Scott Lingrell NJ State Championsships Cedar Grove 4-8 (tournament report)

Scott Lingrell NJ State Championsships Cedar Grove 4-8 (tournament report) is the tournament report Scott Lingrell posted on DeckTech on 9 April 2000 about 2000 New Jersey State Championship. Scott Lingrell won the 2000 New Jersey State Championship (19 players) in Cedar Grove on 8 April 2000 with Hunt Down and Yavin 4 mains, going 5–1 (10 (+118)) with his only loss to Wojciech Jankowski, whom he beat in a rematch.

Report info

• Author: Scott Lingrell (byline: Scott "CRingwell" Lingrell)
• Published: 9 April 2000 (DeckTech)
• Report title: NJ State Championsships Cedar Grove 4-8
• Event: 2000 New Jersey State Championship
• Event date: 8 April 2000
• Site: Cedar Grove, NJ
• Players: 19
• Finish: 1st
• Record: 5–1
• Points: 10 (+118)
• Dark deck: Hunt Down
• Light deck: Yavin 4 mains with Odds and Tibrin

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	Thomas Hermley-Keen	Dark Hunt Down	Rescue The Princess	Win	+40
2	Pat Brennan	Light Yavin 4 mains with Odds	Jabba's Palace deck	Win (playing as 'Dark Jedi' (1547); report spells 'Pat Brennen')	+30
3	Wojciech Jankowski	Light Yavin 4 mains with Odds	Ray Bordier Occupation deck	Loss (report writes 'Occu@#$%')	−7
4	Michael Dalton	Dark Hunt Down	Yavin 4 mains	Win (report: 'Mike Dalton' (1958))	+12
5	Wojciech Jankowski	Dark Hunt Down	Obi's Hut Force Choke	Win	+13
6	Pete Flamini	Light Yavin 4 mains with Odds	Ralltiir Ops	Win	+24

