2019 Old School Magic Summer Derby Results and Deck Photos

REPORT of RESULTS

The 3rd annual Summer Derby is in the books! This year’s event saw 144 participants, representing 14 countries (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States) spread across 10 different time zones. Over the span of six weeks, we played roughly 550 matches of Old School Magic via webcam.

The 2019 Summer Derby was conducted under the Atlantic 93/94 B&R list, allowing the full range of original art/old card frame re-prints (Revised, 4th/Chronicles, CE/IE, FBB/FWB, etc.). As with past Derby series events, our esteemed international sparkling cardboard celebration had no entry fee and no prize support, so the stakes were simply glory and bragging rights for the winner.

Pairings were released in two batches over the month of July, with all participants asked to schedule and play eight individual matches in about four weeks. After the batches were completed, we cut to Top 16 and played out a single-elimination bracket. The Summer Derby Finals were played on August 7th, and featured two Americans, Pez Unholy (UBR Workshops) versus Jared Doucette (Spice Rack).

After all was said and done, Jared Doucette took the match 3-1, and was named the Summer Derby Champion for 2019! Congratulations to Jared, to all of the Top 16 finalists, and thank you, again, to all of the players who participated. Special thanks must also go out to the inimitable Antonio Rodríguez for designing our new Derby series logo and Summer Derby banner, and Mattias “Slanfan” Berggren for developing a bespoke “batch pairings” tool for use in tournaments of this format, making it much, much easier to process the results of several hundred matches behind the curtain. The Derby series has become a fun semiannual celebration for the international Old School Magic scene, and these contributions and the cooperation of all of the players goes a long way toward making it possible.

For anyone interested in future events, or just trying out webcam Old School Magic for the first time, please consider joining our online community of players! People are always looking for pick-up games in our Facebook group and in the #down-to-play channel on the Old School Discord.

PLAYER REPORTS and COVERAGE

The Spice Files: Summer Derby — Beasts of the Bay

Beating the Atlantic Sea — Christian Reinhard, Urborg Buffet

Summer Derby 2019 — Jon Dittert, Pups McGee

Summer Derby results — Jay Peine, Kitchen Table Old School

All Tings Considered Episode 77: Pez Unholy

STANDINGS AFTER BATCH PAIRINGS

TOP 16 DECK PHOTOS

9-16th Place: Daniel Anschutz (14)

 

9-16th Place: Michael Angelo Russo (12)

 

9-16th Place: Chris McCubbin (11)

 

9-16th Place: Michael Scheffenacker (10)

 

9-16th Place: Jason Collins (8)

 

9-16th Place: Christian Reinhard (4)

 

9-16th Place: Antoine Rottiers (2)

 

9-16th Place: Jeff Liu (1)

 

5-8th Place: Koos Cramer (13)

 

5-8th Place: Christian Lieb (9)

 

5-8th Place: Jason Dorman (7)

 

5-8th Place: Jesse Laidlaw (3)

 

3-4th Place: Richard Stebbing (6)

 

3-4th Place: Arnaud Aubert (5)

 

2nd Place: Pez Unholy (15)

 

1st Place: Jared Doucette (16)

 

ALL DECK PHOTOS

(alphabetical order by first name)

Adam Merkado

 

Akos Czibere

 

Alex Smyk

 

Alexander Pick

 

Alexander Tsukanov

 

Alistair Ingram

 

Andrew Oliva

 

Andrew Walker

 

Andy Roman

 

Anne Joldersma

 

Ash Anabtawi — Enchantress Toolbox 

 

Aurélien Théry

 

Ben Black

 

Ben Katz

 

Ben Revell

 

Benjamin Burke

 

Brian Limbacher — Eureka, It’s A Field of Honey

 

Bryan Manolakos — Mono U Tempo

 

Cam Wall

 

Cedric Jarkovsky

 

Charles Klein

 

Chris Adcock

 

Chris Mason

 

Christoph Rabenseifner

 

Cliff Mathieson — Requiem for a Dream

 

Cory Hanson

 

Craig Winzer

 

Daniel Yann Franzén — Demonic Void

 

Dave Firth Bard

 

Dominic Dotterrer

 

Edwin Tracy

 

Erik Olstad

 

Evan Hofmann — BG Deep Shadow Void

 

Evan Smith

 

Florian von Bredow

 

Gabriel Farkas

 

Galen Lemei

 

Gerard Siatkowski

 

Greg Titcomb — Wurmshops

 

Henk Willemse

 

Jacob Braun

 

James Lebak

 

James Rosenblum

 

Jared Miller

 

Jason Bain

 

Jay Peine

 

JC Saavedra

 

Jeff Dehnhardt

 

Jeff Grasso

 

Jeff Watkins

 

Jeff White

 

Jeremy Hazard

 

Joe Schacher

 

Johan Råberg

 

John Paul McNulty

 

Jon Dittert

 

Jon Tschida

 

Jonathan Laws

 

Jordan Boyle

 

Justin Flynn

 

Justin Iskra

 

Laurence Boulanger

 

Levi Baumgardner

 

Luke Zinnen

 

Malte Lukas Baum

 

Marc Flore — Nevinyrral’s Chaos Launcher 

 

Mark Jonovitch

 

Mark Price

 

Martin Purrio

 

Mathias Helmbold

 

Matt Guido

 

Matt Mucci — TronBond

 

Matthew Simon

 

Mattias Berggren

 

Michael Schroers

 

Mike Dunshee

 

Mike VanDyke

 

Nick Cramer

 

Olga Dushina

 

Olof Robertsson

 

P.J. Melies

 

Park Cofield

 

Patrick Harfouche

 

Patrick Howse

 

Patrick Quinn

 

Paul DeSilva

 

Paul Fiero — Sleight Force

 

Paul Kovalov

 

Peter Fryland

 

Peter Monten

 

Quinn Maurmann

 

Rajah James

 

Randy Buehler

 

Rémi Ouellette

 

Rich Bourque

 

Robert Wyatt

 

Ron Dijkstra

 

Ryan Crouch

 

Ryan Gresco

 

Ryan Keach

 

Ryan Rudolph

 

Ryan Working

 

Seth Roncoroni

 

Shane Chiasson

 

Shaun Augeri — Les Revenant

 

Shawn Sullivan

 

Stan Sterkendries

 

Tapan Lockwood — Can’t Bolt This

 

Taylor Quail

 

Thilo Herzog

 

Thomas Ribet

 

Tim Moran

 

Tim Stutzer — Eggy Pop

 

Tino Galizio

 

Tobias Mieth

 

Tyler Daykin

 

Viacheslav Ivanov

 

Wilhelm Sahlberg

 

Will Larson

 

Will Magrann