Council of Elrond

We had out 6th Nationals recently - as most of you probably know as I've tried to advertise them as much as I could. Unfortunately no foreigners came - you loss our gain Just kidding of course I understand it's difficult to travel to another country for a Tournament especially with such annual (and for some obligatory) events as Worlds or LURE, most importantly I've learned that we need to let people know about our events more then 1 month ahead as that would make plane tickets reservations a lot cheaper...

Anyway - what happened during the event was essentially everything that was planned. Most people came to Pabianice on Friday afternoon, there weren't any prepared side-events so everyone just did whatever they wanted, some just talked, some played MECCG and some played various board games. We had a grill-supper and we went to sleep. Ohh, and some people used the evening (and night) to build their decks for the main event (I think someone finished building his deck around 5 am )

Saturday was the big Tournament day - we played 5 rounds, starting around 10 am and finishing around 5 pm. After all games ended, Tournament Points were counted and Tie Breakers resolved came time for prizes. Special prizes were for the 1st, 2nd 3rd and last place but all participated in card draft (we had MEDM and MEWH boosters)
Afterwards those still hungry for more MECCG played some more and others played board games (there was a 6 player Runebound game going that started at 6 pm and finished around 5 am on Sunday )
Sunday was all about farewells as some had trains to catch as early as around 6 am...

All in all it was a great event and all of you that weren't there sure missed loads of fun

FOTO GALLERY

Specific results below

Traditionaly we had an uneven number of players so BYE's had to be awarded. Of the pople that came 21 played in the main event

Round I

HIGHWAYMAN - ROOT 6-0
CHRIS - MACIEK 6-0
CEKPL - CIACHU 6-0
THORIN - MUAD'DIB 5-1
DYD - KOBER 4-2
ARTHUS - BALAR 6-0
GYG - LAVANOR 5-1
MAG - FRAM FRAMSON 4-2
SZILIAN - EFGARD 4-2
KFIAD - GROR 6-0
JADED bye 6 pkt.


Round II

HIGHWAYMAN - JADED 6-0
CHRIS - ARTHUS 6-0
CEKPL - KFIAD 5-1
GYG - THORIN 4-2
DYD - MAG 5-1
SZILIAN - KOBER 6-0
FRAM FRAMSON - EFGARD 4-2
LAVANOR - MUAD'DIB 4-2
ROOT - CIACHU 6-0
MACIEK - BALAR 6-0
GROR bye 5 pkt.


Round III

HIGHWAYMAN - CHRIS 3-3
SZILIAN - CEKPL 6-0
DYD - GYG 4-2
THORIN - KFIAD 6-0
ARTHUS - MACIEK 5-1
FRAM FRAMSON - ROOT 5-1
GROR - JADED 6-0
LAVANOR - MAG 4-2
EFGARD - MUAD'DIB 5-1
KOBER - CIACHU 6-0
BALAR bye 4 pkt.


Round IV

SZILIAN - HIGHWAYMAN 4-2
CHRIS - DYD 6-0
GROR - THORIN 6-0
GYG - ARTHUS 4-2
CEKPL - FRAM FRAMSON 6-0
EFGARD - LAVANOR 6-0
KOBER - ROOT 5-1
MACIEK - MAG 4-2
JADED - KFIAD 4-2
BALAR - MUAD'DIB 8-0
CIACHU bye 3 pkt.


Round V

CHRIS - SZILIAN 5-1
HIGHWAYMAN - GROR 6-0
CEKPL - EFGARD 6-0
GYG - KOBER 5-1
THORIN - ARTHUS 4-2
DYD - BALAR 6-0
FRAM FRAMSON - MACIEK 6-0
JADED - LAVANOR 5-1
KFIAD - MAG 4-2
CIACHU - MUAD'DIB 8-0
ROOT bye 3 pkt.


Final Standings

1. CHRIS (Warsaw) - Fallen Pallando - 26 pkt.
2. CEKPL (Warsaw) - Wizard - 23 pkt.
3. HIGHWAYMAN (Warsaw) - Balrog -23 pkt.
4. SZILIAN (Warsaw)- Ringwraith - 21 pkt.
5. GYG (Warsaw) - Fallen Pallando - 20 pkt.
6. DYD (Warsaw) - Wizard - 19 pkt.
7. FRAM FRAMSON (Krakow) - Ringwraith - 17 pkt.
8. THORIN (Kędzierzyn-Koźle) - Wizard - 17 pkt.
9. GROR (Kędzierzyn-Koźle) - Wizard - 17 pkt.
10. ARTHUS (Warsaw) - Fallen Radagast - 15 pkt.
11. EFGARD (Kielce) - Wizard - 15 pkt.
12. JADED (Kędzierzyn-Koźle) - Wizard - 15 pkt.
13. KOBER (Krakow) - Wizard - 14 pkt.
14. KFIAD (Pabianice) - Ringwraith - 13 pkt.
15. BALAR (Herby) - Ringwraith -12 pkt.
16. MACIEK (Herby) - Wizard - 11 pkt.
17. CIACHU (Herby) - Wizard - 11 pkt.
18. ROOT (Pabianice) - Fallen Saruman - 11 pkt.
19. MAG (Mińsk Mazowiecki) - Wizard - 11 pkt.
20. LAVANOR (Tarnów) - Ringwraith - 10 pkt.
21. MUAD'DIB (Warsaw) - Wizard - 4 pkt.

time for some more personal insights - though I came 3rd in the final standings which is satisfying enough I was really bummed for a while after the tournament as my deck didn't work as I planned... or rather I should say it worked exactly as planned every game but the dice were against me that day... during my 5 games I tried to test The *FRIGGIN* One Ring 11 times and not succeeded once.... so I didn't even get to playing Challenge the Power (that's right - a tournament Balrog One Ring deck)
I used Black Rain vs. heroes (cuz it's more challenging and more fun) and standard Test of Fire vs. minions (no Scroll of Isildur, but at The Under-grottos)
But as more often than not One Ring decks are all or nothing - score 8 Tournament Points or get wasted and score 0 - I'm pretty darn proud that not only I didn't lose any game to 0, but I even won 3 of them 6:0 for me