Boo! Todd has shot down my suggestion for the Anti-cheese tourney.

How 'bout it Derek? Can we schedule this for one of your August games?

The karma gods got back at me today for beating up on poor ole Hulk with Rookie Black Widow. I only KOed three pieces in the whole game, but I pulled a Carnage, which was crushed and slightly damaged, so I traded it for a Goblin Queen.

Yeah Cernak, good on you for not forgetting your peeps. Remember who made you, playa. So is the world's worst scumbag back yet? It was so great not having him around, I stayed and watched! Be careful when inquiring about unions... I don't wanna see your bullet riddled corpse on the news. As for you, So So Jeff...I forget what I was supposed to PM you about. So PM me and tell me. I'm out.

PM'd ya, what?

The language filter on this board must be set really low. It blocked the word ####? That is about the suckiest #### that ever sucked a ####. Censorship sucks, especially when #### gets blocked but sucks doesn't.

Yeah, I can hear worse language on the Simpsons.

I never thought that the language on the simpsons was really that bad per se; however, I remember my mother not wanting me to watch the simpsons when they first started to air. Although, all television now is much, much more lenient on how far they are willing to push the fcc guidelines.

Yeah, the language filter ######' pisses me off. That's why ninjas don't give a carp, if we gave a ####, you wouldn't know.

Kids, don't do drugs
I am looking over what I wrote and I must have been on something. This woman is fun but I must have been intoxicated when I wrote that.

Goood thing ninja's don't carry guns :knockedou

No way! If I was the Man of Steel, I wouldn't need to use protection, but I'm not so I gotta play it safe. I worry about kids as much as STDs. Both of which, I've never had a part of.

Neither have I until my soon-to-be 3 year old told me I 'sucked' and he has pretty good command of the word 'dammit'. Sure, it's pretty funny around the house but when he drops one of those when we are out....ugh, it's cringe worthy.

Hello everyone, I am home.

I am tired as shiat though. I drove from Nashville to Atlanta last night in order to get here to do a group presentation. I got home at 4:30. I fell asleep in the shower until 6:30 or so and went to school. I only got on here because I traded my Daniel Ketch for a KC Superman and needed to get teh address. Don told me about the marquees. It sounds like everyone had fun. I am glad that John won. It is good to see him progressing as a player.
I played in a marquee and let both people win and then went to pick up my co-workers at the bar. Grant, Do you remember the big guy that came to our CJ marquee and 2 or 3 tourneys after? He played football for Vanderbilt if that helps at all. It is sooo odd because he lives in Nashville and was at the Tourney.
I got my Xorn in the mail while I was away. Also, I got my Thundercats belt buckle.
I am going home to sleep now. Good night all.

Good for you. I once wrote a psychology paper on how my worst fear was that some girl I used to run around with would show back up with a kid


They're just words, with no more or less signifigance than what you attach to them. If anyone in public objected to it, I'd tell them to mind their own #### business.

How would this work in the 2nd and 3rd rounds? Or, is it guess at the onset and that is it?

What about my "Clone Wars" scenario? Your team must be one character, you must have different versions of it (no 2x Rookies, but you can have a R and a E from the same set, etc). Break out all your versions of Cap, Spidey, Electra (HA!), Hulk. Supes, Batman, well, you get the idea.

That's Rick Stepp. Super guy - he moved back to Nashville in July of last year.

Hmmm. You'd be penalized for being predictable by losing the pieces from round one. Afterwards, you can add pieces to your team to make up the point cost, but everyone gets another guess.

I raised the issue briefly at GEC's marquee yesterday and boy, did I ever get shot down. I fear Todd (and Dennis) may have misunderstood the intent of the game. The idea is not "Build whatever 600 point team you want with all your favorite characters and hope to heaven nobody guesses your power pieces" - it's "Build an effective team using unpredictable pieces which nobody will see coming."

Dennis's very rude attitude yesterday astonished me. He asked "What if you bring KC Superman and someone guesses it? Whoops, there goes half your team! How are you supposed to win after that?" The point is to build a very uncommon, oddball team - nobody would expect you to use the Vet Rogue / Vet Hercules combo, or Thanos, or an E She-Hulk, Hawk & Dove, Vet Viper, Starfire, LE Arthur Curry, Maj. Maxim, etc. These are all incredibly useful pieces in their own right who never, ever get used because they're made redundant by too much TK, Perplex, Charging BCF and Outwit.

Todd's comment was oddball as well - clearly if someone's "favorite piece" is Rookie Cosmic Boy (clears throat), then the Ladies Only tourney prevented that character being used. I don't see that as any different, personally.

And it's not like I'm intentionally - okay, that's a lie - uniformly singling out Ricardo with his "no-new-strategies-in-nine-months" policy. I'm every bit as guilty as relying on Jane Foster in tournies as he is Vet Cheetah. I don't think that dad who used to play at Dr No's with his kids was capable of building a team without Vet Firelord if he tried. Some of those kids at Player One would spontaneously combust if you denied them the use of their Magogs. Many players *should* be forced to rethink their pieces and their strategies, which is why (if my pull luck wasn't so awful) I almost prefer sealed to constructed, unless the rules for construction are somewhat strict.

I'd much, much rather lose to a weird team full of oddballs fielded by a skilled player like Dennis or Shawn Hill than I would a predictably boring cheese team played by a mediocre player who never changes anything. And I do not agree with the demand that "Every strategy has a counter-strategy." In fact, continuing the example, I beat Ricardo once at Dr No's with a team specially designed to counter what I thought he'd bring. But if the option is "Build an amusing theme team and try your best" or "Build a team to beat somebody else specifically," I'd prefer the former. I'd rather not construct something specific to eke out a win - I want to play something FUN against people who also have FUN in mind, not a bored quest to get some LE they can immediately turn around and sell. Geez, go play the stock market and leave the superhero comic book game for people who like silly, fun games.

I agree with you Grant. It is unfortunate when people play the same team, characters, etc. all the time. I did not like to play scenarios as a player. But, as a judge I think they are great for players. I did like the scenarios that affect your team build. That is why I make these scenarios:
1) I always liked it
2) It makes it nearly impossible for a person to play a similar team week in and week out.

I remember when Rambo Jr. up at Dr. Nos used to play the same team every week. It was nerve racking and was probably what pushed me over the edge to where I started playing goofy teams. But, he went off to the army/navy/something so noone had to worry about him any more.
Some people are not as creative as others. If it makes you feel any better, you can always look in the mirror and say that you are smarter than people who cannot create new teams. Or, tell them to their face which causes a far more interesting reaction