Greg Shaw Mr. Scrub Goes to Virginia Day Two (tournament report)

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Greg Shaw Mr. Scrub Goes to Virginia Day Two (tournament report) is the tournament report Greg Shaw posted on DeckTech on 11 December 2001 about 2001 Decipher World Championship.[1] Greg Shaw went 3–5 on Day 2 of the 2001 Decipher World Championship at FreedomCon in Virginia Beach with a Set Your Course For Alderaan Colo Claw Fish deck (2–2) and Watch Your Step (1–3), then went 1–1 for Team IBMW in the Sunday team tournament.

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
Day 2 G1 Brian Rippetoe Light WYS Solid 10-Minute HD Racing Loss (Rippetoe rated 2079) FL −34
Day 2 G2 Joseph Diniega Dark Pile of Fish WYS Loss (Diniega rated 1748; margin 'FL -teens') —
Day 2 G3 Steve Harpster Dark Pile of Fish THGG Racer Win (report: Steven Harpster; rated 1733; margin 'FW +20s') —
Day 2 G4 Don Kitzman Light WYS Solid Watto Loss (Kitzman rated 2065; flipped with Watto; margin 'FL-20s') —
Day 2 G5 Chris Gogolen Light WYS Solid Brangus Racing Win (Gogolen rated 1905) FW +30
Day 2 G6 Kevin Shannon Dark Pile of Fish WYS Crafts Loss (Shannon rated 2125; margin 'FL-20s') —
Day 2 G7 Paul Maholic Light WYS Solid ISB Big Blue Loss (Maholic rated 1903; time called with Maholic at 11 cards to Shaw's 10) ML −11
Day 2 G8 Justin Beal Dark Pile of Fish QMC Win (Beal rated 1777; margin 'FW + something') —

Other results named in the report

Side event: 2001 FreedomCon Team Tournament (18 November)

The report also covers 2001 FreedomCon Team Tournament (18 November) (18 November 2001). Shaw played for Team IBMW (with Bill Kafer, Jon Dansbury and Dave Edmund), beating Michael Carr's Watto deck with WYS and losing to Brian Fred's WYS; the team left halfway through.

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

Round Opponent Author's deck Opponent's deck Result Margin
1 Michael Carr Light WYS Watto Win (report: Mike Carr, 'the kick@ss guy who did a lot of work for FCon') —
2 Brian Fred Dark Pile of Fish WYS Loss —

