ajlvi
@ajlvi
Threes! enthusiast, number theorist, software engineer, and data scraper for the MTG Elo Project. (He/him) Elo project Patreon:
Flavor fail alert: The Black Arrow doesn't just win you the game against Form of the Dragon.
Plenty of people played one event, won it, and are done for now. Paul Green went from lost finals --> won next event undefeated. Guilherme seems to have done the opposite, oddly enough.
Someone asked on the other site for a list of everyone who has won a Limited Championship Qualifier. I believe this list is complete as of today (26.07.31).
Never going to miss an opportunity to show off the Savage Punch that @ajolipa.bsky.social painted for my cube.
- Sixteen players have appeared in all twelve PTs. - Eleven of these players have appeared at all three Worlds too. - Five of these players are 12/12 on PT day 2s. - Only two (Javier Dominguez and Eli Kassis) are 15/15 making day 2 when counting worlds. Full data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Attendance streaks. There are now 19 players left that have attended all 11 post-pandemic paper Pro Tours. 14/19 (boldfaced) have also attended all three Worlds. Eight of these players have made all 11 day twos. Full sheet with this data: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
This weekend on www.twitch.tv/ajlvi, we've got some Standard action from Tokyo! • The day 1 stream starts at 8:30pm Eastern (00:30 UTC). • The day 2 stream starts at 8:00pm Eastern (00:00 UTC). I'll be joined on the mic by @jasoniltg.bsky.social both days. Come hang out with us!
This weekend is the Japan/Korea RC, held in Kyoto. My usual co-hosts are busy, so I'm putting out an open call: does anyone out there keep weird hours and want to color-commentate a standard event? Stream starts 9pm EDT Friday night, 8pm EDT Saturday night.
Sad not to get to play a little more with this one, because the whole thing was over so fast. Definitely the least troubled I've ever felt overall, taking all seven games into account. If I've had a stronger draft deck, it's been years and years.
31 players have accomplished this feat. Any list with Kai and Shuhei at the top is pretty good company. GGs @atsevariel.bsky.social !
@jkyu06.bsky.social I have very few old foreign cards but thought of you as I went past this one.
I was very lucky to be a Magic-obsessed 13-year-old when I was. Cataloging cards today: oh, Snap is $8? I must have twenty of those. Survey says:
Here's the leaderboards had this existed in 2023 (when @yellowhat.bsky.social led the way at 17-6-1) and 2024 (when @simonnielsenmtg.bsky.social put up a 20-4!). Top 16 was a clean cut at 42MP in 2023, but the 45s went down to 18th place in 2024. Both years 1+ person was top 16 without all 8 drafts.
• @smdster.bsky.social has the longest streak of cuts made at consecutive events: 16 PTs, everything from PT Dominaria in 2018 to the present. As such, Sam is one of 9 players to have made all nine cuts since the pandemic. The full list is pictured.
ggs Ben! Very similar here, about two hours of work after this to finish a couple mementos. Glad Hades 2 gave me an excuse to stop because I was already starting to think about the 100%-in-30-hours achievement.
I've been trying to clear this room FOREVER. Probably spent like seven or eight hours on it a while ago and gave up, then another three hours or so this week. Finally got it. I could cry.
One of my like top five favorite things about life on planet Earth is happening this afternoon at 4:27pm Eastern at GDQ (twitch.tv/gamesdonequick) — incredible Mario players sight-reading custom levels. If you haven't ever watched something like this before, I cannot recommend this enough.
Thanks to all who watched SS Chiba with us last weekend! Here's the answers to the props sheet. A number of people got 8/10, including @jkyu06.bsky.social and @seangoddard.bsky.social. I'll be back with the RC in the fall!
This weekend ttv/ajlvi will have English commentary of SS Chiba. Streams start at 8pm Eastern Friday and Saturday nights. Slated to join me are @jkyu06.bsky.social and Przemyslaw Olszewski on day 1 and Chase Masters for day 2. And there's props! Make your predictions at www.mtgeloproject.net/props .
Holy crap, my NES works, and the game works, and it held the names of my party members after being off for a few minutes. We may be in business. I've never played this game before. Maybe I'll check it out on stream in July?
This came in the mail today... what are the chances that the battery still works after 35 years?