This is not the neighborhood you expect to find Guillaume Wafo-Tapa at the start of Round Seven of a Constructed Pro Tour. He broke off from the supergroup tech to play some of his beloved blue cards and is now scuffling to say alive at an unfamiliarly high table number.

Mark Herberholz — another Constructed Master and one of my picks to Top 8 — would be happy to be sitting anywhere for the next round. He bowed out of the event shortly after the start of Rd 7 and will be playing do or die for his Player’s Club status at Worlds.