Scott Baughman (Neelix) Tournament Report - 2E 2012-09-01 - 03:00 PM Intelligent Design Introduction For this tournament I decided to go back to laying Romulans. I played them almost exclusively in 2E during the Decipher days up until the Dominion came out. Round 1 Nic Brautigam FL (-100) Nic has a very cool TNG deck here focusing on a two mission win with bonus points from various Enterprises and Guinan to ride two 40 pointers to victory. It works well, but my cage dilemma play and good use of Sensing A Trap, Forcing Their Hand and Far-Seeing Eyes help me keep the game interesting and we almost go to a timed win, but Nic is able to eke out a victory. He does a cool trick with Straight and Steady where he plays it (with nary a Starfleet personnel in the deck) just to download a card that costs zero later. Round 2 Jason L. Becker FW (+70) Jason is just discovering 2E so I try to take it as easy on him as I can. Most of this game I'm smashing his crew with dilemmas and removing important people from the equation with all my hand and deck manipulation cards. Jason doesn't allow me to get off a Sensing A Trap all game, but Reman Subterfuge gives him fits. Round 3 Jeremy Norris MW (+10) Jeremy is crashing on our room for con so I know he is pretty new to 2E, but he has a cool deck with multiple commanders for the Defiant, Captain on the Bridge and Captain's Log! I run afoul of the whole commanders can't be selected trick once with a space dilemma, but for the most part I keep his hand down. However, keeping your opponent from winning isn't the same as scoring points yourself and unfortunately Getting Under Your Skin does me no favors he is I settled for the timed win. Round 4 Eric R FL (-100) This match was a joke. Eric played an insanely powerful Borg deck focusing on Quintessence and the young Borg drones from Voyager. He basically downloaded whatever he needed to smash his opponent (in our case, event eating done Two of Nine...or Ten...or something) and then used Energize in conjunction with Fifth to keep playing personnel on the cheap AND getting a new card in hand from the new stacked on Energize. Wow. To top it off, he was playing a brutal Tragic Turn dilemma pile that killed 8 of my 9 personnel in my only missin attempt of the game. In tthe moral victory column, I managed to avoid assimilation for most of the game. Closing Thoughts Rick ran a great tournament and props to Eric for so heavily dominating the field. But, we had several players new to 2E and some new to DragonCon so hopefully this will lead to ore good things.