Torrance - December 1998 Report
by Stefan Vincent
December 6, 1998
Multiplayer, constructed deck
The Cast:
Jason Jung, "Mine Gimme" Ascended/Lotus
Stefan Vincent, "Behold the Power of Cheese" Ascended/Hand no-rares Shaolin Surprise
Victor Luke, "Band Aid" Lotus and friends
Keegan Lacy, "Plasma Infusion" Architects/Jammers
Matt Widmann, "Smak Bak Yak Attack" Dragons - Yak/Marisol/Brawl/Booby Trap
Steve Merrill, "Cut Off My..." Lotus - Imperial Boon recurring Eunuchs
Tim McCann, "A Little Help From My Friends" Dragons
Mike Nickoloff, "Are We The Good Guys?" Dragons/Lotus
Jeff Stolt, "The Dark Side" Ascended/Architects
Ray Clouse, "Come and Get You!" Architects
Quite the mix this time, with a good showing from Dragons, Architects,
and Lotus. Seating for round 1 again random, adjusted so that folks who
normally play together don't, and scoring at all tables as if they were
all 4-player games.
Round 1
Round 1 saw Matt win quickly at table 3, followed by Victor pummeling his
opponents into submission (two players had Destroyers in play, alternately
popping out of smoked piles!). Table 1 timed out; Steve's Thing w/1000
Tongues went to work for Jeff's Lodge; his follow-up with the Evil Twin
not fast enough, leaving Jeff the win on the tie-breaker. Scores after
round 1:
Jeff (1) - 6 Victor (1) - 9 Matt (1) - 9
Ray - 5 Tim M. - 5.5 Mike N. - 6
Steve M. - 3 Jason - 5.5 Keegan - 3
Stefan - 2
Round 2
Round 2 sat by score, putting the winners and Mike together at the four-player
table. Tim quickly (really quickly) crushed Ray and Jason at table 2; they
all took a break while the rest of us slogged on. I managed to get the
win at table 1 after borrowing Keegan's $10K man and Robot Arm, but table
1 again timed out, this time leaving Mike in the winner's seat on the tie-break.
Scores after round 2:
Mike N. (1) - 13 Tim M. (1) - 14.5 Stefan (1) - 11
Victor (1) - 13.5 Jason - 10 Keegan - 8.5
Jeff (1) - 11.5 Ray - 9.5 Steve M. - 8.5
Matt (1) - 11
Round 3
Again seating by score left the big boy's table almost intact (swap Matt
for Tim and replay). At table 3 Ray powered his way to victory, his Architects
stronger than Keegan's. Table 2 saw Matt get a very slow start but recover
eventually, however the game going so slowly that it timed out just after
Jason took one of Matt's sites, giving Jason the win on the tie-break.
Table 1 saw Jeff get the win cleanly, finally proving that not all 4-player
games had to time out today. Scores after round 3:
Jeff (2) - 20.5 Jason (1) - 17 Ray (1) - 18.5
Mike N. (1) - 19 Stefan (1) - 17 Keegan - 13.5
Tim M. (1) - 18 Matt (1) - 15 Steve M. - 11.5
Victor (1) - 17
Final
>From which you can see that it was an odd day, with almost everyone winning
a game. If Table 2 hadn't timed out, there would have also been a semi-final.
Oh well. Final round saw Jeff, Mike N., Tim M., and Ray go at it with no
time limit. I was busy playing games for fun so I didn't see if anything
spectacular happened, but Tim had to leave about 1 hr into the game, letting
Mike take control of the resulting 3-player game and get the win! congratulations
to Mike! Final standings:
Mike N. - 1st
Jeff - 2nd
Ray - 3rd
Tim M. - 4th
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