Michael Van Breemen (The Ninja Scot) Tournament Report - 2E - North American Continentals Day Two 2012-08-18 - 01:00 PM Neil says that I have Balls Introduction Now that I'm in the phrase, "Playing with the house's money" was running through my head. I was hoping that Phil would beat Neil so that I wouldn't have to play him until the final but that would mean making it through Harrington's undefeated deck or face John again. Either way, not an easy path and I had to make it past Nick first... Round 1 Nicholas Yankovec FW (0)View opponent's ReportView original Report Nick was playing something similar to what James was playing. He went through both of his Tackings but I use Kira to get back one of the cards. After discovering later that he was running an Unfair Comparison pile I can see why he was all about getting the missions done. I kidnapped someone with Holding Cell even though he didn't have Uninited (which I didn't know) and went through my missions. Great deck build, a complete bitch to play against unless you have the right counters. My Klingon deck has 2x Tacking, and no interrupt prevention. It's a speed deck. I managed to destroy 2 EEO, but MvB got one back, and that was all he needed. If I had had a perfect opening hand, I'm sure I could have outsped his deck, gaining a victory, but even then, with Holding Cell neutering my Relentless and Bridge Officer's Test I couldn't have been as fast as I wanted. With an Unfair Comparisson dilemma pile, and not having 8 events in my core, there was no chance of playing a dilemma for his insane attempts with 2 people and RATs. Round 2 Mike Harrington FW (0) He was running a TNG integrity deck using the Ent-D to pay for and Field Studies to make the space missions that much easier, especially when you can solve them with four people. I had to spend most of my Grav's on his Endangered's so if he had managed to get to his Grav's then I wouldn't have won. He spent seven counters to draw and he needed one more counter we found out afterwards. I managed to win by the skin of my teeth. Round 3 Neil Timmons FL (0)View opponent's ReportView original Report It was a lot closer this time around. I managed to get a mission off and I had three people remaining - Super Li Nalas, Basso and Khan left (everyone else died.) If I had been super-ballsy I would've fake-attemped with Basso and then attempted with super Li. I might've gotten Risa as well and then who knows? Unfortunately his Uninvited (couldn't keep Holding Cell in play) hit Li Nalas and made him die. I held him off for a very long time with my dilemma pile, always keeping him one person short and Conflict of Interests was becoming the money card of this game. Round 3.. FIGHT! so yeah.. he is trying to launch the rocket. and I had wrenches. I messed it up a little bit and he was able to get his planet mission done this time, but I killed enough people and canceled enough of his events that he had no way of attempting/completing his other 3 missions, but this game was very similar to the gamer in the other report. Again, Michael has the stones to play decks like this. We had a great time hanging out this weekend and I can't wait to hang out with Michael and Amber again! FW 100-35 Round 4 Missed Game MG (0)