We had a few cancellations but still ended up with 30 people for the 5th annual Hazard birthday Team Serious Invitational!

The Drinks! (forgot to take a picture so this is the morning after)

Player meeting Jaegerbombs

The Donated Prizes!

Action shots!

After 5 rounds of swiss, the top 8 played out as follows:

Top 8

Andy Probasco - 1st place – HollowVine WGU vs Duane Haddix - 8th place – Skullclamp Robots – Andy Wins!

Jason Jaco – 2nd place – 4 Color Paradoxical Outcome vs David Lance – 7th place – 4 Color Survival - Jaco Wins!

Charles Rolko – 3rd place – BUG vs Phil Kwon – 6th place – Ninjas – Charles Wins!

Cody Napier – 4th place – Paradoxical Paradox Engine Outcome - vs Steve McGrew – 5th place – 4 Color Paradoxical Outcome – Steve Wins!

TOP 4

Andy Probasco - HollowVine WGU vs Steve McGrew - 4 Color Paradoxical Outcome – Andy Wins!

Jason Jaco - 4 Color Paradoxical Outcome vs Charles Rolko – BUG – Jaco Wins!

FINALS

Andy Probasco - HollowVine WGU - vs Jason Jaco - 4 Color Paradoxical Outcome – Jaco Wins!

Congrats to Jason Jaco for being the first person to have won 3 TSIs!

Here are the top 8 lists based on final standings:

Thanks to everyone that came out! Thanks to Hazard for hosting us and happy birthday!

You can find the Coverage here in our Twitch collection Twitch collection as well as on our Youtube channel

Metagame breakdown:

Archetypes:

Combo: (11)

4C PO (3)
3C PO
Paradoxical Paradox Engine
Vintage Singleton Combo
DPS
TPS circa 2011
Doomsday
U/r Sarkhan's Unsealing + Palinchron.
Dragon

Blue: (13)

BUG
Ninjas (2)
Jeskai Breach (x2)
Noble Fish
4C Planeswalkers (2)
Thassa's Oracle Fish
Jeskai Control
RUG walkers
BUG Thassa’s Oracle Combo Control
UWB Bazaar Fish

Shops: (3)

Skullclamp Robots
Ravager Shops (2)

Aggro: (8)

HollowVine WGU
4 Color Survival (2)
Christmas Beatings 2020
JacoEldrazi
Dredge (x2)
Mono Red Burn

(There are 35 deck archetypes with 30 players because 1 player was playing deck roulette with 6 different decks)

Sorry for the delayed report but here it is!

We had 16 players show up and donate a box of diapers to battle some Vintage in celebration of the impending birth of Nat and Elizabeth’s son.

Diapers

Custom onesie!

It's a boy!

Guess the melted candy bar!

Balloon bellies!

The drinks:

After 5 rounds of Swiss +1, the top 4 were as follows:

1. David Lance - Survival - 5-0
2. Steve McGrew - Paradoxical Outcome - 4-1
3. Nam Tran - Ravager Shops - 3-2
4. Rajah James - Lands - 3-2

We did not do a Top 4 playoff in the interest of time since this was on a Sunday. Congrats to David Lance for his first TSI win!

The decklists:

Thanks to everyone that came out! It was a blast as always! Congrats to Nat and Elizabeth and Baby Belcher!

Metagame breakdown:

Blue: 6

Paradoxical Outcome
Elementals
(2) Dreadhorde Jeskai
Unpowered BUG
Oath

Shops: 3

(2) Ravager Shops
2 Card Muddy

Misc: 7

Survival
Lands
White Eldrazi
(2) Belcher
DPS
Mono Green Stompy

We had 16 players at the latest TSO. We also asked during the player meeting and agreed upon using the London Mulligan. Thanks to Sue who donated an extra $100 to the prize pool! That extended prizes to top 8!

After 5 rounds of Swiss +1, these were the top 8 final standings:

Thanks to everyone that came out! Pretty good turnout for us so hopefully we can maintain that momentum with future events!

Alongside the SCG Columbus event July 27th - July 28th, we're hosting events at BrewDog Short North!

