Unjustly Banned (RedDwarf) Tournament Report - 2E - Chairman's Challenge 2013-07-21 - 12:30 PM TOS Dilemma Retrieval [v3] Introduction Following my disastrous performance in day one of the European Continentals, I had dubbed this tournament "Operation: get ratings points back". As the chairman's challenge was optional, I was going to play a regular deck and hopefully claw back some of the 106 points I lost on the previous day. I was playing my TOS dilemma retrieval deck, which I thought was funny because all these IDIC decks would have to face the same dilemmas over and over again. Round 1 Anastasia Kalashnikova ML (-35) I think Alexey was playing Starfleet, but I'm not sure. Once the deck list has been entered and my memory has been jogged, I'll expand this out some more. All I do remember is that I had a core full of events and hardly ever managed to draw into the 8-cost dilemmas when I wanted. I did capture two personnel with Slyvia, but I was having to explain what I was doing to Alexey and the game went to time. ML: 35-70 Round 2 Michael Albrecht FL (-30) Michael was playing Earth Space 9. By turn three or four he pulled off a Promenade School/Jaresh Inyo combo; and downloaded Worf, Ezri and William Ross. That totally negated any bonus completing Aid Legendary Civilization would give me so I left that mission until last. Unfortunately, I didn't draw into enough events to make my dilemmas cheap, and Michael was able to work his way through my dilemmas relatively unharmed. I did manage to take out Ezri so my dilemmas could kill, but just couldn't afford to play most of the big killers. FL: 70-100 Round 3 Peter Machovits MW (+15) Peter was playing TOS. Things got off to a rocky start in this game when an early Helen Noel took out both of my copies of Overwhelmed. Fortunately, I got the McCoy/Shran combo working overtime and was able to retrieve quite a few dilemmas. That was good, because the only dilemma that seemed to work at all was Unfair Comparison. Over the course of the game, I think Peter had to face it at least five times. As usual, I was struggling with my mission attempts, and it was really only the 10 points from the Enterprise-B that won me the game. When time was called, we'd both completed two missions. MW: 80-65 Round 4 sascha kiefer FL (-30) Sascha was playing a two-mission win non-aligned deck with a splash of Bajorans for recursion. He was also going old school and attempting two 50 point missions. Still, with the Enterprise-J and Sisko (Outlaw) boosting attributes he didn't need that many personnel to complete them. I thought the game was going in my favour. I'd stopped him several times at his space mission and then taken the dilemmas back with McCoy. Sadly for me, Sascha was matching me stop-for-stop with his dilemmas. With the game pretty close, the result came down to Leeta (Union Member). Sascha told me he hadn't managed to trigger her ability all tournament, but he did against me at his second mission. That one extra overcome dilemma meant that he could auto-complete on his next turn. Without it, I had a chance (with my event support) of drawing a dilemma to stop his attempt. In particular, I knew that a Secret Identity would work as Sascha decked himself on his final turn. Sadly, I didn't get to draw any dilemmas and Sascha took the game. FL: 70-100 Closing Thoughts The only positive thing I can take from this tournament is that, by beating Peter in round three, I only tied my worst ever losing streak (of 8 games) and didn't increase it.