Ivan vs CarpeGuitarrem - 3:1
- I know it’s dirty trick to pick Geiger vs Jaina, but Carpe is good enough and this is IYL - it’s all about Counter Picks after all
Great games, mate. Mirror matches were rly tense and fun.
I still can’t believe I dodged while we were both at chip health, and forgot about your Embers.
How many participants are making it out of pools?
A bit off the top of my head, but traditionally we’ve given the top-placed player a bye, and usually had ~12, 3 of whom went to playoffs (so, roughly the top 25%, although w/ play-ins, it was top 5 that had possible contender slots).
So, some possible options:
- Top 4, no bye. 1-4 each need to win 2 games to take the title.
- Top 3, 1st place gets a bye. 1 needs 1 win, 2-3 need 2 wins.
- Top 4, 1st gets a bye, 2nd gets in, 3+4 have a play-ins match. 1 needs 1 win, 2 needs 2 wins, 3-4 need 3 wins.
- Top 6, 1+2 get byes, 3-6 play-in. 1-2 need 2 wins each, 3-6 need 3 wins each.
We currently have 12 non-resigned players. My inclination is to go w/ option 4. It’s a large fraction of the pool contenders that would still have a shot at the title, but everyone but 1+2 is at the disadvantage of needing to win another game. I’m open to reasonable arguments about why I’m wrong, though.
Unofficial IYL9 Week 16 Rankings
Rank | Name | Match W-L | Tiebreak Ws | Game W-L | WPCT |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | cpat | 16-0 (12-0) | 36-9 | 80.0 | |
2 | mastrblastr | 13-2 (6-2) | 20-8 | 71.4 | |
— In Contention — | |||||
3 | Cypher | 11-4 (6-4) | 24-15 | 61.5 | |
4 | flagrantangles | 10-6 (5-6) | Castanietzsche, _ed | 19-21 | 47.5 |
5 | _ed | 9-5 (4-5) | Castanietzsche | 15-20 | 42.9 |
6 | Castanietzsche | 9-5 (4-5) | 20-20 | 50.0 | |
7 | Ivan | 9-6 (6-6) | 27-24 | 52.9 | |
8 | Zejety | 9-7 (5-7) | Southpawhare | 22-27 | 44.9 |
9 | Southpawhare | 9-7 (4-7) | 19-26 | 42.2 | |
— Eliminated — | |||||
10 | CarpeGuitarrem | 7-9 (1-9) | 5-28 | 15.2 | |
11 | Nopethebard | 5-9-1 (2-6) | 12-22 | 35.3 | |
Players are ordered by W-L differential.
Week 15 Matches
- mastrblastr (13-2) vs. Castanietzsche (9-5)
- _ed (9-5) vs. Nopethebard (5-9-1)
Week 17 Matches
- Cypher (11-4) vs. Castanietzsche (9-5)
- Ivan (9-6) vs. _ed (9-5)
cpat 3-1 Nopethebard
> - Went for the hard counterpick. My first Range was lost immediately from a mixup normal, but quickly got a second from knockdown J into a mixup normal of my own. I hit a K on the first turn of Range, and cruised from there without relinquishing Range for the remainder of the game.
> - Got away with murder on this one. A few small hits traded back and forth before I got hit with K and successfully bluffed. The next turn, I bet on a Jaina throw and landed Headbutt, hitting for a respectable 28 damage. I immediately mashed a second Headbutt and beat out a 3-attack for 40 damage and the game.
< - Absolutely decimated in the early-game. Lost every single mixup until I was at 6 HP. Went for AA into Overdrive into K-throw and attained Range with only 38 HP to go through. Unfortunately, I lost it almost immediately on a block/block. From here, I powered up for Piston Hurricane and went for Overdrive into K-throw again, but lost the game for it.
> - Troq was big and smashed well. I think Setsuki ended up with a bit of an awkward starting hand and I was able to take advantage with multiple throws. Drew a natural valutrap with 9-throw (unfortunately lost combat with it) into topdeck 3-throw as well. I then successfully pulled off a timely Blue Burst to refill my hand after an early-game barrage, went for a second 9-throw, putting Setsuki at 1 HP, and went for the likely checkmate of War Stomp into Up Hawk to close out the set.
GGs.
me vs @Castanietzsche
All kinda blurs together, but some tight matches, especially the second one! Did not respect the 0-speed Q enough though.
@ArthurWynne has missed their last 4 matches, at least, so I’ve removed them from the tournament.
I haven’t received a scheduling PM in weeks. Are we supposed to organized ourselves? Sorry, I ahven’t been following the thread closely.
No. We’ve had a lot of dropouts, and I’ve been a bit irregular about sending the match messages. That said, I just sent a batch.
EDIT: Looking at challonge: you’ve played everyone who’s still active in the tournament.
Now that we’re at the end of the tournament, I got off my butt and set auto-TO up to run hourly, so scheduling messages should go out more regularly, now.
@Castanietzsche 3-2 @Cypher
I played very far on the donkey zone and it paid
I went very low on cards, that made me very predictible
very close one
a perfect !
I went low on cards and attacked a lot, even without being able to chain into real combos
ggs, thx for the games ! see you in the playoffs
Sorry all, I have to drop. Thanks for showing me a good time, though! See you all around.
Ok, we’ve got one match left (@Castanietzsche and @mastrblastr), which has some potential impact on play-ins. I’ve given them a 24 hour timer before I call it, though.
The suspense!
They keep making slow progress towards scheduling, and I’d rather not default this one if I don’t have to. Should have a resolution by tomorrow, one way or another.
mastrblastr 3 - 2 @Castanietzsche
< got completely stomped here, nothing interesting
< i think i won one combat. I had a really bad starting hand granted, but that still doesn’t account for how I was just downloaded this game it felt.
> comfortable win scary moment when i got triple warstomped from 5 cards, banked he didn’t have the 4th, kept AA as my last 2 cards, hit it to get him to single digits, and won via topdeck from there.
> downbacked a ton, got time stop up, hit with 4 aces, melted zane lifebar from full.
> went all in with an attack heavy hand, went down to no-card. with menel at 20, and let the topdeck get me through again.
GGs!
Unofficial IYL9 Pools Rankings
Rank | Name | Match W-L | Tiebreak Ws | Game W-L | WPCT |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
— Qualified — | |||||
1 | cpat | 16-0 (12-0) | 36-9 | 80.0 | |
2 | mastrblastr | 14-2 (7-2) | 23-10 | 69.7 | |
3 | Cypher | 11-5 (6-5) | 26-18 | 59.1 | |
4 | Ivan | 10-6 (6-6) | flagrantangles | 27-24 | 52.9 |
5 | Castanietzsche | 10-6 (5-6) | Ivan | 25-25 | 50.0 |
6 | flagrantangles | 10-6 (5-6) | Castanietzsche | 19-21 | 47.5 |
— Eliminated — | |||||
7 | Zejety | 9-7 (5-7) | Southpawhare | 22-27 | 44.9 |
8 | Southpawhare | 9-7 (4-7) | 19-26 | 42.2 | |
9 | CarpeGuitarrem | 7-9 (1-9) | 5-28 | 15.2 | |
10 | Nopethebard | 6-9-1 (2-6) | 12-22 | 35.3 | |
It does feel like a mixed bag to qualify almost purely due to the number of participants who dropped.