Irish Nationals 1999

Ye ole Three Card Trick. Who will pick the Ace of Hearts? Team members Ian ( left in black ) and Paul ( middle, Blue shirt ) look on.

Anti-clockwise from right: Ollie Hyde, Stewart Shenkins, Ivan, Brian "Rape newbies for cards" O'Mahoney and a long haired guy.

More Day 2 play. Clockwise from left: Dave "Buy this card cause I need to pay my mortage/car/rent/pimp" Finuncane, someone, James Small, Justin, someone else, Ed "Irl one list".

John Larkin wanders in after sleeping out the first 3 rounds of day 2. Yet he still made top 8! Behind him are two of this years team - Dave "I'm on the team again - give me a Guiness" Kearney and another person whos name I want sent to me.

Graham gets his well deserved   prize.

John Larkin gets an alarm clock.

Team 5FU member Liam reaps the reward of this Hatred deck.

Paul unluckily lost out on top 8 due to restance ratio. He placed an excellent 11th.

Judge Ralph asks three escaped lunatics ( Cormac, Tom and John ) to leave.

My dog, Max, and Cartman were not at this years Nationals.

Wizards of the Coast has so much money, they bought the Royal Dublin Hotel to hold Magic Tournies in.

The dreaded table 13. Liam fears the "Unbearable Boredom of  Being" that  is named Eoin Brosnan. Eoin is the slowest player in Ireland. He appears to be wearing black, but this is because he is a portable black hole - so time stops and light cannot escape. And least that how it appears to anyone whos ever played him.