mainz-19-05-2002-regional-raltiir
Title: mainz-19-05-2002-regional-raltiir
Author: Vjeko "mighty_maul" Keskic
Date: May 21, 2002
what a amazing weekend/tournament, my 3rd official swccg tournament and also the 3rd place, that i
shared with martin schuhmacher ->> (thanks for the first choice).two days before i had no really good idea for new decks
so i tried tons of combos, my first decks were gunguans (light side) and watto with podrace and expand the empire (dark side)
but after some test-games i decided to play the basic stuff with QMC à la B.Winkelhaus and my nasty gangsters mixed up
with racing and this was the right decision.
For my surprise just B.Winkelhaus played his "basic" Watto, the most decks were light side/dark side combat or "all your
base belong to europe" (biest deck).well lets start to tell you something more about my games and the whole tour.
my decks :
light side : QMC à la B.Winkelhaus
dark side : Court mixed up with P.Racer
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1. game (dark side) vs. (sorry but i forgot the name) light side combat
the first game with my favourite dark side deck against light side combat, i’ve never lost a game before against this deck
but this game was very strange and long. i played "my" basic court style pulled out gailid with mosep to the audience chamber
and picked up jabbas palace, so the match up was tech. his first action was to pull out naboo system (without a ship for over 5 turns)
and a Jedi Luke to naboo, well my force generation was over 16 force per turn and this is great for court so i pulled out
boelo and ephant mon with bane malar (achim this little brave bounty hunter is very powerful)to all my jabbas palace sites
to drain him for 6 and 4 force directly from the reserve deck, the next turns i tried to kill jedi luke with 4-LOM and Boba
Fett but he kicked my @ss from naboo.after 3 turns he picked up over 20 hand cards and i just waited for the ships and jedis
but no ships only 1 MF with Chewie and Han, with the rest of his pilots like wedge,dash and hobbie he tried to hold one tatooine site.
so i deployed scum in combo with first strike to retrieve 3 force per battle, but then finally he get Qui to naboo and so he also
started to drain me for 7 on naboo pulled out battle plan, and i had a problem!!! the only fact that helped me,i holded the race
but after my lost pile began to rise fast i won the race so i had a little bit more force to drain on my jabbas sites, he made always the same mistake to
pick more and more cards into hand so he had just 10 life force and 15 hand cards but only red cards (he told me later on), so
after 2 turns he had no force to pay the maintance for the MF and so he lost the space site and his own battle plan killed him
i had also only 4 force at the end but this was enough to drain him for 2 from r. deck, and finally the strange and long game
(i think 50 min) ended with the result :
FW +4
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2. game (light side) vs. Sebastian Lange (dark side combat)
my second game against dark side combat this time,i thought QMC will be able to win but i don’t tought i will win so
easily.my match up was nice, i pulled out keir to space with a x-cannon,goo nee tay and princess leia to her site, so i was able to flip
my objective in the second turn, and this is important for QMC to win.his first turn : he activated 8 force and picked all the
force into hand, i couldn’t believe my luck no jedi at the first round, the game started to get better and better, so i drained him for 2
and he lost 2 cards from reserve deck 1.Maul 2.His Stick, then i pulled out Pucumir and Luke to Cloud City fliped my objective and
find a cloud city celebration in the force pile the whole game was amazing for me.so after 3 turns i was able to drain him for 7
and to retrieve 3 force (i had no lost pile).then he started to deploy some aliens to CC, but he deployed Prince Xizor and
Ponda Baba & Dr. Evazan to my princess leia and i couldn’t believe this, before he wanted to battle my leia he picked up the card
read the game text and laughed. so the game began to become easily he wasn’t able to pull out jedis (i don’t know why).
after i drained him for 9 at CC and to retrieve 4 force each turn (i had just 1 path every turn in my lost pile)the game was finally over
in his last turn he pulled out mosep with vader to naboo to give me damage but he had no force to drain cause my battle plan blocked him
so the game ended after (i think after 25 min) with the result :
FW +22 (no lost pile for me!!)
