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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''1997 Decipher World Championship''' was the second Star Wars CCG World Championship, at the Marriott Hotel in Norfolk, Virginia.<ref name="jacobs">[https://web.archive.org/web/20050405/http://trandosite.mcmail.com/iv6.htm Philipp Jacobs interview], [[Trandosite]] (24 August 2000)</ref> [[Philipp Jacobs]] (Germany) defeated [[Michael Riboulet]] (United Kingdom) in the final. It was the first Worlds final for either country.<ref name="trando">[https://web.archive.org/web/20050517110350/http://trandosite.mcmail.com/wf00p2.htm History of the World Finals], [[Trandosite]]</ref><br />
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The constructed pool was [[Premiere - Cloud City]]. Cloud City had just hit the shelves. Defending champion [[Raphael Asselin]] made the final twelve (12th). Asselin later said he lost a game by 2 to Gavin Palmer on a [[DS-61-4]] passenger / [[Devastator]] ruling.<ref name="asselin">[https://web.archive.org/web/20041026204829/http://www.trandosite.mcmail.com/iv11.htm Raphael Asselin interview], Trandosite (21 September 2000)</ref><br />
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Jacobs barely made day 2, rebuilt Saturday night, and in the final opened with a 23-Force win on Dark Mains & Toys against Riboulet's manipulator. Riboulet's Light was a Dagobah deck Jacobs had beaten the previous round. The prize Jacobs named was a 10-day trip Washington–Las Vegas–Los Angeles.<ref name="jacobs" /><ref name="trando" /><br />
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Joe Alread called Riboulet's manipulator "a truly great deck....that I had never seen before." Trandosite treats 1997 as the birthplace of that strategy.<ref name="trando" /><br />
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== Format ==<br />
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* '''Environment:''' [[Premiere - Cloud City]]<br />
* '''Site:''' Marriott Hotel, Norfolk, Virginia<br />
* '''Field:''' 52 (Wikipedia Round 1 count)<ref name="wp">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Customizable_Card_Game Star Wars Customizable Card Game], Wikipedia</ref><br />
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== Final twelve ==<br />
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As listed on Trandosite: [[Philipp Jacobs]], [[Michael Riboulet]], [[Paul Todd Feldman]], Gavin Palmer, [[Joe Alread]], Enriue Pascal (Trandosite spelling; likely Enrique), [[Bastian Winkelhaus]], Reiner Zetsche, Thaddeus Chenoweth, Michael Krause, [[Yannick Lapointe]], [[Raphael Asselin]].<ref name="trando" /><br />
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== Results ==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Finish !! Player !! Dark !! Light<br />
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| 1 || [[Philipp Jacobs]] || [[1997 Decipher World Championship Philipp Jacobs DS|Mains & Toys]] || [[1997 Decipher World Championship Philipp Jacobs LS|Dagobah turtle]]<br />
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| 2 || [[Michael Riboulet]] || [[1997 Decipher World Championship Michael Riboulet DS|Dagobah manipulator]] || [[1997 Decipher World Championship Michael Riboulet LS|Dagobah Miner's Guild]]<br />
|}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Championships]]<br />
* [[List of SWCCG tournaments]]<br />
* [[Philipp Jacobs]] · [[Michael Riboulet]]<br />
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== Sources ==<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050517110350/http://trandosite.mcmail.com/wf00p2.htm History of the World Finals], Trandosite<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050405/http://trandosite.mcmail.com/iv6.htm Philipp Jacobs interview], Trandosite (24 August 2000)<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041026204829/http://www.trandosite.mcmail.com/iv11.htm Raphael Asselin interview], Trandosite<br />
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Customizable_Card_Game Wikipedia World Champions table]<br />
* [https://swccgdb.com/decklist/view/3/mains-toys-1997-world-champion-1.0 Mains & Toys: 1997 World Champion], SWCCGDB<br />
* [https://swccgdb.com/decklist/view/4/dagobah-turtle-1997-world-champion-1.0 Dagobah turtle: 1997 World Champion], SWCCGDB<br />
* [https://swccgdb.com/decklist/view/13/dagobah-miner-s-guild-2nd-at-worlds-1997-1.0 Dagobah Miner's Guild: 2nd at Worlds 1997], SWCCGDB<br />
* [https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/12/that-one-time-i-played-in-the-star-wars-card-game-world-championship/ That one time I played in the Star Wars card game world championship], Ars Technica (5 December 2015; Texas regional winner at Norfolk, 64-competitor recollection)<br />
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