Comments on: Asher’s Grand Prix LA Tournament Report

By: Five With Flores » The Hidden Value of MTGO Ringers

Five With Flores » The Hidden Value of MTGO Ringers — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:06:41 +0000

[...] was out to dinner with newly Top 8-ified reigning #1 Apprentice Asher “ManningBot” Hecht and he told me something very interesting: According to Asher, Adam Yurchick (Top 8 at Grand Prix [...]

By: Asher

Asher — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:33:30 +0000

Justin, I know you were being completely honest and a stand up guy. I mean if you hadn’t called the judge I would have never known that there was a problem in the first place.

By: ProdigalT

ProdigalT — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:40:32 +0000

Good job, Asher. I was worried that the closing of Neutral Ground would mean a poor performance from the NY regulars so I’m glad you proved me wrong. Thanks for writing a report; not nearly enough people still do this. You were absolutely in the right in round 9. Yeah, you were fishing, but this a GP, not Friday Night Magic. Good story.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:37:07 +0000

Hey, this is Justin, the round 9 opponent. Congrats on the top8. I was pretty sure that I was going to get a game loss, and didn’t hold a grudge for the fishing. As soon as I drew the card, I called the judge over because it was pretty obvious I had just f-ed up. GL in Hawaii.

By: jbh2989

jbh2989 — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:01:15 +0000

Great story/coverage, and grats on popping your PT cherry. I do think Mike Jacobs was playing Loam and not Death Cloud though.