Okay everyone, here are the results of the day!
It was a good meetup, with a very nice variety of decks. I think my sentiments were echoed by everyone in attendance about how much fun the variety of teams was. A couple of old school Heroes for Hire teams, a few homebases. It was all good.
It was interesting, as well, with all the different teams there were very few 'roll overs' most battles could have gone either way. Once or twice a team just got trounced, but for the most part everyone had to earn their win.
@ Onslaught – Larry did indeed come in with a Four Freedoms plaza deck, fully aware of both our errata and the pseudo aspect rule. Larry was unfortunately caught off guard by the 'Marvels.' Neither he, nor Jason had even heard of them! I wish I'd known that in advance, I would have made sure that they were aware of the options. We showed Larry some of the Marvel's cards on Jack's computer, he loved them and plans to make use of them for the next one. They both did well regardless, making it to the finals.
Top prize went to Hot Rod, who took 1st place in the final match against Ted C. (Jack's Cousin)
Ncannelora is our pool prize winner – so if you PM me your mailing address I'll fire those MegaPowers off to you on Monday!
I sat one pair of players for each round in the "hotseat" and we recorded them playing. Jack's going to play around with the video and will have a link when he's ready.
So, without further ado – The players, their decks and their results!
Hot Rod – Marvel Universe homebase - Heroes For Hire, Marauders, Phoenix, Hawkeye (r)– Onslaught's Citadel Battlesite.
Ted C – Cape Citadel Homebase – Landslide, Crux, Rapture, Mercury (r) – Any Heroes
Larry Van Etten – Four Freedoms Plaza homebase– Mr. Fantastic, Thing, Invisible Woman, Namor: Submariner (r) – Onslaught's Citadel battlesite.
The Breadmaster – Asteroid M homebase – Magneto, Scarlet Witch, Rogue: Brotherhood, Quicksilver (r) – Outback Battlesite
Zippa-Head – Team Overpower homebase – Mr. Fantastic, Dark Beast, Iron Man, Silver Sable (r) – Any Heroes
Jason Van Etten – Marvel Universe Homebase – Heroes for Hire, Spawn, X-babies, Flash (r) – Any Heroes
D'arcy (Zippa's Brother) – Team Overpower Homebase – Captain America, Sabretooth, Bishop, Kingpin (r) – Any Heroes
Pass the Gestalt – Marvel Universe Homebase – Beyonder, X-babies, X-man, 3 Stat Hawkeye (r) – Sanctum Sanctorum battlesite.
David L. – Dept. H Homebase – Deadpool, Omega Red, Sabretooth, Wolverine (r) – Danger Room Battlesite.
Matt G. – Team Overpower Homebase – Zealot, Wonder Woman, Black Cat, Sabretooth (r) – Any Heroes
Bamf! – Team Overpower Homebase – Onslaught, Donald Pierce, Holocaust, X-man (r) – Any Heroes
Jack – Marvel Universe – Captain America, Zealot, Wonder Woman, 3 stat spider woman (r) – Outback Battlesite
The matchups -
Round 1:
Pass the Gestalt VS Ted C = Pass the Gestalt was the victor
Hot Rod VS Zippa Head = Zippa Head was the victor
D'arcy VS Dave L. – D'arcy was the victor
Jason Van E. VS Jack – Jason was the victor
Matt G. VS – Larry Van E. – Matt G. Was the victor
Bamf! VS Breadmaster – Breadmaster was the victor
Round 2:
Matt G VS Breadmaster – Breadmaster was the victor
Jason Van E. VS Zippa Head – Jason was the victor
Pass the Gestalt VS D'arcy – D'arcy was the victor
Ted C. VS Dave L – Ted C. was the victor
Jack VS Larry Van E. – Larry Van E was the victor
Bamf! VS – Hot Rod – Hot Rod was the victor
Round 3:
Larry Van E VS Breadmaster – Breadmaster was the victor
Jason Van E VS D'arcy – Jason Van E was the victor
Ted C VS Hot Rod – Hot Rod was the Victor
Zippa Head VS Pass the Gestalt – Zippa was the victor
Jack VS David L – Jack was the victor
Bamf! VS Matt G. – Bamf! was the victor
Round 4:
Hot Rod VS Breadmaster – Hot Rod was the victor
Jason Van E – VS Bamf! – Jason Van E was the victor
Zippa Head VS Jack – Zippa head was the victor
Matt G. VS Pass the Gestalt – Pass the Gestalt was the victor
Ted C. VS D'arcy – Ted C. was the victor
David L. VS Larry Van E – Larry was the victor.
