nevada-states-directors-view
Title: nevada-states-directors-view
Author: Tim "Info Broker" Guzman
Date: Apr 9, 2000
point. So of course I do not have my own game by game details. Of course this still helps
all of us to see what is out there in the playing field.
So who is the Nevada State Champ for the Year 2000? Well that comes later in the
report. We had a disappointing 18 people show up for this event. Some of my younger
ones parents thought it was to long of a day and 2 others had SATs. Strange how it
worked out, because I know of at least 5 more that wanted to come and didnt show up.
Anyway I did have all of Nevadas Top People playing in this tournament(except me :))
So I knew it was going to be good.
The main contenders were Kris Lavigne, Dan Christy, Brandon Gravo, Chris Hines, and
Matt Berta. All of them were good players and any one of them could have done it.
Travis Merkle(my padawan), John Spadora, and Jeff Lavigne were also expected to have a
good showing.
We decided, before the Tournament began that we were going to have a final
confrontation. With a Tournament as important as a State Championship we(me and ALL
of my players) felt that a Final Confrontation would be the proper way to say who is the
Champion of the State for that year.
I seen a lot of different Deck types at this tournament. Here is a break down of the
different decks that were played.
Darkside:
Hunt Down with dueling x3
Hunt Down with faking the duel x2 (One was played in final)
Ralltiir Ops x5
ISB x2
Court of Vile x1 (was played in final)
Corulag Ops with numbers x1
Death Star start x1 (Tree Leaf v1.2 played by the Droidpimp)
Tatooine mains x1
Tie Swarm x1
60 random cards x1
Lightside:
Yavin 4 with major revos x1
Yavin 4 with mains and choke..maybe only 3 revo x2
Obi-Hut start with Careplanning x3 (one of them is the Mark Hamill deck played by
SkuffD)
Hidden Base with Beatdown x1
Hidden Base otherwise x2
MWYHL no Test with mains x1
MWYHL test to 5 x1
MWYHL the Falcon Deck x1 (was played in final)
Profit deck x1
Profit deck with numbers x1
Ralltiir Ops Lightside x1
Cloud City mains x1
Yoda hut start with Choke x1 (was played in final)
60 random cards x1
Not bad for a good amount of decks played. It was also interesting to note that the Top 2
people were not playing Rallops or Yavin 4 mains. Here is a brief summary of the match
ups and how some people were knocked down.
Game 1 match ups put Matt berta up against Chris Hood, both have a tendency to time
out..so guess what happen they Timed out with Chris Hood ahead. Although this would
be Matt's only lost until the final. Brandon Gravo was put up against Noah Singer and
Brandon had nothing going good for him this game, he loses. Chris Hines is up against a
Newbie...easy win. Travis Merkle and John Spadora match and Travis comes out ahead.
Kris Lavigne and Danny Rider(up and coming) face off with Kris taking the victory. Read
on.
Game 2 match ups during this game Matt takes his winning streak taking down Brandon
Gravo. Gravo is a little down since he is now 0-2. Kris beats Noah to avenge Brandon
and Hines Takes out Garrett. Two games go by and everything looks like a normal
tournament with the usual people winning. Lets move on.
Game 3 has 4 undefeated players that have to play each other. With Chris Hines going
against Dan Christy. And Travis Merkle facing off vs Kris Lavigne. Chris Hines Dark Ops
on Corulag was having problems with Dans Mains and others. Chris wasnt seeing any
of his ops and wasnt able to flip for about 6 to 7 turns and when Dan shows up with a
Disrupter Pistol things dont look to good, Dan wins by 25. In Travis game Kris seem to
be in control for most of the game. Travis was having trouble getting Ralltiir to flip. Kris
was using a lot of his stuff to keep it unflipped and didnt go to space for a while(Kris was
doing HB). Well after Travis finally killed all of Kris resources he flip and the game was
close but Travis wins by 10.
Game 4 now has only 2 undefeated players and they both have to face off. Dan Christy
plays No Order In the Court(my deck that is posted here) and Travis is playing Hidden
Base. Dan doesnt seem worried because he beat a Hidden base earlier today. Travis is
having a hard time most of the game. Dan at one time Monnok like 5 x-wings out of his
hand. Travis still had more, which was Dan downfall. Dan thinking that Travis was out of
resources spread to thin. Travis took advantage of the situation for a beatdown which
took Dan for about 10 cards. Dan was having trouble retrieving since Aim High was out,
but he did the best he could. He knows now what mistakes he made and says he wants to
put in Search and Destroy(good call), in was close and fun to watch. Travis wins by 7.
Meanwhile all those expected to win wins. It looks like this Travis Merkle 4-0, Dan
Christy 3-1, Matt Berta 3-1, Chris Hines 3-1, Kris Lavigne 3-1, and Brandon Gravo 2-2.
Game 5 is a tough round for the players. Dan Christy gets revenge on Travis winning by
18. And Matt Berta playing Hunt Down gets his Revenge on Chris Hood winning by 9.
Kris Lavigne and Chris Hines had to face off and Kris Lavigne gets hit with numbers and
Chris Hines finds his Ops and flips easy with a victory of 31. Lets us go to the next
round.
Game 6 match ups put some interesting people together. First Place would go to the
person who wins the top table game. Which was between Dan Christy and Chris Hines.
Second place looks like it would go to either of the next 4 people which were Travis
Merkle if he wins against Jeff. And either Kris Lavigne or Matt Berta. Brandon Gravo
had a chance also, but he would have to count on Matt Berta to lose against Kris.
