# Gainsville Proving Ground League Report - Week 5

by Rick Ford
September 18, 1997

This week marked our move to the Traveling Mage - anyone in the area is welcome to stop by - we will be playing Proving Grounds tourneys every Wednesday night at 6pm at the Traveling Mage in Gainesville. The Mage has a very nice set up with plenty of table space and a fridge full of sodas!
The procedes from these tournaments are being collected for the "Bring Jose to Gainesville" fund. We hope to generate enough to fly Mr. Garcia down for our local gaming con, JonesCon IV, in January. For more information on JonesCon IV, check out the homepage at http://www.afn.org/~jonescon/.

The Contenders:

    Tom      Jam/Arc/Lot      "Grassy Knoll"
    Camille  Dra/Han          "The Meek shall inherit the earth"
    Sandie   Jam/Lot          "Buncha Boom-Boom"
    John     Asc/Han          "The Mighty Pachyderms"
    Rick     Lot/Mon          "Netherworld Chainsaw Massacre II"
    Bill     Lot/Arc          "I'm Hungry!"
    Shawn    Lot/Mon          "A Walk in the Park"
    Sherry   Jam/Dra/Arc      "Tank Girl (The Movie)"
    Ray      Dra/Han/Lot/Mon  "Back for 3rds"

Title Holders of the Past:
Week 1: Ray
Week 2: Henry
Week 3: Rick
Week 4: Rick

The Present:
Week 5: Rick brings back the "Netherworld Chainsaw Massacre" (Winner Wk.3) to narrowly scrape out a 3rd consectutive win.
The White Ninja still seems to be the most popular hitter around - everyone who has one is playing with her... and those who don't are playing Evil Twins :) The Lotus were by far the most popular faction of the night, appearing in 6 of the 9 decks.
The final round was a truly classic 'Fist bloodbath - Rick got out an early Queen of the Toasting Pagoda which impacted onto Ray's City Park, sparking an Avenging Thunder for 6 power. Ray suffered a hitter shortage, and amassed truly obscene amounts of power by the end of the game. Tom gets the early Entropy - usually a very bad sign. Camille managed to take an early site with a Stunt Man/BFS, but no Final Brawls in sight. Rick then gets out the White Ninja, followed shortly by the Fire King. Eventually, the Ray's Inner Sanctum is filed down to a 1 body site which Rick is able to take for the win, after failed attempts by both Tom & Camille. Lots of people died. Some just went to the Netherworld. *Everyone* got bloody.
So, Rick got a White Ninja for his 1st place finish, and Camille got a signed Healing Earth for 2nd. Tune in next week to see if Rick can stretch the streak out to 4 weeks. Or will Ray reclaim his title. Or will someone else take their place as "The Man"??? I will post a listing of the winning deck in another article.

## Details

Round 1
Rick beat Shawn & Ray
Tom beat Camille & Sandie
John beat Bill & Sherry
Round 2
Rick beat Tom & John
Bill beat Sherry & Sandie
Camille beat Shawn & Ray
Round 3
Camille beat Bill & Rick
Tom beat Sandie & John
Ray beat Shawn & Sherry
Round 4
Camille beat Rick & Tom
Ray beat John & Bill
Shawn beat Sandie & Sherry
Round 5 - Finals
Rick beat Camille, Tom & Ray

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