Patriot Games

Monday 20 October 2014

You are cordially invited...

I haven’t been here for a while.  I shut up shop on this blog on July 5th 2013 with no intention of returning.  I am glad to see that despite my absence we have had another 5,000 hits since I stopped working on it last year.

This guy was in standard last time I did this...

I am also very aware that a lot of you will be going “who is this guy?” as you have started to play in the last 18 months and have quite possibly never met me.  In answer to that question let me just say I am a guy who has a lot of awesome friends who play magic, some of them are even quite good at it.  At one point I had a lot to do with running MTG in Sheffield and that seemed to go quite well.

The other question which I need to answer as it was asked several times over the past weekend – “So is this you back playing Magic?”  Well not exactly.  I have played games day over the last weekend and enjoyed it managing to come 8th both days with my slightly powered up event deck and enjoyed the games despite my numerous play mistakes and that I ended up with only 22 lands in my deck on Sunday (DOH)!  You won’t be seeing me at PTQs, PPTQs or FNM each Friday (although if Mark Smith will have me it would be good to get the 2HG team back together again).  However, I may drop in for an hour or 2 to play some EDH when I have the time.

Apparently this guy is still not banned in legacy...


So why resurrect a sleeping blog?  Well it seemed the best way to talk about something I hope you are going to be excited about; the Patriot Sheffield Magic Invitational!  Two years ago we held the inaugural one of these and it was a great success.  Last year we had another and that went pretty well too. 

For the uninitiated the Invitational is a special tournament over a weekend, in this case the weekend of 8th – 9th November 2014, where a selection of Magic players in Sheffield are invited to compete to win one of the places on the official Steel City Patriots Magic Team.  On the Saturday there will be 4 rounds of sealed deck play using Khan’s of Tarkir products, followed by 4 rounds of Standard constructed play.  When the scores have been tallied the top 16 will be invited back to play day 2 with 4 rounds of modern followed by 3 rounds of draft and the crowning of the winners.

And Rosewater thought this was a good idea to put back in Standard!

So here is the list of players for the 2014 Patriot Games Sheffield invitational:


Joe
Alexander
Wale
Awelenise
Edward
Barker
Patrick
Bateman
Greg
Blackburn
Mike
Boon
Dave
Bradburn
James
Brook
John
Butler
Andy
Callander
Ailiah
Carr
Adam
Clark
Daniel
Cocking
Tom
Colier
Sean
Crowley
Theo
DeBray
Stavrina
Demosthenous
Dave
Eaveson
Laura
Fitzgerald
Grzegorz
Flis
Oliver
Frith
Richard
Fuller
Gideon
Hamlett
Henry
Hart
Tom
Hogg
Jordan
Hunter
Jaisal
Jivabhai
Stephen
Kay
John
Kay
Alistair
Kennedy
Sean
Li
Quinton
Lip
Sam
Luca-Rolf
Andrew
Mather
Steve
McAleer
Abbey
Moore
Chris
North
Lee
Parker
Ben
Pearson
Ian
Picker
Steven
Pickles
Jon
Potts
Matthew
Presley
Fabian
Quinn
Mike
Radford
Ian
Richardson
Matthew
Riggall
Jake
Scott
Mike
Shillitoe
Mark
Smith
Luke
Southworth
Ash
Thompson
Richard
Tinsley
Robert
Tinsley
Andrew
Varg
Diarmud
Verrier
Sam
Waters
Chris
White
Jimmy
Wild
Jordan
Woodward


This list has been put together by a panel and represents a cross section of the players in Sheffield.  We have a limited number of places and the top 16 from last year along with a number of others auto-qualify.  This year in the same way that the first invitational was run, people have been invited due to their services to Sheffield magic play as it has not been possible to run any qualifying events in 2014.  Hopefully next year we will have some qualifiers again.

Apologies for any dodgy spelling, names were taken from the FNM record books and may not be 100% accurate.  I will have more details for you next week, till then feel free to message me/shout at me on face book.

1 comment:

  1. Oh wow! I'm not even good at the game xD. Thanks for the invite!

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