Yes! Good games, and I couldn’t remember if we had already played one. LOL
Is there an expansion in this game that gives you a unique starting deck, kind of like in Hero Realms? I always liked that. It might make me appreciate this more.
Not that I’m aware of.
Nope, you’re stuck starting with 8 scouts, 2 vipers, every single time.
The Gambits expansions do give you a couple of extra starting cards that either allow some extra actions whenever you choose to scrap them (like draw two cards, or gain two trade) or some permanent upgrades throughout the game (gain 1 attack at the start of each turn, vipers have +2 attack). That’s as close as you’ll get to a unique starting deck in Star Realms.
The only other set that changes the goal significantly is the Missions expansion, which gives you an alternate win condition–finish your 3 unique missions. You can still win the standard way, but the missions give you something else to shoot for if you can’t put together a good deck.
@JHTaube sorry about that delay for game three. In my confused mind I was thinking I already won twice against you, which obviously isn’t the case.
Having said all that I may have doomed myself…(Me? In a final round in anything? EVER?)
quick Update Time:
@johnl (jlongo) over @whovian223 (Whovian)
[20 vs -7], [0 vs 37] and [36 vs -19]
@Johnl advances to the final round
Slingshot racing is dangerous!
@Private_Prinny (Dai) over @JHTaube (JHTaube)
[-15 vs 37], [20 vs 0] and [10 vs -3]
GG @JHTaube, especially the last game had me on the edge the whole time…with all the discards I threw at you (twice you had to discard 4 (FOUR!) cards) you still gave me a very hard time there, well played!
@Baelnor (Baelnor) vs @KYakerDude (KyakerDude)
Still ongoing
Edit:
I decided to wait with the final round start for our last contestant.
Technically I could have seeded him for starting in game two, but I am not familiar with double elimination systems, so I want to randomize that starting positions, lest I am said to be gaming the system or whatever 
Err, I am confused, who am I supposed to be playing?
I think we are matched up because we both one the matches in our group.
Yes, you both won your first games in your group.
Now you are supposed to play for the last (third) slot in the finals
Great games! Heaps closer than the scores suggest
Apologies for the delay, yesterday was my 40th birthday, and that was reason enough for my so-called “friends” to raid me…they (we) are at the age were every excuse to skip out on familiar duties is fine just to have a good old fashioned male-only alcohol deletion day. Despite my insistence of not having a party (because I am a lazy a-hole) they thought it was a good idea to force it by showing up at my front door…and since it is a holiday here in (parts of) Germany why not?
They really didn’t think it trough…most of their girlfriend-now-wifes know me longer than they know each other…In two specific cases I was the cupid anyway…surprise when all the ladies showed up half an hour later to surprise me (their husbands).
I couldn’t even hold onto my disgruntled dismay about the forced social interaction when I saw the terror/embarrassment on the faces of the alphas who just settled in…
I live in a small apartment. We violated every Corona-law in existence yesterday…and if nothing bad comes from it then it was worth it…
Even the ferocious headache I am having now.
Anyways finals…
Same rules apply as with the prelim round. Best of 3, reporting with final scores. Only Frontiers set enabled.
Good luck @KYakerDude and @johnl
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Great games @Private_Prinny (Dai)!
I don’t have the score for the first game where I was crushed, but the last two were:
18 to -19
50 to -18
Sent a challenge to @Johnl.
Didn’t get the invite (username: jlongo). I’ll send one.
The first one was -7 to 10.
GG, but the last one was painful…never got a decent deck running in that one.
Great games @johnl
You had an amazing last turn, but I just barely had enough to do you in.
KYakerDude over JohnL
8 to -3
-13 to 22
7 to -1
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Great Games @johnl!
PP over @johnl
31 to -7
-6 to 20
45 to 0
Update time!
For some reason, challonge doesn’t display Set scores unless you hover over them. I think I remember that that was possible a long time ago…what’s the point of not having them show up by default?
Me? In a final?
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Me over @KYakerDude
1: 18 to -7
2: …a horrible loss I immediately wiped all traces from my brain (unfortunately Star Realms did that too)
3: 17 to 0
GG @KYakerDude, sorry about not taking a screenshot of game 2. I hate SR’s log function.
Since it is your first LOSS in the final rounds, want to proceed to round 5? See above?
cough I secretly plan to lose that round, since it cannot be that A: I win a tournament (ever) and B: win my OWN tournament cough 
@Private_Prinny Congratulations!
You won fair and square (even if it was my first loss ). Really great games.
I’ll be happy to play you again, but not for the tournament title, just for fun.
Thanks so much for organizing and running this tournament. I wouldn’t have played any more Star Realms nor bought the Frontiers expansion without you.
Alright, friendly matches it is then!
To all other participants:
Well fought, thanks for participating and I hope you all had fun!
Please feel free to direct any harsh critique my way, I believe the general consensus was that it wasn’t one of my better(?) tournaments?
As I believe to feel the itch to do other Star Realms (Ascension / Lord of the Waterdeep) tournaments soon any feedback is greatly appreciated!
Also, can someone please briefly summarize the SR situation in the Decathlon? I didn’t keep up with it (most game there I don’t own/ don’t want to play), so I have no idea how the time scale there is - so doing SR aside the Decathlon would be confusing, right?
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