Autor: Bene “Machkaputt”

Finally, we (Rudi, Michael, Matthias and I) were on our way to Eindhoven for the second European System Open Series event of this season.

I had mixed feelings about it.

Last year’s SOS (main) events went rather bad for me (Hanover: 2:3; Bologna 0:3), despite having put a lot of thought in my squad list, match ups and so on. I wanted this season to be better.

So, a couple of weeks ago, my team and I started regular weekly trainings, we used the Table Top Simulator a lot, did watch streaming videos, discussed current meta developments. We did our very first all-day training camp. Since our team has grown quite a bit during the last couple of months and expanded to another city, we had a lot of fun and were all eager to start the upcoming season.

Still, recent smaller scale tournaments and local league nights did not give me enough confidence that this season should start off any better than the last. Plus, having spent the last days before the tournament with yelling at corporate lawyers at work, I was rather in the mood for a relaxed weekend. Winning a couple of games would be nice, but my focus would be on having a good time.

So, the Wednesday before the tournament, I had a last training session with Matthias. We talked about possible match ups, including how to set up “Turn 0”, placing rocks, selecting target priorities and so on.

Also, since I was testing three Phantoms plus X, I eventually ditched the Duchess and went for a fourth Phantom with a Crack Shot: