Letters to my future self

20th feb - had a blast

its pcq day again~! the most anticipated day of the month. having not touched marvel knights at all since i was working yesterday when its released, today was more or less a prerelease for me. lucky thing i went thru the spoilers several times, so i was farmilar with some of the cards.

well apparently because this is the 'prerelease' event for mmk, there was ALOT of ppl playing in the event, and the rounds tend to drag on because ppl dont think the card text well enough and are playing slowly, having to pick each and every card up to read.

my 1st 5 boosters yield alot of gd stuff, i was very upset cos i didnt get to keep the 5 packs. in there was probably the most expensive card in the set, coupled with another card that i heard ppl were buying within the tourney area for 12. ><"
the cards that i got passed was much much more inferior and was really a challenge to play.... *sigh*

bye, win, win, loss, win, loss, win, win gave me a 6-2 record and put me into top 8. the fear of not making top 8 was so great that in the 8th round, i offered 1/2 my packs to my opponent for the win. he agreed, we played out for fun, but i beat him anyway. oh well, somethings u jus cant leave up to luck, buying insurance is well.... gd in a way.

into top 8 i had a pretty decent draft, sitting besides keng yin, we drafted cooperatively. somehow his plan to draft underworld was marred by the fact that he had no 7 drops. 7 drops were seriously lacking in the pod, 1 myself only had 1 when i opened it in my last pack and had to 1st pick it.

in the quarterfinals, i won orry, who was pretty high in rankings in swiss and was almost bragging all the way. i beat him the 1st game fair and square. 2nd game i was actually quite confused as to how i won him. he made an atk that would have put me at -9 and him at -8. i thought i lost and flipped my scorepad over and prepared for the next game. he scooped up his cards and when the judge asked if the game's ended, he said, "yea, i lost... by 3 endurance."
i was like "huh?" i dont know, one of us must have made a calculation mistake. but hey, no one complains abt a free win.

the plan anyway was to get into top 4 and propose a 4 way, the games were dragging on for too long, all of us, tired and hungry. for me it was worse, cos starting from the 3rd round, i was having a really bad headache. i thought i had a fever running. luckily jus aft the draft, i asked around and jon yeo happened to have brought along panadols. popped one in and i've stayed in 1 piece since then.

the semifinals was pretty random, we played 1 round to determine the winner. by turn 7, i was winning already, then wenhan took the game to turn 8... then suddenly, i lost. its like... wad the....
*sigh* i thought my deck was actually quite finals capable, randomly losing to nonsense combos.
on the lighter side of things, kengyin won his 1st PCQ today! yes, despite having a bad deck, he mauled jon koe in the semis and then won wenhan in the finals aft a really close game.

for the record, this is the 1st PCQ that both of us didnt have to play each other. *we would have, except i had to lose to wenhan. bah*

anyway interesting fact, qoute from kengyin's blog:

"Now I need to do is find a Yangg. Ying and Yangg. Sheesh."

my chinese surname is yang. lol. yin and yang. YLK and LKY. our names are so fun. *heh*

rewarded with 12 packs+5 packs and abt $100 at the end of the day, not too bad for a $35 entrance fee. not to mention i opened my 2nd wild ride foil (the expensive card that i had to pass away at the start of the day) of the day in my prize packs together with other useful cards, like weapon of choice, phat, scarlet witch, etc.

whoopi-dooo....

ok, now really time to cathc some sleep b4 i really go down with a fever.
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