TCG Player Platinum Qualifier Results

This past Saturday, 126Magic players descended on TJ Collectibles for their shot at winning some of Tom Shea’s Money. In the end, here’s what everyone walked away with- and who won!

Winners:
1st place: Dustin Taylor  – $500, TCG Player Playmat and 60 TCGPlayer points
2nd place: Joshua Grauman – $200, TCG Player Playmat and 40 TCGPlayer points
3rd  place:  Kevin Garroshen – $100, TCG Player Playmat and 30 TCGPlayer points

4th place: Joseph Didonato -  $100, TCG Player Playmat and 30 TCGPlayer points
5th  place:  Thomas Smiley$50, TCG Player Playmat and 20 TCGPlayer points
6th place: Andrew Capela – $50, TCG Player Playmat and 20 TCGPlayer points

7th place:  Andrew Marsden – $50, TCG Player Playmat and 20 TCGPlayer points

8th place: Hank Mead – $50, TCG Player Playmat and 20 TCGPlayer points

Congrats to all of the winners! Good luck in Indy!

Want to see the top 8 deck lists? Head on over to here and check them out!

Grand Prix Baltimore Champion Crowned

Grand Prix Baltimore has come to a close, a winner has been crowned. Congratulations to Matt Costa!

Matt Costa managed to edge out Dave Shiels for the game 3 win to take home the trophy. In case you missed it, all of the GP Baltimore coverage can be found here.

TJ Collectibles would also like to congratulate Adam Snook on his first Grand Prix Top 8 performance! Snook went undefeated on Day 1.

From all of us at TJ Collectibles, congratulations to all of the New England players. Tom Shea would like to offer his personal congrats to the winner and the Top 8 players:

“Congrats to Matt Costa for winning GP Baltimore! The players from New England dominated this event. All of you should be proud of how well you played!”

Well done all! We look forward to seeing you here at TJ’s again soon!

Martin Juza Takes Down Grand Prix Hiroshima

Magic Grand Prix Hiroshima is now in the books. After 18 rounds of swiss (including the top eight), Czech Martin Juza is the Grand Prix Hiroshima 2011 champion, having bested Kouichi Tanaka, Rin Satou and Takahiro Shiraki in the finals with his Green & White Token-based deck.

Click the links below for the official coverage. Plus, the top eight deck lists!

Day Two Coverage

Day One Coverage

Top 8 Deck Lists

Top 8 Player Profiles

Magic Grand Prix Double Header – Legacy & Innistrad Sealed

Busy weekend in the Magic the Gathering community, with both Grand Prix Amsterdam (Legacy) and Grand Prix Santiago (Brazil) having took place and each crowned a champion!

In Amsterdam, 1,878 Grand Prix champion hopefuls sleeved up their Legacy decks and did battle. Only Pierre Sommen of France stood alone after the dust settled, piloting his Bant deck featuring Stoneforge Mystic, Knight of the Reliquary and a host of powerful blue cards like Force of Will and Jace, the Mind Sculptor to defeat Ciro Bonaventura, piloting a RUG Tempo deck with Delver of Secrets (!) two games to one.

Day One Coverage – Amsterdam

Day Two Coverage – Amsterdam

Top 8 Deck lists – Amsterdam

Top 8 Player Profiles – Amsterdam

Pierre Sommen - GP Amsterdamn Champion

 

On the other side of the world, there was a Grand Prix of an entirely different flavor in Santiago, Brazil. This time, 737 players registered to do battle with Innistrad sealed deck. Despite a star-studded top eight including Owen Turtenwald, Paulo Vitor Damo de Rosa (PVDDR), Martin Juza and New England’s own Melissa DeTora (congrats Melissa!), only one champion could be crowned and that champion is Igor Silva Pinto!

Interestingly enough, this event also featuring a number of player disqualifications, including one high profile DQ that involved a player in the top eight. You can read the Head Judge’s statement regarding this incident, here.

Day One Coverage – Santiago

Day Two Coverage – Santiago

Top 8 Player Profiles – Santiago

Top 8 Deck lists – Santiago

GP Champ Igor Silva Pinto celebrates with friends

 

Jeremy Neeman win in Australia

Congratulations to Jeremy Neeman, winner of Grand Prix Brisbane! After a battling through a talented and international Top 8, Neeman takes home his second Australian Grand Prix trophy in a row, following on from his victory in Sydney last year.

Jeremy Neeman, piloting Blue/Black control, narrowly beat out Tim Fondum, piloting G/W Tokens, in three tense games. Rounding out the Top 8 were Shouta Yasooka, Andreas Pranoto, Jacky Zhang, Luke Mulcahy, Daniel Unwin, and Hao-Shan Huang. Congratulations to all the Top 8 finalists, and once again to ‘The’ Jeremy Neeman, the Grand Prix Brisbane champion!

