Fritz Meissner (Fritzinger) Tournament Report - 2E 2014-01-11 - 03:00 PM Introduction You better believe it! First TrekCC tournament in Africa, baby! The other players were using barely-modified virtual / transwarp starters, and have only just started playing, AND I built all but one of the decks in use, albeit a while. So I imposed arbitrary restrictions of jankiness on myself and the one other player with a bit more experience (both 1e players and about 18 months headstart on 2e although we didn't actually play that much in that time). I went traditional which in my case means pretty much anything I from 2nd Edition but less than 20 cards (total) from any other set, all off Ebay. I built around a security dilemma pile, with FSE and T'authen to try keep the security off the table, and Sela at their missions to make what they have difficult to use. I added other stuff around the Sela theme: Tides of Fortune to fuel the FSE, Out of Options, Secret Conspiracy, plus some pursuit cards. Round 1 Bye BY (0) Gave myself the first bye, which gave me time to get organised, and cut some "prizes" that I printed... just a 1-pager with some pretty virtual things that work in most decks: Gomtuu, WNOHGB etc. Round 2 tertrih ML (-60) Rolf had a Cardassian virtual starter with some extra capture cards thrown in. Sela + ship versus capture could've been interesting (I can't remember if the deck included any engagement cards) but he actually went straight for his missions. I miscounted the number of security he played and gifted him his first mission, but making it through his second cost him his entire hand. With no cards in hand I thought there was no way he could do his third, but I neglected to move my ship to his mission. This interaction thing is weird, I'm so used to "play some peeps, attempt a mission, ok your turn" that I ended my turn and then realised I was still at the mission he just solved. He solved easily to go 95 points into the lead (fortunately no hand weapons for his kressari). On his last turn (after time) he got through all my dilemmas at mission 4 (man this Security pile is crap) but a Secret Conspiracy at least stopped him from getting the full win (thanks to Anthropology and Law on Vreenak). Round 3 Richard Slater TT (0) Richard is the other more experienced player in our group, but unfortunately lives in another city most of the year. Of course I planned for when everyone could be in the same place at the same time. His interpretation of jankiness was a Ferengi commodity deck which was pretty unstoppable once it got going, especially against my limited card pool that doesn't include Transport Crash Survivors. However, Richard was playing the long game, waiting for quite a while before attempting, and with no sign of Sela I just sent everyone mission solving, got through one attempt and used 1x FSE to remove some Security from his deck (his Ferengi weren't packing much, so that at least was promising). Meanwhile, my dilemmas stopped one attempt, and Secret Conspiracy stopped a second after he ate the stops from Chula: Choose One and then ditched 3x Ferengi Computer. Then with time running out I moved everyone to my second mission. Then with 2 minutes left on the clock I found out that the store closed 2 hours earlier than I expected (the last time I was there on a Saturday they closed at 9pm, but that was apparently "festive" hours, and it seemed like the season was over). We had to get out, like now. Closing Thoughts We quickly stuffed everything into boxes, and Richard and I agreed on a True Tie. I was in the lead, but Richard would've had another turn after time and unless I could stop him with draw 1/spend 1 he would've solved. I think I probably got lucky, he could well have solved more than one on his final turn. Then I dished out prizes outside the store's locked door, a foil Dreamer to the "winner" (another stuff up, I used differential rather than SoS) and drafted the aforementioned virtual cards in order of place. Congrats to Rolf who got the Dreamer foil, and apologies to Richard who "actually" won.