Let's see if I can do this.

We had 13 people for the event (a really, *really* poor number - I should
probably have bowed out to make it 12, but I'd had a bad day with the
Aberrations (D&D minis) Booster draft being cancelled due to (at best)
incompetence or (at worst) wilful dishonesty by a WotC staffer. So I badly
need to kick some butt.

To provide a change-up I decided we would have a round of 3 and 4 player
games, and a second round of 4 and 5 player games. And then I would see.

Attending we had:
Mark Wheelhouse with his 2003 winning Tank deck.
Callum Finlayson, playing I'm not sure what (sorry Callum).
Richard Waring playing Jammers with TMWWBK.
Calvin Skentelbery (a Magic player) with a Dragon deck if memory serves.
Mark Morris, playing something else I didn't see.
Andy Holt, playing an Underworld Gateway deck (Lotus, Asc and Hand I think).
Steve Bailey, I presume playing his usual Hand/Asc cheese (sorry Steve).
Joshua (protégé of SB) playing Dragons.
Colin Burton playing Jammers.
Felicity Challis, playing something I can't recall.
Tony Adams playing Hand.
Rob Lee playing Jammer Monkeys.
Ron Wheelhouse (me) playing 'Manchu Fishing Lodge'.

The first round games were:
Mark Wheelhouse, Mark Morris, Ron Wheelhouse - Mark Wheelhouse won.
Callum Finlayson, Richard Waring, Calvin Skentelbery, Andy Holt - Calvin won
this rapidly.
Steve Bailey, Joshua, Tony Adams - Steve Bailey won.
Colin Burton, Felicity Challis, Rob Lee - Rob won.

So to the second round. The games here were:
Mark Wheelhouse, Callum Finlayson, Tony Adams, Rob Lee, Colin Burton - even
though I let this run for 105 minutes it didn't look like finishing, so I
called time with Tony in the lead spot.
Richard Waring, Joshua, Ron Wheelhouse, Calvin Skentelbery - Ron won this.
Mark Morris, Andy Holt, Steve Bailey, Felicity Challis - Andy won this (with
the gateways!).

This left me with a bit of a problem (7 single winners). I organised what I
thought would be a cunning way to generate a final, but Calvin had to drop
out suddenly which threw my careful plans into disarray. So we ended up with
the third round matches being:
Mark Wheelhouse, Richard Waring, Tony Adams, Steve Bailey - Tony won this
(becoming a sort of double winner).
Callum Finlayson, Ron Wheelhouse, Rob Lee, Andy Holt - this went on for over
90 minutes, so I got Steve to impose a time limit - when it turned up there
was a winning attack underway, so I allowed it to complete as is my policy,
but it didn't succeed (perhaps just as well as it was me attacking), and the
winner on points was Rob.
Mark Morris, Joshua, Colin Burton, Felicity Challis - Joshua won this.

That meant there were two 'double' winners (Rob and Tony), so the 5 single
winners got to play a semi-final. I decided this was going to run to
completion, and I sent Tony and Rob off to seek food and entertainment (I
also ran some consolation games for those not in contention). So the third
place in the final would go to one of:
Mark Wheelhouse, Andy Holt, Steve Bailey, Joshua, Ron Wheelhouse - Andy
fancied his chances (he believed his deck was better in 5 player than 3).
The game went on for over 3 hours, and finally (after many wining attempts
by many people) Mark managed to push home a tank for the victory. He pleaded
to play the final on the next day (it was midnight by now) but Rob had a
competition then. So I grabbed him and Tony and set down to watch the final.

The final was:
Mark Wheelhouse, Rob Lee, Tony Adams. Andy Holt predicted that it would
either be a quick win for Tony or a long grind-out win for Rob. He was right
about the grind - the games lasted nearly 4 hours (which is pretty
surprising for a 3-player game in my experience), and was stalled early by
Rob having a City Square and a Fox Pass in play. Mark sniped with bobos in
tanks, but took a long time to climb the power generation curve. Eventually
the City Square was dealt with, but then Baboom arrived to lock things down
again. After much brain curdling Tony finally won by taking control of
Baboom and throwing in a big wedge of Hand hitters (he had been building up
power solidly, while Rob had been accumulating a huge hand thanks to his
Supercomputer). Even so if there had been one more stopper out there he
would have failed, but we were all pretty tired by this point, and happy to
see it all over. (Mark didn't get up for breakfast the next morning, and
claims he is 'Fisted out' for the near future after two gruelling games.)

So Tony Adams is the new UK champion, and went away with a fistful of
promos.

I got up the next day to play in the D&D minis final (and come second to
Steve Biggs, grrr), and then I spent most of Monday asleep to catch up.

Thanks to all of you who came and played, we missed several people from
London (due to poor weather and journey times) and Manchester (ditto I
suspect). I hear rumours that next year will be more accessible (and that
would be a good thing).


-----Original Message-----
From: siefie@... [mailto:siefie@...]
Sent: October 27, 2004 15:02
To: shadowfist-uk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [shadowfist-uk] Gencon UK


Thanks to all who ran and participated in this year's Gencon UK. I would
like to establish more presence at that show so perhaps we can firm up
events earlier on. Plus, depending on when it is next year, try to have
either me or Paul out there to run a booth.

But thanks again.

--
Zev Shlasinger, President
Z-Man Games, Inc.
www.zmangames.com



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