Michael Mendoza Pleasanton North California 3-3-01 (tournament report)

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Michael Mendoza Pleasanton North California 3-3-01 (tournament report) is the tournament report Michael Mendoza posted on DeckTech on 5 March 2001 about March 2001 Pleasanton tournament.[1] Michael Mendoza won a 19-player tournament run by Nick Stefanko in Pleasanton, California, on 3 March 2001 with Kevin Shannon's MKOS and AITC sandspeeder decks, going 5–1 (10 points, +107) and losing only to Alfred Dong.

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 Stefanie Dittman Dark MKOS RST Win +29
2 Alfred Dong Light AITC/Sandspeeder ISB Scum w/ORS Loss −8
3 Paul McKelvey Dark MKOS HB mains w/OMDH engine Win +26
4 Andrew Light AITC/Sandspeeder BHBM Win (first name only) +24
5 Dan Mochizuki Light AITC/Sandspeeder MKOS Win +10
6 Dan Mochizuki Dark MKOS HB mains w/OMDH engine Win +26

Original report

pleasanton-north-california-3-3-01

  • Author: Michael "Longshot" Mendoza
  • Published: Mar 5, 2001
This was the final tournament before the big Enduro here in North California. For those who don’t know, Enduro is 4 tournaments (3 swiss & 1 sealed event this year) in a row. Thus, you’re playing SWCCG for almost 24 hours. Nick Stefanko was the TD for this event in which 19 people showed, I think. It was also a nice change from 2 weeks ago (where I did *really* badly). I had decks made and read to play, and had made plans to playtest against Kevin Shannon the night before the tourney. So I head to Kevin’s house on the train and find out midway there that I don’t have my decks. I’m worried I’ve lost them or had them stolen so as I’m looking in my bag I miss my stop. So I meet up with Kevin at the train station 25 minutes late, and with no decks. Turns out I just left them at home, thankfully. Kevin, being the cool guy he is, tells me I can use his cards to make decks. But he doesn’t have the cards to make what I wanted (he had lost his binder with many of his cards in it). So I go with 2 of his ready-made decks: his MKOS that he took to the DPC and his AITC/Sandspeeder deck. He said he didn’t want to play those again, so I could use them. I swap out his farmboy Luke for my EPP Luke (one of the few cards I did bring), even though he was telling me that Farmboy is so good in that deck. I didn’t buy it. I also swap out DODN for Aim High. I expected to face many Scum decks, but not much in the way of dark S/A. We talk a little about his DPC experience too.....some crap about a dice game and a brownie.....huh? And I show him how to play battle.net using NetZero. Then we playtest and he wins all but 1 game. I’m just getting used to these new decks though. Anyways, MKOS starts No Bargain, POTH, & the OE/TINT combo. AITC starts Aim High, Insurrection, & Staging Areas. Game 1: DS vs Stefanie Dittman’s RST I soooooo expected to see Battle Plan, but thankfully she never got it out against me. She tried once to come to Tat, only to have her 2nd character bounced w/None Shall Pass & have her other character beat down. Then she stuck to Endor w/Crix, COK, & Wuta at a site, and Scout Luke w/Kensaric at another site. I’ve flipped and am draining w/Gailid’s bonus. She keeps forgetting to drain me, and I’m not really paying attention either. I’m just trying to remember every- thing my objective does. Its weird having played Court for so long and then play MKOS. I’ve got Scum & First Strike, so I deploy Dengar w/gun & an Abyssin to Crix’s site, battle. I expected to clear the site by shooting twice and drawing destiny w/Jabba’s through with You, but I miss the shot on COK & he lives. I lose both of them, she leaves Chewie alone. wtf?? Ok, I deploy Mara against Luke & Kensaric, deploy Boelo to COK, Bossk in ship to Endor (she has no ships there). Boelo battles, so I retrive 3 & she loses 1, I lose Boelo. Mara battles, Luke doesn’t have his stick & draws low, so she’s cleared & Mara lives. Next turn the drains on Tat finish her. Win by 29. 2(+29). I’ve got the highest differential. Best: Bossk draining for 2 at Endor cuz Mara was on Endor! Worst: Not having anyone to deploy w/Boelo against COK. Game 2: LS vs Alfred Dong’s ISB Scum w/ORS junk Oh man, this is the worst deck a speeder deck can face. All my drains were -1 on Tat since he had ORS at the Audience Chamber & Lower Passages. To top it off, he got out Gailid & POTF on *both* sites! I deployed CC: Downtown Plaza for a drain of 2, but he dropped 5D6-Ra7 there to make my drains -1. He knew better to come outside against a speeder deck, until late game that is. Then he came out to battle some of my speeders. The following turn I unloaded my hand and tagged him for his characters plus 17. It wasn’t enough though....he was just that far ahead. My T-47 Formations helped, but I couldn’t match his drains......when he retrieved 5 w/Abyssin Ornament and drained me out, that was game. Lose by 8. 