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Polish Nationals

Hello all,
On the 4th of March we had the 4th Polish National MECCG Tournament and I'd like to share some infos from it with the international community, and by it let you all know that Polish MECCG community is alive and kicking and expanding

Since 2004 MECCG in Poland has it's renaissance. Then we had our first “Nationals” – a group of people from several cities who met over the internet and decided to come together to play some MECCG and exchange –face to face– their game experiences with one another.
17 people came and had a great time…

2 years have passed and our meetings became annual and more and more like true National MECCG Championships. This time for the first time we tried to reach old “retired” players as well as lure new ones into this great game. We made posters and posted them in as many cities we could reach through known players and game shops. You can view the poster here:

We reached many old and some new players and now have a total count of about 40 active players. Unfortunately (or due to time limits – fortunately ) only 27 could attend the Tournament, but it still was our new record.

The Tournament was held in Warsaw (Warszawa – in Polish) at the Warsaw University of Technology at The Faculty of Mechatronics. The entry fee was 20 zlotys (around 5 euro or 6 dollars). Our event started at 10 am and the games lasted till around 5 pm, after that had the ceremonial reading of the results and presentation of prizes followed by a card draft – all that took about 2 hours so the official end of the event was around 7 pm.
For the prizes we had 1 booster box of MEWH, 17 METD boosters and 5 MELE boosters. Also Markus Richartz sent us 5 German promo sets (again, a big “Thank you” from all of the Polish MECCG community for you Markus ) – 1 of them we gave to our graphics artist (as a thank you for all the work he put into designing the poster and name tags -you can view the name tags here), 3 were handed for the first 3 places, and the last one was a consolation prize for the last place. The main prize for the first place was a Palantir [Palantir of Warsaw or Palantir of Minas PKiN (PKiN - Pałac Kultury i Nauki; The Palace of Culture and Science in English) as others call it ]
You can view the prizes, and some group pictures of us here, and for those who would want to view the whole photo gallery here’s the link to get there.

On the Tournament we played in a general opponent 1-deck game format, with some exceptions from the normal tournament rules:
- each player could bring only 1 deck with which he played vs. all of his opponents (no matter their alignments) through the whole tournament
- 25 MP’s or exhausting your play deck was needed to call the Council (auto-council after both players exhausted their play decks)
- the time limit for a 1 deck game was 1 hour
- Weakest Link was in use
- German promo cards were allowed
- Burglary and Special movement to Gorgoroth optional rules were in use, as well as Fallen-wizard special CVCC rule and Wizard to Fallen-wizard conversion rules
- A Chance Meeting and We Have Come to Kill were limited to play only during the organization phase
- Sacrifice of Form was ruled not to discard the wizard’s character followers
- Wizard’s Trove + The White Tree: it was ruled that Sapling of the White Tree still needs to be discarded
- Fallen-wizard’s player non-overt companies containing half-orcs were considered hero companies
- the UEP 2-minder Balrog rule was not in use

There were 5 games, below you can see who played vs. whom in what round, what alignments they had, what were their MP scores and awarded Tournament Points, and at the bottom the final ranking and results for all players

Round I

1. Wojtek (Hero) vs Tworek (Hero)
Marshaling Points 12:20
Victory Points 8:0 (The One Ring)

2. Yabree (Hero) vs cek (Hero)
Marshaling Points 20:27
Victory Points 2:4

3. Robert (Fallen Gandalf) vs Root (Ringwraith)
Marshaling Points 38:13
Victory Points 6:0

4. Arthus (Balrog) vs Balar (Ringwraith)
Marshaling Points 31:13
Victory Points 6:0

5. Konrad (Fallen Gandalf) vs Gyg (Hero)
Marshaling Points 29:28
Victory Points 4:2

6. Gror (Ringwraith) vs Kajtek (Ringwraith)
Marshaling Points 27:0
Victory Points 6:0

7. Kfiad (Ringwraith) vs Highway (Ringwraith)
Marshaling Points 0:38
Victory Points 0:6

8. Chris (Hero) vs Ciachu (Hero)
Marshaling Points 39:24
Victory Points 5:1

9. Kober (Hero) vs Nag (Hero)
Marshaling Points 35:9
Victory Points 6:0

10. Moto Atomo (Hero) vs Kriszniok (Hero)
Marshaling Points 37:11
Victory Points 6:0

11. Jaded (Hero) vs Morgoth (Hero)
Marshaling Points 27:10
Victory Points 6:0

12. Thorin(KK) (Hero) vs mały (Hero)
Marshaling Points 19:24
Victory Points 2:4

13. Magh (Hero) vs Efgard (Hero)
Marshaling Points 26:23
Victory Points 4:2

Fram (Hero) - bye (6 points)

