Gone Viral - 2nd Seed Cambridge Regionals

This deck was 5-2 on the day and helped seed me second after 7 rounds of Swiss (73 players). Wins against RP Glacier, HBFA, HB Cibernetics, Blue Sun, and Tennin. Losses to a well teched and played HBFA as well an RP deck. The RP game was very close but ultimately Nisei token and economy disparity got the best of Noise.

I was very satisfied with the performance of this deck on the day, it complimented the Corp deck speed very well (yay for having 25 plus minutes before the next round).

This is a pretty standard Noiseshop with no Paige Piper (didn't do enough for me in testing). I had been playing this deck the most over the last several weeks, and thus felt the most comfortable with and knew I wanted to bring. I kept three I've Had Worse anticipating either needing to see key cards quickly, or having to protect against a kill. Inject was also fantastic at giving access to key cards when needed.

There are very few changes I would make, but after reflection, and reviewing the list Pacer won Tulsa with, I think Lamprey is a great choice. Daily Casts didn't do much for me on the day and shockingly seemed like a tempo hit on occassion. I had so many times where I tried to force a rez on HQ to make access to other servers easier and the Corp was just never threatened enough, they were okay with my odds out of HQ enough times that just a Datasucker token and an access were okay with them, and sometimes that is just not acceptable when you want to access a remote or make a big run elsewhere. Lamprey makes that economic threat which might make them think twice about not rezzing that Bako on HQ or Enigma or whatever it is that might mean their score server is more permeable.

Medium also did not need to be a two of... In a lot of my testing I had been winning with R&D digs near the end, so I thought seeing it quicker might make the games go smoother, but in the end it didn't help as much as I thought, and I think I only ever installed it twice across all 8 games I played with Noise. The Incubator include by Pacer was cool, and I thought of several situations where a one-of Incubator could have made those Parasites hit harder or that one R&D dig better, it just seems like a very cool include and I see more upside to it than downside.

This Noise deck runs a lot, and Knight was an MVP.

Noise was the loss that kicked me out at 5th place, losing to Chris's IG deck. I had scored a Hades turn 1 out of archives after a double virus install and run, so was in a good place to sit back and continue to make money and wait. Unfortunately working the night shift the evening before and 12 hours of netrunner makes you think differently, so instead of leaving the 8 installed remotes alone (two of them being mushin'd several turns earlier) I decided to go check them with my Imp (I had two I've Had Worse in hand). Well as you can imagine that didn't end well next turn, but in the end I'm just glad I didn't lose to RP or NEH :-P

It might be worth noting this was the only non-Shaper runner in the Top 8.

Overall, an awesome day playing against some great folks that I hope to see in the future.