GP Bochum

Les last chances, la super FNM...

Emilien, je viens également, mais je viens d'apprendre (simultanément) que j'ai un truc à Paris le vendredi (alors que j'avais dit que je serais là pour le vendredi à Bochum, mais là ça va vraiment plus être possible). Du coup, je vais essayer de tester l'efficacité de la ligne directe Paris Cologne pour arriver vendredi soir assez tard.

Donc voilà, moi je compte arriver vendredi soir genre 11h-minuit et repartir lundi matin. Donc si tu as une place « retour » uniquement ça m'intéresse (et j'ai encore rien de prévu question logement).

MatF a écrit:Les last chances, la super FNM...

Les Last Chances c'est pour les PT normalement, pas pour les GP.

Last chance GPT.

Artistes présents :
- Christopher Moeller : http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?output=spoiler&method=visual&action=advanced&artist=+[%22Christopher+Moeller%22]
- Steven Belledin : http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?output=spoiler&method=visual&action=advanced&artist=+[%22Steven+Belledin%22]

Je ne pourrai pas venir finalement, mais j'ai quelques cartes que j'aimerais faire signer si une âme comptait y passer
Christopher Moeller : 5 cartes (4 bolt +1 boar)
Steven Belledin : 5 cartes (transcendant + oversoul + putrefax + architect + chronologist)

Emilien
Sinon, je peux réduire !

if you want i am here Tom

Je te passerai tout ça dès qu'on se voit

oki doki

Joey a écrit:Last chance GPT.

Oui j'ai vu ça. C'est vraiment pas mal.

Pour info, tiré de la liste de diffusion des arbitres :

For those of you coming to the GP by car here is a little warning:

Bochum is part of the "Umweltzone" (environment zone). This means that you're only allowed to enter the city when your car has a so called environmental badge. If you get caught without one you will be given a 40 Euro fine (and yes, they regularly check all cars leaving the Autobahn).
Find more information about it here:http://www.green-zones.eu/
If you aren't from Germany the best solution for me seems to be ordering it here: http://www.tuev-nord.de/SID-1025841D-4379E50B/en/traffic/Order_2897.htm
Other websites require you to send in a postpaid envelope which seems rather difficult not being able to buy German stamps...

I found an other site that offers it for only 5 €.

Check here for cars not registered in Germany: https://formular.stadt-koeln.de/formular/feinstaubplakette/
Seems there is also a way to aquire the badge in the netherlands: http://www.tuev-nord.nl/keuringen/umweltplakette.htm

You can also try to contact the hotel you will be staying at and ask them for help. It seems a lot of hotels to offer to have a badge waiting for you when you arrive.

#
Saturday, 12:45 p.m. – Choose your side!
by Tim Willoughby

At the Mirrodin Besieged prerelease, things will be working a little differently to normal. While everyone will be receiving three Scars of Mirrodin boosters, for the new set, they have a choice to make. Each player can either elect to have three packs of boosters with nothing but Phrexian cards, or three packs of cards with nothing but Mirran faction cards. Very soon indeed, the time will come to choose.

Before then though, I did a quick sweep of the room to get a feel for where different players felt most aligned. Myself, I am staunchly Phyrexian, and have been doing my best to infect others with my point of view ever since the party in Amsterdam. It looks like Phyrexia might have a bit of work to do though, as we look at how alignments shake out at the moment.

The Dastardly Mirran

The home team on Mirran currently has quite a force, perhaps down to the fact that they do a good job of pretending to be the 'Good Guys'. Here are just some of the good guys that put themselves in the Mirran Camp.

Luis Scott-Vargas
Tomoharu Saito
Shuhei Nakamura
Martin Juza
Brian Kibler
Craig Wescoe
Kazuya Mitamura
Raphael Levy

If that was our top 8 this weekend then it would be a pretty incredible top 8, to say the least. Let us look at team Phyrexia.

Olivier Ruel
Justin Gary
Geoffrey Siron
Arnost Zidek
Robert van Medevoort
Bram Snepvangers
Christophe Gregoire
Matteo Orsini-Jones

On paper, Team Mirran looks a little stronger, especially for recent finishes (Justin hasn't played in a big event for about 4 years), but there is nothing to say that our plucky squad of Phrexians can't upset a few people. The balance of Mirran cards to Phyrexian in Scars of Mirrodin is heavily in favour of Mirran also, which may be a factor. Could Mirrodin Besieged infect a few more players to the Phyrexian side by the time that we get to the end of the block? I wouldn't count it out.

