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Redemption® Collectible Trading Card Game HQ => Playgroup and Tournament Central => Redemption® Official Tournaments => Topic started by: crustpope on June 23, 2010, 12:37:43 PM
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I am placing it here because some have not cheched the Ohio Tournaments thread and rightly so, since it is a tournament that represents more than just Ohio.
There will be free lodging at the church. Please let me know how many will be staying at the church from your party.
There will be a donuts and juice breakfast provided at the Church for those staying at the church.
Lunch will also be provided (I am debating between Burgers and chips and a drinks or lunchmeat (turkey/ham) chips and drinks) I will need to collect some money too cover this cost (probably just a couple of bucks) Dinner will be whatever is left over. If we need to we will coordinate something more for dinner such as pizza.
Midwest Regionals will be held on July 9th and 10th.
Here is the Updated Schedule
Friday Night - We will be playing IRONMAN in honor of Brian Reid. The cost will be $5 and the Funds will be donated to a charity in his name. Friday Night will be Type II night so plan to show up and have some Type II fun. Type II will start Precisely at 6:00.
Ironman sign up -
6:00 - Type 2-Multiplayer
7:30 - Type 2 Multiplayer (round 2 if Necessary)
Type 2 - 2 Player
9:30 - Round 1
10:45 - Round 2
12:00 - Round 3
Saturday
Iron man Sign up
8:30 Deck Check in for Type 1 -2 Player (Type A to run concurrently) Sealed Deck may begin building Decks
9:00 - Round 1
9:50 - Round 2
10:40 - Round 3
11:30 - Round 4
12:20 - Round 5
Sealed Deck - 9:00 Create decks
Round 1 - 9:30
Round 2 - 10:15
Round 3 - 11:00
Round 4 - 11:45
Round 5 - 12:30
12:30 - Lunch
Afternoon block - Type 1 Multiplayer and booster Draft (with Tins and TEP I will also try for WOmens packs as well)
Multiplayer
1:30 - Round 1
2:30 - Round 2
3:30 - Round 3
4:30 - Round 4 ( if necessary)
Booster
1:30 Draft
2:00 Round 1
3:00 Round 2
4:00 Round 3
5:00 Round 4 (If Necessary)
5:00 - Iron Man over. Turn in your souls
Dinner 5:30
Final Round - Teams
6:00 Round 1
7:00 Round 2
8:00 Round 3
9:00 Round 4
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There will be free lodging at the church.
There will be a donuts and juice breakfast provided at the Church for those staying at the church.
Lunch will also be provided
This all sounds GREAT!
8:30 - Type 1 -2 Player (5 rounds)
Sealed Deck (5 rounds)
12:30 - Lunch
1:30 - Type 1 Multiplayer (3 or 4 rounds)
- Booster Draft (3 or 4 rounds)
5:30 - Dinner
6:00 - TEAMS (4 rounds)
This all sounds GREAT too! It might be good to just do 3 rounds of the afternoon block events (both multi-player) so that the tournament could finish 1 hour earlier.
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looking foward to seeing you all!
Mark if we are gonna pair up for teams we should do some planning.
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Hey Matt,
I will have 5 with me....2 of us playing and staying at church. I would like to talk with you and negotiate a better deal for my wife, daughter, and teen girl.
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Hey,
I will most likely be staying overnight at the church. Thanks :)
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I am coming and I will stay overnight at the church.
Kirk
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looks like we could have a lot of people playing Iron Man! If anyone wants to "reserve" an Iron man soul (Captain Kirk?) let me know!
Jon, are you worried about one teenage girl amongst all those testosterone laden boys? ;) Well I dont have a problem with that and I am sure my wife doesnt either.
Rob, You and Al were planning on spending the night at the church on Friday correct? and then spending the night at my house on Saturday?
Jon, were you leaving Saturday or were you planning on spending the night on Saturday as well? Just trying to figure out how many people are wanting to bunk at my place on Saturday.
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What are you having for lunch btw? Also, what sort of options do we have for Ironman?
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What are you having for lunch btw? Also, what sort of options do we have for Ironman?
