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Message no. 1
From: Jeroen de Wijn <J.Wijn@*********.NL>
Subject: Tourneys
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 23:46:00 +0100
Hi all,

I am wondering if there already have been Shadowrun tournaments held
out there.
We held a small tourney last Saturday with 8 participants.
It was fun, especially as this was only one of the first opurtunities I had
to play
one on one.
It really helped me to develop new insights into deck building geared to
2-player Shadowrun.
BTW, I didn't win, as my unbeatable multi-player deck proved to be all too
beatable with only 1 opponent.
Ah well, better luck next time I guess.
The winning deck was a deck composedaround the following principles:
Riggers and Drones, Mages and Invisibility and Sleep, Gore Tusk, Stomper
and Knuckles with loads of Armor, Kro Magnus and Hawkwind.
It worked quite well, remaining unbeaten all 5 matches.

Have fun,
me.
"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all
at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working."
Message no. 2
From: Tony Rabiola <rabiola@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject: Re: Tourneys
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 10:38:53 -0500
You wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>I am wondering if there already have been Shadowrun tournaments held
>out there.
>We held a small tourney last Saturday with 8 participants.
>It was fun, especially as this was only one of the first opurtunities
I had
>to play
>one on one.

How was the tournamant arranged/set-up? What format? (double
elimination, brackets, etc)

>It really helped me to develop new insights into deck building geared
to
>2-player Shadowrun.
>BTW, I didn't win, as my unbeatable multi-player deck proved to be all
too
>beatable with only 1 opponent.
>Ah well, better luck next time I guess.
>The winning deck was a deck composedaround the following principles:
>Riggers and Drones, Mages and Invisibility and Sleep, Gore Tusk,
Stomper
>and Knuckles with loads of Armor, Kro Magnus and Hawkwind.
>It worked quite well, remaining unbeaten all 5 matches.
>
How was your deck arranged that it did not work right?

Tony
Message no. 3
From: Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Tourneys
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:59:33 -0700
---Jeroen de Wijn wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am wondering if there already have been Shadowrun tournaments held
> out there.

Not that I've heard. 'Course FASA is still needing to post the
as-of-yet still awaited tournament rules.

On the same note, I'm still working with them on judgning a FASA
sanctioned tourney at GC'98 as well as hoping to get them to sponsor
an SRCard tourney at the same (or at least maybe put in something on
the prizes like a SRTCG T-Shirt, some '98 promo cards, or the like).

No real news on it yet, as I have to wait 'til November to nail things
down, and then February to have it all final.

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Message no. 4
From: Jeroen de Wijn <J.Wijn@*********.NL>
Subject: Re: Tourneys
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 21:04:00 +0100
Tony wrote:

>>We held a small tourney last Saturday with 8 participants.
>>It was fun, especially as this was only one of the first opurtunities
>I had to play one on one.
>How was the tournamant arranged/set-up? What format? (double
>elimination, brackets, etc)
Pretty simple, actually.
The names op participants were written on notes, and they were paired
randomly by the lovely lady that came to witness this event.
Everybody played 3 matches with a time-limit of 45 mins, and
then the best three played each other.
So the winner played 5 matches, and won them all.

>>It really helped me to develop new insights into deck building geared
>>to
>>2-player Shadowrun.
>>BTW, I didn't win, as my unbeatable multi-player deck proved to be all
>>too beatable with only 1 opponent.

>How was your deck arranged that it did not work right?
- Too little challenges (18 on 80 cards)
- Too many cards (80)
- Too many Specials (32 on 80)
The specials worked quite well multi-player, most of the time I sat
with 5-6 Stingers in my hand, foiling my opponent's runs.
This sadly didn't work 1 on 1, so I've trimmed the deck
to more realistic proportions (17 challenge, 16 runners, 20 specials, 9
misc.)
And this seems to work quite nicely indeed for the moment.

me.
"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's
another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standards of
nonconformity." -Unknown
Message no. 5
From: Phillip G Jaros <phillip_jaros@**.US.SWISSBANK.COM>
Subject: Re: Tourneys
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 18:05:01 CDT
>>How was your deck arranged that it did not work right?
> - Too little challenges (18 on 80 cards)
> - Too many cards (80)
> - Too many Specials (32 on 80)
>The specials worked quite well multi-player, most of the time I sat
>with 5-6 Stingers in my hand, foiling my opponent's runs.
>This sadly didn't work 1 on 1, so I've trimmed the deck
>to more realistic proportions (17 challenge, 16 runners, 20 specials, 9
>misc.)
>And this seems to work quite nicely indeed for the moment.

In two player games I tend to use a minimum of:
25 Challenges
5 Specials
10 Runners
8 Gear
2 Contacts/Locations
The other 10 cards used basically depend on the type of deck I'm
making (although I never use more than 25 challenges).

This way I usually get atleast 3 Challenges, A Runner, A Gear Card
and a Special in my first turns hand (8 cards).

Which is how I like it. :)

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