Welcome to SGP where this week we have a lot planned and theres going to be multiple articles on WTC to start. I have at least three different ones planned for that. We’ll see how much I can actually get out there but be sure there’s a lot of content coming up.
First Up we take a look at the team composition of the winning team: Italy Maestro.
This is already looking really interesting isn’t it?
It starts relatively usual with Captain Diomlords Guardians:
This is a tried and tested list with not that many surprises in it. It is a very strong attrition list. Diomlord went 5:1 with it, his only loss coming in a mirror match in what proved to be the most challenging round for Italy Maestro in facing the Fintastic Five in round 5, which was a pair down but almost kicked them out of the running for 5:0 at the time.
The record also shows that this list can play to score as much as it can play to kill.
Alessandro Montagnanis X-Men:
Once again nothing really out of the ordinary but just a strong overall Storm X-Men list. Alessandro piloted it to a perfect 6:0 personal finish.
Alessandro also earned 3rd place “Strongest Avenger” honours with his incredible personal record.
Now it starts to get more outside of the ordinary with Tomasso Medicis Avengers/X-Men. A very surprising dual seeing as we’ve just seen a 6:0 X-Men player on the very same team.
That’s a pretty wild combination of characters there. Looking at this list I’m really not to sure about what it wants to do on the table. It might have ended up hurting himself a bit, ending with a 2:4 personal record. He might have taken some disadvantaged matchups to free up his team mates though.
Just reading the names of the players he squared up against is showing the quality of the field and just who Italy Maestro had to be beat to get to the top.
Edoardo Rinaldis Hellfire/ Webs
This list doubles down on the WW strengths and supplements that with Hellfire Club. What Edoardo ended up doing was not playing as Webs once though which might have been a predetermined or been a game to game decision but it helped him to a 3:3 personal finish.
Edoardos most crucial win came in round 5 in a nail biting game that almost went to time on either player or the round timer. It was 2:2 between the Fintastic Five and Italy Maestro at that point and this game would decide if we’d get a round 6 and a final against Belgium or if the event would end right there. Gil, Mads and I had to stand guard around the playing table as to no spectators getting too close influencing the game. It was 17:17 after 6 rounds at that point. Edoardo had to daze/ KO two of Samis models carrying an extract in a single activation for the win. He somehow managed to do it and Italy Maestro went to a final against Belgium Patch Up Boys as a result and everyone got a round 6.
And finally the best painted roster at the event as voted by the players:
Giacomo Florinis Avengers/ Inhumans.
Looking at the list I’m kind of at a loss again as to what to make of it. It has very strong attrition pieces but the Crisis cards it brings don’t really support that fully. Giacomo was apparently tasked with taking on the heavy attrition teams and came out of it with a very good 5:1 so the list clearly appears to work.
Overall it is interesting that Italy Maestro has decided to not have either an Asgard nor a Cabal player which are considered to be the top attrition factions at the moment and to have their Web Warriors player be a Hellfire Club player in disguise. It probably shows that playing something you’re trained and good with probably beats out trying to build the 5 “objectively” best lists and devide them amongst the players.
That’s it for today. Next up we’ll take a look at the affiliation stats and then finally I’ll have an article about my own experience being a judge at this amazing event.
See you very soon!
Cheers from Germany 🍻
