Mike Fitzgerald Iceman's Dagobah Regional Report 2000 (tournament report)

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Mike Fitzgerald Iceman's Dagobah Regional Report 2000 (tournament report) is the tournament report Michael Fitzgerald posted on DeckTech on 31 July 2000 about 2000 Dagobah Regionals.[1] Mike Fitzgerald finished 5th of 64 at the 2000 Dagobah Regionals with a Bring Him Before Me deck ('Burn Him Before Me') and a Wedge 'Supafly' Hidden Base deck, going 5–1 (10 points) and losing only to Walter Cowart.

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 Gabriel Alonso Dark Burn Him Before Me Profit Win ('win by 7 or 8'; report says Gabe Alonso) +8
2 Walter Cowart Light X-Y-Z Supafly (New Wedge, matching pilots and weapons) ROps Loss (third-turn Search and Destroy) −21
3 a scrub (unnamed) Dark Burn Him Before Me EPP Luke and X-Wings Win ('Win by 25-26') +25
4 Lee Light X-Y-Z Supafly (New Wedge, matching pilots and weapons) Bring Him Before Me Win (friend; surname not given) +21
5 Walter Cowart Dark Burn Him Before Me Throne Room Win (second game against Walter Cowart; author switched to Dark) +7
6 Will Raiman Dark Burn Him Before Me Good Deck (There Is Good In Him) Win ('I win by 13-16 ?'; name hedged ('I think his name was Will Raiman')) —

Other results named in the report

Discrepancies

Where this report disagrees with other sources, the wiki keeps the other record and notes the difference here.

  • Mike Fitzgerald refers to 64 players; Charlie Herren and James Barrett both report 60 participants. (see 2000 Dagobah Regionals)

