Grand Prix - Atlanta

Winner - Randy Buehler
2nd    - Bob Coonce
3rd    - Derek Rank
4th    - David Mills
5th    - Nate Clarke
6th    - Ray DeGuzman
7th    - Pat Callahan
8th    - Chris Donohoe

Final 8 tidbits:

Coonce, who finished second, had to forfeit his second
game because of an incorrect decklist. He forget to 
write down a Disenchant.

Buehler won with a brutal Red and Black deck.

General gossip:

Feature matches at GP Atlanta were better than at any pro 
tour.

More Gossip and rumors under the pictures below!!!

Beta Booster Draft:

Winner - Kyle Bigos
2nd    - Bob Maher

Kyle pulled a Mox Sapphire in one of his packs!

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Grand Prix - Atlanta						
Standings after round 7						
	 		Match	 Op-Match PL-Duel Op-Duel
Rank	 Name		Points	 Win%	 Win%	 Win%	Byes
1  "Bachmann, David"	21	72.4638	77.7778	64.9123	3
2  "Callahan, Pat"	21	65.0794	100.000	60.8696	3
3  "Malka, Sol"		21	62.5000	80.0000	60.0000	3
4  "Deguzaman, Ray"	21	58.9744	66.6667	60.0000	3
5  "Kettemann, Nik"	21	56.9444	90.9091	54.5455	2
6  "Tam, Eric"		19	63.8889	77.7778	57.6271	3
7  "LePine, Mark"	19	63.4921	63.6364	55.5556	3
8  "Nishioka, Andrew"	19	58.8235	58.3333	56.8182	3
9  "Buehler, Randy"	18	79.6296	75.0000	69.0476	3
10 "Price, David"	18	79.6296	70.0000	69.7674	3
11 "Bluett, Taer"	18	71.6049	80.0000	66.6667	2
12 "Chapin, Patrick"	18	68.1818	70.0000	61.1111	3
13 "Globus, Mark"	18	68.1159	66.6667	60.7143	2
14 "Lauer, Erik"	18	65.2174	60.0000	62.9630	3
15 "Leiher, Peter"	18	65.1515	77.7778	58.4906	3
16 "Wolf, Andrew"	18	63.8095	66.6667	59.5238	2
17 "Crosby, Joseph"	18	61.9048	75.0000	56.3636	3
18 "Kesselman, Eric"	18	61.1111	84.6154 55.0725	1
19 "Katz, Michael"	18	61.1111	80.0000	54.0230	2
20 "Honan, Chris"	18	60.0000	54.5455	56.8627	3
21 "Donahoe, Chris"	18	59.0909	60.0000	60.0000	3
22 "Tatum, John"	18	56.3218	76.9231	52.8571	1
23 "Leader, David"	18	54.1667	80.0000	50.9434	2
24 "Al-Doory, Aziz"	18	42.3077	76.9231	42.1875	1
25 "Wagner, Bob"	16	72.4638	50.0000	67.2727	3
26 "Kotwica, Ron"	16	71.2121	53.3333	61.9883	3
27 "Coonce, Bob"	16	65.5914	64.2857	63.0137	1
28 "Frangiosa, Rich"	16	65.5556	57.1429	59.4595	2
29 "Ruckman, Tyler"	16	65.2778	66.6667	58.9286	2
30 "Rank, Derek"	16	64.9573	62.5000	59.1837	1
31 "Mchale, Jason"	16	64.9123	50.0000	62.2222	3
32 "O'Mahoney-Schwartz"	16	64.8148	50.0000	58.5185	3
33 "Richardson, Trey"	16	63.8095	62.5000	58.8235	1
34 "Clarke, Nate"	16	63.4921	50.0000	56.8627	3
35 "Teamann, Scott"	16	63.0631	57.8947	60.9195	-
36 "Cuneo, Andrew"	16	60.7843	64.2857	55.5556	1
37 "Weber, Paul"	16	60.4167	64.7059	58.2278	-
38 "Pikula, Chris"	16	60.4167	55.5556	57.1429	3
39 "Taylor, Eric"	16	60.2564	66.6667	57.3770	2
40 "Slaughter, John"	16	59.8039	56.2500	56.7901	1
41 "McNair, Kelsey"	16	59.1398	60.0000	54.6667	1
42 "Liu, Caroline"	16	58.6667	57.1429	53.8462	2
43 "Higa, Gabe"		16	58.6207	54.5455	56.5217	2
44 "Brewer, Joey"	16	58.5859	63.1579	53.7500	-
45 "Justice, Mark"	16	57.8947	60.0000	52.0833	3
46 "Bartholow, David"	16	57.5758	55.5556	58.7879	2
47 "Pannell, Thomas"	16	57.2917	53.8462	54.0541	2
48 "Schroeder, Justin"	16	55.9140	60.0000	53.4247	1
49 "DeRosa, Antonio"	16	54.3860	68.7500	51.6484	-
50 "Foure, Frederick"	16	54.3210	60.0000	52.7363	1
51 "Vasquez, Rick"	16	51.2821	62.5000	50.0000	1
52 "Bradley, Trevor"	16	48.1481	60.0000	50.0000	-
53 "Lipp, Scott"	16	42.7350	64.9123	47.1631	-
54 "Gilpin, Steven"	15	75.0000	50.0000	64.0000	3
55 "Gilson, Frank"	15	71.4286	63.6364	64.0625	2
56 "Lang, Melissa"	15	71.0145	50.0000	60.6557	3
57 "Smith, Paul"	15	66.6667	60.0000	59.5506	1
58 "Lukes, Herbie"	15	65.1515	58.3333	59.6154	2
59 "Phillipps, Eric"	15	64.1975	54.5455	56.9231	3
60 "Mills, David"	15	62.9630	50.0000	58.5714	3
61 "Hicks, Andy"	15	62.7451	58.8235	60.7143	-
62 "Tsang, Gab"		15	62.3188	54.5455	55.1724	3
63 "Long, Michael"	15	60.6061	50.0000	62.2642	3
64 "Schneider, Justin"	15	60.3175	55.5556	51.9231	3

