Cactus Game Design Message Boards

Speaking of upcoming tournaments....

I am putting in for a KY State tournament on the weekend of April 16th and a East Central Regional tournament on July 9th.  The State probably needs to stay where it is.  But does anyone have any input regarding the Regional?  I could move it a week or so either way if it would make it a lot better for a bunch of people.

I had to move my tournament from April 16th because I had a scheduling conflict so I will not be at that one. However, the July 9th tournament could be a distinct possibility...but I will need more time to be sure.

Mark I will be able to make it to the Ky State but not the District.  My April will be very busy (mine on the 1/2  Yours on the 15/16 and travis's on the 23rd.

That does sound like a busy (and fun) month.  We'll look forward to seeing you in April for the KY State tournament.

I probably WILL need a teammate so if anyone REALLY wants to WIN pair them with me!

We'll see how TEAMS goes at the District tourney in a couple weeks, and I'll try to get you a good partner from there

Will there be type 2 categories offered?  If not do people want to play type 2 in their down time?  I know it is not AS popular down there but maybe there are a few diehards?

There will be a T2-2p tournament at the KY State tourney, but no T2-mp.

I will not be able to come to the tournament this month.  I hope this does not put you in a bind this year.

We'll miss you at KY State, but it does mean that the rest of us will have a better chance to win.  I'll have to shout out an "Are you kidding me?!" at some point during the tournament in your memory   And don't worry about putting me in a bind.  I think the guys from TN are coming, and possibly even the guys from GA.  Plus my own playgroup is decent size these days, so we'll still have a good turnout.

I am kinda depressed about it, especially since 1100 dollars of the budget were blown on purchases made by my wife....grrrr

I've met your wife, and I know how much you love each other.  She's worth way more than $1100.  Don't sweat it

Your daughter deserves congrats from us guys and gals in AL. So congrats to her for not last in her first tournament!(isn't she nine?) If so that's far better than my preformance when I was that age.(Well she beat more people out than my first tournament I got 2nd to last.)

Wow. Just wow. I started when I was 7 too. And I bet your one proud dad.

The youth movement is underway... 

Hey Mark, how hard would it be to get your kids down here the second weekend of May? Turns out I completely forgot about a family graduation on the 7th.

Totally impossible, since that Graduation is that weekend.  But we might be able to do the last weekend of April.

and GA State is June 4 (unofficially)

Thanks, but all our students will be gone between the 2nd weekend of May (Graduation) and toward the end of June (start of summer school).

I just asked off for the whole weekend of regionals there. I'll see if I can get Chris McCravy, ELarge, and I'm sure RTSmaniac will be with me. We will be coming with the TN boys.

Yeah, I guess the GA guys will come to Knoxville & then we'll all head up there together!

KY State 2011 Tourney Report (cont.)

So at this point we were halfway through the tournament, and I hadn't won a single event.  Despite personal disappointment, I was extremely proud of how well everyone else was doing.

T1-mp has traditionally been my strongest event, so I was really hoping to turn things around Sat afternoon.  I was able to win my first game, and be in the lead in my timeout second game, so going into the championship round I had 5 VP and 9 LSs.  However, the top table also had Matt, Allen, and Brian, who all would pass me for 1st if they won the game.  Needless to say it was a super close game.  Allen was able to get to 3 first, but couldn't clinch it due to a Judah's Sin sitting in a territory on Judas Iscariot.  He ended up using SoG solo to block me from taking LS #3, and therefore got to 4.  Meanwhile Brian also got to 3 pretty easily, but never drew his SoG.  He also took a 4th one in battle and therefore was tied with Allen.  Matt had the worst draw ever and couldn't get a single hero to attack with for about 5 turns (despite having MANY in his deck).  He even played Mayhem at that point, and still couldn't draw a hero.  It was just too much to come back from and so he ended up with only 2 LSs.  I'd like to end this by saying that I got to 5, but I didn't.  Instead I got hammered all game by everyone.  I think that all the CM's were played on me.  I think that all the Burials were played against me.  Thankfully an early GoYS protected me from the FA's.  I had heroes get wiped out when other players attacked each other.  It was just brutal.  I was just happy to end up with 3 LSs, which was enough to give me enough points to barely hold onto 1st overall for the event.  Brian came in 2nd (his highest finish ever), and Rebekah came in 3rd (after winning her 3rd round game).

Our last major event was Sealed Deck.  I was paired up with Michael first round, and the packs that we both opened ended up having a lot of stuff to help my deck, and I felt like it was actually a really good deck for Sealed.  However the first game, Michael just tore me apart.  My opening draw had 3 LSs and no ECs.  He walked in for 1 LS, and then played SoG on his only available LS so I had nothing to take.  His second turn he played AotL on the only EC that I drew, and got LS #3.  He then CM'd my attacker, so I was still at 0.  His third turn he walked in again for LS #4, and I knew it was over at that point.  I finally broke through a couple times before handing over #5.  I won my last 2 games, and Michael lost his last one, but the differential was too much in his favor, plus he had the head-to-head win.  So Michael won a 3rd event of the tournament, I came in 2nd, and Drew Wills came in 3rd.

The last event was really just an afterthought.  There are only a couple players in KY who even have a T2 deck, and neither of us really enjoy the T2-2p category.  But we played anyway, and it was a decent game.  Andy Wills defense set up REALLY quickly, and it was clear that if I even tried to attack, that he would destroy my territory, deck, and probably hand.  So I had to wait forever until I finally drew ET+AoCP.  Thankfully my defense held out as I almost always had just barely enough to stop his constant attacks.  He did break through once, but I was able to Falling Away.  Then after I wiped the table with the AoCP it suddenly went from being an intense stalemate to being an intense race.  Thankfully I had the lead and so I was able to finish first, with Andy in 2nd.

The highlight of my multiplayer tournament came when Mark played feast of trumpets with gifts up to draw 8 billion cards and after everyone was done drawing and revealing, I played FA on a shuffler and then played Sog/NJ on the shuffler to suck up all the LS's.

In fact it was even meaner than that.  I thought for sure I would get a LS with a hand stuffed with cards and a bunch of LSs available on the table.  If I remember right I was even able to attack with a TGT hero while someone else had TGT up, while there was only 1 EC down on the table at the time.

But then Matt had to hurt David by Falling Away his only LS (the shuffler).  Then he had to hurt me by rescuing it with SoG/NJ to make all the LSs go away.  But at that point I was still feeling good since I had Harvest Time in my hand and played it.  But then Matt had to hurt me AGAIN by playing Burial on that LS.  And then I had to hurt myself because I had all those cards in my hand and couldn't put them all down, so I had to toss some.  Overall it was a devastatingly sneaky play by Matt, and was a beautiful thing to behold.