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8-man pod, an almost mono-W deck, 5 splashing a third colour, and only two straight 2-colours decks.
I started toward RG or RW, but W completely dries after pick 5. Then G dries up too. I end up with the scraps in BR. Open Unlicensed Disintegration pack 2 and back on track, but the card quality I receive is shit, while pack 2 is filled with GW cards because my 2 left neighbours are trying to play BR or Bx for some reason. One of them gets enough good W that he can stay on it but they cut all non-trash B from me.
Pack 3 I open Nissa (... yay) and receive several RG packs (with the R being Voltaic Brawler or Quicksmith Genius, eg. not at all the shit I wanna hear about), then entirely UW packs for the second half.

I end up with enough playables but when you're an aggro deck and you're running 2x Thriving Rats, Prakhata Club Security or Rush of Vitality and only one Built to Smash, you know you're not in for a good time.
Another Disintegration is splashed by one guy, another is splashing 2x Weaponcraft Enthusiast and Underhanded Designs in his UG deck, and a 3rd one is even splashing Combustible Gearhulk in his GWr. Bunch of people couldn't get fixed on their colours and stripped me of whatever was good in mine in this pool.
Overall everyone had weaker decks than usual.

Match 1 vs GW energy
Game 1 is curving out with Freighter into 3 creatures + my removal (Disintegration, Welding Sparks) when he started out with Durable Handicraft and semi-flooding... it's over quickly.
Game 2 has me stuck on low mana (even for a 16-lands deck) but thanks to Midnight Oil and Midnight Doorbuster I find the gas to finish him before he can threaten crackback (him playing Skygates and Tasseled Dromedaries doesn't help his case).
1-0

Match 2 vs BW tokens
Usual winner. He started BR too (2 sits to my left) splashing Depala, then got passed a bunch of W pack 2 so moved to BW.
I get crushed in 2 games because I just can't draw mana outside of my opening hand (including mulling a 0-lander), and he's got Fragmentise when I play Freighter turn 3, or 2x Die Young for my shitty creatures.
Basically I don't have enough interaction anyway, and Depala and getting artifacts more easily for his own Screecher make him better at racing anyway, and my deck can't beat Self-Assemblers.
1-1

Match 3 vs UG splashing cloudblazer
His deck is basically Multiform Wonder+Nissa, then Skygates/Turtles/etc. for early defense, Aether Meltdown and 2x Select for Inspection to gain time, while playing Era of Innovation and Glimmer of Genius (and Theorist) for draw.
So his deck is weak.
But mine is too, I win game 1 off of Disintegration when he taps out to play Nissa and I remove the giant blocker + finish him off.
Game 2 I miss my 3rd land drop 2 turns in a row on the draw (hand was 2 lands, Dhund Operative, Thriving Rats, Embaal Bruiser, Freighter, Maulfist Squad, and I drew Lawless Broker... so a single land was enough to get an explosive start), then I flood really hard (6 spells, 9 lands, in a 16-lands deck) and can't threaten tricks because I have to play my fabricate/artifacts pre-combat to play around Select on Freighter turning off Bruiser and Operative... I get him down to 1 somehow by abusing Doorbuster and Menace, but Multiform Wonder hits the field and I can't beat that card without Disintegration or Tidy Conclusion in hand.
Game 3 I get fucked because I don't have a 2-drop (despite the 5 in the deck) to block his Thriving Turtle so it just starts growing up to a 3/6. Without Doorbuster, I'm forced to waste Disintegration on it, and I just lose again when Wonder shows up because Select for Inspection is Time Walk when your creature quality doesn't let you alpha strike. Of course Tidy Conclusion and Start the Engine are my next two draws, could both have given me the game.

1-2, I get 5th and my round 3 opponent 3rd... too bad our openings were Chandra, Nissa, Spirebluff Canal and Inspiring Vantage, I end up with a worthless Combustible Gearhulk.
The other table was a 6-man pod with one of each fastland (save Concealed Courtyard), a foil Spirebluff Canal, and Dovin Baan, so they had stuff for everyone. That was nice for them especially since they were the "newer guys" group.

I'm not mad or anything this time, which I guess is an improvement, but I'm quite unsatisfied with the evening, between a stupid draft that punished me quite hard (GW guy splashing Gearhulk opened the rare module P1P1 and decided to force BW or GW, so my hand was kinda getting forced again, into BR or UR which are both archetypes I dislike in Kaladesh), uninspired games decided by bombs or mana, and barely missing out on "prizes."
Granted I wouldn't have been satisfied no matter how the matches went because I don't really like that archetype, ain't really at ease with aggro, and the deck quality and minimalistic synergies weren't fun at all.

And somebody stole/took away one of my die. That's the 3rd or 4th now, and also the only one I had of that colour. Shit's getting old.