End of Swiss update

Carlos Moral writes...

Hello, my name is Carlos and I am a Spanish exchange student that happens to be very happy to say that I will be playing in the Top 8 for this tournament. It happens to be the last one I will play in my stay, mainly because I will go back to Spain on Wednesday. David, the Head Judge, told me to write something for the blog during the last round while I wasn't playing... fair enough. The problem is I didn't know what to write about. That was until I saw judges pulling two players apart out of their seats after a deck check, separately, only for both players to tell the judges the same thing: That's not my deck!

After a couple funny faces from the judges... Head Judge David Lyford-Smith said the funny words... SWAP PEOPLE!

The rest of the deck check was handled normally; there were some penalties because of some issue with at least one of the lists, but that's maybe something a judge should tell you about.

So until the next time...wish me luck for the top 8!

HJ's note: the problem arose as the player's decks were very similar and each sideboard had ended up with the wrong player's deck. Hence we had problems identifying which deck was which!

Iain Shepherd writes...

Well, the last round is over and after starting feeling sick and quickly slipping to a 0-2 record I recovered my dignity and finish 4-2 after playing Fog, Elves, 5CC and finally Elves! (combo) which is nice =D Bring on Southampton next week!