Online World Championship
The Online World Championship was a World Championship for the Lord of the Rings Online TCG (LOTRO), the digital version of the game that Decipher ran with Worlds Apart. It was announced for October 2006 alongside the paper World Championship, with monthly qualifiers through 2006, but no record has been found of the championship itself ever being played.
Plan[edit]
Decipher's 2006 Organized Play Overview gave the Online TCG its own championship season[1]:
- World Championship Qualifiers (WCQs), monthly from February to September: any player could enter, and the winner earned a bye into Day 2 of the Online World Championship.
- Online World Championship in October, over two weekends:
- Weekend 1, Saturday: an open qualifier for all players
- Weekend 1, Sunday: the Day 2 event for qualified players
- Weekend 2, Saturday: the final 16
- Weekend 2, Sunday: the rest of the finals, if needed
- An online World Cup team championship in July, where "online players from around the world will have the chance to compete for king and country".
Qualifiers[edit]
The WCQs were written up on the Online TCG's site by Steve "Factor", with a review of each top 8 and an interview with the winner.
| Month | Players | Winner | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 2006 | 65 | Bartek "nutrin" Starypan (5-1) | Gandalf/Ents with Lurker orcs; half the top 8 played Lurker swarm[2] |
| March 2006 | 43 | Stephan "Pip" Smuts (5-1) | Runner-up JR1 also received a bye[3] |
| April 2006 | 51 | Pawel "Walther13" Sobczak (6-0) | Ferny / Evil Men site control with Ranger / Ithilien Blade[4] |
| May 2006 | 42 | Orian "orian" Gissler | "The orian deck": a 100-card Mellon discard deck[5] |
| June 2006 | ? | Orian "orian" Gissler | His second WCQ win in a row[6] |
No WCQ write-ups after June 2006 have been found.
What happened[edit]
By late summer 2006, players on the Online TCG forums were asking what had become of the championship. One wrote on August 16 that "if the idea of an Online World Championship has been dropped it would be nice to have some info"[7]. Another wrote on September 17: "You've stopped having WCQs. You canceled one of the events and then they stopped happening."[8]
The Online TCG's April 2007 event calendar still listed an "Online World Championship qualifier"[9], but no Online World Championship, in 2006 or later, appears anywhere in the archive. If you know whether it was held, please add it here.
See also[edit]
- World Championship
- Decipher also ran online Premier Series events on the Online TCG, such as the 2004 Online Premier Series (July 31 - August 1, 2004) and the 2004 Online PSI events, whose results are on DGMA's site.
References[edit]
- ↑ Lord of the Rings TCG 2006 Organized Play Overview (lotrtcg.fanhq.com, 20 Feb 2006)
- ↑ The February 2006 Online WCQ Review (24 Feb 2006); interview (2 Mar 2006)
- ↑ The March 2006 Online WCQ Review (27 Mar 2006); interview (4 Apr 2006)
- ↑ The April 2006 Online WCQ Review (1 May 2006); interview (11 May 2006)
- ↑ The May 2006 Online WCQ Review (24 May 2006); interview (13 Jun 2006)
- ↑ The June 2006 Online WCQ Review (5 Jul 2006); interview (7 Jul 2006)
- ↑ Online World Championship? (LOTR Online TCG forums, post of 16 Aug 2006)
- ↑ Online World Championship? (LOTR Online TCG forums, post of 17 Sep 2006)
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings Online TCG Event Schedule - April, 2007
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