Ryan Patterson DeciperCon '99 Report No.1 (tournament report)

Ryan Patterson DeciperCon '99 Report No.1 (tournament report) is Ryan Patterson's account of working at DecipherCon 1999, written for the Corellian Engineering Corporation fan site. Patterson (Gold 87) helped run the 176-player Enhanced Cloud City sealed event on Saturday, which Mark Schaffer won, and with Phillip Chapman ran the Thursday-night Players' Choice Sealed Deck, which John Patelle won.

Report info

• Author: Ryan Patterson (Gold 87, Corellian Operative)
• Published: Corellian Engineering Corporation fan site (undated; on its report index by 14 October 2000)
• Event: DecipherCon 1999, 11–14 November 1999, Cavalier Hotel, Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Role: event staff

Other results named in the report

• DecipherCon 1999 Enhanced Sealed Deck (Saturday 13 November, 176 players): run by Patterson, Alex Alcalde, "Lars M.", Jim Haskell, Josh Clark and Marcus Certa, with help from Jim Van Fleet and Winfried Summerfield. Deck building began three hours late, the software had the event entered as Swiss rather than sealed deck, 48 players were left for the last game, and play ended after 8 p.m. Winner: Mark Schaffer (written "Mark Schafer").
• DecipherCon 1999 Players Choice, Thursday 11 November heat (10 p.m. to 4 a.m., 36 players): run by Patterson and Phillip Chapman (written "Phil Champman"). Winner: John Patelle.

Original report

DeciperCon '99 Report No.1

• Author: Ryan Patterson

Ryan Patterson Gold 87 -- Corellian Opertive What a weekend. I got to meet a lot of you SMs that I haven't met yet. I enjoyed getting to meet and sharing a room with Jason Robinette and Jim Van Fleet. Finally got to meet Doug Taylor, after talking to him on AOL for like over a year. I was one of the privleged few to run the 176 person ECC tournament on Saturday. It was me, Alex Alcalde, Lars M..(I forget how to spell your last name), Jim Haskell, Josh Clark, and those who helpped out through out the day like, Jim Van Fleet and Winfried Summerfield. And the main man, that I really enjoyed working with during that, Marcus Certa. I am sure I annoyed him as much as I could, but Marcus is a great guy, who still owes us some drinks ;-). And if I missed anyone who helped during that, sorry. Now, the deck building finally started 3 hours after starting (2pm), bad. So things got going, but then, we realized, since we were running it on the tournament software, it was not put on Sealed Deck, it was ran under swiss, which really cause more headaches. But by the end, we had 48 players remain for the last game. So after 8pm, we finally ended, what a long day. Then Mark Schafer won that...hmm. Thrusday Night me and Phil Champman together ran a players choice Sealed Deck at 10pm, which did not end until 4am. 36 Players for that. with the winner being John Patelle. But I would like to say over all, that i enjoyed D-Con, and I look foward to next year. And I am sure I will see most of you again, when I head down the road and go to Origins.

See also

• DecipherCon 1999
• DecipherCon 1999 Enhanced Sealed Deck
• DecipherCon 1999 Players Choice
• Ryan Patterson
• Tournament reports
• Corellian Engineering Corporation tournament reports
• Corellian Engineering Corporation (fan site)

Sources

• DeciperCon '99 Report No.1, Corellian Engineering Corporation fan site (OoCities mirror)
• DeciperCon '99 Report No.1 (Internet Archive)