vancouver-british-columbia-4-08-00
Title: vancouver-british-columbia-4-08-00
Author: Alan "Serpent" Sagan
Date: Apr 10, 2000
I figured I might as well write my first Tournament report.
About 2 months or so before this Tournament, I told myself
'I am going to win this tournament. I'm gonna be the Provincial
Champion'. Cocky words, but I felt the feat was doable. I placed
7th in last years regional, and 4th in the year before that,
so I figured my time was due :)
Back then, I'd already figured out my Dark deck. Rops all
the way, it's been my favorite deck for over a year. I've
tried probably every variation of the thing you can imagine,
and have been successful with them all. Troopers, Bikers
Scouts, AT-AT's, AT-ST's, lots of imperials, draining versions,
beating versions, numbers, and more. AT-ST's are definitely
the best version, providing power, reacting, decent deploy,
and protection from weapons, so AT-ST's it would be. I toyed
with massive high destiny Hunt Down decks for awhile,
but in my opinion, Hunt Down is too fragile. When things
begin to go wrong, it always seems like they just keep going
wrong... Although, things don't go wrong often.
Light was a complete different story. I KNEW Id be going
mains... Mains is my style. Lots of mains. high destiny.
Beating. The good stuff :) So I fooled around with my
here's Ben deck, posted on decktech... but truthfully,
and I knew it at the time, that deck is not worthy to win
a Championship. A strong deck, but it was overly
designed to deal with the new bounty hunters with lots
of put that downs and blaster deflections. So then I began
to fool around with a profit deck, also posted on decktech.
This deck met with some success, but I just wasn't happy with it.
Well, a week before the tournament, two friends of mine
broke up there relationship, and I had a TON of school work to
do (Exams coming up). Between school, work, and comforting
my friends, I had no time for starwars. I gave up on
winning, it was always a unrealistic idea any ways.
I ended up building a Throne Room deck with really light
SAC. Good force generation, juts like Tosche Station,
but more reliable. Throne Room just suits my style, although
I hadn't played one for over 4 months.
I'll be posting both decks soon.
Didn't go to sleep till 2 AM, that was a mistake. My
friend Justin was picking me up at 5:30 am for the 4
hour trip to Vancouver (we're both from Kamloops).
well my alarm went off, snooze. snooze. reset for
another 20 min.
Justin had to find an open door and wake me up :)
what a way to start.
It was a nice trip to Vancouver, but Justin being the
moron he is :p got us lost in Vancouver. We didn't
have a map, but here's a quick rundown:
me: 'Stay on this Highway. Take an exit around here.'
him: 'uhh... whatever'.
a little bit later...
me: 'Why are we going over this bridge... This is North
Vancouver! you dumbass! turnaround'
him: 'uhh... whatever'.
me: 'Follow the signs to highway 1 west. so left here'.
him: 'ok'
me: 'why did you just turn right when the sign SAYS LEFT!!!??'
him: 'trust me this is the way'.
Eventually we got where we needed to go :)
We had a quick game of my Rops deck vs his light,
it was a obi hut Tosche station start. he beat me,
I wasn't too pleased about that... out of 20+ games
of this deck with him, he'd only beaten twice before that,
but that's bound to happen when you learn your opponents deck
inside out :)
Well tournament starts, Deck lists. Ugg I hate those things.
I named my decks 'Throne Room, Sagan Style' and 'Rops, Sagan Style'.
original. Good turnout to the tournament, 33 people.
First match ups were surprising, at the top table, top spot,
were Kevin Wan and Nicholas Burke, the top two rated players
in BC. I was placed at the 2nd top game, and Im rated 4th
in BC, so again, weird. James Hsu, I think he's rated 3rd,
was in the 3rd game.
Game 1: Throne Room, Sagan Style vs Brendon Browns (1603) Hunt Down.
My games get a little fuzzy, I think his start was huntdown.
I dropped some 2/0 sites, nudj, lose a force. He drops a
quarren to my swamp, moves over to the farm where my nudj is.
lose a force. Tawws makes an appearance, Draw there fire comes
out, I predict Im winner, My lost pile is now empty. lose a force.
He gets out the wastes. I drop boushh to his holotheatre,
break cover, cancel Visage. Civil Disorder, Oola makes an
appearance- I think, cause I remember seeing his hand at one point.
He loses to disorder, and my drains of 2. Soon, a shmuck load
of troopers make an appearance at the holotheatre. Boussh
nabruns to the wastes, I'm safe! Civil Disorder canceled though :(
he Elis's to boushh next turn, I nabrun back to the holotheatre.
he moves 3 of his troopers to obi's hut. Obi makes an appearance,
Han, and Chewie with guns also follow. Clash one trooper, move the other
away, big force loss for him. Game.
FW + 33.
For my next matchup, Im placed around the 5th highest matchup.
Justin won his by 41, congrats. he's placed at the 2nd matchup.
Game 2: Rops, Sagan Style vs Jamie Nay's (1519) Throne Room.