Original report

iceman-s-dagobah-regional-report-2000

  • Author: Mike "Iceman" Fitzgerald
  • Published: Jul 31, 2000
Mike Fitzgerald - Dagobah Regional 2000 July 29th 1234567890 Prologue- I had a tough time trying to work out a few minor details of the Dagobah Regionals. I was losing interest in the game and was trying to save money for other stuff. My friends Dan and Lee were very interested in going though so I figured I'd at least think about it. I was strapped for cash and decided that if I was gonna go I'd try to make them pay for most of the journey. I ordered Death Star 2 boxes but they came 6 days after I expected them so I was a bit crippled for playtesting. I decide that I know I won't have the deck(s) fully tuned so I'm just gonna flat out play the opponent to get the win. I was thinking Lightside Weapons and Musicians. I decided to mess around with the new DS2 Objectives and gave them a fair shot. ::Speed up to Day before Regional::. We arrive in Jacksonville in very good time. The downside is that the hotel jerks me around saying : a.) they didn't have any reservations in my name b.) you need to be 21 to get a room and c.) I could try my luck down the street. So I could either go find another place or wait until any of my friends over 21 would arrive and help me rent a room. So we finally find a place to give us a deal and we finally start playtesting and using the group think. We are all playing the same Dark Side and Lee breaks form from our Light Side. Decks : LS- " For 3 years the system kept me down as forfeit fodder but now I'm the supafly!" - Uses New Wedge to the fullest Matching pilots and Weapons. DS- " Burn Him Before Me" - Decided to tap around with this new objective to see how it does. Battle heavy and flexible always sounds good to me. Game 1 : " Burn Him Before Me" vs. Gabe Alonso's Profit I start Arrest Order , Mobil Points , and Crush. I also get Mara Jade and Evazan to start at his Audience Chamber. He starts Goo Nee Tay which I figure is kinda risky since I could get Emperor and Alter it right off the bat or even try with Mara. Ah well I get rolling and deploy Emperor to DS2 Docking Bay and kick out Rendili too. He drops Master Luke right off the bat versus Mara and Evazan , battles , and draws a 5 ( Narrow Escape ) to my 1 so I lose them both. I deploy Commander Igar and Tempest 1 to JP and he later flips and retrieves. Ben Kenobi comes down and its gonna be hard to get rid of General Solo. He kicks out Bargaining Table and starts cancelling drains with aliens. Before I know it I'm down like 25 cards and he's got like 2 cards in his lost pile and is pretty much set. I decide to start doing some Chamber invasions. Vader comes in and gets Barriered. I decide to give him Janus Greetus to keep him company. He has EPP Leia , Ben , Han , and an Elom to battle and give me trouble. Vader is at least keeping Luke as captive and probably preventing like 3 more destiny draws or combos. He battles at the AChamber and I Weapon Levitation Ben's Stick. Leia misses and we draw destiny him getting the better of the situation. He gets two and I make him revive. Vader dies and I'm really limited in my decisions because of force. I deploy another Vader and use You Are Beaten to exclude Ben. I use the Emperor's Power to get a decent draw and force him to lose Leia at least but Vader goes down again. I decide to sent Janus for a walk to help out Igar. Igar has been doing the whole draining thing joined by a Projection and a PotF. I'm taking more damage and I'm in danger mode. I gotta step up here and make the game or break the game. I deploy Lord Vader with his Lightsaber to the Audience Chamber and battle versus General Solo , Ben , Elom , and a Monk. I have to hit Ben and Lord Vader is insane adding to his weapon destiny so I rack up like a 10 total and Ben is slashed. The tricky part is that I also have to rack up 8 attrition to get rid of Solo and avoid any more damage. I use Emporer's Power and come up with exactly 8 which is awesome. He tries to revive Solo during weapon segment but because the End of a battle is after all forfeiting Ben has to survive to revive ( heh- it rhymes ) he's gotta lose Solo. That's huge. So he tries to minimize the damage and throws out Harc Seff and an Elom to battle and try to suck up all the damage. I slash an Elom and he tries to forfeit all his characters there but can't. I say can't because he has this one little B'omarr Monk who has survived for quite some time but doesn't participate in offensive battles so he takes 3 damage , stacks a force , and now has to choose between staying inside versus Vader with Lightsaber or go outside to Tempest 1 , Igar , and Janus with the possibility of 2 destiny plus I could burn the Emperor's Power so he's looking at a lot of damage either way. He decides to stay in the AChamber. On my turn I drop Tarkin , 4-LOM , and beatdown on the Monk for 16 after the Monk , he also has to stack a card and I've jumped right back into the game. His turn he starts drawing while I start draining and playing catch up. He puts down Mos Eisley and I move my characters around to my best and leave super ginzu inside. Eventually Ben Kenobi and Orrimarko are deployed at Mos Eisley so the end game is near. We keep positioning ourselves around and I put Vader's Shuttle up at Rendili to fulfill the Battle Order I tracked so hard to deploy -- gotta love the retrieval from Op Killer. I haven't seen a ship all game until he deploys Lando in Millenium Falcon in front of Vader's Shuttle. After deploying Lando he has exactly one force left and draws it ( fearing Emperor's P to draw a 5). It was probably the longest I've ever waited for someone to decide to draw a card or not at a