DCC Open 2022 Return to the Starless Sea Tournament Results At Gen Con 2022, Goodman Games returned in person to run our largest DCC RPG team tournament to date, Return to the Starless Sea. This year’s tournament saw a record 198 players across 47 teams compete in the team funnel tournament format – where five player teams consisted of multiple 0-level PCs controlled by each player. Over the course of three days and two hard-fought rounds, over a thousand gongfarmers fell to the deadly traps, chaotic combat, and multiple paths that made up this year’s adventure, and a number of teams were wiped out in TPKs before team I Haven’t Had Enough Coffee for This! emerged as the champions. We now present the official tournament stats, including all the judges, rooms and authors that contributed to this year’s amazing event. Round 1 Results1 Unlike previous years, this year’s adventure was designed such that teams in each flight during Round 1 had a slightly different path through the adventure to reach the center of the restored chaos keep. There are up to five alternative paths that can be taken, making it less likely that teams in Round 1 would experience the same content. Each path includes a different unique encounter in area 1-3, and teams could even choose to ignore the ghostly apparitions guiding them towards the most direct path to the center of the keep to wander off and encounter alternative areas – many to their own peril! Each path into the keep is roughly mathematically equivalent and therefore fair in a tournament environment. Even so, at Gen Con, teams were competing only with other teams in the same flight for the top spot to guarantee advancement, ensuring that results were not being compared across flight. Below are the final Round 1 results broken out by team by flight. Round 1, Flight 1 Results (Route 1-3A) PlaceTeamFlight ScorePlayersJudge1 (Advancing Team)Take Off Every Ziggurat116Michael MarkeyGavin MarkeyJason CefarattiDwayne SchuellerTim Deschene2 (Alternate)The Ross Grinvalds Experience114Matt FreePaul RomerJason KehoeTyler HodgeMatt LindgrenJeff Regner3Holy Rollers107Matt GetzMike LottNolan FulksYamil Camacho4Litches Get Stitches96Darryl LouthDavid CambellJoe WagleMike BannisterChris GallivanAlan Keim5Wasted Effort94Joe BatkaMatt BatkaJim BatleeTristan PozenelJames PozenelJody Whittle6Holy Water Kegstand83Alex SaccacinoBrendan StasselNolan OliverChris HazelSean Smith7Critical Fail74JonathanMarielRossJordanJasonHaley Skach8Peasants Power the Fiend Fodder74Jesse BergstromAbram BergstromMatthias BergstromGeorge RoehrRussell RoggeJason Stierle9Fire for Effect39*Shaun PiersonTim ZaletelEric StainbrookEdward MikkelsenNora FiggMichael Grant10Hammertoes35*Martin BuinikiThad DonovanHayden HodgeLance HodgeRyan PotterShaun PiersonJim Skach * Games that had at least one TPK Round 1, Flight 2 Results (Route 1-3B*) PlaceTeamFlight ScorePlayersJudge1 (Advancing Team)The Live Stock105Robert KenyonKeith HaddadFrankie FerrellAlex SchiebnerJenny SchiebnerBrian Escobar2 (Alternate)Barflies102Jon DiemunschJonathan Von DukeJosh DeheartMax DayCasey Gores3Three Squires and a Wheel101Jane RittKevin JohnsonEvan RittJacob BritzSanjay KumarJohn Roberts4Los Hermanos Jabronis88Morgan GonzalezDan BastinColin MurphreeIan MurphreeLucian MurphreeHaley Skach5Joan’s Juggernauts79Ian ServaasSpencer ZimmermanDaniel AxeWilliam MahaffeyLogan SackeyJoan Troyer6Mighty Gyros56Ken WinlandPatrick KelleherJames KelleherIanMark Wolf7Reasonably Fettered25Corey ArnoldPhillip RobinetteJordon StarksLily SnyderJohn MurphreeHarley Stroh8Traveling Hillbillies24**Shawn BryantDanny ZirkleAlaric Legler9Team TPK20Allen MartinRich SaumAndy SadlerLuke ClintonCaleb DonohoBrian Jeffries10The Lords of Sarcasm: ESWM-4**Jason RiddellFred DailyPatrick BiddixNathaniel GarthYorkus RexJim Skach * First time this encounter was used in a formal tournament event ** Games that had at least one TPK Round 1, Flight 3 Results (Route 1-3C) PlaceTeamRound ScorePlayersJudge1 (Advancing Team)I Haven’t Had Enough Coffee For This!99Jan PierskallaMike KenyonRoger PennyChris DissetteTom ColleyHarley Stroh2 (Alternate)Dr. Thunder’s One-Shot Wonders90Jonathan HimesMariko EnglishRicky WhiteScott TurnsBrandon MaceJason Stierle3Team Pancake88Anthony WagnerBen WagnerJames SimmonsScott JoestNoah JoestJames Pozenel4Four Halflings in a Trenchcoat84Brad BlackGarrick AndrusAlan FishmanBrad KeuschTim Deschene5The Lone Wolves79Christian SorrellXuan StanekMichael GrantJames Walls6The Hamburgered Helpers69Lech KazmirskiReba DayLucas VaughnDerek ApfelChris SchatzmanJon Carnes Round 1, Flight 4 Results (Route 1-3D) PlaceTeamFlight ScorePlayersJudge1 (Advancing Team)Presumptuous Peasants110John SureckLuke VeltumGlen VeltumCasey Gores2 (Alternate)The Broken Melons105Rick BlahaJerry BurnsTom ArmellinoTim Deschene3Out of Towners94Kalin KadievMarc TalbotNacho SevillaAlaric Legler4Ache 4 Adventure92Mark AndersonZack WillsJeremy EarlHaley Skach5We are the Cannon Fodder91Ron HornbeckGraham HornbeckCorrine HornbeckCJ...