The year 2000, and Team SELWG (Sy "Blackjack" Hughes) ran the Strange Bedfellows Storyline Tournament at GENCON UK at Manchester Conference Centre...

Who was immortalised as a card in the Strange Bedfellows Storyline AND won a beautiful engraved fob watch AND 1000 ghostrock??? Click here to find out!

Who won the "SEALED DECK"?

Who won the speciality event "The Town Stack"??

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This is the deck that won the UK Gencon Sealed Deck tourney 2000.
I thought for some time what the best factions & episodes out there were, and it struck me that none were better than Episode 6 - The Sioux Union. There were so many good staple cards released in that expansion that I was convinced it was going to do well.
I bought 1 x Ep6 Starter, 1 x Ep6 booster and 1 x Revelations booster - on the off-chance I would get a Mad Dog Campbell.
This is the deck I used:-

Sioux Union

• Cain Regan
• Wise Cloud inexp
• Singing Feather (essential for the Dixie Rails & Ezzie)
• Benjamin Nightsinger
• Charlie Landers

• Joseph Eyes Like Rain
• Crazy Quilt
• Danny Hamilton
• Eagle Rock
• Feather in His Hair
• TC

• Foale's Folly
• Thunder Gulch
• On the Side
• Water's edge
• Callaghan's Ditch
• Miss Coutreau's
• Glassmaker
• Weaponsmith
• Old Moon Saloon
• King Willy's mum
• Casino Morongo

• 2 x Strength of the Bear
• 1 x Medicine (first card I went for with the home ability)
• 2 x Curse (2nd & 3rd card I went for with the home ability)
• 1 x Horned Owl's Fury

• 1 x Eureka! (excellent card advantage)

• 1 x Pipe
• 1 x PHR
• 1 x Shotgun
• 1 x Bow & Arrow

• 1 x War Paint
• 1 x Postal Fine
• 1 x Cliam Jumper
• 1 x Imtimidation
• 2 x Rumours
• 1 x TYWM
• 1 x LITB
• 1 x His Back was to me
• 1 x Stary Lead
• 2 x Snakebite
• 1 x Bad Tequila
• 1 x Arson
• 1 x Bounty Hunter
• 1 x Foreclosure
• 1 x Double dealing
• 2 x Human Shield

1. Steve 'Bad Maps' Bailey - Siuox Union
2. Rob 'Speed of the Wolf' Lee - Texas Rangers: Dixie Rails
3. Dave 'Leaky Pipes' Martin - Sweetrock
4. Darren Riley - Law Dogs
5. Steve Chamberlain - The Flock
6. Andrew '2 Pairs' Cunningham - Blackjacks
7. Robin 'BoBo' Young - Law Dogs
8. Paul 'SHUT UP!' Francis - Maze Rats
9. Gerwyn 'What name?' Walters - Sweetrock
10. Dave 'Not got one yet' Garwood - Collegium
11. Hedley 'Nasty Doc' Coppock - Law Dogs
12. Dave Chapman - Texas Rangers

Strange as it may seem, I did not write down the prizes for this tournament!!!
If anyone can recall what I gave away, please MAIL ME

The Town Stack was a first for most people and in some ways for Team SELWG also. A first because Team SELWG had not run a multiplayer tournament before and also a first because outside Team SELWG noone had experienced the horror of the Town Stack in a tournament environment before! It's nasty!
Players each bring their deck plus 3 extra events. Each player has one event randomly chosen from those 3 and shuffled into a separate deck. Each turn at lowball, the top event is turned over and resolved in addition to any other events that turn. If the event targets a player, it targets the previous lowball winner! Good or bad!
The registration was a bit of a surprise as during the day we had exactly 0 people to demo the game to and it was only about half an hour or so before the start that people suddenly appeared out of nowhere! There were people I knew and new faces, which is always nice to see and some old hands we met for the first time! There were even people so new to the game they were using the Shootout at High Noon decks I'd given them at registration and had learnt to play in the half hour before the start! Well done guys!
Here is a quick resume of the tournament: We had 16 entrants, making four games of 4. Deputy John Denny's game I recall as there were some nasty pulls for starting posses! The game pictured below I remember particularly well as I had to make several rulings AND it was the last to finish....By a long shot! Each of the 4 winners went into the final...

