2020 Old School Magic Winter Derby Results and Deck Photos

REPORT of RESULTS

The 4th annual Winter Derby is in the books! This year’s event saw 164 participants, representing 18 countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States) spread across 13 different time zones. Over the span of six weeks, we played roughly 600 matches of Old School Magic via webcam.

The 2020 Winter Derby was conducted under the Pacific 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 tournament 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 January, 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 Winter Derby Finals were played on February 2nd, and featured Quinn Maurmann (USA, The Deck) versus Anne Joldersma (Netherlands, Workshops).

After all was said and done, Quinn Maurmann took the match 3-0, and was named the Winter Derby Champion for 2020! Congratulations to Quinn and the Emerald City Trolls, to all of the Top 16 finalists, and thank you, again, to all of the players who participated. Special thanks must also go out once again to the inimitable Antonio Rodríguez for designing our new Derby series logo and Winter 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 semi-annual 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: Winter Derby — Beasts of the Bay

Winter Derby 2020 Tournament Report – 2nd Place — Anne Joldersma

The Winter Derby 2020 Tournament Report — Tom Simons

All Tings Considered Episode 101: Orgg 101

STANDINGS AFTER BATCH PAIRINGS

TOP 16 DECK PHOTOS

9-16th Place: John Grudzina (14)

 

9-16th Place: Thomas Ribet (13)

 

9-16th Place: Richard Stebbing (12)

 

9-16th Place: Paul DeSilva (11)

 

9-16th Place: Tobias Mieth (10)

 

9-16th Place: Laurent Rippert (8)

 

9-16th Place: Levi Baumgardner (2)

 

9-16th Place: Gerard Siatkowski (1)

 

5-8th Place: Michael Scheffenacker (15)

 

5-8th Place: Mathias Helmbold (9)

 

5-8th Place: Mike VanDyke (6)

 

5-8th Place: Jordan Boyle (5)

 

3-4th Place: Bryan Manolakos (7)

 

3-4th Place: Galen Lemei (4)

 

2nd Place: Anne Joldersma (16)

 

1st Place: Quinn Maurmann (3)

 

 

ALL DECK PHOTOS

(alphabetical order by first name)

Aaron Steele — “I Hope This Helps You”

 

Adam Jourdan

 

Adam Merkado — “Angelic Abyss”

 

Alexandr Tsukanov

 

Alistair Ingram

 

Andrew Mattus

 

Andrew Walker

 

Andy Swaffar

 

Arnaud Aubert

 

Aurélien Théry

 

Ben Katz

 

Ben Revell

 

Brett Attmore

 

Brian Limbacher — “Arabian COP Blue”

 

Cam Roberts

 

Charles Klein

 

Chris Adcock

 

Chris Ward

 

Christian Lieb

 

Christian Reinhard

 

Christopher Mason

 

Cliff Mathieson

 

Constantine Prishvitsin

 

D. Scott Brauner

 

Daniel Anschutz

 

Daniel Yann Franzén

 

Dave Firth Bard

 

David Holler

 

David Rohwedder

 

David Tully

 

Don Perrien

 

Douglas McMahon

 

Drew Epstein

 

Edwin Tracy

 

Erik Johnson

 

Erik Olstad

 

Evan Hofmann — BUG Venom Void

 

Florian von Bredow

 

Frédérique Lafoux

 

Gabe Farkas

 

Gaetan Zell

 

Gordon Fjeldsted

 

Greg Titcomb — “Death Valley”

 

Gregor Sammsa

 

Henning Østergaard

 

Hugo Borges

 

Ivan Bari — “Mob Presence”

 

J Lager

 

James Lebak

 

Jared Doucette

 

Jared Miller

 

Jason Applin

 

Jason Bain

 

Jason Collins

 

Jason Dorman

 

Jason Morawski

 

Jason Paul

 

Jason Schwartz

 

Jason Seaman

 

Jay Peine

 

Jean Curci

 

Jeff Dehnhardt

 

Jeff Grasso

 

Jeff Liu — “Rasputin’s Coffin”

 

Jeff Watkins

 

Jeff White

 

Jesse Compton

 

Joe Becica

 

John McNulty

 

Jon Dittert

 

Jon Tschida

 

Jonathan King

 

Justin Flynn

 

Kevin Vanier

 

Koos Cramer

 

Laurence Boulanger

 

Marc Flore

 

Mark Jonovitch

 

Mark Price

 

Martin Purrio

 

Masayuki Higashi

 

Matt Mucci

 

Mattias Berggren — “Dead Eggs Don’t Fly”

 

Max Schroeder

 

Michael Angelo Russo

 

Michael Schroers

 

Mike Frantz

 

Mike Keith

 

Mike Kukovec

 

Mike McLaughlin

 

Nicolai Rasmussen

 

Nicolas Imwinkelried

 

Park Cofield

 

Pascal Martin

 

Pascal Piché

 

Patrick Howse

 

Patrick Quinn

 

Patrick van Beek — “Burn ‘n Barbs”

 

Paul Fiero — “Juxta Pile”

 

Paul Kovalov

 

Peter Monten

 

Pez Unholy

 

Phillip Dow

 

Rajah James

 

Rémi Ouellette

 

Rich Bourque — “Mono Blue Psychic Control”

 

Robert Vawter

 

Robert Wyatt

 

Ryan Gresco — Hazebond!

 

Ryan O’Burke

 

Ryan Rudolph

 

Ryan Woodworth

 

Ryan Working

 

Scott Bradley — Weakstone Song

 

Seth Roncoroni

 

Shawn Sullivan

 

Stephen Di Donato

 

Stephen Williams

 

Stu Scathezombie

 

Svante Landgraf

 

Sylvain Billon

 

TC Chaisson

 

Thomas Sutherland

 

Tim Moran

 

Tim Stutzer

 

Tom Simons

 

Tomasz Ksel

 

Tony Tran

 

Tyson Taylor

 

Vince Baleka

 

Will Magrann

 

Will Reddy

 

Winston Wood

 

Wouter Jansen

 

Zachary Dooling