Top 8 Details & Quick Standings Update

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. I wanted to elaborate a little bit on how the events on Thursday are going to work. Basically, there is going to be a continual event going on for the Fall Top 8 throughout the day. That will begin at 10 AM with a draft and 3 rounds of limited and then be followed by a lunch break and 2 rounds of standard. After round 5, half of the field will be eliminated, and the remaining players will face off in a single elimination bracket to determine the Fall 2010 Magic champion. These players will earn points toward the Spring Standings in addition to having the chance to win some cool prizes. It will cost a total of $12 per player, which includes the draft, standard, and prizes.

For everyone else, there will two separate events. There will be a Scars of Mirrodin draft at 11 AM (after the Top 8 draft), which will cost $10 per player. Space is limited, and signing up is required, so email me ASAP to sign up! At 3 PM, there will be a 3-4 round Standard tournament, which will cost $5 to enter (sign up is not necessary for this event). This will hopefully be over before the playoff rounds of the top 8 are done, so that anyone who is interested can play in this and still watch the end of that event. You can play in both side events if you'd like, and you'll get Spring League Points for both, but it will only count as one event instead of two. If anyone still has any questions about the event, send me an email and I'll try my best to help explain it better.

Also, a few people came out to the Friday Night Magic draft and we had a good time despite too many of us trying to draft Infect. A couple people also attended the Extended Grand Prix: Atlanta trial at Dogs of War on Saturday. Unfortunately, we were all rather mediocre this weekend, and both events resulted in a slew of 2-2 records for all of us, but at least we got to play Magic, even if it didn't go quite as planned for us this week. Here's the slightly updated Spring Standings, and it looks like you current Fall Top 8 are going to have to work a little bit harder to hold your places next semester:

1. 10 - Michael Carney (2)

2. 7 - Jason D'Mellow (2)

3. 6 - Joe Hammond (1)

4. 5 - Michael Smith (1)

5. 4 - Chris Pear (2)

6. 3 - Kevin Crowley (1)
6. 3 - Dane Newton (1)

8. 2 - David Kim (1)

9. 1 - Kevin Hoover (1)

9. 1 - Max Kruger (1)

9. 1 - Steven Nelson (1)

9. 1 - Noah Senzel (1)

As always, call or email me if you have any questions. I hope to see lots of you on Thursday!

- Dom