So here we are:
The finals.
And with it, one last chance for me to give you all...
So first of all, to you gamblers wanting to immortalize yourselves in the glory of Banner-hood for the VS system Collective We are going all out. So betters! Here is how you can score in this final week:
10 points: Call the series winner
10 points: Call who wins the opening coin-toss.
10 points: Call which team lands first blood damage in game 1.
10 points: Call what turn the game ends in the final game.
10 points: Call the series result (Example: TNNB wins 2 games to 1)
2x points: Call the endurance total of the winner in the final game within 5 points.
3x points: Call the exact endurance point total of the loser of the last game.
Now take note! to double your score you don't need to guess WHO wins, just the the general area the winner ends the game on for endurance. So if you picked, say 35, if the winner ends anywhere from 30 to 40 endurance at the end of the game, you DOUBLE your points! Not bad! thats 100 potential points!
HOWEVER, there is a dark horse pick! Pick the exact endurance of the LOSER of the last game. and your new total is tripled.
That is 300 points on a perfectly picked series! This means that there is a chance even a player that has never made a single pick yet could walk out as the pick-master supreme champion!
Now lets take a look at the finals match-up.
GRAND FINAL - TNNB(Steph) VS (Aaron)Captain Italy
This is it. We started with 32 of the biggest, baddest, most frustrating and the fastest builds out there that we could find. And these are the two that survived bad matchups and occasionally... bad play and they are still here.
In one corner stands a build that needs no introduction.
The New Next Brotherhood has long been a mainstay of winning culture since its inception. An example of the monsters that exist in a long-forgotten age where only the strong survive. It's simple consistency reigns supreme while its ease of use can be often mistaken for a lack of complexity and far-sighted deck-building.
Not so. Rather it is a shining example of advanced deck design boasting unique answers to many problematic builds it may cross paths with while keeping true to a merciless tempo.
The king of old has come to defend its crown.
In the other corner, we have some new blood.
Captain Italy is a newcomer to a formal top finish listing, but do not be fooled by its unique approach and campy style. It doesn't actually Play VS against its opponents, rather, it dares opponents to win within 4 turns. and plays virtually zero defenses. And then, if the opponent fails, it wins on an improbably explosive turn 5 with what I would describe as, the most efficient series of pumps, removal and answers a single turn could ever boast with a consistency that even the deck's pilot finds surprising.
See, the problem with older classics like TNNB being labelled as King of a monster format is, when a contest of monsters is started, you occasionally attract the attention of something undiscovered.
Something Unique, and unanswered. Something that doesn't seem to have an immediately observable weakness.
A new monster.
Favored to Win: No line.
Best of luck to those picking this week!
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