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Star Trek CCG Tenth Anniversary Contest #10:
IDIC Dream Team
December 22, 2004 – RESULTS
This is it! Finally, the tenth Tenth Anniversary contest! After cooking
up contest #8 and seeing just how many versions of the TNG bridge crew there
were, I got the idea to do a final contest based on the cornerstone of Vulcan
philosophy, IDIC: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. What you
need to do is put together the most diverse "bridge crew" possible,
made up of seven "main" character cards from The Next Generation,
Deep Space Nine, and Voyager crews. (I put "main" in quotes because
I'm including a few of the major ongoing characters who nevertheless weren't
considered part of the bridge crew or ops team.) To keep the contest within
reasonable bounds, we're only going to consider Second Edition cards. (If
we included First Edition, I fear we would indeed approach an infinite number
of combinations.)
Now, what do I mean by a "diverse" crew? You want to include
as many different species, affiliations, skills, icons, and keywords
as possible, from the pool of eligible characters. Don't worry about how
you would actually get all those characters into play without running five
headquarters missions; the point is just to see how diverse a group you
could put together. There may be more than one possible, equally diverse,
answer to this puzzle – I haven't worked it out. That's for you to
do!
The Prizes
Each of the ten winners will receive:
- One Second Edition or Call to Arms starter deck (random selection) and
three booster packs (one each of 2E Premiere, Energize, and Call to Arms).
- One starter deck and three booster packs of First Edition Premiere Limited
Edition. That's not a typo. In the course of our recent office moves
we turned up a cache of Limited Edition (black-border) bundles of starters
and boosters, and decided they would make fitting prizes for the final
Tenth Anniversary contest.
- Two collectible preview postcards (one each for Necessary Evil and Fractured
Time).
- One First Edition Alternate Universe booster pack (who knows –
you might be lucky enough to pull a UR Future Enterprise!) and one other
First Edition booster pack (random selection from First Contact, Deep
Space Nine, Dominion, Voyager, and possibly others).
In addition, the following prizes will be awarded:
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Place
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Second Edition
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First Edition
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1st
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5 Reflections 2.0 booster packs
Four 2E promos: one each
Sela (0 P 5), Jean-Luc Picard (0 P 4),
Dukat (0 P 3), and Elim Garak (0 P 2)
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One 1E Reflections foil Seven of Nine
One 1E foil Borg Cube
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2nd
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3 Reflections 2.0 booster packs
Two 2E promos: one each Dukat (0 P 3)
and Jean-Luc Picard (0 P 4)
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One 1E Reflections foil Gowron of Borg
One 1E foil Kivas Fajo – Collector
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3rd
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2 Reflections 2.0 booster packs
Two 2E promo: one each Elim Garak (0 P 2)
and Jean-Luc Picard (0 P 4)
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One 1E Reflections foil Jean-Luc Picard
One 1E foil Bat'leth
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4th-10th
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1 Reflections 2.0 booster pack
One 2E promo Jean-Luc Picard (0 P 4)
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One random 1E Reflections Super-Rare foil
One random 1E tournament foil
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The Answers
As I said in the introduction, I had not worked this puzzle
out – you, the contest entrants, provided the answers. And as I predicted,
there was more than one "best" solution, but just barely; the
only difference is the version of Deanna Troi selected. While there is a
theoretical maximum diversity score of 59 (the available personnel have
7 affiliations, 9 species, 23 skills, 11 keywords, and 10 icons, but only
8 species are possible with 7 personnel), it's just not possible to pack
all those features onto the same seven personnel, and the best solution
appears to be 48. (I did receive one entry claiming 49 and another 50, but
upon checking I found that the cards listed did not provide those scores.
Sorry, fellas, but you must have miscounted somewhere.) The personnel:
- Rom, Undercover Spy (3R183)
- Jadzia Dax, Science Officer (1R266)
- Data, Commanding Officer (0P10)
- Deanna Troi, Guide and Conscience (1R261) OR Deanna Troi, Ship's Counselor
(4U135)
- Worf, Regent of the Alliance (5P32)
- Kira Nerys, The Intendant (5P22)
- Odo, Impartial Investigator (4R121)
These seven personnel have a total of 5 affiliations, 8 species, 20 skills,
7 keywords, and 8 icons, for a "diversity score" of 48. Ten entries
out of 79 achieved that 48, from which I randomly selected the top three
prize winners. The remaining seven were randomly selected from all entries.
Congratulations to:
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1st
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Matt Zinno
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Sharon, MA
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2nd
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David Howells
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Eastleigh, United Kingdom
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3rd
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Arnaud van der Ploeg
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Voorhout, The Netherlands
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4th
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Kyle Baxter
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Omaha, NE
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5th
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Whitney Barnes
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San Diego, CA
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6th
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Stephen Shipley
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Astoria, IL
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7th
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Jay Norris
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Duncan, BC, Canada
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8th
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William Hoskin
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High Wycombe, United Kingdom
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9th
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Ted Witt
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Denver, CO
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10th
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Anthony Anderson
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Kiverpool, United Kingdom
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Your prizes will be shipped in approximately 8-10 weeks (I'll
try to get them put together over the holidays). If you have any questions,
please direct them to webmaster@decipher.com
and specify by title exactly which contest you are enquiring about.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our Tenth Anniversary
contests, and have the best of holidays!
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