Here are the teams I played at Chase:
Starting Rotation

Round by round battle reports still to come.

I imagine its less of an issue at your venue, though. More casual games, guys who play for fun, guys who play theme, you're going to get less of the cheese every week. If people aren't having fun playing against Crawler every week, people aren't as likely to bring him.

Its nice when you don't have to axe a figure, and as I told Charles, I hate doing so.

When GSX comes out, there should be enough fixes to him in the environment that he's no longer so prevalent, and we can phase him back into the regular rotation. I know that's what happened at most venues with Skrull Marvel.

Oh, and my case came in, finally.

So, 32 packs later, this is what I've got:

Full CUR, of course, but only pulled one Saint Walker in my last pack. Only Saint Walker I've seen in the area, actually. I'm sure others have pulled him, but I haven't seen it, which I thought was odd.

SR:
Wonder Twins x2
Hal Jordan x2
Ares
Doomsday
Wonder Woman
Alan Scott
BB T-Rex
Sinestro

WL:
Superboy
Kid Flash
Hal Jordan (No Head, Goddammit!)

Ok pulls. No Flash and Bane, which were two of my top wants, but plenty to trade for them. I'll probably end up keeping Hal as my one white lantern, and hopefully I can get his head sent to me via a replacement figure.

Also wouldn't mind a WL Flash.

Got lots of dups and trips of CUR stuff. Anybody missing any, lemme know. I'm not a DC collector by any means, so I'm happy to help people finish off sets if I don't think i'm gonna play it.

Well I do get an opinion here. Not part of that group and want to keep it that way. If the LSOM players would like standings listed, it would be for LSOM events only. So rather than be an "Us Vs. Them" thing, I choose not to do one.

To clarify on that, since Jim got his answers in a PM, its not an 'Us vs Them' at all. All of the events are accounted for, assuming someone tells Roland what happened so he can do the math. The numbers are all encompassing for all the venues in Vegas, with the exception of Action Comics because they choose to abstain.

Any tournaments not listed in the final results were simply never reported by any of the players (not all of them are realmsers, after all) and there are many players and tournament winners that are not in the bracket because they have not yet met the minimum number of rounds. Their wins, are recorded in the list below the standings, along with the number of rounds they have played so they can tell how many more they need to play to be moved up.

If I remember correctly, under 30 rounds (given how many have been played this year) skews the numbers badly, so that's the minimum.

So, don't worry Jeff, all your boys are included.

I hope you'll continue to let your rounds be counted. I know I for one like to know how I've been doing, and I think many of the other guys may be curious too. This was something that all of us were curious about at the Lawrence Venue, but no one wanted to do the math to figure it out.

Also of note, they announced that this year there will be a system to enter tournament results into a database on the WK website for national comparison. this was always a fun curiosity when Star Wars CCG was around, so I'm curious to see how their system works.

Now that I've got the dudes sorted, I see I had pretty good CUR distribution.

I've got trips of Isis, Indigo 1, and Captain Comet. If anyone's got extras of Mongul, Saint Walker, and Animal Man, I can finish my second CUR. Takers?

hmmm... I think this is a good discussion point.

Anyone see any weaknesses?

Discussion points -

1 - no kid zoom or special character requirements
2 - objects ok
3 - try for theme

Tyler or Nick,


PM me your address (Forgot to get it when I was there). I have to send Austin a card.



My teams for anybody who cared:


Dr Strange
Crisis Robin
JL Chronos
JL Merlyn
Black Cat
Gotham Detective
Gypsy
Gargoyle

Thorbuster
Bullseye +TBolts
Cosmic King
Anarky
LE Diana Prince
Guardsman

Bat/Cat Duo
Kid Zoom
OotS Bats
Vector
JJJ

Metron
The Thing
Mr. Fantastic


I was the only one (I believe) to beat a Crawler team at the tourney. And that Metron team is uber. The synergy is unreal. Out of 5 games, I only lost a piece once and that was to the Crawler team and Crawler rolling 8 avoidance rolls in a row: 7 SC and 1 SS.

My Strange-tank didn't lose a piece...but I still lost.

I like the ebb and flow of the Thorbuster/Bullseye/Anarky/CosmicKing combo. Quite nasty if you don't suspect how lethal they can be.

I just love the Bat/Cat duo. It owns. Except for in this tournament apparently.

Any figs you'd change/swap out for DC75th figs?




I'd like to see this played. I've always wanted to play Anarky, just never worked him into a team.
Quoted fror truth.

You had a very strange and interesting run, Dave.

DOH!

I just traded for one of these and put in a low ball bid on ebay the same day and won. If anyone wants one, PM me - they are both in the mail heading toward Vegas.

To anyone without one:

KEEP HER !!!!!!!!!!

Skrully Sue is an awsome weapon. Can attack through walls, has outwit and FF keywords.

I'd play and keep.

I'm late to the party, but a quick shout of CONGRATS to Dustin for winning the Chase.

Chase for White Martians

Date:TBD
Place: Oasis
Time 11am

GOLDEN AGE !!!!! (But no feats)

Every team will be 600 points. 1/2 actions (i.e. three) per round.

Highlander rules in effect unless it is a clear generic (hand ninja). Even so, generics can only be multiples on one team choice.

Must be a TEAM theme team (Avengers, Defenders, Fantastic Four, etc)

For purposes of this event, certain teams QUALIFY as allowed to work together, but you ONLY get the bonus if the team is pure. Examples:

Avengers - includes young and dark
JLA - includes JLI, JLE, etc
WW2 - includes invaders, Sgt Rock, ww2 era heroes
X-men - includes x-factor, excalibur
Ultimates & Ult X-men
SSOV/LOD
Good lanterns (green, blue, violet, white)
Evil Lanterns (red, black, yellow, orange)
Watchmen & Minutemen (x-tra credit if it wins)

You must build SIX DIFFERENT TEAMS. Yes, you will NOT get to use 2 power teams during the regular matches, then the same 2 in the finals. You are going to have to choose. Use my best team now...or save it.

QUESTION FOR THE GROUP: In order to increase the pool size, (mostly for villains sake) if a version of the character has a keyword, you can use a different version for a second team. Again no keyword bonus.

Example:

Latest version of Despero has SSOV keyword. You may use that version on a SSOV team, and then use the cosmic justice version on another.

You CAN make 6 "Justice league" teams if you like. But they must all be highlander.

The winner will receive his/her choice of:

1 - A White Lantern or
2 - Retail Dr. Manhattan

What is a WHILE Lantern? Is it worthwhile pursuing?