Throne room start... bad feeling or crush... I go with
bad feeling, the only way I'd need crush instead would be
if he has 6+ revo's. He picks up. I get a site out,
some 2/0 sites, pick up. His turn, I think some sites come
out, he narshadda's. Interesting. Pulls an Elom. Inserts.
Now Im running scared, alls I would need would be 4-5 eloms
beating up on one of my walkers (that aren't out yet) combined
with Romas Lock to prevent reacts. I activate, insert comes up.
0 - 0, no force loss. Deploy my swamp which I picked up
over his, bubo pulled from reserve, eat the nudj! roar!
bubo moves over, eats the other one. His turn, 3 eloms+chewie
with gun come and kill Bubo, and he inserts. My turn,
activate, drop 3 walkers with pilots, flip. Pick up
vesden, this could be interesting. He turn, no drain,
pick up I think. Insert comes up on my turn, 9-9, no force
loss. Choke Vader + Tarkin visit his elom force, choke chewie,
and pull 4 +3 destiny. he loses two eloms. His turn, runs
to his throne room. I drain, and sit pretty. One or two
more battles go by in my favor, game over
FW +29
Game 3: Throne Room, Sagan Style Vs Arian Delisle (1746) ISB.
ISB start, haven't played against one of those for awhile.
Well some turns go by, my sites come out, he FIANLLY gets
out jabba's palace and audience chamber. Two Outer rim
scouts come down to yavin, flips his objective, beats up
my nudjs, he moves them together. hmm.. Leia, Han, Chewie
make an appearance, only hit one ORS, he ghhhks. Obi, obi's
saber, and Luke+saber make an appearance to his Audience chamber,
bacta tank out. He loses some force, Out of Commission!!!
got his Chall Bekan, yeesssss! His turn, Jabba, Boba Fett,
4-Lom, and Dr. E try there luke with obi and luke. 4-lom
cancels Lukes text, damn. Clash Jabba, no destiny adding
for you :) hack 4-lom. Destiny comes and goes, I clear his
site, cept for jabba, luke to the tank. Next turn, luke goes
back to the audience chamber, more ORS come to yavin to flip
his objective again, deploys Tempest Scout 2 and moves an ORS
into there, the other ones at the throne room. he also did
something to kill luke. Luke goes to the tank. My turn,
Drop luke against the ORS at the throne room. Imperial Barrier,
Skywalkers cancels Imperial Barrier. ROAR!!! well I beat
up the scout, hacked, draw 0 for destiny. he still loses
3 force. I drain him out.
FW +29
Game 4 Rops, Sagan Style vs David Houles (1826) Throne Room.
Another throne room. Great. His turn, he drops 3 2/0 sites,
a nudj, revos my Ralltir. Great. This could go bad.
Well I search for a site, drop a 2/0. He picks up. I drop
another site, pick up. he gets out Obi to a Ralltir site,
Han + leia to another. Crap. Tawss joins Obi. I
get out Kashyyyk, Boba in slave 1 there. drop Vader, Tarkin
in Tempest Scout 3, and another AT-ST with pilots against
obi and tawws, battle, he hacks and misses Tarkin, he
loses Tawws. his turn, run obi to my jungle. Now he's
draining for 2, Im draining for 3. He deploys Tantive
to Kashyyyk, battle order, then moves the Tantive to Raltirr.
uhh.. ok. I leave some walkers at the forest, vader+tarkin
and tempest scout 3 go to the jungle after obi. He drops
draw there fire, Lower corridor, orri and oola there, Order
to engage, moves tantive back after Boba, and runs gets
out someone else to my site with just two walkers, runs
obi there. My turn, deploy some more guys to the jungle,
battle tantive, I retrieve one he loses one. Spiral reacts, Im immune to his attrition, I lose
2,
he loses spiral. I lose 3 to order to engage, and get
Tarkin and Vader over to the middle site, leave some guys
at jungle. His turn, drain for 2, oola (no guys), nabruns
han+leia to my jungle. I grab it, now Im out of force.
he battles. I think Im screwed... looking at my other site,
I see Tempest scout 1, reacts for free! Vader and Tarkin hop
on, leaving tempest scout 3 + 2 at st pilots (one outside)
to face obi and some other guys. I choke Han, he misses
Tarkin, big loss for him. He uses savrip and Boussh, still
loses 10 more. he has no destiny left, so no battle against
my puny force at the forest. my turn, drain for 2 in space,
one on ground, lose 3 to order to engage, run some guys over
to obis hut. He drains for 2 at lower corridor, I drain him
out, to complete one of the most stressful games Ive
ever played.
FW +13
Game 5 Throne Room, Sagan Style vs Kevin Wan (1918) huntdown.
He start epic duel, Damn. I feel a loss coming up. I drop
a nudj, a 2/0 site, make him lose a force to visage, and then cancel it
with transmission terminated. BOOM! yet another thing that
went right for me in this tourney. I look at my hand, and
my mouth drops. Obi, his stick, oola, civil disorder, two more
2/0 sites. he activates, picks up. my turn, activate 8,
nudj comes out, Obi + stick and oola to farm, civil disorder.
