Hi guys,
a short report from the gccg worlds.
First i want to thank wigy for make the event happen, everybody playing online should do the same, regarding how much time he spent in the past on running the gccg.
My games at this tourament where nice and all fun to play, but a little bit strange. In 3 out of 4 games i had the girdle of radagast ready to play in my hand but alwaays time limit was reached before.
This never happened in nmy ormal tournaments in the past. Mostly the girdle was more or less auto if the opponent not manges to stop you from getting 6 allies. So I think 80 minutes is not enough for a online tournament, there should be added at least 15 minutes.
I decided to play once more time F Radagast with the glove at weathertop, but this time exchanging the hidings against crept alongs and change the starting characters to a more powerful company.
Reason was to attack an other FW in case it is needed with the help of regiments.
The rule changing that it is not any longer possible to play the 1 point allies at a tapped rosgobel without other cards that allow the playing (like An Untimely Brood) was new for me.
I think the ruling is generally good but for the tournament it was bad for me
Round 1
Heiner - angblung 4-2
Anglung recruited the dragon factions and played some greater items with success in the dragons land. I was lucky to get in my last turn with the second attempt my only faction and was able to win by two points I think. Very tied game, much luck on my side.
Round 2
Sauron - Heiner 2-4
Brian plays Fallen saruman. We both collected mp slowly, hazards on both side worked good and Brian was not lucky with his factions. I had a very good last turn, playing something like 10 mps and that was in the end good enough to win 4 - 2.
Round 3
Manuel - Heiner 2-4
Manuel playes a arthedain short rest deck with chance meeting. My man hazards work very well at the beginning (killed some guys), the corrupion strategy was not really successful but slowed him down. Furthermore I was able to play tom before him. The main problem was to keep him because there was a big risk that pallando influences him away from galdor. So i had travel from borderhold to borderhold (old forest, bree and finally carmed brin) keeping always two assasin in hand. On the last turn Manuel managed survive two corsairs with pallando untapped and due to the close game i did not dare to play my last assasin (the other one I used already), the 2 marshalling points could have been the deciding factor; rank upon rank was away and forwarned on the table(?!) May be I am a strategic chicken

, So he manages of course to influnence tom away, but finally I won by 4 points because Manuel draw no chance meeting for his 3 mind character in hand (or the other way round). In that case the killing or not killing of the assasin would have been the game deciding factor. I think this game was the most exicing and best game from the 4 I played at this gccg worlds.
It would have been nice to have one more turn giving both sides the oppotunity to play more mp, I think it would not have change the general result, but let me perhaps win higher (playing the girdle for sure and may be 1 or 2 meanshiefs), but how knows?!
Round 4
HeXDrake - Heiner 3-3
We both had too less points to win the title any more (that is the pitty if only winning 3 times 4 - 2) so more or less a fun game in my eyes. We both played Fallen Radagast what made it even worse

. I was lucky to draw him in round 2. I already played Blackbole and the warg kind (only key card still missing was tom) so even a high victory was more or less "sure". But I sideboarded in turn 1 regiments to attack hexdrakes general weaker company at weathertop if he gets out radi first. Of course there was no need to play it any more but I thoughit was still fun to play and secondly i saw a chance to finish the game quick if i am lucky (had an already delayed appointment with a girl

). But things in live not always develop ike wished and I was lucky that threalin survived his bc takeing the warg king with him

(i had +4 on the roll, but that is nothing sure, ask Bert, he knows what i am talking about

).
The c v cc took a very long time and so radagast was not that useful in the remaining 2 turns. Finally it was a very low point game with a 13 - 13 end result. Fun it was in any case, for sure more than normally in a radi wolf against radi wolf game.
Looking back it did not matter because I ended at 3rd place and the first 2 place where more or less out of reach.
Congrats to the new online champion marcos. We had some really nice online battles against each other before the gccg worlds. All very tied but mostly with the better end for me if I remember right

.
CU
Heiner