Matt Farney gives the lowdown on the Rage: Tribal War battle at GenCon 2001.

Here are the results for GenCon 2001 World Championships for Rage: Tribal
War:

Location: Midwest Express Center, Milwaukee WI
16 Participants
3 Rounds of multiplayer Swiss, followed by a multi-player stand alone final.

The following players participated:
David Lindsey (SPC)  "Teaches-the-Young"  Silver Fangs
Mike Johnson (SPC) "Blows-Things-Up" Silver Fangs
Matt Farney (SPC) "Sees-through-Lies" Get of Fenris
Fred Lloyd (CTW) n/a   Get of Fenris
John Pendry (CTW) "Britney Spears"  Ahroun
Pippa Hempe (CTW) "Shrimp"  Philodox
Jeff Waltersdorf (SRS) "Lurks-between-Bytes" Ahroun
Najeeb Faisal (CTW) "Bashkarr"  Ahroun
Matthew Burack (CTW) "Ghostdancer"  Theurge
John Jones (SPC)  "Walks-with-Weaver" Get of Fenris
Pierce Coady (CTW) "Glimmush-Mirror-Walker" Ahroun
Virginia Coady (CTW) "Bone Doctor"  Bone Gnawers
Steve Steck (CTW) "Stryder"  Children of Gaia
Brian Waltersdorf (SRS) "Chases After Stars" Silent Striders
Craig Randall (Ronin) "Marissa Hunts Men" Black Furies
Cory Briggs (Ronin) "Death in Motion" Galliard


After the Swiss rounds were completed, the standings looked like this (*
denotes a game win)
1 Fred Lloyd   Get of Fenris 63***
2 Virginia Coady   Bone Gnawers 54**
3 John Pendry   Ahroun  44*
4 John Jones  Get of Fenris 43*
5t Pierce Coady  Ahroun  34*
5t Najeeb Faisal  Ahroun  34
7t Matt Farney  Get of Fenris 28*
7t Mike Johnson  Silver Fangs 28*
9 Brian Waltersdorf Silent Striders 25*
10 Matt Burack  Theurge  24*
11 David Lindsey  Silver Fangs 17
12 Jeff Waltersdorf  Ahroun  16
13t Pippe Hempe  Philodox 15
13t Steve Steck  Children of Gaia 15

(Two players, both Ronin, dropped after round 1)

The finals set up as Two time defending champion Virginia Coady out to prove
herself against the field.  Her primary opponent would seem to have been
John Jones, as this would be his third finals at GenCon.  John Pendry's best
finish was 8th last year, and Fred Lloyd had yet to win a game at a World
Championship.

On to the finals:
Turn 1:
Keiser started in play, slowing the game down considerably.
Peter Finnegan (Lloyd) Rends Keiser.
K'To the Oracle (Coady) kills Griff Murphy (Jones)
K'To the Oracle (Coady) kills Hunts for Blood (Pendry) when HfB attacked.
Peter Finnegan passed on his second action.
Scores: Lloyd 3, Coady 2, Jones 0, Pendry 0
Turn 2:
Eilif the White (Jones) is attacked several times.
The first, Coady's Bison Spirit died at Eilif's hands.
For his action, Eilif killed Pendry's Marko Mudspeaker.
Peter Finnegan then attempted to kill Eilif, without result.
The Bane Host Mother then corrupted the Venerable Cactus Spirit.
Gaia truly began to cry!
Scores: Jones 9, Lloyd 3, Coady 2, Pendry 0

Turn 3:
Peter Finnegan uses Spirit Ward to discard the now corrupted VCS.
Wilhelm Nighthunter (Pendry) attacks the now regenerating Eilif and fails to
kill him.
K'To the Oracle dies attempting to kill Neon Elemental #1
Rronuhn (Lloyd) attacks and slaughters poor helpless Marko Mudspeaker
(Jones)
Scores: Jones 9, Lloyd 4, Coady 2, Pendry 0

Turn 4:
Arthur Getty (Pendry) gets the combo draw.  He kills Scent of Blood with
Stalling For Time x2, Collar for the Mongrel, and Bear Hug.
Gillian Fangs First (Lloyd) kills Neon Elemental #1.
Roach Spirit (Coady) failed to kill the Disruptor.
Gillian Fangs First (Lloyd) kills Neon Elemental #2 with 2nd action from All
out Assault.
BHM corrupts Vulture spirit.
Scores: Lloyd 16, Jones 9, Pendry 7, Coady 2

Turn 5:
More Keiser.
Bonebreaker (Pendry) failed to kill the Disruptor.
Roach Spirit (Coady) failed to kill the Disruptor.
Tara Spirit-Runner (Jones) kills the now weakened Disruptor.
Peter Finnegan (Lloyd) kills Kesier again.
BHM corrupts all three of Coady's Roach Spirits.
Scores: Lloyd 19, Jones 15, Pendry 7, Coady 2

Turn 6:
It become clear that the game will end soon, and the players choose their
alphas carefully.
Bonebreaker for Pendry, Ulf Hammarskald for Lloyd, Tara? For Jones, and
Hunts-By-Neon for Coady.
Bonebreaker (Pendry) goes first due to Monkey King and attacks Ulf
Hammarskald (Lloyd).  The attack is successful, giving Pendry 12 points.
Hunts, making her first appearance in the Hunting Grounds today, decides to
go for the dramatically weakened Gillian Fangs First.  Gillian has 1 health
remaining.
The combat does not go well for Hunts, and Gillian not only lives, but
defeats the Galliard for 9 points and the victory.
At the end of the game, the Bane Host Mother was still turning out spirit
shells of former Gaia spirits with no intervention from any of the Garou.
No attacks were declared on the BHM during the finals.

Final Score: Lloyd 28, Jones 15, Pendry 12, Coady 2
(Wyrm kills: Lloyd 18, Jones 6, Pendry 0, Coady 0)

Congratulations to our new Rage Tribal War World Champion: Fred Lloyd.
Given the choice between Corinna (x2), Corrupted Blight Child, Neon
Elemental (x4), Disruptor, Cries of Death, Delilah, Sprints with Wind, Bane
Host Mother, Mind Eater, Keiser (x2), Marko Mudspeaker, and Hunts by Neon,
Fred chose:

Bane Host Mother

The list of dead characters is now:
Stillwater Packmother (GC 1999)
Hogling (Belgium)
Killian Quick-Talker (Origins)
Brian the Iceman (CTW)
Bane Host Mother (GC 2001)

It looks like Wyrm is what is out making news.

Storyline implications:
(These are not canon, merely my observations.  Fenris gets to do the story
stuffs.)

Hmm, seems that the Garou still cannot stop fighting amongst themselves.
The Get of Fenris are leading the way with Gillian's pack killing 72 of 91
renown being Wyrm, but the numbers go down hill from there.
The Theurge pack was seen cohorting with Banes in a very un-Gaia like
manner.
One of the Get packs had most of its kills recorded by Human Allies,
including the very dangerous assault squad known as Vegas Showgirls.
Reports have them killing a Bane Host Mother in one shot.


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