Rick Kinney (T-Ricks) Tournament Report - 2E 2013-06-23 - 12:00 PM NA gold is 2 expensive Introduction This is just a NA deck with a lot of smart people to solve some basic cunning missions. Nothing too fancy. Round 1 Thomas Kamiura FL (-60) My game against TK went as expected. I was able to get one mission solved before he decimated me with his All Consuming Evil dilemma pile. He had Kruge, but didn't use him. Then again, he didn't need to. With his Tragic Turn, he was able to do the damage just with dilemmas. He did his first two missions with only one attempt each. He was able to overcome my only dilemma, Outclassed, at his space mission with some Interrupt/Azbethur/Riker shenanigans to walk through that one. Then, I made a dumb mistake in dilemma selection on his second mission attempt and he breezed through that one in one try as well. It was pretty much over by then as I was destaffed and never able to recover before he finished his last mission. TK played a very good game which you have to respect. So, full loss, 40-100. Round 2 Ed Martinez FW (+45)View opponent's ReportView original Report Ed was playing an Infiltrator Dominion deck and using his ship to score bonus points every time I failed a mission attempt. He also had all Alpha Quadrant missions and Distant Explorations for more bonus points. It is a good plan and it was working. However, I was just able to keep on dinging away at my missions to pull out a full win late in the game, 105-60. Every time I play Rick, I learn something. It feels like I have been playing backwards and he gives me tips that help improve my game and my decks. Rick came in off the bat with Dukat Pah-Wraith Puppet. I always thought this as a good card but after Rick explained it to me, its a GREAT card. He played his hand cool. And attempted a missions before me. I was jealous of his Morn at DS9. I got a fast lead after one completed space mission and a Bunch of failed attempts on his part. His NA were not flashy at all. And his skill triumph over my Flashy infiltrator deck as usual. He had me going, thinking this would be my first FW at a tournament. But He played it cool right up to the end, when I failed 4 times to complete my planet mission. His dilemma pile was well done as usual and he didn't need to combo dilemmas. He played Emergency Transport Unit well to save his guys. I lost to skill today. I think my deck was better but a better deck does not match with skill. Round 3 Martin Drake FW (+75)View opponent's ReportView original Report Martin was playing his Klingon deck, which is a basic mission solver. We didn't do anything to interact with each other so it was just a matter of whose dilemmas would work best against the other. Turns out, mine did. Nothing fancy or uber-destructive. Just stop enough personnel to make him fail his attempts more often than I failed mine. End result is a full win, 110-35. Just a loss, could not get my personnel to come up. Closing Thoughts I kind of figured TK and Eric would be the top players today, and they were, so no surprise there. I was a little surprised by their final round where Eric's Borg outlasted TK's Klingons with a whopping score of 5-0. (That's five to zero.) That allowed Eric to win the tournament, so congratulations go to him.