A variation of the various Palana builds out there that I used for the ETX Regionals at Tacoma, WA. Notably Josh01's, and some inspiration from playing against TheBigBoy when I was testing my runner via Jinteki.net. I changed the deck to suit my liking. The deck lost 2 games out of the 6 total games including the swiss and top 8 cut.
My corp won against Hayley, Andy Stealth, Whizz Cutlery, and Classic Kate with Hyperdriver. The deck had a super variance lost that I've barely encountered playing all this time. It lost to second place's Exile in literally turn one. I had an amazing starting hand, so wasn't flooded or anything. Exile installed Film Critic, run R&D and scores Corporate Sales Team on 2nd Click, scores Global Food Initiative on 3rd Click, then runs and hosts The Future Perfect on 4th Click. The other game that my Palana lost, is against the eventual winner's Val Ddos False Echo Medium big dig deck. I had recognized and survived his combo in mid game, but I made a glaring mistake of attempting to score out after his combo whiffed. I installed a Caprice Nisei on the remote instead of my flooded HQ, which cost me the game and knocked me down from winner's bracket to the loser's final.
The corp deck originally ran 3 NAPD and Agroplex's, but I had replaced them with -1 NAPD, -2 Agroplex, +1 CST, +1 Crisium due to fear of Siphon crims. I also kept TFP in order to use Tollbooth to shore up my shaper weaknesses. Marcus Batty's are in the deck because I suck at PSI, and I further added Cobra's for cheap Ichi 1.0 replacement.
I like the current ICE and Agenda spread, but going forward I still think TFP is too much of a liability for me. I may replace TFP, -1 Crisium, to go up to 2 GFI and think about what to add in for the last slot. It will completely be dependent on how I feel the meta will be. (My bad predictions.)
Strategy wise it's basically a rush deck as all other Palana players would have already mentioned. In some match ups, like against crims, I would prefer to score CST first to make myself more siphon resilient. Or score out NAPD quickly behind an ETR ice early with no upgrade against whizzard. Shapers are the scariest, as they can lock the remote and R&D really well in mid game. I would have to force runs on the remote by threatening to score in order to stop them from setting up. I feel by mid game, if I'm not at 4 points, I probably have lost. The 9 agenda spread suits my personal style. The 8 agenda suite is equally as valid I think.
good deck!