Tim Guzman Info Broker's DCon Day One Report (tournament report)

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Tim Guzman Info Broker's DCon Day One Report (tournament report) is the tournament report Tim Guzman posted on DeckTech on 10 October 2000 about 2000 Decipher World Championship.[1] Tim Guzman finished 34th on Day 1 of the 2000 Decipher World Championship, going 5–3 (10 (+35)) with Bring Him Before Me and a direct-damage Mind What You Have Learned deck to take one of the 38 Day 2 places.

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
Day 1 G1 Steve Baroni Light Direct damage MWYHL BHBM Win (Baroni rating 1837; 2 (+3)) +3
Day 1 G2 Steve Baroni Dark BHBM Hidden Base no flip Win (4 (+20)) +17
Day 1 G3 Justin Desai Light Direct damage MWYHL Ralltiir Loss (Desai rating 1796; 4 (+9)) −11
Day 1 G4 Jason Dennee Dark BHBM MWYHL Loss (Dennee rating 1856; 4 (+3)) −6
Day 1 G5 Jeff Field Light Direct damage MWYHL Hunt Down Win (Field rating 1931; 6 (+16)) +13
Day 1 G6 Daniel Spaid Dark BHBM — Win (Spaid rating 1724; deck not given; 8 (+34)) +18
Day 1 G7 Chris Terwilliger Light Direct damage MWYHL BHBM Loss (report says Chris Twigg, rating 2190; 8 (+19)) −15
Day 1 G8 Michael Dark BHBM EBO (Baragwins) Win ("Michael...??? forgot"; 10 (+35)) +16

Discrepancies

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

  • Guzman counts 170 players on Day 1; Wikipedia and Star Wars Insider 52 (the hub's Field line) give 72 Day 1 players. Lalumiere's Decipher floor report also gives 170. (see 2000 Decipher World Championship)