Middle School MTG Open - Saturday, July 27
Noon
$10 donation to charity
Raffle tickets for additional prizes with the proceeds going to charity
Swiss +1 rounds
BrewDog Short North
1175 N High St, Columbus, OH 43201
Format rules: https://eternalcentral.com/middleschoolrules/

MS Deck Registration https://airtable.com/shrV8GJy6TfKccfqX

Old School 93/94 MTG Open - Sunday, July 28
Noon
$10 donation to charity
Raffle tickets for additional prizes with the proceeds going to charity
Swiss +1 rounds
BrewDog Short North
1175 N High St, Columbus, OH 43201
Format rules: https://eternalcentral.com/9394rules/

OS Deck Registration https://airtable.com/shrRxMq2xvaSyXIcv

Hope to see you there or at the next TSO!

Metagame Breakdown:

Blue decks: 9

Jeskai Arcanist
U/W Lavinia Control
U/R Goblin Engineer
(3) BUG
(3) Oath

• Tyrant Oath
• Griselbrand Oath
• Oath into Sun Titan for Mirrodin Beseiged

Misc: 7

Karn Eldrazi
WB Eldrazi
Colorless Eldrazi
Ravager Shops
Dark Petition Storm
Dredge
Survival

We had a few last minute cancellations but 15 players came out to battle some vintage with London Mulligan and no draws allowed.

The Land!

Koi fish

The Drinks!

The Barn Play area

Prizes donated by all the players!

Custom top 8 bags and tokens!

We also asked for $20 a person for charity and donated $350 to the Second Harvest Foodback of the Mahoning Valley.

https://mahoningvalleysecondharvest.org/

You can see these pictures and some tournament action pictures here.

After 4 rounds of swiss, the top 8 played out as follows:

Jason Jaco - Survival (1st) versus Frank Singel - Survival (8th) - Frank Wins!
Steve McGrew - Jeskai (2nd) versus Kevin Poenisch - Dredge (7th) - Kevin Wins!
Duane Haddix - Karn Eldrazi (3rd) versus Andy Probasco - Survival (6th) - Andy Wins!
Sullivan Brophy - Dredge (4th) versus Rajah James - Dredge (5th) - Sullivan wins!

Top 4

Sullivan Brophy versus Frank Singel - Sullivan Wins!
Andy Probasco versus Kevin Poenisch - Andy Wins!

Finals

Andy Probasco versus Sullivan Brophy - Andy Wins!

Congrats to Andy for his first TSI win!

Top 8 decklists based on final standings:

Thanks to everyone that came out! Hope you had a blast at this Team Serious Invitational! Special thanks to Scott, Dennis and Granny for opening up their home to us and for all the cooking, cleaning and prepping they did for us! Much appreciated!

Metagame breakdown:

Blue decks (4):

Tyrant Oath
(2) Jeskai
U/R Landstill

Bazaar decks (6):

(3) Survival
(3) Dredge

Shop decks (2):

Karn Shops
2 Karn Monte

Misc (3):

Karn Eldrazi
BR Hatebears
JacoEldrazi

We had 9 people come out to battle some vintage. After 5 rounds of Swiss +1, these were the results:

The Twitch stream VOD has been uploaded to our youtube, which can be found here.

Thanks to everyone that came to play! Hope to see you at the next TSO!

@matori I'm trying to hunt down pictures from people that took them but haven't gotten any responses.

Ben's box had:

• Animate Dead print

• Foil Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver

• Miscut Revised Rocket Launcher

• Alpha Mountain

• 2 fbb Chinese Llanowar Elves

• An envelope that could be traded for 2 deck boxes.

• The envelope had a Tundra in it.

• The 2 deck boxes had Middle School staples.

There was also a suitcase provided as a prize. It had a bunch of random stuff in it! Nat tweeted a few of the pictures I took after I opened it:

https://twitter.com/GrandpaBelcher/status/1103043968537907205

It had:

• The Junior Classics 2 Stories of Wonder and Magic book by Collier

• Helm of Obedience

• 1000 piece puzzle

• Nikolai Vodka

• Clown nose

• Sun glasses

• Stickers

• Deck Box

• Toothbrush

• 2 pieces of Mox Chocolate chocolate

• a No one can beat my Dad mug

• a Rick Astley Whenever You Need Somebody cassette tape

• Tylenol

• Shower cap

• Pojo's Unofficial Total Magic the gathering Special Magic 10th anniversary book

Apparently the Tylenol and Shower Cap were already in the suitcase when it was acquired.

