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Daniel Kong and Arif Kamaruddin Wins Decards GPT: KL ’09 (27th Dec)!


Daniel Kong


Arif Kamaruddin

Mono White Tokens and Jund emerged victorious in a top 8 that is radically diverse with a whopping 6 different archetypes! Daniel Kong takes the top spot with a concession from Arif Kamaruddin, but as far as they’re concerned, they’ve both won the GPT with the 3-round Byes extended to the top 2 players with the Decards GPT having a 42 player Trial.

For Arif, it was a joyous tournament as he finally broke his Quarterfinals losing streak, and was able to go all the way. While Daniel Kong had to fight for his top 8 spot in the Swiss rounds the hard way after a 1st-round defeat. On their way to the grand prize, Daniel Kong and his Mono White Tokens halted Christopher Lee’s Naya advance in the Quarterfinals before fighting off Chye Yian Hsiang and his ‘Kazakhistan Kontrol’ (UWR Control) to get his 3-round byes. Meanwhile Arif and his Jund had to fight off a fellow Jund player (with a Vampire twist), Icky (Mohd Ikmal Mohd Nasir) in the Quarterfinals, before winning his byes with the defeat of Boros player Alvin Chan. The other 2 Quarterfinalists are Ng Wei San and his ‘Blue Aggro’ 4-color Control who lost to Chye in a control on control matchup and Shawn Khoo’s Mono White Tokens to Alvin.

Top 8 Matchups

Quarterfinals

Arif Kamaruddin (Jund) [won] vs Icky / Mohd Ikmal Mohd Nasir (Jund)

Shawn Khoo (Mono White Tokens) vs Alvin Chan (Boros) [won]

Ng Wei San (4c-Control) vs Chye Yian Hsiang (UWR Control) [won]

Christopher Lee (Naya) vs Daniel Kong (Mono White Tokens) [won]

Semifinals

Arif Kamaruddin (Jund) [won] vs Alvin Chan (Boros)

Daniel Kong (Mono White Tokens) vs Chye Yian Hsiang (UWR Control)

Finals

Arif Kamaruddin (Jund) conceded to Daniel Kong (Mono White Tokens) [won]

Top 8 Decklists - here

Read below for some event pictures of the top 8 Quarterfinals matches.

Photo Gallery


Daniel Kong vs Christopher Lee


Chye Yian Hsiang vs Ng Wei San


Arif Kamaruddin vs Icky / Mohd Ikmal Mohd Nasr


Shawn Khoo vs Alvin Chan