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Have a great time everyone!

it's a shame you can't make it...even i'm going and i'm anti-travel...lol

Sadly my friends.  I am unfortunately held up and will not attend the peace bridge tourney. 

I wish all the players luck and look forward to watching this leg of the circuit on camera.

I am making a prediction that Sean will take it home.

Go BBH!


I hope to see you all at the next overpower tournament.

M

OP GOD

On my way. GPS has me getting in at 945. Hope i make it in time

this sure snuk up on you guys didnt it

Quote from: chuu on May 15, 2015, 01:16:03 PM
it's a shame you can't make it...even i'm going and i'm anti-travel...lol

Yeah, I'm house sitting this weekend.  I aspire to attend every October Toronto tournament for the foreseeable future, though.  I've been working on deck builds since last October.

The word on the street is Pat Baez is living the dream in Buffalo.

Congratulations Pat!

Ratings as of May 16th 2015

• Marcel Lojet - 1823
• Phil Keffer - 1811
• Garion Sutton - 1774
• Andy Emond - 1702
• Patricio Baez - 1668
• Danny McGlynn - 1667
• Phil Miller - 1648
• Ray Reynolds - 1647
• Josh Alexander - 1639
• Doug Simms - 1637
• Larry Van Etten - 1636
• David Limberger - 1634
• Nick Spivak - 1627
• D'Arcy McGlynn - 1618
• Clint Martin - 1613
• Spencer Sutton - 1611
• Jonathan Lewis - 1607
• Keith Bursack - 1606
• Sean Ballantyne - 1601
• Jason Van Etten - 1598
• Myles Head - 1587
• Josiah Simms - 1574
• Mark Bryson - 1569
• Matt Glover - 1567
• Matt Taylor - 1565
• Martin Slinkosky - 1553
• Chris Vezina - 1553
• David Hodkin - 1552
• Jack Truong - 1550
• Henry Truong - 1549
• Ed Kowalewski - 1548
• John Keffer - 1547
• David McMillan - 1546
• Carl Caroffino - 1538
• Cory Simms - 1528
• Patrick O'Neill - 1509
• Michael Sutton - 1503
• Bret Reed - 1449
• John Zachritz - 1446

Thanks Jack!

Hi Guys,

Somehow I was able to win the tournament, I feel I was really lucky with my pairings which you can read in my recap below.  I'm not much of a writer so it's not that fun to read and it took a while to write LOL

7 Rounds of Swiss

Carl Caroffino – it was a good match against Carl, he was playing Muir island with Prof X, Captain Britian, Shadow Cat and Banshee in reserve.  I scraped out a win and thought that this match would set the pace for the rest of the tournament for me, boy was I wrong.  WIN

Larry Van Etten – Larry was running Four Freedoms (as usual ) Namor: Sub-Mariner, Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman and Thing in reserve.  My deck was very sluggish in this game.  Larry was winning venture in the 4th or 5th round and Ventured for the win.  I let two characters die just to try to make it to the next hand.  The venture was tied at 19 so I thought I had made it to the next hand until Larry reminded me of Invisible Woman's Inherent.  LOSS

Sean Ballantyne – Sean was playing his Colossus, Dazzer, Hulk and Galactus deck. This match wasn't very long, Sean's deck crapped out on him, The no specials event hurt him as he couldn't defend all my teamworks. WIN

Phil Miller – Phil was using Beyonder, Mojo, 3 Grid Prof X and X-Man in reserve.  I thought my no energy icons event would hurt him but by then my deck was behind in Venture and it didn't phase him. His reputation does not lie regarding his skill. LOSS

Jonathan Lewis – Jonathan was using an intellect team with two characters that rarely seen in tournament, Red Skull and Mr. Sinister, I think this made me underestimate the team. They were backed up by Dark Beast and Mr. Fantastic in reserve.  In this game I bet too aggressively in the first round since Jonathan had two discards.  I didn't think about defense and Jonathan was able to kill Beast:Brute using Red Skulls Dust of Death and I lost the 2 cards in my hand that gave me the advantage.  Next turn I had a slew of Beast unusables which set me back again.  I couldn't dig myself out of the hole I had made for myself in the first round.  I went to lose in the 5th or 6th round.  LOSS

Cory Simms – Cory was using Heroes For Hire, Beast: Brute, Daredevil and Silver Sable in the reserve.  This was a team I considered using myself.  Cory had me on the ropes for pretty much the whole game.  I think if he had bet more aggressively he would have won the game before we got to the power pack. I had power leech placed on Team Overpower and was able to venture 6 and hit him with leech.  Venturing 6 didn't even win me the game, it was 5 from reserve and 1 from completed.  Next turn I was able to venture my last mission and win the game.  WIN

