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EPIC Battle League Finals

 

After 11 weeks of league play, the final week of The EPIC Battle League is finally here, with our top 8 Thursday tonight and our Saturday Finale on the horizon, I thought now would be a great time to catch you all up to speed on the League!


Thursday Top 8

After all the weeks of play, our top 8 players are playing off this Thursday, due to the restriction of eventlink, we cannot make top 8 in the custom pairings and keep it single elimination. The pairings will be as follows:

Ryan Kruger VS Greg Davies

Rowan Haynes VS Matthew Macinante

James Nicol VS Liam ED

Patrick Collingwood VS Tim Stieler

A huge congratulations to them all, regardless on how they place during Thursday, they will all be walking away with cash. The prizes for top 8 are as follows:

1st wins $200

2nd place wins $100

3rd place will win $75

4th place will win $50

5th - 8th place all walk away with $25


In addition to top 8 this Thursday, our modern community has asked to do their own side tournament, each person contributing their pack upon entry to the prize pool. For more details see either myself (Larry) or Vaughan on the night - details are still being hashed out.


Saturday Finale

Jene from Jene's MTG will be there doing his Buy/Swap/Sell from 9 AM to 1 PM, and although Saturday is a closed event, Jene is open to all customers on the day regardless of their reason for attendance.

Saturday is open to all league participants that achieved an attendance rate of 75% or more, and whilst I could list all their names here for the interwebs, they already know who they are. Regardless of where you placed in the overall league, this is day is to reward our patrons who dedicated the last 3 months to playing modern at our friendly local game store. Entry to the Event is $30 but with the prize pool as high as it is, I think you'll find the price rather inticing

Prizes for Saturday are as follows:
1st Place wins $500 Cash!
2nd Place wins $200
3rd Place wins $150
4th Place wins $100
5th-8th Place wins $75 each
AND everyone else receives $30! - think of it as a free day out

Why the cash back? We operate on full transparency at EPIC Ipswich all the prize support has been calculated based on profit margins for the price of entry every Thursday making the prize pool just over $1000 once you factor the $30 entry. In honesty, The Benevolent Owners, make Modern as cost neutral as possible and running a league of the calliper, the weekly prizes are making us lose money on Modern events (we make up for it in other places). I'm telling you this so you know just how passionate The Benevolent Owners are about this community and how much they want to encourage Magic the Gathering events here at their venue.

Your Friend and Ally,
Lachy


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