Memories from Sunday

For Sunday we had planned three tournaments. The Warzone unsanctioned, a standard constructed sanctioned side event and the 40 player EC day two tournament. When we were finished with the registration we had a whopping three players wanting to play the Warzone, so we asked them to take part of the standard constructed tournament instead.

After some problems with loudly talking spectators at the very end of each round during Saturday we decided to have players choose between staying at the table where they were ousted or leave the hall were the games were going on. This of course created some friction, but all in all the players showed great understanding.

By this time I had grown accustomed to a silent EC, and I was not to be surprised.

With only two events we had LSJ judging the EC day two and I judged the standard constructed side event. The two day format of the EC made the side event the largest tournament during Sunday with 83 players.

I saw how both tournaments silently and slowly timed out their games. 40 players in the EC day two equals 24 tables played before the final round. A total of 12 game wins were awarded which kind of have to be an all time low. The standard constructed wasn't much better in this department neither. 83 players and when it was time to set the final table two players with one game win and 5.5 VP each were a coin toss from the final table.

I didn't see much from the EC final table as I was judging the other final. Andreas Nusser, the top seed to the final round in the standard constructed, gracefully bowed out to let both the coin tossing players participate.

More on that tournament separately.

During the third round of each tournament we distributed questionnaires to all players, and eventually we got 85 or so returned. The results of those will be made available later.

After the EC proper quite a few of the players headed out. I stayed with the cleaning crew and when I returned home a lost French player walked by, so I just dumped some electronics and a backpack at home and joined him in his quest for other players. Eventually we all ended up at Locatelli, a local waterhole on Avenyn with decent opening hours for a Sunday, and spent the rest of the night there chatting about the EC.

Some photos below:


The standard constructed.



EC day two. We placed the eight tables around the preplanned final table on which we had placed the prize support for the tournament.



The prize support. You can see the Lords of the Night display box in the middle placed upon the non-disclosure contract.



Final table, standard constructed.



EC, final table.



The prize ceremony standard constructed.



European champion 2007.



All the finalists of the EC 2007.