dutch-championship-21-05-00
Title: dutch-championship-21-05-00
Author: Johan "Joh" Haneveer
Date: May 22, 2000
Well finally it happened, the first big tournament this
year, the national. The last couple of months I was tweaking
and toying with decks for this day. I playtested a lot with
my friends Vitor Alves da Silva, Michel Oldenburg and Sander
Dijst. Sander is a former world qualifier and hadn't played
the game for a long time. Now he also dusted off his cards
for this day. It was held in Amstelveen and that's my
hometown and furthermore it was held across the street. A
good 1 minute walk.
The decks were a problem for me. I always play Mains & Toys
for both sides. For light the choice was between Throne
Room Mains, Tosche Mains or Profit. I played Profit on my
last two tournaments and it hadn't lost there so after some
tweaking and some modifications that was my deck. For dark
there was a big problem. I couldn't find a dark deck that
did well in playtesting. I had tried Endor Ops,
3rd Marker/5th Marker, Court etc. Nothing worked for me.
Then I came across 'The Info Broker's Hunt Down-deck'. It
worked like hell for my opponents in playtesting. So that
was my dark deck.
Light : Profit modified to my style
Dark : The Info Broker's Hunt Down
After the big walk we entered the arena. So on to the games.
Game 1
LS vs Maarten Rossou Court Of The Vile Gangster starting
Bad Feeling Have I
Maarten is a fun opponent but also a good one. I started
Goo Nee Tay against him. From the moment I took my starting
hand I knew I was in trouble. All I had were interrupts and
effects. So no locations and no characters. He started by
the way with Jabba The Hutt and Chall Bekan. He got
CC-Engineer from his deck and converted the Audience
Chamber. So with no force activation and no characters I
couldn't do nothing but picking up some cards and hoping for
some sites. He setted up some space and in the meantime I
draw some characters, but no locations. So what could I do,
save force and deploy some or drawing more cards up hoping
for some locations. I also couldn't retrieve anymore because
he also setted up a brutal force in the Audience Chamber. I
knew I was losing, but how can I make the loss less
painfull. Well I couldn't I lost with 27.
0 (-27)
Well that was a good start, NOT!! The good thing about it
was that I lost all the tention about winning the
tournament.
Game 2
DS vs Jurn de Ruiter Tosche Mains starting Goo Nee Tay
I talked to Jurn before the tournament about decks by email.
I advised him to use a deck that I send him. He did so I
knew what to expect and started with Presence Of The Force
on Tosche Station. I got an early Vader and deployed him on
my second turn. He also came out strong with an early Luke
on Tosche Station. I was lucky that I got Luke away from the
table and begin a big draining party in space. He tried to
do some damage, but Obi got circled/dueled away and that was
the game there. I won with 22.
2 (-5)
My dark proved to be a stabile deck.
Game 3
DS vs Bram Snepvangers Speed Profit starting General Han
and Goo Nee Tay
I didn't know him and with his Magic shirt and his playing
style I could see that he wasn't playing SWCCG on a regular
basis. He made some mistakes now and then, but also
surprised me at one time. I started Come Here You Big Coward
and he obviously didn't know the card. He was struggling
through the game and his Ben got circled early so he had a
hard time pulling his thing off. For me it was an easy game,
I was draining in space as well on the ground. He had no
starships in his deck so space was easy for me. Draining for
8 and Visage killed him. I won with 25.
4 (+20)
Well if I keep on winning like this I still got a shot at
winning it all.
Game 4
LS vs Paul van Horne This Deal starting Imperial Arrest
Order
I had never played aginst him, but there is a first time for
everything. I started normal Profit with Goo Nee Tay. He put
no aliens in the Audience Chamber. He had a hard time
setting up his Deal. I put Tawss Khaa early on Cloud City
and Orrimaarko on another CC location. He is only picking up
cards. In the meantime I was setting up a steady drain at
Bespin with my starships and on Cloud City, because he
wasn't deploying anything. He had maybe 30 cards in hand and
only 15 force in his reserve deck. He setted up his Deal and
could only deploy some characters. They got kicked around and
after I retrieved with profit he stopped the game. I won
with 34.
6 (+54)
Only two more big wins to go.
Game 5
LS vs Sander Dijst 3rd Marker/5th Marker Mains and Toys
starting Bad Feeling Have I
Sander is a good friend and a very good SWCCG-player. I
playtested against him and during playtesting we ended up
50/50 with these decks. I started with Battle Order so when
he started with Mara Jade and moved her away it will cost
him to drain. I had a beautiful starting hand, two locations
and when I drew cards for the first time I picked another
one. So I had enough force to do my thing. We had the first
5/6 rounds every turn a batlle on Tatooine JP. After I
counted my force loss, I thought it was time to retrieve
some force I free up Han. Vader visited the party, but we
both agreed that Orrimaarko is a oneyed son of a b .. He
lost a lot through him. I setted up a drain at the Defensive
Perimeter and it was to much for him to handle. I won the
game with 21.
8 (+75)
I almost pull it off.
Game 6
DS vs Johan van der Meer Throne Room Force Choke starting
Goo Nee Tay (I believe, correct me when I'm wrong Johan)
Johan was the top player at that moment, the only
undefeated player. I must win big here and I was in the
final. He started normal Throne Room. I started with
Presence Of The Force on the Throne Room. He activated and
deployed the Nudj, both of them (not at the Throne Room) and
tried a Revolution on the Med Chamber. Luckily for me I had
one of my 3 Evaders in hand and that was one loss for him. I
had an Vader and his saber in my opening hand and also
Kashyyyk. Deployed Kashyyyk picked up and saved some force
for my next turn Vader. He wasn't really in the game and
made some big mistakes. I had my Vader down and drained him
for 4 at the Throne Room and two at Kashyyyk (I had Zuckuss
there in the meantime). It was to much for him to handle.
The Visage did his work although he cancelled it at one
point. The crucial mistake he made was that he activated
until he had two force left. He looked for a Nudj only to
look at the two cards. I got to verify that it was a 0 and
a 4. He used Nabrun to get Obi against Vader and he draw the
4. I had on the other hand a Circle in my hand and used it
against him. He had only one force left and that was the 0.
Game and I won with 26.
The impossible happened I'm the top player after 6 games, so
that means I will play the final against no. 2. That was
Maarten Rossou, but we both wanted also to attend the Young
Jedi tournament and since we both are going to Brussel we
agreed not to play the final. So we are both the Dutch
Champions for a year, only I got the props because I was the
top player.
By the way Young Jedi sucks ass. There was no fun at all,
only when we played each other and when I played Jeroen van
de Bosch (he's also a swccg-player). (for the record I went
3-3)
Johan Haneveer