The One - Summer Qualifier

[Maqi]

First, I want to thank everyone who participated in the tournament. I had a lot of fun and I think the tournament was a great success overall. We will build upon what was good and improve where we can. I'm looking forward to the Autumn Qualifier already...

But let's go step by step! Congratulations to Kai, who managed to snap his invite by winning the whole thing (with the help of some serioous "blasting" ). Also, props to the finalist Alexander who very much earned his invite and had the guts to register double Armageddon (which I haven't seen for ages).

Without further ado, you can find the t8 lists here: http://mtgpulse.com/event/25572

I will upload final standings soon and will also provide links to the recorded video coverage. Bear with me, It might take little. But It will all be available here in the end.

[Maqi]

   Final Standings ( after top 8 ) - The One Summer Qualifier 2016                                       
                                          

Rank	Player	pts	Deck	OMW%	GW%	OGW%
1	Thiemann, Kai	22	Izzet Control	55.5923	66.6667	54.144
2	Vey, Alexander	19	Abzan Midrange	58.0244	57.971	54.892
3	Stier, Thomas	15	UBr Necrotic Reanimator	60.2249	55	58.8868
4	Stahl, Gerry	15	4c Blood	56.6138	60	55.0295
5	Hauck, Christian	15	4c Blood	50.4603	68.75	46.5934
6	Ehrle, Philip	14	Jeskai Midrange	61.2434	66.6667	57.4199
7	Templin, Paul	14	5c Artifact Combo	62.3677	57.7778	55.951
8	Zarges, Florian	13	CradleHoof	55.8836	64.5833	48.2848
9	Hohenberg, Thomas	12	RDW	49.1508	56.25	50.4309
10	Yang, Xiaoliang	12	Jeskai Control	43.6482	66.6667	44.2002
11	Ziemes, Malte	12	RDW	39.6482	52.9412	38.6882
12	Rosengren, Lars	10	Bant	57.2752	53.3333	56.3177
13	Franke, Jörn	10	Jeskai Twinrange	52.6451	56.25	48.4524
14	Zimmermann, Martin	10	MUC	50.8488	60	50.6746
15	Iacono, Giuseppe	10	High Tide	50.7932	53.3333	50.8333
16	Nötzel, Sebastian	9	4c Scapeshift	52.6451	53.3333	45.0899
17	Behnert, Carsten	9	4c Blood	52.0278	42.8571	52.6307
18	Hauck, Manuel	9	Gruul Beatz	51.4877	50	52.4869
19	Flinkert, Sven	9	Sultai Midrange	48.6543	50	46.7352
20	Fischer, Tom	9	UWb Control	46.4167	57.1429	44.7759
21	Kannegiesser, Thomas	9	Esper Control	39.25	46.1538	43.6752
22	Rosenberger, Alexander	7	Azorius Control	54.2655	46.6667	50.2338
23	Gerber, Matthias	6	Grixis Delve	62.5	46.1538	60.2308
24	Dietrich, Tobias	6	High Tide	55.8333	42.8571	54.8205
25	Hittel, Matthias	6	Sultai Delve	59.8766	35.7143	57.7183
26	Scherer, Daniel	6	4c Blood	46.2408	46.6667	45.1343
27	Farkas, Michael	6	Esper Control	43.2667	30.7692	45.2853
28	Lehmann, Ronald	6	Izzet Control	43.5185	38.4615	46.1538
29	Balikci, Hüseyin	3	Azorius Control	57.5886	25	48.585
30	Przybilla, Armin	3	Eldrazi Abzan	52.8929	30	51.5625
31	Wolf, Vanessa	3	Jund Midrange	50	40	51.0989
32	Sabel, Dion	3	Hypergenesis	49.9444	41.1765	42.9696
33	Feige, Bernhard	3	Izzet Control	47.2222	30	50.8544
34	Czolk, Bernhard	0	CradleHoof	60.7143	20	61.0416
35	David, Harald	0	5c Staxx	53.8572	14.2857	47.5082
36	Gierse, Alexander	0	Mono Blue Artifacts	40.5185	25	42.4755

[Maqi]

Hi everybody!

Yesterday we were doing a recap on the recent Summer Qualifier tournament. While discussing what went well and where we could optimize our tournament, a point was raised where basically everybody agreed we could improve our system.

The issue was that players ending up in 5th through 8th place didn't receive any prizes.

These competitors felt a little disappointed, which we can fully understand. They would go through six grueling rounds of swiss and make top 8, only to lose in the quarters and not get anything for their hard work.

With only t4 getting prizes, our payout structure was designed in a way which players are not usually used to. The decision to implement such a payout structure was due to the fact that we are using the seasonal Qualifier tournaments to foster prizes for the big Invitational Final. Additionally, we wanted to underline the competitive nature of our tournament concept.

I'm glad we received much useful feedback from many players and found a good solution for the issue at hand.

As a consequence, we will retrospectively reward players 5th through 8th with free entry for the upcoming "The One" Autumn Qualifier.

From here on we will be keeping this change and will award places 5th through 8th with free invites for the next Qualfier tournament. Those free entries might be replaced with card value for the Winter Qualifier.

That's it for now. A little road map of what lies ahead:
- As the remaining match streams become available we will post them and I will provide a sorted link archive
- I'm planning to write a small report of my run through the tournament
- A date for the Autumn tournament will be announced. Expect the tournament to happen sometime around November

[Dr. Opossum]

We updated the statistical analysis for "The One". -> http://www.magicplayer.org/forum/index.php?topic=1216.msg12943#new