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Open Sorin, BW isn't a great archetype so I just think I'll take whatever is best and splash him if able. U seem to dry pretty fast, G and W have nothing incredible, while B seems to show some stuff, and R gives decent cards (Youth, Voices, Hound, etc.) so I remain open. I did pass Ever After second pick, because I was afraid that + Sorin would make a deck super slow so I picked something more generic (we'll see in the end that wouldn't have mattered).
Pack 2 Avacyn is opened so that guy's in W, and between him and me is a guy who drafted mono-W and gets passed Descend upon the Sinful (same pack as Avacyn). Both he and I opened Burn from Within so he goes into RW, reducing what I get.
Pack 3 I inexplicably get passed a lot of good U stuff (Stitched Mangler, Pore Over the Pages) despite my right neighbour being in U and not letting much pass pack 1. Too late anyway.

Pack 3 and especially 2 alternated 2-3 packs where there's absolutely nothing I'm happy to pick (that's how you get a 4th pick Farbog Revenant) and then a pack with 3+ cards that are good in my colours (Temper, Youth, Crow), and then nothing at all wheeled. So yeah I got passed jack shit obviously and got dicked super hard.
My deck was basically "play a couple of defensive creatures early, then turn 4-5 start madnessing Twins and Youth for value and beat people, finish with Uncaged Fury/Burn from Within or maybe grind with Sorin/Macabre Waltz?
It's a meh deck that has value plays in the midgame and ~6 removals, a weak deck. I could have had gotten some more decent cards (and played that Fevered Visions) had I moved into U but since my right neirhgbour was in it I'd have been poor as fuck either way.

Match 1 vs the top guy locally (yeah, I get matched to him round 1 over half the time we share a table), my left neighbour, RW exile.
He has flyers and my deck can't handle them 'cept with direct removal or throwing the crow for a chump. He has Declaration in Stone, Burn from Within, Descend upon the Sinful to exile everything I play so no Waltz/delirium for me. He kills me with Chasm too because I'm too dumb to realise I should try and slow things up till turns 4-5, eg. trade instead of hitting each other.
Sorin comes out and he seems super upset because his board is empty after I minus, but I attack with Sanguinary Mage and he topdecks Ember-Eye Wolf to kill Sorin, then 2 turns later kills me with a mix of flyers and Burn.

Match 2 vs RG wolves/stuff guy who drew round 1.
I win game 1 because he has issues hitting his mana.
Game 2 I'm the one struggling to get a 4th land, he plays Tracker turn 4, gets a clue, when I cast Dead Weight on it he's got his Loam Dryad to make the 5th mana which I forgot about and cracks a clue so it lives. With one more mountain I can hardcast Fiery Temper to finish it, or Voices -> Temper for more value, but the mountain never comes. Tracker keeps getting bigger because he hits every single land drop, and 2 turns later comes the 4/9 mythic angel. When 2nd mountain comes it's 2 turns too late to survive, 3 turns too late to have a shot at some sort of comeback.
Game 3 he's got that angel, but also Altered Ego on his own arsonists, quilled wolf, and some other stuff and I fuck up early by using Lightning Axe on a flipped Convicted Killer (yeah, that's how much I drew nothing of my 3-4 drops) instead of letting it trade with my Sanguinary Mage which won't do shit of the rest of the game.
The turn I get a chance to set up lethal next turn with Uncaged Fury he top decks the Castigator so I have to bait a block then use Fury to kill it.
Whatever.

Match 3 vs better BR. Because, you know, he's got all the cards I didn't get.
Neonate x2, Stormkirk Mentor x2 (I didn't have enough vampires to make it worth then), prob Olivia but he didn't draw her, Spiteful Motives, Heir of Falkenrath, Flameblade Angel, Skeleton, Geistblast, Voldaren Duelist x2 (they came in these stacked packs I mentioned, and I couldn't go aggro at the time because obviously all the 1-2 drops had been cut from me and mine were like Rats) etc.
So he wins game 1 by being faster than me, and when I get combos/answers I'm always one mana short.
Game 2 he has a Sanguinary Mage which he puts Spiteful Motive on. I have Fiery Temper but need one mountain. He plays Stormkirk Mentor next turn and I topdeck a mountain because fuck you David. I have to kill it using Sorin, for -4 rather than -3 because of that, so his Explosive Apparatus kills Sorin. Then he has Flameblade Angel which, as you remember, is a flyer, so I lose because all of my removal's already been used (he won game 1 with the Heir because I actually removed the Angel).

People gushing over how everyone's going to have prizes tonight, well after an unfun draft with an uninteresting deck to play (and I'd have had an underwhelming deck no matter my colours in the end, considering only these and U were open and U was equally poor considering the amount of people drafting it) and getting fucked with mana/"topdecking" a turn too late several times, y'all have fun picking Avacyn, Sorin, Declaration, Tracker, Abbey, etc. I'll take my Ruins and Welcome to the Fold and go home having wasted 4 hours. Five if you include this "write-up" and round up.