Round 1
AgusBalin - Sauron 5:1
Balin came out blazing with his Hog 1/2 above ground 1/2 underground
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deck. I was playing FW Pallando Purple Hills. Cards didn't come out right, I got wounded alot and I couldn't stop Balin. I managed to score 1 TP breaking my long record of 0 TP Sauron!Round 2
ExarKun - Sauron 2:4
My memory is a bit fuzzy, it's been a long 5 weeks, but I believe this was another Minion vs FW Pallando. My deck worked much better this time, setting up at the worthy hills and generating tons of faction points at my various havens. In almost all my games I failed to get 1 category of points and still managed to do ok.
Round 3
Trossel - Sauron 0:6
This was one of the toughest games I played. I saw Tross' dwarves and figured One Ring, the fact he got a 7-0 in previous rounds proved he could do it. I was playing FW Rad and churning up the allies, my deck was playing well, Tross was doing well until 1 turn, where I laid into him with Rolled, Mouth, Rolled, etc. He lost all his brooches / rings. By this time it was a point/deck race, and in the end I stopped him from getting any item points and he stopped me from getting item points. I also called before he got a chance to pilfer my troll.
Round 4
AgusBalin - Sauron 2:4
This was one of the toughest games I played this tournament. I wanted revenge from the earlier beating I got. I played my Lidless Eye Lt deck versus a short rest Rohan deck. This game went back and forth, back and forth, multiple lead changes and such. The 1 big pivoting turn was when Balin went to the Lonely Mountain and was near me. I went to the Lonely Mountain, played an item, discarded my arkenstone to get rid of his Balin + Durin's Axe and did some CvCC. That was too much of a blow and I pulled off a 4-2 win to pull us into finals, as marcos had already dunked.
Round 5
Peregrin - Sauron 2:4
I knew this game was for the finals as marcos and Ringbearer had already played, whoever won; won the tournament. From the beginning it was a mess. Martin had forgotten The Grimborgoth in his deck before registering it, and then drafted poorly, pulling out a Troll and a Dunadain. This lead to complications in his deck and he had to play it differently. I played a Balrog CvCC deck and began chasing him down, and killing his characters off via CvCC and creatures. I managed to kill 2/3 troll brothers, Lt of DG, and Lt of MM. I couldn't get a faction in play for the life of me, and he had a ton, which he was going to double, I risked it and called, last turn I managed to river 2 companies, send The Mouth back to his hand, and he ended up getting an ally point which I had. He revealed his Thong, eek hide that thing! But it wasn't enough to win, I managed to pull off a win and took the tournament for my team.
Was a blast playing, my decks need work, I keep missing a category of things in almost all my games, and it's gonna cost me eventually!
They stopped austria giving us an extra chance, now we needed just a 4-2 win, but stopping Trossell isn't something actually easy. What happened in that game was already told by Brian.
