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[Rabid]

Dominion UK Championship.
http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/game.php?id=BOR344

Was expecting a better turn out but I guess with the nice weather some people stayed home.
(45 tickets pre sold) about 24 players in the event.

I'm from a competitive Magic past, so I guess this event wasn't really targeted at me.
3 rounds of 4 player Base set, followed by a Top 4. Duplicate random boards for each table.
8 points for a win
4 for second
2 for third
1 for 4th
Ties broken by total VP.
Random pairings each round apart for the Top4 cut.

The format wasn't quite to my liking, but was a good fun days Dominion.
Nice to play with "real" cards for a change.

Round 1

"Grab 3 other players that you don't know and play"
Moat, Village, Thief, Gardens, Feast, Witch, Market, Festival, (Adventure? + 1 more)

I have played only a handful of non 2 player games.
So I wasn't really sure what to do here.
I go for Feast Silver. (I guess this should be Feast Moat?)
I use feast for a festival when 2 players go heavy thief.
I then add 3 moats one Witch and a Village 2nd Festival and a Market (should have been a festival).
The 2 Thief players get buried in curses and copper.
I win the garden split 7 / 4 / 1 and with it the game.
1-0


Round 2
This is basically the 1st player set. (Throne Room instead of Militia)
Cellar, Moat, Village, Workshop, Remodel, Smithy, Throne Room, Council Room, Market, + 1 more card.
2 players go for BM + Smithy, 1 for Smith opening into Village + Smithy + TR + Money.
I build the mega engine, opening Remodel + Workshop.
Build to $17 double prov turn.
Next turn is Smithy into $8, followed by:
Draw deck, workshop for a TR, draw it, TR a remodel plus remodel on 3 golds for 3 Provence, buy the last Provence, with 0 actions, 0 coins and 2 buys spare.
2-0

Game 3
Moat, Woodcutter, Gardens, Thief, Throne Room, Remodel, Militia, Smithy, Witch, Library.
Another Witch + gardens slog.

I open, Woodcutter + Remodel, Grab 4 moats, a thief and a throne room.
Every one buys to many terminals and gets bogged down in curses, I win with 6 garden and 45 cards.
3-0

Final
Moat, Chapel, Village, Thief, Gardens, Smithy, Lab, Witch, more...
More Witch gardens, but this time the only +gain is Thief.
P1 BM Smithy + Witch, 29 vp
P2 Thief + Witch +Gardens, 4 gardens, 45 cards, Estates + Curses = 17 vp (more a few more turns and this gets close.
P3 Me, Chapel down to 6 card Village, Chapel, Silver, Silver, Silver, Moat
I add a witch, several Golds 5 Provence, a duchy and 1 curse for 32
My moat saves me from a lots of attacks, I get lucky to have it in hand at all the right times.
P4 Chapels down as well, but with 2 moats, no witch, lab. Gets unlucky to lose only gold to Thief so is a turn behind me.
4-0

Many thanks to all the players and organisers for a well run friendly event.

Rabid

[DG]

If I'd known about it I might have gone. Nevermind. Congratulations on the win.

[Rabid]

Thanks.
Sorry I meant to bump this thread last week, but forgot
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=7076.0

[ashersky]

Round 2
This is basically the 1st player set. (Throne Room instead of Militia)
Cellar, Moat, Village, Workshop, Remodel, Smithy, Throne Room, Council Room, Market, + 1 more card.
2 players go for BM + Smithy, 1 for Smith opening into Village + Smithy + TR + Money.
I build the mega engine, opening Remodel + Workshop.
Build to $17 double prov turn.
Next turn is Smithy into $8, followed by:
Draw deck, workshop for a TR, draw it, TR a remodel plus remodel on 3 golds for 3 Provence, buy the last Provence, with 0 actions, 0 coins and 2 buys spare.
2-0

Poor competitors.

In the unpublished Round 5, you emptied the supply on Turn 2.

[Thisisnotasmile]

Did anyone else from here attend? I think Tables said he'd go to the expo at some point. I'd have liked to go, but I can't afford it at the moment. I look forward to May bank holiday weekend once I have money. I'll expo Fri-Sun and then head over to Slam Dunk in Wolves on the Monday.

[Rabid]

Round 2
This is basically the 1st player set. (Throne Room instead of Militia)
Cellar, Moat, Village, Workshop, Remodel, Smithy, Throne Room, Council Room, Market, + 1 more card.
2 players go for BM + Smithy, 1 for Smith opening into Village + Smithy + TR + Money.
I build the mega engine, opening Remodel + Workshop.
Build to $17 double prov turn.
Next turn is Smithy into $8, followed by:
Draw deck, workshop for a TR, draw it, TR a remodel plus remodel on 3 golds for 3 Provence, buy the last Provence, with 0 actions, 0 coins and 2 buys spare.
2-0

Poor competitors.

In the unpublished Round 5, you emptied the supply on Turn 2.

Yes I did feel a little mean doing this.
My 10+ action turns followed by 3 very short turns.

[Rabid]

Did anyone else from here attend? I think Tables said he'd go to the expo at some point. I'd have liked to go, but I can't afford it at the moment. I look forward to May bank holiday weekend once I have money. I'll expo Fri-Sun and then head over to Slam Dunk in Wolves on the Monday.

A couple of people mentioned having played a little on Goko, but I didn't get any names sorry.

[Tables]

Did anyone else from here attend? I think Tables said he'd go to the expo at some point. I'd have liked to go, but I can't afford it at the moment. I look forward to May bank holiday weekend once I have money. I'll expo Fri-Sun and then head over to Slam Dunk in Wolves on the Monday.

I had intended to attend, but I decided to revise for exams instead. On top of that, I was out of practice (hadn't played much Dominion in a while), so I wasn't expecting to do that well.

Sounds like the competition wasn't particularly good, and base Dominion only = ugh. If I had practiced a little and turned up, maybe I'd have stood a chance. Probably not versus Rabid in the final, but I might well have gotten there.