{"id":1159,"date":"2019-06-19T23:55:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\/blog\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T07:33:54","slug":"swedish-nationals-2019-organizers-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premodernmagic.com\/blog\/swedish-nationals-2019-organizers-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Nationals 2019: Organizer’s Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

April. I had just booked a venue for Swedish Nationals, capped at 36 people. That should probably suffice, in light of the attendance of 18 players at last year’s Nationals<\/a>, right? Shortly thereafter, Erkka “Prote” Jouste hits me up on the Premodern Discord<\/a> and asks if the event is open for him and a few other Finnish Premodern enthusiasts. “Sure, just let me know how many!”. The same evening I get a list of 13 (!) confirmed players\u2014talk about mobilization!\u00a0I released the remaning slots on a first-come first-serve basis, and they were all gone within an hour, with a dozen people on the waiting list. The hype was real.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fortunately, I managed to book a somewhat larger venue (the same as for last year, as it happens), able to accomodate ten more players. A few cancellations and last-minute registrations later, everyone who wanted to play got a chance to do so. And so, on a lovely summer Saturday on the 8th of June in Stockholm, 46 players entered the battlefield to determine who would be the Swedish National champion in Premodern. That’s quite a crowd, and the biggest Premodern tournament to date, actually, surpassing last year’s Euro Champs<\/a>\u00a0in October with 43 players. But the scene has indeed grown since then, both inside and outside of Sweden.<\/p>\n

Besides the immense glory\u2014and the Swedish-Finnish rivalry, which added an extra dimension\u2014these were the prizes at stake.<\/p>\n

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Since it’s not that clear from the photo, that’s an Odyssey starter in the winner’s cup, an Odyssey and an Invasion starter as third prize, an Onslaught starter as fourth prize, promo Counterspells to each of place 5\u20138, whom also got to draft five playsets. The first and the second place also got decent cash prizes that could help cover travel expenses to this year’s European Championships in Madrid 19 October. That will be an awesome event, by the way, but more about that another time. The art prints, Orcish Settlers<\/a> by Pete Venters and Bounty of the Hunt<\/a> and Kjeldoran Outpost<\/a> by Jeff A. Menges, were raffled out among all players finishing all Swiss rounds. Oh, and then there’s the Cursed Scroll<\/a> to the cursed player ending up in ninth place, as is becoming tradition.<\/p>\n

The starting field<\/h2>\n

The field of decks looked as follows:<\/p>\n