Vitor Alves Da Silva Etten-Leur Netherlands 7-11-99 (tournament report)

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Vitor Alves Da Silva Etten-Leur Netherlands 7-11-99 (tournament report) is the tournament report Vitor Alves Da Silva posted on DeckTech on 30 August 1999 about 1999 Etten-Leur Challenge Cup.[1] Vitor Alves Da Silva finished 8th of 21 at the 1999 Challenge Cup in Etten-Leur, Netherlands, on 11 July 1999 with his 'Squish!' Light deck and 'TallonTIE 99', going 3–3 (6 (+31)); Johan van der Meer won.

Report info

  • Author: Vitor Alves Da Silva (byline: Vitor "Vitor" Alves da Silva)
  • Published: 30 August 1999 (DeckTech)
  • Report title: Etten-Leur Netherlands 7-11-99
  • Event: 1999 Etten-Leur Challenge Cup
  • Event date: 11 July 1999
  • Site: Etten-Leur, Netherlands
  • Players: 21
  • Finish: 8th
  • Record: 3–3
  • Points: 6 (+31)
  • Light deck: Squish! (no-shelter battle deck)
  • Dark deck: TallonTIE 99

Games

Games as the author describes them; margins are as stated in the report.

Round Opponent Author's deck Opponent's deck Result Margin
Round 1 G1 Arjan van den Broek Dark TallonTIE 99 Mind What You Have Learned (Leia training) Win (full win) +15
Round 1 G2 Johan van der Meer Light Squish! Ralltiir Operations Loss (full loss) −20
Round 2 G3 Jeroen van den Bosch Dark TallonTIE 99 Local Uprising (Anoat) Loss (full loss) −13
Round 2 G4 Juriaan de Graaff Light Squish! Hoth Ice Plains / Defensive Perimeter with Imperial Decree Win (full win; opponent drew 16 zeros for battle destiny over the day) +33
Round 3 G5 Arjan van den Broek Light Squish! Ralltiir Operations Loss (full loss) −18
Round 3 G6 Robin Borger Dark TallonTIE 99 X-Wings without Hidden Base (Organized Attack) Win (full win) +34

