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