Alan Sagan Hoth North Ridge Regional Calgary (tournament report)

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Alan Sagan Hoth North Ridge Regional Calgary (tournament report) is the tournament report Alan Sagan posted on DeckTech on 16 August 2000 about 2000 Hoth North Ridge Regionals.[1] Alan Sagan won the 2000 Hoth North Ridge Regionals in Calgary on 5 August 2000 with a Set Your Course For Alderaan TIE deck and Profit, going 5–1 in the Swiss (10 (+101)), losing only to Derek Blais, and beating Greg Bond 2–0 in the final to win a trip to Worlds in Florida.

Report info

Games

Games as the author describes them; margins are as stated in the report.

Round Opponent Author's deck Opponent's deck Result Margin
1 Rick Jeans Dark SYCFA Ties Hidden Base Win (full win) +35
2 Arian Delisle Light Turbo Profit Smacker BHBM Win (report: 'AJ Delisle') +19
3 Derek Blais Light Profit TIEs Loss (full loss) −9
4 Alex Alamis Dark Ties Dagobah Win (TD ruling on Test 5 / retrieve 10) +34
5 John Shwydiuk Light Profit Dark Rops Win +20
6 Martin Paquette Dark Ties Dagobah Direct Damage Win (report: 'Matin Paquettes') +2
Final G1 Greg Bond Dark Ties DBO Win +26
Final G2 Greg Bond Light Profit Ties Win +6