Anyway Chris Hines was Playing Yavin 4 Major Choke with like 5-7 Revos and Dan was
playing Court. Dan takes control of the Chamber quickly and gets a ship to Kashyyyk to
drain at. Chris is have trouble finding all the cards he needs for a beatdown. Meanwhile
Chris is loosing to the Court gametext and the drains. Soon Chris starts to comeback.
Gets Mutible Destines but Jodo Cast takes one of those away. Dan Starts battles just to
cancel them with Projective and has a steady drain in space. Soon Chris gets out the
Falcon, but Denger and Punishing comes to stop immunity and it didnt last long. It
looked like both players had a chance until Lateral Damage with a track 6 and 5 destiny
finished Chris. Dan wins by 15. I wasnt watching Kris and Matt to closely, by Matt got
his retrieval engine working very good. Kris didnt have secret plans which he doesnt
know why and I am sure he is kicking himself for in now. Matt was in complete control
after he retrieved his lost pile winning by 40. Brandon also won his last game by 34 and
went to check if Kris won his game, because if Kris did Brandon would have been in the
final, but as it turned out, Matt won.
So the final confrontation was going to be Matt Berta vs Dan Christy. The competition at
this tournament was very high and yet everyone was having fun and the sportsmanship
was very admirable. Even the top Nevada players that took each other down were being
great when they didnt make the final. We had lots of prize for everyone. The Top three
got T-shirts from my personal collection. During the rounds to discourage people from
stalling I had a special prize for the first person done with the game. And even something
special for the most creative deck title. Here are the standings of the tournament. I put
what the Top 6 Players were playing to help see what won this tourney. And if you want
to read what happen in the Final Confrontation read after the standings.
1. Dan Christy 10(+107) LS Yoda Hut with choke DS Court(Tim Guzman style)
2. Matt Berta 10(+74) LS mwyhl Falcon Deck(posted here) DS Hunt Down fake Duel
3. Brandon Gravo 8(+113) LS Obi-huts with SAC and Careful Plan DS Tree Leaf V1.1
4. Chris Hines 8(+80) LS Yavin 4 major choke DS Corulag Ops
5. Jeff Lavigne 8(+52) LS Yavin 4 mains choke DS Ralltiir Ops
6. Travis Merkle(my Padawan) 8(+25) LS Hidden Base DS Ralltiir Ops
7. John Spadora 6(+23)
8. Danny Rider 6(+3) He reached his goal of Top 10
9. Matthew Lafontaine 6(-3)
10. Kris Lavigne 6(-24)
11. Noah Singer 5(+3)
12 Christopher Hood 5(-8)
13. Garrett Heilman 4(-15)
14. Shane Watner 4(-46)
15. Aaron Thomas 4(-46)
16. Keegan Heilman 4(-60)
17. Wesley Goff 4(-70)
18. Gabriel DiChiara 0(-204)
Wow I bet your are wondering who played the 60 random cards deck.
Well there you have the standings. You can stop here if you want, or you can read the
Final Confrontation.
Game 1 Final Confrontation
Dan Christy is Dark playing Court and Matt Berta is Light playing Falcon Deck. This
game is close the whole time. Matt is getting burned for a while at his Holo Table because
Dan is drain there with a Monnok for a few turns. Soon Matt takes it back with a POAS
and the Super Falcon comes out and dominates space for the whole game, but Dan was
taking care of Order to Engage by starting a battle retrieving and then playing Projection
of Telepathy for most of the game. I like to count mistakes people make during games
and this one was full of mistakes. First of all Dan forgot a Total of 12 TIMES to use
Courts Game text to make Matt lose force and on top of that for at least 5 turns that I
noticed Dan Occupied 3 Battle Grounds and still allowed Matt to drain for 3 at Kessel
with Resistance out. Matt made very few mistakes that I noticed. He Retrieved a lot
during this game which almost made it go to time. The game was close with it being over
in 59 Min and 24 Seconds. Dan Wins by 6.
Close Matt only needs to win by 7 or Dan needs to stop him.
Game 2 of the Final Confrontation
Matt is playing a Hunt Down with Fake Duel. He makes people play with caution with
the dueling, but doesnt have any dueling in his deck. Dan is playing a Yoda Hut Start
with Goo Nee Tay and twix Sites...he has 2 battle grounds in there just in case, but plays
them only if he needs them. Anyway Dan seems in complete control of this game early on.
He take out Vader after Vader with destiny 5s. Matt is making a lot of mistakes like
forgetting to Altar Goo Nee Tay when he has 2 Altars in his HAND...and it was on the 7
side of Hunt down...what is up with that Soon Matt brings out more Vaders and takes
out Obi and crew. Now Dan is stuck with putting down Scrubs or looking for Obi. Luke
is stuck at the Med Chamber and cant drain because of the 7 side of Hunt down and Dan
cant flip it back, because Matt keeps sensing his Nabruns. At towards the end of the
game Matt has 6 cards in his life force and Dan is thinking about Drawing up to make it a
Tie in the Final and Matt quickly Altars Something and even did a successful Elis to bring
up his Life force. Dan now decided not to draw up because of this and lets Matt Drain
him out and bring up his life force. Matt wins by 10 force.
Matt Berta 2(+4)
Dan Christy 2(-4)
Wow. What a Final Confrontation. Congratulation to Matt Berta for being the Nevada
State Champion of the Year 2000. And the Runner up Dan Christy. Both will get a bye
into Day 2 of the Continental Championships at Gen Con and I wish them luck if they go.
Lots of pictures were taken that I will probably post on my web site. I really enjoyed
running this tournament and will be looking forward to the next big one here. Of course
even though I enjoyed running it, maybe the next one I will be playing, who knows.
Until Next Time,
Tim Guzman
Info Broker
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