Colorado Regional Tournament Report

Well, last weekend was the Colorado regional tournament, which proved to be interesting.  Doubly so for me, since I missed last year's tournament (because I was on vacation in San Diego at the time.  SanSan was fantastic.)  At any rate, here are the decklists I took.

Time is Money Friend 2.0

Engineering the Future

Agendas
Accelerated Beta Test - 3
Efficiency Committee - 3
NAPD Contract - 3
Project Vitruvius - 3

Ice
Eli 1.0 - 3
Heimdall 1.0 - 2
Enigma - 2
Turing - 3
Viktor 2.0 - 3
Ichi 1.0 - 3
Troll - 3 (6 Influence)

Assets
Adonis Campaign - 3
Eve Campaign - 3
Executive Boot Camp - 2 (2 Influence)
Thomas Haas - 3

Upgrades
Heinlein Grid - 3
Red Herrings - 2 (4 Influence)

Operations
Biotic Labor - 3
Enhanced Login Protocol - 3
Green Level Clearance - 3
Shipment from SanSan - 3

This was a tinkering of a deck I had taken to a previous store championship.  It's a fairly standard fast advance/never advance deck.  I teched in Turing to deal with Eater decks.  Aside from that, the goal is to get as much efficiency out of your own clicks while forcing the runner to waste their clicks.

Mind over Matter 2.0

Quetzal

Programs
Corroder  - 1
Datasucker - 2
Djinn - 2
Medium - 2
Mimic - 1
Nerve Agent - 2
Origami - 3
Overmind - 3
Sage - 1 (3 Influence)
Yog.0 - 1

Hardware
Cyberfeeder - 3
e3 Feedback Implants - 2 (4 Influence)
Ekomind - 2

Resources
Adjusted Chronotype - 2
Daily Casts - 2
Data Folding - 3
Donut Taganes - 1 (2 Influence)
Public Sympathy - 3
Symmetrical Visage - 2
Wyldside - 3

Events
Game Day - 2 (6 Influence)
Stimhack - 2

Reworking of the same deck from the last post.  Tried to make it faster with Wyldside and Adjusted Chronotype.  Pulled out Pawnshop and Quality Time and replaced them with Game Day for more card draw.  Brought in a copy of Sage to deal with troublesome code gates such as Tollbooth and Lotus Field.  Also put in Donut Taganes since I dropped the number of events even further.

Round 1: vs. Grant
Quetzal vs. Replicating Perfection: 0 - 7 L
EtF vs. Kate "Mac" McCaffrey: 8-2 W
An average start to the tournament.  Quetzal was too slow to get off the ground against RP, which frustrates me, since I have a feeling that the large number of RP players at the Tulsa regional may have inspired more people to bring a build to Colorado.  Although, top 8 was apparently free from Jinteki, so it didn't amount to much.  I suppose the big mistake of this game was I forgot once again that Cortex Lock is a sentry, not a code gate.  Second game brought me up against the other massive influx to the tournament: Kate.  Grant was running what looked to be a PrePaid Voicepad version of Kate.  Still, he wasn't able to draw the breakers he needed, which let me draw out the midgame into a victory.  Oh, and Turing and ELP made a strong play in that game.

Round 2: vs. Rick
Quetzal vs. Making News: 6-4 L (meat damage flatline)
EtF vs. Valencia Estavez: 4-8 L
A reprise of the match from the Gordian Blade tournament.  The changes I made to Quetzal were mostly results from discussing the deck with Rick, so it was interesting to see how it would turn out against him.  I was able to get the Wyldside and Chronotype combo fairly quickly, though he managed to snipe Wyldside with a Making News, so that shut down the card draw.  After that, I got really aggressive, and managed to snag a Project Beale and 2 NAPD Contracts.  Unfortunately, my aggressiveness led to a lot of tags, which led to getting double Scorched.  Might have been able to avoid that if I could have gotten more than one of each Public Sympathy and Origami.  Corp game was not too great either.  Turing never showed up, but neither did Eater.  Got an Executive Boot Camp up and protected it with an Eli from an ABT.  Of course, that server might have been better used for trying to score agendas.  Or it might have been better to use the Eli to protect R&D.  Either way, I couldn't keep him from getting to the agendas.  Although, Blackmail never showed up either.

Round 3: vs. Martin
EtF vs. Edward Kim: 6 - 8 L
Quetzal vs. Replicating Perfection: 2 - 8 L
From what I remember, Martin was running a stealth build for Edward.  That was kind of frustrating, because suddenly none of my ice were taxing anymore.  Plus, he managed to snipe two of my ELPs off of R&D.  Still, a fairly close game.  And once again, Quetzal failed against RP.  I think I should have put more priority into trashing Sundews when they came up, but again, the deck runs slowly.  At least this time I managed to swipe a Fetal AI.

Round 4: vs. Barry
Quetzal vs. NEXT Design: 4-7 L
EtF vs. Kate "Mac" McCaffrey: 8-4 W
I think both Barry and I were slightly on tilt at this point.  Once again, Quetzal was too slow to set up.  Corp game was interesting for me.  Mulliganed a hand with no economy into a hand with 3 agendas, one piece of ice and one Green Level Clearance.  I think I drew a fourth agenda with that Green Level, so the game could have been done there.  Managed to sneak through an agenda in the open on turn 3, though.  Barry was running stealth Kate, but his breakers weren't showing up, which gave me enough time to score out and win.

Round 5: vs. Nick
EtF vs. Kate "Mac" McCaffrey: 8-2 W
Quetzal vs. Personal Evolution: 6-7 L
Another interesting match.  I'm not entirely sure where he was going with his Kate deck.  He was making use of Underworld Contacts and Data Folding for credit generation, but also put in Professional Contacts for card draw and credit gain.  So, once again, I managed to keep the game in the midgame phase long enough to win.  Second game, this time I did managed to get the full setup and get going, but a problem with the deck I hadn't foreseen cropped up.  Once it's through, it runs out of steam.  Plus, I lost somewhat critical cards with no way to get them back.  So, I managed to get some agendas, but ran out of cards, so I couldn't make any runs.  Oh, and I hit my hard counter, Komainu, twice.  Lost a bunch of cards the first time, had to spend a ton of credits the second time.

Round 6: vs. Marc
Quetzal vs. Because We Built It: 6-9 L
EtF vs. Kate "Mac" McCaffrey: 2-8 L
Managed to get my rig set up as runner again.  Was able to pull some agendas through digging R&D.  Marc's strategy was pretty good.  He iced up HQ and used Off the Grid to score out agendas.  Although, he was using a lot of barriers and space ice, so I could have probably pushed HQ a little harder.  Lack of planning did me in here, as I lost my Sage to a Nebula.  Second game, and I'm sure that the loss here was my fault.  I went for an early ABT, and ended up dumping the other two ABTs.  I don't remember much else about the game or his strategy as Kate, as it was over sometime after that.

So that's that.  Quetzal failed me completely.  EtF did about as well as I expected, though.  I suppose had I playtested out the changes I had made a lot more, I probably would have gone with the other runner I had prepared.  Still, there's always next year to try and take a regional tournament.  Well, until next time, take care of yourselves in the Net.