critical time ;) I'm putting lots of pressure on him with my drains and drop down First Strike , battle twice , retrieve 2 while he loses 2 and I get rid of Lando in Falcon. Battle Order is fulfilled and Igar packs up and moves away from Mos Eisley. If Han isn't deployed all he can do is battle me, if he deploys Han then I have an extra drain of 2 in the Audience Chamber. He was in trouble either way. So I pull up a win by 7 or 8. Record : 2 ( +8 ) Highs : Coming back after a huge deficit. Punishing him and basically winning the game off one mistake. Lows : Watching like half my deck go to my Lost Pile in Record time. Game 2 : " X-Y-Z Supafly" vs. Walter Cowart's ROps This game goes bad for a deck I've spent soo many cardslots to mess over. Basically a 3rd turn Search and Destroy eats me for like 20 force while I struggle to find my last system I need to flip ( Systems get in active pile quickly when you activate a ton ). Not much to this game. Monnok helps keep the game from major surprises. Just about everything just twisted a little bit to mess me over. I think this game was over in like 15 minutes. Record : 2 ( -13 ) Highs : limiting the loss to 21. Lows : Just about everything. Game 3 : " Burn Him Before Me" vs. a scrub It was ugly. I deploy Vader and he deploys EPP Luke to an X-Wing in space. He takes like 3 damage from Your Destiny the whole game through. He uses lots and lots of X-Wings but its just over after it starts. Win by 25-26. Record : 4 ( +12 ) Highs : Deciding when to lose the Op Killer to retrieve a card. Lows : Not working hard versus player. Game 4 : " X-Y-Z Supafly" vs. Lee's Bring Him Before Me Lee seems a little unhappy about the pairing and lets the room know. We both know each other decks but I keep switching my Hidden Base on him so that gives me a bit of an edge. Vader hits Cloud City Docking Bay so I give him Farmboy Luke. Mara and Saber deploy to take his place while Supafly in ship and Jek on Spiral hang at Bespin system. I cancel his drain with It's a Hit and start doing a little bit of damage. He deploys like the Avenger and Devastator with Evax aboard and Lateral Damages Spiral. I have a Laser Cannon on Wedge's ship and when he battles I play Power Pivot to make the Evax ship Power=0 but he Senses and loses 3 force total for it. I take a bit of damage and draw a 0 to make things worse. I stack a card. I kick out another system or two and flip then move Wedge and ship to Kessel while Keir Santage goes to Kiffex. He drops Chimaera which I barrier and he puts Tarkin on it. On my turn I Tunnel Vision for Falcon and drop Cpt. Han and Falcon. I battle and come up big by drawing a 10 battle destiny which gets rid of Tarkin , Chimaera , wins the battle , and I play Legendary Starfighter on the Falcon so he starts losing 2 force everymove phase which is big. He finally probes the correct system but I It Could Be Worse the damage so I'm up and put Landing Claw on the Falcon to make it safe as possible. He cancels the Claw with Godherd but its too late. Win by 21. Record : 6 (+33) Highs : Drawing a 10 destiny to knock out Chimeara for Legend and getting a solid win. Lows : He had 2 cards stacked and with a freaky win of a battle he could've won the game at any time. Game 5 : " Burn Him Before Me " v. Walter Cowart's Throne Room So its Throne Room start versus Throne Room start. I start Op Enforcement along with the normal two to keep SAC down. Side note here : I was actually supposed to play Light Side again but since I'd already played Walter with the Light Side I figured that they know that I can't play him with the same side again so I walk over and use my Dark Side. This causes me to play my Darkside this game and the next which is probably in my advantage to do. First turn I deploy Emperor to CC:DBay and go. He deploys Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker from Reserve , a Nudj , battles , and plays Smoke Screen to have a 12 power while I only have like a 5. Its 7 or just Emperor. I toss Emperor aside like its no big deal and it isn't. So I get out Rendili and generate and stuff and draw trying to figure a way around Jedi Luke. He deploys Lower Corridor and moves Jedi Knight Luke into there and deploys another Nudj to the swamp but forgets to move it ( huge ). I have Fett in Slave 1 up at Rendili and Battle Order on the table so he's paying for his drains. The downside is he deploys Obi-Wan Kenobi with Saber to the Corridor too so he is paying 3 to drain for 3. Once again I'm looking at a +15 card lost pile very quickly and have to pull another big comeback to win it. He forgets to move a Nudj over to the Farm again so I decide to make him pay. I drop Tempest 1 and Igar ( I only play one of each but T1 came out every single game and the combo popped twice ) so I have fulfilled Battle Order for the time being. He gets to Drain me for 3 twice and moves over a Nudj and I choose not to pay to drain for 1 until I get Battle Order up for free. I manage to get Evazan and Blizzard 2 down to the Swamp and Janus moves into the Throne Room (his). So now I'm paying nothing to drain and I hit him for 6 drain while he pays 3 to drain for 3. On his turn he deploys Supafly to his Homeone : War Room and deploys Home One to Rendili for like 7 Force...Barrier. Heh. On my turn I deploy Lateral Damage on Rendezvous Point , deploy Mist Hunter , and Dengar in Ship. Battle I draw good and after all it said and done he loses Home One , Wedge , 13 to battle damage , and stacks a card. That was huge. He drops Melas and Boussh to the Throne Room but its already too late. He does more damage here and there but not enough. Win by 7. Record : 8 (+40) Highs : Getting huge confidence boosts in this deck , twice spotting players