After four rounds of swiss, Jason Van E. was the favourite, with 4 wins and 0 losses, with Hot Rod, Breadmaster and Zippa Head standing strong with a 3-1 record each.
The following made the elimination rounds:
Jason Van E. (4-0)
Hot Rod (3-1)
Zippa Head (3-1)
Breadmaster (3-1)
Larry Van E. (2-2)
D'arcy (2-2)
Ted C. (2-2)
Pass the Gestalt (2-2)
Commencing the elimination, the pairings were:
Jason Van E. VS Hot Rod – Hot Rod took the win.
Breadmaster VS – Pass the Gestalt – Breadmaster took the win.
Ted. C VS - Zippa Head – Ted C. took the win.
Larry Van E VS D'arcy – Larry took the win.
Semi Finals:
Hot Rod VS Breadmaster – Hot Rod took the win.
Ted C VS Larry Van E – Ted C took the win.
Final round:
Hot Rod VS Ted C – with Hot Rod taking the win and the Holo Hero!
Ted C. got a nice consolation prize of $36 of store credit at Hairy Tarantula comics, the store that let us host the event!
Pictures were taken, Jack should hopefully post them shortly.
Larry and Jason had a great time, and plan to return to our future events. We'll definitely be doing more, with momentum growing like it is. I've fielded some queries about the next one - more information as we lock things in!
-BBH
Thank you for the awesome organization, BBH!! :)
Very cool stuff here! I totally want to get in on such a huge tournament!
@HotRod, super-grateful for the win, too! 8)
Well... HotRod was my first pick ;$
Quote from: CoS on May 01, 2011, 02:04:20 AM
Well... HotRod was my first pick ;$
well, we clearly both have an eye for talent ;)
Congrats to Hot Rod! Sounds like the tournament was a lot of fun.
Damnit Hot Rod, you were supposed to use Fall's Edge Compound! Vertigo + Phoenix probably crushed the Four Freedoms deck though (well, Vertigo + anything crushes anything without a negate really).
Lots of interesting decks (any novel uses of Events? The mission sets aren't listed so I was just curious), good job everyone.
BBH, did you get to play any pickup games inbetween rounds? I hope you at least got a few fun matches in afterwards as a reward for running the whole tournament.
Eagerly awaiting the videos, thanks for providing so much coverage of all this.
Hope everyone had fun. Can't wait to see more from the tournament.
Quote from: Onslaught on May 01, 2011, 11:16:52 AM
Lots of interesting decks (any novel uses of Events? The mission sets aren't listed so I was just curious), good job everyone.
Yea I was wondering overall how much events played a roll in the various matches being won or lost.
Sorry guys, I didn't write down the missions. There were a lot of site decks running Infinity Gauntlet, and a few Any Hero decks running Shattered Image.
Jason Van Etten was knocked out of Elimination because of the Gods of Stone event played by Hot Rod. Jason was running Marvel Universe and not Team OverPower, and drew his Leech, Bastion AND DoW in a Gods of stone round. Without Team Overpower, he wasn't able to place any of them.
Interestingly, Ted C. wasn't able to really capitalize on his 'No Activators' event against Hot Rod in the finals, because he also drew his own DoW in that same round but Hot Rod conceded before the battle. I think that was ultimately what turned the tide for Hot Rod. Had Ted been able to get DoW in play, Hot Rod would have gone down. Ted's Next draw included his Leech, but with the battlesite active, Hot Rod easily stopped it.
Breadmaster was running Assault on Onslaught
Matt G. had Fatal Attractions
Larry Van Etten was running Infinity Gauntlet
If anyone else who was there remembers what people were running, please chime in.
@ Onslaught - I was able to get a match in with Pass The Gestalt before everyone else arrived. But there really wasn't time to play during the day, and the store closed 20 minutes after we wrapped up. It's all good. I made the choice not to participate, small price to pay to slowly build up a regular following of players. There were at least 6 more players in the area who want to come to the next one, plus Larry mentioned a network of people he was going to invite to the next one as well. We are growing!