Original report

nj-state-championsships-cedar-grove-4-8

• Author: Scott "CRingwell" Lingrell
• Published: Apr 9, 2000

So I was up until 2am trying to get a ruling go my way with mixed results until I called Woj at like 1:30 am asking about him having a ruling that was made and if he could print it out and bring it...he does and will! Sweet! I now have some sick LS tech. I wake up 4 hours later and get showered and suck then leave at 7am for Woj to pick him up. I get there, he gives me the printouts and we leave for Time Warp around 8:20. We show up, the place is empty except for a few of the NJ locals...I go on and fill out my decklists and place the respective names, 'Anktopot' and 'Juz's Revenge' the go about plugging RCon with my new Handouts from Kinkos. Even though they screwed the printing up, they came out sweet. After Ghetto Squad comes with Dan Bordier Burger King hats and Dalton and company show up we get started to play. Someone left their wallet at BK so we wait a few minutes for him then start up. We only have 19 people but some very good players. Heck even Andrew Parks showed up. So for the last few weeks everyone has been expecting me to play Y4 mains because I have been testing like mad with it, but I didn't like it. Plus Charlie Herren and I were throwing around a Suicide Hunt Down deck with Screws,Odds, and lots of direct damage but that sucked so I went with my two decks, with a little extra tech in them ;). Game One My DS Vs Thomas Hermley-Keen's RTP (1658) Thomas is an up and coming player here in Coruscant and he even took it too me last week in Clarks Summit and beat me so I needed to have some revenge here. My opening draw I get Darth Vader so I drop him, pull Leia into my hand and move to the D* DB and also pulled out the Exec:DB and Coruscant so I was generating a good amount of force. I eventually get out Tempest 1 and ECC IG-88 with Darth at the D*DB when he drops Orimaarko, EPP Han, and a 2/2 scrub, I think. He played Captive Pursuit to target Leia so if he won the battle he would she would be released. Before he battles I play Put All Sections On Alert to cancel Orimaarko's Text and ability to draw destiny. He shoots at IG and Misses, I capture the 2/2 scrub so now he doesn't get destiny. I play I Have You Now and end up losing no one and he loses everything plus some more. Everything went right for me for this game. FW +40 2 (+40) Highlights- Getting Vader and taking Leia early on to stop flipping. Lowlights- None, Everything was great So I know that Lolli, Dalton, and Woj won so I am curious who I play. I end up playing Pat Brennen but he is using the name (Dark Jedi) and actually has a rating so this should be interesting. Game 2 My LS Vs Dark Jedi's Jabba's Palace deck. (1547) So I start my Y4 stuff and he starts JP and Careful Plans for Lars Moisture Farm so I am thinking of a type of Holman/Brentson Scum Deck. He has always been a good player so I needed to make sure I played this well. This game was pretty uneventful with me beating the crap out of all the aliens with my EPP/Tawss Hit Squads and having him losing 18 to Odds. I even had Tibrin going and retrieving Mains at will to battle some more. Very Ugly game, especially because he didn't play Odd's protection. He was able to play Vaders at will but tracking destinies I was able to draw 5's left and right. He never played Scum so I had no idea what the idea of the deck was. FW +30 4 (+70) Highlights- Once again my LS deck worked perfectly Lowlights- Odds only popped twice So now my diff is higher by far than anyone else's. I know Dalton, Woj won but Lolli lost to Brian Kim and his profit because of Fallen Portal. I have to play Woj. Game 3 My LS Vs Wojciech Jankowski's Ray Bordier Occu@#$% deck (2005) I do not think I have ever beaten Woj in my life so but I knew that I could so I wondered how things could go. I start my Y4 start he plays Yavin IV and Jungle with the SI that lets him play Secret Plans, Resistance and There Is Not Try. I get a nudj, draw some. He plays the swamp and converts. Pulls bubo, moves to the nudj and eats. This game went very slow in the beginning with my mains beating on his characters but then he spreads out and drops the Big E with Occupation. I took out the Endor Celebration which ended up killing me here but there was some fun moments during this game. One point he had Vader Tarkin and Arden at the Forest, I drop EPP Leia and Luke battle, retrieve with DTF he loses one. I swing at Tarkin draw a 2, then 5 (he cancels it). I shoot at Arden and hit. I play The Force is Strong with this one and Skywalkers. I end up having a power 31 to his 14. He loses everyone but not much damage is take from it. I lose Leia. Another great moment was when I had 3 cards in hand late game and he took a chance by dropping Nement to a site by him self hoping I didn't have a character. My turn I activate 15 and Tunnel Vision...he craps him self. I know that Tawss, Leia and Luke are still in the 30 cards in my piles but when I looked I had nothing!!! Crap. I ended up making it close with a late game insert and WNMOG on the table but He didn't need to activate and Occupation put the nail in the coffin.... FL -7 4(+63) Highlights- Beating the piss out of the Three musketeers with Leia and Luke Lowlights- deploying EPP Leia to bubo's site without a destiny draw. Duh. Not beating Woj again... So I am in third place now and Dalton too but played the same side as Woj so I get to play Dalton...another person I haven't beat since 1998 maybe! Game 4 My DS Vs Mike Dalton's Y4 mains deck (1958) This matchup we have done time and time