We had 29 people come out for the Team Serious Invitational to battle some vintage to celebrate Hazard’s birthday for the 4th year in a row!

The drinks:

We messaged Land Grant Brewing in Columbus, Ohio who graciously gave us some free beer! They have employees that play Magic but have never heard of the card Land Grant, so we gave them a foil Land Grant as a Thank You! Thanks Jackie!

The donated prizes:

Pre-tournament Middle School action!

Some tournament action shots:

15 pizzas for the post Round 2 lunch break!

After 6 rounds of Swiss (it should have been 5 rounds but was announced as 6), the top 8 played out as follows:

Quarterfinals:

Bob Agra – Humans - (1) vs Jacob Hilty – Paradoxical Outcome Oath - (8) – Jacob wins!
Jason Jaco – 4C Outcome - (2) vs Alex – Oath - (7) – Jaco wins!
David Lance – Survival - (3) vs Kevin Cron – Grixis Xerox - (6) – David wins!
Nam Tran – Ravager Shops - (4) vs Andy Probasco – Ravager Shops - (5) – Nam wins!

Semifinals:

Jason Jaco – 4C Outcome - (2) vs Nam Tran – Ravager Shops - (4) – Jaco wins!
David Lance – Survival - (3) vs Jacob Hilty – Paradoxical Outcome Oath - (8) – David wins!

Finals:

Jason Jaco – 4C Outcome - (2) vs David Lance – Survival - (3) - Jaco wins!

Congrats to Jason Jaco for his second TSI win!

Decklists:

Thanks to everyone that came to celebrate and play some Vintage! It was a blast! The over 12 hour Twitch VOD can be found here: Twitch

We're also working on uploading the content on the SeriousVintage youtube channel, which can be found here: Youtube

Looking forward to TSI Hazard's Birthday 5.0 next year!

Metagame breakdown:

Blue decks: 9

U/R Delver
RUG
Jeskai
BUG
(2) Grixis Xerox
Turbo Tezz
(2) Oath

Combo: 6

SX Tendrils!
3C PO
4C PO
(2) Paradoxical Outcome Oath
2 Card Monte

Shops: 3

(2) Ravager Shops
BrassCity Vault

Dredge: 4

(3) Dredge
Dredge and Dragons

Misc: 7

Mono Red Blood Moon Beatz
Tribal Predators
Lands
Survival
Hatebears
Humans
Colorless Eldrazi

We had 8 people show up to battle some vintage. After some 4 rounds of Swiss +1, here are the results.

Fourth Place - I wasn't there and nobody that was there can remember! 1000% Serious. We think it was Tyrant Oath but we don't have a list.

Metagame breakdown:

Jeskai
Tyrant Oath
Esper Xerox
Forgemaster Staves Two Card Muddy
5 Color Humans
Paradoxical outcome
Sun Titan Dredge
Esper Humans

The next Team Serious Open (TSO) will be 3/16 at POP in Sandusky! Hope to see you there!

http://www.themanadrain.com/topic/2423/3-16-2019-m-tg-proxy-vintage-team-serious-open-at-pop-shop-sandusky-oh

I believe the issue was brought up to Kevin and Steve and they had to fix the audio issue and re-upload the episode to Eternal Central. So if you download it again, it should be fine!

https://twitter.com/kevincron/status/1097550374297354241

We had 7 people come out to play some Vintage! Prizes were awarded to the top 3 players. After 4 rounds of Swiss +1, here are the results!

Metagame:

4 Paradoxical Outcome

• 2 Esper
• Grixis
• Belcher

1 Grixis Thieves
1 Ravager Shops
1 Thousand Year Storm Combo

The next Team Serious Open will be on 2/9 at Kidforce Collectibles.

http://www.themanadrain.com/topic/2346/2-9-2019-proxy-vintage-team-serious-open-at-kidforce-berea-oh

Hope to see you there!