The Overpower Dojo

April 28
I played in two tournaments in Pittsburgh this weekend. Saturday's was sanctioned and Sunday's was a non-sanctioned Homebase tournament. The tournament's were held during the Pittsburgh Comic Con and there was a 24 hour gaming room open to all. Chad (MrSpaceGhost) was the host and I must say that he did a fantastic job. Not only did both tournaments run smoothly but everyone had fun. The 24 hour room was put to good use on Friday night as Mike (The Anvil) Guillermin, Gary Martin, JR, Chad and myself played until about 4 AM. (Chad, did you win any games?)
There were 22 players that showed up Saturday with many of them playing in their first sanctioned tournaments. The Bertrands, Tyler, Derek and Howard, came down from Canada. Josh Kozlowski, Mike and myself represented Ohio and Gary, Shawn Thompson, Nathan Brown and Shawn (Sorry, Shawn! I can't remember your last name!) came up from West Virginia. There were many locale players, Brian Brinkley, Ben Brinkley and Walt and some of the new players were Don and Tammie who each made it into single elimination in their first tournaments! And of course, the infamous Twinz made their presense known to all. Sorry to all that I have forgotten.
With 16 players in single elimination, it would take four rounds to win it all. My only loss in swiss play came to Derek. His Four Freedoms Plaza deck took me out fairly easy. He was the only undefeated after Howard beat Tyler in round three of swiss. As it turned out, I won my first game in single elim while Derek lost. I was not sad to see his deck leave the tournament. The bad news was that I had to play Gary again. I had beaten him in swiss and it can be hard to beat someone twice in one tournament. But, it turns out that I almost owned Gary this weekend. We would play twice in the Homebase tournament also, and we each one one. But this day, I was able to pull out a comeback win after he ventured five in the second hand. That left him with only one mission to complete but he never got it. I won the next two hands and then managed to pull my team together and squeeze out a win. Tyler lost his third round game to Brian in a way that I'm still not sure what happened. The Anvil was my next opponent and his time was up. It was now just myself and Brian Brinkley for it all. Brian never won a mission and I won the tournament with a 7 and 1 record.
The Homebase tournament was something different. Terry Wright and Chad insisted on playing a JLA Homebase and even had Howard Porter draw up a JLA Watchtower. I tried to tell them that DC just can't compete with Marvel but they just had to try to prove me wrong. I played Blue Area Of The Moon and I liked the results. The deck is very powerful but short on defense. I conceded a few hands for lack of defense but overall, it was a good deck. I finished 5 and 1, losing to Gary in the semi-finals. His Age Of Apocalypse deck just out drew me. I did manage to beat both Terry and Chad before exiting the tournament. And as much as I hate to admit it, Chad did make it to the finals with his JLA deck. Hats off to Gary for not letting the Marvel decks down, as he won a very close game.

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