Just finished my game with McNizzle. What a terrible round 1 match up for the both of us. Cloaked Blast Bugs vs Super Stealth Self Destruct. 20+ Acts with possible act control vs 34 activations.

I won map. We played on Outlaw City. He took the right side and set up first. I hate the match up, but I saw that I could collect gambit easy enough, so my plan was to collect gambit, and try to prevent him from getting in the room using my pieces with Aggressive Negotiations, and hiding my cloaked pieces behind them.

First round, was mostly just positioning, but there was a ton of acts. First round chewed up right around 25 minutes and that's with us playing over the phone not typing on Vassal. I was able to collect Gambit opening round. So I'm up 10 to nothing. So start of the 2nd I go to execute the 2nd part of my plan and that's seal off the room with Diplomats. Well I didn't notice this wall at the bottom of the map, and it threw a real monkey wrench into my plan. He was able to Grenades. He killed one of my dudes, and ran a Gran in the room, giving me a chance at an AoO, I passed naturally. Then I ran Dooje Brolo over, shut down his Super Stealth, and blast bugged his Gran, and moved into the spot that his Gran held. Thinking Good Move Bronson! Well turns out he could get line of sight on another diplomat without seeing my Cloaked Warriors, so he grenades again, this time taking down Dooje Brolo. I think I'm sunk at this point, because Dooje was my secret weapon against him. I keep going, knowing that I'm collecting gambit at least, and he isn't. He doesn't really advance on the room, much to my luck. Towards the end of the round, I pop out with my piece holding gambit, and I Blast Bug a gran of his who is adjacent to another piece, and I pick up 8 more points. I pick up another round of gambit.

Third round, I think we had about 6-8 minutes left heading into it. So I want to eliminate as many points as I can that he can rack up. So I pull my guys out of range of his, he is able to kill my piece that I've been racking up gambit with, he loses his piece in the process. I'm able to claim gambit with Quorreal who I ran up the map. I try to place him in the spot where I think the least amount of his guys can grenades him. He grenades, I make my saves, as was par for the course for most of the game. We ended up playing about 25 minutes over time limit.

I collected gambit at the end to take the final score to 46-31, 2pt win for me. McNizzle you are a good sport, that matchup was terrible all around haha. Good luck in the rest of the tournament!

All the match ups for Round One are done. Except for Deaths baine and Darth Rattlehead. Deaths Baine could only play this weeekend.... And he never heard a word from Darth Rattlehead. We are going to need a ruling on this situation unless someone can get a hold of both of them and set up a match between the two... Otherwise... Lets set up Round 2 Matches

I concede move along

I should have the next round of pairings up sometime tomorrow.

My 1 goal for round 2 -

Put my most important piece on the board!

I got so crushed in Round 1.

Are you still gonna be able to post match ups today?

Get the quote right! ;)

New pairings are up. Kezza has been dropped since I never received any registration from him.

I have treated the match between Deaths_Baine and DarthRattlehead as a bye for Deaths_Baine and 0 points for DathRattlehead, as I believe that is how similar situations have been handled. If there is another precedent or if you have any feedback, bloomail me or start a new thread on the topic.

Please try to keep this thread for play reports only, it makes it much easier to find the results. Bloomailing me your match results when you are the winner is also appreciated.

I am so sorry man. I must have put you in and then gotten mixed up. Give me a bit, and I'll have it fixed.

Edit: You know what, I think you could be a little more understanding when errors like this happen. I'm doing this on my own time just because I want to, and I'm working with tools (like the bloomail system) that don't work well for this sort of thing. You registered late, and at a time when my inbox was getting filled with messages. I'm still putting you back in, but c'mon man. I'm not getting paid for this.