ChannelFireball 5K, 2.27.10 – Feature Match Videos

Posted by tim

March 5, 2010 | 48 comments

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Eric Levine narrates the Top 32 Feature Match between Matt Nass (UW Control) and Jimmy dela Cruz (Jund) at the ChannelFireball 5K on February 27, 2010 at Superstars Game Center in San Jose, CA.

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Eric Levine narrates the Top 16 Feature Match between Alexander Shearer (GWB Junk) and Tristan Shaun Gregson (Boss Naya) at the ChannelFireball 5K on February 27, 2010 at Superstars Game Center in San Jose, CA.

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Eric Levine narrates the Top 8 Feature Match between Kamui Kaye (Jund) and Tristan Shaun Gregson (Boss Naya) at the ChannelFireball 5K on February 27, 2010 at Superstars Game Center in San Jose, CA.

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Eric Levine narrates the Top 4 Feature Match between Kamui Kaye (Jund) and Michael Hetrick (UW Control) at the ChannelFireball 5K on February 27, 2010 at Superstars Game Center in San Jose, CA.

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Eric Levine narrates the Finals between Jimmy dela Cruz (Jund) and Michael Hetrick (UW Control) at the ChannelFireball 5K on February 27, 2010 at Superstars Game Center in San Jose, CA.

48 Comments Leave a comment

Michael Hetrick says: March 5, 2010 @ 12:29 am

Nice job with the coverage Eric. Took a while though

Raoul Z. says: March 5, 2010 @ 12:42 am

I am really interested in the decklists from this event, specifically the Naya update and the UW control seemingly with Baneslayer maindeck. Will the lists be posted somewhere?

AndySweetCandyWilson says: March 5, 2010 @ 12:50 am

Why is the top 4 video private?

grumpy says: March 5, 2010 @ 1:16 am

The top 4 video doesn’t work, it says it’s private and won’t play, fix it please. The coverage is great, though.

Lunor says: March 5, 2010 @ 1:32 am

Excellent commentary, Eric!

The editing is top-notch (got all the good bits) and Eric explaining what is happening helps to keep up with the brisk pace.

Better than ggslive, better than the live commentary at mtg.com itself. Very impressed!

Zed_mixmasta says: March 5, 2010 @ 2:02 am

lol dat nigguh da top 4 iz pryvate fix dat plz

Drew says: March 5, 2010 @ 2:07 am

Thanks for doing this eric, really appreciated watching it.

Munkeh says: March 5, 2010 @ 3:32 am

NIce coverage. Good to see these new, breakthrough decks winning things…..

Who’s the drum and bass listener at Channelfireball? >.>

Sean says: March 5, 2010 @ 3:36 am

Great editing. Very well paced.

Stan says: March 5, 2010 @ 3:49 am

very well made, very professional.
good job CFB! you guys are really do good things for the game

Chris says: March 5, 2010 @ 3:50 am

Where are the decklist ?

Somedude127 says: March 5, 2010 @ 4:30 am

This is how all match coverage should work. Excellent job!

matt says: March 5, 2010 @ 5:13 am

great coverage

Miaou says: March 5, 2010 @ 5:52 am

Very nice indeed, I wish all coverage was this good!

luca says: March 5, 2010 @ 6:05 am

shouldnt pithing needle be naming tectonic edge instead of jace? Or celestial colonnade?

Jefferson says: March 5, 2010 @ 6:26 am

Why did everyone call Jace TMS with Pithing Needle instead of Celestial Colonnade? I understand that Jace is awesome, but if you’re playing Jund, then you have way more outs to Jace than you do the manland.

Alex says: March 5, 2010 @ 7:20 am

@Chris – My deck list is in this week’s edition of my column. I don’t know if there’s a general deck list plan for the event, though.

Gatsu says: March 5, 2010 @ 7:39 am

VERY well done!!!!!

hope you’ll post lists!!!!

thanks for the amazing job!!

Kbo says: March 5, 2010 @ 7:40 am

How did the UW control player make it that far playing that badly. So many mistakes.

Alex says: March 5, 2010 @ 7:45 am

@Kbo – The finals probably took place at about 2am or even later. My top 16 match was at midnight or so. It’s fair to imagine that Michael was playing better earlier in the day.