For lunch I am debating between hamburgers and chips and lunchmeat sandwiches and chips.
as for ironman, you can pick your pic if you want to send it to me. Otherwise I will make up several random/funny souls and let you all choose.
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looks like we could have a lot of people playing Iron Man! If anyone wants to "reserve" an Iron man soul (Captain Kirk?) let me know!
Jon, are you worried about one teenage girl amongst all those testosterone laden boys? ;) Well I dont have a problem with that and I am sure my wife doesnt either.
Rob, You and Al were planning on spending the night at the church on Friday correct? and then spending the night at my house on Saturday?
Jon, were you leaving Saturday or were you planning on spending the night on Saturday as well? Just trying to figure out how many people are wanting to bunk at my place on Saturday.
we are leaving Saturday afternoon before TEAMS to get back at a "decent" time. So it will just be Friday night.
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What are you having for lunch btw? Also, what sort of options do we have for Ironman?
For lunch I am debating between hamburgers and chips and lunchmeat sandwiches and chips.
as for ironman, you can pick your pic if you want to send it to me. Otherwise I will make up several random/funny souls and let you all choose.
Ok, sounds great. Time to go find a pic...
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looks like we could have a lot of people playing Iron Man! If anyone wants to "reserve" an Iron man soul (Captain Kirk?) let me know!
Rob, You and Al were planning on spending the night at the church on Friday correct? and then spending the night at my house on Saturday?
Correct Friday night at the church and saturday at your house if that is cool.
I will definitely be playing Iron Man because I will be playing sealed instead of t1 2 player.
Matt, How many decks can we use for Iron Man?
Can we send you a pic of ourselves for Iron Man?
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no more than 2 for Ironman
and sure I can do custom pics this goes for everyone involved. Just send me a pic or a link to a pic. Also any appropriate title or saying that you want me to include.
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Any idea how many are expected for t1 2p? I suppose what I am really asking is what are the chances we break the number to be forced to do 6 rounds?
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no more than 2 for Ironman
and sure I can do custom pics this goes for everyone involved. Just send me a pic or a link to a pic. Also any appropriate title or saying that you want me to include.
Cool
Sounds like fun!
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Any idea how many are expected for t1 2p? I suppose what I am really asking is what are the chances we break the number to be forced to do 6 rounds?
6 rounds needs more than 24 players so there is a very good chance that we may have to go that many rounds..but then again some people may bail to sealed if sealed looks like easy pickins so that may be a bit of a drag on type 1=2 player. We will see but it looks like at least 20-25 people will be there for type 1-2 player.
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I thought you need more than 32 for 6 rounds to be mandatory?
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Any idea how many are expected for t1 2p? I suppose what I am really asking is what are the chances we break the number to be forced to do 6 rounds?
6 rounds needs more than 24 players so there is a very good chance that we may have to go that many rounds..but then again some people may bail to sealed if sealed looks like easy pickins so that may be a bit of a drag on type 1=2 player. We will see but it looks like at least 20-25 people will be there for type 1-2 player.
I am totally cool with there only being two other players for Sealed. :P
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Matt, are you giving out Redemption Cash or Packs for prizes?
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packs for prizes
and Alex, I miss counted. It is 32 which we might still get but it would probably be a bit more difficult to get there depending upon commitments
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Is the i.d. badge for Iron Man a hero or a lost soul? Never played iron man so I am a little lost.
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A Lost Soul.
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Why are we only doing 3 rounds of T2 2p? I know time might be a limiting factor, but above 8 players you cannot guarantee an undisputed winner using only 3 rounds. I vote we stay up later and play 4.
Kirk
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ANd we may do so. I was basing the Type II category lenghts in part on what happened at the Ohio State. If we have more than 8 we will obviously add the 4th category and stay up later. If, when we get there, it looks like we will have significantly more than 8 (read 16 or more) then we may start type II 2 player earlier in order to accomodate the rounds in a reasonable time.
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glad to see you guys made it home ok.
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Same to you! It was a pretty rough trip. I think I started to hallucinate there at the end. I started seeing Giant ants and ravens in the shadows beyond my headlights lol
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I'm also glad all you guys got home safe. Our trip was a bit rough too. I actually pulled over and took a nap for about 30 mins at one point where I was too tired to feel safe enough to keep driving.