Other results named in the report

Original report

etten-leur-netherlands-7-11-99

  • Author: Vitor "Vitor" Alves da Silva
  • Published: Aug 30, 1999
TOURNAMENT REPORT Decipher Swiss Challenge Cup 11th of July 1999 Etten Leur, Netherlands, Ryloth Region Tournament Director: Jan Koevoets Entrants: 21 Tournament report by Vitor Alves da Silva INTRODUCTION It’s already my third tournament report and I welcome you all! It’s really rewarding to hear and read from other players what they think of your report and they even sometimes had the same experience playing certain players. After the preliminary last month, Jan Koevoets once again held a normal Contstructed Decipher Swiss tournament in Etten Leur, Ryloth region. Only this time it was the yearly Challenge Cup! Jan started this event somewhere in 1997, for which he bought a beautiful metal Jabba the Hutt-statue, which from year to year goes to the winner of the tourney. The first two years Sander Dijst won these two events, thus keeping the statue in Hoorn where he lives. This time it was his last time to keep the trophy there, because it is ruled that you can only win three consecutive years. It was exciting to see who was going to take Jabba home! It was even more a special tournament in my opinion because it was the first tourney since the Endor expansion came out, so many people were looking around to see what was being played. While some players stuck to older strategies awaiting to see what the upcoming decks were going to be in the near future, some players tried incorporating the new interrupts, effects, characters, etc in existing deck-types. Me, Johan Haneveer and Sander Dijst drove down to Etten Leur, talking about the new cards & strategies and philosophizing on how to use them at their best in current decks. It was going to be a hard tournament for me, since I’d slept only for one hour (!!!) Saturday night ‘cause of a girlfriends’ birthday party which lasted till the early morning... Above all I didn’t know what Johan & Sander were going to play, because we didn’t have time to play last week. MY DECKS For my decks, I chose to bring along the 'TallonTIE ‘99'-deck I’d used at last tournament, with a slight adjustment with Endor-cards. For the lightside I constructed a deck during the past week and finished it three hours before we left for Etten Leur. I want to use this moment to thank Martijn de Vrieze for lending me some important cards for my lightside-deck and Rod Latham for his valuable advice on that same deck! Hereby the Portuguese Jury presents the Tournament Decks for the Etten Leur Challenge Cup Tournament July 1999: Squish! Locations (8): Dagobah: Yoda's Hut Endor: Chief Chirpa's Hut Hoth: Echo Command Center (War Room) Rendezvous Point Tatooine: Obi-Wan's Hut (SL) Tatooine: Tosche Station (SL) Yavin 4: Massassi Headquarters Yavin 4: Massassi War Room Characters (18): Captain Han Solo Chewbacca of Kashyyyk Chewbacca Corporal Beezer Daughter of Skywalker General Crix Madine General Solo Kal'Falnl C'ndros Lieutenant Page Luke Skywalker x2 Luke With Lightsaber Melas Obi-Wan Kenobi x2 Orrimaarko Tawss Khaa Wedge Antilles Starships (5): Gold Leader In Gold 1 Millennium Falcon Red Leader In Red 1 Spiral Tantive IV Interrupts (20): Alter x4 Careful Planning (SI) Control x2 Don't Forget The Droids x2 Grimtaash x2 Nabrun Leids x2 Quite A Mercenary Sense x5 Tunnel Vision x2 Effects (6): Battle Plan Lightsaber Proficiency Mantellian Savrip Revolution x2 Traffic Control Weapons (2): Anakin's Lightsaber Obi-Wan's Lightsaber Basically it’s a sort-of No-shelter-deck, which concentrates on battling where the opponent is. TallonTIE ‘99 Locations (12): Corulag Coruscant Endor Fondor Kashyyyk x2 Kessel Kiffex Kuat Nal Hutta Rendili Wakeelmui (SL) Starships (20): Death Star Assault Squadron Dreadnaught-Class Heavy Cruiser x3 TIE Fighter x16 Interrupts (17): All Power To Weapons x4 Dark Maneuvers x4 Ghhhk Short Range Fighters Tallon Roll x4 Twi'lek Advisor x3 Effects (11): Dreaded Imperial Starfleet Lateral Damage x2 Oppressive Enforcement Presence Of The Force x2 Reactor Terminal Return To Base Security Precautions Sienar Fleet Systems (SE) There Is No Try On your first turn deploy a TIE to Wakeelmui to be sure that SFS doesn’t get canceled by a early Alter. From that turn on deploy the systems as soon as you get them and start draining there with a lone TIE (backup comes afterwards). Later on in the game the opponent is probably gonna come up and fight you. You’ll have your Tallon Roll’s ready... ;) GAME BY GAME ANALYSIS Round 1, Game 1: DS vs LS (Arjan 'Smiley' van den Broek): Arjan