Jack and I discussed the notion of alternating between who offers up the prize support - the notion being that whoever offers the prizes also sets the stage for house rules or themes. I most certainly want someone else to offer up some prizing so I have a fun chance to get crushed in my attempt to achieve glory! :P Larry has certainly offered to be a source for prizing, which is cool. The ideal thing would be to have a dedicated moderator, who isn't competing. It does take a little time to sort the info and assign match ups.
And Jack did give me one of his spiffy OverPower T-Shirts! ;D
We took a lot of photos, I imagine Jack will have those up soon, before the video is ready.
The next big meet up will be in June. No tournament, just casual fun. After that, the August meet up will be another tournament. That give us a few months to plan, figure out prizing and get the word out.
-BBH
Quote from: BigBadHarve on May 01, 2011, 06:38:33 PM
We took a lot of photos, I imagine Jack will have those up soon, before the video is ready.
Hard to wait but I thought there must be a LOT of photos as part of the reason for delay. ;)
I'll delay it one more day, just transitioning back to my other home and settling in before going back to work.
So which Holo Hero did Hot Rod end up adding to his collection?
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Jason van Etten
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Jack (Me, sporting my cool OP shirt!)
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zippa_head
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Hot Rod
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Teddy
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Pass the Gestalt
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Dave
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D'Arcy
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Matt
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The Orange King swoops into Toronto! (Larry van Etten)
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It's a crown, not a hat!
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bamf!
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breadmaster
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D'Arcy vs Pass the Gestalt
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Matt vs breadmaster, with my camera rig in the middle (video of this match coming soon!)
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Hot Rod vs bamf!
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zippa_head vs Jason van Etten
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Larry vs Jack
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Pass the Gestalt vs zippa_head
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Jason van Etten vs D'Arcy (video of their match also recorded!)
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Background - Hot Rod vs Teddy
Foreground - Dave vs Jack
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Hot Rod vs Teddy
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bamf! vs Matt
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breadmaster vs The Orange King
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Dave vs The Orange King (video!!)
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Pass the Gestalt vs Matt
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Jack vs zippa_head
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Foreground - Teddy vs D'Arcy
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Jason van Etten (The Orange Prince?) vs bamf!
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Hot Rod vs breadmaster
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Teddy vs zippa_head
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breadmaster's characters
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Pass the Gestalt's characters
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Here's what our gaming corner looked like in the round of 8
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The Orange King vs D'Arcy
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Jason van Etten vs Hot Rod ??
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The first picture of BigBadHarve in this set! He's the person standing up in the white OverPower t-shirt.
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No pictures of the semi-finals, I was talking to Pass the Gestalt and forgot all about the pictures. Sorry!
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Finals - Teddy vs Hot Rod!
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My tripod!
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Hot Rod's prize -- a Batman Detective Holo!
this is very, very cool 8) 8)
We need a dedicated camera guy, I tend to forget to snap pictures. Videos I'm okay with and I'm slowly working on encoding them, they are coming in at 600MB from 20GB.
Enjoying all the info and pics. You guys rock!
Quote from: ncannelora on May 02, 2011, 12:32:24 AM
this is very, very cool 8) 8)
Yes indeed! 8) 8) 8)
One thing that is 'strange' for me is seeing how everyone places cards perpendicular to the character cards like OP online. The few folks I play with have always placed cards parallel with the character cards like it's illustrated in the first rulebook. :D
Dave vs The Orange King (video!!)
****This was my favorite method of shuffling during college. Make a pile of all the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, power cards then shuffle them up into piles against the remainder of the deck (basically the power pack v the dead pile) each stack of 8 would not contain a duplicate this way) Then shuffle them together and let your opponent cut. Drastically reduced duplicates. however, the modern overpower deck only contains 17-22 power-cards (if that) so it isn't nearly as important as back in the mission control era ;-) GREAT TIMES captured here.
That damn hippy needs a haircut!
@ Onslaught,
I gave my brother the Fall's Edge deck to run, unfortunately however, he couldn't get there on time due to some awful luck.
The deck I used I've had on the drawing board for about 2 months, but I'd never played it against a live opponent because I didn't want to let the cat out of the bag. (Can anyone spot the easter egg in the photo of my game vs Jason? The look on BBH's face was priceless!)