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Did that too. I promise to get everyone out before 1:00AM next saturday!
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hey Matt,
Where can I email you my lost soul picture to?
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matthew.lee.archibald@gmail.com
also you and al can stay here at my house on Saturday night. Look forward to seeing you all there!
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Cool.
See you all next Friday.
Prepare for the NEW YORK INVASION!!! :P
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I will be coming from Roanoke, VA with my buddy Jeremy (hi123 on the boards). Can't wait to participate in my first Regional!
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Hey! I will be coming down on Saturday along with my dad and my brother i think, and i think we're bringing alpal and mjwaree as well. Can't wait!
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Eric,
It will be great to meet you! I had talked to you last year about attending the EC Regional tournament. I am glad you can make one finally.
Kirk
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Here are the placings at the Midwest Regionals.
Closed Deck
1st - Rob Mulye
2nd - Allen Collins
3rd - Mark Underwood
Booster Draft (we used all ROA Tins with Tep)
1st - Mark Underwood
2nd -Kirk Dennison
3rd - Nic Marshall
Type 1-2 Player
1st - Clint Marshall
2nd - Nic Marshall
3rd - Jonathan Greeson
Type 1- Multiplayer
1st - Matt Archibald
2nd - Rod Stewart
3rd - Jonathan Pequignot
Type 1 Teams -
1st - Team "KY Redeaux" (Mark Underwood and Rob Mulye)
2nd - Team "Schumer's Forever" (Rick Stephenson and Tom Kantner)
3rd - Team "Team Awesome!" (Matt Archibald and Jonathan Pequignot)
Type 2-2 Player
1st - Gabe Isbell
2nd - Jonathan Greeson
3rd - Mark Underwood
Type 2- Multiplayer
1st - Matt Archibald
2nd - Brent Paschall
3rd - Rod Stewart
Comments: We had 2 former Nationals Champions show up to play (Gabe Isbell and Ron Sias). It was a real treat for all the young kids to see these two quality stand-up guys as they play and interact with other people.
Mark Underwood continued the Regional Dominance he displayed at the EC Regionals with 4 placings (2 1sts and 2 3rd's Here in the Midwest Regionals.
Teams was a categroy that was real interesting. The top three teams were unbeaten. The second and third place teams taking time out losses to Mark and ROb adn third pace being decided by differential. Lots of unique strategies and great decks!
I was plesantly surprised at my type 1-2 player performance having been one LS out of placing but instead I lost to the eventual champion in Clint Marshall who had to beat his son (for the first time ever) to win it. Great display by those two!
Iron Man was won by Jonathan Greeson who collected 5 LS and did not lose a single "Bobba Fett" to anyone else.
Rob Mulye swept the closed deck coategory defeating all comers with no one else going better than .500. It was a dominant performance!
Tom Kantner and Rick Stephenson's Performance was great! they showed up just for teams but our Schumers recruits did a fantastic job placing second!
I would like to extend my appreciation to all who came. I loved hangign out with all of you and getting to know all of you. You helped me hone my tournament hosting skills so that next time I will be even better. I hope tyo see you all someday soon! It truly was my pleasure to share that time with you all. God Bless!
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I guess the first round really is the time to take your loss. Maybe I shoulda thrown that game I played against Clint :D
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How did Ron do in T12P? He sent me a message asking to use a deck that I'd posted last year - I'm curious to see how he did with it.
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Schumer's crew rolled...awesome!!!
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How did Ron do in T12P? He sent me a message asking to use a deck that I'd posted last year - I'm curious to see how he did with it.
About middle of the pack if I remember right. You would have to ask him for specifics because I never played him in type 1- 2 player.
We played 6 rounds of type 1-2 player. We had 20 or so people playing.
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Well I will say that my eight plus hour trip was well worth it!
I think the four sealed games I won were some of the best game play I have ever had. I had some very challenging games and must say that it was great to see everyone, meet some people in person for the first time and enjoy the great fellowship.
Teams was a lot of fun too! Never thought I would come away with two first places at my third ever regionals.
