Brian Sykes (Armus) Tournament Report - 1E - The Neutral Zone Regional 2021-08-09 - 12:00 AM VoyagEmpress_2.txt Introduction Started with Slaby's Empress deck, cut about 20 cards and rolled with it. Round 1 Niall Matthew FW (+55) Rules question: where specifically does the Shuttle report to with Full Complement? Round 2 Maggie Geppert FW (+100) Rules question: Dead in Bed - stasis rules vs Hologram rules, which wins? Round 3 Sebastian Kirstein FW (+60) Rules Question: Mezoti can unstop herself, right? Hope so! Got stupid lucky on a 16-1 random selection and triple solved on my last turn for the win. Mezoti unstopped herself to get past an Incentive-Based Economics/Friendly Fire combo at the last mission. Round 4 Julius Melhardt FL (-1) Close game! Broke 100 first but delta rules meant I needed to solve 1 more mission. Got most of my people stopped, tried a hail mary at a planet mission with Icheb, Rebi, and Azan... God shut that shit down quick. Julius ended up winning in Overtime with some high quality play. Still, this was a game worthy of a Regional Championship Match. Closing Thoughts Overall a fun deck and fun event. I can think of a few tweaks to make the Slaby Empress tech a little more refined, but they're mostly tweaks. The core mechanic is really solid and the empress points are a great way to get around the DQ point threshold. This is a deck I'm definitely not done with.