Mike Gemme Brentson Has Fallen 8-4-01 Lucky Day (tournament report)

Mike Gemme Brentson Has Fallen 8-4-01 Lucky Day (tournament report) is the tournament report Mike Gemme posted on DeckTech on 6 August 2001 about August 2001 Milford tournament. Mike Gemme finished 4th of 9 at a sanctioned tournament in Milford, Massachusetts, on 4 August 2001 with Rancourt and Ten Numb Superstar QMC, going 3–2 after a bye (8 (+50)), including a win over Steve Brentson.

Report info

• Author: Mike Gemme (byline: michael "Deck" Gemme)
• Published: 6 August 2001 (DeckTech)
• Report title: Brentson Has Fallen 8-4-01 Lucky Day
• Event: August 2001 Milford tournament
• Event date: 4 August 2001
• Site: Milford, MA
• Players: 9
• Finish: 4th
• Record: 3–2 (plus a bye)
• Points: 8 (+50)
• Dark deck: Rancourt (Rancor / Jabba's Palace)
• Light deck: Ten Numb Superstar (QMC)

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	Matt McGann	Dark Rancourt	WYS Solid	Loss	−2
2	Steve Brentson	Light Ten Numb Superstar	BHBM mains	Win (full win; author forgot to count the differential ('Fw +???'); total 4 (+8)*)	—
3	Michael Pistone	Light QMC	HD (Hunt Down Podracing)	Loss ('i think it was 25')	−25
4	—	—	—	— (bye)	—
5	—	Light Ten Numb Superstar	Endor Ops flip with scout troopers and bikes	Win (opponent 'Rod' ('this kid'), first name only)	+25
6	—	Dark Rancourt	WYS Solid	Win (opponent unnamed ('Someone's WYS Solid'); total 8 (+50))	—

Other results named in the report

• 1st: Michael Schiemer

Discrepancies

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

• Mike Gemme says he finished 4th on 8 (+50) with Steve Brentson's differential 6 higher; Michael Pistone lists Brentson 2nd on 8 (+45) and himself 3rd on 8 (+44). (see August 2001 Milford tournament)

Original report

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• Author: michael "Deck" Gemme
• Published: Aug 6, 2001

