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Oregon State Championship Report
by General Kang Well there were eleven hardy souls who dared the waters of the Oregon State Championship in Beaverton (there was a much bigger tourney the week before a few hours south in Eugene, too... would have been nice to get all those people for the state championship) and ten made it all the way through six rounds. Of the decks present, here are the ones I can remember...
Taking first place was Steve Hampton, with Data's Son finishing second... which is great, since he was already planning on going to the continental championships anyway! I had the great fortune of losing to both of them! ROUND 1 - Sara Sara was playing Rom/Fed double HQ mission solver- meaning that we both were reporting to the Continuing Committee and Office of Proconsul which I had seeded... so I brought out the Doppelganger from my tent... I think I got 5-6 of her personnel with it! I also blew the Enterprise out of the sky with Romulan Ambush (having reduced its shields with tactic cards) as well as another ship... pretty much shut her down. Interesting note, though... she had a chance to nail me with the Sheliak-Q at Earth, but could not, because she needed the personnel at Office of the President... (100-0) ROUND 2 - Steve Hampton As I mentioned before, Steve won the whole enchilada...he had a FED PNZ deck (all 6 missions were PNZ.. where is a Balancing Act when you need one?) First thing he did was plop down a Q-Net to keep me out of the Zone, which did not matter, as I sent in the Apnex... thinking I was safe from the peaceful Feds... later I brought in a Warbird to shoot down one of his ships.. I think I got the Enterprise again, but the Warbird was damaged when CAPTAIN KIRK made an appearance and attacked! And it was the LAST ONE I GOT OUT! Limping back to my OP, through the Q-Net, I watched as he forced out the Apnex as well. SO it became a race to solve missions before he did. My Hippo-Unsci-Scientific Method Combo almost locked him out, but to no avail, as he solved that and another giving me a 0-100 defeat. ROUND 3 - Michael Michael was playing a Ferengi deck he had put together that morning... it moved pretty slowly, however, and I was able to catch most of his personnel on a B'Rel with the attack for damage-Romulan Ambush thingy. I managed to draw out my 82-card draw deck and simply overwhelmed his dilemmas, but not before he solved a mission... a 100-30 win Round 4 - Steven Another Ferengi opponent, this one using Ferengi Conference, the HQ, and Quark's Bar to report MASSIVE amounts of Ferengi personnel. His dilemmas whacked me as well, as I lost the Founder Homeworld to the Sheliak (shoulda pulled the Temporal Vortex outta my tent, I think) AND Earth to a Dead End...and when I DID solve Wormhole Negotiations I could not get bonus points from my Mission Specialist (due to Altonian Brain Teaser) that would have allowed me through the Dead End! So knowing he was going to win the next turn, and seeing that there was a 2-card combo under Pegasus Search, I attempted it with a 20-person crew, Temporal Vortex in hand in case of Borg... and it was Cytherians.. Steven solved his third mission for a 45-100 defeat for me. I did have the satisfaction of leveling several ships with the Rom Ambush, and BARELY preventing a ship from solving Cytherians by damaging it and reducing its range so that it could not reach the last spaceline location.. a very exciting game! ROUND 5 - Josh When I saw that he was playing Ferengi I started to get a sickening feeling in my stomach... but his deck was much slower than the one before had been. I managed to blow up the Krayton right after he had beamed most his personnel aboard (again with the attack for damage/RomAmbush combo) which slowed him down enough for me to score the 100-30 win. Probably a telling sign for the final game is that I forgot AGAIN to have Temporal Vortex in hand before triggering the Sheliak-Chula-Q combo, losing another mission and away team. ROUND 6 - Kevin A little gratifying to see the Bajorans this time (no more Ferengi!) And I was confident (perhaps too confident) being in 3rd and playing the person in second (hello, second place!) Then Kevin brought the pain, with a super fast DS9/Chamber of Ministers deck that used Deactivation/Examine Singularity/Renewal Scroll to get stuff out fast. Able to report lots of transports for free he mowed through my anti-ship dilemmas (both space missions used Cytherians/Chula/Conundrum), especially since the first Conundrum hit him before I had a ship on the table! I was shut out of everything, and he won in a 0-100 cakewalk... BUT I did get to blow up another ship (which makes defeat a little less bitter, I always say) ALL in all, it was a pretty cool day! I believe I finished fifth (though I might have fallen to 6th) with a score of 6(-25). by Patrick "General Kang" Brennan
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