Andy Emond – I went into this game thinking that I was going to lose, in about 10 games I've had with Andy over the years I think I had only beaten him once before.  He was running X-man, Reavers, Phoenix and Donald Pierce in Reserve.  The first turn didn't start very well.  My hand was 7 power cards (one dupe) and a Captain America avoid.  Andy had some team works he couldn't use so I was able to use my power cards to make use all his best defensive specials in the first hand (illusionary Reality, Beast acrobatics as an activator and Gambit Charm as an activator) He locked me out in the first round, I think if he had ventured 7 for the win that would have been the game, but he was probably afraid of my Beast negate.  I ended up conceding since I couldn't attack him anymore.  In the second he got the Crossing's KO event, my hand was 2 beast negates, Stars and garters and his 4S attack.  I was frustrated so I decided to cut my losses and KO beast since that was most of his cards anyways.  I placed everything and conceded.  I'm surprised Andy didn't venture more than two missions.  In the third turn I got DoW and it allowed me to slowly claw myself back.  We eventually got to the power pack and I think I was able to win because X-Man and Donald Pierce don't have Grids that don't mesh well so I was able to hit them with small hits that needed to be blocked with higher cards, i.e. 2S on X-man had to be blocked with 5E.  In the last turn my hand was 1,3,4,5,6,7,8 while his hand was 1,2,3,4,5,7.  I was able to squeak out the win against Andy who was in 2nd place at the time.  My tie breakers were Larry, Jonathan and Phil who were all doing pretty well in the tournament.  This put me in fourth at the end of the 7 rounds of swiss, I was VERY surprised. WIN

Semi-Finals

Jack Truong – Jack was running a fighting deck which gave me some relief since I was going to be able to use Sabretooth's teammate avoid for sure! His team consisted of The Hand, Star Jammers, Reavers and Hawkeye in reserve.  Earlier on Jack had led it slip that the Hand had the most cards in the deck and I was able to kill them off in the second round, after that he had a slew of discards going forward in the game.  Jack was also very tired in our match, he could barely keep his eyes open which led to him making mistakes that were in my favour.  I KO'd Starjammers next and then moved on to the Reavers.  I eventually beat him in power pack.  WIN

Larry Van Etten – I was worried going into this match since Larry had already beaten me quite swiftly in round 2.  I took what I learned from our previous match and used that as my strategy.  I noticed that he had many Namor specials in the deck so I decided to go after him first.  Namor was taken out by a 6S Team work that ended up giving +2 to my Cap's 8 fighting power card if I recall correctly. After that I worked on his Mr. Fantastic leaving him with Invisible Woman and Thing.  It was a close game but in the end I was able to get my revenge on Larry.  WIN

Final

Jonathan Lewis – I can't say that I wasn't a little surprised that I was going to face Jonathan in the match for 1st.  There were two reason for this, first, after the 7 rounds of swiss I had just luckily made it through.  My loss earlier against Larry had given me the information I needed to beat him in the semis and I have played Jack many times so I had enough practice.  It also helped that both Larry and Jack were organizers and were very tired. Secondly, I had never heard of Jonathan Lewis before, I watch pretty much the tournament videos and I didn't remember him being on camera.  I just checked the standings and after 2K he was 25th, so he really stepped up his game to get to the finals   This game played out better than the first, I knew that my worst enemies on his team were Red Skull and Mr. Sinister so I took out Mr. Sinister in the second round with a big Team work.  Mr. Fantastic came out and I worked on him next.  I ventured very conservatively in this game as my last game against Jonathan didn't go well because I ventured too aggressively.  I was able to hit and run until power pack and then Red Skull was left for last and couldn't hold out against Captain America WIN

Larry, thank you very much for holding the tournament!! Also shout out to Jack for all his support of Overpower Tournaments and the community!!

Last thing...SABRETOOTH IS THE NEW DR. STRANGE!!



The best saves he made during the tournament:

Congrats on the win Chuu!

Sounds like it was a great tournament.

Here are some pictures of the tournament that I took during my off time.  Jack you can post these up on the Overpower Facebook page if you want...i'm not really sure how to do that...lol.

Here is Jack Vs. Jonathan in the front and Carl Vs. Josiah in the back

Larry Vs. Andy

John Z Vs. Pat O'Neil

Jack Vs. Andy and John Z Vs. Carl

Jack Vs. Larry

Andy Vs. Ed

Mike Sutton, Looking like a Silver Fox...

Andy's Danger Room got Blown up...he had to play Acrobatics on it...

Larry's Prize table

No Lie, I collect comic art so I would have just been happy getting this:

Larry's Glass case, It's just for Show, 90% of the contents are not for sale

Group Shot

good for yuu chuu
but ill keep my sabertooth up front kicking ass

Grats Chuu!

Good Job Pat!