OK, I'll give a quick round up.
First of all, the attendance was low. Part of that is on me for not pushing this very hard this year, but in my defense I have a ton of personal stuff on the home front (not really bad, just lots of it) as well as the slew of YMG work that I just completed to go along with my increasingly high pressure full time job. The other is that while Dreamation is organized by the same folks that organize DexCon and it's at the same location, the turn out was only about 2/3 of what you'd expect at DexCon. I was unaware of that so we where clearly below expected attendance. That said, we still got a ton of gaming in and it was pretty darned fun.
Brook and I showed up Friday morning, picked up our pre-reg materials, set up, and started playing. He had to leave around dinner time to attend a concert with his wife so we just had 3 of us (Eric, my son Rylan, and myself) for the Friday night big game. Eric won that one quite handily.
Saturday we had local Undead legend Chris Dixon show up for a couple of games so I sat out the 1st 2 games and plugged myself in to maintain an even amount of players. So we had this:
Round 1Chris (Undead) over Rylan (Classic Hawkshold)
Brook (Dark Elves!) over Eric (Dwarves)
Round 2Chris over Brook
Eric over Rylan
Round 3Brook over Rylan
Marcus (Wuxing) over Eric
Finals (Sunday)Brook over Eric
Congrats to Brook for winning the Winter Invitational using Dark Elves of all factions!
I'll let the players get into the particulars.
We also had another big game Saturday night that was a load of fun despite my troops not being able to do a single thing right. Of note was Eric's battle cry of the weekend: "We are so screwed!". Yet he and Brook still beat Rylan and I handily.
Of Note:Wile he lost all of his games, Rylan (now 13) was competitive in all of them. He's getting better and he's developed a true passion for the game.
Eric's luck seemed to run afoul all weekend. He didn't necessarily roll terribly all the time, but when he wasn't rolling terribly his opponents where rolling extraordinarily well. And in his first game against Brook he blew nearly every route check he took. With Dwarves. The game I played against him came down to a square-off between his Hammermen and my Wuxing Guardians. He needed the Hammermen to pass a check at a 15 after he played a card. He rolled a 16. Him having to borrow my dice for the weekend may have had something to do with all that
While he lost all of his.
Again, Brook played Dark Elves. That's certainly of note. He had the High Elven box in his hand then changed his mind at the last minute much to the shock of all.
