2002 World Championship
| 2002 World Championship | |
|---|---|
 The Star Wars CCG World Champion trophy at the DecipherCon 2002 awards | |
| Organizer | Players Committee (at Decipher's DecipherCon 2002) |
| Dates | 31 October – 3 November 2002 (Day 1 heats 31 October and 1 November; Day 2 and top 8 on 2 November, final ending early on 3 November) |
| Venue | Chesapeake Conference Center, Chesapeake, Virginia, USA (DecipherCon 2002) |
| Format | Premiere - Original VS3 |
| Players | 45 (Day 1A) and 54 (Day 1B); 52 on Day 2[1] |
| Champion | Angelo Consoli |
| Runner-up | Greg Shaw |
| Previous / Next | 2001 · 2003 |
The 2002 World Championship was the 7th Star Wars CCG World Championship and the first run by the Players Committee. It was played at DecipherCon 2002 at the Chesapeake Conference Center from 31 October to 3 November 2002.[2][3][4] The Players Committee's awards page gives the site as "DecipherCon – Virginia Beach, VA".[5] Angelo Consoli of Germany won with a Dark No Money, No Parts, No Deal! (Watto) deck and a Light Quiet Mining Colony deck, beating Greg Shaw in a final that ended at 5:30 AM on Sunday.[3][4][6] The purse was $10,000.[2] The two Day 1 heats drew 45 and 54 players, and Day 2 had 52 players: 20 who qualified at DecipherCon and 32 who qualified on the Road to Worlds.[1] Duane Bruun's year-end article for the Players Committee gives 99 Day 1 players in total and 54 on Day 2.[7]
The constructed pool was Premiere - Original VS3: printed sets through Theed Palace plus original virtual cards through VS3 (legal 20 September 2002).
Results
Places 1–2 as announced at the Sunday awards by Jim Colson; places 3–8 in the order the Players Committee published afterwards.[3][4][1] Decks are the lists recovered in 2026 from DeckTech posts (Internet Archive copies) and Players Committee decklist forms; each deck page cites its own source. Prizes are from Decipher's event page.[2]
| Place | Player | Dark | Light | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angelo Consoli | No Money, No Parts, No Deal! | Quiet Mining Colony | $5,000 + trophy |
| 2 | Greg Shaw | Hunt Down And Destroy The Jedi | There Is Good In Him | $2,500 |
| 3 | Brian Fred | My Kind Of Scum | Watch Your Step | $650 |
| 4 | Brian Terwilliger | Hunt Down And Destroy The Jedi | Watch Your Step | $650 |
| 5 | Hayes Hunter | No Money, No Parts, No Deal! | Watch Your Step | $300 |
| 6 | Johnny Chu | No Money, No Parts, No Deal! | We'll Handle This | $300 |
| 7 | Brian Rippetoe | My Kind Of Scum | Yavin 4: Massassi Throne Room | $300 |
| 8 | Bastian Winkelhaus | No Money, No Parts, No Deal! | Quiet Mining Colony | $300 |
The Sunday awards announced places 3–4 and 5–8 as ties.[8] The Players Committee's wrap-up by Tournament Support Advocate Andrew Howard then listed the final standings "with tiebreaks determined according to placement from the swiss rounds": 3rd Brian Fred (Indiana), 4th Brian Terwilliger (New York), 5th Hayes Hunter (Massachusetts/Arizona), 6th Jonathan Chu (Tennessee), 7th Brian Rippetoe (Tennessee) and 8th Bastian Winkelhaus (Germany); it gives Consoli's home as Germany and Shaw's as New Jersey.[1] A 2020 forum compilation lists Clint Hays in place of Hayes Hunter among 5th–8th; a reply in the same thread corrects it to Hayes Hunter, as in the official results.[9][10]
Top 8 bracket
The top 8 played single elimination from 6:00 PM on Saturday 2 November; the final ended at 5:30 AM on Sunday 3 November.[4][6] The top 8 in Swiss order after Day 2 were Angelo Consoli, Hayes Hunter, Jonathan Chu, Brian Fred, Brian Rippetoe, Greg Shaw, Brian Terwilliger and Bastian Winkelhaus. The Players Committee's wrap-up says the finals "began around 9-10pm, and ended at approximately 5:30am".[1] The quarterfinal and semifinal pairings and game results were not published in the sources found.
