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It’s been a great tournament and a great Top 8. |
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Both players sat quietly and shuffled their decks—they saved the small talk for games with less money on the line. |
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Anthony and Adam were all business as they prepared to determine one of the two finalists of Pro Circuit Los Angeles 2006. |
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Which of these two would advance to the semifinals? |
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Not only does this Top 8 match represent two of the finest players in the game, Ryan Jones and Matt Oldaker, it also represents the game’s two iconic teams, Jones with FTN and Oldaker with TDC. |
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Adam Prosak and Loren Nolen walked into the feature match area jabbering with each other about their upcoming match. |
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All the decklists from PCLA 2006! |
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Learn more about our Top 8 competitors! |
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Win and go to Sunday, lose and watch from the railings. |
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The winner of this match makes the elusive PC Top 8 and plays tomorrow for the chance to win $40,000. |
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Both our feature match players today are famous for more than their skills or their wins. |
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Both players came in on the bubble with five losses apiece, and the winner still had a chance at an eighth place finish. |
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Both players started the pod with four losses, meaning a 3-0 is a sure bet for Top 8 and a 2-1 leaves it to the tiebreaker gods. |
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Adam was having a hard time with the electronic score pad. |
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Gabe Walls and Tillman Bragg came into round 16 with five losses apiece. |
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Jonas Skali is a German player from Team Zissou who made the trip to Los Angeles to find fame and fortune as a TCG player. |
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With both sitting at 10-5, a Top 8 berth is an outside shot if either player wins out. |
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Both players need to win out, or else they’ll have to depend on their tiebreakers to get them into the Top 8. |
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This round, we have two of the game’s best players, Anthony Justice and Doug Tice. |
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With 10-3 records, both Doug Tice and Ryan Jones are poised to make a run at Sunday. |
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Mathieu Brochu, representing Team AttaQc, heads into round 14 to face Donald Grant. |
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In an effort to better understand the players on the Pro Circuit, we asked some random “pros” to show us what was playing on their iPods. |
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Ryan Jones, TCG player extraordinaire, has returned to the scene of his previous triumph in order to recapture his crown. |
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This round we’ve got a match at the top tables. |
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As I sat down with teammates Niles Rowland and Adam Prosak, they were discussing how “awesome” Mobilize is. |
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Jason Hager and Adam Prosak are both elite players at the top of their game, and they’ve both been here many times before. |
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One of the hottest cards ever printed will be seeing play almost immediately after the release of Legion of Super Heroes. |
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It’s a well established fact that Vidi Wijaya is the best Vs. player on the planet, but when it comes to the second-best player, there’s some serious debate. |
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As with many of the matches, things started off with some friendly chatting. |
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Table 2 at the Pro Circuit today appears to be dangerous ground, sporting eight of the most talented players in the game today. |
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For the first draft of the day, I sat down with the only undefeated player left; Mr. Matt Oldaker. |
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We have two of the best Vs. players in the world for this, the final round of the day. |
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Matt Oldaker and Stephen King came into this match as the only two undefeated players. |
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Ibamoto defeated Vidi’s teammate Kim Caton in round 5; will he dominate Vidi as well? |
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Steve Horowitz sits with one loss as we enter the later rounds of Day 1. |
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Jason Dawson is a frequent competitor at the top tables of Pro Circuit play. |
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Secret Society has never gotten the respect it deserves, even with a Pro Circuit win under its belt. |
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The Donkey Club is best known for bringing the combo beats to each and every Pro Circuit, and PC: LA 2006 is no exception. |
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Sitting pretty at a perfect 7-0 is Stephen King, with a deck not too many people expected to see at this Golden Age Pro Circuit. |
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Both players are 4-1 going into the round, and both are playing odd control decks. |
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I sat down with the legendary Alex Tennet to get the inside scoop on the latest from FTN. |
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Alex Jebailey — The Alex Jebailey — is making his triumphant Pro Circuit return with an impressive 3-2 record coming into round 6. |
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One table, two Pro Circuit champions. |
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Graham is a 14-year-old player from North Carolina, one of the youngest competitors in today’s field. |
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Two high-profile Vs. stars faced off in the undefeated bracket during round 4. |
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Team FTN’s Kim Caton, of PC: San Francisco fame, heads into the feature match area to face one of Japan’s top players, Masami Ibamoto. |
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In what is the most diverse (strategically as well as deck-wise) metagame I’ve ever seen, there is no clear dominant deck of the format. |
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This matchup of 2-0 players features two men with some 30 hours of airplane time between them. |
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Billy Postlethwait has been playing Vs. System since the first Pro Circuit, and is a long-time successful TCG professional. |
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Two of the most active writers in the Vs. community, Tommy Ashton and Thomas Reeve, squared off in this round 2 feature match. |
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Between rounds, as is our custom, we showed some of the game’s top players a few of the brand spanking new Legion previews. |
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As the players sat down, the participants in a different feature match managed to collapse the table. |
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To kick the day off, we have a match between two veteran TCG players. |
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Ryan Jones holds a special place in my memory. |
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Ian Vincent has been flying the British colors over the Vs. System Pro Circuit since its inception. |
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Are you ready to get the inside scoop on a cavalcade of Vs. System Champions? |
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