Tournament  2007 July 7th 2007 : Southport After last years Tournament went right to the wire in a tense multiplayer ending, the 4th OGC Magic Tournament arrives......  First Round (Singles) The singles round began with last years 1st and 2nd playing, with James Fawcett eventually grinding Mike Brandon's to a victory. However despite eye brow raising wins across the board it was for the most part dead even with most competitors taking 3 wins from the first round. Monovie Asita, who squeezed onto the podium in 2005 was dead last however with a solitary win over 2005 champion Simon Gray. Defending Champion Mike Brandon managed to pick up 6 straight wins in the first round. Luke Greensmith, known as the Magic bigmouth for the previous few years had kept himself subtly quite however and had bagged himself an excellent staging platform for the second round. Notable highlights of the first round, were James Fawcett putting Luke Greensmith down to one life before being overcome, Luke being on the receiving of such an event by Mike Brandon. Andrew Townley also pulled off a similar last gasp turnaround against Tim Harness. Results Table Singles games Asita Brandon Brown Fawcett Gray Greensmith Harness Townley Pts Asita X L L L W L L L 1 Brandon W X W L W W W W 6 Brown W L X L W L L W 3 Fawcett W W W X L L L L 3 Gray L L L W X L W W 3 Greensmith W L W W W X W W 6 Harness W L W W L L X L 3 Townley W L L W L L W X 3 W = Win, L = Loss. Wins highlighted indicate victories with no life conceded Second Round (Multiplayer) The final round is a multi-player, with players seated at random and attacking to the left with a spell range of 2. Points are awarded for the top five finishers with 5 points going to the player who wins the game, descending to a single point to the player who finishes 5th. Half a point is also awarded for each kill made. Second Round results Pts Kill bonus1st round Total 1st  Mike 5 3 6 14       2nd  Tim 4 - 3 7 3rd  Simon 3 .5 3 6.5 4th  Charly 2 - 3 5 5th Brown 1 - 3 4 6th  Luke 0 - 6 6 7th Fawcett 0 - 3 3 8th  Monovie 0 - 1 1 Mike Brandon managed to utterly dominate the multiplayer, taking control when key players Luke Greensmith and James Fawcett practically eliminated each other. The timely use of Jaya Ballard against James Brown was the major game event, Brown calling it treachery for killing him, Mike defending himself by pointing out, without unleashing that card, Brown would have killed him! In the end all but Monovie fell victim to Mike Brandon's deck, with Simon taking him down early on, which proved a decisive factor in Simon's final position. James Fawcett's sacrifice against Luke proved his downfall, leading him to place effectively nowhere in this year standings, however Luke who also bailed out early, looked set to still make the podium pending his excellent first round performance, until Simon snook into 3rd spot, following a close final encounter with Simon and Mike standing off with Tim as a seeming puppet to both. In the end Mike Brandon became the first OGC player to retain the Magic Tournament crown, with Tim making an unlikely but first podium appearance, thanks to not flunking the first round, and Simon making his 2nd podium appearance after his 2005 win. Tim was delighted to have made it to the podium and somewhat surprised too, meanwhile Fawcett complained at an overweighting in points available from the multiplayer and Luke seemed content, missing out just on his Magic redemption. Final Standings 2007 1st Mike  14 2nd  Tim 7 3rd  Simon 6.5 4th Luke 6 5th  Charly 5 6th Brown 4 7th Fawcett 3 8th  Monovie 1 Vouchers of £10 & £5 for Forbidden planet were awarded for the top 2 whislt 3rd place picked up a special deck box.