring drake with blue for counters game 1 turn 2 game 2 good stuff but kens got the counters game 3 some bad hes got the stuff melt down's and counters and I'm out well I get my prize fund of an amazing 24 unglued packs and a sleeper pre-constructed deck yay!??! I sell some and give the rest to Kristen. Props: Ken Nowell for being a good player and winning Kristen for driving me and hut up to high point and chillin with us all day Tim for making top 4 and whipping scarths ass Slops: John Scarth for talking a lot of trash and not seeming to be able to back it Keith for the same as John the weak ass prize support of unglued to the guy who had to win with academy when all his strokes were lobotomyed and he had the win with the windfall but discarded the card he needed capsize to untap his academy Brandon Lee NC State Junior Champion 1997