Remember how I said my Collegium deck was gimmicky? Well, I went 2-3 in the five Swiss rounds. This deck really needs a couple unmolested days to get going, and an aggressive tournament just isn't the place to expect that.
My first two losses were against Dixie decks fielding Ezzie, but the second guy out-and-out cheated on me right from the start. He waited until he saw my starting dudes and then quick fished out Ezzie as a starter. I let it go, but then he did the same trick in a game against Shannon. Asshole. Plus, he smelled so bad that I thought it might have been part of his strategy, because I had trouble concentrating on anything but his overpowering exhalations. If he shows up next year, we're considering refusing to play him. Happily, he did not win the whole enchilada.
Neither did any of us, Mike went 3-2, Shannon went 2-3, and Scott went 1-4. On the whole, we all had some great matches.
Since the Doomtown tourney goes all day, I did not do much else. Spent some brief time in the vendor hall... demoed Spycraft, which I like on general principle despite the demo being really opaque. I will buy some when it hits, if only to make sense of what I already know.
Did an exceptional amount of multiplayer Nintendo back in the room... rousing games of Pac-Man Vs. and WarioWare Party Games among them. Wario's Listen to the Doctor mode is priceless.
Scott and Shannon have picked up some cool-looking edutainment-style games, and Chris seems to have completely internalized Pirates of the Spanish Main already. Mike will likely pick up LOTR Confrontation... and Rhonda and I are uncharactistically drifting. Uncharacteristically for me anyway. Really haven't bought much myself yet, aside from EAC and some Pirates packs. I hope to change that tomorrow.
