Al Schaefer (ltkettch17) Tournament Report - 2E 2012-10-28 - 12:00 PM You Don't Wanna Look Right at it... It's Too Aggressive Introduction More Cardassians than you can shake a spoon at. I'm glad I brought TOS today (Thanks Kris), everyone was running Cardassia or Teroc Nor. Mike Dahlstrom showed up for the first time in 6 months, but then dropped after one game. Maggie, Eric, and Brian fought the good fight for the first league event of the season. We're trying different formats for each of the league events this year. This month it's Virtual... Round 1 Bye BY (0) Just kinda sat around and made some small talk without distracting players from their games too much. Round 2 Brian Leonard FW (+50)View opponent's ReportView original Report Brian rolls out an unholy dual HQ featuring Teroc Nor and ES9. He gets off to a slow start, but catches up quickly after stalling me with back-to-back-to-back Show Trial at Investigate Destruction. He completes his 40 point mission after several trips back to his HQ's and TOS completes an easy victory. This is where I learned that the cost of Holding Cell really mucks up my card playing. Note to self: Maybe I do not actually need to use Holding Cell in this deck. Round 3 Eric Bieche MW (+35)View opponent's ReportView original Report Eric is playing a Cardassian Capture deck and gets Sulu and Giotto with an early Evek. Number One rescues them both before he can score any bonus points. I COMPLETELY forget about The Central Command and Eric completes Kressari Rendezvous after I play a lone Infinite Diversity. I make smarter dilemma plays from there on out, but almost gave the game way early. Eric's The Clown: Go Away forced me away from Investigate Maquis Activity and I completed Track Survivors instead, no bonus points, so I would need all 4 missions to get the full win. Eric is also missing bonus points from a lack of captives and an early complete at Kressari, so he will need 4 missions as well. My dilemma pile is getting slim, but Eric tries a small team which allows me to stack Greater Needs for a second time and secure the modified win. Eric had a lot more dilemmas left than I did, I'm not 100% sure I could have pulled out the full win if we played out the game. With Al being able to rescue his captive with Number One I couldn't get any bonus points so it was going to be a mission solving slug fest and while I did a pretty good job of holding off Al he came out ahead in the end. It was a good game. Closing Thoughts Virtual format is definitely quirky. I saw a lot of dilemmas today that I've either never seen in a regular constructed game, or haven't seen in a long time. Not a lot of variety in decks, but glad to see that Cardassia was getting some attention. Next month is Traditional. Can't wait to review some of my old decks and bring one back to life.