I would like to apologize for this quite late post because of my hectic schedule preparing for Grand Prix Manila which was the week after the Iloilo Championships 2014. Back to back main events are not really an easy thing to go through, especially if one of them is a Grand Prix. Anyhow to recap the year-ender event of the local MtG Iloilo Community, here are the final top 8 ranks and their respective decks:

1st, Mark Ian (RG Aggro)
2nd, Mark Greggy (Mardu Midrange)
3rd, Herbert (Jeskai Burn)
4th, Cheljohn (RG Aggro)
5th, Eric (Jeskai Tempo)
6th, Franco (RG Aggro)
7th, Ericson (Jeskai Tempo)
8th, Rei (WU Heroics)

A total of 20 participants went to battle Standard last December 28th and 5 preliminary rounds were set to determine the Top 8. I started 1-1 but was able to win two straight to be able to draw in the last round. Fellow M14 teammates Greggy and Ericson also made it through while Oliver missed the top 8 after losing to Cheljohn during the last round.

To recall, the Quarterfinals matchups were as follows: Mark Greggy vs Rei, Mark Ian vs Ericson, Eric vs Cheljohn, Herbert vs Franco.

The Semifinals were: Mark Greggy vs Herbert, Mark Ian vs Cheljohn. Lastly, the Final matchup was between me and Mark Greggy.

Pictures from the event can be found here.

Overall, I would still consider it as a successful event even with the lesser players than that of the previous years. I guess I needed to promote this event more to gain more sponsors, or I could just reschedule it to an earlier date as most of the players are already busy for the holidays given those dates.

As for this year, I am not sure if I will still in-charge of organizing it again so let us see what we’ll come up with.

Thanks for reading and until next post.

*you can also check my blog posts for the previous years of MtG Iloilo Champs by looking through the “Champs” keyword tag.