We refreshed the Elo Project tonight; the next refresh will happen after MC Amsterdam. Shoutout to @pg8.bsky.social for going 15-1 over two LTQs to ascend to #1!

We bought a townhouse and moved in today! (Yes, if we were just a couple weeks faster, we would have avoided the flood.) My desk did not survive the move, so I won't be setting up my desktop for a couple days. Another Elo hiatus ;_;

One box that got wet in the flood held all my NES and N64 games. I'm going to have to clean and test all of them to see whether they still work. Fun stream idea? 🤔

Refresh complete! The site should be up to date including all RCs + LTQs from the previous cycle, as well as SS Chiba and Arena Championship 12. Let me know about corrections!

I should be able to get the Elo Project refreshed tomorrow evening. Thanks for being patient!

WLW WWL LWL to miss day two today. For better or worse I could see myself run hot in my wins and then made game-losingly bad decisions in my losses. So it felt like things lined up for me and I just threw =/

Wow I just realized I think I'm supposed to go Plains, Seam Rip on the play game 1 turn 1 in my last match. Didn't realize that was even a decision. (Didn't matter, but it was a sliver of equity that I think I lost.)

Petition to name the deck Azorius Stratified Exile Zone.

I'll be in DC battling standard this weekend; I'm not going to have the time to get last weekend's RCs on the site until afterwards. Expect a big update next week. This also means I have to skip commentating SS Chiba; it's the first big Japanese event I've missed in 7 years. 😢

👀 Game on.

Pausing SS London curating for a bit to play some Cursed Words. Any interest in Friday night roguelike Boggle? www.twitch.tv/ajlvi

It's been a couple of PTs since a stats thread, so let's do a little post-PTSOS stats thread!

A long time coming, www.mtgeloproject.net is updated with PTSOS and all five Vegas PTQs/LCQs. These events came from Companion so there was more guesswork than normal in curating. Hit me with corrections please!

I've uploaded our RC Tokyo coverage to YouTube and timestamped the matches in the descriptions. If you didn't stay up until 5am with @jasoniltg.bsky.social and me, we forgive you. But you can watch anyway: Day 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSG... Day 2 and top 8: www.youtube.com/watch?v=npAS...

No Slivdrazi, but Noah's repeat dream is alive. Top 8 underway!

Going live at the top of the hour with @jasoniltg.bsky.social for day two of the Japan/Korea RC. Can Noah Ma repeat with Temple Garden? Or will one of the Izzet decks claim the title? Will we pull a Slivdrazi in our MB2 packs? Let's find out on www.twitch.tv/ajlvi!

Going live with @jasoniltg.bsky.social to cover the Japan/Korea RC. Are you team Llanowar Elves or team Steam Vents? www.twitch.tv/ajlvi

This is as close to receiving a manila folder in a rainy back alley from a guy in a trenchcoat as you can get as an Elo project manager: I've been very generously given LCQ and PTQ data from Vegas. I'm going to work on curating them in the next 24 hours, then a site refresh.

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!

Okay, so: this weekend, Pro Tour. Next weekend, Japan/Korea RC. I am looking for cohosts to provide English commentary with me. If you keep weird hours and enjoy prowess mirrors, please get in touch!

Who designed this card? My compliments to the chef!

This was fun + I got all the backlog tournaments I wanted to add to the site yesterday, so I'm running back Cursed Words at 7pm eastern tonight. Come hang out!

Curating the Hunter Burton main event is going to be a job. I only have first + last initial for 75% of the participants. My approach is, "if there's exactly one Craig E that played in a previous HBMO, we'll assume it's that guy here too." But it's way more guesswork than normal.

Sick of Elo curating for the day, going live in a few minutes to play some word games. www.twitch.tv/ajlvi

www.mtgeloproject.net is updated with Richmond and the rest of this cycle's RCs. With these events, the site now holds over 4,000,000 matches of Magic! I have a few old events to add, then I'm hoping the April lull will give me a chance to add a few features. 🤞

Elo project is updated today with the RCs + LCQs from Taipei, Mexico City, and Turin. Seems like the Mexico City and Bangkok LCQs were on Companion and are lost, which is a real bummer. ;_; SS Richmond + last weekend's RCs + HMBO main event coming soon!

We untapped and drew Brazen Borrower. Is this game a win or a loss?

Top 8 starting in a few minutes!

Day one was fun, but now it's time to get down to business. RC Kyoto continues on www.twitch.tv/ajlvi together with Joseph Puglisi!

Going live in about five minutes. Come see what the best minds in Japan have brewed up for us!

Tomorrow night is the Japan/Korea RC! I'll be live on www.twitch.tv/ajlvi covering all the action. Come hang out and watch standard with us! — Friday stream starts at 9pm Eastern with @domhrv.bsky.social co-hosting — Saturday stream starts at 8pm Eastern with Joseph Puglisi co-hosting

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.

Wheels fell off yesterday in the main event but we rallied in the RCQ today for 5-1, $100, and a DC invite. Happy to have another weekend on the calendar ^_^

Surprise! We got final standings on Friday, so I had last weekend to work on it, and there were only 180 new names in Milwaukee (compared to 875 in Toronto), so I got it all done today. www.mtgeloproject.net is updated. ^_^ Now to unhook my phone until after Richmond...

www.mtgeloproject.net is updated today with Santiago, its LCQ, and Arena Championship 11. I'm not expecting to see Milwaukee+Vancouver standings until early next week, and expect to use my Magic time next week on Richmond prep. So it may be a little bit before they appear.

Curating queue: • Arena Championship 11 is done and ready to go • We should see Santiago standings soon; I'll update the site with AC11 + Santiago + LCQ when it appears • Milwaukee and Vancouver probably won't appear for another week or so. Will try to get them done before Richmond but no promises.

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.

After a marathon week of curating, SS Toronto and its LCQ are now on www.mtgeloproject.net. I am sure there is a lot to correct, so don't be shy!

Toronto final standings, you say? This is going to be a job, but at least now I can get started.

31 players have accomplished this feat. Any list with Kai and Shuhei at the top is pretty good company. GGs @atsevariel.bsky.social !

"New" names in Toronto raw data: 1110 New names that I've seen before and know how to translate: 248. Uh, we're gonna need final standings to get anywhere with this.

Refresh is done. I thought for sure we'd get Portland standings in the middle of the redeploy, because that's just my luck... but no, we're still waiting. I'll wait one more day before compiling PT stats.

PT data is all ready to go, but I'm still missing final standings for Portland. I'll give up and upload everything with Melee names for Portland after work today. It's just awkward because I expect 30-40 people to get merged and that means the initial ratings will move around.

Sad RCQ story: my pool had six rares in it. #2026things

www.mtgeloproject.net is updated with SS Atlanta and SS Lyon, and their LCQs... just in time to start waiting for RC Portland results ^_^; Also in this update: 30 NRG events were added, plus I moved the "is_active" date to 2022-01-01.

👀 Final standings! I'll curate today after work.

_Still_ waiting for SS Atlanta/Lyon final standings, but we did a bit of backend work this weekend, so I'm pushing an intermediate site refresh right now. This makes 30 NRG events public. Still have to add a leaderboard, planning to do that alongside the SS data.

On a deep Discord dive and came across this. Get Howled, sucker.

We have again entered the final standings waiting room. =p

Note that while I have gathered a bunch of destination/10K/"big" side events from 2022-2025 weekends, going forward the ONLY side events that I intend to include are the Limited Championship Qualifiers.