Mike Fitzgerald Stitches Florida GS P1 March 4-00 (tournament report)

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Mike Fitzgerald Stitches Florida GS P1 March 4-00 (tournament report) is the tournament report Michael Fitzgerald posted on DeckTech on 6 March 2000 about 2000 Merritt Island Grand Slam.[1] Part 1 of Mike Fitzgerald's report on the 2000 Merritt Island Grand Slam (the Florida Grand Slam, 4 March 2000): rounds 1–3 with Hidden Base mains and a Court musicians deck, a loss to Andres Szmulewicz and two wins over Ira Myers; he finished 4th at 5–1.

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 Andres Szmulewicz Light The Fragile (Hidden Base mains) Endor Operations with tractor beams Loss (report gives 'Andreas S-') −16
2 Ira Myers Dark The Wretched (Court musicians) Harvest-ish Win +22
3 Ira Myers Light The Fragile (Hidden Base mains) Ralltiir Ops Win (second game against the same opponent) +12

Original report

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  • Author: Mike "Iceman" Fitzgerald
  • Published: Mar 6, 2000
This is the first part of my Tournament Report...instead of making it 7 pages long I've decided to post it in two pieces and expand on it here and there. This also refers to the song by Orgy and the laughs and fun I had this weekend. Well I had been looking forward to the March 4th Florida Grand Slam since Neal Razi and David Akers mentioned it at a little card party I had in late January. I had been playtesting decks off and on for awhile trying to come up with fun combonations and good decks. Dark Side was like anything I picked up worked -- ROps , HDADTJ , Courts , even ISB , etc...so the problem I had was finding a Lightside and I waited until the night before to mess around with it and finalize my thoughts. Merritt Island was a nice 1 hour and 40 minute cruise from my hometown of Jupiter at 80 mph. My crew this time was Daniel Blackford and Lee Edwards. From what I had been advertising and hearing there was gonna be a lot of high ratings there and a lot of good players there. Anyway on to the deck intro : Nine Inch Nails was what I played on the way to the 'Slam so I figured these titles corrolated to my decks pretty well. LS - 'The Fragile' - Hidden Base Mains...Beatdown and misc. stuff that I wanted to try out. DS - 'The Wretched' - Switched name of Musician deck...wanted to make it more menacing. The tournament was run by Squadron Members Charles Lund and Mitchell Velasco and was run very smoothly. Before the tournament I went out to lunch with Mitchell Velasco who is my buddy and I haven't seen in TWO YEARS along with Dan Blackford…talking about decks and stuff which was pretty cool because at these big tournaments you want to say hello to people you haven't seen and sometimes there isn't enough time. Game 1 : ' The Fragile ' versus Andreas S-'s Endor Operations... Start : Me - Hidden Base stuff and get Wise Advice. HIM- Endor Ops stuff plus Any Methods Necessary for Death Star Prison and some stuff I can't remember ( didn't matter ). He deploys Ephant Mon to the Bunker first turn and draws. We both draw like crazy. I spit out Systems here and there to control his activation. He deploys M'kae on the Devastator at Kiffex with a Tractor Beam. I make a huge mistake that costs me the game. For some reason I don't get Draw Their Fire... I attack with Millenium Falcon , EPP Leia , Cpn Han , Jereon Webb and Tantive 4...he plays the tractor beam junk to capture my Falcon . WTF ? Duh... anyway I draw my tracked 5 to blow his stuff up ( and captured loaded Falcon in the process ) ... this was huge because I would've smacked up Dev and played Legendary Starfighter and he'd been hurting badly from that but I didn't so I don't. I put down Obi-Wan Kenobi w/ Tawss Khaa at the Docking Bay and deploy Battle Plan to try to slow him down. I also play Descent Into the Dark and Catch most of his Senses and Alters while he is setting up destinies with Terminal and my Dark , ugh. The sickest thing was we both had like 30 card hands but whereas his deck would've really been crippled by Grimtaash mine would've had no problem with Monnok. Anyway Super Falcon comes back out and destroys stuff while I try to Few Manuevers , Frozen Assets , and Draw Their Fire my way around Tractor Beams. He gets in a few good drains with Endor Ops and he catches It Could Be Worse. He also catches my On the Edges. He also Sensed them once or twice for bad recycling. Basically he brings down EPP Vader , Mara Jade with Stick , and Tarkin to smack Obi and Tawss and I lose 8 after them. That was basically game. Loss by 16. Record : 0 ( -16 ) Highlights : Nothing really Lowlights : Playing dumb Game 2 : ' The Wretched ' v. Ira Myers Harvest-ish deck... Start : CotV with Surface Defense . Him : Mos Eisley and CP for Farm. Well this game also starts out pretty slow too. I start deploying stuff to fortify the Audience Chamber. He deploys the Harvest setup to the Farm very quickly and after he has 4 cards in lost Pile he plays a Harvest... I Hell to Pay it. After getting a sizeable force at the Audience Chamber I decide to tempt a Nabrun and he Quite A Mercs it. I drop EJP Dengar ( heheheh - sorry ) , Lyn Me , Sy Snootles , and a few heavy hitters out to battle the Harvest Crew. Scum and Villiany is up and I start launching an all out campaign on the Tatooine Landscape. Dengar caps Owen and Beru , Mara Jade w/ her