Ken Tufts, deciding to try to outdo Justin Ford's record of attending every US Masters, attends not only Australian Continentals, but also European Continentals, North American Continentals and Worlds. Having dedicated his every waking moment to testing for these events, he crushes his competition at every turn, including a complete 100-0, 100-0 decimation of Chris Clarke in the 2E Worlds final, only to be stopped at the Tribbles Worlds final table when he finishes second by one point behind Constance Corbett, becoming the youngest-ever World Champion of a CCG with an incredible BaH!-BiJ-Qapla' deck.
Utterly dejected by this failure, Ken quits Trek, goes on a pilgrimage to Tibet, and is ultimately recognized as the next Dalai Lama.
Chris, swearing to avenge his defeat, moves to Sydney in order to play Trek regularly again, and flies to Germany for 2016 Worlds.
Constance, elated by her victory, goes on a tear through the 2015-2016 season and betters Ken's record by winning every Continental and Worlds title in 2016, including, after a rule change allowing negative points in Second Edition, a 100-(-90), 100-(-90) defeat of Chris in the 2E Worlds final.
Chris then retires from Trek, goes on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, where he is ultimately recognized as the Islamic Mahdi.
Constance retires from competitive Trek, but tutors her father intensively so that he might defend her titles.
John confines his competitive activities to Second Edition and North America in 2016-2017, but handily wins North American Continentals at GenCon 2017 and heads to 2017 Worlds in Minnesota the heavy favourite.
After sweeping the Swiss rounds, he defeats Nat Kirton, Matthew Frid and Mike Harrington in the round of 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively, each by a score of 100-135. His Causal Recursion-Phoenix strategy is, however, stopped in the final by Kris Sonsteby, playing an all-
deck that despite seeing none of its Tsunkatse cards in the second game manages to win when Kris draws his single copies of Molecular Mishap and The Orion Underworld to win 145-95.
John similarly vows to win Worlds the next year, but after Brian Sykes moves back to Ohio, taking Neil Timmons and Ben Hosp with him, the foursome of those three and Jared Hoffman finally proves too much for any challengers and all CC NACC and North American Worlds semi-finals from then on have all four of those players in them.
European Trek never recovers from the blows dealt to it by the victories of Ken and Constance and all finals of all CC championships from then on are contested by Paddy Tye and Niall Matthew.
In Australia, Lee Clarke also retires from Trek, instead becoming the first Prime Minister to represent an Australian Capital Territory electoral division and proving so popular that a constitutional amendment is passed declaring him Prime Minister for life. In Australian Trek, meanwhile, in order to prevent the high-level domination the game had seen for years at the hands of the Clarkes, it's decided that the competitors in each Continental will rotate each year between players from Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, which causes problems when Keith Morris moves to Melbourne on a permanent basis and wants to contest the championship. He is allowed to do so, but reveals that he had been undergoing instruction by Thomas Kamiura and proceeds to win every Australian championship for the next decade.
Thomas Kamiura himself, desperate to make Day 2 of a major event, does travel to every Continental and Worlds from then on, but always finishes one place outside the cut.
In 2030, Charlie Plaine, finally fed up with the lack of competitiveness at the top levels of Trek, disbands the CC in order that another group could take its place and make cards that will actually shake up top-level play. This group, headed by James Hoskin (having recently returned from a pilgrimage to Africa in which he successfully negotiated the creation of a formal state for the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic), makes well over 500 cards a year, all of them praised for their innovation and impact on top-level play. Thomas Kamiura proves the main beneficiary of this new approach, and sweeps not only every Continental and World championship in 2031, but also every National championship. (The Masters program had been ended in 2024 after a few years of decline as players began to treat them as glorified locals more than anything else.)
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