rated over 1900 and 2000 about 20 force and coming back to win the game. Keeping from getting beat twice by the same person. Lows : I seem to keep being the person on the edge playing someone with one less win so I need higher differential to get into to the Final. Game 6 : " Burn Him Before Me" vs. Will Raiman's Good Deck I think his name was Will Raiman , nice guy , reminded me of a mini-Steven Turner :) Well I let them know that I should be playing light. One of the weirdest feelings is when you both pull your Light decks to play. They say we should've looked at the cards but yada , yada , yada things stay the same so I get to play my Darkside 4 times and thats an edge for me. So this can be an epic game that could be won at any time because both DS2 Objectives are being played and every battle counts. I get my usual generation and deploy Fett to Rendili to fulfill an early Battle Order. He starts pulling Scouts left and right with Madine and stuff. I bring down Lord Vader with stick and start smacking around scouts. I You Are Beaten any particularly nasty ones and we tie on power a ton of times which is weird and keeps us from stacking cards. I'm burning Emperor's Power a bit so that keeps me a little be behind. I manage to spread out a bit and hit him once with Your Destiny because Luke forget to move from the Hut for a turn. He's got scout crazyness and we keep manuevering around each other but I've got Battle Order so his major activation is put to use for drains. He plays Insertion Planning a few times which is pretty cool. I never really manage to beat him down because he's got a ton of scouts and plays with the most under-rated card from Endor , Corporal Delevar. So I'm just tossing little guys aside and have Tarkin cancel a destiny here and there. He's got out like 5 sites so I can keep Vader away from Luke and Force loss. He never ever comes to space so Fett just drains away for 1 a turn. We start transitting all over the place and Luke finally catches up to Vader ( side note : he used like Hidden Trail or Great forest thing where Scouts can move from any location to or from there and could've caught Vader like 3 turns quicker) little mistake. Vader , Blizzard 2 , and Tarkin move to Cloud City while a whole ton of scouts move to Death Star 2 for a mortgage and come to say hello to the Emperor. Another side note : he could've kept a destiny draw at the Docking Bay and made it so the Emperor couldn't move away and we would've had some interesting battles. I stacked maybe a card or 2 and the same was with him. In the end though I've got him pretty solid. I win by 13-16 ? Record : 10 ( +50-something ) Highs : winning Lows : Not winning by enough to reach the finals. Overall it was a great tournament that ran so smoothly it didn't feel like I played 6 games. Tournament was over at like 5-6 , no bad rulings for me , and I came in 5th so I picked up the last custom trophy made by Gregg Keefer. I turn in my usual 5-1 performance at a major event and land in Top 8 in Dagobah for the 4th year in a row. I watch the Final confrontation which was pretty much a bore and actually made me pretty frustrated. Ben Matthews' decks sucked and Charlie Herren made a bunch of silly mistakes one was pretty major. After a 29 win with his Light Side its pretty obvious that Charlie will win especially after Ben has like 10 systems on the table and a bunch of X-Wings. Nothing really special about the games. Tournament Observations : Squadron Assignments was in probably 60-80% of all the decks I saw , that was a bit of a shock. Ralltiir Ops probably consisted of 25-30 of the 64 players Dark Sides decks. Lord Vader is insanely strong with a lightsaber , even if your paying +10 for him. My darkside can spot a lead and then make it really interesting at the end. Pairings make all the difference if you lose. My rating will go up like +50 points so I just cranked up my highest rating ever a few notches and should be in the 1980s range. After Tournament : Lots of fun stuff. Most of my friends stayed the night after the tournament so we went out to eat , played cards , and played some N64. After spending one night in a good hotel with a bad shower and one night in a bad hotel with a good shower I truly believe a good shower can overcome any bad hotel. Funniest happening of weekend : Before going to Bennigan's for dinner we're all outside and Lee takes out a cigar and lights it , those who don't know him look a little shocked , then Josh Hoade says out loud " WHAT THE HELL, or **** , ARE YOU DOING?". Lee gets scared and spazes out dropping his lighter and cigar , it was pretty funny. Props : -to Neal Razi and Joshua Hoade for making me laugh -to Lee's Suicide Knob which was really fun to spin when it was boring driving. -to the funny stories in Swank , which were better then the pictures. -to Jason Burrows , for being cool. Slops : -to any gibronies who couldn't beat the players higher then me ;) -to Swank for showing like skanks. Quotes : "He must've been hiding cards in his @#$%-tits " ( Anonymous for safety reasons ) "You mean you can use 2 force to get a card with Ralltiir Ops?" ( Neal in sarcasm ) "How many times have you started just S-Foils in an X-Wing deck, how many times have you played no SAC protection in an X-Wing deck , how many times would you start the signal over 3 effects over The Signal in an X-Wing deck ?" ( Neal again ) "Search and Destroy...what does that do?" ( Neal in sarcasm ) Mike Fitzgerald

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References

  1. ↑ iceman-s-dagobah-regional-report-2000, DeckTech (Mike "Iceman" Fitzgerald, 31 July 2000). Preservation copy: GitHub Pages.
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