PT2- Just the Facts Maam
Preston Poulter
I have a lot of schoolwork to catch up on so I can't make this post long,
detailed or reflective as I usually try to. This weekend was so rich
with experience- I could write a novel.
Here's the results. As anticpated, PCL was hardly the only team there,
about 4-6 new professional class teams have formed- most impressivce
being team SMK from the East Coast which includes Michael Loconto and others.
Both PCL and SMK got 5 out of 7 members into the top 64.
I was the only member of PCL to make top 8. SMK had 2, Michael Loconto
was not one of them.
Shawn "Hammer" Regnier won the entire event. He and I are, so far, the
only ones to make top 8 twice in a row. I really found an incredible
amount in common with him, and I've never played anyone who seemed so
concerned about my feelings after we finished playing- he came over to
encourage me and say that he felt there was really little I could do in
my position and that Colombus (PT3) would be different. I believe the
reason he did this is that when he plays he's a big believer in reading
peoples faces, and he saw how , well, depressed I was over the whole
thing. He went on to talk about how disappointed he was in his initial
performance the first day (he sqeeked into top 61 because of a
technicality that caused his opponent to forfiet a game.) The comraderie
and similarity of experience really helped me to feel better after a while.
I find him an incredibly nice guy.
In other news, the WotC team has been playing each other with the NY
decks (the ones packaged and for sale at your local hobby shop.) They
said that they belive my WG was better than Lestrees and that it was
probably better than all the other decks with one exception- Hammer's
(they mentioned this before he made top 8.) So not only has he done well
here, he apparently had what was possibly the best deck in NY.
He will probably become the icon of the Pro Tour, and I wouldn't want
anyone else.
Cheers,
Preston Poulter (aka "The Pompous Ass")
Team Member: Pacific Coast Legends
"He lays the cards, as a meditation.
And nosey players never suspect.
He doesn't play, for the money he wins-
He doesn't play for respect."
-Sting, "Shape of my Heart"
Majesk
I find this to be absolutely incredible . . . HAMMER WON!!!! YES!!! You
should have heard him at his store a couple months before PT2 . . . "Oh,
yeah, WOTC is going to fly me over to LA and i'm going to place 190th out
of 200". And now he won the whole thing . . . wow. I'm in shock. I'm in
awe. Then again, I think it's fitting. I've got to agree with Preston-
there could not have been a better victor. I just wish I could have gone
and been part of it.
MAJESK
aka Brian Kibler
Robert Blackman
On Mon, 6 May 1996, Preston Poulter wrote:
[snip]
[Regarding Hammer and his victory...]
> He will probably become the icon of the Pro Tour, and I wouldn't want
> anyone else.
>
> Cheers,
> Preston Poulter (aka "The Pompous Ass")
>
[snipped .sig]
Preston,
I agree with you. I didn't get to talk to the man himself, but I
talked with some of his teammates. They were all well-spoken, polite,
interesting, and above all, excellent players. Hammer either attracts an
exceptional crowd to his store, or he has a good influence on his
players. Well done, Hammer. (Shame that you have to stomp him next time,
Preston :).
Bob Blackman
rhbl...@uci.edu
Magic is just a hobby to me :)
Jeff Donais
> technicality that caused his opponent to forfiet a game.) The comraderie
> and similarity of experience really helped me to feel better after a while.
>
> I find him an incredibly nice guy.
I think it's great that Preston is finally in love.
Best of luck to you, I hope it all works out.
Cheers,
Jeff.
Andrew Marshall
In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.96050...@rigel.oac.uci.edu>,
Preston Poulter <ppou...@rigel.oac.uci.edu> wrote:
> I feel a whole lot better about getting beaten by Hammer in his store
every time I stop by now....
-AJM
--
Andrew Marshall
amar...@mail.trincoll.edu
Preston Poulter
Ha ha. Yeah, I suppose that people would say that if I had a sense of
humor I would find it really funny. As it is, I just chalk up one more
under the "what a jerk" column.
Cheers,
Preston Poulter (aka "The Pompous Ass")
Team Member: Pacific Coast Legends
"He lays the cards, as a meditation.
And nosey players never suspect.
He doesn't play, for the money he wins-
He doesn't play for respect."
-Sting, "Shape of my Heart"
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff.
>
>
vva...@unicorn.it.wsu.edu
Well, first of all I have nothing but the gratest respect for Poulter as
a player he has proved by doing really in the second pro tourney that his
first showing was not just a fluke and that his confidence was justified.
