Fritz Meissner (Fritzinger) Tournament Report - 2E 2015-05-31 - 10:30 AM All my teeth come from different people v1 Introduction Stop 1 of my world trek tour was the home of STCCG in London, the Pommeler's Rest. Nick kindly organised a dual tournament effort on dates that fit into my schedule. I brought fast Cardassians, Central Command and a Chula pile with me. Round 1 William Hoskin FL (-100) This was actually my round 2 game. Will stomped my Chula pile with Gamma Romulans. I was discussing Central Command in the chat a few days earlier and Johannes says, "discarding from the top of the deck is not a cost!" This applies even more so to Will's big pile that can afford any amount of discards to The Die is Cast. I had tried to tech against Stakoron but that also hurt my pile a lot. Round 2 Nicholas Yankovec FW (+65) Actually the game we played in round 1 (see above). When he sees my HQ he offers to change to a different deck for the tournament due to fears of mirror match. I place my draw deck next to his, my 40 cards to his euro-pile shows that these are clearly not the same decks. He's playing a big capture deck with a kill pile. Of course my small guys are easily replenished, and capturing a few 2-cost guys wasn't going to do much against the swarm. I did have to renew my deck with a tacking though. Round 3 Daniel Giddings MW (+70) I can only remember one of the decks Danny used in the two tournaments, what I remember is a DS9 micro-teaming deck with Defiant commanders avoiding random selections and RATS. Apologies if this is the wrong deck for this tournament. My Chula pile did well, he had 3 defiant commanders most of the game, 4 by the end but they weren't enough to solve missions on their own and I managed to stop the other people he was attempting with several times. He was using a bouncing dilemma pile, where reverse-attrition double teaming doesn't really work... fortunately I had a good alternative in the swarm of cheap Cardies, attempting with 12+ guys each time worked very well. Closing Thoughts Good result against players much more experienced than I am. I like Chula a lot because there are fewer decisions to make but it's still very good, it's a few stops at a time which is good against TCC / Ruling Council / Bridge Officer's Test and probably Chuckles brothers. However this Gamma Romulans deck is getting a lot of attention, and will be even more popular after winning Chicago Masters. Maybe it's time to learn how to play a kill pile and hope that other speed solvers can't do it as fast as I can.