is one of those players who’s fun to play with; always well tempered, sportsmanlike and with a smile. He was so positive this tournament, that he decided to give Leia a chance. So he played me with a MWHYL-deck which had the objective to train Slut of Skywalker until she was a true Jedi Knight. Oh well, if she hadn’t succeeded in it during the original trilogy, she sure wasn’t going to now, if you ask me!!! While Kermit was training Sleia on Dagobah, her fellow Muppet-comrades were trying to give my TIEs a fight in space. The retrievement throughout the whole game was what killed the game for Arjan; in the beginning he was doing fine against some of my lone TIEs, but using SFS and SRF gained me a big advantage above the lack of starships in Arjan’s deck. Result Full Win 2 (+15) Score: 2 (+15) Round 1, Game 2: LS vs DS (Johan 'Pleasureface' van der Meer): The times I’ve played Johan are unaccountable... This time he played a Ralltiir Operations-deck. I thought my own made lightside deck was a match against this type of deck, but soon I was forced to think otherwise... Early in the game I deployed Tawss Khaa to Tosche Station to activate some extra force. But Johan was faster, deploying Biker Scouts with their scooters and lots of 'ability 2'-characters with AT-ST’s on Ralltiir, flipping the objective. I managed to flip his objective once (or twice?) and battled him where possible, but he avoided being battled by me by moving away, thus leaving me with a 0-drain. On his turns he deployed some and battled. I lost battles, drains almost didn’t exist and above all none of my Sense and Alters were used. The mega-destinies were what killed me in battles. I had a feeling the other players and I were going to see a lot more of these Ralltiir-decks during the tournament. In my opinion one of the strongest strategies for the DS at this moment! Result Full Loss 0 (-20) Score: 2 (-5) Round 2, Game 3: DS vs LS (Jeroen van den Bosch): Jeroen was unknown to me, but his deck-type wasn’t: Local Uprising! This time it were the Anoatonians who were revolting against the oppression by the Empire. This was one of those games without any interaction. Jeroen drains on Anoat, using Anoat Operatives and Snowspeeders (maybe some Sandspeeders too, but I don’t remember) and I try to outdrain him in space. He drained fast, very fast! I managed to retrieve some cards at the end of the game, but it was in vain. I found out I missed 'A Bright Center to the Universe' the hard way. Result Full Loss 0 (-13) Score: 2 (-18) Round 2, Game 4: LS vs DS (Juriaan de Graaff): I’d never played Juriaan before, but soon during the game I found out he was a very funny youngster! He told me he quit collecting the game because it became too expensive for him, so he was playing with cards he borrowed from a friend. He started out with Hoth: Ice Plains & Defensive Perimeter using Careful Planning. His deck was packed with AT-STs and their drivers, but the mainstream of the deck was using Imperial Decree to slow down my drains. I didn’t drain, but battled him mostly throughout the game. It was very sad for him, but all battle destinies (but one) were zeros! (At the end of the tournament he came to me and asked me to write in this report that during the tournament he drew 16 zeros for battle destiny!!! Talking about bad luck!) Eventually I won the game. When I asked Juriaan what the strategy of the deck was (to mention in my report) he told me: to lose! I guy like Juriaan deserves to win! I hope he picks the game up once again and manages to become one of the #1 players in the Ryloth region in the future! Result Full Win 2 (+33) Score: 4 (+15) Round 3, Game 5: LS vs DS (Arjan 'Smiley' van den Broek): Arjan is a friend of Johan van den Meer and Koen Meijsen, and at this point other players and myself had drawn the conclusion that the three of them were using exactly the same Ralltiir Operations-deck for this tournament. So exactly the same thing happened as against Johan van der Meer at the beginning of the tournament. Result Full Loss 0 (-18) Score: 4 (-3) Round 3, Game 6: DS vs LS (Robin Borger): Robin was playing an X-Wing deck without Hidden Base! Wauw! The only X-Wings we saw being played at this tourney! The darkside’s Security Precautions surely had scared him! For me this was going to be easy because he didn’t manage to get S-Foils on table (I don’t even know if he was using it!), although he was using Organized Attack. My combination of TIEs with Dreadnaught’s was lethal against his deck. I battled and Tallon rolled his X-Wings. Besides this, I drained more than he did. Thus leaves me to say that Robin is a very sportsmanlike player, because he played the game through till the end, without giving up or drawing all of his Life Force into his hand. This way he gave me the opportunity to put my hand on the Used Pile using the Reactor Terminal and lifting my average rating, sacrificing his. Some people could use him as a example (remember my last report?)