Maggot would be great with a Squirrel Girl like power for his maggots!

Are there pictures of origins posted somewhere?

Lost to a killbox team in the first round, won the second round and bye the third
my team was
Cyclops/Phoenix
Storm
Emma Frost

Ok now that's more like what I was expecting from Deadshot042 and Thjimmy....

Mystics, but all of Metron's attacks were Pulse Wave, so it was rather ineffective. Metron even had a critical hit with PW that hit all 3 T-Bolts. Bummer for the T-Bolts team.

don't forget to mention that it was a crit miss first then PC to a crit hit

Hello Clixers,
Origins was great. I met so many neat people that were fantasic sports and a blast to play against.
I'm going to write up a brief summary of my experience in the grinders and in the finals. But I'll save more specific information about strategy and theorycrafting until I get the interview from Wizkids.
First, big props out to my crew... the Negative Play Experience gaming club from Lewisburg, PA. We play at Yukon Cards and Comics. Our events are primarily just for kicks where our crew of about ten players almost never even enforces a build if someone gets it wrong. But these guys laid the foundation that put my team through the ranks. Todd Russell, Ultimate Archer and a bunch of other guys play tested with me till our finger tips bled. Big Ol' Poppa Bear handled logistics for the trip. And the whole group gives off a great supportive vibe. PrettyBoy and his boy were a hoot to hang out with and a great chill factor while I was freaking out.
Heads up. I won't be using names in the descriptions below in case someone wants anonymity. But if you'd like to own up and chime in, please do so.

Grinders
My grinder experience was pretty vanilla. I preregistered for the 10:00am on Thur-Sat.
I lost the Thursday in the second round to a very well played HSS team. He crit failed TWICE... OFF HSS both times! But he still played through and ended up barely knocking me out with a last click Barry Allen.
I won Friday morning's grinder after Poppa Bear "fixed the clock" and we showed up 2 minutes before it started (that's a story for another time). Anyway, I used Trinity Superman, Osiris and Animal Man to win this Grinder. My final round was against my NPE buddy Todd. His Ganthet rolled a Crit Miss, then FOUR 3s in a row. I told him it didn't feel like I was playing Clix, but just doing 20 damage to win :-/

Finals
The night before finals I decided to play KidTron,
Metron
Kid Zoom
Nurse
Crimson Gem of Cyttorak
Like I said, I'll spare the theorycrafting until after the Wizkids interview.

-Round 1
My opponent played,
GSX Storm - 86
Kid Zoom - 87
Cypher - 38
Lightseed - 25
Batman Beyond - 64
Mjolnir

I won map. I chose Krakoa. Poor guy didn't know it was legal :-/
As you can guess, this match went pretty quickly on the island. My KZ got the Gem. The map went off about 3 times before we even started trading blows. KZ knocked out Batman. Storm got off a shot or 2 needing high rolls to hit. She never connected. Metron based her. The island went off a few more times. Clean up. My nurse perished in the quakes.
This player was a great sport. I felt badly about him not planning on Krakoa.
Score - 300

-Round 2
My opponent played a Martial Artist theme,
Nightcrawler - 86
Iron Fist - 70
Robin - 66
Howard the Duck - 35
Diana Prince - 43
Mjolnir or Gem
Black/Yellow Lantern?

He won map. Chose the prison.
This team had apparently just trounced a team exactly like mine. Looking at the board though, I realized that with his only move and attack option gone, and no Outwit, as long as I played a conservative tempo, Metron could always flee to safety with KZ. KZ got the gem. The game quickly just turned into Metron moving KZ around, letting him tag a piece for 3-5 damage and then retreat. The guy tolerated it admirably. If there ever was a "hard counter" for his team, he was facing it. He stayed holed up in his prep cell, and eventually just called it after KZ knocked out a few pieces.
Score - 600

-Round 3
My opponent played a Martial Artist theme,
Nightcrawler - 86
Gamora - 73
Mask Killer - 60
Diana Prince - 43
Howard the Duck - 35
Mjolnir
Black Lantern

He won map roll. Chose the Prison.
I should have lost this. Made my stupidest mistake of the tournament. I let Mask Killer outwit STOP! and he pushed his NC to drag Metron to Gamora to get clawed up for 3 damage. Metron slinked back to the Nurse to get healed for 2. KZ missed an attack roll on Gamora. He KO'd my Nurse and I tagged Mask Killer for 3. He started running. I really thought the game was his. He had 2 Perplexes left. Diana Prince had Mjolnir and was covering the middle lane. Gamora was full health and was covering the left lane. Metron was only moving 10/8 with a carry. But I gave chase knowing that a push from NC would make him lose carry. No stalling, nothing tricky, my opponent was trying to win, but he was a good sport and a straight shooter. Eventually, I tracked him down and risked a shot on Mask Killer that allowed Gamora a shot on KZ. I got Mask Killer, Gamora rolled a 3 to hit KZ. Her being tapped out let me push KZ for a shot on NC hitting him for 2 with knock back into the wall. Now it was my turn to run. And I did until time was called. My opponent was a phenominal player. If he reads this and wants to contact me, I'd love to chew the fat about Worlds.
Score - 660

