Pro Tour Qualifier - Austin

[Anthony Akahoshi]

Twenty-four players showed up to participate in today's PTQ Austin. Two players happened to stay over from Pro Tour Honolulu, so we'll see how they do among the locals. Today they will be playing through five rounds of swiss with a cut to the top-8.

Here are the pairings for the first round.

 20090613 Pro Tour Qualifier - Austin, Pairings by table for round 1 - 20090613 Pro Tour Qualifier - Austin
 

 Table Player                      Points Player                      

 

     1 Acosta, Joshua                     Miyajima, John              

     2 Ganiko, Travis                     Ström, Tobias               

     3 Char, Kahekili                     Davey, Keoni M              

     4 Andrews, Daniel                    Andrews, Kristopher         

     5 Fallgren, David                    Lee, Jeffrey T              

     6 Muramoto, Dean T                   Kimura, Shawn               

     7 Soule-Kirisawa, David              Limahai, Michael            

     8 Wun, Mike                          Pottenger, Sean I           

     9 Stiller, Roberto B                 Kawamoto, Jeffrey           

    10 Graham, Andrew                     Sano, Reid                  

    11 Ogorchock, Robert                  Basa, Michael               

    12 Nowak, Terry                       Ching, Michael K            

[motsuji]

The mood at the table is light hearted as the two friends speak in their native tongue and fight it out for the travel award.

[Anthony Akahoshi]

[motsuji]

David Fallgren just defeated friend and fellow country man Tobias Strom to with the PTQ Austin.

[Anthony Akahoshi]

[Tobias Ström]

I must say I realy liked this guy Sean Pottenger. Fairly good player with a very nice attitude. And we're sorry we stole your slot guys, I hope you're not to pissed :). Also I realy liked the place where the tournament was held.

Thanks for everything and Mahalo.

Best regards // Tobias

[The Dane Train]

solid brag. also, "fairly good player with a very nice attitude" is a giant overstatement in every way. otherwise, good job!

[Keoni]

man, i should have packed jittes that day =/

[Derek]

lol.

[Sean Pottenger]

I'll take fairly good :-)

And I called it that our spot would get ninja'd. jeff can testify to that!

[Jeff]

yeah, so easy to ninja us, surprised more people don't try it. my two losses on the day were to the two visitors. they were both nice guys, so i'm glad they did well. and only i could find a way to miss top 8 due to a random dq =P