Subject: 
Tournament Report - Gangsta Sligh - IL
Date: 
20 Jun 1997 00:00:00 GMT
       
Tournament Report
Gail Borden Public Library
6/19/97
Type II Single Elimination

This is the first in a series of Free tournaments for teens in the
Chicago suburbs.  It's really cool that they took the time to give Kids
something to do on a Thurs. night.  Hats off to the organisers and the
stores (Comic Quest and Don's Baseball cards and Comics) for donating
prizes.  Everyone that signed up got free Homelands!!!. None of The
Crew were eligible to play (age max. was 17) we sent our Junior Pimp,
Kevin Baker, to win the thing.  He didn't have a deck, so I gave him a
slightly modified version of our Regionals deck (the stock version is
on the Magic Dojo web page).  It was the first time he had seen or
played the deck, but Kevin's style is pure beatdown, so I figured there
wouldn't be a problem.  Also, the rounds themselves were *very* short. 
The first 2 rounds were 2 of 3, 20 minute time limit!!!.  The next 3
rounds were 1 game!!, 15 minute time limit!!.  I guess there would be
no Cop: Reds unless they were standard in the latter rounds. Here's the
deck he used. 

*Gangsta Sligh
2 Death Spark
2 Disintegrate
4 Fireblast
2 Goblin Tinkerer
2 Hammer of Bogardan
4 Incinerate
4 Ironclaw Orcs
4 Orcish Artillery
4 Orcish Captain
4 Suq'Ata Lancer
3 Talruum Minotaur
3 Viashino Sandstalker
21 Mountain
1 Thawing Glaciers

Sideboard
----------
2 Nevinyrral's
2 Winter Orb
3 Dwarven Miner
4 Pyroblast
4 Pyrokinesis

Round 1 vs. W/R Flanker deck
Kevin Swept 2-0.  

Watching the games Ron and I noticed that Kevin was using way too much
of his D.D. to eliminate meaningless creatures, and he never used the
Artillery to shoot his anything.  Between rounds we gave him a short
lesson in the finer art of using the Double-Incinerate,
Double-Fireblast combo to end the game.  Who cares if they have
creatures out??

Round 2 vs. Green Weenie Horde with Kaysa.
Kevin Swept 2-0 

Ron and I enjoyed free Chips Ahoy and Coke while we watched Kevin
pummel this round's victim.  We remind Kevin that Flanking doesn't work
on defense.

Round 3 vs. WW w/ Outpost
Kevin Won (only 1 game round)

Opponent went 1st turn Plains, 2nd turn Plains Mesa Pegasus, 3rd turn
Outpost, Flanker.  He died 2 turns later to the Incinerate,
Double-Fireblast combo we taught Kevin after round 1.

Round 4 vs. Joe W/R control
Kevin Won (only 1 game round)

A Lancer and Minotaur got in hits before they were pacified and Joe
quickly lost to a Sandstalker and a Fireblast.

Round 5 (finals) vs. Shawn U/W control.
Kevin Won (only 1 game round)

Shawn tapped out to run a Blinking Spirit and Kjeldoran Outpost.  He
lost to a Hammer and double-fireblast.

The tournament would have been a lot cooler had there been time for
real rounds, but the library closed too early to allow that to happen. 
Kevin took home a pack of Ultra Pro sleeves, a Reaper life counter, 3
packs of Homelands and some revised uncommons.  It wasn't a great haul,
but since all the prizes were donated and the tournament was free it
was well worth it.


Sam Heckman
The Crew
Level 2 Judge
Northern Regionals Champion
"The remains of The Crew have to be the biggest bunch of stuckup snobbs
in the midwest" - Scott Little