Magic The Gathering - Malaysia

Welcome to the live coverage blogpost for PTQ Kyoto!

Last updated 8.02PM

NICO WINS PTQ KYOTO 2-1, BEATING DAVID.

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Last updated 8.01PM

Nico manages to tie the match 1-1 after trailing behind the whole game with a brilliant unexpected win.

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Last updated 7.47PM

Nico is playing against David for the finals, and is how trailing 0-1.

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Last updated 7.18PM

Nico wins the Semifinals beating Sean 2-1! In the meantime, Nazim is now playing against David in the other Semifinals. David is now leading 1-0.

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Last updated 7.11PM

Nico and Sean ties their Semifinals match 1-1. Sean is playing a Jund-based aggresive deck with many aggressive costed creatures and plenty of burn.

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Last updated 6.52PM

Nico wins the Quarterfinals 2-0, beating Vincent Gan! Nico now plays against Sean M La Faber for a space in the Finals.

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Last updated 6.38PM

The writer is currently covering the Nico vs Vincent quarterfinals match. Currently Nico leads 1-0 with a Esper-based deck sporting a number of artifact creatures, headlined with a Knight Captain of Eos and Scourglass. Meanwhile Vincent is sporting an aggressive Jund/Naya concoction with plenty of fast beats.

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Last updated 6.13PM

The top 8 has been decided! Sebastian Wu and David Tan leads the standings with 18 points each followed by Mohd Ikmal Mohd Nasir with 17, while Nico Surinidran, Vincent Gan, Mohamad Nazim, Rajesh Ganessan and Sean M La Faber made it in with 16 points but at the same time it was heartbreak for Chris Lee and Zulkarnain Zainuddin as they both fail to qualify for the top 8 with 16 points because of their tie-breakers.

Top 8 players

1 - Sebastian Wu
2 - David Tan
3 - Mohd Ikmal Mohd Nasir
4 - Nico Surinidran
5 - Vincent Gan
6 - Mohamad Nazim
7 - Rajesh Ganessan
8 - Sean M La Faber

The players have finished drafting and the Quarterfinals will begin soon.

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Thanks to a nearby wireless connection, I will be attempting to keep the folks at home updated and informed about the tournament whole day long, as long as time and other constraints permits.

More to come as events unfold! Watch this space!

As this is an impromptu experiment, I am unfortunately under-equipped, despite bringing my laptop to help coverage writing, I didn't bring my cables for my camera.

At the moment, I have settled on updating the post as the day goes on.

As for 10.18AM, a large crowd has gathered outside Manawerx, a testament to how healthy and vibrant the tournament playing community is, the popularity of Shard of Alara, and perhaps to a certain extent, the popularity of Manawerx and Michael Toh. ;)

Despite advertised as to start at 10AM, we have yet to start. As I write this, Michael Toh, premier tournament organizer for Klang Valley just announced that the round will start at 10.30AM.

Last updated 4.57PM

Vincent Gan, Mohd Ikmal Mohd Nasir 16 ponts, 6 x 15 points 5 x 13 points.

It's going to be a tough round for everyone as drawing is now not an option.

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Last updated - 4.50PM

Update: Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, the live blogging attempt is unfortunately a failure. Not only was the writer spending alot more of his time playing than he expected, the network connection was also pretty much unusable through out the whole day. Nevertheless, the writer hopes to put up information about the tournament as soon as he can.

As for 4.40PM, round 6 is under way out of 7 total, and two players with 5-0 results have already drawn in. The rest of the 4-1s is fighting for an easier path towards the top 8 while the rest of the field struggles to keep up with the tournament leaders .

End of update.

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