- Final Round
My opponent played a Thunderbolts theme,
Bullseye - 117
HoT Venom - 73
Moonstone - 76
T-bolts ATA - 24
Crimson Gem of Cyttorak
Yellow Lantern

He won map roll. Chose The Bridge.
This was my nightmare team. The Bridge :-/ Mystics :-/ No HSS :-/ Lots of pentetrating damage options :-/ Long range :-/
I went all in. After quick attacks from KZ and Beye, I went limping back to the Nurse to heal up KZ with Venom hot on our heels. KZ got to use his Incap/HSS ability to good measure, preventing a push from Moonstone. Then he died to Beye. Metron carried up the Nurse as a meat shield. Beye KO'd her too to push to his PB click. Venom jumped back into the fray. By turn 5, KZ was gone, my Nurse was gone and my opponent's entire team of Mystics had me surrounded. The only thing going for me, was that my opponent had used both his theme PCs by then. I started a' Pulse Waving. Really, the dice decided the game. My first PW did knock back to everyone. My second was a Critical Miss turned Critical Hit, KO'ing Moonstone. My 3rd had only Venom in range, he took all 4 and bowed out. Beye rolled a few PB hits, I made him reroll to misses, except once. Then Metron based him, used outwit and perplex to shut him down. Truthfully, I did forget to roll Mobius chair for the Critical hit Pulse Wave. :-( But I offered to go back and roll it on my opponent's turn. Both he and the judge said it was too late. :-( Even if I had failed it, I would have been on Metron's 18 defense with Super Senses click, that would have been even worse than 17 defense with Imperv for a Beye with PB. But I did forget. And I regret it.
Score - 960
Wizkids was great with prize support. They gave me a factory set of GSX, all 3 convention Horsemen, Wonder Woman, Dr. Manhattan, an entire set of print and play, and some lose GSX product. The whole staff was fantastic.
Right now I'm planning on GenCon. So I hope to see a lot of you there.
Btw, nobody is allowed to give Mike grief about not playing AEs. We were there to win. And truthfully, the Strange, JB x2, Sargon team he pulled together worried me. I'm happy he pulled off a win with it.

I think your opponent would have had some newfound hope of winning had you landed on Super Senses. Don't forget, Bullseye's trait (can't be outwit) ignores Super Senses and Shape Change. After the Impervious is gone on Metron is where Bullseye really shines on the T-Bolts team.

Very humble of you to admit this. Wow, you healed Metron with the nurse? On your 18D SS click? Fortune smiled a little on you there.

Good team. Surprise team. Thanks for showing us specifics; it gives a lot of insight into how the matches went. It'll be interesting to see if people prep against your team for worlds or not.

Congratulations on the win! Awesome prizes.

One of my complaints was that they ran out of product at 1 pm on Saturday. There was still 5 hours left. I would have played Battle Royales all day. WK missed out on more of my moneys.

You're right. The higher defense would have been the bad spot. He would have needed 8s to hit after my perplex at that point instead of 7s. Which he didn't hit anyway.

I did own up. Didn't try to dodge it either. Just forgot in the heeeeat of the mooment stomp stomp clap.

And actually, didn't the CritHit knock him to his 10 attack? He may have needed 9s. Don't recall exactly.

Wow ... that is great prize support!

Yeah, the change to Pulse Wave is sickening when combined with the immunity to Outwit. Metron is too much for most teams unless the build is big enough to ensure the mobility + high attack penetrating damage.

Nice write-up.

Looking forward to Jarimy's comments. He says frequently map doesn't matter but 3 games it seems to have affected the outcome.

"Disappointing" to hear about the Bencrawler teams. They win map roll and choose the Prison? That's the map of choice for Bencrawler BUT how could they miss the team they were facing. No HSS allowed + whole dial of Phasing?!?!?!?!?

Really curious how the Bencrawler teams handled the change in tactics requires to threaten your team.

Excellent job building with knowing what was likely to be played. Bullseye, Bencrawler, Kid Zoom and Metron - gonna see these guys for awhile...

The only match that map choice was a huge factor was Krakoa. The dude who won the entire thing got to pick map ONE time. So how exactly is that not completely proving my point that map choice is not a huge deal?