Mike says: March 5, 2010 @ 8:18 am

huge treasure hunt misplay

Wishthink says: March 5, 2010 @ 8:45 am

Game 1 makes little sense. If you plan on canceling one creature, and oblivion ringing another.. shouldn’t you cancel the one with haste and oblivion ring the other? When he has the pulse you can just untap and ring it again. You took 6 points of pointless damage. Unless youtopdecked running oblivion rings that is. If you had no rings it makes a little sense to counter the thrinax, but if you had one it makes no sense what so ever.

I do love that version of jund though. No dead cards g1 plus they get putrid leech, GSS and death mark G2/g3. Deathmark is such a beating against UW being able to kill kor, baneslayer, and even a celestial if it was animated on the junds turn. And hell they even get the random misers pithing needle to play on jace.

Nick says: March 5, 2010 @ 9:01 am

Thanks for the coverage! It is good to watch how the decks play out against one another. The only thing I think you could add would be their sb plans so that we know what people are doing against different archetypes.

Eric Levine says: March 5, 2010 @ 9:06 am

Thanks for the kind words, but all I did was talk into a microphone for three hours. Tim Froehlig, one of our A/V guys, is the person who really made this work (and did a lot of work in doing so!) Imagine having to edit raw match coverage along to me babbling about the game state. That’s what he did.

Eric Levine says: March 5, 2010 @ 9:07 am

And yes, the finals ended at about 3:30 AM. Not everyone was playing their best Magic at that point, and we’re looking into that for the next 5k.

Michael Hetrick says: March 5, 2010 @ 9:08 am

I played treasure hunt first because I needed to hit tectonic edge that turn. It’s debatable.

Claudio says: March 5, 2010 @ 9:42 am

@ Eric Levine:

Eric, you might want to change the Privacy Preferences of the Top 4 Feature Match…YouTube says it’s a private video and I cannot watch it unless I log in and ask you to become “my friend”… Thx, wonderful coverage!

Caleb says: March 5, 2010 @ 10:15 am

Michael: Path works too, doesn’t it? But yeah, thanks for the clarification.

Excellent coverage. The nice thing about wizards videos is that they show the players thinking, and then we see what they were thinking about, can study their body language, etc. This was good too, though, as we got a sense of how the matches played out in a very digestible period of time.

Jordan says: March 5, 2010 @ 10:40 am

I agree this is fantastic. This coverage is EXACTLY what I want to see. Great editing and voice over, plus you can actually see the cards. Please figure out the top 4 video privacy issue. Keep up the good work.

Lunor says: March 5, 2010 @ 11:06 am

@Eric: Great job to you ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¡nd Tim Froehlig then, for a tight production. This is how I’d like to see every match covered. Seriously awesome stuff, I hope it wasn’t a 1-time thing!

bob says: March 5, 2010 @ 12:20 pm

is there a reason jace doesnt die at 4:16? I thought 2 trample from the ravine and 3 from the sprouting thrinax would be enough to erase the jace?

FifthGradeMath says: March 5, 2010 @ 12:42 pm

lol @ the “still had all these

worm says: March 5, 2010 @ 12:54 pm

Keeping the top 4 private for secret tech hmm?

Tim F. says: March 5, 2010 @ 1:30 pm

Top 4 Video no longer private. Enjoy!

Lunor says: March 5, 2010 @ 2:10 pm

Woohoo.

Btw ‘Tim F.’, Eric let the cat out of the bag. We know your last name. :p

bkh says: March 5, 2010 @ 2:15 pm

Great videos, let’s see more of these types of videos with commentary in the near future!

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Daniel says: March 5, 2010 @ 3:34 pm

well this sure was an awesome show, tim and eric! great job!
(see what I did there?)

while I do like unedited coverage of a PT more, this was a great way of putting it all together in a matter that doesn’t take up 2-4 hours of my day!

Zaiem says: March 5, 2010 @ 4:27 pm

Wow, this is really nice. I’m very impressed.

Stephan says: March 5, 2010 @ 5:22 pm

perfect. thanks CFB!

Lpettro says: March 5, 2010 @ 9:10 pm

My favorite part is the “still had all these” from Jimmy. What class.

Eric Levine says: March 5, 2010 @ 9:41 pm

If it was 3:30 AM and you had just won a $5K tournament, you might “still had all these” your opponent without thinking, too. Jimmy’s a classy guy. Don’t be fooled.