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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joachim" data-source="post: 2509868" data-attributes="member: 9531">I believe that JD meant to say that no one has ever repeated as champions.  And we were very, very close.  3rd place was distant to us, and I found out that it came down to one friggin decision (not by anyone on our team) that lost the repeat for us.  Most of the judges were rooting for us to pull off the repeat (except one !#%@head judge who told us, "Good.  I never repeated as champion, and I didn't want you to have one up on me."  Jerk).If you had said to us on Thursday (before tourney started) that we were going to come in second place, I would have jumped on it HAPPILY.  When the dust settled, however, to come that close to a repeat was, in a word, disappointing.  I should not feel this way.  Humility aside, I believe that our team proved that our win last year was not some kind of fluke.  Placing in the top 3 is fantastic, and we did it 2 years in a row!  But for some reason, it feels somehow hollow...The GOOD news is that we made off with over $200 worth of D&D stuff, including th Dungeon Master's Guide II, Champions of Ruin, Waterdeep: City of Splendors, Sharn: City of Towers, PHB embossed with a silver 2nd place stamp, Eberron Character Sheets, box of Angelfire minis, 3 Underdark pre-release minis (Gwenwhyvar, Dark Naga, and Elminster), and 2 paperback Eberron fiction books.  Not bad for a $4.50 investment at the beginning <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> .Afterwards, the guy with RPGA who was in charge of the Open Championship came up to us with his condolences/congratulations.  They even took our pictures with both PHB's (this years 2nd placer and last years 1st placer) and they are going to print one on the website and talk about our near repeat.  We ended the conversation with, "Don't worry, we'll just see you here next year."</blockquote>

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