Thanks everyone for coming out to make our largest DC Regionals ever a big success! We had 27 attendees from all over the east coast (including all the way from Boston and Florida!)

Congratulations to our winner Derek (SirDuck) from Central PA!

Stay tuned for our next upcoming tournament, The DC Classic, which will feature deckbuilding options from a limited cardpool (and a ban on maesters!)

Finishings (by point standings):
1 - Derek Shoemaker - Stark / Knights of the Realm / Narrow Escape
2 - J.R. Geronimo - Baratheon / Wildling Agendas x3 / Val
3 - Erick Butzlaff - Martell / The Maester's Path / The Viper's Bannermen
4 - Brian Aurelio - Martell / The Maester's Path / Venomous Blade
5 - Gavin Schmitt - Baratheon / The Maester's Path / Val
6 - Dennis Harrison - Martell / Knights of the Realm / Burning on the Sands
7 - Dan Ach - Targaryen / Knights of the Hollow Hill / None
8 - Pavel Nagornykh - Martell / The Maester's Path / Narrow Escape
9 - Morgan Stana - Baratheon / Treaty with the South / Val
10 - Dan Strouhal - Greyjoy / The Maester's Path / Fury of the Kraken
11 - Brian Finkenbinder - Stark / Siege of Winterfell / Fear of Winter
12 - Jerrin Wagner - Lannister / Power Behind the Throne / Pyromancer's Cache
13 - Wilson Knight - Greyjoy / The Freefolk / None
14 - Anthony Bonilla - Lannister / Power Behind the Throne / None(?)
15 - Jim McGovern - Stark / The Maester's Path / Fury of the Wolf
16 - Rachel Shoemaker - Martell / Kings of Summer / Venomous Blade
17 - Jeremy Prewitt - Greyjoy / No Agenda / Fury of the Kraken
18 - Ayon Nandi - Greyjoy / No Agenda / None
19 - Adam Sigal - Martell / The Maester's Path / Venomous Blade
20 - Robert Kopp - Lannister / Power Behind the Throne / Castellan of the Rock
21 - Matt Smith - Baratheon / Knights of the Hollow Hill / Val
22 - Nikki Heidelberg - Greyjoy / Kings of Winter / Fear of Winter
23 - Sajid Anwar - Targaryen / No Agenda / None
24 - Rich Allison - Lannister / No Agenda / Pyromancer's Cache
25 - James Griffith - Martell / The Maester's Path / None(?)
26 - Kyle Szklenshi - Greyjoy / The Maester's Path / None
27 - Daniel Rabiega - Targaryen / The Maester's Path / None

House Breakdown:
Martell - 7
Greyjoy - 6
Baratheon - 4
Lannister - 4
Stark - 3
Targaryen - 3

Agenda Breakdown:
The Maester's Path - 10
No Agenda - 4
Power Behind the Throne - 3
Knights of the Realm - 2
Knights of the Hollow Hill - 2
Free Folk/Blood of the First Men/Last Giants - 1
Siege of Winterfell - 1
Free Folk - 1
Kings of Summer - 1
Kings of Winter - 1
Treaty with the South - 1

Restricted Card Breakdown:
None - 8
Val - 4
Venomous Blade - 3
Narrow Escape - 2
Fury of the Kraken - 2
Pyromancer's Cache - 2
Fear of Winter - 2
The Viper's Bannermen - 1
Burning on the Sands - 1
Fury of the Wolf - 1
Castellan of the Rock - 1

If you're going to somehow give me the Sansa prize, you could at least have the decency to spell my last name correctly. Grins. Love you guys! I had a great time losing to almost everyone.

WolfgangSenff said:

That's how you drunk-spell it.

Also I would like to thank everyone who came to my place for the booze draft. Your chinese leftovers have been providing me sustenance since saturday

9 - Morgan Stana - Baratheon / Treaty with the South / Val

Well done ser! How did it fare for you?

Morgan is not a Ser heh. She did quite well, I am not sure if she is on these boards, but she went 3-0 until she ran into about 6 military and 5 kill events over the course of 4 plots against my Stark knight deck in her 4th match. I know she also lost to Dennis(went 4-1) in her 5th game and missed the cut to top 8 by 1 point of strength of schedule. I remember overhearing that one of her games was over in less than 15 minutes at least, which I think is how the deck is supposed to work.

All that said hopefully she posts on the boards and can let you know more how it played out.

SirDuck said:

I did play her in round 5 of swiss and won in 2 turns however that is not representative of her deck at all. she had shadowbob and doublemeli out on turn 1, a turn in which she art of seductioned me on retaliation. I was lucky to get 3 or 4 renown chars out and rush to victory with a few well timed orphans. also i believe i had a 7 card flop as well. her deck was very good, it just happened to play exactly into my strengths.

dcdennis said:

I wonder how much of a variant her deck was from mine. I certainly don't run art of seduction.

I will also say that if i didnt draw 2 orphans on round two to blank bob and meli, i believe that she would have have hit 15 power that round round for the win. just the luck of the cheat-- err, draw.

Fieras said:

It's been pointed out to me before that if Brienne can be a knight, so can I.

Since someone told me that I was asked a specific question on here, it seems a good enough reason to log on and say something.

Overall the deck treated me very well. I could have played better the last two rounds of swiss. I know my game against Dennis also granted me the worst flop of the day (three cards, if I recall?), and I could just never get things going the way I'd like. Really, though, even if I had played better against SirDuck and Dennis, they would have beat me. They're stronger players than myself, and their decks just had answers for what mine was trying to do (~which I'll point out now was to win).

My first three rounds went very well. If I remember correctly, my games were the first to finish all three times. Games two and three I had six card flops and my opponents just couldn't gain the momentum to stop me. Not too shabby, I'd say!

Thanks so much to everyone I met and played! Special thanks go to Dennis who graciously invited me into his home just so he could steal my delicious Chinese food.

Dennis's fridge is dark and full of terrors. Things that enter that realm are usually never heard from again.

@Fieras - as I recall, it's fairly different from your deck. It was built more with the Martell Maester decks in mind, providing a guaranteed at least 4 turns straight of no Valar (pop Art of Seduction, assuming they don't flop it first turn, then 2x Power of Blood). However, we should have switched the plots around a bit anyway, as it's clear that it is weak to events of all kinds, from Martell shenanigans to direct-kill events. She will win Tennessee, I have it on good authority.

who from here is planning on hitting tennessee? i am all of a sudden really tempted to make a road trip after i see that hotel rooms are only about $60.

They just didn't know you were a ringer with a bit of rust. Now if I'd entered … there'd be more wins for others. Back to the Wall for me.