I am not sure what he is like as a person since I have never met him and we
are all different on the interenet.
>Here's the results. As anticpated, PCL was hardly the only team there,
>about 4-6 new professional class teams have formed- most impressivce
>being team SMK from the East Coast which includes Michael Loconto and others.
>
>Both PCL and SMK got 5 out of 7 members into the top 64.
>I was the only member of PCL to make top 8. SMK had 2, Michael Loconto
>was not one of them.
>
>Shawn "Hammer" Regnier won the entire event. He and I are, so far, the
>only ones to make top 8 twice in a row. I really found an incredible
>amount in common with him, and I've never played anyone who seemed so
>concerned about my feelings after we finished playing- he came over to
>encourage me and say that he felt there was really little I could do in
>my position and that Colombus (PT3) would be different. I believe the
>reason he did this is that when he plays he's a big believer in reading
>peoples faces, and he saw how , well, depressed I was over the whole
>thing. He went on to talk about how disappointed he was in his initial
>performance the first day (he sqeeked into top 61 because of a
>technicality that caused his opponent to forfiet a game.) The comraderie
>and similarity of experience really helped me to feel better after a while.
>
>I find him an incredibly nice guy.
>
>In other news, the WotC team has been playing each other with the NY
>decks (the ones packaged and for sale at your local hobby shop.) They
>said that they belive my WG was better than Lestrees and that it was
>probably better than all the other decks with one exception- Hammer's
>(they mentioned this before he made top 8.) So not only has he done well
>here, he apparently had what was possibly the best deck in NY.
>
Ok now the key flaw I see in you reasoning is that deckbuilding is not
the only part of magic, playing skill is also key and Lestree is arguably
one of the greatest magic players in the world ( He finished 2nd the 1994
type 1 world championship and second in the pro tourney ). And Loconto
seems to be a pretty good player. In other word it is really not possible to see who
was the better player without staging a huge week long tons of games rematch.
>He will probably become the icon of the Pro Tour, and I wouldn't want
>anyone else.
>
>Cheers,
>Preston Poulter (aka "The Pompous Ass")
>
really if you don't want everyone thinking so badly of you just try to
tone down your messages a little, you seemed to have done this a little
in this post but you still seemed to have implied that you and Hammer are
the greatest, and deserved to win the first pro tourney.
( One interesting note this is the first big tourney where a Frenchman
has not finished second )
Vivek Vaidya
"Liberty is truly dead when the slaves are willing to forge their own
chains. STOP THE CDA NOW!"
"Think of it as evolution in action"
Alan Cade
Preston Poulter <ppou...@rigel.oac.uci.edu> wrote:
>Here's the results. As anticpated, PCL was hardly the only team there,
>about 4-6 new professional class teams have formed- most impressivce
>being team SMK from the East Coast which includes Michael Loconto and others.
Preston- I don't think "hardly" is appropriate. Team: A Place To Play was
there in full force. Our adults didn't place too well, but we are a
mostly Juniors team anyways. Out of our 7 Juniors, 1 was in the top 8, 1
was in the top 16, and 4 were in the top 32. I'd say that's pretty good.
Unfortunate for me, I was #17 just short of the money. That's okay
though, because the team as a whole did well. Besides, one of our team
members, Yubin Tao, kept beating PCL members in ante. I believe he won a
Mox from Henry Stern (Heard Henry was mana-screwed though), as well as a
couple Mana Drains from Mario. I'm not sure if he won anything else,
that's just what I heard him mention. I didn't do so well though. I
played Mario in Type 2 for a Mana Crypt and lost to the Atog Monstrosity-
I was playing "The Deck," so there wasn't much I could do. That Atog
Monstrosity is just too overpowering for "The Deck" to beat, regardless of
the player. As I learned quickly, even the best players of "The Deck"
should steer very clear of the Atog Monstrosity. I was actually hoping to
play PCL more, mostly Type 2, but didn't get the chance. Good job at
PT2- see you in a few weeks at Regionals... maybe we'll get a chance to
play.
-Chris Cade
"Victim's, aren't we all?"
