I’m not sure how many people saw the sheets I made up with the statistics of IDs represented since it was after most people other than the top 8 had left. I thought people here might be interested though.
Overall by faction:
Runner ID Breakdown:
Corp ID Breakdown:
Even though Weyland and Criminal were by far the least represented, @aandries won the whole thing with Blue Sun and Leela. So my take away, play what you feel is really strong and what you play well, not just what everyone says are the best decks.
Thanks spags! I had a blast playing with so many excellent players, and it feels so good to have finally broken into the top 8 at a premier event. I look forward to hopefully seeing all of you again at the Minneapolis Regional.
I still can’t figure out why FFG made an operation that lets the runner draw 6 cards WTF?
In the right hands Leela is one of the best runners. If your corp deck can’t breath and can’t figure out how to play redundantly then she’ll take you apart.
I took out the only leela I ran against, but that’s because OCTGN taught me some tricks:
Try to keep at least 2 “stopper” ice on centrals that aren’t rezzed yet if you haven’t had a chance to rez anything. When you hit mid-late game, you want 3 ice deep centrals in some cases.
If you’re going to score an agenda, try to have a click left over after scoring the agenda (and money) to replace anything that’s bounced.
Try to use her ability to build yourself stronger servers by placing positional ice in its best place.
Yeah, looks like Leela was the second most popular runner of the day. It speaks to the interesting place Criminal is in. Not a weak faction by any means, since they’re second most popular ID and winner of the tournament, but not at all diverse. Anarch and Shaper have a ton of breadth in faction. Criminal is very good at the one or two things you can do with Blue, but outside of that there is little point.
Had lunch at Sardine before heading out, thanks to a rec from @spags. It was pretty great. And the weather was awesome, so it was nice to get some more time on the waterfront before driving back to the Twin Cities. Looking forward to seeing some of you at the Minnesota regional in a couple of weeks!
Great event, better group of players. Such a strong field. This win is equal parts @spags , he put me in battle mode for this event after winning Wausau, it was time to put CT and PE on the shelf and get serious. Don’t listen to all the chatter, if you know you can win with a deck, bring it. Weyland and Criminal were both least represented, doesn’t matter, they won this thing. Play what you love.
Special shout out to @bblum for developing the Bootcamp style deck. To be honest I never played it until a week ago. I was complaining about not wanting to play Butcher Shop, NBN FA, or RP and @spags tells me “Why not try this?” Couple test games with @Paranoid and a few tweaks (IT Department most notably) and I’m flying cold. Damn that deck is rock solid, lost 1 to a HORRIBLE draw and a HORRIBLE matchup. Recovered from some insane games, going down 5-0 with David’s crushing Curtain Walls and getting Siphoned into oblivion, just fought back out.
Props to @Ajar for hanging with our crew after the event, MAJOR PROPS to @Paranoid for being a great team mate and even better guy (you’re up next for a big Regional win), and all the other people I had the privileged of playing. @gumOnShoe - tell Gary that he’s the only person to beat that Bootcamp deck, good on him!
How about that @spags guy, taking a Wooley Whizz deck the three of us have been cooking up (MOSTLY WOOLEY) for the past couple weeks and just punching the field in the face with it.