Schedule
Two Day 1 heats ran on Thursday 31 October and Friday 1 November at 2:00 PM: six games of Swiss, with the top 20% advancing to Day 2. Day 2 on Saturday 2 November started at 10:00 AM.[11][12][4] Day 2 was eight rounds of Swiss before the cut to the top 8.[1] No full Day 1 or Day 2 standings have been found; the Day 1 qualifiers are listed below.
Day 1
Two Day 1 heats qualified the top 20% for Day 2. Day 1A on Thursday 31 October had 45 players and 9 qualifiers; Day 1B on Friday 1 November had 54 players and 11 qualifiers. The qualifiers are listed in placement order. Other players in Day 1A included Mat Allen, Don Kitzman, Tim Guzman and Michael Dalton; Hideki Matsumoto travelled from Japan to play. Yannick Lapointe attended on Friday.[1]
| Heat | Place in heat | Player | Dark | Light |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1A | 1 | Brian Rippetoe | — | — |
| Day 1A | 2 | Brad Reinhold | — | — |
| Day 1A | 3 | Brian Terwilliger | — | — |
| Day 1A | 4 | Michael Raveling | — | — |
| Day 1A | 5 | Andy Klema | — | — |
| Day 1A | 6 | Joseph Giannetti | — | — |
| Day 1A | 7 | Michael Pistone | — | — |
| Day 1A | 8 | Scott Lingrell | — | — |
| Day 1A | 9 | Drew Scott | — | — |
| Day 1B | 1 | Don Kitzman | — | — |
| Day 1B | 2 | Kyle Krueger | — | Coruscant: Jedi Council Chamber |
| Day 1B | 3 | Andres Szmulewicz | — | — |
| Day 1B | 4 | Eric George | — | — |
| Day 1B | 5 | Bruce Savin | — | — |
| Day 1B | 6 | Robert Dayton | — | — |
| Day 1B | 7 | Evan Fitzgerald | — | — |
| Day 1B | 8 | Ted Hansen | — | — |
| Day 1B | 9 | Ross Littauer | — | — |
| Day 1B | 10 | Michael Rodriguez | — | — |
| Day 1B | 11 | Greg Shaw | — | — |
Krueger's DeckTech post gives his heat record as 5–1.
Other published decklists
| Stage | Player | Dark | Light |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 2 | Keith Watabayashi | — | There Is Good In Him (also played on Day 2 by Brad Reinhold) |
Side events
The Players Committee's wrap-up gives these other events and attendances:[1]
- Friday 1 November: Jedi Knights Super Sealed Deck (8 players), Young Jedi Secret Squirrel (8), Star Wars Death Star II/Endor booster draft (8), Star Wars Highlander (4) and Star Wars Secret Squirrel (14).
- Friday night: a non-sanctioned playtest tournament for the new Classic Format, run by Scott Lingrell. Drew Scott won it and $35. See Classic.
- Saturday 2 November: Star Wars Special Edition booster draft (10 players) and a Star Wars "A New Hope" theme tournament (4), plus the Jedi Knights World Championship (23 players) and the Young Jedi World Championship (28 players).
