| From: | Felix Hoefert <FHoefert@********.DE> |
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| Subject: | TodayÂīs tourney |
| Date: | Thu, 30 Apr 1998 01:24:02 +0200 |
I want to give You gals and guys a short review of todayīs tourney. Many
(most?) of you probably have never played with more than 3 others, so
this might interest you.
We were 9 players, so each round one player got an automatic win. We
agreed on 30 Rep for this player, since both 80 points, which would have
been needed for a win, and 0 points would be unfair.
I played a basically Dwarven deck with a little support from
Shellshocks, Stompers, and a Hollywood.
In the first round, I was the more or less fortunate to get the
automatic win. All Stomper + Katana + Wake the Dead based decks won
their games. Three players were using these, one frequent player of this
"tactic" didnīt show up for the tourney.
The second round set me against a Wake the Dead deck, and since I came
up with Stomper right away and Nerpsed a Katana from my opponent, I was
able to defeat him by taking Urban Brawl (his), Assassination (mine),
and finally The Vault (mine). I was the only player in the tourney to
beat one of these decks. By the way, my opponent achieved two of his
WtD.
I the third round, I played against a 4-Fuchi (the guyīs got special
"connections")-decker-Lone Star Deck. As usual, he used Room §$%" as
his
Ojective. I won by pulling his LotIs with a bunch of Specials like Riots
(which wreaks havoc upon his deckers), and then using False Mentor when
he took my Critter Hunt with 2 Wildfires and other Loneys. Since the
time ran out after this, I won by Rioting before his last turn and
thereby dooming his run. A very fortunate and admittedly cheesy way to
win.
Since we count wins before reputation score, I got to be in the
semi-finals. As I had foreseen, I had to play another Wake the Dead
player. The third of them didnīt make it to the semis because he
mistakenly didnīt go on any run before he got heavy equipment for his
runners, and this took him too long. I lost this game in 15 minutes. At
least I got one Objective for 25 Rep.
The player I was drawn to play the next game didnīt want to play
anymore, probably because he was fed up with not achieving first place
or German Championship qualification points, so I got third place and
thereby an Underworld bosster pack. As predicted, Wake the Dead took
first and second.
After the tourney, a friend decided to build a Wake the Dead countering
Wake the Dead deck (how creative). We played this at his home twice, and
it came out 50-50 against my tourney deck.
The (at least nearer) future will see about 80% Wake the Dead decks and
a few steadfast cheese-haters. My hope is that all the Deaders get fed
up with playing against their own decks and start getting creative
again. I got through this tourney only by a large chunk oīluck, since
Iīve only got two Stompers in my deck.
Btw, asked for the reasons why they played WtD, these players all
answered: "Well, I want to win a tourney, too." If it comes down to
this, why not roll a dice for all of them and let the creative players
play it out for the lower rankings?
I will not give up trying to find an effective countering deck for WtD,
at least for the next week or so :)
Felix Hoefert