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I have to say playing a somewhat untested radical deck for the first time live was a real challenge. I made a pretty bad mistake in my first game vs Zippa_Head which may have cost me the game, though I can't say for certain if I would have won that game. Zippa played really well, and I wont steal his thunder!
Sadly, my second game vs bamf! degenerated into a turkey shoot. His deck just wouldn't give him a negate (he had Donald Pierce + Holocuast with any heroes), and when it did I had Mutant Countermeasures for it.
My third game against Ted was similar to the above.
The fourth game with breadmaster was a real struggle for me due to poor draws. I had only HH left by turn 4, due to sacrifices in order to win a 5 bet after I conceded the first hand. I hadn't seen any Beast activators up to that point, plus with burning half my deck with Image inducer, I knew my only hope was to get into a "venture for the win situation" and pop acrobatics. With about 20ish cards left in my deck I pulled 2 beasts, and won off Marvel Universe after blocking Magneto's 11.
Man.. the fith game vs Jason was worthy of a finals. I drew a mediocre hand the first battle, so I placed out and conceded. The
Second (I think it was the second? it could have been the third) hand was an absolute slug fest. I bet 4 on this hand if I remember correctly, and went all out. It came right down to the last card, with me killing his HH, and also leaving Spawn crippled at 15. I tried to draw out his negate by attacking HH with white tiger after he played an 8 strength as a followup to a teamwork (I figured by destribution he shouldn't have much more defense for HH due to running a split 8 deck and any heroes), this managed to draw out 1 negate. However, even after playing everything I had down to harpoon, and combat leader, he still had bastion. He blocked my harpoon, played webhead and negated my combat leader with bastion.
So, at this point I was down to 2 in reserve with 5 in the defeated, and not much time left to play (about 10 minutes). I didn't draw a whole lot here besides the God's Turned to Stone event, which baked his devourer, and leech. I can't remember if he conceded before the battle this hand, but I ended up winning it. By turn 4? (could have been 5) I killed his Spawn, leaving Flash, and X babies vs my HH, Marauders, and Hawkeye. There wasn't really anything he could do after I killed his spawn, but he soldiered on and almost won the last hand (due to time) with lil colossus.
This was definitely one of the most amazing games of Overpower I've ever played. It was actually really cool too, because I managed to find an old name badge from a 1997 Toronto regionals (so I was wearing it for shits and giggles), and apparently this was the regionals he won. (beat Marcel top 4 even)
Sixth game vs breadmaster was a hollow one. It was a 2, 3, 2. He couldn't draw enough venture to stop me.
The finals was an absolute heart wrencher. It'd been a long time since I've played a game this intense, but thankfully after 6 games I'd shaken off most if not all my tournament rust, and went into "card slinger" mode (I hadn't done this in about 5 years!).
First hand I drew mediocre, but I managed to place heavily, and conceded.
Second hand was purely game sense on my part. He had 2 up on me, with Entrophy Field out, and a bet of 3. At this point it was looking grim, but I suspected his 3 bet wasn't purely based on his event, as I'd never seen him bet 3 before without a big card. So I placed more, and conceded again.
I decided the third hand was going to be for all the marbles, and bet 5. I almost went 4, thinking to leave myself an emergency mission so the game wouldn't hang on this hand, but I came to the conlusion if I was going to go all out on a hand, I better bet everything I've got, because he might concede (he had 5 up on me) it if I threaten to kill most of his team. This hand ended up being less of a blood bath than I expected, though I still went through the motions. I probably didn't need to play Apocalyptic Minion, but I wasn't taking any chances. I felt I had only made 1 mistake all day and it cost me a game, so I wasn't going to be having any of that!
The fourth hand onward was smooth sailing for the most part. Ted's deck was mostly depleted at this point and there little he could do with what he had left. Perhaps if he was still playing Xaos frontline he could have stopped me cold on the 3rd hand from mounting such colossal a comeback. I don't know if he could have won on the second hand by betting 5, forcing me to stay in so he could play his devourer. The next card on my deck was image inducer if I remember correctly, so it would have come down to a venture push, which I won in the third hand anyway.
