[First Maje]

Thanks for running such a cool event - this tournament looks great.

As a new player raised in the current meta reading through these old cards is like taking a trip to an exotic foreign land. Did these weak Premiere dilemmas even stop away teams back in 1994?

[OKCoyote]

No. They mostly didn't.

OTSD on its own is fun, but if it weren't for the filter dilemmas included in the OTSD itself, teams would just walk through everything. (Barring a few big exceptions of course.)

[Pazuzu]

What are the Open Rules again?

[commdecker]

Ignore the OTF rule page, and the OTF ban list. Only use the Glossary.

[OKCoyote]

Ignore the OTF rule page, and the OTF ban list. Only use the Glossary.

Yep. So to summarize:

* mission stealing is fair game
* no ban list
* only 100 points needed to win, regardless of mission type or quadrant
* no limit on downloading per turn
* no limit on copies of seeded dilemmas
* dilemmas go to discard pile (not removed from game)

Although this is an OTF rule, it's generally accepted that we keep batch seeding for Open events as it's just so much easier to seed that way - especially in online play.

[Pazuzu]

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[Captain Parrish]

OMG I LOVE PLAYING WITH TRASH lol. But really who else already has their deck together. I couldnt wait.

[First Maje]

OMG I LOVE PLAYING WITH TRASH lol. But really who else already has their deck together. I couldnt wait.

Right there with you... I have everything ready except the ordering of dilemmas. Basically 97% of my deck is complete garbage and the remaining 3% is insanely overpowered. This is going to be a blast.

[Se7enofMine]

Jesus ... it's so bad haha. Like ... "ewwwww" bad haha

Almost ready to go though

[OKCoyote]

Hope everyone's enjoying putting their decks together for this unusual event.

This is a last call for players interested in signing up. I'll be giving pairings out shortly after midnight Eastern tomorrow night.

Remember, one random player that completes all their rounds will win a month of Premium membership to TrekCC for themselves or a player of their choosing.

[Redgar]

Hey! If there is still room, and you don't mind playing against a painfully slow person in the Atlantic time zone, may I jump into this one?

[OKCoyote]

Hey! If there is still room, and you don't mind playing against a painfully slow person in the Atlantic time zone, may I jump into this one?

Absolutely!

I can have a card pool made and sent within an hour.

[OKCoyote]

All right, folks, here we go!

ROUND ONE PAIRINGS
Bruce Parrish (Captain Parrish) vs. Matthew Zinno (commdecker)
Stephan (Pazuzu) vs. ChadC (Se7enofMine)
Max Way (Redgar) vs. Jon Fry (KryptoJF)

Time limit is 105 minutes (1 hour, 45 minutes). Results are due Tuesday, December 12th.

Informal poll: do you guys want a fourth round or just three? Remember that round three will last two weeks due to holidays (from 12/19 - 1/2), so if we play a fourth round, it'll start January 2nd.

[Pazuzu]

To be honest I think three rounds are fine and a good end of the year.

[First Maje]

Agreed - three rounds sounds good.