The Sentry™
Card# MTU-017
While his stats aren’t much bigger than those of the average 7-drop, Sentry’s “Pay ATK” power can drastically hinder an opponent’s attacking options in the late game.
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Photos from Pro Circuit Los Angeles 2005
Craig Gibson
November 20, 2005
Scott Elliott embraces California culture, combining skating and shopping
Horn completes the comeback
The crowd erupts!
Horn gets congrats all around
Finalist Dean Sohnle
Karl Horn gets The Big Check from Scott Elliott
Pro Circuit Los Angeles 2005 Champion Karl Horn
The happy Elliotts
Like a magnet, only with cuteness
Wiitanen got a nice bonus this weekend
Horn with absolute disdain. The true mark of a champion.
Tatar punches his head side to side
Free stuff + gamers = stampede
That'll really tie the room together
Paul Ross has been demoted to waterboy
Not exactly Fantastic Fun for your opponent
The handshake
Top 4: Michael Dalton
David Leader reps for DC
Dean moves onto the finals
DC vs. Marvel showdown!
Top 4: Matthew Tatar
There's a lot riding on this match for the spectators
Horvath looks to make Marvel triumphant
To the victor goes the spoils. And the money.
Horvath does his best impression of a homicidal maniac
Original art is oh so cool
Everything is coming up Milhouse for Dave these days
Top 8: Andre Muller
Top 8: Dave Spears
Top 8: Neil Reeves
Checking in with the boss
Muller is all smiles as the Top 8 starts
Neil Reeves won't be happy with anything but the Championship
Globetrotter Dean Sohnle
Quarterfinals: Sohnle vs. Reeves
Matt Tatar is alert, even at 9 AM
Andre gives us his game face
Quarterfinals: Muller vs. Tatar
Hoh gazes into oblivion
Horn has plenty of confidence
Quarterfinals: Horn vs. Hoh
Is Michael Dalton the best player in the world?
Dave Spears, in his second consecutive Top 8
Quarterfinals: Dalton vs. Spears
The Top 8 gets underway
Wiitanen is down and out
Dave finds (his lovely wife) Hope
Metagame writers are bewildered
Some get high fives...
Spears gets a Prosak Tackle
Matt Tatar
Michael Dalton
Dean Sohnle
Neil Reeves
Dave Spears
Karl Horn
Andre Müller
Hans Joachim Höh
Brown vs. Reeves in more all-bald action
Hump incarcerated
Reeves may not be excited, but we are
Brown didn't fly all the way from Australia to lose
The ultimate prize
Behold!
Night falls on the press
At this point, it's all about endurance
The top table
Hans is all about the sportsmanship
Dean Sohnle can draft, too
Tice in his last draft of the day
Judges play some Avatar
Sohnle looks cautiously optimistic
Tice, zen and stoic
Alex Brown, up close and personal
The path to the Top 8 lies in your hand
Vs. System icon Dave Spears
Blue and green (and reservists, too)
The score
Batman guards the hall
The back of the cards matches the nail color
Truth, justice, etc, etc
Braaaains. BRAAAAAINS!
The final rounds before we have our Top 8
The biggest stage
That last Top 8? Not a fluke.
All this and more could be yours in the Scholarship Series
Vidi wants to be here tomorrow
If Wiitanen isn't animated, we'll do the work for him
Wiitanen vs. Wijaya
Neil Reeves knows his way around 30 cards
Eugene Harvey, with iPod
Harvey vs. Reeves
Vidi vs. Tice
Tice lays out the formation
Vidi is focused
Dalton looks at all the angles
Dean Sohnle has conquered many $10Ks, and is looking to make an impact in Anaheim
Hans Hoh contemplates the futility of a search for meaning in a postmodern existentialist world
Craig Edwards waits
We've got an argument on our hands
Leave us alone. We're fighting!
ZOMG d00ds Boba Fett rawks!
Neil's board doesn't look too good
Dave Spears is proving that he's the real deal
Bald Southerners square off!
