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Launch Week included two contests for collectors, as well as a number of large tournaments, including seven Draft Qualifiers leading to a King Draft Final on Saturday, the first time King Draft has been available anywhere! Here are the results of all these events.
Most Rares:
Lockescythe, with 15 copies of Arwen's Fate
Lockescythe wins a draft set (a draft pack and the three required boosters) from each block.
Though there were no prizes for the runners-up in this contest, the two players with the next largest number of a single rare were:
gondor_assassin, with 13 copies of Greed
blackjack21, with 12 copies of The Weight of a Legacy
Tournaments
Six Draft Qualifiers were held throughout the Launch Week, leading up to a Draft Final at the end of the week. The Final was the first King Draft tournament played anywhere! The qualifiers from the preliminary events were:
Draft Qualifiers: Fellowship
Qualifier 1: Rubber_Chicken, Treebeard
Qualifier 2: Serverman, Mr_5tein
Qualifier 3: prix, Lockescythe
Qualifier 4: ccggammerdotcom, saxgoddess25
Qualifier 5: Pharoah, trev
Qualifier 6: MikeBaggins, MichaelFriedman1
Qualifier 7: mldalton, NathanSFriedman
Draft Qualifiers: Tower
Qualifier 1: Black_Rider, The_Witch-king
Qualifier 2: BoromirOfBorg, Ugluk
Qualifier 3: Sting, Petit-scarab
Qualifier 4: NerfHerder, KashinKoji
Qualifier 5: mesix, Chegh_of_the_Ringss
Qualifier 6: unmovedmover, C-Wing
Qualifier 7: sapo_sk, OneRing
Qualifier 8: Jakketwa, tritonhawk
Qualifier 9: lucky7, pmwhite
Draft Final: King
The final was held on Saturday February 7, with all the qualifiers competing in a first round, and the top two finishers in these tournaments proceeding to a final round. The finalists in their finishing order were:
1st Place: Petit-scarab
2nd Place: Serverman
3rd Place: Rubber_Chicken
4th Place: mldalton
5th Place: MikeBaggins
6th Place: sapo_sk
7th Place: ccggammerdotcom
8th Place: NerfHerder
Two large special-format tournaments were also held, one in the Highlander format, in which players may only have one of any particular card in their deck instead of the usual four, and the Culture Shock format, in which players must only have one culture for each of their Free Peoples and Shadow sides, Frodo and The One Ring excepted.
32+ Player Highlander Tournament
1st Place: Serverman
2nd Place: Manson0815
3rd Place: Cecil
4th Place: Ian485
32+ Player Culture Shock Tournament:
1st Place: Pranky
2nd Place: KashinKoji
3rd Place: Serpent
4th Place: Airemith
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