Eye of the Matrix: Restricted Access

Standings

The second event in Team PTSD’s Eye of the Matrix series ran on the Team PTSD Discord from August 28, 2020 to September 13, as Swiss rounds followed by a top 8 cut in double elimination. Thirty-six players entered, one more than the series opener a month earlier.

SDotAkuma took it on a 9-1 record, the single loss coming against [BF] Champion, who finished second at 9-2 with both losses going the other way.

The restriction the event is named for was a special ban list, announced on August 19 by Timothy Teo (Azyrine), who ran the event and played in it. Three of its nine lines were the bans already in force in the official game, Swap Parts, Press the Advantage and Multi-Mission Gear, which are also the three the series opener had used a month earlier. The other six were this event’s own: the SRTs as a class, plus Horri-Bull // Ground Trooper, Sky Shadow Sync, Perceptor // Precise Sniper, Peace Through Tyranny and Daring Escape.

Four of those six were eventually taken out of the continuing game for good, and not one of them had been yet. Horri-Bull // Ground Trooper and Daring Escape were banned, Sky Shadow Sync and Peace Through Tyranny replaced, each set out on Why Cards Are Banned or Replaced. Perceptor // Precise Sniper was never removed anywhere; it survives in the record as half of SkyCeptor, one of the shells that made Sky Shadow Sync a problem.

Registration ran through smash.gg, the site that later became start.gg, and entrants had to submit a decklist by email before the event opened. Those lists were never published, which is why no deck is recorded against any placement here. Standings are given as the bracket lists them, by player tag.