Main event registered players - 80 players

[The Franchise]

1. Chris Gogolen
2. Greg Shaw
3. Barry Aperstein
4. Matt Gountis
5. Justin Mongomery
6. Brian Terwilliger
7. Chris Terwilliger
8. Martin Terwilliger
9. Matt Sokol, 2000 World Champion
10. Mike d'Amboise
11. Pierre Dubreuil
12. Philippe Dubreuil
13. Tim Murray
14. Jan Westergard
15. Chris Westergard
16. Aaron Nelson
17. John Anderson
18. Scott Lingrell
19. Ray Bordier
20. Sam Marlow
21. John Veasey
22. Aaron Kingery
23. Mike Kessling
24. Cole Lepine
25. Jarad Konsker
26. Thomas Graham
27. Michael Richards
28. Chris Schoenthal
29. Jon Chu, 2003 & 2007 World Champion
30. Winner of the 1/7 Endor event
31. Kevin Shannon, 2008 & 2011 World Champion
32. Tim Heffner
33. Erich Hawbaker
34. Josh Mack
35. Brendan Ehlers
36. Ben Brummett
37. Andrew Bollentino
38. Casey Anis
39. Mattthew Harrison-Trainor
40. Clayton Atkin
41. Hayes Hunter
42. Brian Herold
43. Steve Skilton
44. Steve Baroni
45. Carl Buck
46. Chris O'Hara
47. George Gundry
48. Pete Flamini
49. Greg Hodur
50. Caleb Foth
51. Brad Eier
52. James Booker
53. Brian Fred
54. Brian Brodsky
55. Reid Smith, 2007 MPC Champion
56. Amarpal Banger
57. Joe Pinto
58. Frank Walsh
59. Mike Thomas
60. Matt Thornton
61. Vikram Bali
62. Pete Srodoski
63. Chris Erwin
64. Chris Wirfs

i cant recall a weaker mpc field, even when it was only 32 people

[agnos]

i cant recall a weaker mpc field, even when it was only 32 people

So your saying you think that you and booker have a shot?

[The Franchise]

i cant recall a weaker mpc field, even when it was only 32 people

So your saying you think that you and booker have a shot? :lol:

idk about that, but it looksl ike we will be 4 seeds and thats pretty telling as we are awful these days

i mean there are some big names on there, but a lot of the list... i was expecting it to be a "whos who" of swccg, and its more of a "whos that?" if you will

[spideyguy0]

I gotta agree with Brad on this. The top 10 look to be very strong, but then there doesn't really seem to be much depth after that. I'll be honest, there are probably 20 people in this field I've never heard of.

[Advocate]

A lot are old school coming back.

[The Franchise]

A lot are old school coming back.

old school randoms are still randoms, scott

[gogolen]

A lot are old school coming back.

A very encouraging fact. Getting older players back into the game is always a good thing. I won't speculate as to whether this had something to do with the format change or they just dusted off their cards and wanted to play again.

[agnos]

A lot are old school coming back.

A very encouraging fact. Getting older players back into the game is always a good thing. I won't speculate as to whether this had something to do with the format change or they just dusted off their cards and wanted to play again.

/agree

[spideyguy0]

A lot are old school coming back.

old school randoms are still randoms, scott

Yeah, I was counting Hayes in that top 10. But Scott's post brings me to another question I've been wondering about. Is this average "scrub" today better than the average scrub in 2001? Like, ten years ago there were thousands of people playing this game, most of them at the local level, most of whom would never travel to events and play against 1 or 2 top players in their life.

Today, everyone plays against everyone, everyone travels, and the majority of players left over from back in the day were upper tier players back in the day. A much higher percentage of the player base is made up by elite level players now than it was 10 years ago. I'm pretty much an average player these days (and I didn't play 10 years ago) but would I have been a higher level player in 2001 due to weaker competition? And it works the other way too. Would a lot of these old-school players who I'm sure were "above average" back in the day be only so-so players in todays game.

[spideyguy0]

A lot are old school coming back.

A very encouraging fact. Getting older players back into the game is always a good thing. I won't speculate as to whether this had something to do with the format change or they just dusted off their cards and wanted to play again.

I'm imagining Advocate going all "he who must not be named" and calling their houses repeatedly until they agreed to show up.

[Advocate]

No, I actually didn't do that.

[Mr. G]

Let's give Scott some credit, he has enough self restraint that he would stop calling after the 15th time.

[Advocate]

Let's give Scott some credit, he has enough self restraint that he would stop calling after the 15th time.

[kryptofis]

Don't be surprised when some of those "scrubs" beat you up on their way. They'll play in an unconventional way and that will throw some of average/better players off.

[kryptofis]

[The Honky Tonk Man]

I'm taking the European/

Message from moderator

approach and playing unconventional/shaky decks.

Fair warning to those in my pod, I'm packing complete goof cards. You need to bring all of your shields and cancelers.

[gogolen]

I'm taking the European/

Message from moderator

approach and playing unconventional/shaky decks.

Fair warning to those in my pod, I'm packing complete goof cards. You need to bring all of your shields and cancelers.

Man, i don't want to dust off my Operatives shield...

[gogolen]

updates to the Alternate list? Or is Mr. Gemme no longer interested now that he's sobered up?

[deck]

i've texted scott, pm'd him. i don't know if I have to pay to be on the alternate list or if I can just be put on it. I'm going either way, to do coverage or play -- maybe they just want the coverage? I have no clue.

[Hayes]

<3 Gemme