March Madness: Finals! TNB vs Kree

It’s all over!

March Madness has been a laborious undertaking, but it’s been fun every step of the way, largely due to the wonderful people involved.  

No endeavour can ever go smoothly when handled by one misguided twit, and so, extra special big Lost Thanks go to:

 

• The Eponymous Pablo, for coming up with the concept in the first place.
• CaptainSpud, for, when I grabbed the idea with both hands, grabbing the other end and running with me.
• Carrbear and Gamerette, for putting up with our shenanigans, pitching in with the games, and proving that girls like cardgames too
• Emmy, for being the cutest widdle mascot any March Madness has ever seen
• The Hobby Kingdom, for providing us with a home base with comfy office chairs

… how much longer can I stretch this out before you just click the button below?

Oh, you already have…. Ah well… I hope you enjoy!

March Madness: Round Five Results

Dear Lord, we’re almost done! Only two matches in round five, the victors of which go on to face each other for the title of Immortal Champion (though I freely admit that they aren’t really Immortal… not even the memory, since we’ll probably forget all about this stuff once the MUN previews start… Ah well, it’s been a fun run while it lasted….)

 Gah! Too maudlin! Results! Read that, Solja Boi!

March Madness: Round Four Results

And we’re down to eight teams, people! The weak (and just plain unlucky) have been weeded out, the games are getting more intense, and one bad draw can still toll the death knell for your favourite decks!

Who moves on to the final four? Will the Brotherhood brutes continue to beat the crap out of everyone? Can Team Superman finally earn the respect that Cliff thinks they deserve? Read on and see!

March Madness: Round Three Results

Egads, what a mess last round was! Who would have thought the Teen Titans would have fallen to Secret Six via beatdown?? Not to mention Anti-matter whiffing their way out the door, Emerald Enemies trouncing the Avengers, and even the Crime Lords getting bipped out of the race! Oh the humanity!

Enough melodrama, on to round three!!

March Madness: Round Two Results

The big plus about moving on to round two is… there’s only half as many games to play!

With a number of the supposedly “easy” decks out of the way, the games turn more and more challenging… Of course, some of those so-called “easy” decks have turned out to be anything but weak, creating some startling upsets and moving that little bit closer to the finals.

With only 16 games to play in round two, the cards flew hard and fast and thus we have results… enjoy! Caveat: For many of these games, I was either not a player or not even in the room, so can’t give more than a passing comment therein…

Hobby League: Not much to report…

Well, I tell a lie, there’s actually quite a bit to report, with no less than twelve of the sixteen Round Two matches completed for March Madness… but to give those making their picks a chance, we won’t be posting the results until…. well, probably Sunday night…

… needless to say there’s been some more upsets, some blowouts, and some VERY close calls…

When decks are randomly assigned to the participants, you never know just how things will turn out… I’ll tell you now, my first experience of playing a Checkmate deck was rather… intense…

Nothing to see here, go about your business.

March Madness: Wrapping up Round One!

You’ve been such good little kiddies this year, gorging on your Easter chocolates and tossing the foil wrappers at each other… and if you haven’t, why not? It’s fun!

Not being the kind of lazy sods to let a weekend go by without squeezing in what gaming we can, we went ahead and wrapped up the remaining games of Round One! See, we’re a totally different type of lazy sod. That’s why my shirts are wrinkled and I’m carrying a spare tire. Bah. Enough! Results!

March Madness - Some more rnd 1 results

Ah, the joys of Good Friday being a holiday here in Canuckland… Spud and I were able to knock some more games over.

As mentioned earlier, Team Superman trounced those horrid nazis of the Thule Society. The game was played by the Eponymous Pablo and Babymama Carrie, so at this stage we have no comments on the game.

Negative Zone wins over Infinity Watch
Infinity Watch missed their 2 and 4, while the Negative Zone tossed out Alpha Primitives and Syphonn with wanton abandon. Negative  Zone flipped two Forged In Crisis, clearing off Gamora and Drax, further weakening Warlock’s troops. In the end it all came down to turn 7, where Blastaar and Annihilus mess it all up getting a stun on Adam for free. Despite missing drops the Watch still knocked the NegZoners to -5, but without maintaining board presence, the hidden Syphonn and Blastsaar whack through once Annihilus cleared the board, putting the Watch at -17

JLA win over Shi’ar
Shi’ar put up a valiant effort, including getting Soldiers to as much as 11 defense while they tried to fend off the JLA onslaught, but with their imperator absent, Gladiator was at a loss against the combined thwompiness of Batman, Aquaman, Green Arrow, Gypsy, Hawkman and even the Elongated Man. The bird folk still managed to drag it out until turn 7 before caving before Earth’s Mightiest, but in the end, this match was pretty much as predictable as the ending to Titanic. Not drawing Lilandra made for a sucky performance.

Emerald Enemies win over Darkseid’s Elite (Furies)
The Furies must have discovered a new show on the Home Torture Network – at no point in the game was there more than two of Darkseid’s femmes on the board, while the Emerald Enemies were blowing up their own resources for an array of effects. Despite entering turn 7 with 5 resources, the lack of drawing Kara Zor-El meant that the Furies were underdropping too, and after blowing themselves down to 2 resources, Major Force brickwalled Darkseid and powered through Bernadeth for the win.

As usual, the bracket has been updated at this link.

Hobby League: Of City Champs and Madness

Twas brillig, and the slithey toves did gile and gimble in the wabe… All mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe…

After wrestling with deck ideas over the last week, hampered by a good chunk of my collection being tied up in March Madness decks, I slapped together a Spider-Stall variant and sauntered off to Hobby League with a smile on my face and a song in my heart.

Little was I to know the forces that would be arrayed against me.

March Madness Deckcheck: Anti-Matter

by Gdaybloke

I’ve got an unabashed love for underdogs. Teams that just don’t get a lot of love, that no-one seems to froth over, that don’t have 100+ page strategy threads at VSRealms – these things are right up my alley.

I have playsets of every Squadron Supreme  card, every Manhunters card, even every Secret Six card (though admittedly, there’s not that many). Much as the Squadron had some success with their no-hand build before fading from the limelight, Anti-Matter had a brief moment of glory with the Anti-Green Lanterns before being pretty much written off by all and sundry in favour of… well, almost everything else.

DCL brought a little love back to the Anti-Matter affiliation with their twisted reflections of the JLA, but as great as they are in a hidden Injustice Gang build, I wanted to focus on something a little more “classic” for the March Madness deck.

That said, I’m always wary of tossing all my eggs in one basket, and traditionally play curve, so I couldn’t resist my own nature in ensuring that the deck had drops up to and including the 6-slot.

Bah, enough rambling. Deck!