Official Coverage

Day One Blog

Day Two Blog

Top 8 Decks

Top 8 Profiles

228 Magic PT Hopefuls Descend on Milford, MA

An amazing 228 Pro Tour hopefuls have descended upon TJ Collectibles in Milford, MA, braving both close quarters and heat for their chance at Magic Pro Tour fame, glory, and a trip to beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii! Participants will be testing their Innistrad sealed deck skills as they battle over a numerous swiss rounds to determine the final eight elimination rounds for Innistrad booster draft to determine a winner.

We’ll be bringing you all the action as best we can through out the course of the day. Stay turned to our Facebook and Twitter accounts (@tjcollect on Twitter) for all the Innistrad sealed deck action!

Congratulations to Richard Hoaen Grand Prix Montreal Champion

Congratulations to Richard Hoaen, Grand Prix Montreal Champion, having bested 1,054 competitors in sealed deck and a strong top eight utilizing his black and red Magic 2012 aggressive booster draft deck to best Alexander Hayne to earn the title.

In addition, congratulations to New England locals Matthew Costa, Brian Lynch and Jonathan Lewis for their performances! Check out the final standings here.

Top 8 Deck lists

Top 8 Player Profiles

Day 2 Blog

Day 1 Blog

 

 

UPDATE: Samuele Estratti Splinters the Competition at PT Philly!

Congratulations to Samuele Estratti, 2011 Pro Tour Philadelphia champion! He bested finalist Josh “Wrapter” Utter-Leyton in the finals with his Blue/Red Splinter Twin combo deck against Josh’s “Counter-Cat” deck.

Combination decks were all the rage over the course of the weekend, between Splinter Twin decks, Pyromancer Ascension, Storm-based decks, Through the Breach, Hive Mind and more. Perhaps one of the biggest stories is Samuel Blacks “Poison Shoal” deck, the goal of which is to deal ten poison damage as quickly as turn TWO!

Aggressive strategies were not left out in the cold however, as Zoo and Affinity both put up very respectable numbers.

Finally, it is interesting to note that not a single Cloudpost deck even cracked the Top 8! The big bogey man in the room appears to have suffered a sound beating at the hands of the numerous combo decks, Zoo and Affinity.

Can the format adjust and right itself? Will Control decks make an appearance in the future? Is Modern just going to be another combo-centric format? Only time will tell!

 

Official Coverage

Top 8 Player Profiles

Top 8 Modern Decks

All Modern Decks, 18 Points or Better

Fact Sheet

Congratulations to Yuuya Watanabe, GP Pittsburgh Champion

That’s right folks, not only has Yuuya Watanabe made three consecutive Grand Prix top eights in a row, but he is the 2011 Grand Prix Pittsburgh Champion and his second victory in a row (Grand Prix Shanghai last weekend! Other notable top eight competitors include Patrick Chapin, Matthew Nass and Max Tietze, finishing 3rd, 6th and 4th respectively.

From the official coverage:

Coming into the event, it was clear to everyone that CawBlade was the deck to beat. No matter whom we asked we didn’t get any answer other than that. However, if we learned anything from the first day of play, it was that maybe players should have been paying more attention to Splinter Twin decks. They comprised a much larger portion of the winning decks than CawBlade did, especially if you add up all of the varieties. With each event, the preferred method of assembling the combo seems to change. Early on, it was definitely the RUG Pod version of the deck that had the most traction, but for this event it appeared that the UR version had the most believers. Ultimately, only the UR variety made the Top 8, eventually losing to Yuuya Watanabe on his eventual path to victory. While it’s true he is playing Caw, there is a big difference between losing to Caw and losing to Yuuya Watanabe, especially right now.

Check out the coverage, including player profiles, featured matches, deck lists and more!

Day Two Coverage

Day One Coverage

Top 8 Deck Lists

Top 8 Player Profiles

LCQ Deck Lists

Sunday 8/28/11 Pokemon Pre-release Postponed

Dear Trainers & Professors:

Saturday’s 8/28/11 Pokemon Black & White: Emerging Power Pre-release event at TJ Collectibles in Milford, MA has been canceled and post-poned due to Hurricane Irene. According to Weather.com, the hurricane could pose a potentially dangerous travel situation as well as flash flooding, loss of power and more potential damage. Therefore, we have desided to cancel and post-pone this event.

The TJ Collectibles BW: Emering Powers pre-release has been rescheduled to the follow Saturday, September 3rd.

We do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and wish for all of our customers to travel carefully and remain safe this weekend. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. For up to the minute information, please follow us on Facebook and like us on Twitter.