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...