Meta Check – San Francisco
This is one of two events happening this weekend. At last, the Kotei season is kicking off in America and we have a chance to see what the meta is currently like over there. These will be the last two events before the restricted list, so it’ll be our last chance to judge the post-disciples pre-restricted list environment.
This event started off with a proving grounds tournament with 24 players on Friday. The winning, undefeated deck, was Dragon played by Davis Tower Kingsley who was Dragon Hatamoto at Worlds. Let’s see if he can keep up that winning streak into the main tournament.
Stream is up at twitch.tv/6thring (thanks to Mel and the team) with a commentary on https://www.twitch.tv/travisfightsdragons/ (thanks to Travis and the team).
At the end of day 2 there were a total of 4 players who qualified all with a 6-1 record.
So we have 11 players going into day 2.
1. John Perry – Scorpion
2. Andrew De Jesus – Lion
3. Alex Dunseth – Crab
4. Davis Kingsley – Dragon
5. Philip Huang – Dragon
6. Evan Gibbs-Forrester – Phoenix
8. Kris MacLennan – Crab
15. Andrew Kim – Crane
17. Jo Chang – Scorpion
18. Brandon Snyder – Lion
?. Kenneth Cromack – Unicorn
Day 2
| Position | Name | Faction |
| Winner | Alex Dunseth | Crab |
| Top 2 | Philip Huang | Dragon |
| Top 4 | John Perry | Scorpion |
| Top 4 | Kris MacLennan | Crab |
| Top 8 | Jo Chang | Scorpion |
| Top 8 | Davis Kingsley | Dragon |
| Top 8 | Andrew De Jesus | Lion |
| Top 8 | Evan Gibbs-Forrester | Phoenix |
| Top 16 | Andrew Kim | Crane |
| Top 16 | Brandon Synder | Lion |
| Top 16 | Kenneth Cromack | Unicorn |
11 Replies to “Meta Check – San Francisco”
Davis Kingsley, not David.
Damnit, I knew that! Thanks for pointing it out. It’ll be updated in the charts in the next update.
Confused – you have Unicorn as both being eliminated in the top 16 and winning their play-in game to make the top eight…
I’m not just trying to pick holes in your coverage, Baz!
Someone has to!
Thats a fairly balanced top 16. Surprised not to see more Crane.
In events around the size, the cut is always going to give the impression of being balanced, as you’ll see a handful of automatic qualifiers and the seven Clan Challengers, which essentially forces diversity. It’s probably more accurate to take a look at the final Swiss standings as a whole and see what the composition of the sixteen top finishers was.
This size, not the size, even. Too early in the morning.
Do you guys know where we ca find deck lists ?
Just want to mention that the Crab players at this Kotei were all pretty skilled – all 6 finished in the top 16 swiss overall, with one at 6-1 and three at 5-2.
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