! Result Full Win 2 (+34) Score: 6 (+31) CONCLUSION The Tournament ended with the following qualification: 1. Johan v/d Meer 10 (+124) 2. Sander Dijst 9 (+128) 3. Koen Meijssen 9 (+86) 4. Pieter Heerma 8 (+86) 5. Johan Haneveer 8 (+71) 6. Erwin Flohr 8 (+6) 7. Gepko Sterringa 6 (+32) 8. Vitor Alves Da Silva 6 (+31) 9. Willem Sterk 6 (+23) 10. Jeroen v/d Bosch 6 (+8) 11. Ronald Rullens 6 (+5) 12. Jeffry Koreman 6 (+2) 13. Jeroen v. Beers 6 (-20) 14. Maarten Rossou 6 (-41) 15. Menno Brandsma 6 (-73) 16. Arjan v/d Broek 5 (+29) 17. Robin Borger 5 (-26) 18. Xander Soudan 4 (-59) 19. Aron Stegenga 4 (-101) 20. Maarten Voskuil 2 (-121) 21. Juliaan de Graaff 2 (-127) This tournament left me with the following thoughts: The darkside’s advantages at this moment are kick-ass-decks! With Endor came so many combat vehicles accompanied with great drivers. If you use these cards with the correct Effects (like 'Imperial Arrest Order') you can create a very viable battle-deck! No-Shelter decks still rule the tournament scene and they probably will during the next couple of months... The darkside has Alters, Evaders, etc. against this type of deck, so it would be wise to use a deck that contains these cards. TIEs are still viable too, provided that you include ABCTTU in your deck. There is NO deck that ends victorious against all types of decks. The new Endor-mains for the lightside (Leia, Chewie, and Solo) are too expensive to use outside an Endor-based deck. Play with them if you want to blow up the bunker, otherwise stay with the cheaper (and stronger) EPP versions. Hidden Base is a goner, for the time being...! ;) Congratulations to Johan van der Meer for winning the tournament! He used two very strong decks that you can find at the end of this report. But first of I want to thank Jan Koevoets for holding the tourney, the good prize-support and supplying me with the Tournament Results! If you want to react on my tournament report or the decks I played, you’re welcome to, by sending e-mail to: vads@xs4all.nl Thanks for reading this report and I hope you can use some of it for your future games! Good luck to everyone! Just leaves me to supply you with Johan van der Meer’s winning decks: Force choke Locations (6): Yavin 4: Massassi Headquarters Yavin 4: Massassi Ruins Yavin 4: Massassi Throne Room (SL) Yavin 4 Massari War Room Forest (SL) Swamp (SL) Characters (19) Chewbacca x2 General Solo Han With Heavy Blaster Pistol Leia With Blaster Luke With Lightsaber Melas Obi-Wan Kenobi Obi-Wan With Lightsaber Orrimaarko Tawss Khaa Wookiee x8 Creatures (3) Nudj x3 Starships (3) Gold Leader In Gold 1 Millennium Falcon x2 Interrupts (19) Alter x3 Careful Planning (SI) Don't Forget The Droids x2 Grimtaash x2 Sense x4 The Signal x2 Tunnel Vision x2 Wookiee Strangle x3 Effects (10) Bacta Tank Civil Disorder Draw Their Fire Frozen Assets Mantellian Savrip Revolution x4 Traffic Control Ralltiir Operations Ralltiir Operations Locations (10) Forest Imperial Holotable Jungle Kashyyyk Ralltiir (SL) Spaceport Docking Bay Spaceport Prefect's Office Swamp Tatooine: Docking Bay 94 Yavin 4: Docking Bay Characters (22) Admiral Ozzel Biker Scout Trooper x2 Commander Igar Corporal Drelosyn Darth Vader Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith DS-61-2 DS-61-3 DS-61-4 Grand Moff Tarkin Lieutenant Arnet Lieutenant Cabbel Lieutenant Commander Ardan Lieutenant Renz Lieutenant Watts Major Hewex Major Marquand Officer Evax Sergeant Elsek Sergeant Irol Trooper Davin Felth Vehicles (5) Blizzard 2 Speeder Bike x2 Tempest 1 Tempest Scout 6 Starships (4) Bossk In Hounds Tooth Dreadnaught-Class Heavy Cruiser x2 Vader's Personal Shuttle Interrupts (12) Alter Evader x2 Imperial Barrier x2 Main Course Masterful Move x2 Monnok Sense Trample Twi'lek Advisor (SI) Effects (6) Battle Order First Strike Imperial Arrest Order (SE) Oppressive Enforcement Presence Of The Force Reactor Terminal If you want to know anything regarding these two decks, you can e-mail Johan at: vdmeer@wins.uva.nl

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  1. ↑ etten-leur-netherlands-7-11-99, DeckTech (Vitor "Vitor" Alves da Silva, 30 August 1999). Preservation copy: GitHub Pages.
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