August fourth is my new favorite day I didnt think that i would get to play in another tournament until coruscant after my last trip to CT with the kasshyyyk crew. But since i realized i had this saturday off i figured i’d hit up one more tourney in the current environment and try to take home the foils because the competition would be scarce. boy was i wrong. I was the first person to show up, and noone else arrived within the half hour. Then i went to the parking lot to get something out of my car (i was really just bored and walking around) when Mike Pistone (madskills) and Matt McGann and their other bridgewater buddy showed up. As of midnight the night before, they werent coming. and if they didnt, we wouldnt have had a sanctioned tournament. so we lucked out. A few minutes later, a few worcester guys showed up, followed by the schiemer brothers. So that gave us eight and we were pretty pumped that it was sanctioned. Jared, the normal td wasnt there and johnny rivera (the kashyyyk scrub) showed up to run thefirst half. We’re all playing a huge Raw Deal game when Steve Brentson comes and screws EVERYTHING up giving us 9 players, a bye, and creating more competition for us all. but thats not always a bad thing is it??? I pride myself on knowing that while i have not broken 1800 i still maintain my status of RATINGS BUSTER. MUAHAHAH. So after tooling on everything with my sick roaddogg deck we start the tournament. I get paired against Matt McGann, whose rated about 1575 if i am not mistaken, which i probably am. I do know however, that he is not above 1600. Oh and if youre wondering where the competition is, here ya go: Hayes has no decks made, steebo was in long island, justin desai is a wimp and wont steal his own car from his dad, eric hunter was at gencon as well as RI and NH state champs who will usually make the trek to this tourney. All in all noone was around. which is why there are no antics with steve or hayes. this is the first tournament ive been to without anyone in a very long time. But if you wanna read about some hotness before the TR (which is usually the case when ppl read my tr’s to my understanding, half of my reviews are "pre tourney was awesome") so here we go. So my parents are away this week, and my sister decides to have a party. Now i know most of you have read about my sister and what my friend’s (justin, hayes, klema, etc) have said about my sister, and i take that, and multiply it by 2340923843, becuase she has TONS OF HOT FRIENDS. and i got wicked bombed playing beirut (you homo’s outside of new england might call it BEER PONG). And to top it all off, tons of girls passed out in my bed. But i was already passed out and i missed them passing out next to me, which sucked. But to know it happened makes it THAT MUCH BETTER. And if that’s not enough, thurs night at steebo’s his mom was teasing me about how everything i eat is very plain so i tell her that im gonna have her take me out to dinner so she can buy me the most EXOTIC and expensive meal i could think of. its all about the word exotic baby. Also, the night before the tourney, i stayed up talking to twigg about clint getting dq’d and about this chick he’s dating. all in all its not bad and here we go with the games. Game 1 My RANCOURT vs McGann’s WYS Solid So wys is a good deck to play with my rancor, becuase ppl stay on tatooine and i can eat them more easily that way. I drop my dbay behind the Palace and wait for him to deploy to the ground, which is a mistake b/c from now on i should try and take the cantina. Once i got the palace set up, i just waited. Early on i stole someone, i think it was talon. He has artoo/threepio out so he drops melas to battle 4lom (who was escorted) and i had to lose 4lom. he dbay transited back towards the cantina and i got screwed. he beat me out of space (which sucked) but i couldnt pull enough ships and its really not that difficult to get rid of WYS ships without weapons, even with dengar out. So bacially he sets up huge drains. And i go after him and take out chewie and epp luke before having to make my long and lonly walk to the audience chamber. I get to the dungeon, drop my guys off, and drop the rancor. i end up eating luke and talon for a 30 force swing, but his drain of 6 a turn was killing me, and i was paying to drain. in retrospect i shouldve just dropped the virago or something to tatooine to kill battle order, but it did me in. i had four force left when he had two. which means i can only get him down to one, instead i just dropped epp fett to screw around and he won by 2. 0(-2) Highs: eating two guys. hanging in against a tough WYS deck Lows: LOSING BY TWO AFTER EATING TWO FRIGGING GUYS Brentson lost his first game to mike sciemer, which is very respectable. Pistone won i think. and thats all i guess. but that means i would have to play brentson, a man i’ve lost to three times and even titled a tournament report about. Game 2 my TEN NUMB SUPERSTAR vs Brentson’s BHBM mains. So BHBM normally means sac. sac kills klammrodt style qmc. Even with WYS as common as it is, i still had a feeling that Brentson would be playing SOME sac, enough to screw me over. He was, but this game never saw any of it. I set up in space early. He pretty much stayed away. At one point, he went to drop Chimera w/ thrawn to bespin, but he changed his mind and went to carida to satisfy battle plan instead. He then put bosssk at cloud city with chirnoonoo as forfeit fodder. and was holding the CC Dbay (his) with emporer, janus and guri, with a presence to boot. i had the three other sites oN CC with leia, luke and Lando + Melas respectively. He drops Marquand (?) ozzel and veers to luke, i path to leias site. hes draining me for a ton and its time to make a decision. Do i go to carida to stop the drain of 1 but give up celebration? do i go after bossk and give up celebration again.. or do i block the drain of 3 with epp luke and path over.. ill do the luke thing. so i move him over. But i also drop Ten Numb in his ship to cloud city in front of bossk. This is funny because i know brentson is scared of the superstar, he has shot down his executors before and he didnt battle me once at cloud city.. and they were there for a few turns straight. Brentson knows i play rapid fire.. hes a smart man. So luke gets battled.. i play path MIKE YOU CANT PLAY PATH... the dbay is not interior. so i swing at palps, hit, draw a 4 for destiny. i lose luke and two. then he moves marquand and janus in front of leia. That is waht cost him the game. I activate, drain, retrieve, and track the six i flipped to hit the emporer with. he says use janus’ ability. then he tries to play Omni box.. but its my action.. and i Sorry about the mess janus. (it didnt matter my destinies were 6,4,5 respectively). so i drop dash, path over lando and battle. i shoot marquand, but only have destiny enough for one (not two as lando’s text dictates) and i draw the 5. marquand and 11 please. That puts him down to one force. he drains me for two on his turn, i lose the last two in my hand and he draws his last one so i cant retreive. Fw +??? 