From Matt Farney, keeper of Garou Law:

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 21:28:56 -0500
From: "Matt Farney" 
To: rageinfo@frpg.com
Subject: Results of Nov 21, 1999 Rage tournament:

For your reading please, here are the results of our most recent tournament:

Tournament Listing for November 21st:
Location: Schumer's Baseball Cards and Collectibles, 9144 Lebanon Pike
(US48), Centerville Ohio

8 Paricipants, DCI Sanctioned. 4 Rounds of one on one. 1 round unsanctioned
multiplayer finals.

Rankings after 4 Rounds of Swiss: (Placing, Name, Record, Total Renown,
OpMatch%)
First tiebreaker: OpM% then renown. These rankings were those turned into
the DCI.

David Lindsey (Silent Striders) 4-0 (83) 50.0
Matthew Farney (Children of Gaia) 2-2 (67) 62.5%
Kevin Englehart (Bone Gnawers) 2-2 (61) 62.5%
Aaron Kinser (Ahroun) 2-2 (57) 58.3%
Jonathan Jones (Stargazers) 2-2 (53) 58.3%
David Walsh (Uktena) 2-2 (48) 45.8%
Paul Kinser (Ahroun) 2-2 (29) 45.8%
Anne Kinser (Red Talons) 0-4 (22) 50.0%

Finals: for a VCS
Farney 22, Aa. Kinser 14, Lindsey 11, Englehart 7
Consolation finals: for a Bane Crow
Jones 27, An.Kinser 15, Walsh 6, P. Kinser 6

Individual Rounds:
Round 1:
Englehart 23, Walsh 4
Lindsey 21, Farney 7
Aa Kinser 24, P Kinser 4
Jones 20, An Kinser 0
Round 2:
Englehart 21, Jones 11
Lindsey 17 (timed), Aa Kisner 9
Walsh 21, An Kinser 6
Farney 27, P Kinser 0
Round 3:
Lindsey 24, Englehart 4
Jones 22, Farney 10
Walsh 23, Aa Kinser 6
P Kinser 10 (timed), An Kinser 4
Round 4:
Lindsey 21, Jones 0 (by game loss 5 pts scored)
Farney 23, Englehart 13
P Kinser 15 (timed), Walsh 0
Aa Kinser 18 (timed), An Kinser 12

The Good:
Kyle just because he puts up with the Rage/L5R players.
Eight people turned out. The kids were late (the posters are there for a
reason Aaron =)
Lack of cheese. No Get or Furies. Ahroun played by two who had not played it
before.
Stargazers and Children of Gaia played for the first time respectively.
Balanced results!! Eight players and six finished at 2-2. Quite unusual.

The Bad:
Certain people did not show up. We should have had 12-16 not 8.

The Odd:
John incurred probably the only Rage infraction ever to be reported to the
DCI.
John had 3 Forceful Winds in his deck with the cub who allows three of a
combat card with an auspice or tribe benefit. FW is a benefit Kailindo. He
received a game loss in round 4, wiping out his 5 points. In a bizarre twist
of the wheel of fate, John would have made the upper finals with those 5
points.

-MF
Farneymp@erinet.com  |  Official Rage Rules Guru
Togashi Mattsu, Enlightening Monk | Sees-Through-Lies, Children of Gaia
Ragabash
Visit the Official Rage Rulings Archive at
www.erinet.com/farneymp/rulings.html

Matt also answers a question on the format of the tournament:

Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 18:02:25 -0500
From: "Matt Farney" 
To: rageinfo@frpg.com
Subject: Re: Catching up...



>Second, you posted the finals for the tourney on the 21st.  You said that you
>expected 12+ players but only had eight.  Was the tourney supposed to be one
>on one or was it supposed to be multiplayer?
>If it was multiplayer and you defaulted to one on one, what chaos was
>generated with deck construction.
>If it was one on one, then how did everyone enjoy that type of Rage tourney?
>Just curious, let me know.


I usually announce in advance what format the tournament will be.
Straight multiplayer or One on One.
If we run One on One, we list the results as of the Swiss rounds (for DCI
purposes) and then we play a multiplayer final(s) for prizes.
[Aside: This also lets me play in the tournaments.  In straight multiplayer,
I cannot play.]
To run a 1-1 tourney, I used DCI reporter to generate pairings and
tiebreakers.  All I had to do was to input the people and keep track of
renown totals for the third tiebreaker.

I seem to get mixed reactions.  Some people like multiplayer more, some
individual games more.  I like 1-1 personally (aside from the obvious
reason) because each player plays 4-6 games rather than 2-3.

-Matt
Farneymp@erinet.com  |  Official Rage Rules Guru
Togashi Mattsu, Enlightening Monk | Sees-Through-Lies, Children of Gaia
Ragabash
Visit the Official Rage Rulings Archive at
www.erinet.com/farneymp/rulings.html