Disqualified at round 10 from RC Prague
Alexey PaulotI was disqualified from RC Prague at a 7-2 record for missing my Sauna trigger. There were 5 minutes left on the clock. I was in a winning spot in game 3, I said pass, my opponent didn't need to untap anything so he drew his cards immediately, then I said wait, I draw for my Sauna and look at my top card when my opponent stopped me and said missed trigger while a judge was sitting at our table. I was shortcutting to try to finish the game because it could take a while because it was a boardstall but I was drawing multiple cards a turn, just drew my Wanshiton for pressure and card draw to find one of my 2 Origins of Metalbending to kill his Nursery and finish the game. I still had 2 Wisdoms in the deck and 2 Stormchaser's Talent to buy back Wisdoms, Toph was making a huge board and my opponent had only Nursery going.
I was playing fast and was exhausted from the heat and bad sleep so I played sloppy. Earlier in the match I did an extra draw on turn 1 of game 2 because I was distracted, I mulled to 6, didn't remember it, had 8 cards after my draw step. This resulted in a fair judge call where I got my first warning of the tournament and lost my turn 1 Gran-Gran. It really threw me out of the zone, I almost never make such big mistakes and it made me feel really bad and play poorly for the rest of the match. I imagine this incident also influenced the judge to DQ.
I play Magic RCs and Spotlights for the fun of it and the glory, I didn't need the qualification or the cash. I always try to do my best because I love Magic and the community, my reputation as a player is way more important to me than any small cash prize I could get playing a Spotlight or RC. I really try to play good Magic, but I sometimes get sloppy when the clock is low on long weekends, but because of that I can't remember the last time I went to time in any real Magic format while I play mostly complex decks with long games.
I kind of understand the judges trying to be strict because the rulings got very lenient, and they try to do the judging of intentions, but I feel I got severely misunderstood and received a really unfair DQ for an extra scry on a trigger that has to happen in a high pressure situation where the game depends on me to finish.