2004 World Championship

2004 World Championship
Organizer	Players Committee
Dates	19–22 August 2004
Venue	Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA (Gen Con Indy 2004, in the DecipherCon area)
Format	Premiere - Original VS6
Champion	Brandon Schele
Runner-up	Reid Smith
Previous / Next	2003 · 2005

The 2004 World Championship was the 9th Star Wars CCG World Championship, run by the Players Committee at Gen Con in Indianapolis, Indiana, on 19–22 August 2004. Brandon Schele defeated Reid Smith in the final. Schele posted his Dark My Lord, Is That Legal? and Light Yavin 4: Massassi Throne Room decks on DeckTech as his "World Champion" lists (see Results). The Players Committee held all three days in the DecipherCon area of Gen Con at the Indiana Convention Center; Day 3 was a top-12 cut, and the winner received $1,000. Greg Anderson was the listed tournament director and, as the only Advocate present, ran all three days. The field size and the final places from 3rd down have not been found.

The constructed pool was printed Decipher cards through Theed Palace plus the original Players Committee Virtual Sets then legal. The wiki files it under Premiere - Original VS6, from the newest virtual cards in the published lists; a numbered cutoff for the event has not been confirmed.

Results

Place	Player	Dark	Light
1	Brandon Schele	My Lord, Is That Legal?	Yavin 4: Massassi Throne Room
2	Reid Smith	Carbon Chamber Testing (Day 2)	—
Day 3 (place not known; 1st after Day 2)	Nick Jones	Hunt Down And Destroy The Jedi	Hidden Base
Day 3 (place not known)	Lee Edwards	—	—

Places from 3rd down are not known; a 2020 forum thread that compiled Worlds Day 3 results also lists places 3–8 as missing. The Players Committee's schedule advanced the top 12 from Day 2 to Day 3, so Day 3 had more than eight players. In an October 2004 forum post David Kangas wrote that Nick Jones "placed first in Day 2" and that the Day 3 setup put him "in the money regardless of how you played"; in a reply, Schele wrote that he played Lee Edwards in the first round of Day 3. 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.

Day 3 bracket

Not published in the sources found.

Schedule and prizes

The Players Committee's Gen Con 2004 schedule (TD Greg Anderson):

• Thursday 19 August: Day 1 Heat 1 at noon and Heat 2 at 6 PM ($20 each; top 25% advance to Day 2).
• Friday 20 August: 10 AM Day 2 (free; "Top 12 Advance to Day 3, Prizes for all").
• Saturday 21 August: 10 AM Day 3 (free; "$1000 1st place, Cash to top places").

The same schedule listed a Classic constructed event and a Secret Squirrel sealed deck event, the Gen Con Team Tournament, and the Jedi Knights (Friday 3 PM) and Young Jedi (Saturday 1 PM) World Championships, each with $100 to the winner.

Other published decklists

Stage	Player	Dark	Light
Day 2	Brad Reinhold	Bring Him Before Me	—

Photographs

No photographs of this event have been found on the wiki.

See also

• World Championships · Championships
• 2003 World Championship · 2005 World Championship
• Premiere - Original VS6 · Virtual Sets (2002-2009) · Formats
• List of SWCCG tournaments

Sources

• Awards and Hall of Fame, starwarsccg.org
• Awards and Hall of Fame (Wayback 17 August 2023)
• SWCCGPC.com (Wayback 10 July 2004): World Championship at Gen Con Indy, 19–22 August 2004
• Star Wars CCG 2004 World Championships to be at GenCon, TheForce.Net (6 May 2004)
• SWCCG Player's Committee @ Gen Con 2004, swccgpc.com (Internet Archive capture 3 June 2004): venue, schedule and prizes
• Events (2004), swccgpc.com (Internet Archive capture 4 June 2004): tournament director
• State of the PC Address, David Kangas, Player's Committee Forums (Internet Archive capture 16 December 2004)
• SWCCG Worlds Day 3 Standings History, forum.starwarsccg.org (thread, May 2020 onward). Preserved copy: Internet Archive