Kris Sonsteby (LORE) Tournament Report - 1E - Online Event 2014-02-03 - 12:00 AM Honey... You Think KFC is Still Open? Introduction The online league playoffs kicked in to high gear with a return to the ever popular OTSD format, yet unfortunately in what is largely a hit or miss card pool I was dealt the latter. However, in spite of a distinct lack of missions, treaties, outposts, and dilemmas, I somehow managed to muscle my way to two wins. Round 1 Martin Hirschvogel FL (-75) The Mad Scientist was angling on abusing Genetronic Replicators, and exploited it against Punishment Zone on back-to-back attempts. With all of my missions loaded with dilemmas and his ships poised to fire on mine at a moments notice, this first of hopefully many games was decidedly one sided. FL 100-25. Round 2 William Hoskin FW (+20) Widowmaker was orchestrating a nearly all space creation, but failed to realize the Husnock Outpost only extends shields in limited quantities. Despite blowing through a trio of missions early, once he burned his Space Time Portal I nuked his fully loaded crew and proceeded to solve missions at my leisure. FW 100-80. Round 3 Johannes Klarhauser FL (-80)View opponent's ReportView original Report The Kaiser was also utilizing the tri-treaty, and with a space heavy mission set quickly discovered his options were lightly guarded. Once he dropped a ship with a cloaking device to avoid altercations in the air, it was all I could do to score points before the inevitable as he ferried down the spaceline under cover. FL 100-20. Like me, Kris was forced to run the Triple Treaty, so no worries about mission stealing. He suffered from a lack of dilemmas and and had at least one misseed under each mission I attempted. I tried to keep his two ships away from our shared outpost mission with a Q-Net, but it got Kevined right away. Still, I had probably the best draw so far with all classifications and some redundancy in play early on, so I was able to do my missions without having to spend several turns flying new people in like in the previous game. Round 4 bunz FW (+45) The Blueprint was employing Fed / Rom, but was penned in on one end of the spaceline by a trio of my ships. As the game progressed, a Quantum Singularity Lifeforms strong armed me into Plan B mode, though I held him off just long enough via a timely Q-Net to notch a second victory at the wire. FW 100-55. Closing Thoughts Sealed tournaments and OTSD gigs in particular have a tendency to boil down to the haves and the have nots and this tournament was no exception. Still, in being handcuffed to a particularly weak set of cards I found a way to maintain relevance in a talent laden field, and that tenacity is something to be proud of.