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This tournament was epic.

Unbelievably epic.. Best game of the tournament: a free for all, Type 2 only "friend blocking", buckler wielding, headache (from laughter) producing game between Rawrlsauce (Allan), Emjaybee(Matt), a new player named Scott, and my lonesome self - who got timed out and side swiped at the end by a excellent play on Matt's part.  That game was the best game of Redemption I have ever played.  I will remember those moments above everything else....


Although....

the push contest was bomb.

I’m unbelievably amazed at how well fit these “nerdy gamers” are.  Gabe Fontana (sorry if I screwed up the last name) came in first at 74 pushups in 2 minutes!!!  AMAZING!!  I struggled with that many when I was in the Army.  Great Job Gabe.  Britta....you are awesome!!

My thoughts:
Best player of the tournament (sportsmanship): Brad (Techno)..Not many people can take all the ridicule I gave him for shuffling his discard pile into his deck on my ANB…..
Best game of the tournament: See above
Best memory of the tournament: See above
Most generous: Bill Voigt….wow, I’m not sure where to start on how amazing he is.  Thanks Bill for making me feel welcome and for all the “Jesus” you showed me.  
Toughest part of tournament: Staying awake for 31ish hours and then driving home for 4.5 hours.  

T2 Booster was awesome. My table pulled both a Grapes (me) and a Mayhem (Gabe) . It seemed like every deck in it was amazing. My defense was one color with some great battle winners. My offense was two colors with some great battle winners (beings I was drafting the same color as Gabe, I think). The game was a blast. It was really tight, 7-6-5-4 or 7-6-5-5 or something like that.

T2 2 Player was also amazing. I was playing my t2 multi deck beings I didn't have time to build a 2p one, so I wasn't expecting much. However, my final record was 3-2, with my only 2 losses coming to Gabe and CountFount. My games against Lurch and Kirk were probably won due to draws, though . Kirk didn't draw any heroes for a long time, and I didn't draw any souls against Lurch for a long time. I don't remember a lot about my fifth game, not even a name. Just pink dice and a dog mascot.

T2 Multi: Wow. AMAZING. The third game was one of the best games I've ever played. 6 or 7 ANBs were dropped. I didn't draw any heroes so I kept making rescues with The Buckler Franta gave me.

Things I've learned from that t2 game
-If you write a sign that says "Alan's Land of Redemption" and place it on EmJayBee's souls, the officials won't add them to your score.
-If Seraphim makes a rescue, he gets your entire dice collection. If he makes a second rescue, switch one of the ones to a 6. He is protected from the next 3 ANBs
-If KOT defeats The Strong Angel, he gets a screw as a counter.
-Matt is a better singer than Justin Bieber.

Scottie_ffgamer is back as Cousin It!!!  (Just because I forgot my password for my other profile  )

Anyway, this tournament was great!  Started with a 7 hour drive in a tiny car with a bunch of large built men.  *sigh*  And as soon as we got there, we were already playing!  Type 2 booster took WAY too long to draft, but I really enjoyed the actual game.  I wish we'd played another game.

After hearing about the second round of T2 booster and seeing some of the posts, it seems I'm one of the lucky ones who got 5 hours of sleep.  But even that didn't feel like much after playing for 14 or so hours straight.  2 player was fun even though I only ended up 2-3.  It was still a lot of fun getting to see the new cards, most of which I hardly know where to begin with, and talking to all my friends that I haven't seen since last year.

Multiplayer was all right.  I don't remember a whole lot.  Again, many many hours of Redemptions on extremely few hours of sleep.  But it was still lots of fun.

Everytribe is definitely the most generous and awesome host ever.  Helped the KC groups with travel, lodging, and more.  Also was SO generous to everyone with food and drink.  He tried to make it as fun and enjoyable as possible and did an amazing job at it!  Thanks Wild Bill!

Also a big thanks to EmJayBee83 for housing a bunch of us last night.  We tried to drive back Saturday night of last year and I'm still amazed CountFount didn't fall asleep at the wheel.  Matt was absolutely a life saver!  Thanks.

Overall, a great weekend.  I look forward to next year already!

I would be the new player named Scott previously mentioned in the awesome T2 multi game. It was indeed amazing.

This was my first tournament (actually, I had only played 3 games of Redemption before showing up to the tournament). There's not much more for me to add to what has already been said, I would just like to throw out there that it was both fun and exhausting. I'm excited for next year!

Welcome! I'm new myself but I don't think I would have taken 4 souls against those guys in my 4th ever redemption game. Just remember you were one of four of the most epic game of T2 MP ever!

No, He was in the epic Timed out T2 multi game

T2 Booster was amazing. The best part was probably me passing my double pack of apostles over to Matt and then having him ask me why I passed a card that could pay for half the draft to him. I got very worried that I had missed a card that I might want. Also drafting not one, but two ananias of damascus in hopes of getting a saul/paul passed to me, not having it happen, but then grabbing one out of TexP was great, except for the fact that I had to pass Gomer, and Spirit of temptation to do so.

