Great to meet all of you at the tournament. I had a blast at the RALV tourney, though I couldn't be around for the WW one. These are the sorts of events to keep Rage alive in the minds of the general gameplaying populace. Special thanks to Matthew Burack for organizing this beast, and to Matt Farney for officiating and taking notes, and to Songs of Fire for the WW tourney.

Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:15:59 -0400
From: Matt Farney (farneymp@erinet.com)
To: rageinfo@frpg.com, rageccg@azraelproductions.com,
    ragealv@azraelproductions.com
Subject: GenCon Results


I'm still unpacking and rehabilitating from the arduous journey through
Malfeas (Chicago) to and from Milwaukee.

To whet your appetite, I foist upon you the results from Rage Across GenCon!

RALV (15 participants):
Congratulations to:
Two time defending champion: Virginia Coady.  The Bone Doctor and her
 packmates again triumphed.
Other finalists included: Pierce Coady (Ahroun), Pippa Hempe (Red Talons),
and Jonathan Jones (Philodox)

Storyline: The Garou continue to fight amongst themselves.  The Philodox
tried to keep the peace but were beaten down both in vote and in heart as
the bloodthirsty packs of Garou fought amonst themselves.  Truly a sad day
for Gaia...

WWRAGE (9 participants):
Congratulations to:
Ed Swing.   Azrael's own Songs of Fire captured the WWRage title, besting
artist Lisanne Lake and someone else (my apologies at not remembering the
name) in the finals.  I will get the results from Ed, and format full
reports from these tournaments over the next few days.

-Matt
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Togashi Mattsu, Enlightening Monk | Sees-Through-Lies, Children of Gaia
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:24:29 -0400
From: Matt Farney (farneymp@erinet.com)
Reply-To: rageinfo@frpg.com
To: rageinfo@frpg.com, ragealv@azraelproductions.com
Subject: GenCon Write Up


The Bone Doctor Is Definitely In!!

Rage Across GenCon World Championships 2000
August 11, 2000
Midwest Express Center

20 Renown, Cumulative Modified Swiss
Congratulations (again) to our World Champion, now two years running:
Virginia Coady.

Final Results (* are game wins)
Championship Table:
1. Virginia Coady (Bone Gnawers) 58** (22*)
2. Pierce Coady (Ahroun)   71** (19)
3. Pippa Hempe (Red Talons)  56** (15)
4. John Jones (Philodox)   62*** (7)

5. Ed Swing (Galliard)   47
6. Jeff Barr (Red Talons)   43*
7. Matt Burack (Wendigo)   39**
8t. Matt Farney (Black Furies)  38*
8t. John Pendry (Black Furies)  38*
10. Jeff Waltersdorf (Theurge)  31
11. Janne Lonnqvist (Wendigo)  26
12. Najeeb Faisal (Get of Fenris)  25*
13. Lon Franson (Get of Fenris)  19
14. Shawn Knapp (Red Talons)  15
15. Fred Lloyd (Stargazers)   13

Round by Round:
Round 1:
Pierce 28, Swing 13, Farney 6
Burack 19, Waltersdorf 12, Lonnqvist 5
Jones 21, Barr 11, Lloyd 0
Hempe 23, Franson 1, Faisal 0
Virginia 23, Pendry 8, Knapp 6

Round 2:
Virginia 23, Pierce 22, Hempe 13
Jones 21, Swing 16, Burack 0
Pendry 20, Waltersdorf 14, Barr 11
Farney 20, Franson 8, Knapp 2
Faisal 25, Lonnqvist 11, Lloyd 0

Round 3:
Jones 20, Virginia 11, Faisal 0
Pierce 21, Pendry 10, Lonnqvist 10
Hempe 20 (humans), Farney 12, Waltersdorf 5
Barr 21, Swing 18, Knapp 7
Burack 20, Lloyd 13, Franson 10

Finals:
Virginia 22, Pierce 19, Hempe 15, Jones 7, Mobster 4.

Prizes:
Glory: Virginia Coady
Honor: Lon Franson (Most wyrm killed by percentage of kills)
Wisdom: John Jones (Voted on by participants)

Wyrm Kills (by renown)
Virginia 21, Swing 20, Faisal 16, Barr 15, Franson 12, Waltersdorf 12,
Pierce 12, Jones 12, Pendry 10, Farney 7, Burack 5, Hempe 4.

Props:
15 people!  More than last year.  Janne traveled from Finland to
participate.  Seven? People who had not played in a championship before this
weekend.

Slops:
 Paging Ms. Spears.

Wonderful prizes were donated by Scott Fischer (the original art for Smoke
Dancer), Fenris (a great statue), White Wolf GS (necklaces galore), and
others.  Thanks also go to Matthew Burack for organizing the prizes, and to
Professional Events Services, for finding us just enough space to rend some
Wyrm.

Thanks and we'll see you ALL next year.

-Matt


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Togashi Mattsu, Enlightening Monk | Sees-Through-Lies, Children of Gaia
Ragabash
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:36:59 EDT
From: BlackDaggr@aol.com
To: rageinfo@frpg.com, rageccg@azraelproductions.com
Subject: GenCon Write Up (WW)


Rage Across GenCon World Championships
WW Rage
August 12, 2000

20 Renown, Single Elimination

9 Players total (allegiance, primary characters in deck)

John Carlson (Wyrm, Questor and Hunts-by-Night)
Craig Erikson (Wyrm, Longtooth and Tsannik)
Ed Swing (Gaia, Fireclaw and Old Storm Chaser)
John Perdy (Wyrm, Morgan and Allonzo)
Ross Wolfe (Gaia, Grimfang and Mamu)
Matthew Burack (Gaia, Morihei and Cassandra Shadow Watcher)
Clarence Ford (Gaia, Mari Cabrah exp and two other Black Furies)
Lissanne Lake (Gaia, Glasswalkers primarily)
Craig Randall (Gaia, Julisha and Mari)
---


Round 1: Three 3-player games were fought.  Each game had one Wyrm and 2 gaia
players.  The matchups were as follows (scores in parentheses):

Craig R. (8) - Clarence (Winner) - Craig E. (15)
Ed (Winner) - Matthew (0) - John P. (8)
Lissanne (Winner) - Ross (5) - John C. (16)

Finals were the three winners from the first round.
Ed Swing (winner) - Lissanne (2nd, in the teens) - Clarence (3rd).


Overall results: I was glad we got 9 players, particularly with the L5R
tourneys dominating the CCG area.  I ran into a lot of players who would have
participated had they known in advance to bring decks.

No Wyrm pack made it to the finals.  Kills by Gaia packs were slightly more
Enemies + Wyrm characters than Victims + Gaia characters, so the Wyrm took
losses in the fight.

I would like to thank everyone that helped to set up the games, all of the
players, and White Wolf for the prizes for the WWRage tourney.


Songs of Fire
Red Talon Galliard