The Young Jedi and Jedi Knights results were announced with the Star Wars places at the Sunday awards. Young Jedi: 1st Jason Killby ($500 and trophy), 2nd Jeremy Baker, 3rd Dale Hanak, 4th Vincent Serret. Jedi Knights: 1st Jeffrey Kahan ($500 and trophy), 2nd Justin Beal, 3rd Brian Muller, 4th Bradford Bedlion.[8]
Photographs
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Star Wars CCG World Champion trophy -
Star Wars CCG awards -
Decipher CEO Warren Holland, who presented the awards -
Main tournament hall, 31 October 2002 -
Chesapeake Conference Center during DecipherCon 2002 -
Chesapeake Conference Center (2004) -
DecipherCon 2002 banner
See also
- World Championships · Championships
- 2001 Decipher World Championship · 2003 World Championship
- Premiere - Original VS3
- DecipherCon 2002
- List of SWCCG tournaments
- Decklists · DeckTech decks · DeckTech tournament reports
Sources
- DecipherCon 2002, Andrew Howard, swccgpc.com (Internet Archive capture 24 April 2003): Day 1 and Day 2 attendance, qualifiers, final standings 1st–8th, side events
- November Updates (2002), swccgpc.com (Internet Archive capture 23 April 2003): awards announcement
- The State Of SWCCG, Duane Bruun, swccgpc.com (Internet Archive capture 13 June 2003)
- Awards and Hall of Fame, starwarsccg.org. Preserved copy: Internet Archive, 17 August 2023
- SWCCG Worlds Day 3 Standings History, forum.starwarsccg.org (thread, May 2020 onward). Preserved copy: Internet Archive, 6 October 2021, Internet Archive
- World Championship Event Formats & Prizes (Wayback)
- Event schedule: Star Wars, Young Jedi, Jedi Knights (Wayback 23 October 2002)
- Star Wars Players Committee 2002 World Championships, Kathy McCracken, Decipher Daily News
- Until Next Time: Day Four Wrapup, Marcus Sheppard, Decipher Daily News (3 November 2002)
- World Championship Results announced, theforce.net
- Star Wars CCG Explodes at DecipherCon 2002, theforce.net (20 September 2002)
- DeckTech post 26297, decktech.net
- DeckTech post 26297, stephenskilton.com
- DeckTech post 26297 (Wayback of decktech.net)
- Force Lightning is TECH, decktech.net
- Force Lightning is TECH, stephenskilton.com
- Force Lightning is TECH (Wayback of decktech.net)
- DCon2k2 Runner Up - LS, decktech.net
- DCon2k2 Runner Up - LS, stephenskilton.com
- DCon2k2 Runner Up - LS (Wayback of decktech.net)
- The other TIGIH at Deciphercon, decktech.net
- The other TIGIH at Deciphercon, stephenskilton.com
- The other TIGIH at Deciphercon (Wayback of decktech.net)
- It's a Kyle deck, decktech.net
- It's a Kyle deck, stephenskilton.com
- It's a Kyle deck (Wayback of decktech.net)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 DecipherCon 2002, Andrew Howard (Tournament Support Advocate), swccgpc.com. Internet Archive capture 24 April 2003.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 World Championship Event Formats & Prizes (Wayback, 10 August 2002)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 World Championship Results announced, theforce.net (3 November 2002)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Star Wars Players Committee 2002 World Championships, Kathy McCracken, Decipher Daily News (3 November 2002)
- ↑ Awards and Hall of Fame, starwarsccg.org; Wayback 17 August 2023
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Until Next Time: Day Four Wrapup, Marcus Sheppard, Decipher Daily News (3 November 2002)
- ↑ The State Of SWCCG, Duane Bruun (PC Staff Writer), swccgpc.com. Internet Archive capture 13 June 2003.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 November Updates (2002), Josh Radke (3 November 2002), swccgpc.com. Internet Archive capture 23 April 2003.
- ↑ Post by Yoshi, "SWCCG Worlds Day 3 Standings History", forum.starwarsccg.org (28 May 2020). Preserved copy: Internet Archive, Internet Archive
- ↑ Post by Death Star, "SWCCG Worlds Day 3 Standings History", forum.starwarsccg.org (28 May 2020). Preserved copy: Internet Archive, Internet Archive
- ↑ Event schedule: Star Wars, Young Jedi, Jedi Knights, Decipher (Wayback 23 October 2002)
- ↑ Star Wars CCG Explodes at DecipherCon 2002, theforce.net (20 September 2002)