2026 Retro GEMP Match Play Championship (Premiere to DSII)

2026 Retro GEMP Match Play Championship (Premiere to DSII) was an open-registration Players Committee online match-play championship on GEMP in the Premiere - Death Star II format. Play ran from mid-June through early September 2026; the Players Committee news summary of final standings was published 10 September 2026.

Timo Dusel won the event with Ralltiir Operations (Dark) and Hidden Base (Light). Jonny Chu finished second; Jeremy Christoffel third.

Format and schedule

• Environment: Premiere - Death Star II
• Platform: SWCCG GEMP at gemp.starwarsccg.org
• Structure: Seeded double elimination match play. Each match is two games (one Dark, one Light) with the same locked decks; higher net life force advances (lost-pile count as tiebreaker).
• Bracket: challonge.com/kapftrvm (posted by the tournament director in the brackets thread).
• Timing: Overview estimated 14 June 2026 – 6 September 2026; registration / locked-deck deadline 12 June 2026 (Pacific). Players generally had about one week per match; finals were scheduled for Sunday 6 September 2026 at 2 PM EST.
• Entry: Free ($0); open registration (no qualifier).
• Locked decks: Dark and Light lists submitted before the deadline and used throughout (TD may allow early fixes for obviously broken lists).
• Result reporting: Players posted match winners in the reporting thread.

After a player poll, the bracket used standard double elimination in which the winners-bracket champion must be defeated twice.

Results

Final standings #1–#50 as published on the Players Committee news post (Dark – Light objective pairs as listed there). Player names link to wiki stubs.

Finish	Player	Dark	Light
1	Timo Dusel	ROps	Hidden Base
2	Jonny Chu	ROps	TRM
3	Jeremy Christoffel	SYCFA	EBO
4	Kevin Bing	ROps	Profit
5	Ian Monteith	ROps	Local Uprising
6	Bill Bisco	SYCFA	Local Uprising
7	Brad Kippel	ROps	TRM
8	Will Tarbox	Hunt Down	Hidden Base
9	David Garcia	Hunt Down	TRM
10	Joe Horbey	SYCFA	TRM
11	Evan Coupland	BHBM	Hidden Base
12	Alex Prodoehl	Hunt Down	MWYHL
13	Andrew Bethell	ROps	TIGIH
14	Matthew Ford	SYCFA	Hidden Base
15	Garrett Larson	ROps	TRM
16	Chris Madaio	ROps	EBO
17	Patrick Johnson	ROps	Hidden Base
18	Kendall Halman	BHBM	TRM
19	Tony Petersson	Hunt Down	Hidden Base
20	Charlie Hickey	SYCFA	Profit
21	Matt Simpson	Court	Local Uprising
22	Jeff Anderson	SYCFA	Hidden Base
23	Ben Lindstrom	Court	MBO
24	Geoffrey Mikulka	ISB	TIGIH
25	Robert Waldon	SYCFA	Hidden Base
26	Jarrett McBride	BHBM	TRM
27	Brandon Wargo	BHBM	MWYHL
28	Adam Radic	Imperial Occupation	RST
29	Michael Butler	BHBM	TRM
30	Phil Clark	ISB	TRM
31	Randy Scott	BHBM	TRM
32	Steve Sanders	BHBM	TIGIH
33	Christian Deibler	ISB	Profit
34	Scott Lingrell	Hunt Down	TRM
35	Zachary Behm	ROps	Profit
36	Matthew Tennyson	ROps	TIGIH
37	Phil Jasper	BHBM	Hidden Base
38	Mike Adamson	BHBM	Profit
39	Brandon Price	ISB	RST
40	John Heft	Court	EBO
41	Robert Gravel	BHBM	Hidden Base
42	Cedric Perugini	Hunt Down	TRM
43	Carter Vencill	Imperial Occupation	Hidden Base
44	Thomas Nguyen	ROps	Hidden Base
45	Matt Blackstock	BHBM	QMC
46	Frank Amore	SYCFA	Hidden Base
47	Kurt Winter	SYCFA	Beggars Canyon
48	Joshua Parco	ISB	MWYHL
49	Casey Johnson	BHBM	Profit
50	Justin McBride	BHBM	TRM

Decklists

Sample championship decks (two-column text layout). PC news and the forum Fixed zip are the card-list sources.

• Timo Dusel (#1)
  • Dark: 2026 Retro GEMPC Timo Dusel DS Ralltiir Operations — PC: Ralltiir Operations
  • Light: 2026 Retro GEMPC Timo Dusel LS Hidden Base — PC: Hidden Base
• Jonny Chu (#2)
  • Dark: 2026 Retro GEMPC Jonny Chu DS Ralltiir Operations — GEMP Fixed zip / forum
  • Light: 2026 Retro GEMPC Jonny Chu LS Throne Room Mains (TRM) — GEMP Fixed zip / forum

See also

• Premiere - Death Star II
• Formats
• Championships
• GEMP
• Challonge bracket
• 2026 Retro GEMPC Forum
• Overview / rules / registration
• Brackets & timing
• Decklist files