Ko Okada is looking to bring back the Seattle grunge look
Sam Kwang is looking to make an impact
Okada vs. Kwang
Electronically outlining the formation
No one is more dangerous at a draft table than Neil Reeves
Muller has his eye on a Top 8 showing
Wiitanen, animated in prayer
He's a human cartoon, and we love him for it
Neil Reeves, Iron Man. As in Ripken, not Tony Stark.
Andre may be smiling, but this one didn't go well
What would a convention be without Stormtroopers?
Ariel Olivetti shows off the goods
He's grinning, but it's hard to tell if that's happiness or cynicism
Batow goes into warp speed!
Muller vs. Batow
Reeves in action
Alex Brown is all chuckles
Michael Dalton is so close to another Top 8
Spears vs. Dalton
Spears is looking to make it back-to-back Top 8 finishes
The Chark's girl gets some coverage. If we don't put her picture up, he'll break our legs.
Jason Dawson is one of the most successful players in Pro Circuit history
Round 13: Dawson vs. Kolb
Like Dawson, Kolb knows how to handle the pressure of the later rounds
Milton Figueroa
Ibamoto is looking to build on his Top 8 finish at $10K Tokyo
Round 13: Figueroa vs. Ibamoto
Jebailey with a confident shrug
Neil Reeves lights up the camera
Round 12: Reeves vs. Sohnle
Sohnle is a $10K master, looking to make a big mark on this PC
Dave Spears, doing very well with his new team
Round 12: Spears vs. Tice
Doug Tice, with action!
And gamers continue to salivate
Neil Reeves plays a prank on his friend, Adam Bernstein
Looking through all the options
Alex Brown, looking to draft his way to Sunday
Tim Batow in the first draft of the day
Eugene Harvey is in his element
Saturday's first top draft pod
Hot Avengers draft screens
Alex likes how this one turned out
Tim Batow cracks a smile
Eugene Harvey with the finished product
HUGS!
Jebailey consults The Hump
Dalton has four Faces...of PAIN!
Nick Little rocks his trademark Kermit shirt
The drink of choice for Metagame.com. But what is it?
Dylan runs a funeral parlor in the back
Wiitanen subdued
This is the most relaxed he's been all weekend
Batow does some invisible juggling
The first round of draft play is underway
In case you didn't notice...
Paul Ross addresses mass media
Josh worships the almighty dollar
The YMG/KGB conglomerate
Today hasn't gone quite as well as Michael Jacob would have hoped
Round 10: Anthony Justice vs. Michael Jacob
Justice was clean shaven at the start of the day
Reeves is near the top, as usual
Round 10: Kastle vs. Reeves
Kastle knows Vs. System
How many wins did Aaron Weil have today?
Your Pro Circuit Los Angeles 2005 judges
Alex "The Chark" Charsky flashes them greens
Aaron Weil shows how he spins in the club
Frayer and Weil are on top
David Frayer is quite happy to be on top of the standings
Round 9: Boccio vs. Hoh
Boccio gets impatient
Hoh can get downright sadistic
Doug Tice
Tice vs. Sohnle
Dean Sohnle, the maestro of Fantastic Fun
Mr. Trask, showing off that extended shine
Metagame Managing Editor Toby Wachter doesn't get a Trask, and that makes him sad.
Round 8: Berstein vs. Yapjoco
Yapjoco in a new (sans) color scheme
A Champion at work
Michael Dalton continues FTN's dominance
Round 8: Dalton vs. Weil
Alex Gellerman is becoming a regular in the Feature Match area today
Sohnle is all business
Patrick Sullivan, reporting from the trenches
Round 7: Justice vs. Rowland
Anthony Justice, ready to react
Round 7: Zonos vs. Lao
Bulk Lao
Zonos with old-school Realmworx threads
Neil Reeves looking a little shifty
DDR master and successful PC player Alex Jebailey
Round 7: Reeves vs. Jebailey
Jason Hager is always one step ahead
The guy on stilts always gets mocked
An Extended Art Boliver Trask is a good reason to smile
Feature Match Avant Garde
No doubt, Billy Zonos is up to something evil
Australians triumphant.
