Kris Sonsteby (LORE) Tournament Report - 1E - North American Continentals Day One 2014-07-11 - 10:00 AM Hope... It is the Only Thing Stronger Than Fear Introduction With North American Continentals going down in my backyard, I returned to TNG Romulan for what was the first of three pressure cooked days of play in The Land of 10,000 Champions. Huge props go out to The Kaiser for laying the ground work of the design, and to Mean Streak for our three covert test games online. Round 1 Earned Bye EB (+100) The Earned BYE was spent chatting up my tag team partner from Sioux Falls, pandering to the presumed man to beat from Vancouver, and just generally trying to avoid scouting the matches between potential later round opponents. Round 2 Jeremy Huth FW (+70) Hardcore was packing a peaceful Borg creation, but was hampered early by General Quarters before breezing through space and completing Harness Particle 010 mid-game. With two missions solved myself, I fought off walking science fair projects at Earth long enough for Toraan & Co. to steal it at the wire. FW 100-30. Round 3 Robert Petersen TT (0) The Prodigy was schooling me on Here By Invitation DS9, and tagged half of a solid away team at Covert Installation with a Denevan Neural Parasites. In what was largely a spaceline induced solving race, Cytherians and the Goraxus eliminated a Bajoran Interceptor to lock up the true tie in over time. TT 40-40. Round 4 Keith Rupp FW (+40) Killer was testing Federation based triple treaty battle, but had no answer for my pair of cloaked Romulan warbirds. Swiping Wormhole Negotiations early rendered his Dead End at Free Orion Slaves moot, and from there wrapping up at Cloaked Mission was academic thanks to Stratagema. FW 100-60. Closing Thoughts Returning to my roots of "when in doubt, shoot it out" left me undefeated after four rounds, which was good enough for the second seed in the Day Two lineup. While my play throughout was far from perfect, I would hardly expect it to be after partaking in just a dozen OTF tournaments to this point.