again and I always lose for some reason...;) I was going to play this light deck before I decided against it because I felt more prepared with mine. He dropped Obi at the D*:DB pretty early with Boush Undercover to the Holotheatre then also dropped Tawss to the Holo to cancel Visage. Plus with Boush Undercover at the Executor sites, CHYBC would not cancel drains at the sites. My turn I drop Vader and beat on Obi, Vader stays because of Put All Sections and I flip Hunt Down. His turn he tries to drain and I remind him that the objective is flipped and because of Leia at the same site at Tawss he cannot initiate drains. He just moves Tawss to the Med Chamber. I drop Mara to the Holotheathe and Deploy Visage again so he loses again. His turn he drains for 2 I take it. He deploys obi again to Vader's site with Luke. I put all sections Luke and he battles. He hits Vader, I hit Obi and play I Have You Now. I draw some good destiny so he loses both and a bunch. I lose Vader, Evader him to the used pile then play Holonet to take him back into my hand. My turn I drop Vader to Tawss site and kill off that guy while moving back into the D*:DB. This game went back and forth for a while until he dropped Obi at the Swamp killed off the nudj and broke cover with Boush to kill of Mara with a tracked 4. After to killed the nudj I reminded him that the nudj had to draw destiny. He drew it but didn't have any left to draw in a battle now so It became my turn. Mara beat on Leia with the aid of Put All Sections and Visage was safe still. I then pulled of the best part of the game. I deployed EPP Vader to the swamp and battles Obi-Wan. I swung and hit then You Are Beaten Him to end the battle and kill him before he got destiny. Nice. After that he drew up because he had no characters left. FW +12 6 (+75) Highlights- The You are beaten on Obi; Finally beating Mike Lowlights- Dengar going after Tawss early game and not hitting her. So now I am back to second place with Woj the only undefeated. I play him again and Brian Kim plays Dalton. Game 5 My DS Vs Woj's Obi's Hut Force Choke. (2005) I finally get a chance to revenge. I wish I could remember any of it though. I mostly remember taking over his Tatooine sites with At-At's and Vader while making him lose to Visage and battles. I think at this point I was just getting so damb excited I had a chance to win states. He got desperate with playing the Tontine late game but Slave 1 fixed that. He also dropped Jeron and cancelled Visage then moved to the revoed Med Chamber. My turn, I evadered it then Put Darth down and made him Ghkkk. The last straw was beating on Obi with Tempest 1 and DLots and drawing a 6 when he drew a 1 for destiny. I wish I could remember more...my deck was the antichrist to his though. FW +13 8 (+88) Highlights- Finally beat Woj! Lowlights- Drawing 3 destiny in the game and drawing 1,1,and 2. That never happens. So I am in first place right now but I played Woj twice and Dalton plated the same side as me. I end up playing the second highest player for the DS, Pete Flamini while Woj and Dalton play each other. Game 6 My LS Vs Pete Flamini's ROps (1736) Before the game we were all joking how Pete was the guys that would be the Spoiler for someone...here was the chance. I start my Y4 stuff and he starts Raltiir and Resistance...gee go figure ;). Pete knows my deck has odds so of course he starts it...he had to. We have never played before so this was sure to be a fun game. For the first few turns we just drew and played sites. On my 4th turn I dropped Artoo, 8d8, Tibrin, RL in R1 and Red Squad and told him done. His turn I asked him how much he was going to activate and he said 8. After the 7th card, insert popped and he had to lose 11 cards. That turn he flipped the objective and waited. I dropped BO and WNMOG so I tried kicking on his planed and deployed Leia, he barriered her and then beat on her with Tempest 1 and some pilots. I drew a 5 which helped so she covered it. I then started dropping mains and tawss with Mech Failure trying to take him out. With his objective flipped I lost my guys but also was able to bring them back with DTF and Tibrin working for me. I eventually got him off his planet and won. FW +24 10 (+118) Highlights- Using Tibrin and DTF to recycle cards that I needed and to get my cards back. Lowlights- Never flipping the objective even though he lost everyone. So I ended up winning plays 5 different people that know the game very well and 2 of them I never beat before. I get the spot to GenCon with Dalton and get some WB Dagobah to complete my silly quest for playing all WB cards... Props Mike Dalton- Letting me play against his LS deck enough to I could eventually win Rich Haman and Jason Lembo- running a great tournament and plugging RamapoCon II Pete Flamini- for donating about 10 more foils to give away at RCon II. John Lolli- for wishing me luck even though his first allegiance is to Ghetto Squad Wojchiech- For getting the ruling on paper for me at 2am before the tournament. Thomas H-K- for beating my LS deck last week and having me realize how much it sucked. Greg Hodur- showing what Ghetto Squad is all about. Everyone else- for listening to me plug all day long. Slops Not getting enough sleep See everyone at RamapoCon II! More prizes are coming. http://orion.ramapo.edu/~slingrel - official RamapoCon II website.

See also

• 2000 New Jersey State Championship
• Scott Lingrell
• Tournament reports
• DeckTech tournament reports

Sources

• nj-state-championsships-cedar-grove-4-8, stephenskilton.com
• nj-state-championsships-cedar-grove-4-8 (GitHub Pages)