Facechecking Nationals - Part 3 (Go Big Or Stay Home)

Continued from Facechecking Nationals - Part 2 (7 Rounds for 7 Agendas)

After the last round had finished, Paul and I jumped in his car and drove to the hotel - fully planning to drop the stuff off and go and meet some people for a well needed drink. Unfortunately we got to the room, and by the time I'd found out where everyone was meeting I was pretty much asleep.

For the second day, I walked around catching pokemon while Paul made some rapid adjustments to his Corp deck, and built a whole new Runner deck before heading over to play some side games. We only ended up playing one as the four of us decided to play a double elimination format, which as one of the four was a new player took a total of 3 hours! I came second, but the winner (Matt) had already got everything you could get with one winner ticket, so he gave it to me and I got myself an alt-art Political Operative to go with the alt-art Chronos Project we all got for entering the main event itself.

All in all, I have had a most excellent adventure... I met some awesome people, caught up with a few of the MK crew that I'd met before, and played more Netrunner than I usually do in a month.

What's next? My goal for the next year are:

1. Hit the top 50% of a Winter GNK event. It looks like my local events are near the end of the season, so I will probably travel about a bit to get lots of practice and the best chance of hitting my target. 
2. Get comfortable with factions I don't usually play. Next I'll be going for Criminal and NBN, as I don't think I've ever played either and they were the decks I had biggest problems against.
3. To take part in at least 2 regionals, and get more wins than I do losses.
4. Next year for Nationals... I want to reach the top 64. I know it's going to be difficult, but if I can win 2 more games over the course of the day then it's achievable.
5. Use this blog to tracking my progress, and record all the things I learn along the way.

Again a massive shout to Rasmus, Alex, Joseph, Damien, Ben, Leigh and Andy - thanks for being great opponents - and to the TOs and judges from the weekend for doing a stirling job.

Oh and thanks to Paul for a) driving me there and b) getting started in this crazy hobby with me :)