Round II

1. Wojtek (Hero) vs Fram (Hero)
Marshaling Points 15:19
Victory Points 8:0 (The One Ring)

2. Highway (Ringwraith) vs Moto Atomo (Hero)
Marshaling Points 27:0
Victory Points 6:0

3. Jaded (Hero) vs Arthus (Balrog)
Marshaling Points 19:33
Victory Points 1:5

4. Robert (Fallen Gandalf) vs Kober (Hero)
Marshaling Points 47:2
Victory Points 6:0

5. Gror (Ringwraith) vs Chris (Hero)
Marshaling Points 31:31 (weakest link)
Victory Points 3.5:2.5

6. Magh (Hero) vs cek (Hero)
Marshaling Points 28:27
Victory Points 4:2

7. Konrad (Fallen Gandalf) vs mały (Hero)
Marshaling Points 26:15
Victory Points 5:1

8. Yabree (Hero) vs Gyg (Hero)
Marshaling Points 25:14
Victory Points 5:1

9. Efgard (Hero) vs Thorin (KK) (Hero)
Marshaling Points 29:26
Victory Points 4:2

10. Ciachu (Hero) vs Kajtek (Ringwraith)
Marshaling Points 37:6
Victory Points 6:0

11. Tworek (Hero) vs Morgoth (Hero)
Marshaling Points 29:12
Victory Points 6:0

12. Balar (Ringwraith) vs Kriszniok (Hero)
Marshaling Points 18:24
Victory Points 2:4

13. kfiad (Ringwraith) vs Nag (Hero)
Marshaling Points 12:31
Victory Points 0:6

Root (Ringwraith) - bye (5 points)

Round III

1. Wojtek (Hero) vs Robert (Fallen Gandalf)
Marshaling Points 2:47
Victory Points 0:6

2. Arthus (Balrog) vs Highway (Ringwraith)
Marshaling Points 21:27
Victory Points 2:4

3. Gror (Ringwraith) vs Konrad (Fallen Gandalf)
Marshaling Points 30:6
Victory Points 6:0

4. Magh (Hero) vs Chris (Hero)
Marshaling Points 29:40
Victory Points 2:4

5. Yabree (Hero) vs Jaded (Hero)
Marshaling Points 4:20
Victory Points 0:6

6. Ciachu (Hero) vs Moto Atomo (Hero)
Marshaling Points 23-26
Victory Points 2:4

7. cek (Hero) vs Tworek (Hero)
Marshaling Points 22:31
Victory Points 2:4

8. Efgard (Hero) vs Kober (Hero)
Marshaling Points 22:26
Victory Points 2:4

9. Nag (Hero) vs Fram (Hero)
Marshaling Points 14:28
Victory Points 0:6

10. Root (Ringwraith) vs mały (Hero)
Marshaling Points 9:25
Victory Points 0:6

11. Kriszniok (Hero) vs Thorin (KK) (Hero)
Marshaling Points 19:39
Victory Points 0:6

12. Gyg (Hero) vs Balar (Ringwraith)
Marshaling Points 32:24
Victory Points 4:2

13. kfiad (Ringwraith) vs Kajtek (Ringwraith)
Marshaling Points 22:11
Victory Points 6:0

Morgoth (Hero) - bye (4 points)

Round IV

1. Highway (Ringwraith) vs Robert (Fallen Gandalf)
Marshaling Points 21:15
Victory Points 4:2

2. Wojtek (Hero) vs Gror (Ringwraith)
Marshaling Points 16:23
Victory Points 8:0 (The One Ring)

3. Arthus (Balrog) vs Fram (Hero)
Marshaling Points 36:14
Victory Points 6:0

4. Jaded (Hero) vs Chris (Hero)
Marshaling Points 24:21
Victory Points 4:2

5. Kober (Hero) vs mały (Hero)
Marshaling Points 0:34
Victory Points 0:6

6. Tworek (Hero) vs Thorin (KK) (Hero)
Marshaling Points 28:12
Victory Points 6:0

7: Moto Atomo (Hero) vs Magh (Hero)
Marshaling Points 28:15
Victory Points 5:1

8. Ciachu (Hero) vs Konrad (Fallen Gandalf)
Marshaling Points 28:1
Victory Points 6:0

9. cek (Hero) vs Efgard (Hero)
Marshaling Points 32:30
Victory Points 4:2

10. Gyg (Hero) vs Nag (Hero)
Marshaling Points 30:15
Victory Points 6:0

11. Yabree (Hero) vs kfiad (Ringwraith)
Marshaling Points 31:14
Victory Points 6:0

12. Root (Ringwraith) vs Kriszniok (Hero)
Marshaling Points 32:10
Victory Points 6:0

13. Balar (Ringwraith) vs Morgoth (Hero)
Marshaling Points 21:23
Victory Points 2:4

Kajtek (Ringwraith) - bye (3 points)