Daniel Brickwell
In article <Dr0L3...@serval.net.wsu.edu>, vva...@unicorn.it.wsu.edu says:
>
>>
>>In other news, the WotC team has been playing each other with the NY
>>decks (the ones packaged and for sale at your local hobby shop.) They
>>said that they belive my WG was better than Lestrees and that it was
>>probably better than all the other decks with one exception- Hammer's
>>(they mentioned this before he made top 8.) So not only has he done well
>>here, he apparently had what was possibly the best deck in NY.
>>
>
>Ok now the key flaw I see in you reasoning is that deckbuilding is not
>the only part of magic, playing skill is also key and Lestree is arguably
>one of the greatest magic players in the world ( He finished 2nd the 1994
>type 1 world championship and second in the pro tourney ). And Loconto
>seems to be a pretty good player. In other word it is really not
>possible to see who was the better player without staging a huge
>week long tons of games rematch.
I can only second that I watched as much of the last 16 in PT 1 as I could
and I have to say that Lestree was the best player I watched, i.e. he
made no mistakes (and I did see some mistakes) and played with such a know-
ledge of the pace of the game, timing and simply magic that it was humiliating
to watch. His games against Hammer which he beat 2:1 after sideboarding were
some of the greatest I have seen.
Like someone said, sometimes it is not the song but the singer.
Friendly Greetings,
Daniel
Ceterum Censeo Orbem Zurensem esse interdicendum esse.
(And otherwise I think that the Zuran Orb should be banned.)
Alexander Shearer
Alan Cade <Alan...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Preston Poulter <ppou...@rigel.oac.uci.edu> wrote:
> >Here's the results. As anticpated, PCL was hardly the only team there,
> >about 4-6 new professional class teams have formed- most impressivce
> >being team SMK from the East Coast which includes Michael Loconto and others.
> Preston- I don't think "hardly" is appropriate. Team: A Place To Play was
> there in full force. Our adults didn't place too well, but we are a
> mostly Juniors team anyways.
You know, Alan, I think you don't know what "hardly" means in this
sentence. "As anticipated, PCL was hardly the only team there," can
also be written as, "As anticipated, PCL was far from the only team
there." IOW, he's saying there were lots o' teams. Read the rest of
the sentence, and this makes even more sense, eh ya?
Alexander Shearer
ga...@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Jeff Donais
> On Mon, 6 May 1996, Jeff Donais wrote:
>
> > > technicality that caused his opponent to forfiet a game.) The comraderie
> > > and similarity of experience really helped me to feel better after a while.
> > >
> > > I find him an incredibly nice guy.
> >
> > I think it's great that Preston is finally in love.
> >
> > Best of luck to you, I hope it all works out.
>
>
> Ha ha. Yeah, I suppose that people would say that if I had a sense of
> humor I would find it really funny. As it is, I just chalk up one more
> under the "what a jerk" column.
>
> Cheers,
> Preston Poulter (aka "The Pompous Ass")
You must have a lot of people in that column Pres. :)
Love ya,
Jeff.
>
> Team Member: Pacific Coast Legends
>
> "He lays the cards, as a meditation.
> And nosey players never suspect.
> He doesn't play, for the money he wins-
> He doesn't play for respect."
>
> -Sting, "Shape of my Heart"
>
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jeff.
> >
> >
>
>
Jeff
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Orion Auld
>Preston Poulter <ppou...@rigel.oac.uci.edu> wrote:
>>Here's the results. As anticpated, PCL was hardly the only team there,
>>about 4-6 new professional class teams have formed- most impressivce
>>being team SMK from the East Coast which includes Michael Loconto and others.
>Preston- I don't think "hardly" is appropriate. Team: A Place To Play was
>there in full force.
Huh?
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Craig Sivils
Jeff Donais <don...@server.uwindsor.ca> wrote:
>> On Mon, 6 May 1996, Jeff Donais wrote:
>>
>> > > technicality that caused his opponent to forfiet a game.) The comraderie
>> > > and similarity of experience really helped me to feel better after a while.
>> > >
>> > > I find him an incredibly nice guy.
>> >
>> > I think it's great that Preston is finally in love.
>> >
>> > Best of luck to you, I hope it all works out.
>>
>>
>> Ha ha. Yeah, I suppose that people would say that if I had a sense of
>> humor I would find it really funny. As it is, I just chalk up one more
>> under the "what a jerk" column.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Preston Poulter (aka "The Pompous Ass")
>You must have a lot of people in that column Pres. :)
Preston may be pompous at times, but your being just plain rude and
mean. I'm thankful for the reports over what happened in PT2 and
would like even more detailed reports. But they aren't likley to come
if some twit pre-adolescent peabrain is waiting on the sidelines to
try to take cheap shots to ease their ego of the pain of knowing they
weren't even at the pt.