Other results named in the report

  • 2nd: Greg Bond

Original report

hoth-north-ridge-regional-calgary

  • Author: Alan "Serpent" Sagan
  • Published: Aug 16, 2000
Hoth North Ridge Regional, August 5th This tournament took me allot of effort to get to. It was on August 5th, in Calgary. I live in Kamloops, which is a good 8 hour drive from Calgary. This isn’t so bad, EXCEPT that on August 4th, I was going to be at a Concert in Vancouver, which is a 12 hour drive from Calgary. I decided to fly to Calgary from Kamloops, the morning of the tournament. It would be a quick flight, and getting a stand by ticket would only be about $15 Canadian more than a bus, so it should work. So Thursday night, I go to sleep at 6 am. 6 friggin’ am, and then drive to van at 10am to go to the festival. This wasn’t just any concert, this was summersault, with 10 bands performing, including eve 6, treble charger, our lady peace, foo fighters, and smashing pumpkins. The concert was great. It ended about 11:30, and so starts the long drive home. My driving pal Justin Cachelin slept for about an hour, then we stopped in a Tim Hortons. Much coffee and a half hour later, we set out for Kamloops again. The next 3 hours of the drive consisted of Justin and I talking tech about his decks, and me debating whether to play my tried and true rops deck that won my provincials, or the new tie deck that I had been wrecking people with. Got home, slept for one hour. Got up, pick up Matt Green and Justin Cachelin, and got on the airplane. Adjusted my decks a bit. Got to the Sentry Box, where the tournament was being held about an hour before the tournament. Nicholas Burke and AJ Delisle were already there, and the three of us talked some tech and about our trip to Milwaukee in a week. After a bit of borrowing, the tournament started. And Me with only 3 hours of sleep in the last two days, 8 hours of driving in those days, and a loooong concert too! I decided to play a turbo profit smacker and my tie interceptor smacker. Game 1: My SYCFA Ties vs Rick Jean’s hidden base. Game started out uneventful. I start draining a bit at Endor, he gets Haven at Hoth there. Independence, Major Haash’n, Thaneespi, Wedge+ship, Tycho+ship, Luke+ship, and one or two other matchings make an appearance at hoth. I lose one a turn to his drain, and retrieve. He loads up the independence with wedge, tycho, and luke, and moves to my location. Gravity Shadow! I pull a 3, equaling thaneespi’s ability, so the whole shebang is LOST! boom! A little later I hit a ship with a lateral damage and beat it down. FW + 35 2 (35) I am soooo tired after this game. Everyone is commenting that I look like I’m ready to fall asleep. Somehow, I also have plenty of energy. Game 2: Turbo Profit Smacker vs AJ delisle BHBM. Man, I really don’t want to play him. He’s looking for revenge after I smoked him in our regional. So we start. I wait till he has vader out to go fetch luke, cause I don’t want him captured. We have a little bit of Sense wars I think. At one point, he drops vader and some guys against Han and Ben. I have two force saved, he drops first strike. I clash vader before the battle, and he doesn’t battle. I’m causing profit damage. We battle a bit, with nothing really happening. He’s losing all his 6’s to Emperor’s Power, like I predicted he would :) I have Han and regular Obi sitting pretty, he searches his 2 card reserve. It’s a 5 and a 2. Out comes choke vader... this is my last han. If he gets him, it’s game. 50/50 chance. I decide not to risk it and Clash vader before the battle. I drain him out. FW +19 4(54) I’m kinda stoked after this game, I’m still one of the top players. Game 3: My light vs Derek Blais ties. This is the highest rated player in our region. He starts Kuat, pulls wakeelmui with Mob. Points. I spread and drain real early on ground, him in space. Boring Game. Game was decided when I drop Draw there fire, lando in falcon and chewie vs a couple of ties. I figured I’d do my draw there fire damage, make him lose a bit, and sack the falcon. Turns out I fought him at dark side dantooine, which lets him react. Over comes a dreadnaught and some more ties. Game over. FL -9 4(45) Now my sleep is hitting me. I find a corner and pretty much sleep until next game. Game 4: Dark vs Alex Alami’s dagobah. I begin to drain in space. I put out the Chimaera by itself to endor, he plays star destroyer! I save some force to react with one of the new squadrons, and whip out ability ability ability. His turn, he choses to deploy. Wedge+ship, red 6 + romas lock. No reacting for me. He had saved force last turn, so didn’t have to activate, putting his 7 on top. Down goes the chimaera. He moves his guys to where I have some ties. I lateral damage wedges ship, drop a dreadnaught, lost all power to weapons, drop about 5 ties, battle, all power to weapons used, he loses it all plus about 25 more cards. He has one card in reserve, finishes Test 5. We have an interesting discussion whether he dies before he retrieves 10. We call over the TD, then decide he lives. Ian (the TD) says no he dies. We both convince him that he gets his 10 first, the objective says retrieve 10 force, THEN place destiny on test 5. so he lives with 10 cards :P I drain him out. FW + 34 6 (79) Game 5: My light vs John Shwydiuk’s Dark Rops. Man. This is one my friends from Kamloops, not someone I wanted to have to play. He kept saying let me win, let me win. I could never just let someone win unless it was the finals of a big tourney and I already had the trip I was going to win. First turn, I drop master luke, free han, move outside, and nabrun to raltir. He never got to flip raltir, and I sensed his reacts, and his alters. more mains came to raltir. Game over. FW +20 8(99) Game 6: Dark Ties vs Matin Paquette’s Dagobah Direct Damage. Matin said he was really tired going into this game, so I gave him some leeway. after 35 minutes had passed and we had only played 4 TURNS, I called the TD over to watch for stalling. Boom, game sped up. He I had a timed win, I wouldn’t make finals, and Matin would make finals for sure. Anyways, I saw him played a Visored Vision, so I twi’leked for a grabber. Lost a grabber off the top, and didn’t see any more Visions, so a couple turns later I grabbed It could be worse. Out come the visions, two every turn. He whipped out a lando in falcon and legendary starfighter, ran to alderaan. Eventually, I killed his falcon, and neither of us could drain cause of battle plan and wars not make one great. Ability Ability Ability killed him, since I had 3 systems for Honor of the Jedi. FW + 2 10(101) So I’m the top player! I made to the finals. Game 1: My Ties vs Greg Bonds DBO. he starts, and pulls out... Dantooine Base Operations?? So he flips second turn using correllian ops, (rebels), a rebel trooper recruit, and han. 3rd turn, he deploys an xwing squad, an xwing laser cannon, moves to death start and saves 3. I lateral damage his squadron, drop a dreadnaught, 3 tie ins. Start the fight, he blasts one of my fighters. I all power to weapons, giving each tie 7 power, a power 5 dread, and a destiny of 5 to his destiny... 0! he loses the squad and 24. I play like crap for the rest of the game, forgetting to retrieve, and win. FW + 26 Game 2: my Profit vs his Ties. Yawn. Drain fight. I win. I also played this game like @#$% though. I was just too tired and didn’t care, and knew he wasn’t gonna beat me by 27. FW + 6 So I win a trip to Florida! and a Card carrying bag with regional champ on in, and a shirt too. We bussed back, all 6 kamloopsians took the same bus. While waiting for a transfer, two of us were playing a game in Denny’s. The waiter comes back, looks, says “magic’s better”. me: “Have you ever won a trip to florida with magic? I just did with this.” He shut up :P

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  1. ↑ hoth-north-ridge-regional-calgary, DeckTech (Alan "Serpent" Sagan, 16 August 2000). Preservation copy: GitHub Pages.
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