4(+8)* Highs: Winning against brentson, hes good. Lows : Being so excited, that i forgot to count for differential... first time thats ever happened to me. So that sucked, cause i mightve beaten him by more than ten, but who really knows. at most it was 15, but still.. that five differential at least, plus the one i couldve added from the last game.. that wouldve put me in second for the tourney...but i dont end up in second.. read on. Game 3. My QMC vs Pistone’s HD JIZZ HD podracing sucks, but as long as i dont drop luke and obi, he cant hurt me right? WRONG. I get a terrible start. i hold bespin, and he drops the deathstar first turn and is getting tons of force. i get corran to the holothatre, he chases corran with epp vader. i path around the death star. hes draining on cloud city (i lost one site early) and couldnt get things going by only holding one site. So basically he was draining me for more than i was draining him. Late game i FINALLY got capt han to the death star to drain, but it wasnt enoough, and there wasnt anything i could do. he wrote a TR about this game, and his is probably better as he won and i lost. so i lost by alot, i think it was 25. it sucked. Highs: none Lows : Many So brentson had the bye, and now i have the bye.. which sucks so i play raw deal with johnny rivera and whoop @#$% with the road dogg. He has to leave and i take over running the tourney with help from brentson. becuase hes the only one there that has actually run one before. the round ends, and i get paired playng my Light. Game 5 My Ten Numb Superstar vs. Rod’s DS deck that i cannot think of. In all honesty i cannot remember what this kid was playing. i am at the beach writing this, and i got drunk the night of the tourney, so it escapes me. read the strategy for ten numb superstar..and thats exactly how this game went. he did no damage to me really. i mean he did some with drains and stuff, but mainly i just drained and retreived, i was in control the whole game, i was retreiving tons with my edges, and he didnt really do anything. Oh yeah! this kid was playing endor ops FLIP with scout troopers and bikes and SCOUT BLASTERS. which is why i won. he drained me a lot early game, but he couldnt compete with my drains. (i again lost a site off the top second turn). and i just won easily. no battles took place. i think he tried to come up against me with his ships once, but they wouldve gotten toasted so he thought better of it. either way. ten numb and dash held the system like no others could. I win by 25 exactly. Highs: QMC still works, and it shows Lows : Hitting early drains. So its game six, pistone and scheimer play for first place, mcgann and brentson play for second, im in the number five spot, but i can bump it up b/c im not playing anyone that was doing that well that day, which helped. Game 6 my RANCOURT vs. Someone’s WYS Solid. SO again my rancourt plays wys. He drops dash early to kessel. and i go take him out with guri in ship, dengar, zuckuss, and virago sans xizor. this was turn four. so i only had to bite the huge drain once ( i controlled the other). And i smack him out of space and own kessel and tatooine the rest of the game mainly. On the ground i obviously own the palace, but he is podracing, so i lose 6 there. So now its time to eat guys. i start battling with jodo and ig, and ig takes ecc chewie from the cantina to the palace all to get eatin by my rancor. which he does late game for the 20 force swing. after that he couldnt recover because i owned space and he had a solid drain at the cantina, but thats only becuase i lost 6 characters in the podrace...which was gay. but i win the game and my diff hits 50. 8(+50) Highs: eating chewie, the best to eat for swing purposes. Lows : Not winning by enough So brentson runs over to see by how much i won by (he won by 33!!!!) and his diff was 6 higher than mine (1 from game 1, 5 from the game with brentson). so i coulda took second, now im stuck with fourth and i get some packs of Death star 2. Now in milford, entry fee is two packs. i was able to convince a couple kids to buy ds2 packs so empporers and lukes could be pulled. only three of us got these packs, and i did the prize support so that there was one stack with two ds2 packs. Whichi got, because i got to pick fourth (behind two tourney foils and three packs of tat) and i pull a jedi knight luke! which is hot. i also won twenty beans on a scratch ticket and pulled edge’s finisher that very day. and then of coures i beat brentson and those girls passed out on my bed. a good day??? i think so. So that concludes my tournament report. sorry if this isnt as cool as the gencon reports, but hey, i try. PROPS Scheimer for winning Scheimer for hooking me up with TORI enters the fray.. sweet Pistone and Mcgann for beating me Worcester kids for coming Raw Deal for wrecking house Johnny rivera for running the first half Steebo because he’s been in all my tr’s until this one Brentson for being mad cool again SLOPS Brentson for taking the green sleeves the store gave to the directors!! i got stuck with a reflections1 pack and i got what is thy bidding foil, my only rare was rendevous point..ON TATOOINE!!! that sucked. Until the MONTREAL DPC Michael Deck Gemme jared for not running his own tourney

See also

• August 2001 Milford tournament
• Mike Gemme
• Tournament reports
• DeckTech tournament reports

Sources

• brentson-has-fallen-8-4-01-lucky-day, stephenskilton.com
• brentson-has-fallen-8-4-01-lucky-day (GitHub Pages)