Songs of Fire sings of the battles of Rage: Apocalypse at GenCon 2001.

Fellow Garou,

Here are the results for GenCon 2001 World Championships for Rage: Apocalypse


Location: Midwest Express Center, Milwaukee WI
9 Participants
3 Rounds of multiplayer Swiss, followed by a multi-player stand alone final.

Craig Randall "Marissa Hunts Men" - Black Furies: Julisha, Mari (exp), Volcheka
William Bogard "Strikes Silent" - Nwinda, Nephthys Mu'at, Carleson
Steve Baldock - Black Spiral Dancers: Longtooth, Hunts-at-Night, Old One Eye,
Phreak
Ross Wolfe "Street Mime" - Black Spiral Dancers: Longtooth, Hunts-at-Night,
Jason O'Kelly
Jeff Waltersdorf "Lurks-between-Bytes" - Red Talon Ahrouns: Howls-like-Thunder,
Mamu
Ed Swing "Songs of Fire" - Red Talons: Fireclaw, Old Storm Chaser,
Growls-at-Moon, Amari, Frenar
David Lindsey "Teaches-the-Young" - Kailindo Wolves: Antonine, John
Hidden-Moon, Tanzut
Matt Farney "Sees-through-Lies" - (mostly) theurges: Pearl River, Cassandra
Shadowwatcher, Corcoran, Diem
Brian Waltersdorf "Chases After Stars" - Anna Kliminski, Fireclaw, Susan Anthony

After the Swiss rounds were completed, the standings looked like this (*
denotes a game win)
1 Ed Swing 63**
2 Craig Randall 58**
3 Steve Baldock 55**
4 William Bogard 51
5 Ross Wolfe 49*
6 Matt Farney 43**
7 David Lindsey 42
8 Jeff Waltersdorf 34
9 Brian Waltersdorf 14

The finals set up with only three tribes represented: Black Furies, Red Talons
(with a Black Fury cub and Bastet kit) and Black Spiral Dancers. The Black
Spirals attacked the Black Furies relentlessly, killing Julisha and later Mari.
Meanwhile, the Red Talons once again launched a telling attack on a Pentex
Refinery.  After an aborted attack from the Umbra on a Nexus Crawler, the Red
Talons returned to the physical world to destroy their renegade,
Sower-of-Thunder.

Final Score in the finals:
Ed Swing 29
Steve Baldock 17
Craig Randall 0?

Overall observations:
In the Swiss rounds, the overall renown broke down as follows:
Gaia vs. Gaia: 98
Gaia vs. Wyrm characters/allies: 13
Gaia vs. Enemies: 194 (+ some renown admonishments)
Wyrm vs. Wyrm: 0  (never faced each other)
Wyrm vs. Gaia characters/allies: 80
Wyrm vs. Victims: 24

There were a fair amount of Gaia vs. Gaia attacks, but fortunately for Gaia,
twice as many kills were wyrm kills. Several packs did not devote any resources
to finding (playing) Enemies (or Victims).  The Wyrm-tainted Wyldlings (Enemy)
were the most frequently killed creature.

Style points go to Matt Farney, for most vicious Chipmunk (Iglanotti scored
14VP in one game), Craig Randall and Ross Wolfe for most points scored in a
game (tied at 32), Jeff Waltersdorf for the Pyrrhic victory (losing
Howls-like-Thunder killing a Nexus Crawler, only to be Renown-Admonished), and
everyone else for playing some great Rage.

Storyline implications I will leave to Fenris...

I hope to see all of you next year - bring your packmates! Bring your Enemies! 
Bring your Victims!

Yours in Service to Gaia

Songs of Fire, Red Talon Galliard - Rage: Apocalypse Rules Wolf