Council of Elrond

for the dream-card fans all over the world, and for any meccg player with an ounce of Tookish blood...

...a DCGO tournament will be hosted on gccg in September, to prepare for the upcoming official release of the first two dream-card sets, the so called DC First Folk (see http://www.councilofelrond.org/forum/vi ... =32&t=1864)

The tournament will serve as a last round to iron out glitches, hear your wishes and complaints, and further promote playing DC First Folk games.

format:
- the tournament will be standard DC General Opponent, but only dream-cards of the first 2 sets (firstborn/durin's folk) will be allowed (including promos).
- since this seriously lowers the amount of available dc cards, the dc minimums will be lowered to:
25% dc cards in deck for heroes (with a 25% overall minimum). I.e. 8 resource and 8 hazard in deck, and 25% overall.
20% for minions (and a 20% overall minimum), i.e. 6 resource and 6 hazard in deck.
- players with 50% dc cards (40% for minions) in play deck will get an extra TP per game, win or lose!
- games will as usual be paired cross alignment if possible. If not possible, then Elf and Dwarflords will be paired, and after that random pairing.

prizes:
- a full gccg set of choice for 1st place
- 10 gccg boosters of choice for 2nd place (or 10 virtuals)
- 7 gccg boosters of choice for 3rd place (or 7 virtuals)
- 4 gccg boosters of choice for 4th place (or 4 virtuals) - yes, we award the 4th place here

all players will receive a DC promo, and a gccg booster of choice (or virtual card), and (if they so wish) an honorary mentioning in the Player Guides as DC play-tester.

technical stuff:
- there has been a small card-shuffle recently, some cards were added from the DCFF and some deleted, so update your svn!
- unless there is serious opposition to this date, the tournament will start in week 36 (3-9 to 9-9), and end in week 39. One game per week, so 4 rounds. If there's still animo, we'll have a finals match.

So I hope you're all excited to join in this new style of meccg gaming. Post your name below if you want to participate.

Eric & Nicolai


players:

Eric aka. Thorsten the Traveller aka. Adanedhel
Nicolai aka. VastorPer
Ben aka. Bandobras
Franck aka. Fangorn
Karsten aka. Shapeshifter aka. Beorning
Rafal aka. Kufel
Luis aka. Makinal
Mario aka. Shadow and Flame aka. Balrog
José aka. Jose-san
Bernd aka. Beornd
Tomi aka. Tomppa aka. nknma
Fernando aka. Donepi
Heiner aka. Smaug aka. Heiner
Bert aka. Ringbearer

results round 1:
Nico vs. Luis 4-2 (35-34)
Heiner vs. Franck 6-0 (32-15)
Bert vs. Eric 2-4 (26-33)
Fernando vs. Tomi 7-0
Karsten vs. Ben 0-7
Mario vs. Bernd 0-6 (8-34)
José vs. Rafal 4-2 (30-22)

results round 2:
Ben vs. Fernando 0-7
Bernd vs. Heiner 4-2 (30-25)
Eric vs. Nico 6-0 (45-15)
Jose vs. Luis 0-6 (16-37)
Bert vs. Rafal 2-4
Franck vs. Karsten 5-1 (31-18)
Mario vs. Tomi 7-0

results round 3:
Fernando vs. Eric 0-6 (6-29)
Bernd vs. Luis 0-6 (16-42)
Heiner vs. Ben cancelled
Franck vs. Mario 0-7
Jose vs. Tomi 4-2
Bert vs. Nico 4-2 (28-24)
Rafal vs. Karsten 6-0

results round 4:
Eric vs. Luis 4-2 (36-28)
Fernando vs. Mario 7-0
Rafal vs. Bernd 6-0
Heiner vs. José 6-0
Bert vs. Franck 4-2 (28-24)
Tomi vs. Karsten 1-5
Nico bye

final standings: prizes received:
1. Eric: 24 [+4] VC set 1 + Mithrandir
2. Fernando: 21 Elves of Edhellond
3. Rafal: 18 boosters missing + Maranya
3. Heiner: 18 boosters missing + Maranya
5. Luis: 16 Kheleglin
6. Mario: 14
7. Jose: 12 [+4] Camthalion
8. Bert: 12
9. Franck: 11 +4 Maranya
10. Bernd: 10 Kheleglin
11. Karsten: 10 +4 Camthalion
12. Nico: 9 Bolg, Son of Azog
13. Tomi: 3
14. Ben : 7 dropped due to
personal circumstances

nb. equal TP scores settled by resistance points. However: Rafal and Heiner have equal relative resistance scores, and though Heiner received a bye we still award 3rd place to both.

nb. bonus points for 50% dc score in brackets, thanks to Pawel for the dc count
nb. Rafal/Heiner are ex aequo pending result of final 2 matches

I'm a possibility, but I may be too busy in September.

I will play !

Count on me.

I'm in!

I'm counting on you Ben, I even bent the tournament rules so you could not lose 6-0 anymore

perhaps we should make a rule giving a player the right to use 1 DC dispensation card, which may come from any DC set. That would make playing Fallen Saruman somewhat easier for you...otherwise you'll have to wait till we release Treason of Isengard.

I'll have you know I scored a TP in a tournament once.

i'm in

Thorsten the Traveller wrote: - the tournament will be standard DC General Opponent, but only dream-cards of the first 2 sets (firstborn/durin's folk) will be allowed (including promos).

I guess the limitation to dream cards of the first 2 sets applies to sites as well?

Yep it applies to sites as well, sadly we want really wring this set dry to see if anything comes up, but of course you are welcome to point out any cheeze made available by using sites from later sets

Also all people can complain to me about cards they had or lost do to the new gccg update I am willing to donate some cards for these players who used to have full play set and do not anymore

yours Nicolai

not just for play testing purposes, but also some people complain that the DC world is too big for them.

So in this tourney people may know better what to expect, as the total set of cards to get acquinted with is much smaller. One excuse less to shun using dc cards

it also means not flying all over the DC map, which for many people is too big to digest.

A larger map does pose some mechanical problems; I like more limited areas.

Signed in !!!!

Thorsten the Traveller wrote:not just for play testing purposes, but also some people complain that the DC world is too big for them.

So in this tourney people may know better what to expect, as the total set of cards to get acquinted with is much smaller. One excuse less to shun using dc cards

it also means not flying all over the DC map, which for many people is too big to digest.

I find the DC world a bit intimidating myself. Count me in!

I will try to take time for that - count me in