atlanta-georgia-10-27-01-pre-release
Title: atlanta-georgia-10-27-01-pre-release
Author: John "Alpha Blue" Anderson
Date: Oct 29, 2001
I was really pumped when I heard about Reflections III pre-release near me.I printed the directions off MapQuest and off I went. I had a few tense moments on the highway when I thought I had passed the exit, but I didn’t, MapQuest’s directions are just shroud in ambiguity. I got there early, as I always do, to play some pickup games, around 10:30. Guess what? No-one was there! So I drove to McDonalds’ to get a Mr. Pibb, and I went back. By that time, some kids from Savannah were there and I played a quick game with him. (His TR is: http://decktech.net/swccg/treports/reportdetail.php3?deck=3082). He had his Watto deck versus my RST and I lost my Deactivate the Shield Generator right off the top for that bluffing shiznap. I was screwed then, but I only lost by seven. Then more and more showed and I saw Paul Myers and Landon Sommer. Paul and I tried to play a quick game, but Stephen Michael kicked us out of the gaming room because we were about to begin! I paid my twenty bucks and bought four packs of R3 at $3.99 a pack. Significant pulls included Jedi Obi, HOT Leia, EJP Lando Foil, and Queen’s Royal Starship Foil. I had shifted around my work schedule, figuring on starting at 11:30 and playing four rounds, finishing around 4:00. Boy was I wrong! We started at 12:00, drafted and built decks for an hour or so. I was chosen to be light, so I whipped out my LS locations and sat down to draft. I was at a table with the two kids from Savannah, I played one of them earlier (see above), and a really weird collector person. He was pretty freaky! The DS player to my left (his right) opened a pack and Qui Gon Jinn AI Foil was staring back at him. He was pretty mad he had to pass that to me, but I was enthrolled. I did pull two Yoda’s (R3), new Chewie, Falcon combo, and some combat jank. Before we get into the games, here’s my deck:
Start: (2)
Tatooine: City Outskirts
An Unusal Amount of Fear
Your Ship?
Don’t Do That Again
A Close Race
Ounee Ta
He Can Go About His Buisness
Characters: (14)
Chewie, Enraged
Yoda, Master of the Force x2
Qui Gon Jinn
Horace Vacil
Baragwin x2
Ishi Tib
B’omarrr Monk
Beru Lars
Talz
Rebel Pilot
Worrt
Yarkora
Starships/Vehicles: (3)
Han, Chewie, and The Falcon
Cloud Car x2
Weapons/Devices: (3)
Jar Jar’s Electropole (7)
Blaster Rifle
R2 Sensor Array (6)
Effects: (3)
Yarna d’al’ Garna (6)
Echo Base Sensors (5)
Sando Aqua Monster
Interrupts: (8)
Dune Sea Sabacc (5)
Surprise Assault
Path of Least Resistance (5)
Fall of the Legend (5)
A Few Maneuvers (6)
Fall of a Jedi (6)
Darth Maul’s Demise ( 6)
Weapon of a Fallen Mentor (6)
Locations: (7)
Dantooine
Tatooine (Old)
Bespin: Cloud City
Tatooine: Marketplace
Tatooine: Lars Moisture Farm
Hoth: Echo Command Center (War Room)
Naboo: Theed Palace Generator Core
(n) indicates random card with high destiny
On to the games!
Game 1: My LS (duh!) vs. Some person’s Tatooine Aliens
Sorry guys, I’m really bad with names. In fact, I forgot the next game too! Oh well, there’s nothing YOU can do about it! lol. Anyways, he starts Jabba’s Palace. I grab Quiggy with my opening hand and Yoda. He grabs a site with JP and saves. I drop Quiggy to the Outskirts (bad move, I should’ve put him at JP) and Yoda to the Naboo: TPGC. Lord Maul comes and kills Yoda, and he drains for a bundle the whole game. Qui God lives forever, but eventually dies. I really didn’t do to much in this game.
FL 0 (-7)
Highs: Quiggy and Yoda
Lows: Maul, Jabba’s Palace, forgetting names.
Game 2: vs. Tatooine Aliens (again!)
He starts Jabba’s Palace, another one!, and pulls a site and drops two TIEs to his Bespin: Cloud City. I got nothing in my hand except Falcon and Surprise Assault. So, I drop the Falcon to beat up his TIE’s, and get this, I draw two zeroes! He loses the TIE’s. Anyway, I forget to pay for the Falcon and it gets POOPed. He drops two more TIEs to CC and says go. I have no clue what to do, I try and use Tatooine: City Outskirts game text, but no one is there. He drains with the two TIEs and I play Surprise Assault. He’s like, !@@#$%%^^&**%#@#$#% and get this, I draw two zeroes! Again! I lose two. The game goes downhill from there.
FL 0 (-14)
0 (-21)
Highs: none
Lows: did you read the game?
Lunch Break:
I run to Blimpies and grab a sub and I sit down with Paul and Landon and eat. My game lasted a really short time, so I go into the store and watch this freaking hillarious movie about all the times Galatic Quest has been on TV. It shows the store owner looking like a fool, and is good to bring my spirits up.
Game 3: vs. Mike Kesslings Tatooine
He starts Jabba’s Palace. Anyway, he looks sort of ticked that he’s playing a scrub, and he comes off as a loser. I drop Quiggy and some scrubs and he whips my @$$ around. I have Yoda in my hand, but I can’t find Naboo: TPCG. I say a curseword and he’s like, ’Quite a mouth?’. Oh well. He drains for a bunch, and Aurra Sing with rifle hits the table. I lose like the scrub I am.
FL 0 (-17)
0 (-38)
Highs: none
Lows: I’m probably going to get a low rating from Mr. Troop 1023 himself. Who the @#$% cares?
Game 4: vs. Joseph? kid from Savannah that I drafted with’s Tatooine.
Now here’s something different, he starts with the Audience Chamber. I drop my Worrt and eat several of his guys, Han, Chewie, and the Falcon is at Tatooine, Yoda is at Naboo, Quiggy is at the Audience Chamber, I have scrubs everywhere draining for bunches, I beat up some of his kids. This was a short game an I win.
FW 2 (+8)
2 (-30)
Highs: winning
Lows: beating him up so fast, he didn’t get a good hand or something.
Anyway, I have to drop now, they want to play six rounds, and I have to be at work. Its an hour drive, so I tell Kyle (store manager/owner) that I have to, he’s sorta disappointed, but I have to go.
Results: (from what I can gather)
Tim Joens- 2nd place
Will Gilchrist- 3rd place
Damian Loback- 4th place
Sorry for the lack of placings, I dropped. You’d know that if you actually read the report. *smack*
Highs:
Going to the tourney
Pulling some cool kids
People there.
Lows:
Dropping
Losing so many times!
Thanks for reading,
John Anderson