Mike Ongkeco's last tourney, a sad day for vintage... tourney report

It was one hell of a ride, vintage players flocked the tourney scene for the last tournament at Mike's place. I came into the tournament expecting an oath and fish filled meta.. I was wrong, DEAD WRONG. I started looking at what cards i brought that i could use as sideboards and i found out i had nothing ready for the most dominant red deck running rampant on the scene, FCG!!! After months of playing and not seeing the deck win in the tourney I face a meta FLOODED with FCGs. Anyway lets start the report.

Round 1
Victor Corpuz - FCG(foodchain goblins)

Match 1:
turn one tropical island done, he played a mountain done, then i played brainstorm eot, (i drew crap, crap and oh look! crap) he played a piledriver on turn two and started swinging then on.. this was not a good match up

result:L

Match 2:
He activated foodchain and the cycle began, but that was after i beat him to six with a flying rootwalla. Unfortunately, my moment's peace lasted only 2 turns, and i drew nothing to stop the onslaught.

result: L

Round 2
Lauren de Jesus (my cousin)- gifts belcher

Match 1:
let me put it this way, Mox sapphire, Mox emerald, Black Lotus and *drum roll.... tinker, COLOSSUS. (see that period? yep PERIOD)

result: L

Match 2:
played an early trygon predator with esg. swung to kill the mox sapphire, proceeded to beat down with a basking rootwalla

result: W

Match 3:
turn one he played a fetch land and said done. I played a tropical island, eot he sac'd the fetch, i stifled it and after removing one and paying a life to FOW i followed up the stifle with a well played daze. (this was him playing from a mul to 5 hand) i quickly played a waterfront bouncer followed up by a wild mongrel and continued the beatdown.

result: W

Round 3
John Aries Dominguez - Fish (WGU with slivers as base)
(not sure kung tama un name and un spelling ng name)

Match 1:
i played the usual UG madness plays, countered a few spells and had jitte on a creature, (we flew with wonder YAY!)

result: W

Match 2:
first turn basking rootwalla and then played aquamoeba and then jitte and then... after a few turns of attacking, (slivers couldnt match up to them).

result: W

Round 4:
Mondu Quiambao - FCG (again and this IS MONDU)

Match 1:
turn one lotus, mountain, foodchain, me turn 1, bounced foodchain, next turn he played a recruiter with me drawing crap the next turn, foodchain goes off, i die instantly.

result: L

Match 2:
played wiled mongrel, played jitte, Wild Mongrel + Jitte = ? (Naulol na aso)

result: W

Match 3:
i played mongrel again with jitte, but this time he had foodchain in play, i tried to play him with a 3rd turn chill, but then a well timed emerald charm ended my dreams of winning, after a blink of an eye, i was facing a horde of gobs after another blink, i was dead.

result: L

Round 5:
Ryan Payabyab-Landstill (fully powered na landstill parin... BADUY!!)

Match 1:
got beaten up an early tinker colossus need i say more?

result: L

Match 2:
mongrel, aquamoeba, rootwalla aggro! yehey!!!

result: W

match 3:
got locked by crucible strip mine after a long tym of waiting with standstilll, when it ended i had nothing on my side of the board, with me being down to one, I proceeded to rfg an esg producing one green as the phase ended, HARAKIRI, apparently isnt any better than getting killed by the other guy, the fact is ur still dead.

result: L

final standings 18th, 2W-3L

haay next vintage will be the time for budget stacks!!

*while I can still breathe, I will keep trying... after all its al a learning experience, falling down is alright, just don't get up empty handed.

VINTAGE FOREVER!!