The Magpies can expect some pack help, thanks to my cat waking me up early enough to find out about the tournament re-structuring this morning. The Saturday gold weekly with reduced to just 16 players needed and the top 8 getting packs. I've never played any tournament higher than iron, but this was also a DRR3, so wouldn't take long and any gold roster can get lucky and win. I didn't realize just how many historical gold cards I had since I never bought any. Just proceeds from tournament packs and the special edition cards from the live missions. I had a complete team except, no shortstop. Pickings on the AH were slim or expensive; I opted for silver Tony Kubek at 1300pp. To back him up at SS (and also 2B) was silver Bobby Richardson which I already owned.
We lost 2 out of the first 3, but one team won all 3 games leaving the rest of us to beat each other up. That same team won 3 more, but I won 2 out of 3 to stumble into the quarter-finals. There the team caught fire and won the next 4 to win 1st place. Tony Kubek handled 49 chances flawlessly including 10 double plays to justify his purchase while Richardson play both games of the best-of-3 finals to wins series MVP.
Don't they look sweet? I hate to open them just yet.... (I'm fearing duplicate Blake Snell, so I'm holding off until that feeling goes away) Stay tuned.