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3. game (light side) vs. Angelo Consoli (all your base belong to europe)
ok i started with 2:0 in the regional and i hoped not to cross B.Winkelhaus, and i was lucky to play agaisnt angelo but then
he showed me his starting and i saw the s.ucking "all your base belong to europe".QMC vs. All Your ... is hard, ok i started
with "don’t do that again" to block his fast game and force activation, my match up wasn’t really bad, after 2 turns i
fliped my objective and occupied tatooine system with Dash,Hobbie and Keir, his problem was his bad hand, he picked up i think
over 20 cards, so after he had all that he needed he began to kick my @ass, first in the space with Zuckuss and Saber 1 and a
cannon, killed all my ships and pulled out Maul in Space to Bespin so i had to hide from zuckuss,saber 1 and Maul with just hobbie
and later on wedge my outrider was lost so i wasn’t able to kill maul in space this was the main fact, he drained me over 6 each turn
holded bespin system blocked my drains on CC with Kedar,U-3PO etc. after 30 min the game was over with the result :
FL -16
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4. game (dark side) vs. Micheal Fritsch (hidden base)
my 4 game and i the game before was really bad for me, i had no chance against angelo and his "all your ...", so this game
with my dark deck should be better for me, and hidden base is nice for court, my match up was tech, i pulled out gailid with
mosep, and picked up some hand cards with jabbas palace. he started with the basic HB sytle endor system with the new premiere luke
into space with artoo, so i pulled out all my aliens ephant mon and boelo with jade to jabbas palace so my drain was 6 and 4 from
the reserve deck, i wondered why he don’t drained me in space for one or why he don’t pull out battle plan shield (that he played after 5 turns)
after he had 5 systems in space with some ships, i pulled out zuckuss tp space in combo with bosk in hounds tooth and probed his hidden base
with the first turn (it was naboo) so the game was over he had no x-cannons in space and he wasn’t able to get ability of 7
to battle my zuckuss and bosk, so he drained some turns for 2 or 4 but after i won the race the damage from me was to high and
the game ended fast i think after 25 mins with the result of :
FW +25
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5. game (light side) vs. Benjamin Fadda (dark side combat) again!!!
my 5th game and again dark side comabt but this time against benjamin fadda, a player that i never heard and played before,
one of B.Winkelhaus Padawans. his match up was really good fisrt turn he pulled out maul to naboo, and picked up some nice cards,
my match up was also tech, like in the whole tournament, i played keir to space with a x-cannon and deployed leia with gun to
her qaurter, next turn he drained me for 2 and pulled out palpy to naboo so i must play fast to keep the damage low, and i
fliped my objective again after 2 turns with pucumir and goo nee tay so he had really problems to drain me, cause he just activated
11 force but to drain me for 4 he had to pay 6 force and with goo nee tay he wasnt able to pull out characters to CC to
kick my @ss, so he hoped for the bespin system, and i was lucky to get Power Pivot,Organized Attack into hand, and fianlly in the
next turn he tried to kick my keir with Bossk in ship, but with organized attack and power pivot brave keir protected bespin,
and so he tried again to kill my pucumir with IG-88 but path, run luke run and help me obi-wan ... gave him the beat down, and
so the gane enden with the result :
FW +14 (the only thing that s.ucked was that he cancled my CC celebration in teh 3rd turn, like every dark player)
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6. game (dark side) vs. Sascha Winter aka Warmaster (TIGIH)
the 6 game and this was the most important game for me , cause sascha and i went into this game with 4:1 and the winner will
qualify for the FINAL FOUR, and sascha is one of my padawans. i knew his TIGIH cause i helped him to build up this deck, and
sascha knewed my deck, so this "final game" was the highlight. and in this game my hand was more than tech, i pulled out
jade with stick to chief chirpas hutt to capture luke and to stop his force activation,and i hoped for no characters but then
he pulled out han with gun (i didn’t hit this s.ucker) kicked my jade from endor and then i concentrate all my ability to tatooine, in the second turn
i pulled out again mosep and gailid to the chamber like in all the games before (that was just amazing) with scum and my other aliens
to my jabbas site, and it was to fast for him, i drained him for 4 directly from reserve deck, and he tried to deploy bunker
and to gave me also damage but it took him to long to pull out han with chewie and some other scouts to endor after he deployed his
characters i won the race and gave him the rest damage of 6, so i had only 5 or 6 lost cards and he had omly 15 life force, boushh
wasn’t able to get into jabbas palace (none shall,and ephant mon kept her away), in the last 2 turns he played (lost in the wildness or so)
kicked my Xizor and deployed Corran Horn to jabbas palace, the only thing that helped me was first strike with scum and snoova
i battled him retrieved 3 force and captured horn so the game was really over, very fast i couldn’t believe that i won this game just after
20 mins with the nice result of :
FW +25 (again!!)