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I guess the first round really is the time to take your loss. Maybe I shoulda thrown that game I played against Clint :D
That seems to be the way to go. I lost in the 5th round by a score of 5-4 and won in the final round, and only managed 3rd. Ironically, if I had squeezed past Nic...he thinks I could have bested his dad. What say you Alex since you saw both of our decks?
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Where was midwest regionals?
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Thanks for a great tournament, crustpope. It was a blessing to put some faces with many of the names on the message boards. I look forward to seeing everyone in future tourneys. A lot of firsts for me. First regional, first Type 2 play in a tourney, first Haman's Plot ripped against me, first time playing Redemption until 4am. Thanks for all the fun and fellowship, everyone!
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Where was midwest regionals?
Trenton, OH. It was on the cactus website. Sorry you missed it. We would have loved to have you.
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Thanks, crustpope, for putting on a great tournament. I really enjoyed meeting so many people from the boards that I hadn't seen face to face before. It was also very refreshing to see so many old friends again. :)
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I guess the first round really is the time to take your loss. Maybe I shoulda thrown that game I played against Clint :D
That seems to be the way to go. I lost in the 5th round by a score of 5-4 and won in the final round, and only managed 3rd. Ironically, if I had squeezed past Nic...he thinks I could have bested his dad. What say you Alex since you saw both of our decks?
You probably would have won. I'm surprised Nic didn't. My deck only gave up 4 because of an absolutely horrible draw combination (he got a first turn Gabriel, I got all defense).
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Prof's MW Regional Tourney Report (part 1)
I was planning on bringing a big group up to this tourney, but it turned out that our school took our students on a canoe trip this past weekend, so they weren’t available. So it ended up just being myself and a couple of guys who are sons of my fellow staff members. Drew has been to a lot of tourneys with me before, but it was Ian’s first time. We had a lot of fun on the way up singing along with the radio and talking about anything and everything. They had a great time getting to meet many of the best players in Redemption's history (Ron Sias, Gabe Isbell, Kirk Dennison, etc.), getting to play guys like Travis Brown who are always fun, and making a lot of trades (as well as getting some gifts) which made their decks a TON better.
Fri night was all T2, which my guys don’t play at all, and I don’t normally. However, it wasn’t paired up against anything else, and I didn’t feel like sitting around without anything to do for a few hours, so I decided to play. I wasn’t expecting any success with T2 experts like Kirk Dennison, Gabe Isbell, Jon Greeson, Jonathan Pequinot, and Matt Archibald. Then I started off with the first round bye. This would normally be a downside due to losing out on differential. However, I just appreciated having the 3 victory points :) 2nd round I was able to get a big win (7-1) which helped out with the differential anyway. 3rd round I had to play Jon Greeson, and he destroyed me (1-7) to advance to the championship game against Gabe. Meanwhile I had to play Kirk “Consistent Top 10 at Nats in T2” Dennison in the final round. I started the game by saying it would take a miracle for me to beat him, and a miracle is exactly what happened. He was playing a combo deck (that had worked fast every other game), but against me it drew AMAZINGLY badly. He got the critical card that he needed on the first turn, but a play of mine stopped that. He let me walk in a bunch of times for LSs while he waited for the combo cards to resurface. In one turn he drew 21 cards (3 normal + Divination x3) and still couldn’t get it. Then when it finally came out I was able to make 1 more play that messed it up again for just long enough for me to get to 7 LSs. I was totally blessed, and as a result ended up placing 3rd.
