Chicago Old School 93-94 February 2016 Tournament – Decklists and Photo Report

This past weekend the Chicago Old School group hosted a small 93-94 tournament, with space for 12 players. The seating limitations of privately hosting the event quickly filled up, and we had 12 players show up to battle, including a number of local players, and a few players from as far as about 4 hours away (driving) a state over.

Entrance fee was drink of choice to share with the posse (and this ranged from 6-packs, to bombers of beer, to fine whiskey, to JagerBombs), and we all chipped in for local delivery pizza. Prizes were donated by the players, and ended up being pretty sweet, and each prize was signed by all players. 1st Place walked away with a limited edition green Spellground 2 player mat, while 2nd through last places drafted cards ranging from Mirror Universe all the way down to Hymn to Tourach (which were then all signed by each player). Huge thanks to Bob Agra, Shane Semmens, Nathan Mullen (and me!) for donating the prizes.

In working out tournament structure, to encourage the maximum rounds played, we decided on six (6) 50 minute rounds of Straight Swiss (no Top 4/8 playoff), with NO DRAWS ALLOWED (unintentional or otherwise). After 50 minutes if there was a tied match, the tie breaker would be a sudden death Chaos Orb flipping contest, similar to a hockey or soccer overtime shootout. If both players make or miss the Chaos Orb flip in the same round, go again. The first person to make it while the other person misses will be declared the winner of the match. The point of Old School is to play Old School, so we always encourage everyone to play quickly and have fun each round, and this tournament structure worked very well to that end, and will probably be used more in the future.