April 9th was a good day for Vintage. We had 44 people at this event in Stratford, Ct. The players seemed to have a terrific time and the $5 reduced entry fee and word of mouth of people like Nick D. may have been contributing factors that brought in a terrific 15 new players.
I can't thank enough the 44 players who came out for a great time. Without player support, there is no Vintage, and you should all know that it means a lot to me that you chose to use your Saturday to play Vintage, and I hope you felt it was worth it.
I feel, now more than ever, in the wake of players being priced out of Legacy and proxy vintage quickly becoming the "budget" format, that we have a unique opportunity to draw players into the format, show them some great tourneys, and retain a good player base. I send out a cry to all TO's to consider doing things like upping proxy limits, building and supplying extra decks to new players, etc to work on growing attendance. It isn't just one thing that will help the format, and no idea is neccesarily better or worse than another if they are beneficial, so please, let's see what we can do to get the size and frequency of vintage events back to where they should be.
Without further ado...
Standings after 6 rounds of Swiss
Place Name Points
1 Orcutt, Sean 14
2 Copes, Bill 14
3 Levesque, Adam 13
4 Kavanaugh, James 13
5 Beaumont, Oliver 13
6 Lydon, Michael 13
7 Detwiler, Nick 13
8 Martin, Jesse 13
9 Dupre, Craig 12
10 Probasco, Andy 12
11 Coggins, Nichol 12
12 Timoney, Justin 10
13 Greene, Robert 10
14 Cleveland, Jason 9
15 Fortuna, David 9
16 Del Paggio, Kyle 9
17 Yarrington, Dan 9
18 Merriam, Ross 7
19 Hajduk, Mike 6
20 Farias, Andrew 6
21 Lawrence, David 6
22 Hughes, Scott 6
23 Anand, Jeff 6
24 Bedoukian, David 6
25 Ata, David 6
26 Bedoukian, Philip 6
27 Wolchesky, Elliott 6
28 Fortune, Damien 6
29 Earley, David 4
30 Vallas, Nick 4
31 Pate, Matthew 4
32 Varelakis, Jonathan 3
33 Zhnag, Peter 3
34 Swatkins, Brian 3
35 Harris, Visna 3
36 Clark, Timothy 3
37 Cutrone, Michael 3
38 Fenton, Greg 3
39 Bergeron, Michael 3
40 Owen, Alex 0
41 Kowalczyk, Jeff 0
42 Banfield, Brenden 0
43 Schlossberg, Brian 0
44 Hanna, David 0
Top 8:
Jesse Martin defeats Sean Orcutt
James Kavanaugh defeats Oliver Beaumont
Michael Lydon defeats Adam Levesque
Bill Copes defeats Nick Detwiler
Top 4:
Jesse Martin defeats James Kavanaugh
Bill Copes defeats Michael Lydon
Finals:
Jesse Martin defeats Bill Copes
In our free, single elimination side event we had 22 players.
In the finals we saw David Bedoukain play against Nick Vallas.
Dave took the whole thing down.
So, in conclusion, I had a terrific time Saturday and be sure to look forward to TMD Open 14.6(hey I had to fit it in somehow) coming in about a month and a half.
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