Original report

mr-scrub-goes-to-virginia-day-two

  • Author: Greg "TychoCelchu" Shaw
  • Published: Dec 11, 2001
Let’s see...I left off with me qualifying for Day 2, so here’s the rest. It’s 4 hours of sleep and 0 meals later, and I’m playing cards again. wahoo. These games were all typed like two weeks ago, so they have some good detail. Game 1 LS vs. Brian Rippetoe (2079) 10-Minute HD Racing Well, my huge racing arsenal consisting of Anakin’s Racer, Too Close, and Step isn’t gonna do it this time. I lose my 3rd race ever with WYS, which I guess isnt bad considering the fact that I’m not racing. What’s worse is that I’m not packing the race shield, because I normally win, and I didn’t even pull the race shield in my box of R3. So the Box hurts a lot. Then I can’t find a Luke the whole game, which hurts more. I get my drain at Kessel going, but it isn’t nearly enough to do any significant damage. Visage + Box + Drain of 3 at the Cantina = a 15-20 minute game. FL -34 0(-34) Highs: ha! none Lows: Well, maybe, just maybe I’ll get to play a random.scrub Game 2 DS vs. Joseph Diniega (1748) WYS Note: I’ve played too many games against WYS so this game might have details from another game mixed in. Sorry if it happens. The first few turns were like Oprah beating a struggling baby deer to death, and then eating it raw. My starting hand was a lot of red, so I drew and got characters. Well, that’s usually a plus, but there’s absolutely nothing for me to beat down on. Then when Josheph goes to space early, I can’t find any of my space, and I lose a lot of cards. I get some defensive stuff, so I drop Vader to the Cantina to drain for some. Then I find Drop and start throwing back a lot of stuff I don’t need. Then Maul goes down to the DB to start draining for 3. After I while, I finally found some space, so I was in a position to win it. Then I saw his second or third EPP Han and his second Angry Chewie go off the top to a drain. So now I’m really not afraid of a beatdown. And I’ve been recirculating cards for quite a while now, so when I look at my hand to put something back, I come across my Ghhhk Combo. Now, he’s only got 2 cards in hand, I’ve seen many Lukes/Chewies/Hans hit his lost pile, and I’m gonna win soon enough, so I put back the Ghhk Combo. Then he drops Han and Chewie against Vader and battles. Phuck. I Force Field his tracked 6 to shoot Vader, but it’s still Vader and 13 which swings a close game in my favor to his game. I lose to his drains in a few turns. FL -teens 0(-50something) Highs: Having the game within arms reach... Lows: ...then getting my arm bitten off by that danm hungry Oprah I’m sure I have no chance of making the Top 8, but I’ve already set my mind. I’m not gonna drop, because dropping is gay. And the game is fun to play, even if you’re losing. Game 3 DS vs. Steven Harpster (1733) THGG Racer This is gonna be my game. My deck was made to battle and clear sites, and it does just that. Not to mention that fact that I’m sitting next to Brian Hunter and I ask him if I can absorb some skill. I guess he said yes or something, because I totally owned this game. I don’t remember any details from this game except that Maul drained a lot, for a lot, and beatdowns were plentiful. Thankfully, I was always on the giving end. One beatdown in particular; I YAB’d Lando with Ginsu knife, and Padme took like half of Steven’s deck with her to the lost pile. My huge pe-.. er drains finshed him off a few minutes later. Oh yeah, he won the race. FW +20s 2(-30ish) Highs: My dark is good + fun to play, thats a plus Lows: hmm....I guess losing 6 to the race, but that’s about it Game 4 LS vs. Don Kitzman (2065) Watto This game was ugly. You can read Don’s report if you want some more detail. He flipped with Taliban and Watto, made me his b!tch for a while, and i didn’t do much about it. I had Celebration for 1 a turn, but then he kicked me out of the Cantina. Next Tat Maul went to space and killed Celebration while setting up Occ. The only high points were when Mirax + random.smug hit up Zuckuss for some battle damage like 3 turns in a row. ITTL is just great. And then the rest of the game sucked. FL-20s 2(-50ish) Highs: Mirax smacking Zuckuss until Don was able to track Lows: Watto sucks. I guess Don is happy now that he got his revenge from Ramapo Game 5 LS vs. Chris Gogolen (1905) Brangus Racing This was the total opposite of yesterday’s game. Or was it this morning’s game? Anyway, I win his race again. Nothing new. Then SATM gets me a nice beatdown on Aurra. He couldn’t find space, so I get my Kessel drain and start Celebrating without any trouble. That’s about it. FW +30 4(close to 0) Highs: Having a good game with WYS Lows: Playing and having to beat Chris Game 6 DS vs Kevin Shannon (2125) WYS Crafts Dammit, I really did not want this matchup. With all of his guys in crafts I couldn’t beatdown on anyone. Zuckuss died too early, so my space was pretty much shot. I died fast to his drains. FL-20s 4(-20ish) Highs: None Lows: Stupid crafts... Game 7 LS vs. Paul Maholic (1903) ISB Big Blue This was one of the most boring games out of the weekend, and one of the most thinking-required games as well. We pinged each other for like 2-5 each turn. We retrieved 1-2 each turn. Boring. I couldn’t find We’re Doomed until there were only a few minutes left. I used it for like