http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/gpboch10/welcome

Round 5 Green Pairings

samedi 30 octobre 2010•More Event Coverage
Table Player Points Opponent Points
1 Lee, Sok-yong [DEU] 12 vs. Mauhart, Christian [AUT] 12
38 Koska, Adam [CZE] 12 vs. Peuker, Thomas [DEU] 12
37 Boer, Robbin [NLD] 12 vs. Schwarz, Stephan [DEU] 12
39 Dagen, Pierre [FRA] 12 vs. Lemoine, Vincent [BEL] 12
28 Rikola, Markku [FIN] 12 vs. Hermans, Myrddin [NLD] 12
40 Vieren, Peter [BEL] 12 vs. Grygar, Jan [CZE] 12
36 Calvetto, Marcello [ITA] 12 vs. Zatlkaj, Matej [SVK] 12
35 Moorman, Rick [NLD] 12 vs. Chuhwichov, Anatoly [RUS] 12
34 Cellerier-muller, Matt [FRA] 12 vs. Calcano, Christian [USA] 12
33 Muecke, Sebastian [DEU] 12 vs. Eggers, Niels [DEU] 12
30 Goto, Andre [FRA] 12 vs. Hein, Dirk [DEU] 12
31 Ecker, Florian [DEU] 12 vs. Knapen, Bas - [NLD] 12
32 Wettemann, Christian [DEU] 12 vs. Raney, Tom E [USA] 12
41 Hauck, Christian [DEU] 12 vs. Melis, Bas [NLD] 12
42 Vanek, Jiri [CZE] 12 vs. Bartuska, Arved [AUT] 12
43 Colson, Flavien [FRA] 12 vs. Jansen, Ralf [DEU] 12
50 Bilek, Tomas [CZE] 12 vs. Wafo-tapa, Guillaume [FRA] 12
52 Mayer, Manuel F [DEU] 12 vs. Mcgovern, Mark [IRL] 12
53 Van Damme, Cliff [BEL] 12 vs. Schnell, Philipp [DEU] 12
54 Bizot, Tim / [NLD] 12 vs. Juza, Martin [CZE] 12
51 Ganz, Andreas [CHE] 12 vs. Lachia, Sylvain [BEL] 12



Vas-y Poulain!! Défonce les tous!
Avec zero bye, il a dû encore avoir une chatte de ouf!

Et notre moine national qui fait une belle perf'

Rank Player Points OMW%
1 Köstler, Jonas [DEU] 30 74.12%
2 Lemoine, Vincent [BEL] 30 71.75%
3 Melis, Bas [NLD] 28 68.65%
4 Mcgovern, Mark [IRL] 27 76.24%
5 Juza, Martin [CZE] 27 75.71%
6 Abou Omar, Ashraf [DEU] 27 75.23%
7 Künzler, Matthias [CHE] 27 74.04%
8 Mitamura, Kazuya [JPN] 27 72.26%
9 Kraft, Lukas [CZE] 27 70.79%
10 Steinborn, Robin [DEU] 27 69.64%


Come on Vince!

837 Nguyen, Hong Phuc [BEL] 0 100.00%

c'est hugoken ou je confonds ?

Tu confonds; Hugoken c'est Hung-Anh Nguyen-Khac ...

Par contre on a : Lhome, Steve [BEL] qui était dans le green bracket. C'est le Steve Lhomme banni qui a retiré un "m" à son nom ?

#Sunday, 9:11 a.m. – Metalcrafting 101
by David Sutcliffe

Yesterday the Japanese pro Kazuya Mitamura led us through the Phyrexian plan for the assault on Mirrodin, and how best to spread the contagion of 'the oil'. Heading into the draft on the second day the question was what artifacts the native Mirrans would be able to muster to their defense.

We saw yesterday that the Mirrans dominate Sealed Deck play, with white and red cards the most popular at the top tables and only a very occasional Infect deck slipping through the net. Draft is a whole different ballgame, however, and it suit's the Phyrexians much better: they can pick and choose their Infect creatures as they go past while the Mirrans are left to fight over a far smaller number of artifacts.

Leading the Mirran defense forces is the former Belgian champion Vincent Lemoine, one of only three players to emerge with a perfect 10-0 record from the first day of the Grand Prix. He had drafted a blue-white deck that both thrived and depended on artifacts and I cornered the big man to get him to share his secrets.


Vincent Lemoine

You seem to have got a LOT of artifacts

Yes, I'm playing with 14 artifacts which is a lot to get in a draft. I'm even playing two off-color Replicas just to try and be sure that I get to Metalcraft. My deck has a bunch of flyers - seven - and a Tumble Magnet and two Vedalken Certarch so I can tap my opponents creatures down. Hoepfully it will be enough.

I guess you must be picking artifacts pretty highly to get that many?

