Ok, I’m back. I’ll give you a short run down, not sure if I’ll do a full report later:
So, 14 players gathered for 4 rounds of swiss with no cuts (half those players came from the Munich group I believe)
I played the CT and Weyland decks from above (CT 2nd version) and here is how it went:
Round 1 was against Simon (HB:Etf, Andromeda)
He started as HB:EtF and I lost 10:4. I should have really done a kind of warm up match, because I made a couple of mistakes here and he played well. But lesson learned. (Rush/FA Hybrid with SanSan)
Next was Andromeda and I believe it was basically Alexfrog’s Data Leak Reversal deck. In this game I actually had a good shot, but I really got unlucky. Which translates to: There were exactly three times where I had one agenda in hand, during these times he ran HQ once each and took them all. Scary precision and 7 points, gg. 10-3
Round 2 was against Andreas (Weyland: BabW, Chaos Theory)
Yeah, a mirror match. Turns out our decks were totally different though as he played the slowpoke Shaper (Test Run for Opus was only the beginning…) and played Weyland the same. My decks were too fast for him and I won pretty handily (10-2 and 10-0 I believe)
Round 3 was against Andrzej (Jinteki:PE, Gabriel)
He ran first and I actually thought I had a gold hand against Gabe (Caduceus, Green Level Clearance x2, Hostile Takeover and Closed Accounts). Turn one I drew Executive Retreat, played both GLCs (the first one to maybe draw a 2nd Ice, the other one to keep my hand full against agenda theft). Turns out he has Maker’s Eye and now 3 points. Next he runs my hand, I pay some extra on the ETR trace, he beats the trace and pulls the 1 in 5 Executive Retreat. One turn in the game and 6 points down I enter Eric Cartman rage mode. But eventually I lose the game 10-1
His Jinteki was fun, as he played Scorched Earth AND Sea Source… But it is easy having more money than Jinteki, so he never could pull it off. Also Chum plus Data Mine is not enough to protect R&D. Interfaces won me the game easily here. 10-2
Match 4 was against Daniel(?) (Weyland: BabW, Noise)
It was his first(!) day of playing Netrunner. Somebody gave him two decks and he just played (his brother probably explained the rules to him prior). Anyway, he made plenty of game mistakes (no rule mistakes though!) and couldn’t stop CT in any stage of the game, I won 10-2.
But the first game took really really long like 55 minutes. So with that in mind, I rushed some agendas very recklessly and won after time was called 4-1
All in all I scored 9 out of potential 16 points which probably means 6th place out of 14 or something (they only announced the winner, because he was the only one to get a prize).
Overall I was pretty satisfied with my first tournament, plenty of lessons learned and a good time was had by all.
Cheers