Sy "Blackjack"Hughes (standing)
SEATED CLOCKWISE FROM TOP:- Dave "Leaky Pipes" Martin, Er...Sorry, dude from Altrincham?, Simon Thompson (Altrincham), Camo troos...(Altrincham), an Altrincham beer gut!, Hedley "Nasty Doc" Coppock


If you can name the missing names in this picture, I would be grateful....I've lost me notes! Onwards!
Steve Bailey was the eventual winner, and when I find my phots I will tell you who else made the final with him!!!!

Well, this was the big one! the long wait was over. After entering a couple of times and doing really average, the challenge to run the tournament was on! I had spent some months ensuring that it was all prepared for and that the storyline was a goody....thanks to Patrick K. for asking if it was ok! Impressed me to be asked! The next thing was to make sure everyone was sick and tired of hearing about the tournament before it happened, so noone would forget it was on! No chance of that as I bombarded newsgroups and listservers alike with reminders, updates, storylines and schedules...Seems to work tho! There really is no substitute for hard graft, huh?
The tournament was on Saturday 2nd September 2000. A rainy Manchester day dawned, adding truths to the rumours about the north of England being wetter than London....2 Pairs and Shotgun from Edinburgh must live underwater! Still, the event was indoors even if it was a long way from the main attractions...
Registration was due to start at 10am and by around 11:30am we were filling up nicely until I received a message that some of the players were having trouble finding us and then parking! The multi-storey being full! We delayed until they arrived and started the tournament 30 minutes late...Little did we know at that time! The 1^st round was a random draw and 14 games were duly started. Games went smoothly and afterwards a couple of people dropped out leaving us with 26 dedicated gunslingers...
Onwards and upwards into round 2 and the winners play the winners and the losers likewise, and so on into rounds 3,4 & 5. There was little problem working out the swiss rounds as they were fairly clearcut in the end, then came the cut, prize distribution for the rounds and after around 5 hours play, a break for food.
Prizes were kindly offered up by Andrew "the Wanderer" Davidson, who offered those who were interested the chance to buy some Eye for an Eye cards he bought at GenCon in the US. Thanks, Andrew, especially for giving me that Rachel's gang deck! And so to the cut....
The final rounds were played out and my 2 tips for the final game were drawn against each other in round 1!!! Gerry and Steve B. The rounds were drawn and the results thus:

Rob "Speed of the Wolf" Lee	BEAT	Andrew "2 Pairs" Cunningham
Steve "Shotgun" Wallace	BEAT	Hedley "Nasty Doc" Coppock
Nick Dodd	BEAT	Mark "Deputy John" Denny
Gerry "The Crow" Crowe	BEAT	Steve "Bad Maps" Bailey

This left the final 4, these dudes are the top players in the UK, you find more of their antics on the
SELWG SHOOTOUT PAGE.
And so down to the last 4 players...This was now anyone's call. "The Crow" had won the 1^st SELWG Shootout back in '98, "Speed of the Wolf" always places high in tournies, "Shotgun" is always vocal and Nick places well in the Brum tournies run by Marshal Lambert....what would happen?
Well, we found out soon enough! After a mass shootout, "The Crow" overcame Nick winning with a Con/Inf total of 12 to 0, whilst "Speed of the Wolf" just squeezed out "Shotgun" 14 to 9. the stage was set for a final showdown...the time? Around 9pm

3^RD & 4^TH PLACE PLAY-OFF

Steve "Shotgun" Wallace beat Nick Dodd: This produced a fine game with the Landed Maze Rats squeezing out the Sweetrock Gomorra Rail Line in a game where the 13 to 1 totals belie the great game that was played. More details soon...

THE FINAL

Gerry "The Crow" Crowe VS Rob "Speed of the Wolf" Lee

this was lined up to be a classic match: Maze Rats in civil war with the victor deciding the fate of the mines in Gomorra! Couldn't have been foretold better! I'd expected at least one Sweetrock player in the final, but this was something else!
Andrew "The Wanderer" Davidson took copious notes and came up with this complete transcript of cards played, actions taken and shootouts...great reading:
Gerry Crowe (Maze Rats) vs Robert Lee (Maze Rats)
Gerry starts:

• Chao Li
• Chin Wei Lun
• Mr Bones
• Cassidy Greene
• Charlie Landers

• Buckets
• Hoodoo
• Mr Bones
• Cassidy Greene
• Charlie Landers (Rob loses the pull)

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