Pandemic Tournament

Hello once again. As I promised (And am now delivering a week late) I am giving you the run down of the Pandemic Tournament we had last Saturday.

We arrived a good half hour before the tourney started. Some people had already assembled their own four man teams. I was placed with three other gamers.

Basically, the game store created a single deck for each game, and then we each got the same deck for each game. Your team’s job was to cure all the viruses and you got points for tie breakers for each one you eliminated. 

The first game, we were doing pretty good. But, unfortunately we ran out of cards before we cured the last disease. This made on of the players, who we’ll call Bob upset. For the most part, he didn’t even want to continue playing because he couldn’t win. I think this helped in our second game though. He overanalyzed everything, and basically told us all what to do. By no longer controlling our every move, we al got to do what we wanted, and it allowed us to work together, and quickly. Thus, we won the second game.

On game three though, which was on the difficult setting, within one turn around the board we lost. It just so happened that the board we built extra hard, and that if you shuffled it just wrong when the first outbreak happened, you lost instantly. This made “Bob” very angry. He decided the entire event was stacked against us purposefully. And he continued to state is disappointment until I spoke up as well as the other players at the table, and told him he was flat out wrong. And it was more than fair (This was reinforced by the fact that one team, of all the teams did actually win the last board.)

Overall, a very good experience. Next month will be a Catan Tournament. I’m looking forward to that one.