I was in the earlier round of booster draft in which we didn't use TexP's... It made me sad when I saw you all get to use those in your booster draft, haha.

But I don't think I was the one who used Gabriel a lot in the booster draft. I could be wrong though; after the tournament was over I forgot what I did in the booster draft. I don't remember playing it though.

Great tournament. Give a longer report tomorrow but I'll post the placers now.

Type 2 2player
     1-Gabe Isbell - IA
     2-Nathan Voigt - MN
     3-Tim Drown - MO
     4-Josh Aydelotte - IA
     5-Jordan Alstad - MN
     6-Kirk Dennison - FL
     7-Craig Fountain - MO

Type 2 Multiplayer
     1-Jordan Alstad - MN
     2-Nathan Voigt - MN
     3-Gabe Isbell - IA
     4-Craig Fountain - MO
     5-Matt Brinkman MN
     6-Josh Aydelotte - IA
     7- Alan Rice - MN

Type 2 Booster Draft.
     Don't know who won the games I went to bed. All I know is that I brought 4 complete sets of RoA to the tournament and they were all used up in Booster draft.

It was truly a blessing to hang out with everybody.
Bill
    

Care to shed some light on the decks that were seen?

In two player, I played three defenses with Babylonians, although one of them was part of a combo deck so I don't actually know how Babylonian it was. I also played a site lock and a hand/deck discard deck. The offenses I played were four variations of a TGT offense, and one offense that I don't really remember, since I won fairly quickly and my opponent's offensive draw was very slim.

I was playing a Judges offense/Panic Demons defense. You can read my report in the thread I just posted.

T2-MP was dominated by Prophets and Babylonians, with a smattering of banding heroes on offense.

My thoughts:...
Best player of the tournament (sportsmanship): Brad (Techno)..Not many people can take all the ridicule I gave him for shuffling his discard pile into his deck on my ANB…..

Tracer is mean, uncontrollable and lacks the kind of respect every player should give another... Next time follow my example.. WWCD 

Quote from: Tracer Burnout on March 07, 2010, 06:10:25 PM

My thoughts:...
Best player of the tournament (sportsmanship): Brad (Techno)..Not many people can take all the ridicule I gave him for shuffling his discard pile into his deck on my ANB…..

Tracer is mean, uncontrollable and lacks the kind of respect every player should give another... Next time follow my example.. WWCD  

Screw up every chance my poor royalty and philistine defense could get on him by playing A New Beginning...that's what Count would do...bah, I'm still convinced this is a better than 50% win deck, it just needed to be trimmed (126 is too large)...ah well, at least I can still dominate MD with it .

I had a great time flying to a local tournament.  Bill was a great host and very generous!

T2 Booster

T2 Booster was really fun, but drafting was ridiculous (in a good and awesome way).  Not only did it take a really long time, but it was interesting to figure out when to draft good and evil.  Sometimes for the sake of evening up my good/evil count, I would take a card of the opposite alignment that I would not normally draft at that point in time.  I played at a tough table with Jordan Alstad, Matt Brinkman, and John Earley.  I knew I was in for a tough game.  

John drew a Galba early.  Therefore, the rest of us kept discarding cards from our hands and losing rescue attempts against him.  He was the only one to draw alot of early souls.  We all rescued souls fairly evenly throughout the game.  I drafted a Mayhem, and got to use it both stop a rescue and win a rescue.  I had to large evil characters, Four Squads of Four and the 10/11 Assyrian in territory.  I had one enhancement for numbers for each of them and John had just drawn his cards.  I knew he was going to attack me and I was not confident I could block him.  Therefore, I played Mayhem to make him lose 5 cards after he attacked, and he didn't draw much support.  I drew two gray enhancements, which were enough to block him.  Then on my turn, I proceeded to attack Matt for a soul in a teal site (and I was the only guy with Teal heroes) and he had drawn no enhancements to match his evil characters.  Therefore I stopped John's potentially game-winning soul and grabbed one to catch up.

The final round was ridiculous and Jordan laid it out fairly well.  However, he forgot to mention that Matt played False Dreams when John attacked him against me, which would have doomed my chance to get the win.  Therefore would have been little chance the other 3 would fail in consecutive attempts to win.  However, I fortunately had Cov of Noah active and negated it!  I went for the win with a bunch of teal stuff on my turn against Matt's shot defense.

T2 2p

I stayed up most of the night modifying my nationals decks from last year.  I didn't know how effective they would be with the new cards as I had not played a game of T2 since my final game at nationals.  However, I was not comfortable using a brand new deck idea and figured this would be a good time to test.  

Kirk