nj-state-championsships-cedar-grove-4-8
Title: nj-state-championsships-cedar-grove-4-8
Author: Scott "CRingwell" Lingrell
Date: Apr 9, 2000
until I called Woj at like 1:30 am asking about him having a ruling that
was made and if he could print it out and bring it...he does and will!
Sweet! I now have some sick LS tech. I wake up 4 hours later and get
showered and suck then leave at 7am for Woj to pick him up. I get there,
he gives me the printouts and we leave for Time Warp around 8:20.
We show up, the place is empty except for a few of the NJ locals...I go on
and fill out my decklists and place the respective names, 'Anktopot' and
'Juz's Revenge' the go about plugging RCon with my new Handouts from
Kinkos. Even though they screwed the printing up, they came out sweet.
After Ghetto Squad comes with Dan Bordier Burger King hats and Dalton and
company show up we get started to play. Someone left their wallet at BK
so we wait a few minutes for him then start up. We only have 19 people
but some very good players. Heck even Andrew Parks showed up. So for the
last few weeks everyone has been expecting me to play Y4 mains because I
have been testing like mad with it, but I didn't like it. Plus Charlie
Herren and I were throwing around a Suicide Hunt Down deck with
Screws,Odds, and lots of direct damage but that sucked so I went with my
two decks, with a little extra tech in them ;).
Game One My DS Vs Thomas Hermley-Keen's RTP (1658)
Thomas is an up and coming player here in Coruscant and he even took it
too me last week in Clarks Summit and beat me so I needed to have some
revenge here. My opening draw I get Darth Vader so I drop him, pull Leia
into my hand and move to the D* DB and also pulled out the Exec:DB and
Coruscant so I was generating a good amount of force. I eventually get
out Tempest 1 and ECC IG-88 with Darth at the D*DB when he drops
Orimaarko, EPP Han, and a 2/2 scrub, I think. He played Captive Pursuit
to target Leia so if he won the battle he would she would be released.
Before he battles I play Put All Sections On Alert to cancel Orimaarko's
Text and ability to draw destiny. He shoots at IG and Misses, I capture
the 2/2 scrub so now he doesn't get destiny. I play I Have You Now and end
up losing no one and he loses everything plus some more. Everything went
right for me for this game.
FW +40
2 (+40)
Highlights- Getting Vader and taking Leia early on to stop flipping.
Lowlights- None, Everything was great
So I know that Lolli, Dalton, and Woj won so I am curious who I play. I
end up playing Pat Brennen but he is using the name (Dark Jedi) and
actually has a rating so this should be interesting.
Game 2 My LS Vs Dark Jedi's Jabba's Palace deck. (1547)
So I start my Y4 stuff and he starts JP and Careful Plans for Lars
Moisture Farm so I am thinking of a type of Holman/Brentson Scum Deck. He
has always been a good player so I needed to make sure I played this well.
This game was pretty uneventful with me beating the crap out of all the
aliens with my EPP/Tawss Hit Squads and having him losing 18 to Odds. I
even had Tibrin going and retrieving Mains at will to battle some more.
Very Ugly game, especially because he didn't play Odd's protection. He was
able to play Vaders at will but tracking destinies I was able to draw 5's
left and right. He never played Scum so I had no idea what the idea of
the deck was.
FW +30
4 (+70)
Highlights- Once again my LS deck worked perfectly
Lowlights- Odds only popped twice
So now my diff is higher by far than anyone else's. I know Dalton, Woj won
but Lolli lost to Brian Kim and his profit because of Fallen Portal. I
have to play Woj.
Game 3 My LS Vs Wojciech Jankowski's Ray Bordier Occu@#$% deck (2005)
I do not think I have ever beaten Woj in my life so but I knew that I
could so I wondered how things could go. I start my Y4 start he plays
Yavin IV and Jungle with the SI that lets him play Secret Plans,
Resistance and There Is Not Try. I get a nudj, draw some. He
plays the swamp and converts. Pulls bubo, moves to the nudj and eats.
This game went very slow in the beginning with my mains beating on his
characters but then he spreads out and drops the Big E with Occupation. I
took out the Endor Celebration which ended up killing me here but there
was some fun moments during this game. One point he had Vader Tarkin and
Arden at the Forest, I drop EPP Leia and Luke battle, retrieve with DTF he
loses one. I swing at Tarkin draw a 2, then 5 (he cancels it). I shoot
at Arden and hit. I play The Force is Strong with this one and
Skywalkers. I end up having a power 31 to his 14. He loses everyone but
not much damage is take from it. I lose Leia. Another great moment was
when I had 3 cards in hand late game and he took a chance by dropping
Nement to a site by him self hoping I didn't have a character. My turn I
activate 15 and Tunnel Vision...he craps him self. I know that Tawss,
Leia and Luke are still in the 30 cards in my piles but when I looked I
had nothing!!! Crap. I ended up making it close with a late game insert
and WNMOG on the table but He didn't need to activate and Occupation put
the nail in the coffin....
FL -7
4(+63)
Highlights- Beating the piss out of the Three musketeers with Leia and
Luke
Lowlights- deploying EPP Leia to bubo's site without a destiny draw. Duh.
Not beating Woj again...
So I am in third place now and Dalton too but played the same side as Woj
so I get to play Dalton...another person I haven't beat since 1998 maybe!
