All the decks from n00bcoM

Because of that damn virus everyone is talking about, this year’s n00bcon was sadly cancelled. But hey, we old school players won’t let something like that come in our way when it comes to the traditional Easter fight! As soon as countries started to lock down and people needed to cancel their trips to Rotary Pub the amazing Florian Von Bredow decided to organize an online tournamentnamed n00bcoM for all of those people to play at Good Friday instead.

When it became clear that n00bcon wouldn’t happen at all the tournament instead became that closest we got to a replacement and also the biggest “live” online tournament to date with 70 players. Of course n00bcon was sorely missed, especially since I(Gordon) was actually going to play this year! But if I can say it myself, n00bcoM was a worth replacement in times like these!

Below you can find all of the decks except one that the players of this amazing tournament played. They are sorted in alphabetical(first name) order. If you want to know who went top8 and more about the tournament there will be a blog post written by Florian and Mg on the old school blog in the near future!

Last but not least, thanks to Florian for organizing, Markus Lundqvist for being a great producer, Seb for helping me with commentary and Slanfan for doing all different kinds of cool things! And also of course Mg because without you this wouldn’t happen.

Ivory Cup IV Retrospective

The fourth Ivory Cup is over and left are just the memories, and the videos! Yes, two weeks ago we organized the playset edition of Ivory Cup, Stockholms first annual tournament following the likes like n00bcon, BSK and Arvikafestivalen. This year 29 brave souls showed up to play, which I believe is the same amount as last year and also a number we are very happy with as we don’t really promote it.

Old School has grown so large since the first cup and there are tournaments all over the world all the time. When we started the cup this wasn’t the case and we saw a part of the year where there were no tournaments, especially not in Sweden. Today you could play an old school tournament at least every month if you travel a bit (just as Jason Schwartz!) and it also seems every tournament try to make it cooler than the next in some way. The Ivory Cup however, will stay the same with non of that extra spice, except for our beer list.

We play at a community hall in the outskirts of Stockholm (a whoopin’ 15 min by metro from the central station) where we sell beers and have a couple of moderate prices. That’s it. Still, for some reason people from outside of Sweden travel here and we are deeply honored by that. So a big thanks to Åland, Brother Karl, Brother Stebbo, Constantine, Anya, Timo, Jason and Mitja who made it so that we had more guests from outside of Sweden than swedes outside of Stockholm (Arvika, Gbg and more, what’s up?). With that said, a special thanks to Kalle who both travelled from the other side of the country to play and painted an amazing price for us!

For the international guests and the ones who found a link on the tournaments webpage and asked me about it we also held a special invitational tournament the day before. A singleton tournament without all the bannings most people do. A fun format to play every now and again, but not really a format. If you want to read more about that, check out Svantes report from the event.

But now let’s talk about what you probably here for, the decks and the videos!

I’m actually not going to say much more than here are the top 8 decklists and under them you will find video coverage. We didn’t stream the cup this year, but we did however record a feature match every round. And as it is not much fun to watch a match with no sound Gordon, Seb and Paddan sat down to drink a lot of beer and do commentary (that’s why it has taken some time to get it up).

Without further ado, here it is!

Decks:


Videos:

The above is a playlist with all 5 rounds+top8.

Are you ready?

N00bcon is just around the corner!  Have you booked your tickets to come and play? In that case, see you there!

If you instead have been relegated to the sidelines don’t be sad because as last year we here at Wak-Wak will stream the whole shindig and would love for you to tune in!

 

This year’s commentators are our own Gordon Andersson and the founder himself, Magnus “Mg” De Laval. We’ll try to start the stream at 1.30pm CET as the tournament is supposed to start 30 minutes later. And hopefully this year someone won’t cut the camera cable hehe.

 

Date: April 19

Time: 1.30pm CET (4.30am PDT & 7.30pm EDT)

Where: twitch.tv/wakwakmtg

 

Hope to see you there or on stream! 

All the streams from the Fishliver Oil Cup!

Fishliveroilcup stream

So last weekend Gordon flew to Italy to do some streaming, to be exact a whoopin’ 3 streams in 3 days(!). Now, the result didn’t really end up like that, due to… some “small” internet issues. But we did manage to stream at least the swiss from both the main event and the first ever European Championship in Premodern. The main event is split into two different videos due to a blackout (yep, everything is stable over there hehe) in the middle of the tournament. The players did however continue their games during the blackout thanks to the flashlights in people’s phones. That was amazing to see!


but without further ado, here are the matches that were caught on camera!

Fishliver Oil Cup Main Event - Part 1

Fishliver Oil Cup Main Event - Part 2

Fishliver Oil Cup European Championship in Premodern