Round V

1. Highway (Ringwraith) vs Wojtek (Hero)
Marshaling Points 35:1
Victory Points 6:0

2. Arthus (Balrog) vs Robert (Fallen Gandalf)
Marshaling Points 36:27
Victory Points 4:2

3. mały (Hero) vs Jaded (Hero)
Marshaling Points 14:14 (weakest link)
Victory Points 3,5:2,5

4. Gror (Ringwraith) vs Tworek (Hero)
Marshaling Points 29:26
Victory Points 4:2

5. Moto Atomo (Hero) vs Chris (Hero)
Marshaling Points 18:28
Victory Points 1:5

6. Ciachu (Hero) vs Gyg (Hero)
Marshaling Points 20:10
Victory Points 6:0

7. Fram (Hero) vs Yabree (Hero)
Marshaling Points 18:35
Victory Points 1:5

8. cek (Hero) vs Root (Ringwraith)
Marshaling Points 38:12
Victory Points 6:0

9. Kober (Hero) vs Thorin (KK) (Hero)
Marshaling Points 25:16
Victory Points 5:1

10. Konrad (Fallen Gandalf) vs Magh (Hero)
Marshaling Points 11:29
Victory Points 0:6

11. Efgard (Hero) vs Morgoth (Hero)
Marshaling Points 47:13
Victory Points 6:0

12. Balar (Ringwraith) vs kfiad (Ringwraith)
Marshaling Points 11:6
Victory Points 5:1

13. Kajtek (Ringwraith) vs Nag (Hero)
Marshaling Points 18:18 (weakest link)
Victory Points 3,5:2,5

Kirszniok (Hero) - bye (2 points)

Final Ranking

1. Highway 26 Ringwraith Warszawa
2. Wojtek 24 Wizard Kędzierzyn Koźle
3. Arthus 23 Balrog Warszawa
4. Robert Jan Hadam 22 Fallen Gandalf Warszawa
5. Ciachu 21 Wizard Herby
6. mały 20,5 Wizard Zabrze
7. Gror 19,5 Ringwraith Kędzierzyn Koźle
8. Jaded 19,5 Wizard Kędzierzyn Koźle
9. Chris 18,5 Wizard (no Wizard ) Warszawa
10. Tworek 18 Wizard Brzeg
11. cek 18 Wizard Warszawa
12. Yabree 18 Wizard Zabrze
13. Magh 17 Wizard Mińsk Mazowiecki (nearest heaven Warszawa )
14. Moto 16 Wizard Warszawa
15. Efgard 16 Wizard Kielce
16. kober 15 Wizard Warszawa
17. Gyg 13 Wizard Warszawa
18. Fram 13 Wizard Kraków
19. Thorin 11 Wizard Kędzierzyn Koźle
20. Root 11 Ringwraith Pabianice
21. Balar 11 Ringwraith Herby
22. Konrad 9 Fallen Gandalf Wałbrzych
23. Nag 8,5 Wizard Pabianice
24. Morgoth 8 Wizard Zabrze
25. kfiad 7 Ringwraith Pabianice
26. Kajtek 6.5 Ringwraith Warszawa/Zabrze
27. Kirszniok 6 Wizard Zabrze

(...)natomiast wzmianka o ich zasadzie UEP która zezwala Balrogowi na zagrywanie postaci z mindem mniejszym niz 3 z sideboard'u lub discard'u jest dla mnie wazna poniewaz wszyscy na meccg.net zdaja sie twierdzic ze jest to niezbedna do gry zasada która wsyzscy akceptuja i uzywaja - chce im pokazac ze radzimy sobie dobrze i bez tej zasady (...)

skoro precyzujecie kto gral jakim fallenem, to proponuje wyszczegolnic kto gral jakim wizardem czy ringwraithem.

Tak sobie radzimy, ze jeszcze ani razu sie nie zdarzylo, zeby Balrogowy gracz byl w dolnej polowce stawki.

