Deal With It! (Star Wars Insider)

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Deal With It! is Rich Handley's report in Star Wars Insider #52 (pages 68–69) on DecipherCon 2000 and its Star Wars CCG World Championship.[1][2] Its subtitle is "It's a CCG TKO When Star Wars Fans Compete at DecipherCon 2000". The issue went on sale on 27 February 2001.[2]

Star Wars Insider #52, page 68.
Star Wars Insider #52, page 69.

Star Wars CCG World Championship

DecipherCon 2000 ran on 5–8 October 2000 at the Doubletree Resort and Conference Center in Kissimmee, Florida.[1] The Star Wars CCG tournament drew 72 players. The final matched Yannick Lapointe of Montreal, Canada, against Matt Sokol of Albany, New York.[1]

In Game 1 Lapointe played a Bring Him Before Me deck. Sokol played a space deck built on Hidden Base. He forgot to include the Luke card it needed and lost by 20.[1] In Game 2 Lapointe played a Mind What You Have Learned Jedi-training deck. He activated all his Force without a reserve deck, and Sokol's Dark Side deck won the game and the title.[1]

Sokol's win was the first American Star Wars CCG world title since Matt Potter in 1998. It was Lapointe's third World Championship.[1] The two had often played each other since meeting at the Ottawa Grand Slam. Sokol said: "I'm going to DisneyWorld!"[1]

Finalists

Place Player Home (as printed)
1 Matt Sokol New York, USA
2 Yannick Lapointe Quebec, Canada
3 Kyle Craft Massachusetts, USA
4 Kevin Shannon California, USA
5 Dominic Gaudreault Quebec, Canada
6 Martin Falke Bochum, Germany
7 Raphael Asselin Quebec, Canada
8 Clint Hays Tennessee, USA
9 Brian Rippetoe Tennessee, USA
10 Gary Carman Bristol, England
11 Paul Feldman California, USA
12 Steve Brentson Massachusetts, USA

Young Jedi World Championship

Seventy players entered the Young Jedi World Championship. A dozen finalists played constructed decks. Ian Vincent of Hastings, England, beat Philippe Parrise of Ontario, Canada, in the final.[1]

In Game 1 Parrise's Anakin deck beat Vincent's tank deck by 19. The two swapped decks for Game 2, and Vincent won it by 26 to take the title.[1] Vincent had placed seventh in the previous year's Star Trek CCG finals.[1]

Other Young Jedi finalists as printed: 3 James Lafferty (California), 4 Jeremy Baker, 5 Benoit Morel, 6 Avery Pollak, 7 Tom Mascari, 8 Jennifer Ekstrom, 9 Jonathan Swenson, 10 Adam Fuentez, 11 Irina Nepevna and 12 Jeff Kahan.[1]

Guests and other events

The convention introduced the DecipherCon Olympics, a three-day event of card-sorting, card-house-building and card-tossing. Players attended seminars on card design and DigitalDeck's online card game. They also saw the new Jedi Knights Trading Card Game.[1]

Shannon Baksa and Michonne Bourriague signed comics, photographs and cards. Baksa had first attended the year before, after the Mara Jade card. She said: "Everyone here is so nice, and I love to be Mara!"[1] Bourriague, Aurra Sing in The Phantom Menace, said: "It's been so wonderful being able to say I was in Star Wars."[1] Fans also saw Chronicle Books' Aurra Sing: Dawn of the Bounty Hunters with its 12-inch Aurra Sing figure.[1]

Discrepancies

Where a source disagrees with the record on the article, the article keeps the record and notes the difference here.

  • Decipher's Young Jedi semifinal results list places 3rd to 12th in a different order from the Insider.[3] Three places agree: Lafferty 3rd, Ekstrom 8th and Fuentez 10th. The other seven differ:
    • Jeremy Baker: 4th in the Insider, 12th on Decipher's page.[3]
    • Jonathan Swenson: 9th in the Insider, 4th on Decipher's page.[3]
    • Irina Nepevna: 11th in the Insider, 5th on Decipher's page.[3]
    • Benoit Morel: 5th in the Insider, 6th on Decipher's page.[3]
    • Jeff Kahan: 12th in the Insider, 7th on Decipher's page.[3]
    • Avery Poliak: 6th in the Insider (printed "Avery Pollak"), 9th on Decipher's page.[3]
    • Tom Mascari: 7th in the Insider, 11th on Decipher's page.[3]
  • Decipher's page spells the runner-up "Philippe Parrise", as the Insider does; this wiki's page is Philippe Parise.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 Rich Handley, "Deal With It!", Star Wars Insider #52, pp. 68–69. Scan: Star Wars Insider 52, Internet Archive.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars Insider 52, Wookieepedia. Preserved copy: Internet Archive
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Young Jedi Finalists, Decipher (DecipherCon 2000 semifinal results). Preserved copy: Internet Archive.
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