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Went Mob, my neighbour had opened Gisa and Geralf (luckily I didn't have to play against it this time) and took Murder into UB, and his neighbour (our usual winner) tried to go Emerge but seeing no U and with the Priest as almost the only good card for his 3rd pick ended up GW.
We literally had only 1 R drafter amongst 6 people, leading to stuff like Weaver of Lightning wheeling twice, Fiery Temper almost wheeling too, and a pack with Thermo-Alchemist and another great R card. Some did end up cut.

I was BGw (splashing Faith Unbroken) without an artifact (prob should have taken an apparatus) and very light on removal (Boon cut by my neighbour p2, Rabid Bite and al taken by both GW drafters, so I had Disposal, Dead Weight, Faith Unbroken, Pack Guardian as an ambush, Grotesque Mutation for trick in the sb, and that's it).
Foul-Bloods, 2x Survivalists, Bloodbriar+It, Dusk Feaster as delirium pay-off, Scavengers/Grapple as potential recursion, I was pretty much curve out/get delirium online and try to get a midrange win.

Match 1 is against Naya (RGw) wolves, first game he stumbles a bit on mana while I have Kessig Prowler out t1 and curve a bit, he ends up losing when I clear his board with Disposal.
Game 2 I stumble a bit on mana and take some damage from 2x Village Messenger (kill one in response to trigger, he drops the other, welp), then we end in a stand-off of werewolves, I get delirious pretty late with Obsessive Skinner (and realise too late that I can put the counters on Mob too), time is called, I win 1-0.

Match 2 is paired down against GW.
I lose game 1 due to no Delirium basically (prevents me from playing Feaster on t5 and Foul Bloods/Survivalists have to trade rather than make him stop attacking; Mournwillow wouldn't help much tho, that card is bad in that archetype... ) and Fiend Binder preventing me from slowing things down when he looks to be winning the race.
I win game 2 with some of the cards I couldn't cast, we tend to trade a bunch of creatures but mine end up bigger.
Game 3 has him with a Shrill Howler + Sigardian Priest combo to annoy me, I set up a Ruthless Disposal but the next turn he drops a second Priest. In the end, time is called and we draw because I can very easily set up a large board given a couple turns, but couldn't get through/get big enough fast enough for turns.

Match 3 vs the usual winner, on GW too.
Game 1 comes down to him topdecking Expose Evil for 2 blockers, cracking the clue and topdecking Faith Unbroken for the 3rd one. Welp. Because I had Faith Unbroken and finally stabilised the board the turn before that, I could have taken over and won had I survived that attack.
Which I would have done had I dealt with his Fiend Binder earlier, by accepting that I'd lose a creature and double-blocking it. Instead, he used 3 different tricks to eat a creature each time (and because of the tapped blocker, pushing damage through). When I realised that, well... I could have won a game against him for once! But I'm the only one to blame when I misplay (against him it's not even greediness to not double-block, his builds are more well-rounded than most people here so of course he's got tricks—Tenacity, Borrowed Grace, etc.).
Game 2 he gets greedy with Inspector, Lone Rider x2, a 3-drop, a couple tricks... and a single plains. I start with Prowler into Pack Guardian and win quickly as he doesn't draw a single land.
Game 3 has me with Primal Druid, Bloodbriar, Fork in the Road... and a single swamp in my starting hand for the 3rd time this evening. I'm pretty miffed by my lack of luck but you gotta do what you gotta do and I mulligan. I already needed to cast Grapple EoT 2 during the first game to hit a swamp that time, after taking the exact same mulligan. I keep 2 swamps, Bloodbriar, Feaster and a couple other stuff, and hit no forests on the draw till turn 4 so I take a lot of damage from being unable to block after turn 3. It'll eventually snowball the match despite the appearance of a Mob and some other stuff because I have 3+ creature cards with G in hand and never hit my 2nd forest until I'm dead on board to get more blockers. I also don't hit delirium (need sorcery and I got several) which hurts my blocks a lot, as I take damage every turn so in the end Faith Unbroken on Dawn Gryff puts me on too short a clock.

On the other hand, him never drawing any of his Lone Rider with 2 lands available against me helped a lot.

End up 1-1-1 (while others finished, we played some other games, I think I went 2-4 or something and the other win was a floodfest with both of us on 13+ lands drawn in ~25 cards and my finding an answer first).
3rd (another one went 2-1), we only really opened Westvale Abbey, but I went home with Game Trail and I got to draft G (in arguably its worst pair, a 6-man pod, and with good cards like Gnarlwood Dryad cut from me, but still), so not the worst evening.