Weekly 1E Roundup - 26 SEPTEMBER 2019

by Charlie Plaine, Director of First Edition

26th September 2019

Welcome to the Weekly 1E Roundup, a weekly column looking back at the past week in the world of First Edition as well as a preview of the week ahead. If you've got an event coming up and you'd like to be featured in this column, feel free to contact me at cplaine@gmail.com or on the forums via PM to MidnightLich.

The Big News

Last night I held the most recent version of my office hours, where I was joined by Allen Gould (AllenGould) and Brian Sykes (Armus). You can watch the replay at that link, but we had a good discussion about errata, the power of decks and the changes that have been made to decks. We end with a brief discussion about Tribbles as well. It was a good time, and I encourage anyone that is interested in how I seek to manage 1E to give it a listen. I'll be holding another session in mid-to-late October, so keep your eyes open for that.

This Day in Trek

The fifth Star Trek show, then titled Enterprise, debuted eighteen (18) years ago today with the two-part episode Broken Bow. Enterprise was a prequel to the original Star Trek, set in the early days of humanity's exploration of the Alpha Quadrant. The show would run four (4) seasons, and remains one of the more polarizing shows in all of Star Trek lore. Jonathan Archer, T'Pol, and the Starfleet affiliation would come to First Edition five years later, with 2006's Enterprise Collection.

Tournament Reports

After several weeks of no tournaments, we had three (3) different events take place this past weekend. We'll start with one in Hull in the United Kingdom, hosted by admiralgary at a new venue. This event, an OTF Complete Constructed tournament, drew four (4) players. European Continental Champion Alex Dixon (alexd) went undefeated, piloting an unknown flavor of Federation. Paddy Tye (KazonPADD), Tony Thrustle (NCC-1764) and Gary beat each other up for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place respectively. Paddy played Crush of Empires, a Federation/Starfleet Terran Empire, while Tony played Klingon and Gary also played Federation. Alex, congrats on your win and I hope this is the first of many events in Hull.

Saturday also saw another OTF Complete Constructed tournament in Roseville, Minnesota, hosted by Kris Sonsteby (LORE). Four plyers came out for this event as well, hoping the shake the rust off before their league season begins. Kris ended up winning with a very similar Borg deck to his Continental Winning deck. James Heaney (BCSWowbagger) took 2nd place with "These Are The Voyages III (Or: The Chef Riker-Doctor Phlox Creepy Grin Bake-Off)". Robert Petersen (Hobie) played a deck titled "Gambling, Hunting and ****ing. A Cartrashian's dream" to 3rd place, and Justin Kaufman played an deck to round out the tournament. Lots of decks there to look at, and James wrote a tournament report as well. Thank you!

Finally, Robin Honeycutt (robin1234) returns to tournament play - no doubt to get ready for his trip to the UK in November. He won a three (3) player tournament in New York, hosted by his buddy Mark Panna (shambinks). Robin played Borg, no doubt trying to learn them so he can better defeat them; he also wrote a quick report talking about his day. Mark played a version of Paddy's Starfleet Whale deck to 2nd place, and Mark's wife Amanda Guether ended up in 3rd place with a Federation deck. Good to see Robin and Mark back to tournaments; keep it up!

Outside of tournaments, there's a delightful report and discussion thread by forum user casualofborg. In the thread, casualofborg tells us about an epic 27-turn game between "Sneaky Ferengi" and "the Feds." Thanks for the report - this is exactly the kind of thing we want to feature here, so feel free to post or send in more reports in the future.

Next weekend will be the October edition of First Weekend First Edition (FWFE). Plan a tournament, get together, test session, or kitchen table game for October 4th, 5th, and 6th - schedule your events now - and you can be in the running for some fabulous prizes!

Tournament Previews

We don't have any local events scheduled for this weekend or next, so let's take a look at the bigger events we have coming in November. That's when the Road to Worlds 2020 kicks off with the Space Coast Trek Masters event in West Melborne, Florida on November 10th and the British Nationals event in Greater Manchester on November 16th.

Space Coast Masters features some amazing prizes and at least three (3) players are planning on attending. Aside from tournament host Daniel Matteson (OKCoyote), visitors Michael Van Breemen (The Ninja Scot) and Maggie Geppert (jadziadax8) will be heading down to join the fight. Who else out there is willing and able to make it to Florida for this event?

The following weekend, The British Nationals event looks to offer some great rematches from the World Championship, with ten (10) players pre-registered from at least three countries. We might even have a world championship rematch, as both World Champion Peter Ludwig (marton88) and runner-up Johannes Klarhauser (Kaiser) are signed up to attend.

Do you have an event coming up? A tournament or get-together? Let me know! Contact me at any of the links at the bottom of this column, and I'll happily promote your event in a future edition of this column!

Short Takes (In Other News)

• Aron Eisenberg passed away at the age of fifty (50). The actor was famous in Star Trek circles for bringing the character of Nog to life across all seven season of Deep Space 9. I saw a ton of stories from Trek players talking about Aron's kindness and joy at being part of Star Trek, and his sudden loss is saddening. May he rest in peace, and forever have a place in the Divine Treasury.


• We also lost Jack Donner (90) and Sid Haig (80). Jack Donner played two roles in Star Trek with four decades between them; he was Subcommander Tal in the Original Series, and the Vulcan Priest (we called him V'Tal) in Enterprise. And while Sid Haig was best known for horror roles, he played the First Lawgiver in the TOS episode "Return of the Archons." May all three of these Star Trek actors rest in peace.


• We have talented people working to improve the website. As mentioned in last week's column, Director of Operations Brian S has recently removed all of the drop shadows from older 1E card images. Discovery suxs created a thread to thank Brian, and it turns out James Heaney used that to announce that we now have PDFs of each expansion available. Jump into the thread and thank both Brian and James, and maybe we'll get more features in the future.


• Would you participate in an event that used special rules? There's been a lot of discussion about community involvement in testing lately, and I recently proposed a special event where people can test out potential rules changes, temporarily unbanned cards, and more. What do you think about something like that? Would you participate? Vote in the poll and let us know.


• Which rules always confuse you? In my fourth asking of a weekly Friday question, I recently asked about confusing rules. We'll use your answers to help figure out where we can improve the rulebook, so sound off with what you find confusing. I plan on posting a new question every Friday, and a lot of them will directly relate to things we're working on for the future of 1E. For example, tomorrow I'll be asking you to help us figure out the point value of a mission in design.


• Forum user dragoncymru continues working on a solo version of 1E. Dragoncymru has been working on rules for solo 1E play. There are several posts with variant rules and the thought process behind them, and it's been fascinating and fun to read. Check it out!

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That's all for this week's roundup of First Edition news and events. For more news, you can follow The Continuing Committee on Facebook, Twitter, or bookmark our front page. News about upcoming First Edition projects can be found in the most recent Project Status Update from August 2019. My next Office Hours will be in mid-to-late October (suggestions welcome). If you've got an event coming up and you'd like to be featured in this column, or if you have comments about this column's content, feel free to contact me at cplaine@gmail.com or on the forums via PM to MidnightLich. Until next week, may you expand your power in the universe and live long and prosper.

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