Trevor attended the year that Weeks won... 2014. I don't think he made top 8.

Trying to remember... It was Weeks, ATM, billiv, me, country dude, juiceman, ... And I forget the other two.


EDIT: Other people below remembered. It was Jason and Jim.

Trevor won the coolest trophy ever. For Timth place. I got Timth place next year. Cool trophy.

The one thing that should be pointed out, that with a field that is smaller, that the competition is much stiffer. I competed at GenCon in SWM championships from 2005-2013. My best finish was GenCon 2008, in a field of 90 participants in the 150pt SWM championship, I barely made the top 8, in which I was the 8th seed, and lost in the first playoff round against Matt Peterson, who was the #1 seed, thus ending my run, finishing 8 out of 90 peops! In larger fields, you can slide through much easier, missing top players, even winning easy matches against peops that don't eat the game for breakfast/lunch/dinner. You can't say that now. All the players in the 18 that will be competing in the champs this year, are all experienced, extremely knowledgeable, well skilled SWM players. That is not the case with the massive entrants that used to participate in the earlier SWM days with Wizards of the Coast. Each year that I participated after '08, got harder and harder, because the attrition of the game, left the less skilled players leaving the game, and the top players continuing on year after year. I am not saying that we haven't lost top players ( Billiv, and a host of others ), however, now, you mostly won't have the first 2 rounds of the champs where you cake walk through the early rounds. It's mostly a grind in each round, with tough competition. Let us not discount the quality that are left in the SWM community!

So how close was I!?