Either post about magic, or go away.
Craig
Ronny Serio
Alright, time to lighten up man.. the guy was obviously just kidding
around. You see the little :) at the end? That represents a smiley face.
Meaning that he was just joking. You do understand what a joke is right?
Anyway what I'm saying is don't be so uptight and so quick to flame.
> Either post about magic, or go away.
>
> Craig
You should take your own advice, cause incase you didn't notice your
post had nothing to do with magic either.
Ronny Serio
Part-Time member of the Big Daddy's Crew ( 2 more days and I'm back to
full time.. woo hoo )
Alan Cade
ga...@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Alexander Shearer) wrote:
>You know, Alan, I think you don't know what "hardly" means in this
>sentence. "As anticipated, PCL was hardly the only team there," can
>also be written as, "As anticipated, PCL was far from the only team
>there." IOW, he's saying there were lots o' teams. Read the rest of
>the sentence, and this makes even more sense, eh ya?
You're right. Sorry, I misinterpreted the sentence. By the way, if you
read the rest of my post, you would have learned that my name is Chris,
not Alan. I just use my dad's internet provider for access.
Sam1818
Preston Poulter Wrote
>Here's the results. As anticpated, PCL was hardly the only team there,
>about 4-6 new professional class teams have formed- most impressivce
>being team SMK from the East Coast which includes Michael Loconto and
>others.
>
>I was the only member of PCL to make top 8. SMK had 2, Michael Loconto
>was not one of them.
You forgot about the Big Daddy's Crew. There were only 4 of us in Long
Beach (What can I say we only had 2 qualifier slots in Illinois), but Max
"Slayer" Szlagor won the Juniors, and Ken "The Killer" Roth took top 64.
Kai Martin and myself bit it hard, a testament to our lack of booster
draft practice. SMK players kicked me around more than once(Jim Lemire,
David Humphries)sp?. We are just getting psyched up for regionals now.
Sam Heckman
<<<<<Full-Fledged member of the Big Daddy's Crew>>>>>
Jeff Donais
> >> On Mon, 6 May 1996, Jeff Donais wrote:
> >>
> >> > > technicality that caused his opponent to forfiet a game.) The comraderie
> >> > > and similarity of experience really helped me to feel better after a while.
> >> > >
> >> > > I find him an incredibly nice guy.
> >> >
> >> > I think it's great that Preston is finally in love.
> >> >
> >> > Best of luck to you, I hope it all works out.
> >>
> >>
> >> Ha ha. Yeah, I suppose that people would say that if I had a sense of
> >> humor I would find it really funny. As it is, I just chalk up one more
> >> under the "what a jerk" column.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Preston Poulter (aka "The Pompous Ass")
>
> >You must have a lot of people in that column Pres. :)
>
> Preston may be pompous at times, but your being just plain rude and
> mean. I'm thankful for the reports over what happened in PT2 and
> would like even more detailed reports. But they aren't likley to come
> if some twit pre-adolescent peabrain is waiting on the sidelines to
> try to take cheap shots to ease their ego of the pain of knowing they
> weren't even at the pt.
>
> Either post about magic, or go away.
Tidal Flats is a great card, don't you think?
:) Take Care.
Alexander Shearer
Ronny Serio <rd-s...@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Alright, time to lighten up man.. the guy was obviously just kidding
> around. You see the little :) at the end? That represents a smiley face.
> Meaning that he was just joking. You do understand what a joke is right?
> Anyway what I'm saying is don't be so uptight and so quick to flame.
Ever read Grumpy's Guide to Power Posting? It's at Itis (at least on
the FTP site, maybe on the normal Web Site). You just followed one of
the "rules of power posting" - a smiley mitigates any insult or bad
remark, no matter how harsh or insulting. I think he may very well
have been kidding around, but he was doing it in an annoying and
insulting manner, and no amount of smiley usage will cloak that.
Alexander Shearer
ga...@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Craig Sivils
ga...@uclink4.berkeley.edu (Alexander Shearer) wrote:
>Ronny Serio <rd-s...@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
Exactly, I thought the first post was rude and out of line, but
there's the smiley. Then after the 2nd hit, I thought screw it.