More GP Atlanta Rumors and Gossip:

#1--Day 1, Mark Justice and Mike Long are playing, A dispute occurs
because Justice's notes have Long at 6 life, and Long's die is on 8.
After a twelve minute conference Mike Long loses the dispute and his 
die is set from 8 to 6.

#2--Reportedly Taer Blutte, in a sanctioned side draft (1 Foreign 
Tempest, 1 English Tempest, 1 stronghold), the individual 'replaces' 
two cards in  his draft packs with two other cards he already 
drafted...discovered when the player two picks down from his 
suddenly has two Korean Tempest cards in his English pack. According
to sources, Taer has been banned previously from DCI sanctioned
events.

#3--Justin Schneider vs. Melissa Lang, Day 2: Melissa had out two mogg 
fanatics, a manakin, some other creature, and 6 Lands. Justin ends his 
turn, and Melissa Draws a card.  She looks at her hand.  She looks at 
life totals, looks at her hand again, plays a land, and thunders justin 
for 6 (7 Lands + Manakin)--Justin is at 8.  Justin sees that he's about 
to die, and says "I wanted to do something during your upkeep--you didn't 
give me a chance to play effects before you drew".  Melissa let Justin 
call the judge, and didn't protest ANYTHING for some reason---so
the judge had them back up to her upkeep, where Justin Double Edicted
Melissa, killing her Manakin, and keeping her from killing him.  Melissa
was too shocked to appeal to Jeff Donais.  When Justin Schneider received
his prize money at the awards ceremony, he was booed by the crowd.

#4--Mark Justice, Day 2:  A complicated incident. Here is an exhaustive
set of innuendo, fact, rumor and gossip:

Mark Justice claims to have drafted 4 Muscle Slivers. Drafters in his 
pod remember 3, and a possible 4th. After the draft he wrote 4 on his 
decklist. Immediately after the draft Justice went to Rudy Edwards' 
card table and bought (the card was given to him gratis, actually) a 
Muscle Sliver. Several eye-witnesses saw this take place. The Muscle 
Sliver that Justice got from the card table was clearly from a 
different print run than the other cards drafted during the day.

During a random deck check, the judge noticed that one card, the Muscle
Sliver was from a different print run than all the rest.

Justice claims that he "replaced" a Muscle Sliver that he drafted with 
the one he procured because the one that was drafted had a factory defect.
Justice also claims that he threw the factory defect card in the trash
after procuring the new one. Unfortunately, Justice could not remember
which trashcan he threw the defective card into, out of the four
garbage cans in the area (reportedly all less than half full). Justice
declined an offer by the judges to help search the four garbage cans
to find the damaged Muscle Sliver. 

Justice did not inform any official that he was replacing one of the 
cards he drafted with an outside card, and was dq'ed on a procedural
call.