He loses 2, picks up. I drain for one, oola his hand.
rinse and repeat, I get out some more 2/0 sites, he gets
out a docking bay. Leia+blaster hits the docking bay.
Mara comes to play, doesn't find her saber. Battle, leia
hits Mara, both dead. Next turn, 4-lom and Ig-88 come to visit
obi, since I killed the nudj for a bigger drain. He loses 2
to civil since they're both droid and don't have ability.
he sends oola to used pile, he wins battle, Lando goes
from my hand using the savrip, Droids are dead, obi 's still there.
drain for 2. He gets Vader after obi finally, battle. I hack,
he draws enough to sack obi for attrition. Luke with saber, Han
come down, hack Vader, beat him, Full Win.
FW + 30
Game 6, Rops Sagan Style vs Justin Cachelin (1664).
Great. Final game, and Im playing my trainee, ride, friend,
and all around moron. Same decks as earlier, and he beat me then.
Looking at my differential compared to other peoples, Im guaranteed
to be in the top 2... Everybody knows we're both from Kamloops,
and some bug us about not rigging the game :) Not the type
of thing Id do any ways. Well game starts.
He gets his Obi hut Tosche station start, I pull a site.
he activates 5, EPP obi goes to his hut for 4 (bad feeling),
moves to Tosche station. I activate, Lt. Arnet comes down
in Tempest scout 1. Battle. I'm immune to his attrition,
obi dead. His turn, he deploys another obi to the hut,
moves over. I drop an at-st pilot in tempest scout 1,
battle. I pull a 3, +2 attrition due to my pilots, Im immune.
Obi gone again. his turn, he drops obi straight to Tosche
station, battle. Tempest Scout 6 reacts from hand, obi is lost
AGAIN, tempest scout 6 goes for attrition. I flip my object,
and he drops Ben after tempest scout 1 AGAIN, determined to kill him.
battle, I add a total of 3 to destiny, 2 to attrition, so Ben
is gone guaranteed. He pulls a 4, sack my AT-ST pilot. So
the smoke clears, 4 obis in the lost pile, and tempest scout1
and LT. Arnet still sitting pretty. Bit more stuff happens,
I drain him out.
FW + 26.
final score: 12 (+160)
and so, I did win! I really enjoyed this tournament,
almost every game, required heavy thought on my part, and
even though I won by a extremely large margin, all games
were challenging.
I got to meet the Teacher, and we played an unofficial game
afterwards.
Game 7: Rops, Sagan Style vs Charles Hickey's Evasive profit.
Well, hmmm... I had once seen this deck on the net, but
it was over a month ago. Plus, Id NEVER played against
a profit deck before.
I go, pull a site, drop a 2/0. His is similar. My turn,
drop Tempest scout 2, Watts, and Marquand to his Jabba's Palace.
He drops master luke, Ben, and Boussh. Mechanical Failure.
I pull a 4 and 5, he loses Boussh and luke, revives luke, I sack
watts Marquand. I go for my flip with the occasional attempt and battling.
Vader goes after Master Luke, Master luke hacks Vader, then
plays clash of sabers. Battle over, Vaders dead. DAMN! or
narrow escape stuff. Fallen Portal. you name it. He's only draining
for a bit, zuckuss goes up to kashyyyk to increase my drains.
Igar and Tempest 1 come over to tatooine to play a bit, he
narrow escapes. Evax and Cabbel jump in Tempest Scout 2, which
is still empty, and hike it over to the mechanical Failure, and
get rid of it. Igar and Tempest scout 2 chase his guys around a bit,
Boussh comes to Ralltir, meditation, leia's gun. damn !
I drop Mara against Boussh, he shoots the Scout walker, and Misses!
hurray! dust clears, Mara hits my lost, Boussh hits his lost.
he ends up battling Igar and company, he plays a destiny adder,
pulls a 6, 5, 4. Tempest Scout 2 is all alone, again. At the
end, he drains me out.
FL -2.
Close game. Damn close game. After playing his deck, I learned
something though. Don't go to jabba's palace without good forces
cause of master luke. Also, add in Ability Ability Ability.
The next day, after being home, Justin and I match our other
decks up against each other. We always do this when we don't
play in a tourney. I expected a loss, knowing his dark side
style, and I wasn't disappointed. Loss by 20. Although,
in some ways, it wasn't so bad. I'd bet if we played 10 games,
it would go about 5 - 5.
Great Tournament, and I'm planning on hitting the Continental.
I might Also consider going to the Grand Slam in Portland..
Maybe I'll see Teacher there again.
A large thank you to Doug Taylor, for running a smooth tournament.
Also a thank you Charles 'Teacher' Hickey for the game afterwards,
and to James I think was the name. Both Charles and James
helped out at the tourney, answering rules questions, setting
up games. Also, Thank you very much to Hyerplight Enterprises
for the location.