Because I was busy “re-blogging” my Medium posts which I myself wrote and originally published and didn’t have to claim I was stealing someone else’s work as Sue did when caught, Socks and Friends got befuddled. No way can this guy be real right? Stolen valor right?
This isn’t correct.
Ouroboredom is wrong on everything here.
The three US Opens that I won only the top player out of up to 256 players earned a slot, meaning winning seven or eight rounds in a row. During later years WOTC began taking the top two then four finishers and increased the number of Opens making it easier for the next person to reach that feat. To my knowledge only two individuals ever won three US Opens despite it becoming much easier. I accomplished that feat when the odds were the hardest against doing so.
At some point the Pro Tour added their own Last Chance qualifiers, which Ouroboredom appears to conflate with US Nationals Opens. Not the same. Those gave out more entries, not single elimination, was just a single event and frankly were easier. I played in maybe three of those, winning an invite once and narrowly missing by tiebreaks in a second for the Two-Headed Giant format.
I was the first player to win three US Open qualifiers, with two of those being consecutive, 1999, 2000 and 2002. The first two of those I played Tradewind Rider/Opposition decks, mono blue in 1999 and a blue white combo in 2000. The third I won with an underpowered sealed deck mostly doing damage via Leaf dancer and two one powered fliers.
The 2000 blue/white opposition deck I created was particularly dominant, leading to a 12th place US Nationals finish. Got cheated out of that top-8 by Jamie Parke stalling for fifteen minutes when I had him beat and locked down. I have plenty of other stories such as twice going undefeated day one at Grand Prix (one and two unintentional draws), all published in stories that surprisingly, despite the internet being forever are likely gone when Brainburst whom I wrote for, changed company names and servers.
Still, I assume these super sleuths looked.
The best these goofs could find regarding Magic the Gathering and “Mr. Jarvis” was a random dude who got banned for taking and posting butt crack pictures, via wildlife photographer and travel blogger OctoSue. While Sue savored looking at the double cheeky view as evidenced by her later indulging in a giddy school girl retweet of said image, it isn’t representative of professional magic. He was more of a fan of butt cracks just like Sue, though only one of these two persons is likely still using that as her desktop background.
Let’s have some fun shall we, not so expert sleuths.
I appear twice in the background of the 1998 ESPN2 coverage of the US Nationals after qualifying via winning the 1998 US Mountain Region Championship. Find and take a screenshot.
You can also find me mentioned in BethMo’s book Deck Deconstruction Companion (Magic:The Gathering), save she made an error and left off 2x Quirion Rangers leaving my list at fifty-eight cards. Post my 5CG deck.
Okay boomers.
Magic the Gathering as per Sue’s mighty butt crack photo, was played in person for more than a decade before MTGO. While I did play online way too much, the program wasn’t randomized so the same patterns emerged when playing the game. I preferred to play tournaments in person and to do basic play-testing online.
As for all my accomplishments, the trophies, medals and pins for everything that I have won in Magic, Scouting and Athletics were promptly put into storage since I was a teen. Honestly, I understated what I have accomplished in my life as I am not the story, rather some of you, dear readers, are. Especially Susan.
Yes, boomers.
Magic is a social game played with friends from all over the world, something conspiracy theorists and weaponized paid trolls do not understand. Real people doing real things in the real world. Shocking.
The point Sue doesn’t get, besides enormous compromising butt crack pics which she lovingly approved, is that the best MTG players in the world are skilled, some quite wealthy because we can see and process data, tells, and extensively plan out our moves well in advance. Also, my public record through Magic proves I am a real person using a real name associated with me for decades.
Sure, just like my dad, I have always hated and rarely use my legal first name unless I am legally required to, not even for my published book, but that is another story.
Deal with it, boomers.
This is indeed quite interesting.
Your crew Sue tags and harasses innocents all the time. If you are referring to Steve Grinder, note that he has brown hair, plays D&D and that game isn’t MTG despite WOTC/Hasbro owning both brands.
Your super sleuthing skills are indeed lacking.
This post was from another bad actor account, Rocco Castoro who gave up multiple operatives within his orbit to Louise Mensch via Blueyanon allowing her to out the other MagicWindow, Matt Donovan . I mean, WHO does that to people he is working with? Rocco of course does. Neal maybe. Yet Rocco has his theories on Neal.
Good job Rocco at finding a Stephan Jarvis amongst the Wikileaks documents. That one you might have noticed isn’t a teacher nor a past Magic the Gathering pro, though humorously, my wife’s friends always did assume I worked for the FBI, CIA or other intelligence agency for logical reasons I will save perhaps for another time.
God these people are sad. What are they even trying to accomplish at this point? Don’t they have people in their lives who need their attention more than your gaming prowess?