Valeaterhole-2nd place Packrat Comics Hilliard, OH March 7

Was a 17 player tourney. Played against a lot of ETF. Lost to 1 RP and one NEH FA deck.

Deck is pretty simple. Draw lots of cards, play lots of econ. Blackmail into remotes and usually archives for a possible win. Blackmail won me far more games then did Keyhole. People just kept thinking I couldn't dig into the next way to play a blackmail, but it usually isn't that hard.

1 copy of frame job included in case someone could get rid of the bad pub. Spinal Modem was great and saved me a ton of credits. If I could go back, I'd consider cutting the Cutlery events for parasites and more recursion. I'd also consider account siphon over lucky find, but I hate running with tags.

One really cool play I will remember was allowing an etf player to score a pri req which she rezzed a tollbooth on her scoring remote with . I had exactly 11 creds. She had a rezzed architect on HQ. I play Wanton Destruction into the architect, she installs something in the remote, and I jacked out. installed femme, played blackmail with my last cred, bypassed the tollbooth with the bad pub and scored a 3 pointer for the win. If that hadn't been an agenda I'm fairly certain I would have lost.

Also had one guy in the last round of swiss rage about blackmail to which all I felt I could do was shrug and say, "sorry?"

Played ETF fast advance, and I think both decks performed roughly the same in win percentage.