The Dance Party is routinely our biggest Middle School event of the season, and this year’s was no exception: we had 48 players, good for 6 rounds and 6 weeks of Middle School.

The top 8 was quite diverse and spicy, with rogue decks like Mirari’s Wake, Naya Zoo, and Living Death Zombie Infestation. That wasn’t the only exciting story, though: Matt Perlman won the whole thing on Pink Weenie Tax Rack one year after doing exactly that in the 2024 Dance Party. With his win, Matt not only earned himself a spot at this year’s Invitational, but also joined the extremely exclusive ranks of Lorien Elleman and Rob Connolly as the only players who have won more than one Stones league!

Slops for the league: players did extremely poorly on deck photo submissions this time. Like, half of our players didn’t send in decklists. I was able to comb through discord posts to find a good chunk of the missing ones, but that’s an annoying process. Please, don’t make me do that. As it stands, we’re missing decklists/photos for 1/3 of the players in this league. RTS is one of the only repositories of Middle School decklists; getting lists every league is a huge deal for us and this format. Email in your fuckin’ deck photos next time, dudes.

Anyway, we should be back with a league in the next few months – it’s a busy time for our TOs and our stream guru recently had a baby, so everyone’s attention is spread thin. But we’re also all excited about the format, so dammit, School will be Out soon!

  1. Matt Perlman – Pink Weenie Tax Rack
  2. Pete Simpson – Living Death ZI
  3. Andrew Webb – Parfait
  4. Stuart Ziarnik – Naya Zoo
  5. Brian Tweedy – Mirari’s Wake Control
  6. Lorien Elleman – Enchantress
  7. Kai Schafroth – Monu U Stiflenaught
  8. Mike Simpson – RG Goblins
  9. Brian Espinoza – Mono U Stiflenaught
  10. Brian Lonergan – Gro-A-Tog
  11. Ty Thomason – UR Chance Encounter
  12. Patrick Vincent – UW Landstill – DECK PHOTO MISSING
  13. David Gleicher – Rebels
  14. Mike O’Malley – TerraGeddon – DECK PHOTO MISSING
  15. Angelo Kortyka – Yang Burn
  16. Levi Smith – Braids Rock
  17. Galen Lemei – Parfait – DECK PHOTO MISSING
  18. Mike Klements – Counter Rebels
  19. Bryan Chasanoff – ReStormInator
  20. Gregg Graham – Big Green
  21. Masayuki Higashi – Replenish Combo – DECK PHOTO MISSING
  22. Jake Baltz – Spiral Tron
  23. Bryan Hockey – Nether Spirit Control
  24. Ryan Bartley – Tinker Combo
  25. Jake Hilty – Burning Tendrils
  26. Phillip Collier – Shadow Weenie
  27. Keith Sweeney – Kai Budde
  28. Alex Christian – DECKLIST MISSING
  29. David Palmer – Sligh
  30. Jeff DeMario – Sligh
  31. Paul Garrett – Mono U Stasis – DECK PHOTO MISSING
  32. Shun Fukazawa – Reanimator
  33. Patrick Muenks – Aluren
  34. Liz Garcia – Ponza Oath – DECK PHOTO MISSING
  35. Tim Baran – OathStill
  36. Sean McClay – DECKLIST MISSING
  37. Takuya Kawakubo – Esper Shadowmage – DECK PHOTO MISSING
  38. Chris Taylor – Balancing Tings
  39. Robin Mannas – DECKLIST MISSING
  40. Eric Caffrey – Life
  41. Doug Matus – Mono Black Aggro – DECK PHOTO MISSING
  42. Patrick Little – Full English Breakfast – DECK PHOTO MISSING
  43. Alex Avance – DECKLIST MISSING
  44. Rajah James – Yang Burn
  45. Chet Miller – Reanimator
  46. Sam Goldman – DECKLIST MISSING
  47. Chad Proctor-Frazier – Life – DECK PHOTO MISSING
  48. Elliott Frank – DECKLIST MISSING