Sat morning was T1-2p (which I normally play, but had already won 2nd at EC Regionals), so I joined the small number of people playing Sealed Deck. I had an absolutely terrible deck at EC Regionals in this event, and didn’t even have 50 cards worthy of playing. This time was different. I actually had to cut out a few cards to get down to 56. One of the best additions was a PG defense of TG3, Rab, and King “First Strike” Sennacarib with 2KH, the 9/3 WC spear, and a choose the rescuer EE. Unfortunately I suffered from LS droughts of my opponents and only ended up winning 2 of 4 games. However, it was good enough to end up with another 3rd place finish. The critical game was against Rob Mulye who ended up running away with 1st place after going through undefeated. We were both tied at 4 LSs, and he had 1 LS out, but in a site. He had 1 more LS left in his final 4 cards to draw. I had Locust from the Pit (who would destroy his site) still left to draw, and an offense that he couldn’t stop. But I didn’t draw Locust (since it was my bottom card), and he didn’t draw his LS (since it was his bottom card), so I never got the chance to go for the win. He broke through my defense instead and won 5-4. It was a super game, and made the difference between me finishing 1st or 3rd. It was also his best showing ever in a Regional event, so I was proud of my fellow (former) Kentuckian :)
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Prof's MW Regional Tourney Report (part 2)
Sat afternoon was T1-mp (which I normally play, but had already won at EC Regionals), so I joined the other 11 guys playing Booster. I really haven’t played much Booster over the years (4 games in 4 years of tourneys), but I do enjoy the event despite extremely poor showings my first 2 tries. My 3rd try had turned out amazingly well (tied for 1st at EC Regional), so I figured I was unlikely to do as well this time. The draft started off terribly. None of the packs that I opened had anything worth mentioning in them, and none of the cards passed to me were worth mentioning either. I later found out that another player at my table had the exact same tin as me, so we messed up each other’s draft. However, when we got to the TexP pack, it all turned around. I opened up a Mayhem and was passed a Stalks of Flax, and Moses and the Elders(after I’d drafted some white stuff). Still my offense was split many ways, with very few ways to win battles. I had 1 purple guy with Unified Kingdom only. I had a few angels with only Striking Herod as a battle winner. I had a few gold guys with only A New Creation as a battle winner. I had a few green guys with no battle winners. My defense was pretty much solid gold, but really was only strong against NT heroes (with Emp Claudius & 2 copies of a capture an NT EC card). So it was a pretty poor deck really overall.
The first round, I benefited from the player across from me drawing a big target on himself. First of all, he had an awesome draft (3 URs before we even got to the TexP pack). Secondly, he started the game by putting a Broken Cisterns in the territory of the best player (Soul Seeker). Thirdly, about halfway through the game he wiped out everyone in the games defense with an Authority of Christ. Needless to say his game was going well and he got off to a quick start. This drew attention away from me, and cleared the way for me to make some walkins (partly to keep LSs off the table so he couldn’t take them all. Pretty soon, he and I were both at 4 LSs and defenses had come back a bit. I was pretty desperate so I attacked with a big angel (9/7) with only Striking Herod to back him up. Soul Seeker had a choice of blockers with a small human (to get init) and a big demon (10/11 or so). I was hoping he’d pick the human, play something, and then I’d interrupt and discard him. However he picked the demon. I played Striking Herod anyway for the numbers (7/0), but I knew that he had some stuff in his hand to back him up. So I played my Mayhem and hoped that he wouldn’t draw EEs of the right color in his 6 cards. Amazingly it paid off, and I was able to win the battle and the game.
The second round, I was playing with Kirk (who had tied with me at EC Regionals), Alex_Olijar, and Al from NY. We all started off pretty generous with LSs and were quickly tied at 2 each. I was able to get #3 off Alex after his defense was depleted by Kirk and Al’s artifact prevented EC banding. Later I went for #4 off Al (who had let Kirk walk-in for #4), but he blocked me and tried to discard my face-down artifact (Stalks of Flax). I didn’t really think that art would be important, but I did want to win the battle so I played the white GE that makes it BTN, and had enough to get #4. At that point, the only LSs available were either mine or were locked up in sites. Al attacked me on a bluff, and was beaten by Emp Claudius. Kirk passed. Alex passed. When it got to be my turn again I realized that I drew some LSs (which I knew I couldn’t defend if Kirk attacked me. So I was desperate once again. I activated Stalks of Flax and traded heroes with Alex to get a blue Thomas (7/7) so that I could get at his LS in a blue site. He had defenders down, and one of them had 7 defense so all he needed in hand was 1 point of defense considering I had nothing to back up Thomas. However, his hand was all full of good cards, and so I was able to get in for the win again. I hope that it is clear that in both games I was completely blessed to be able to win as they easily could have gone the other way.
