Autumn Cup
This Cup featured 16 Masters, 3 Juniors, and 3 Seniors — this means it was our first-ever Cup with separate divisions! A very unusual metagame for this event early in the MEG format, Gardevoir ex was by far the most represented deck with 5 players (4 Masters, 1 Junior), two of whom were playing the Jellicent ex variant, including the Juniors/Seniors winner, Byron E. (2-0-1). After Gardevoir, Charizard was the second-most played deck, with the two Masters pilots, Avery M. (3-2-1) and Tyler M. (4-1-1), meeting both in Round 1 and Top 4. Dragapult ex, Gholdengo ex (split between the traditional Energy Search Pro and MEG Lunatone/Solrock-based engine), and Slowking were the other archetypes with multiple representatives in the room. Thalia (4-0-2) made the perfect call with the Hydrapple ex deck she’d been working on, with all of the other players in cut representing huge Weaknesses to Grass. After defeating Adam (3-2-1) in Top 4 in a tense three-game set, she and Tyler came to an agreement in which Finals resolved diplomatically.
Masters Top 4
- Tyler Martin on Charizard ex (with Pidgeot ex)
- Thalia Goodnow on Hydrapple ex
- Adam Caracciolo on Marnie’s Grimmsnarl ex
- Avery Murphy on Charizard ex (with Pidgeot ex)
Juniors/Seniors Top 4
- Byron E. on Gardevoir ex (with Jellicent ex)
- Maxwell M. on Gholdengo ex
- Jenna E. on Charizard ex (with Pidgeot ex)
- Deven R. on Gholdengo ex (with Solrock & Lunatone)