2(+21). Best: The beating for 17 force. Worst: I found out I had forgotten my EPP Luke. So I only had 59 cards in the deck. EPP Luke probably wouldn’t have made much difference though....... Game 3: DS vs Paul McKelvey’s HB mains w/OMDH engine This was a quick game. I flipped 2nd turn, and got all my good charcters in my hand. So I’m draining in my JP sites w/Gailid’s help, he sets his mains up outside at his generic DB. Then Capt Han in Falcon & Mirax in Skate move from his Rendezvous Pt to Tatooine. I can tell he’s getting ready for OMDH. I deploy Secret Plans, and draw my 2 ships (Bossk and Zuckuss in ships, the only ones in the deck). I deploy the ships to his generic DB (which is between Desert Heart & JP), move EPP Fett & Myo into the ships and they take off to greet Han & Mirax. He drops Dash on the Falcon and targets Han w/OMDH. My turn, I drop 4-LOM in space and draw my 4 destinies (each +2). I clear the system and OMDH goes lost. My big drains add up and quickly finish him off. Win by 26. 4(+47). Now I’m #1 again. Best: Clearing Tatooine in 1 battle and cancelling his 1 drain at the generic DB w/an Abyssin or Myo every turn. Worst: None I finish in time to watch Steve Daniel’s AITC speeder deck lose to Andrew’s BHBM. Steve should’ve won, but he kept forgetting to deploy Luke and was losing to Your Destiny. Before he knew it he didn’t have enough force to even deploy Luke (he only had scout Luke in lost pile, but he had stacked EPP Luke! wtf?). So who do I play next game? Game 4: LS vs Andrew’s BHBM Andrew’s pissed he has to play another speeder deck. Well, I deploy speeders everywhere since I figure he won’t be dumb enough to let me beat him down seeing as how he just played Steve’s speeder deck. I get some FAT drains w/T-47 formation. I deploy CC: Plaza and Back Door. I deploy Luke to his Cantina (where he has Snoova w/Ax & Mara) and battle but only kill Mara. I stack a card, then Luke comes back & kills Snoova the next turn. Xizor and Guri go missing in the desert from a Sandwhirl. He drops Vader to the Back Door (Endor DB is not on table). wtf? Well, Luke can just roam free on Tatooine then. Plus I drop Boushh to block Vader’s drain. I’m draining for insane amounts, and end the game with a speeder beatdown on Vader. Win by 24. 6(+71). Best: Big drains, recycling Luke. Worst: Stacking 2 cards. Game 5: LS vs Dan Mochizuki’s MKOS I draw a T47 Formation, so I deploy 3 sandspeeders to 3 Tat sites, Hoth DB w/Incom, and hope he doesn’t mess w/them. He doesn’t, and I get a 2nd turn drain of 7 w/T47 Formation. After that, he draws to try to get his JP sites (I converted his JP to start the game). So I’m ahead of him in the drain race, he’s already lost quite a few cards. He deploys to my Entrance Cavern though, so i see my chance to strike. I pile the speeders on (engaging Flaps during my control phase) and clear Xizor, Boelo, and someone else along with 12 force. After that, he did some hit and run tricks using Projective Telepathy (S&V was out) which retreived a nice chunk for him, even though I had Aim High out. But he had lost too much force early on and couldn’t even flip his objective until really late in the game. Win by 10. 8(+81). Best: Big drains, big beats. Worst: Having to deploy so much. Plus I had a rather large hand. Game 6: DS vs Dan Mochizuki’s HB mains w/OMDH engine Basically a repeat of my game against Paul’s HB deck, except this one was on the ground. I couldn’t draw my 2 ships, so I focused on ground beats. He deployed or started Menace Fades, and dropped Tawss to my Palace 1st turn, so I couldn’t pull my Lower Passages. I wait and draw some (I want to flip in 1 turn), he drains me. Later, I flip and battle him to make him lose Tawss and 2 more. He saves & drops a bunch of guys to my Lower Passages, and I run out of None Shall Passes. Then he deploys Ackbar & Corran aboard the Falcon at Tat. Great, now Menace Fades is in effect. But its not in effect for long. We play around in JP for a while....Ben keeps reviving guys and Chewie is blanking 4-LOMs text but luckiliy I’m drawing high enough to make him lose 2-3 guys per battle. Finally I draw another Fett & IG w/guns (they had died earlier), and I beat down the few guys he has remaining. He loses everyone and another 12. Myo & Boelo had been helping in cancelling battle destinies, and I was just eating his big drain of 1 at Tatooine. S&V and First Strike really helped me retrieve much of my lost pile. Win by 26. 10(+107). As Dan and I were playing that game, I found out that no one had more than 8 victory pts, so if I won I would take 1st place. It felt good especially after my 2-4 performance 2 weeks ago. This was my 1st tourney win in the Northern CA scene. Best: Great battles...and I won most of them. Worst: Him retrieving 7 w/OMDH & another 5 w/On the Edge. Nick provided some really good prizes (Reflections AND Reflections 2 packs for almost everyone!), and he gave me the choice between a Veers tshirt or Signal foil. Everyone told me to pick the foil cuz I could sell it for $$$$, so I picked it but I don’t think I’ll sell it. Unfortunately, I didn’t get any packs though. Thanks for reading, watch for my Enduro TR next week.....we’ll see what 24 hours of SWCCG does to the human body! Props: Big Kevin Shannon for his truly awesome decks. Nick Stefanko for another cool tourney. Alfred for keeping me in check with that one loss. Decipher for sending me my YAB foil. Slops: Kevin for trying to tell me to play Farmboy. Northern CA weather for raining on the way home. Me for making Kevin wait 25 minutes at the station. Me for forgetting my decks at home, thus not letting me test them for Enduro.

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References

  1. ↑ pleasanton-north-california-3-3-01, DeckTech (Michael "Longshot" Mendoza, 5 March 2001). Preservation copy: GitHub Pages.
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