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Prof's MW Regional Tourney Report (part 3)
Sat evening was TEAMS. Rob Mulye had asked on the boards if anyone needed a teammate, and I thought it would be fun to work together since Rob and I had enjoyed playing games against each other at several tourneys in KY back when he had lived there. So we spent just a bit of time the night before talking strategy and tweaking a couple decks that I had brought. The basic idea was that he was playing almost all defense with a Philly/site lockout deck. I was playing almost all offense with a rainbow speed deck. Rob worked the defense awesomely as I don’t think anyone ever rescued a LS from us.
Our first game was against Matt Archibald/Jonathan Pequinot (who had come in 1st at OH states). I had about the worst draw ever and so my offense took forever to come out. However, since they were shut down by our sites, it didn’t really hurt us. In fact, it ended up meaning that they had to put down all their ECs due to hand-clog, which got us our first LS when I attacked with ET+AoCP. We got our second LS when I attacked with a Captain band and they blocked low planning on playing Haman’s Plot. However, they didn’t redraw that HP after I played Mayhem, and so I was able to win that battle. I got 2 more LSs with SoG/NJ, but we ran out of time before we could get to 5.
The second game was against Ron Sias/Allen Collins. I had never played with Ron before, and I was really looking forward to it, and Allen has been a friend for years. However, I went into the game really tense. Allen is still learning some of the nuances of the game and so he regularly has to read cards a few times and isn’t very confident in his decisions. This leads to a lot of timeouts in TEAM games. It had dropped my team from 2nd to 3rd at OH States, and after timing out in the 1st round, we couldn’t afford to do it again. So from the beginning of the game I was pushing him pretty hard to keep moving. This led to frustration on both sides and made the game a lot more tense than they usually are (or than I like). In the end, we did finish the game (5-0) shortly before time ran out, but I felt kinda bad about it. The one good thing was that Allen learned a very important rule about sites, and I hope that will help him in future games.
The last game was for the championship against Rick Stephenson/Tom Kantner. They were undefeated going into the game as well, and we found out why. They had an AMAZING defense of demons. One had a 100 card deck with 2 GoH and 2 copies of everything. The other had a normal size deck with all the dominants (to get them faster) but with all the good demon stuff as well. I actually got a pretty good draw on offense and made a bunch of rescue attempts, but couldn’t ever get through, although I did force them to discard 1 of their GoH to bring in more help to stop me at one point. There was another battle where I thought for sure I would get a LS. The defender played Death of Unrighteous to get rid of all their LSs, but I played HT to pull one back out. However, then came Christian Martyr and it was all for naught. They also had some close tries to taking a LS, but Rob was always able to barely hold them off. By the end of the game, I was almost all the way through my deck with SoG in hand, but no NJ. I had guys set aside with Pentacost, and was hoping for one more turn so that I could get at least 1 more try for a LS and play my SoG/NJ combo. However time ran out and I had to play SoG alone for our only rescued LS for the game. Amazingly they didn’t even have SoG, and therefore we got the timeout win 1-0. It was just an awesome game that was a lot of fun for both TEAMS and which we were blessed to win.
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I want to go ont he record and say I do NOT like the rule that I cannot use my partners acess site for access to my opponents LS sites. Hand clog was so bad that if I had had acess, the score would have been much different...but that is why we play the game.
Also, that mayhem put us in 3rd place due to LS differential. If I had played SOG/NJ before you played mayhem, Differential would have given us the advantage over rick and tom.
I do agree though that those games were fantastic (except for the speed of the game..that could use a little work...)
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Hey,
Sat morning was T1-2p (which I normally play, but had already won at EC Regionals)
I'm confused. In your East Central Report you said you got 2nd in T1-2P.
Tschow,
Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly
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Hey Mark,
Interesting comment about the Demon defense because at New York State...I couldn't quite get it to work. I figured it would be a great D but it always drew out wrong for me. Don't get me wrong when I drew it out, then no one could get in. Also, an Altar of Ahaz really could have goofed you up...I wonder if they had one in their demon deck since quite a few cards can benefit from it.
