Subject: IL Reigonals: C'Sliver Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 23:26:21 EDT From: Izznop To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com Howdy Neighbors: This weekend I for some odd reason decided it might be a good idea to wake up at 3am and down from Green Bay to the Midwest Reigonals in scenic Chicago Heights. Before the tourny, I tested many decks. I tried ProsBloom for a while. I didn't use that because my suspended teammate wouldn't contact us since he wasn't going anyway so I couldn't get my hands on all the cards. Then I was inspired and came up with an awesome deck. It was Bop Gun. R/B speed burn. I loved it. It was fast. It was unusual and I gave it cool name. Then at the last minute I thought it was unlucky and decided to go with a CounterSliver the day before. Damn it makes me feel like a lameass to play something that everyone else is. Part of Team Escape attended: Matt Kocken-Vinyard Beatdown Matt Seroogy-WW Aaron Hoes-WW Jed Drewiske(ME)-C'Sliver We were missing suspended Matt Bublitz and Jason Beck so a couple of other guys came with us. Josh Bonin-Sligh Paul Murry-PropaGeddon 1st Round vs. Charlie-C'Sliver Game 1: I get worried when I see my opponent plop down a big Crystalline. I didn't worry a whole lot about other slivers when I made my sideboard. We exchange blows for a bit. We both counter a share. He top decks more slivers and I die. Game 2: I go first and proceed to beatdown. I draw an appropriate amount of counters slivers and lands and straight beat it like Micheal Jackson. Game 3: Charlie goes first and that pretty much decided the game. And all i can think is gaddamn, does that man have my salad dish. 0-1 Matt Kocken-1-0 Matt Seroogy-1-0 Aaron Hoes-1-0 Jed Drewiske-0-1 Josh Bonin-0-1 Paul Murray-0-1 In between, I stack up with a towel and some deoderent. That place already smelled like an armpit the size of Timbucktu. Round 2: ?-Tradewind/Intruder Alarm Game 1: I get him down to one. I jumped the gun a Torch and he decks me. Game 2: I side in More Disenchants and Pyroblasts. That man cannot stop me. I am the human highlight film. The whole time I'm thinking why am I so fly? Game 3: Check it with game 2. The Jed Man has more game than Parker Bros. 1-1 Matt Kocken-2-0 Matt Seroogy-1-1 Aaron Hoes-2-0 Jed Drewiske-1-1 Josh Bonin-1-1 Paul Murray-0-2 I think that's right. I didn't see my team inbetween rounds. I'm not sure. Round 3: Anita Dick? Harry P. Ness?-4CG Game 1: He's picking me away with some boas. Good lord. I prepare a sliver beatdown. I'm smacking him like jelly. He keeps returning the smack though. I finally got him cornered. I have a scroll out and a torch. I drop an acidic sliver to guarentee the win. Then the puck ho doesn't counter like a norman person, he powersinks me. Right then I thought of ten million words for bitch and died. Game 2: Were cutting it close again. He has no boas though. I release the Sliver SWAT team and Geddon. Then I sing in joy. Game 3: I quickly toss up the Sliver flavor and counter whatever he does. He tries to terror my acidic sliver. I had to explain to him that if a man was half black and half latino, he could still be supported by the NAACP. He agrees. I crush him like a puny little ant. 2-1 Matt Kocken-3-0 Matt Seroogy-2-1 Aaron Hoes-3-0 Jed Drewiske-2-1 Josh Bonin-1-2 Paul Murray-1-2 Round 4: A Male-Black Something. Game 1: He is starting to form something that looks like a Bottlenecro onslaught. Before that gets rolling, I rip him a new rectum with slivers. Game 2: I watch a mana-screwed man and portent him to make sure he stays that way. I finish him by jousting sliver fat down his face. I stilll have to say, it feels good to win,. whatever it takes. Talked with the guy after. He was a nice guy. 3-1 Matt Kocken-4-0 Matt Seroogy-2-2 Aaron Hoes-3-0-1 Jed Drewiske-3-1 Josh Bonin-2-2 Paul Murray-1-3 Round 5: My name remebering ability sucks, alright!-5CG with Sliver Game 1: After seeing him pop out some slivers, I remember the load I took up the rear in the first round. I forget to topdeck creatures and lose. Game 2: I counter and kill his slivers and bring on the sliver onslaught. He's one dead mother now. Game 3: I steady mob with some sliver action and win. 4-1 Matt Kocken-4-1 Matt Seroogy-3-2 Aaron Hoes-3-1-1 Jed Drewiske-4-1 Josh Bonin-3-2 Paul Murray-2-3 DROPPED Round 6: Guy from Valparaso, 5CG yet again Game 1: We beat on each other for a while and then he busts a cap in my ass to finish me off. Game 2: Counters and mass sliver apeal win for me. Game 3: We blow the crap out of each other and an end of the game Derelor kills me when I don't topdeck a sliver. I made some mistakes and I lost. My brain is starting to die on me for some reason. Matt Kocken-5-1 Matt Seroogy-4-2 Aaron Hoes-3-2-1 Jed Drewiske-4-2 Josh Bonin-3-3 Round 7: Yan Zheng-BottleNecro Game 1: I am about to kill when I foolishly don't leave enough mana for a counter. He living Deaths. I lost Game 2: The Sliver beat down is too much for him. Score one for me. Game 3: I take one up the ass proving that I was way top tired to continue thinking. I go eat and call it a day. 4-3 Final for Team Escape Matt Kocken-5-3 Matt Seroogy-5-3 Aaron Hoes-3-3-1 Jed Drewiske4-3 Josh Bonin-4-4 Paul Murray 2-3 I got my ass kicked in a side and went home. It was pretty fun and sorry bout all the name mistakes. Keep it real Jed Drewiske Izznop@aol.com