Kris Sonsteby (LORE) Tournament Report - 1E - Online Event 2016-01-08 - 12:00 AM Bring Pride to My District... Not That it Matters Introduction A lack of scheduling foresight on the part of our league director left many of us scrambling to build decks on short notice, which inevitably caused me to simply retool TNG Romulan. After being entrenched in a pair of 2+ hour matches, my faith in Organized Play is unquestionably at an all time low. Round 1 Matt Kirk FW (+100) Mr. Charisma couldn't find the time to play, and graciously offered a concession rather than force us both to pencil in two matches for the following week. FW 100-0. Round 2 John Paul Veasey FW (+70) Viscera was schooling me on Holograms, but was comparatively slow out of the gate as LSWOT draws were up and running from turn two onward. With virtual reality Romulans constantly granting him safe passage, Mirok made a special guest appearance late to bypass an Emergency Conversion at Investigate Sighting II. FW 100-30. Round 3 Jon Carter ML (-11)View opponent's ReportView original Report Dr. Death was administering the KCA alliance, and effectively stymied my mission solving efforts via Dead End, Linguistic Legerdemain, and Quantum Fissure. Slowed to a crawl by Docking Procedures and Lack of Orbital Stability recursion, he eventually knocked out Test Warship to take the modified win in overtime. ML 46-35. Kris builds his outpost at my weakest seed combo (he also had a HW and a built in outpost making it hard to focus) he is able to get through that mission, but I am able to more or less lock him at his HW after that. I am solving slow. I also waste my QIR getting quark for the mission II rather than using it to get bariel and lock him out of his planet with a transport inhibitor. That is my mistake of the game. Closing Thoughts From local bias towards high-level event venues to off-season league play being treated as merely an afterthought, there are a laundry list of issues that leadership needs to wake up and address. Paramount among them are plummeting participation numbers online and in person, which are a direct result of an ineffective OP department.