Some Memories of Worlds '05

[baw]

1st day.. 3 wins, 1 loss

First off, I have never been through such a series of stressful, high tension games and to put on top of that the last day.. I cracked. I couldn't take it anymore. I need more practice playing games like that! I was about sick by the third day and ready to swear MW off forever. I am not sure why I encountered such stress but it definitely took my off my games. On my opponents side they managed to keep it together while I did not on the last day. I lost my last 3 games by a handful of points.. I must say Kudo's to everyone who played. The good news is that I have made some great friends and met great people!


Ok First day Drafting.. I haven't ever done a draft like this. It was rather interesting. We ended up with Tons of Goshawks (most HL) and Jaguar's on the tables.. My last booster I said that I always open from the top and my kids tell me to open from the bottom. So I opened from the bottom and got Black Rose! The weird thing was you got the pilot and equipment when you chose the mech. That made all the LE's/ Uniques quite powerful!


Ok First day First game

I drafted ok.. but I couldn't get formations. That hurt me some. I would have liked to get formations.

I haven't played black rose much before but I thought it would be good for sealed.

I played against Hiroto from Japan.

He had a jaguar and some other units.. it went pretty fast. I managed to kill his mech and then it was over.

My second game was against.... Scrapheap?

I am drawing a blank here. I remember playing him (#2 in the worlds tournament) I know no memories of his forces but they were unremarkable. My biggest memory from this game was towards the end of the game I roll 3 consecutive Critical misses. Fortunately had the game at this point but it was portent of how bad I will roll over the next couple of days!



My third game was against Elite130.. A player I was very concerned about playing. He had a HL Goshawk (he recruited at my table) and a Rukoroubi. I managed force him to a bad position and was able to destroy him. he got vc 3. Elite is a great guy! I really liked hanging out with him!


My fourth game was against Mizerama. He had drafted a great Army. two mars assault tanks and a couple of arty and a JF Goshawk. We maneuvered for a while and then they called 5-7 minues. He had 450 pt army. I had a 447. I realized I had to do something. I assaulted with Blackrose. Killed an infantry.. I figured I would run away then.. Well I failed my heat roll. 1 Tank could fire on me and The Goshawk dfa'ed me. The failed heat roll cost me the game ... He played it well but I didn't roll well enough.

[baw]

We played the Super Secret Format.

My first game in Super Secret Format was playing against Masakari.. Last year's World Champ. We bid down to like 447. The army was Chikako (gab Smith), JF Goshawk and a BR ATV, LE BR ATV and Merc Infantry (7) move. Marc built his army and took CHikako (gab Smith) with Electronic Camo and Goshawk with Electronic Camo. We maneuvered the whole game. Our turns were pretty quick. We took a fair number of turns maneuvering countermanevuering. I had to protect the infantry. I stayed away from Blocking!

The 5-7 minutes was called. He started pressuring harder. He finally moved forward to attack I got infantry out of direct attack range. I based his chikako with Goshawk and based his goshawk with CHikako.
He picked up the dice to make the first attack roll and they called time. I had more VC2 since I played the bag army. It was a win with one victory!


My second round was against Tillman German Champ. He was 10-1 with highest number of VC's on 3rd day!

The army was two green rokuroubi's and a Spirit Cat Sun CObra. I really didn't want to play this army. We bid down to 400. I told him I would play the army if he would only build 400. He brought black rose and a little bit of support (I wish I would bring some more support)

We maneuvered some.. I got to where I needed 12's to hit.. I rolled 10 attacks.. Missed them all. I had to make 5 shutdown rolls and failed all of them . I didn't win against him rolling like this. He couldn't believe how bad I was rolling either

Third round was against this years World champ.

The bag army was Black Rose Army + 2x JF Slyphs and trackbikes. I think the bidding went down to 417 points, and I asked him to build the army. He went with Chikako, along with 2x SS arrows, 3x DF ATVs and misc support. I pressured him and then used the Sylph's to try and kill SSW Arrow IV's. I crit missed first attack but finally the sylph's make good and the victory was mine!
He did get VC 3 though!

Another victory for me!

[Zxqueb]

Thanks for the wrapup of the first two days, Baw!

Z

[baw]

I really need to get busy and do the third day.. It is really fuzzy what happened on the third day When I get some time I will write down what I remember!