Game 4 My DS Vs Mike Dalton's Y4 mains deck (1958)
This matchup we have done time and time again and I always lose for some
reason...;) I was going to play this light deck before I decided against
it because I felt more prepared with mine. He dropped Obi at the D*:DB
pretty early with Boush Undercover to the Holotheatre then also dropped
Tawss to the Holo to cancel Visage. Plus with Boush Undercover at the
Executor sites, CHYBC would not cancel drains at the sites. My turn I
drop Vader and beat on Obi, Vader stays because of Put All Sections and I
flip Hunt Down. His turn he tries to drain and I remind him that the
objective is flipped and because of Leia at the same site at Tawss he
cannot initiate drains. He just moves Tawss to the Med Chamber. I drop
Mara to the Holotheathe and Deploy Visage again so he loses again. His
turn he drains for 2 I take it. He deploys obi again to Vader's site with
Luke. I put all sections Luke and he battles. He hits Vader, I hit Obi
and play I Have You Now. I draw some good destiny so he loses both and a
bunch. I lose Vader, Evader him to the used pile then play Holonet to
take him back into my hand. My turn I drop Vader to Tawss site and kill
off that guy while moving back into the D*:DB. This game went back and
forth for a while until he dropped Obi at the Swamp killed off the nudj
and broke cover with Boush to kill of Mara with a tracked 4. After to
killed the nudj I reminded him that the nudj had to draw destiny. He drew
it but didn't have any left to draw in a battle now so It became my turn.
Mara beat on Leia with the aid of Put All Sections and Visage was safe
still. I then pulled of the best part of the game. I deployed EPP Vader
to the swamp and battles Obi-Wan. I swung and hit then You Are Beaten Him
to end the battle and kill him before he got destiny. Nice. After that he
drew up because he had no characters left.
FW +12
6 (+75)
Highlights- The You are beaten on Obi; Finally beating Mike
Lowlights- Dengar going after Tawss early game and not hitting her.
So now I am back to second place with Woj the only undefeated. I play him
again and Brian Kim plays Dalton.
Game 5 My DS Vs Woj's Obi's Hut Force Choke. (2005)
I finally get a chance to revenge. I wish I could remember any of it
though. I mostly remember taking over his Tatooine sites with At-At's and
Vader while making him lose to Visage and battles. I think at this point
I was just getting so damb excited I had a chance to win states. He got
desperate with playing the Tontine late game but Slave 1 fixed that. He
also dropped Jeron and cancelled Visage then moved to the revoed Med
Chamber. My turn, I evadered it then Put Darth down and made him Ghkkk.
The last straw was beating on Obi with Tempest 1 and DLots and drawing a 6
when he drew a 1 for destiny. I wish I could remember more...my deck was
the antichrist to his though.
FW +13
8 (+88)
Highlights- Finally beat Woj!
Lowlights- Drawing 3 destiny in the game and drawing 1,1,and 2. That
never happens.
So I am in first place right now but I played Woj twice and Dalton plated
the same side as me. I end up playing the second highest player for the
DS, Pete Flamini while Woj and Dalton play each other.
Game 6 My LS Vs Pete Flamini's ROps (1736)
Before the game we were all joking how Pete was the guys that would be the
Spoiler for someone...here was the chance.
I start my Y4 stuff and he starts Raltiir and Resistance...gee go figure
;). Pete knows my deck has odds so of course he starts it...he had to. We
have never played before so this was sure to be a fun game. For the
first few turns we just drew and played sites. On my 4th turn I dropped
Artoo, 8d8, Tibrin, RL in R1 and Red Squad and told him done. His turn I
asked him how much he was going to activate and he said 8. After the 7th
card, insert popped and he had to lose 11 cards. That turn he flipped the
objective and waited. I dropped BO and WNMOG so I tried kicking on his
planed and deployed Leia, he barriered her and then beat on her with
Tempest 1 and some pilots. I drew a 5 which helped so she covered it. I
then started dropping mains and tawss with Mech Failure trying to take him
out. With his objective flipped I lost my guys but also was able to bring
them back with DTF and Tibrin working for me. I eventually got him off
his planet and won.
FW +24
10 (+118)
Highlights- Using Tibrin and DTF to recycle cards that I needed and to
get my cards back.
Lowlights- Never flipping the objective even though he lost everyone.
So I ended up winning plays 5 different people that know the game very
well and 2 of them I never beat before. I get the spot to GenCon with
Dalton and get some WB Dagobah to complete my silly quest for playing all
WB cards...
Props
Mike Dalton- Letting me play against his LS deck enough to I could
eventually win
Rich Haman and Jason Lembo- running a great tournament and plugging
RamapoCon II
Pete Flamini- for donating about 10 more foils to give away at RCon II.
John Lolli- for wishing me luck even though his first allegiance is to
Ghetto Squad
Wojchiech- For getting the ruling on paper for me at 2am before the
tournament.
Thomas H-K- for beating my LS deck last week and having me realize how
much it sucked.
Greg Hodur- showing what Ghetto Squad is all about.
Everyone else- for listening to me plug all day long.
Slops
Not getting enough sleep
See everyone at RamapoCon II! More prizes are coming.
http://orion.ramapo.edu/~slingrel - official RamapoCon II website.