three turns. It helped a LOT and started to give me the upper hand. I was going to win it eventually. Then time was called. Paul had 11. I had 10. One more turn and I would’ve had at least the TW. The only cool part was when I cancelled my own drain with Lost In The Wilderness and made the stupid droid go hungry. ML -11 4(farther away from 0 than last game) Highs: I should’ve won Lows: Yet I didn’t. Game 8 DS vs. Justin Beal (1777) QMC I remember my old Dr E/Disarmed beatdown deck that owned the EPP version of QMC back in the days of Tat. My current deck incorporates a lot of Dr. E beatdown stuff, so even though everyone was talking about how good QMC was, I wasn’t worried at all. He took Bespin early, and I let him have it. I was too occupied with ground control. Maul with his double shtick drained for a lot, and then Mara went to some other site to drain for more. A recurring EPP Leia via the Bacta Tank actully helped me, I retrieved with After Her a lot. He Edged a few times late game, but it just let me get in another After Her. My drains were too much for him. A fairly easy matchup. FW + something 6(negative someting) Highs: Owning QMC Lows: none So I finish my first year of playing Wars going 3-5 at Worlds. Not bad. Especially considering the fact that I could’ve won games 2 and 7 if I had played just slightly smarter. Oh well, more sleep next year. I hope there’s a next year. In the end my dark went 2-2, going 4-2 overall. Both loses were to WYS, but Crafts is just a bad matchup. The other loss could have easily been prevented. WYS went 1-3 again, going 2-4 for the weekend. For the previous 8 months it hasn’t failed me. I guess it was just a bad weekend. It figures that at the tourneys after FCon it performed like its old self, with only a loss or two to date since FCon. Team Tourney Another 4 hours of sleep and 1 partial meal this time! Yes!!!! The Team tourny was pretty cool. Team IBMW, which consists of me, Bill, and Jon Dansbury, was desperately in need of a 4th person so we could drop Jon’s scores. So we draft Dave Edmund, and he was a cool guy. We only end up staying for half the tourney anyway, because Jon’s mom didn’t want to stay much longer, and well, we didn’t exactly want to stay in VA Beach. Sorry Dave :-) I’m too lazy to write actual games, so I’ll just give some basics. First game I got to play Mike Carr, the kick@ss guy who did a lot of work for FCon. That game was the best and funniest game I’ve played in a long time. My WYS beat his Watto, but that’s not really the point. The whole time we just joked loudly about random stuf, getting the attention of everyone at our table. Stuff like Anakin’s and Sebulba’s Racers, which somehow always ended up in our hands. We would say something like "That card is so frickin broken, they really need to errata it" and everyone would look to see what we were talking about. And Threepio WHPS, we said he was huge, and if you actually read his text, you’d see that he’s pretty useful. You’d think people would learn, but nope, they kept looking over. Pretty funny. Then Game 2 I played Brian Fred’s WYS, and he played too much space and not enough ground for me to beat on, so I lost. Then we said some good-byes and left. Wrap-Up Here’s some of the stuff I learned at FCon: The Claw Fish Ritual If you start Claw Fish, your opponent will read it and possibly laugh at you. Then you get in a big battle, miss a decisive saber swing, then abuse Claw Fish and kill whoever. Then you switch another destiny that same turn, and they read it for a second time and follow up with some cursing (ex. "Damn, that card’s actually good"). Everytime. It’s extra funny when you watch for it. Luck Luck plays an important role in qualifying. I’m usually not too superstitious, but from now on it’s 2 Cosmic Brownies and Goodnight Moon before every Open. Luck also explains my poor performance in Day 2. See, that night I didn’t read the book and I only had 1 brownie. Shame on me. WYS doesn’t work like it used to For 8 months WYS has served me well, plus the month following FCon. But only during those two days did it play like absolute sh!t. Stupid smugglers... Now it’s time for Props/Slops, because what would a report be without em? the coveted Like This props go to: Brownies Margaret Wise Brown, the author of Goodnight Moon Bill for letting me borrow tons of cards + countless hours of testing Jon for the ride everyone at DeckTech who helped make FCon posible Colo Claw Fish for kicking @ss regular props: Scott Lingrell for being a cool guy everyone who made the top 8 Bastian for winning it Renier Wolfcastle (Simpsons) for sounding kinda like Bastian All my opponents, you guys + gals (of which i played two)were cool Kim Caton and John Veasey for drawing up for me My dark deck for going 4-2 over the weekend me for qualifying Slops: My WYS for dying this weekend only. Decipher for cancelling Worlds + being stupid and not recognizing the event (although Bastian is definately the World Champ) I think that’s all. If I forget anything, it’ll end up on my Member Page sometime. Hopefully I’ll see everyone next year Greg

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  1. ↑ mr-scrub-goes-to-virginia-day-two, DeckTech (Greg "TychoCelchu" Shaw, 11 December 2001). Preservation copy: GitHub Pages.
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