Great article! Would love a game sometime. I find myself going through a similar thing that you describe - looking for ways to refine my game. I have a lot of respect for your dedication, and would love to get in some rounds with you!
Great article @Nobo715.
My 13-year old son barely missed the Top 8 cut at the 2015 Berkeley Store Championship. Thanks to the playmats that Noah donated for the tournament he still came home with a Freelancer Playmat. I always thought that was a class move and my son still brings the playmat to every tournament he enters (and now he even plays the card!).
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They called him āThe Taxmanā.
No Dan?
Great read, great job. What a strong player. Like Timmy, they seemed to be āholding backā at KOS to dominate the next day.
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He said people, not cheese potatoes
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I must also note that I love that Noah has a mantra, akin to Arya Starkās list, of his goals that he recites to himself.
Finally, itās fitting that someone that carries around a notebook also added Technical Writer to his already strong deck. Well played.
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I think your son also swept me in the first round of that tournament. Tell him to keep it up!
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[quote=āspags, post:24, topic:5837ā]
No Dan?
[/quote]doesnāt dan play normal stuff like the rest of us
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@tmoiynmwg. Yes, that was him, but I think it was a different tournament. Playing against you at regionals was one of his all time highlights in Netrunner. He was rooting for you pretty hard at worlds.
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BACK IN THE DAY I INVENTED RP.
Main difference between me and the others mentioned is that I have no desire to play my own brews if I feel like something else is better and when I do come up with (or copy) a decent new deck I canāt shut up about it and it reaches netdeck status in 2 weeks. I would rather see my deck everywhere than have it be secret tech for a big tournament.
DLR Val is @thebigunit3000, Haarp was @Asclepius. Foodcoats built itself but shouts out to @Nordrunner. I popularized Stealth Andy but I actually built it after seeing someone else play the breaker suite on OCTGN. I actually built Regass.
I would not have had the balls to be the first guy to try Technical Writer.
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Josh will use his common excuse:
āI wasnāt around in 2014.ā
Iām with Dan. I like to save brain power by taking existing builds, and modifying them. I also enjoy pushing new builds (PPVP, Whizz) occasionally.
Bring on the SCs!
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its also clot protection vs cvs. but i guess u knew that 
I actually think itād be really fun to have a cool āHistory of Netrunnerā article. I had a talk with a guy at Vancouver Regionals who had just started recently about what decks were like a year or two ago (Iāve been playing since Core set). The best was saying how Andy was 90% of Runner decks and that people wanted to ban Siphon! There have been several Tier 1 decks that have fallen by the wayside.
Hmm, this sounds fun, maybe Iāll start putting something together!
Unrelated, but the Technical Writer is such a great include, Iāve loved it every time! Great article, @nobo715! To be honest, I feel like Iāve stagnated skillwise, so I think Iāll take a lot of what you wrote to heart.
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actually, what i meant was that if you look at some of the decks they have been bringing (jonās GC corp, noahās yog/personal touch, etc.) despite the lists flying around for a long time, nobody else is winning with these styles
i should have known spags would jump on me for mentioning a bunch of netrunner players other than Dan
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I agree. Look at Timmyās dex at Worlds, and Jonās Nexus Kate deck.
We know theyāre on the next level, great people, and my heroes. They arenāt mentioned enough!
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Feel Free to correct me, but Iām pretty sure @BazooKaJoe invented RP Glacier. He won our Seattle regional the May before you won worlds with it. You can see his list here:
Ok. First sentence of second paragraph is:
Inspired by decks Iāve seen Mediohxcore & Genestealers play, this is a taxing Jinteki Deck.
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Enjoyed reading this. Have been playing for roughly a year now, and I was pretty happy winning a store champ, regional, and then coming second at my nationals, though Iāve been a bit down ever since (2nd comes right after first ) especially since a lot of people have criticized me using good decks, which seems silly. This was just the read I needed to get my head back in the right space. And hopefully come next year I might be able to write a similar article ^^
great read, good resource for people who want small pointers on how to improve in tangible ways.
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Seb was playing RP glacier at Cardiff regional, which (because of the silly UK season) was before any of yours.
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As a side note Iām 99% sure it was Seb who went on to invent the MaxX hivemind megadig deck.
This is a bit like arguing about who decided to put SanSan City Grid and Astroscript Pilot Program in a deck together
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