Yesterday I played with TheBeats and a few people in a tournament... Thanks fellas! Anyway, I wanted to see what the local competition was like and it's exceptional. We played 3 rounds. I went 1 and 2. I came in unprepared. I underestimated my opponents and it showed.
But, as you can guess, the Brotherhood Tech was the top dog. Both top players in the final had BH tech and they were very good with it.

Those of you going to knoxville check your deck on weakness against the brotherhood.

There were 6 of us and here is the breakdown:
Player 1: I played a Beatstick deck that had some glaring holes because of lack of preparation. I was just happy to be
playing against other skilled players. FF/Xmen with a "Mine's Bigger than Yours" attitude. I was in every game, but my mid game was hurt by the Brotherhood mid game, where they rule the day. I've added some things to my deck that totally changed the dynamic of the mid game. I am going to test it out again before knoxville hopefully TheBeats will allow me the chance to test it against his wicked fast BH deck...

Players 2 and 3: As stated before there was two BH decks that made it to the finals.

Player 4: Another X-Men/FF deck that was being handled by a New Player. He seemed like a great guy! He hadn't played much yet and his tech was a little off kilter, but it's to be expected. (well, none of us can really say "Back in the Day" yet, since technically, we're all "New Players")

Player 5: Fat (his nickname) played a swarm sentinel deck that really had great tech, but for some reason he just happened to play the BH deck first and it didn't come out as he hoped I'm sure!

Player 6: FF beatstick/equipment deck. This was the only game that was on par with my deck. We split the first two games (one of which went in to turn 9 I believe). The third game I just didn't get the cards I needed. It just made me realized that skill on the board, skill in card choice and skill in capitalizing on your opponents mistakes can all be overshadowed by having the correct curve and character to resource ratio in your deck. If you don't have a very consistent draw your leaving your game more on the side of luck, and you definitely don't want that to happen against a skilled player.


Round 1: I lost 2-0 vs the brotherhood
Round 2: I won 1-0 vs the XMen/FF deck
Round 3: I lost 1-2 vs the FF beatstick deck

Having these kinds of small competitions locally can really give you some insight into how the larger competitions will go. If I had to put money on what tech is being played by the top 8 players in Knoxville next Saturday, I would say that at least 50% will be some kind of BH tech.

Like TheBeats said yesterday to me, you have to think less with that tech. Which equates to less mistakes, which in turn equates to more wins.

Anyone else had any experience like this with their local scene?

-MWS

Thanks for the write up Wicked.

I was thinking about doing the same type of write up but you did it for me.

I will solidify the quote.

When you are playing in a major tourney one of two things needs to happen.

1. You play a deck that requires little to no brain power to operate. This helps you focus on the harder options that will pop up during the course of the game. NBH really does this to a "T". The only thing you really have to think about is who you are going to discard when it gets to turn four to Feral Rage.

This allows you to think more about the board and the match up rather than what you need to draw or what is in your hand. It allows the attacks to be easier to find the weak spot and get that ever important breakthrough.

2. The other thing you can do is play a deck to death. This overcomes the easy deck archtype as you are now a pro with this deck and will know exaclty what to do in most every circumstance the deck will encounter.

This will make mediocre decks good. It will also make good complicated great. It is much more difficult to this quickly. This will be the reason more than half the field will play NBH. Everyone believes it to be better than most of the field and therefore are less likely(lazy) to do their own research into what really is the "best" deck out there.


Now that is the quote, as accurate as it was, expanded even more.

and yes I will throw the NBH at you for some testing.

Outstanding stuff, thanks.

Sounds like the big dog will have his day. I agree, it is all I have been practicing against. Watch your back, though... there is a Doom toolbox and a FF toybox gaining on you.

How cool is this? I just start perusing the forums, and I'm pretty sure this is about a tournament that I played. It's nice to see some tournament reports, and hopefully I can find some from other areas to get a feel for what is out there.