stick finds that Ben Kenobi has a certain kind of magnetism to him-- a Blaster Deflection of some sort. So I drop the Harvest crew -- he played another Harvest to add Battle Destinies but I forfeited out the wazoo. Next turn I get 4-LOM down there and cancel Ben for a turn or two at most ( Put That Down and Blaster Deflections ! ) which is enough to send his characters running to Mos Eisley. A Musician herd shows up and out powers the Harvest Crew 27 to 3. All of them die and he loses 3 after that. I lose a few guys here and there but when he tries to jump me he can't match my power. Leia and Orrimarko tried to defend the Farm but Brangus , 4-LOM , and the phasing Jabba ( I say that because I deployed him probably like 5 times ) ...come to the farm and get rid of Leia. Orrimarko can only run the next site over. He puts out Tawss Khaa to the Sarlaac pit and is done. Elis seals it. Win by 22 . Record : 2 ( +6 ) Highlights : This was an Excellent Game...battling all the way through...very tough played. Lowlights : This is but a SCRATCH of the actually little nuases that were happening , I wish I had this game on video tape because I would probably watch it over and over again. The recycling Jabba thing was kinda sick though...but only Jabba can recycle so much ... Luke can recycle better ;) Game 3 : 'The Fragile' v. Ira Myers ROps deck.. I start everything and Battle Plan. He starts Ralltiir Ops and is puzzled as to what to start so he doesn't start anything. He gets Dagobah Cave out and the sites. I drop 2 systems from hand , 1 from reserve , and a Dagobah Site from Reserve. BANG ! Turn 2 I'm activating 13 Force and am pumped. He flips pretty early. I save up and Tunnel Vision...and Tunnel Vision. He deploys CBHYBC and Bad Feeling Have I. So my first main(s) force is Obi and Luke w/ Gift of the Mentor. 'Imperial Barrier you say ? Uh.. ..Skywalkers...to cancel Barrier , that cancels Barrier ...yep' ... I battle DTF , he reacts a walker over , I hit Cabbel or someone like that and clear the site with attrition...this would be somewhat of a recurring theme. He has his objective flipped and is basically pumping all his force towards being able to draw destiny at all his Ralltiir Locations. I keep tossing Luke and Obi to knock out something and draw destiny...Tunnel Vision , wash , rinse , repeat. Then I decide I need to start retrieving my mains back so I put EPP Leia on the Spiral at Rendezvous Point and move it to Tatooine , play Descent Into the Dark , A Few Manuevers on Vader's Shuttle , On The Edge for 4 , He grabs my On the Edge , and I pay 2 to play On the Edge again...get back 3 more including mains that I needed. He attacks my EPP Leia on Spiral with Zuckuss but draws a bad destiny ( Even with ROps ) so the Spiral Lives ! Zuckuss must be choking on his ammonia based atmosphere because here comes Captain Han , Jereon Webb , and the Millenium Falcon to help the Spiral. Battle commences I draw my 2 Tracked Destinies...Boom boom...Zuckuss in Hunter goes down along with 4 more... Spiral goes down... Legendary Starfighter HAS LANDED! Aooooga ! Aoooga ! Attention Imperial Fleet : Captain Han Solo has said you must destroy his ship or it will destroy you. The Navy makes a few more attempts but tracked destinies attrition them down. Obi makes yet ANOTHER APPEARANCE on Ralltiir for 9 force and takes out Tarkin. The Navy knocks Captain Han Solo out but it appears he was only below deck perhaps paranoid of Lateral Damage. Tracked Destinies and more ships blow up. So the way it stands now I have Hidden Base Flipped...I control Tatooine and he is at Bothawui and Corulag along with 2 Ralltiir Sites. I have EPP Leia at his Forest after Obi sucked up the attrition. So it is Swamp ( Vader ) - Forest ( Leia ) - and Prefect Office ( Tempest 4 ). On my turn I activate and play.... can you feel it...can you ...can you possibly guess ? Tunnel Vision. And I can't help but laugh a sinister and menacing laugh as I take my card into hand from Active Force. I pay 9 Force for EPP Luke for at least the 8th time this game. Battle...Knock off the Walker... Move Leia away from Vader ( who moved to Leia's site on his turn ) and Flipped Ralltiir Ops back ! It took me about 12 Obi/Luke Strikes to do it but I did it...Grand Slam Home Run Baby... now he's in trouble. I'm draining for only 3 but I have DTF out , he's losing 2 for Legendary Starfighter and Hidden Base is providing the force choke to mess him over. This choke is on the mark and finishes him off. Win by 12. Record : 4 ( +18 ) Highlights : heh... I can't help but sit back and have fun with Ira. He is such a funny guy and a good guy to play versus. I really didn't expect our games to be such slugfests and I thought he had the upper hand in this one...I mean whatever I threw at him he just had more ability 4 combos to get objective enhanced Destiny. I think I snatched this win out from under him. Lowlights : Having to play him again...at least I invited him over to have some recompense for the nastyness I did to him. Coming in Part 2 : Games versus Decktech Citizens : Leonard Mitchell , Hugh Shelton , and CLINT HAYS ! Along with the wrapup stuff. D'akturak

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References

  1. ↑ stitches-florida-gs-p1-march-400, DeckTech (Mike "Iceman" Fitzgerald, 6 March 2000). Preservation copy: GitHub Pages.
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