I hope you keep playing that deck Ted, but I think you should put Xaos back in! :P
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@ ncannelora & CoS
Thanks for picking me to win, I tend to play better when there's something on the line!
@ "The people who didn't pick me first chance" :P
Have some faith next time!
While I really like this idea of picking someone, and getting a prize if they win, I'd like to see everyone on the forum actually participating, so all the players can get picked (that way nobody feels ostracized due to not getting selected).
Ted played great to get to the finals. It's a real shame he wasn't picked when there's clearly enough people on the forum for everyone to have a confidant.
Quote from: CoS on May 02, 2011, 02:05:42 AM
Dave vs The Orange King (video!!)
What video?
Quote from: Hot Rod on May 02, 2011, 02:36:13 AM@ "The people who didn't pick me first chance" :P
Have some faith next time!
Okay I pick you for the next tournament in August. :P LOL! ;D
We'll have video shortly, I'm still editing them.
Some day, I'm gonna have to make a Toronto road trip!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjhTn9crG5U - 1st Swiss round - Jason vs Jack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivsuv7mkwRY - 2nd Swiss round - breadmaster vs Matt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caJ99xinPNQ - 3rd Swiss round - D'Arcy vs Jason
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JqH_4_-MyE - 4th Swiss round - Larry (The Orange King) vs Dave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTGyDL8DnrE - Quarter Finals - zippa_head vs Teddy
2 more videos to go and I'll probably put them onto the OverPowerOnline Youtube channel soon after I truncate them down to 15 minutes each.
YEEEEEESSSS!!! :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIhZZWiAaeE Semi Finals - Hot Rod vs breadmaster
Thanks for uploading everything, I just noticed that the finals are up too. It was neat seeing the mannerisms and rituals of a different Overpower group.
Teddy's finals appearance was impressive considering he wasn't using a deck based around the house rules. Did he play Overpower back when the game was still going on, or did he pick it up recently? Does he play other CCGs?
I saw a lot of potential in his play, so it made me interested in his gaming background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6tlzi9G64 Finals - Hot Rod vs Teddy
Ted had a decent collection of cards back in the late 90's but only recently expanded his collection (he was mine and bamf!'s playing partner whenever we get together). We probably got "serious" about OP in ~2003 when we discovered the Battlesites and starting buying cards with whatever money we had.
I need to force him to sign up...
EDIT: He kicks ass whenever he plays against us. He ran a FFP deck that neither bamf! or I could defeat until last year when I crushed it with my version of FFP. I think that's when Ted decided to work on new deck ideas.
Speaking of Bamf!, I wish he had been in one of the featured matches. I like his deck choice, so it would have been cool to see how he piloted it. If anyone had a shot of beating house rules defensively played Vertigo, it would have been him with the dual negates. Then again, I forgot the house rules also allow you to play Image Inducer as a defensive action sooo...
Your game against Larry seemed to be a little rough, but it was funny seeing his reaction to Excelsior.
Quote from: Onslaught on May 04, 2011, 02:21:23 PM
Speaking of Bamf!, I wish he had been in one of the featured matches.
Yeah, sorry about that - I tried to cycle everyone through the hotseat at least once ... A couple of people went twice. I remember telling him it was his turn, but I also recall juggling some pairings around, which meant he was shifted out and I didn't realize he hadn't been recorded until it was too late.
:(
-BBH
ugh...that semi against hot rod is embarassing
half way through the first round, i completely forget about the no permanent record event, and waste my blob teammate avoid in a meanningless fashion
unforgivable
We'll need to get recordings of:
Pass the Gestalt, bamf!, BBH, Spencer. Not sure if bamf! wants me to record our matches at home.
A few corrections:
The deck I ran had Onslaught in reserve, but running 'mad god raise dead' X-Man spend most of the time in reserve. My homebase was marvel universe for a surprise appearance from Stan Lee.
As Hot Rod mention, bad draws all day long, being a Teamwork heavy deck, drawing all powercards is bad, and with dual-negaters and not drawing any is worst. Maybe I should of left the deck alone 2 day before the event, all I did was swap Anext for Fortress for insurance but the deck fell apart..., (oh well, this is what happen when running a high risk, high reward deck).
bamf!
Hopefully I'll be able to make it on time to the next tourney, being a few hours late really sucked :(. only got 2 games in the whole time.