Kris Sonsteby (LORE) Tournament Report - 2E Standard - Rura Penthe Regional 2012-05-12 - 12:00 PM Here's a Twenty... Go Get Yourself Another Suit Introduction Continuing my cerebral approach of misdirection and self plagiarization, I reanimated my TOS deck and brought it north for a showdown with The Foreman and his crew. Despite a strong all around performance, a timed game in round one and a difficult matchup in round two cost me yet another Regional title. Round 1 Kyle Schewe MW (+30)View opponent's ReportView original Report The Stampede Kid was working Dominion, though lost a Hurried Departure early via Matt Decker. Inexperience against my design cost us some time, as with him unable to attempt Explore Extradimensional World again and two crews loaded up to complete space, I likely would have scooped on my next turn. MW 70-40. His consume pile did not hit as hard as I expected, but I was still not doing my missions quick enough. The combo of cards I got, just didn't work out as well as I hoped. At No Cost coming too late, as well as Hurried Departure or Jem'Hadar Ambushes. The deck was okay in this game. I might have pulled a victory off in the end if I had time. Kris was having some difficulties with my dilemna's as well. But his TOS guys were getting through in the end. I had been throughin up walls he wasn't getting through at the beginning, but I couldn't keep it up. Round 2 Mike Rudolph FL (-60) Road Dogg was engineering Starfleet and fired off 3 consecutive 14 counter turns early. D'vela and Navaar powered him around a Tsiolkovsky Infection, a surprise Stewart Rivers slid him past a Whisper in the Dark, and an ill-timed Secret ID gave him his mission skills before I really got off the ground. FL 100-40. Round 3 Matthew Hayes FW (+100)View opponent's ReportView original Report The Animal was also testing two-mission win Dominion, but was massacred in space by way of a Guillotine / A.C.E. / Tsiolkovsky combo in his only attempt. Meanwhile, Kirk and company one-attempt solved two of my missions en route to a fairly expedited victory. FW 100-0. A beatdown of the highest magnitude. The TOS weenies, combined with the Consume Kill Pile du jour. Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch. No more needs be said. Round 4 Keith Morris FW (+30)View opponent's ReportView original Report The Foreman was not surprisingly captaining Voyager, yet had his crew wiped out early by forgetting my Transport Crash Survivors. Fear of the kill pile bought me several turns, and despite Vault of Tomorrow stalling out several ground attempts I eventually popped a Driven in space for the win. FW 100-70. This was the match years in the making. I had a decent start getting Syran and staffing early. Unfortunately I pulled a bonehead move and attempted with 5 personnel even though Kris was using Transport Crash Survivors. My crew got wiped out, including my 5 counter Syrran. My dilemma pile held Kris off for a while, including his use of Big Papa Kirk twice. The all star was vault of tommorow which grabbed an Inusrection. That slowed him down considerably at Investigate Maquis activity. I wish I had tow copies in my pile for this game. I managed to eventually get my crew back together and reach 70 points before Kris finished me off with a double attempt at Investigate Destruction. Round 5 Bye BY (0) Holding tie-breaker advantages against both The Foreman and The Stampede Kid meant the result of their game was insignificant so long as it went to time. Unfortunately, knowing each others decks led to a pretty fast pace, and for the second week in a row I finished behind someone I had defeated.