Oh yes, very highly. You have to take a playable artifact over a better blue or white card, just because it's so important to get a lot of artifacts. Taking a Tumble Magnet isn't a hard choice - I think that's maybe the best artifact in the format - but I took a Glint Hawk Idol over a good white card, and I remember in one pick I took a Snapsail Glider over an Auriok Edgewright. There was a pack where I had Darkslick Drake and Vedalken Certarch with a Chrome Steed - I knew one of the blue cards would probably table, but that it was my only chance to take the Chrome Steed. It's tough though, because everyone knows to take artifacts highly you have to fight for them.

And you really need those artifacts by the look of it.

It's so important for me to hit Metalcraft, with two Snapsail Glider, two Chrome Steed, two Certarchs and a Sunchaser, and then other cards like a Myrsmith that also benefit from having lots of artifacts. I also have two Dispense Justice, I don't have much removal so it's going to be important to have Metalcraft for those. The Myrsmith is so good, by the way - that was my Pack One, Pick One, he's broken and helps you get Metalcraft so quickly.

Do you think you missed any picks?

Maybe one or two. After the first booster I only had a couple of blue or white cards, and I opened an Arc Trail then got passed a Kuldotha Phoenix. I thought maybe I could go red, and the Phoenix works with Metalcraft, so I took that over a second mana Myr. I would really like that Myr in my deck now, and I'm not playing the Phoenix. I'm glad I got the Arc Trail though, because it means I don't have to play against it. For a Metalcraft deck that is like your worst nightmare - Arc Trail kills two of your creatures but also sets you back two artifacts most of the time.

And you have a Liquimetal Coating, which is like 2/3rds of Metalcraft

Oh I love this card, I think maybe it's one of the best-designed cards in Scars of Mirrodin. It doesn't look like it does anything so players think it's bad, but it's so synergetic in your deck that it's actually great. I usually try to draft blue/green Metalcraft, with cards like Molder Beast, Carapace Forger and Tel Jilad Defiance, maybe a Rust Tick. In that deck the Liquimetal Coating lets you do so many tricks. Draft is very different to sealed deck in Scars - you don't need bombs in draft, you need synergy.

You have so many artifacts, but aren't playing your Golem Foundry. Is it just bad?

Yes, it's such a bad card. We were talking about it with my friends on the way here, actually - I drafted a deck once with 17 artifacts and 4 Proliferate cards and the Golem Foundry was STILL terrible! I think the Golden Urn is probably a better card than Golem Foundry, it should probably cost just 1 mana, and even then it wouldn't be very good. Ha ha, I also got three Relic Putrescence - they were the last card in every booster. It's so bad, it kind of looks like it might be a nice poison card but it's just terrible.

Finally... you're on 10-0. Are you heading for 13-0?

I don't know. I think my deck is good, but I don't think it will be a 3-0 deck. Maybe 2-1. Finger's crossed!

Hop : http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/eventcoverage/gpboch10/welcome#1

Ca va tellement plus vite
Il espérait 2-1, il a intérêt à se rattraper il est à 0-1

La première ronde de draft a commencé hier soir ou bien il y a un bug sur le site ?
Les joueurs sont censés faire 2x 3 rondes de draft mais il n'y a que 5 rondes de prévues pour aujourd'hui sur le site (dans un cas Vince a fait 1-2 en draft et dans l'autre il est à 0-2)

edit : With qualification for Day Two drafts decided after round nine, a bonus 'first round of Sunday' took place on Saturday night in an attempt to seperate out the field a little further before the six rounds of draft.
et donc ça pue, Vince est en train de foirer sa 1ère draft

C'mon, ronde 14 il est encore top 8

La situation est assez tendue pour à peu près tout le monde sauf le premier.

avec 10-0 il peut se permettre un 3-3 mais en commençant avec un 0-2 il ne s'est pas facilité la tâche.
Enfin bon, il gagne et il peut faire draw (en priant qu'il ne soit pas downpair)

Featuring la barbe d'Alex

mince jsuis sur la droite

amusant de voir le débarquement de l'OPBus au Burger King narré sur blackborder:

Matteo Orsini-Jones a écrit:
Thankfully, the Belgian megabus was planning a trip to Burger King on the way back to the hotel, and considering the other 56 people on the coach had also been in the same (mostly) foodless venue as me for 16 hours, the detour was very much appreciated. The crowds of ravished gamers descending on a quiet unsuspecting Burger King just off a German Autobahn somewhat resembled (to paraphrase Dan) a scene from 28 days later.

neoatomium a écrit:

837 Nguyen, Hong Phuc [BEL] 0 100.00%

c'est hugoken ou je confonds ?

Bon après 30 min de recherche je ne retrouve pas , mais j'avais lu sur WIKI , que après je ne sais quel tournant politiques au vietnam , une énorme partie de la population avait pris le nom de Nguyen pcq c'était celui de la famille royale/impériale et donc les porteur du nom ne pouvait subir certaines choses ( intterrogatoire/dépossession , ce genre de truc) .

Donc des Nguyen t'en trouvera toujours un tas .