Original report

info-brokers-dcon-day-one-report

  • Author: Tim "Info Broker" Guzman
  • Published: Oct 10, 2000
Day 2’s Report I was going to put with this one, but it was just to long...so I will do that one later. I did Copy and paste from Word So I hope every looks fine. Pre Tourney Crap: Preparing for Decipher Con, wasn’t as good as it was last year for me. For some reason this year I didn’t have as much time to do everything I wanted to do like, try every deck Idea, and stuff like that. Either way I was ready and I made time to practice with the local hit squad. This report will be Day 1 at worlds, and how I did in that, and sometime in the next few days, I will post my Day 2 report. First the trip down was uneventful, I flew down on Delta with Avery Poliak, who plays YJ, and is good at it, in fact he ended up a finalist in that, and I was meeting up with Chris Hines, Mat Berta, and Patrick Hines, oh and Ted Hansen....oh and Brad Bedlion...I think thats everyone who stayed with us. Anyway we got there on Wednesday with a few meeting up a little later. We rested more that day than we did this whole trip, because for some reason after Thursday, sleep was not an option. I did some final testing of the decks I decided to go with and played. On the dark side I played BHBM...because it just kicks @ss, and on the light side I played direct damage MWYHL, because that beats ties and Raltiir which I thought I was going to see. Now on to the tournament. I would like to warn you all that I did not take any notes at all. My mind was occupied, because getting into the event took forever, and starting later than we were supposed to really screwed things up, so my motivation to take notes, and all that went down, so I guess I am trying to say, that the details to some of these games are going to suck, because I really remember nothing from some of them. Although I know I had fun. Last Open Day 1: Top 38 make it..... Well it starts by everyone noticing how many good players were in this, I mean there was a lot. I saw many top players. I still felt good, but everyone was little frustrated from the late start. For me it kind of throws me off, but anyway forget that, and on to the games. Game 1: My LS vs Steve Baroni’s BHBM deck. Rating 1837 I think this guys is from Albany, because he said both of his decks were made by Brian Twigg, and how he and his bother helped him out and gave him some pointers and stuff. Well it turns out that he plays very well and makes some really good decisions at time. At one point he gets out the Responsibility of Command on Captain Han and Much Anger in Him. That hurt alot, After I finally grabbed his Projective Telepathy, My Anger fear’s starting hitting him, and then I was tracking an It Could Be worse, and finally to top it off, Earlier in this game, I did beat up on some ships, with Super Falcon and I Know, which gave me Legendary Starfighter, this was just eating away his deck, while I am just trying to hold on. I was only losing force from Much anger in him, because I was preventing all other force lose, and he was losing from Legendary, and his Objective, and late game Anger fear’s. I drew my On the Edge toward the end...(YES)...and decided to fail the attempt on Han just so I can get rid of Much Anger in Him. and then that did him in. Somehow I turn his control of the game around and won. Full Win by 3 Total: 2(+3) Highlights: I guess killing my own Han to win the game. Lowlights: Getting smack around in the beginning of the game. Game 2: My Dark Side vs Steve Baroni’s Hidden Base no Flip Well with 170 people here I have to play the same person again, can you believe that? I wasn’t worried because I had a feeling I knew what to expect. As it turned out I didn’t know everything, but I was in control of the game. I won a major battle, and he was doing things to keep it close. He gives me Luke so I move Vader to the Emperor’s site, and start Dueling. I easily have 3 Battlegrounds so when I win he loses 3 force, and I won alot with my destiny’s. Some of the details are not here, but I do know I won by 17. Full Win by 17 Total: 4(+20) Highlights: My dark beats any kind of Hidden Base which is cool. Lowlights: Players the same person twice in a row. Game 3: My LS vs Justin Desai’s Ralltiir Rating 1796 I really remember nothing from this game, just that he had every Counter to what I could do, he cancels fury on Vader, he cancels Anger Fear’s, he did everything he needed to do to win. I lost by 11 Full Loss by 11 Total: 4(+9) Highs:???I don’t remember Lows: Well I lost to Ralltiir,and this deck wasn’t supposed to lose to that...oh well. Game 4: My DS vs Jason Dennee MWYHL Rating 1856 This is another game I remember very little from. I do know his deck was very close to what I was playing, on my light side. I play with only 2 Projective Telepathy, and I could draw any of them early which hurt a couple of times. Then when Legendary hit the table, I knew it was going to be tough to win. Finally Jedi Luke comes down, and that did it for me. Full Loss by 6 Total: 4(+3) Highs: Well I am still positive?... Lows: I could have beat this deck I am sure of it. Well finally this is the mid way point, and Talking to some of the other Vegas people we are not all kicking major but. I know there is still a chance, but there was little space for error. I was feeling a down, and so was Ted, and Matt so what better way than to take a trip to the bar. We buy are drinks and get back to the games. Which we had plenty of time between games to do. Game 5: My LS vs Jeff Field’s Huntdown Rating 1931 Well I have played Jeff Field before this only once, and I won so that...in a weird way helps when coming into a game. He had nothing for Anger Fear so that hurts him a bit, and suicide Obi hurts him also. He gets some good Drains going however on Endor. I have Twass Complete Jedi Test 1 and put some POAS’s down to reduce those and things start to shift in my favor. He had 3 battle grounds pretty early so Visage didn’t hurt him, but it did me. He grabs my it could be worse early as well. Soon after I set up a Drain at Kessel with Super Falcon, (not Leia) and that does him in. He did Duel Obi and won, so that kept it close. Full Win by 13 Total: 6(+16) Highs: Well I did win, and it was always fun to play Jeff Lows: Obi lost a duel :( Now I start thinking that stopping for a drink was a good Idea, and so did my friends since they all won one too. I was a little worried about my Dif, and if it was enough to make it. well.... Game 6: My DS vs Daniel Spaid’s Deck? Rating 1724 I don’t remember much, just that I controlled the game. He gave me Luke very early, so from the beginning I had to lose a force every turn, which doesn’t’ matter really in this deck. I do my stuff and win. Full Win by 18 Total: 8(+34) Highs: Hey I made it...WAIT we still have 2 more games Lows: We still have 2 more, and it about 11:30 Now...oh well. You know the funny thing is I remember last year in the Wild Card event after 6 games I was in 2nd place, with Brian Twigg in 1st. If it was only 6 games both of us would have been in it. Now its that all over again, so that kind of freaks me out I am worried, but this time it will be different. Game 7: My LS vs Chris Twigg BHBM deck. Rating 2190 Well I have already played this deck when I played Steve Baroni, so I knew what to expect. He did much better, and I never got out Legendary Starfighter, he had control of the game, and I just remembered we didn’t stop for Juri Juice before this game. Full Loss by 15 Total:8(+19) Highs: Ahhh.. there was something ask me later. Lows: I forgot to make him lose force from Anger Fear twice...what is up with that? He had plenty of cards in hand anyway. Must have drink that is why...so we get it and move on. Game 8: My DS vs Michael...??? forgot oopps. He was playing EBO Well I knew this deck beats EBO, but even more so if this is Baragins. and it was. I started Secret Plans, and made a mistake this game. I didn’t start Insig Rebellion, which I was supposed to. You know it was 2:00 AM after all, and my opponent was nice enough to say go get it, because it was supposed to be there anyway. If he wanted to he could have placed my objective OOP, but I had a sorry draw with the Emperor in my hand so It would have helped me better with it OOP anyway. I wasn’t worry since I knew what he was playing. When he puts Luke in Space I was happy, he loses 3 force hehehe. His big Drains, hurt a little, but his retrieval is stopped with the Coward card. Full Win by 16 Total: 10(+35) Highs: Yes I win...now I made it. Lows: I did make some mistakes I shouldn’t have. So the top 38 make it, and we started with 170, and I ended up in 34 place. Thats good I did it, and I am happy. Time for bed. Props: The bar My opponents Tattooine for kicking butt Slops: The DQ’s Such a late start...dam that sucked. Having such low dif Well overall I still had a really good time, even if it did take 16 hours to play 8 games. My Day 2 report will be tomorrow. Thanks for reading this far if you did, Tim Guzman

See also

Sources

References

  1. ↑ info-brokers-dcon-day-one-report, DeckTech (Tim "Info Broker" Guzman, 10 October 2000). Preservation copy: GitHub Pages.
  2. ↑ Worlds Day 1 of 2000, The Outer Rim (The Information Broker). Preserved copy: Internet Archive
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