DRAFT

This morning is prooving to be a real challenge for everyone to getting things setup and ready to go.  The Wired representative, John, has arrived and we now have a 9th player.

We just adjurned for lunch are we're all taking the opportunity to practice our 100 Card Singleton decks.  Matchup's are coming up here in just a moment so stay tuned.

Round 1

Wizards of the Coast vs. Community Team

dhuse vs. Tweaker (W): 2-0

Erik vs. Danger (W): 2-1

Lee vs. Pete (W): 2-0 

Tolene vs. Hamtastic (W): 2-1

Chris vs. Spike (W): 2-1 

Mike Turian (W) vs. Randy: 2-1

Vincent (W) vs. Sam: 2-0

Aaron (W) vs. Bubba: 2-0

dhuse is playing an Elf deck, Mike Turian is playing dredge.  Tolene is playing a mono red deck.  Aaron is playing the millston/painters combo.

Round 2

Wizards of the Coast vs. Community Team

Ryan (W) vs. Sam: 2-0

Erik (W) vs. Bubba: 2-1

Lee vs. Randy (W): 2-0

Tolena (W) vs. Pete: 2-1

Chris (W) vs. Hamtastic: 2-1

Mike Turian (W) vs. Spike: 2-0

Vincent (W) vs. Tweaker: 2-0

Aaron (W) vs. Dangerlinto: 2-1

We completely got crushed this round across the board with the exception of Mr. Randy Bueler giving the team the only win.

Round 3

Wizards of the Coast vs. Community Team

Ryan (W) vs. Bubba: 2-1 

Eric vs. Spike (W) : 2-1

Lee (W) vs. Sam: 2-1

Tolena (W) vs. Tweaker:  2-0

Mike vs. Pete (W): 2-1

Vince (W) vs. Randy: 2-0

Aaron (W) vs. Hamtastic: 2-0

We are getting completely crushed.  The matchups are just completely jaded against these decks.  Lots of talk about what we would have done vs. what we decided.  I don't think it's really the decks, just the nature of the game, but that's my opinion really.  I'm sure if we practiced against these decks and thought about the things we are thinking of now before this challenge we'd have different results.

THE DRAFT

Round 1

So far WoTC has shown us no mercy.  Our first round has been an interesting one.  There are two drafts for the 8 of us and the 8 of WoTC.  On one of our drafts our team went 0-4 but the other picked up the slack with 4-0.  Not really sure how Round 2 is going thus far but I've (Tweaker) already lost my match against Alexis.  Pete's deck is absolutely redunkulous being Black/White.  He and Randy teamed up during the draft picks.

Round 2

It was Mike vs Mark Rosewater and like, 4 other WoTC members.  Sam and me are the only winless victims.  The amazing we're 8-8 as a team so far through the 2nd round. 

Round 3

1M_Words deck fizzled slightly on that last matchup.  But the real winner of this has to be Spike who went 3-0 for the Zendikar Draft giving the community a 1 point lead.  We're now 59 to 58.  Next up for us in the 100 Card Singleton matchup.

I for one have faith in the MTGO community as a whole.  That view will never really change.  All players are unique to their own individualness.  What I've grown to realize in this community is that there are certain people who believe that they are the community and that what they say is.  Many people are trying to provoke a specific response from me so here's my response.

I really don't care the views of individuals against me.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion.  I'm not always the most liked individual.  I'm not always the most hated individual.  I can only do what I choose to do and that's it.  How I handle myself and the actions that come from me are of my own accord.  Am I perfect?  No.  Do I strive for perfection?  Somewhat, yeah.  I like to think that I think things through and to the best of my abilities.  That's all really I can give afterall.  So I accept that there are things that I do really great and some things I fail miserably at.

This project has been an absolute blessing for me.  The two people who helped cultivate this project (Meuslix and NeoNetGen) have sense moved away from the project but it still lives on.  It is my opinion that the actions of these two people were very noble and will live on as the months and years go by for it if wasn't for their enginuity and my time, none of this would have come to fruition.

Yes I am aware of all the "bad press" that MyMTGO.com is receiving from members of the MTGO community.  I'm not a fool.  But I look at things a bit differently these days.  The fact that players will be who they want to be and fabircate what they want to fabricate is completely up to them.  I'm not going to play their game though really nor to I have any interest in playing it.  You may think I'm a coward for this decision but it's my decision.

Thank you to everyone who has been so kind to me and the project over the past 7 months.  I'm continuing to looking forward to helping the MTGO community however I can and feel that this project is continuing to grow in an extremely healthy pace.  We're doing things here no other site offers the MTGO community and it's really the players (who both support and loath) that make this project possible.