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ok i was qualified for the final four together with martin schuhmacher,bastian winkelhaus and martin wüst.
i had to play againt martin wüst and had deck choice i chosed my dark deck cause i didn’t lose any tournament game with this
deck the last 2 years. and then i was shocked cause martin played s.ucking profit.
semi-final :
(dark side) vs. martin wüst (profit)
ok i played court and he profit with all this s.ucking mains with stick, i had no chance to win this game, i just
activated 6 force!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! after he pulled out goo nee tay i knew the game was over i just try to give him some
damage with podrace, but then i deployed IG-88 to han after he realeased him kicked him into the used pile and so he had
ben with stick, qui with stick, luke with stick etc. on tatooine but wasn’t able to give 1 drain or to give me some other damage
but i wasn’t able to deploy charactesr with only 6 force i lost all my sites and so he tarcked his han wirh 3-PO pulled him back to
tatooine and gave me a damage of 8 after 3 turns i had no life force end the game ended finally with the result :
FL -11
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so the tournament was over for me, martin lost the first final game against b.winkelhaus with 33 force and so they don’t play
the re-game, and the happy winner of the star wars raltiir regional 2002 was BASTIAN WINKELHAUS.
Ranking :
1. BASTIAN WINKELHAUS
2. MARTIN WÜST
3. VJEKOSLAV KESKIC <--- my @ass
4. MARTIN SCHUMACHER
...
7. SASCHA WINTER
..
18. ALEX KLIMO (he just lost with 12 force agaisnt winkelhaus and his s.ucking senate deck)
...
so now i wanna to thank some people that helped me to reach this amazing 3rd place, first mad probs to
Phillip Meyer (danke fürs fahren,und spiel nie wieder "all your base belong to europe"), also mad probs
go out to ACHIM GÜNZEL for the whole tournamnet and organization, also thx for keeping swccg alive in germany.
also probs for my unnderground crew from h-town aka heidelberg :
Alex Klimo (hast pech gehabt, aber ich hab trotzdem respekt vor dem MART GEWINNER 2001, immerhin haste sp... basti ein bissl
gestresst 12 force ist cool)
Sascha Winter (sorry sascha ich wollte nicht gegen dich spielen aber schicksal, du hast aufjedenfall nen digges turnier
gespielt RESPEKT)
Daniel Winter (naja typisch daniel winter nur scheiße im kopf aber trotzdem cool das du dabei warst mit ein bissl mehr
vorbereitung und spielerfahrung kommst du nächstes jahr wieder und rockst das turnier*g*)
Phillip Meyer (adrians deck war woll nicht das richtige für dich, obwohl diggen respekt vor deinem light side deck)
Adrian F. (danke für alle karten du star wars genius)
Christian Wilbs (du kleiner feiger mannheimer, hast was verpasst und wärste dabei gewesen hättest gute chancen gehabt)
Andreas F. (kein plan was mit dir ging hab dich aber auch ned länger ned mehr gesehen im MT, wäre aber cool gewesen wenn du
in mainz dabei gwesen wärst)
Bastian Winkelhaus (leider konnt ich ned gegen dich zogge aber das nächste mal vielleicht, hätte gerne geschaut was dein light side senate
so drauf hat, CONGRATULATION)
no probs go out to :
nico kreidl (am ende des turniers warste nicht vor mir oder ????????????? irr mich da?, aber egal all jahre wieder ...)
thx to all for reading/rating this tour. report!