PotY 2017 - Event Report

After a long year with over 100 tournaments, we settled on a top 16 of toughest to beat players from Targu Mures. These 16 were invited to our yearly event to battle for the Player of the Year title! A free to play event with an extra large prize support!

Qualified players:

In the afternoon of Saturday December 16th the battle started. The contestants were divided in two pods of 8 players for an Ixalan Booster Draft, based on even/uneven ranking in the yearly standings. Pirates, Dinosaurs, Merfolks and Vampires clashed into each other to have the first victims fall out of top 8 reach.
After 3 rounds, 3 players were undefeated and secured their seat into the top 8: Razvan in Pod 1 and both Penciuc and Kristof in Pod 2, coming both of a Bye in the first round which they won by making the finals of the PotY Qualifier event earlier this year.

Then the Standard rounds started to settle the remaining 5 seats at the top 8 tables. Two rounds later the dust settled down:
1. Kristof (13) - UW Gift
2. Razvan (13) - BR Midrange
3. Herman (12) - UW Approach
4. Penciuc (11) - Sultai Energy
5. Levi (9) - Temur Energy
6. Zsolo (9) - Ramunap Red
7. Robert (9) - UB Control
8. Florin (9) - Sultai Energy

A stacked top 8 so it would require tight play and maximum concentration plus the right dose of luck to fight these 3 single elimination rounds and come out undefeated as Player of the Year!

Quarter Finals
The quarter finals eliminated the first 4. Bits of bad luck (mulligans) was involved, but that's part of the game.
Kristof 2-0 Florin
Razvan 0-2 Robert
Herman 0-2 Zsolo
Penciuc 2-1 Levi

Semi Finals
Only 4 remained and they all could smell the trophy! Notably all 4 decks in the top 4 were mainly constructed of Penciuc's collection, so a shout out to him for helping so many to play the game we all enjoy!
Unfortunately Penciuc had to pull the shortest straw when fighting Kristof, who took the first spot in the finals with a two to zero victory. As for Zsolo and Robert it was a bit more exciting, but Zsolo took that match down. 2-1

Finals
It was Mono Red aggro versus a Blue White combo deck that tends to gain tons of life. So it was up to Kristof to find his lifelinking creature and get it on the battlefield as early as possible.

But... he didnt. Zsolo wins 2-0 and is our 2017 Player of the Year!
After a whole year playing almost every week, lots of practice and passion for the game. The Player of the Year title is well deserved!

For those who didn't make top 8 it was not over yet. the 8 remaining players drafted Iconic Masters to fight 3 rounds to win two boosters per match. Cornea won the side event being undefeated!

Final Standings Main event

Final Standings Iconic Masters draft

As if the fun was not enough, Toni and Alex dared the challenge called Flip it, or Rip it!