Still, to this day, I've only seen 2 somewhat detailed tourney reports
and I'd like to see more. I haven't spent 2 months playing booster
draft, but there are some booster draft tournies starting around here.
I'd like to know what worked, what didn't. More fun stories, etc.
But repeated attacks with no purpose other than to attack will just
kill those threads.
Craig
Alexander Shearer
Alan Cade <Alan...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> You're right. Sorry, I misinterpreted the sentence. By the way, if you
> read the rest of my post, you would have learned that my name is Chris,
> not Alan. I just use my dad's internet provider for access.
Sorry, Chris. I miss things like that sometimes.
Alexander Shearer
ga...@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Alexander Shearer
Jeff Donais <don...@server.uwindsor.ca> wrote:
> "...no amount of smiley usage will cloak that..."
> This is hysterical, is it not?
> Perhaps, a larger, more bulbous smiley.
Or a boottothehead. The point is, what you did is basically insult
him, then smile. People who do that IRL get smacked (*).
(*Or shot, but probably not in Canada.)
Alexander Shearer
ga...@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Alan Cade
It's all good.
Jeff Donais
> > "...no amount of smiley usage will cloak that..."
>
> > This is hysterical, is it not?
>
> > Perhaps, a larger, more bulbous smiley.
>
> Or a boottothehead. The point is, what you did is basically insult
> him, then smile. People who do that IRL get smacked (*).
Yes. I did insult him, and correct, I did smile. I was happy to have
insulted him. Hence, the smile. I'm sure Preston can take an insult
(probably a little better than you can I am guessing) - after all Preston
is just asking for an insult with his pseudo "Pompous Ass" attitude (in
reality, a true pompous ass would be above mentioning it, so I would
qualify him as a wannabee pompous ass).
Preston talks the talk, and apparently wants to walk the walk, so he is
going to have to deal with a little ribbing now and then. This is his
choice, and we all know he enjoys the attention. He would probably feel
a lot worse if people didn't say anything to/about him. (I gather this
from his posts, his .sig, and various published remarks about him).
I can live with this. I assume you can. Let's all be chums. :)
>
> (*Or shot, but probably not in Canada.)
Some people who smack other people, sometimes get their arms broken, IRL.
Take Care,
Preston Poulter
>
> Preston talks the talk, and apparently wants to walk the walk, so he is
> going to have to deal with a little ribbing now and then. This is his
> choice, and we all know he enjoys the attention. He would probably feel
> a lot worse if people didn't say anything to/about him. (I gather this
> from his posts, his .sig, and various published remarks about him).
And what pretell published remarks are you referring to, hmmm?
Cheers,
Preston Poulter (aka "The Pompous Ass")
Team Member: Pacific Coast Legends
"He deals the cards, as a meditation.
And those he plays never suspect.
Alexander Shearer
Jeff Donais <don...@server.uwindsor.ca> wrote:
> Yes. I did insult him, and correct, I did smile. I was happy to have
> insulted him. Hence, the smile. I'm sure Preston can take an insult
> (probably a little better than you can I am guessing)
Actually, I usually take insults directed at me in silence. It works
better than you might think.
- after all Preston
> is just asking for an insult with his pseudo "Pompous Ass" attitude (in
> reality, a true pompous ass would be above mentioning it, so I would
> qualify him as a wannabee pompous ass).
I don't know about that - I thought that was actually his attempt to
ignore insults by identify with them (rather like "Yankee Doodle
Dandy" and homosexuals calling themselves "queer.").
> Preston talks the talk, and apparently wants to walk the walk, so he is
> going to have to deal with a little ribbing now and then.
But he shouldn't have to deal with cheap shots like you took (BTW, I
do that in conversation at times, so yes, it was a cheap shot). I
expect more ribbing along the lines of "Hey Preston - what happened at
Long Beach - not first place?" and general abuse directed at the LA
amalgam. You know, something related to his "talk."
> >
> > (*Or shot, but probably not in Canada.)
> Some people who smack other people, sometimes get their arms broken, IRL.
True. Chill with the cheesy veiled threats, because I wasn't
personally threatening you. I just know that a lot of people do mouth
off at someone they don't really know and get injured or killed
because of it. Most of them don't get a chance to engage in
reciprocal arm-breaking. Like I said, probably not in Canada, anyway.
I get the impression it's rather a tad less violent than the US (not
counting Hockey).
Alexander Shearer
ga...@uclink4.berkeley.edu