Yo quiero Taco Bell

 
Sorry for all you Mexican-food eating chihuahuas out there... the combo-restaurants do come without a run to the border.

Looking for the right look

My hockey team is moving up to the newly-created 'D'-league after winning the adult beginners league two weeks ago. We're going to get actual hockey jerseys with a logo and a team name.


The logo we're using is from High Stick and the skull & crossed hockey sticks is similar to a pirate flag... hence the team name: Pirates. It's a good name since Tampa was once a haven for pirates back in the 1700s.

The jerseys are the Buffalo Sabres black ones along with Buffalo's black socks. The combination works great because the logo & jersey both have the same colors: red, black, white and grey. I can't wait to play our first game on the summer season on May 27th!

Arrows from the South

Well... I now have a bye into Day 2 of the 2006 Lord of the Rings TCG World Championships. That's the second year in a row I accomplished that. Yay me!

Last Saturday we had nine people show up in Orlando for the Florida TOC. That's the same number we had a year ago, but well off the 2004 attendance when a number of players drove down from Atlanta. In 2005, I won the TOC by taking advantage of my opponent's mistakes in round four and was able to beat a very good Nobel Leaders deck.

This year was different - I didn't win the tournament (but at least finishing second this year guaranteed me a bye). I went in with an Saved From the Fire Gandalf Ents/Southern Archery deck. No one could touch my Fellowship... but it was my Shadow side that keyed my victories.

The only deck I ended up having a problem with was a Ring-Bound Hobbit/Orc Corruption deck. Yeah, my opponent forced me to add some burdens but I was able to them take off. Unfortunately I wasn't able to draw either of my two 'Discovered's until my opponent's Fellowship was at site eight. Had I drawn them earlier I could have discard both of their 'Sudden Fury's and two of their 'A Promise's (he had three burdens quite often). While my archers were able to keep Sam and Smeagol exhausted much of the time, thus he couldn't control the site path, I was unable to finish them off. Plus, by having all Ring-Bound companions it made my three copies of Haradrim Marksman totally useless to play. In the end I have to give props to Brandon on that deck and the way he played it.

As for my three wins, the Southern archery totally destroyed my opponent's unbound companions with the previously mentioned Haradrim Marksman. Though in two of the cases I wasn't able to kill off or corrupt the Ring-Bearer until site 9... which was a little too close for comfort.

So with the Day 2 bye... I can now try and qualify for Trek Day 2 at either the North Americans Continental Championship at Origins or Day 1 of Worlds at GenCon. But based on my previous experience, I'll be playing Rings on Friday in Indianapolis. See ya all there!