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Hey,
Sat morning was T1-2p (which I normally play, but had already won at EC Regionals)
I'm confused. In your East Central Report you said you got 2nd in T1-2P.
Tschow,
Tim "Sir Nobody" Maly
He did get 2nd @ EC regionals. He didnt play in t1-2 player because he doubted his abilities to best a field that included 2 former nationals champions, Jonathan Greeson and me ;) (Ok so I just threw that last one in there) So when he says he won, what he meant was that he had won "points" in t1-2 player.
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I'm confused. In your East Central Report you said you got 2nd in T1-2P.
Matt is totally correct, I did get 2nd at EC Regionals. He's also right that I doubted my chances of playing 1st against such tremendous competition at MW Regionals. I also wanted another shot at Sealed Deck which was BY FAR my worst showing at EC Regionals.
I want to go on the record and say I do NOT like the rule that I cannot use my partners access site for access to my opponents LS sites.
Matt is totally correct again. I really think that we need to go back to the old way of sharing sites to prevent site access from killing TEAMS.
Interesting comment about the Demon defense because at New York State...I couldn't quite get it to work.
Well they certainly had it working well as they shut down every offense they played. They also had a lot more characters I think than you did based on our previous talks.
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Interesting comment about the Demon defense because at New York State...I couldn't quite get it to work.
Well they certainly had it working well as they shut down every offense they played. They also had a lot more characters I think than you did based on our previous talks.
Well, at least my theory was sound. I should tell Christian that. My execution was off like you suspicioned. I needed more characters.
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I too would like to thank Matt for Hosting a great tourney and his wife for sharing thier house for one night so we could sleep before the long drive home. It was also great to see many faces that I know and meet new ones as Gabe said. Also some firsts for me as I've never played against Gabe (I've always lost that first round of T1-2P, but I won for once) and Ron Sias and I have known each other since Nats New Orleans and have never faced each other. Our game was meanless to the overall outcome but we decided to play anyways since we have never done so. We both decked/timed out and I won 2-1.
An ammendent to Prof's Booster draft report:
And I really thought my bluff was going to work against the Prof because he was concerned more about Kirk and Alex since they had site access on him. He left the LS out in the open and so I went in for the rescue with my green hero thinking it would be an easy rescue. But Prof called my bluff since it would have given me 4 LS's. Great game all the way around.
Thanks for hosting it Matt !!!!
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An amendment to Prof's Booster draft report:
And I really thought my bluff was going to work against the Prof because he was concerned more about Kirk and Alex since they had site access on him. He left the LS out in the open and so I went in for the rescue with my green hero thinking it would be an easy rescue. But Prof called my bluff since it would have given me 4 LS's. Great game all the way around.
Yeah, that was actually one of the most critical turns of the game. I had to make the really tough choice of blocking you and hoping I could stop you and have enough left to also block Kirk who already had 4 LSs, or giving the LS to you to make sure Kirk couldn't get it and win the game. But then if Kirk somehow took another LS anyway (like if you drew one), he'd win and I'd only get the tie for 2nd with you and I both at 4 LSs. If I stopped you and Kirk won, then I'd get the 2nd place points alone. And if I stopped you both, then I'd get the chance for the win.
Thankfully you were bluffing so I was able to stop you without playing anything, and that gave Kirk enough doubts about getting through that he passed rather than attack me on his last turn. And that set up my final turn and the win. But it all could have worked out very differently if you hadn't been bluffing, or if I hadn't have blocked you.
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Thankfully you were bluffing so I was able to stop you without playing anything, and that gave Kirk enough doubts about getting through that he passed rather than attack me on his last turn.
It didn't give me any doubts, I simply only had access to the soul with an Ambushed Hur, for whom I had yet to draw Blessings for Obedience (two draws down).
Kirk
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It didn't give me any doubts, I simply only had access to the soul with an Ambushed Hur, for whom I had yet to draw Blessings for Obedience (two draws down).
I wondered who that Ambushed GC was. He would have caused me problems as I was really only set up to defend against NT heroes at that point. Of course maybe I would have drawn something if you had attacked me with Hur.