A odnoszac sie do sedna tematu sprawozdania z naszego turnieju, to mysle, ze znacznie ciekawsze niz listowanie wszystkich wynikow byloby napisanie pare zdan o taliach zwycieskich graczy i jakies krociotkie opisy z najwazniejszych gier.

Polish Nationals

Hello all,
On the 4th of March we had the 4th Polish National MECCG Tournament and I'd like to share some infos from it with the international community, and by it let you all know that Polish MECCG community is alive and kicking and expanding

Since 2004 MECCG in Poland has it's renaissance. Then we had our first “Nationals” – a group of people from several cities who met over the internet and decided to come together to play some MECCG and exchange –face to face– their game experiences with one another.
17 people came and had a great time…

2 years have passed and our meetings became regular and more and more like true National MECCG Championships. This time for the first time we tried to reach old “retired” players as well as lure new ones into this great game. We made posters and posted them in as many cities we could reach through known players and game shops. You can view the poster here
We reached many old and some new players and now have a total count of about 40 active players. Unfortunately (or due to time limits – fortunately ) only 27 could attend the Tournament, but it still was our new record.

The Tournament was held in Warsaw (Warszawa – in Polish) at the Warsaw University of Technology at The Faculty of Mechatronics. The entry fee was 20 zlotys (around 5 euro or 6 dollars). Our event started at 10 am and the games lasted till around 5 pm, after that had the ceremonial reading of the results and presentation of prizes followed by a card draft – all that took about 2 hours so the official end of the event was around 7 pm.
For the prizes we had 1 booster box of MEWH, 17 METD boosters and 5 MELE boosters. Also Markus Richartz sent us 5 German promo sets (again, a big “Thank you” from all of the Polish MECCG community for you Markus ) – 1 of them we gave to our graphics artist (as a thank you for all the work he put into designing the poster and name tags -you can view the name tags here), 3 were handed for the first 3 places, and the last one was a consolation prize for the last place. The main prize for the first place was a Palantir [Palantir of Warsaw or Palantir of Minas PKiN (PKiN - Pałac Kultury i Nauki; The Palace of Culture and Science in English) as others call it ]
Here are the links to some group photos of us as well as photos of the prizes we had: group1, group2, prizes, Palantir, card draft
For those who would want to view the whole photo gallery here’s the link to get there.

On the Tournament we played in a general opponent 1-deck game format, there were 5 games. We played with some exceptions to the normal tournament rules, a few of them were:
- each player could bring only 1 deck with which he played vs. all of his opponents (no matter their alignments) through the whole tournament
- 25 MP’s or exhausting your play deck was needed to call the Council (auto-council after both players exhausted their play decks)
- the time limit for a 1 deck game was 1 hour
- Weakest Link was in use
- German promo cards were allowed
- Burglary and Special movement to Gorgoroth optional rules were in use, as well as Fallen-wizard special CVCC rule and Wizard to Fallen-wizard conversion rules
- the UEP 2-minder Balrog rule was not in use

Below is the Final Ranking, and for those curious who played vs. whom in what Round and how did each game go - here's a link to the full Round List

Final Ranking

1. Highway 26 Ringwraith Warszawa
2. Wojtek 24 Wizard Kędzierzyn Koźle
3. Arthus 23 Balrog Warszawa
4. Robert Jan Hadam 22 Fallen Gandalf Warszawa
5. Ciachu 21 Wizard Herby
6. mały 20,5 Wizard Zabrze
7. Gror 19,5 Ringwraith Kędzierzyn Koźle
8. Jaded 19,5 Wizard Kędzierzyn Koźle
9. Chris 18,5 Wizard (no Wizard ) Warszawa
10. Tworek 18 Wizard Brzeg
11. cek 18 Wizard Warszawa
12. Yabree 18 Wizard Zabrze
13. Magh 17 Wizard Mińsk Mazowiecki (nearest heaven Warszawa )
14. Moto 16 Wizard Warszawa
15. Efgard 16 Wizard Kielce
16. kober 15 Wizard Warszawa
17. Gyg 13 Wizard Warszawa
18. Fram 13 Wizard Kraków
19. Thorin 11 Wizard Kędzierzyn Koźle
20. Root 11 Ringwraith Pabianice
21. Balar 11 Ringwraith Herby
22. Konrad 9 Fallen Gandalf Wałbrzych
23. Nag 8,5 Wizard Pabianice
24. Morgoth 8 Wizard Zabrze
25. kfiad 7 Ringwraith Pabianice
26. Kajtek 6.5 Ringwraith Warszawa/Zabrze
27. Kirszniok 6 Wizard Zabrze