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Worlds Rome 2009 – Day 2 Wrapup

By Trick Jarrett ⋅ November 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment ⋅

Worlds day 2 was only slightly less excit­ing than yes­ter­day due to the fact that it was lim­ited, allow­ing for less excit­ing inno­va­tions to be dis­played but increas­ing the dra­matic changes in rank­ings, posi­tion and promises for the rest of the tournament.

4 More Disqualifications

There were four more dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tions from Worlds today, all for look­ing at other play­ers’ cards dur­ing the draft­ing process. It is sad as this means both the Turk­ish and Can­dian teams will join team USA on the side­lines for the remain­der of the team por­tions. You can read the full write up on the Wiz­ards web­site.

Player of the Year

The Player of the Year race is heat­ing up. Yuuya Watan­abe has lost the fatal fifth game which math­e­mat­i­cally removes him from being able to make the Top 8 of the event. How­ever we’re see­ing Saitou con­tinue to make a strong run at it, end­ing Day 2 with 27 points, putting him in 10th place over­all, while Juza has fallen to 17th place also with 27 points. Fur­ther down is Gabe Nas­sif with 24 points in 73rd place. It’s still up in the air who’s going to take it home this year.

Pre­dic­tion: 1st. Tomo­haru Saitou, 2nd. Mar­tin Juza, 3rd. Gabe Nas­sif and 4th. Yuuya Watanabe

Indi­vid­ual Standings

Joel Calafell, Day 1’s leader has dropped to 32nd on a 2–4 per­for­mance in today’s draft pods. Mean­while Mar­ijn Lybaert remains in sec­ond, now trail­ing Bram Snep­vangers, who rose from fifth yes­ter­day to take the lead at the end of day 2. Of inter­est, Con­ley Woods is the #1 ranked Amer­i­can in the event, sit­ting at 6th and about to go into Extended on Day 3, some­thing that bodes well for him given his Con­structed per­for­mances and abil­ity to bring unusual and sur­pris­ing con­structed decks. At the end of day 2 Kibler is down at 87th place, now play­ing in hopes of reach­ing Level 8 to take him into next season.

Pre­dic­tion: Mar­ijn Lybaert defs Con­ley Woods in 4.

Team Stand­ings

Today has seen more sur­prises and shake ups to the Team stand­ings, while the above DQs did not wreck any of the top teams, Day 2 ends in a three way tie with the Czech Repub­lic, Japan and Brazil all shar­ing the top spot, ordered by tie break­ers as listed. In fourth is Aus­tria, and then we have Chi­nese Taipei edg­ing out China. I still hold to my belief that Brazil will pull away, but only tomor­row will tell.

The DQs, as men­tioned above, affected Canada and Hun­gary, who before the DQs had ended Day 1 in 26th and 38th respec­tively. The non-disqualified play­ers will receive their prize money but are unable to com­pete for any more.

Pre­dic­tion: Brazil defs. Japan4

Trick Jarrett is the host and founder of ManaNation.com, he writes, edits, covers, and spoils Magic for a living. Playing it whenever he can manage to find the time. He is engaged to a lovely woman who refuses to learn Magic, and they have a cute cocker-spaniel puppy who is all too eager to play Magic.

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