Chew on that!
Let's take a relaxed attitude towards work
He'd like to "axe" you a question. Get it?!
Players crowd around the pairings
Kastle is comfortable in the feature match area
Kastle from every angle!
Steve Horowitz is no stranger to PC success
Round 6: Kastle vs. Horowitz
Alex Gellerman
Round 6: Okada vs. Gellerman
Ko Okada, a part of the first wave of Japanese PC players
Let's startle the judges!
Benoit Chaurette, looking diabolical
The over-the-shoulder shot
Round 5: Brown vs. Chaurette
Masami Ibamoto, carrying the banner for Japan
Round 5: Ibamoto vs. Frayer
Frayer counts his outs
Round 5: Wiitanen vs. Harvey
Harvey has the stone face of a veteran
Wiitanen does his best Undertaker impression
Tim Willoughby's been demoted to Feature Match pizza delivery boy
Dueling at the UDE booth
Danny Mandel and Mike Hummel demo Avatar
Gaming of the electronic variety
Let the speculation begin!
What can you do?
Judges bridge the language barrier
Prosak looks a bit thuggish today
Karl Bown
Wiitanen sets this thing to Head Games
David Fielder fills your eyes with...Double Vision!
Wiitanen prays to the Vs. System Gods
Pro Circuit Indy 2005 Champion David Leader
Pro Circuit Champions collide!
Ryan Jones won it all here last year
Does he sleep in that hat too?
The judge station can make a Colossus out of a mere mortal
Studying the paperwork
Paul Ross jumps into action
Japan's first Pro Circuit competitors
Thing is a mainstay on the floor
Paul Ross looks much better in Head Judge red
Michael Barnes's favorite punchline, Tim Batow
Michael Dalton, pre-sneeze
Round 3: Batow vs. Dalton
Andre Muller forgot to eat breakfast
Jason Hager, with more contemporary facial hair
Round 4: Hager vs. Muller
Eager young reporter Justin Gary
Justin Gary chats with his old YMG comrades
More big floppy hats
The competitors converge on the floor
Australia and New Zealand's Finest
Darwin Kastle, Avatar of Justice
Pajama pants! POW!
Doing the dirty work
If there's a $10K in your town, Adam Prosak owns it.
Alexander Sacal, wearing his baseball cap in a fashionable manner
Extended shiny goodness
Round 2: Sacal vs. Prosak
Is Michael Jacob the best Vs. System player in the world?
Daniella Grijalva gives the camera a nice, authentic smile
Round 2: Grijalva vs. Jacob
The non-featured matches are just as exciting
Bigwigs keep the show running
This is California...
In November. Suckers.
Metagame.com's resident judge guru Paul Ross absorbs the beatings that come with wearing the red shirt.
Even though they lost a bet and need to wear Yankees hats, New England's YMG team seems happy enough.
Scott Elliott, sans hair for aerodynamic purposes
Free carbonated, caffeinated beverages!
Antonino is happy to be reporting. Maybe a little TOO happy.
Someone went to Disney yesterday...
Paul Ross lays down the law.
Players get ready for the big tournament
Eugene Harvey in the first round
Nick Little is always a favorite to make it to Sunday
Round 1: Harvey vs. Little
Round 1: Hoh vs. Tatar
Hoh is ready to go GO TO WAR!!!!11oneone
Matt Tatar, pacing himself for a ten-round day
Scott Hunstad, pimping VsParadise.com
TJ Holman, Back in Black
Round 1: Holman vs. Hunstad
Maik Stitch sends out some love and good vibes
Alex Shvartsman, head of the KGB
Round 1: Stich vs. Shvartsman
Even in Round 1, spectators hang over the rail
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