origins-2001-7-6-01
Title: origins-2001-7-6-01
Author: brad "swccguy" eier
Date: Jul 20, 2001
well i’ll start back in june. the pre registration deadline was like the 11th or something, so i signed up to go to
origins on saturday. i’m pretty sure friday will be a no-show since i have football weight lifting. well then the end
of june coach tells us we have the week of the 4th of july off so i’m going to origins. thats cool but i have no decks
and have only played in 1 tourney since states and no tourneys since tatooine. i make “the pile”, hidden mains,
and a qmc but they aren’t really my style so i go to a mwyhl/racer/test 1/ direct damage (afa, legendary, orgder to
engage, ect) and play it like a total of 2 times vs my friends isb/hoth walker stuff and win by 22 and 5 , so i’m like i
guess it will do and thats my ls deck. for dark i had huntdown podracer but i keep hearing how it sucks so i don’t
want to use it. the avatar style e-ops deck looks pretty solid, and i’ve played eops a lot before so i build it, change a
few things, and thats my dark deck.
well i drive down to origins alone and am like 2 hours early incase there is a line. there isn’t. in like 15 minutes i
get through registration and event sign up and so i go on over to the ccg hq place. i meet up with a lot of people
and we talk decks and how are you doing and all that stuff but we’re ready for the tourney to start. we were
surprised that 2 of ohios big guns, brad chester and jamie abel, didn’t show up for the open.
i’m bad with names, sorry.
game 1. dark vs ? hbx/mains/omdh
i start off fast and get in some good drains because of rumors. we fight in space a few times but i waste him. so
next he tries to kill my walker with igar/veers in it at the endor db. well imp command really helps me and i am
retreiving a lot with first strike. attrition kills most of his guys so he goes at the bunker with reflections 2 luke and
kills a few guys but i beat on him. i drain him out and win by 20ish.
fw 2 (+20?)
game 2. light vs ? build the ds2 deck
hmm....bulid ds2. i’m not familiar with this deck type. he gets out his sectors fast while i race and do some afa
action. chybc comes out so i dont retrieve. i cant complete test 1 so his drains are big. jarjar and epp obi pay
jerjerod a visit at the ds2 db and do some damage. i put a guy in space and one at the podrace arena i think to get
by chybc. the mega falcon tries to beatdown but he gets 2 destinies from tto so all my stuff dies too. then i put luke
r someone at the endor db where he has a bunch of guys. he goes for a beatdown but i think i on the edge to
suicide luke, then jedis resiliance to get him back in my hand. one of the guys he brought was vader who gets uc
furied which is big. close game but i pull it out.
fw 4 + oh well foget diff.
game 3. dark vs a wys beatdown.
i drain in space and he does on ground. i put out a uc spy which helps. i have like nothing on land and he is out
draining me. he spreads 2 smugglers to the endor db and that changes the game. i drop a walker, guy, trample 1
smuggler, battle, he loses a lot. he has manace fades out so that slows my drains. he goes for a beatdown with the
trippler but forgts about dash till after we draw battle destiny so its too late. that was big. with his one shot at a
beatdown gone he didn’t have much left and i won by mabey 3 or 4.
fw +6
game 4. light vs matrin paquette bhbm/racer.
let me say right now he had the worst luck ever and things would have been a lot dofferent if he didn’t. his racer
destinies are like tat db (his only bg i think) , a vader, and other stuff. he does a hit racer on me though so i’m
losing a lot of force to stack race destinies. i think he put out chybc on me too. i win the race. he gets out vader so
i give him luke (and a fury i think) and i toss down a guy to a site so i can retrieve a little. afa hurts him all game.
it was a good game but i managed to pull it out.
fw +8
game 5. light vs a bhbm 7’s deck
this guy was a tracking machine and his deck had mad higfh destiny. i win the race and for the first time all day
get to retrieve from it. well his deck is like the old bhbm “machine” decks, guys at db’s, search and destroy, ect.
he also has chiraneau at cardia so he is draining 6 a turn. well i d test 1 but melas gets set for stun. that really hurt
me. i start dropping guys to podrace arena to get by s&d, but every turn he kills them with his high destinies. i
setup a kessel drain late game but its not enough. lose by 2
fl +8
game 6. dark vs alex klammrodt qmc.
well this is not cool. the guy who made qmc popular with his trademark deck. and i’m playing his dark eops deck.
well i try to take bespin and hold it for a while. i do some decent damage but pucimir answers that. he sets up
menace fades and that slows me big time. he shoots my uc spy. not much else i can do, i can’t handle 9 drain a
turn when i cant keep spys alive or setup decree. he doesnt retrieve all game and still wins by like 19.
fl +8
after that game we sat there a while and talked about stuff and he gave me some tips for the e-ops deck. he was
really cool. thanks a lot man.
game 7. dark vs martin paquette wys beats
well he gets his revenge. like the other game vs wys i had, i take space early and wait for him to attack. he power
pivots chimaera but i don’t lose any overflow. he is playing all these crazy interrupts twice since he has wys. i
made a mistake i tried to tallon roll a ship but forgot battle deployment made my ship power -2. darn. he uses that
ship to drain me in space. his deck was pretty good and so he won.
fl +8
game 8. light vs john veasy big blue isb.
i win the race and afa hurts him. i use it could be worse on a lot of his endor/sullust drains. we fight in space and
the mega falcon kills off a lot of stuff. i put a guy at podracer arena to take advantage of i did it. i do a vosired
vision for imp command, and see all 4 he has, so he lose all of them. that was big. somehow he kills han and leia
from the falcon. i have luke at the podrace arena, so i on the edge him, then jedis resiliance and get him into hand,
and then play him on the falcon. we fight and i play legendary starfighter ( i found out after the game that i
couldn’t have pleyed it cause i didn’t win the battle, man i’m sorry john. the way i look at it though you still would
have had to lose to order to engage here and there but i think the game would have been a lot closer, sorry man.)
well time is about up so i land the falcon on dag swamp to get 4 cards back in my deck. i would have gotten a
timed win but john draws up to give me a full win. that guy is cool.
fw +10
well i finish 5-3 and get my barrier foil. i pull an ai maul out of my tatooine pack so thats cool. the next few hours
i rumble around looking for food while aaron and paul (the people who let me stay in there room) play in teds
tourney. at like 12 we leave and by 1 we find our hotel thats 3 blocks from the con. i go to sleep but they swim.
next morning we get up at like 8 or 9 and by 11 are ready to go back to the con. they play some sw but i’m only
doing rawdeal today. i play in the hardcore tourney ald lose a lot but win some too. i played tj holman and clint
hays and they kick my @#$% in raw deal. i decide not to stay for the raw deal open and drive home.
props
everyone who went to origins
clint hays for winning
everyone else who did well at origins
alex klammrodt for being cool and telling me how to play eops right
aaron for the room
everyyone i met there
semi cause he collects messed up cards
everyone i played all weekend, all my opponents were cool and stuff
everyone i forgot
slops
parking prices......i paid like 29 dollars to park my car for like 24 hours....what a rip
the food court for being so far from the gaming hall
thats about it it was a fun weekend. sorry the tr’s so late
-brad “swccguy” eier