Yesterday (2005-04-23) Karlsruhe City Grid, "Central" Germany, hosted its 69th Netrunner tournament. The format was Draft: 1 double starter, 1 limited booster, 1 Proteus booster and 1 rareless Proteus booster per player. Only 5 players showed up who played round-robin. Final result: opp. TRC Tag games games AP 1. Holger Janssen 1A.37.01 6.0 68-38 2. Michael Nock 1A.37.09 6.0 63-41 3. Lukas Kautzsch 65.5B.35 3.0 46-50 4. Olaf Wolf 65.5B.FE 3.0 39-54 5. Roland Schediwy 65.5B.42 2.0 30-63 Match results (first game: first player = corp): round 1: Holger - Lukas 10: 6 10: 5 Michael - Olaf 10: 2 10: 4 round 2: Holger - Olaf 10: 3 3:10 Michael - Rol 10: 4 10: 4 round 3: Michael - Lukas 10: 2 0:10 Olaf - Rol 10: 1 0:10 round 4: Holger - Rol 10: 0 10: 1 Lukas - Olaf 0:10 10: 0 round 5: Holger - Michael 10: 3 5:10 Lukas - Rol 10: 0 3:10 My match versus Olaf featured some special moments: As runner I had snatched a Tycho from R&D early on. Later, when Jackhammer enabled me to run HQ for free, I found another 3-point agenda in the second run. Olaf, being asked "Did you have more?" replied "Yes!" and showed me his remaining 4 cards: Project Consultants, Management Shakeup and two Systematic Layoffs! Unfortunately, all this fast advancement hadn't helped: flimsy ice and no money cards in the early phase made it easy for the runner. In the second game, my corp started with installing Sleeper on a new SDF, Emp Emp in this fort and advancing the agenda once, trying to sneak the early agenda through. Unfortunately, Olaf played a Weather-to-Finance Pipe, leaving the corp broke, so he could easily score the agenda (and a Marine as well from the unprotected R&D). In turn 2 the corp worked in the mail room for 3 bits. Not much use, as this time the runner used a Credit Subversion to remove this money again. In his next turn, he played Edited Shipping Manifests, this time leaving me 2 bits (yeah!). Next, I installed a Scramble on R&D, feeling almost secure with my 4 bits. Guess what happened? Olaf played another (!) Weather-to-Finance Pipe and ran R&D. The top card was Project Babylon (only 6 points, phew!)... ... and the second one, accessed in the next run, was Hostile Takeover. The current German Ranking List after the tournament can be found at http://www.oberfoul.de/nr/ranking.htm The next tournament in Karlsruhe is tentatively scheduled for Saturday, 2005-05-28 in the PTV building in Karlsruhe. Lukas Kautzsch SysOp, Karlsruhe City Grid (http://www.oberfoul.de/nr/kcg.htm)