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Post by President B. Dazzle on Sept 15, 2004 11:55:02 GMT -5
I needed to give Scott the draft results, and what better way to do it than in this format? Besides, we havn't had results like this in a while, so here's to trying to recap what happened.
We ended up with 12 people, so two tables of six, one headed by Scott, and one by me. At each table, we would have seven Vengeance starters, and everyone ended up with six packs to draft with. Scott's table double up'd on Highlight of the Night...my table doubled up on Leader of the Edge Army.
I ended up drafting Your Freak'n Hero and having four packs to build with. This made a big difference from my first draft (Gail & Molly with 8 or 9 packs), as I didn't havce much of a card base to work with, and half of my pack cards eliminated themselves by being Heat, Raw, or Superstar Specific. However, I did pull the two backlash cards I needed to win...Calgary and Chain Finisher. Cow on Ice helped a LOT, too. Plus, the one deck that went undrafted in our session was Evolution, (and TMW played Dude Love), so I was, at worst, tied for highest SS Value on the table.
When all was said and done, the draft ended up like this:
Table 1:
Scott (The Mystery Wrestler)
Ray (Leader of the Edge Army)
Hillary (Highlight of the Night)
Splooge (Your Freak'n Hero)
LaFlamme (Evolution)
Bojangles (Heyman, switched to FBI)
Table 2:
Brian (Your Freak'n Hero)
Mike (Leader of the Edge Army)
Hamus (The Mystery Wrestler)
Bob (Leader of the Edge Army)
Rodman (Paul Heyman)
Drew (Highlight of the Night) [no idea what his last name is; Rodman, if you see this, we need his last name to report for rankings.]
Round 1: Bob
I had picked this match to go first to kind of explain the concept of the pre-match and mid-match. I still don't know if he "got" the mid-match, but from what I saw, he got the pre-match part of the thing. As for the match, well, rookie vs. vet...and he drafted LOTEA, which was, IMO, probably the worst draft of the six starters. It wasn't close at all.
1-0, 3pts
Hamus (1-0) d. Mike (0-1)
Rodman (1-0) d. Drew (0-1)
Round 2: Drew
I didn't know HotN was so strike-based. And me with no strike reverals to open, so he hit a running lariat and a spinning clothesline on me. Problem being is that his foils are really not made for draft. Once I see the Ensiguri overturn, I go to town on him with Chain Submissions, and while he put up more fight than I had expected, he eventually got Chain Finish'd.
2-0, 6 pts
Hamus (2-0) d. Bob (0-2)
Mike (1-1) d. Rodman (1-1)
Round 3: Mike
The only game I draw the Step Aside is the game I play here, and I use it to dodge the EdgeKick. I draw WHOO! and just BRUTALIZE him down to like one card with chains. However, I was a dumbass and forgot to count his deck before swinging with the Chain Finisher, so he gets a shot to try to make a comeback, but I had just enough reversals to hold him off long enough to get and play a Body Lock for the win.
3-0, 9 pts
Drew (1-2) d. Hamus (2-1)
Rodman (2-1) d. Bob (0-3)
At this point, Mike and Bob dropped.
Round 4: Rodman
He was playing a Cole Heyman deck, and did hey lay a beating on me early. He even hit me with Rapid Fire Punches to reverse Angle's German Suplex. Down to my last few cards, I managed to pound through and make my comeback, and eventually win with a Chain Finisher. Definitely a great match. Rodman's developed into a solid player, and seeing him play Evo is gonna be downright SCARY once he gets the hang of it.
4-0, 12 pts
Drew (3-2) d. Mike (1-4) and Bob (0-5) by forfeit
Hamus sits and watches.
Round 5: Hamus
He also chose to play a Chain deck, but the problem is, no one does Chain better than YFH. And, I won the cut, so I got Calgary to make Chains reversed hurt that much more. He did survive my Chain Finisher, overturning a Chained Heat, but it took him so much time to try and hit a move that he, finally, ended up drawing himself to a countout, which I took to expidite things (since the other table finished about an HOUR before we did)
5-0, 14 pts
Hamus and Rodman had one match left, but it never got played...for ranking purposes, we'll have to decide the winner somehow, but here's how the table stacked out:
Brian - 5-0
Hamus - 3-1
Rodman - 3-1
Drew - 3-2
Mike - 1-4
Bob - 0-5
Finals: LaFlamme
He creamed me. There's no other way to put it...he just got a dominant deck and a dominant combo that couldn't be beat. Granted, I don't remember if he did it legally...Steel Chain Shot has to be played after a card, and he might have played something like Hardcore Style or something first...but does it really matter? Evo is just disgusting, and they're gonna be the heat deck of choice this set. After all, you can put six cards into your pile from moment one.
If someone from Table 1 wants, they can recap the world and such. I only focused on Table 2, since that was the one I was at.
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