Thomas McManus Anderson, In (9-25-99) (tournament report)

Thomas McManus Anderson, In (9-25-99) (tournament report) is the tournament report Thomas McManus wrote for the Corellian Engineering Corporation fan site about the September 1999 Anderson tournament, a sanctioned constructed event at the Danger Room in Anderson, Indiana, on 25 September 1999. It was his second sanctioned constructed tournament. He went 3–2, lost to Daniel Spaid, and left before the sixth game, where he would have had the bye.

Report info

• Author: Thomas McManus
• Published: Corellian Engineering Corporation fan site (undated; on its report index by 14 October 2000)
• Event: September 1999 Anderson tournament
• Event date: 25 September 1999
• Site: The Danger Room, Anderson, Indiana
• Players: 12
• Record: 3–2 (left before game 6)
• Light deck: Jedi testing
• Dark deck: not named (Executor probing deck)

Games

Game	Opponent	Author's deck	Opponent's deck	Result	Margin
1	"Justin"	Light	not named	Loss	−7
2	Daniel Spaid	Dark	Light mains beatdown	Loss	−31
3	"Katie"	Light	Dark Endor ground	Win	about +30
4	"Andrew?"	Dark	Light Hidden Base	Win	+3
5	"Andrew?"	Dark	Light MPG start with unique X-wings	Win	+23
6	—	—	—	Left (bye)	—

Other results named in the report

• Three players from West Lafayette, including Steven Horton, arrived just after the first pairings and evened the field.
• McManus gives his own finish only as "6ish out of 12", so it is not recorded.

Original report

Anderson, In (9/25/99)

• Author: Thomas McManus

Thomas McManus The Danger Room - Anderson, IN 9-25-99 Wow, my second sanctioned constructed. =) The location is the Danger Room, which relocated to a bigger store area a couple months ago. They're going to have a grand opening next Saturday, with everything 15% off. :) Just after first pairings - leaving an odd guy out - three from W. Lafyette showed up, including listserver Steve Horton. I thought about bowing down before his listserving greatness, but decided against it. ;) This left us with an even number of players, so play continued. Since this is all from memory and I'm horrible with names, I'll do the best I can. Forgive me if I get something wrong. Game 1 LS vs Justin's ??? Well, at the end of the first turn I drew up, pulling my only DoS! Crud! Took me several turns to get my Traffic Control. Then I failed on test 2. Combined, those slowed me enough that I drew up 2 Force to end a couple turns after I finished test 2. Full Loss by 7 Game 2 DS vs Daniel Spaid's mains beatdown What probably lost the game for me was deploying U-3PO to block a drain from the EPPs on like turn 3. His R-3PO followed next turn and made me lose 4 Force a turn for the rest of the game (note to self - include Look Sir, Droids next time!!). Nothing spectacular happened. Full Loss by 31 Game 3 LS vs Katie's Endor ground Testing went VERY smoothly, and my surprise assaults caught her for probably 20 Force by the end of the game. After test 2 and Scramble, there was no way she could draw destiny - after the flip, EPP Luke and Obi cleared house. Full Win by 30-something, I think - now one of these games I played an Andrew, I forget who the other game was against - Game 4 DS vs Andrew? 's HB We both set up quickly, me flipping a turn or two after him. Executor came down to probe, only to get barriered. So I reinforced it with a Septoid and Evax. Next turn, he beats down with Gen. Solo in Falcon, plus like another 3 X-Wings in addition to the one he had there (no S-foils, thank goodness!). I only lost 1 card and my forfeit fodder. Next turn I move to Ralltiir and probe (on his following turn) and got it. Then I pretty much had uncontested drains for 2 at 5 locations, while Executor played tag with the Falcon & Spiral. Full Win by 3 - at this point, someone had to leave, so there was a bye - Game 5 DS vs Andrew? 's MPG start w/ unique X-wings Well, yet again I got an awesome starting hand of 2 generic sites and several 2/2 Imps. I managed to flip quickly, and killed off Capt. Han who was wandering around on the ground Wondering Who They Found. There was an interesting Zev in Rogue 2 with Biggs outside VS an op, Lennox, and Tempest Scout 6 fight - he played Somersault and Don't Underestimate Our Chances. It would have caused some damage for me, but it backfired on him - I drew 2 3's for destiny and he drew a site, so he wound up losing 12. I continued draining and won. Full Win by 23 Game 6 I had to leave, and was going to get the bye anyway. Finished 6ish out of 12. A big improvement over my 8/9 finish last time. =) Pulled junk out of my prize packs. :(

See also

• September 1999 Anderson tournament
• Thomas McManus
• Steven Horton Anderson, In (9-25-99) (tournament report)
• Thomas McManus Anderson, In (11-13-99) (tournament report)
• Tournament reports
• Corellian Engineering Corporation tournament reports
• Corellian Engineering Corporation (fan site)

Sources

• Anderson, In (9/25/99), Corellian Engineering Corporation fan site (OoCities mirror)
• Anderson, In (9/25/99) (Internet Archive)