**newsgroup tournament report:**
Date of event: Saturday June 19th, 2010
Location of event: Espoo, Finland
# of players: 16
Winning Player: Aleksi Nuora (VEKN 3070125)
Winning Clan: True Brujah
Winning Faction: Bahari
Key Minion: Nehemiah
We played the Battle Lines storyline over here last Saturday, and got
a very decent attendance (16) taking into account that it's a summer
weekend.
The win went to Aleksi Nuora with his (Bahari) True Brujah deck. It's
a slow builder of a deck, but when it gets going it's very very
dangerous. It also has some fun tech (the Temptation angle, with
Abactor for maximized nasty).
All in all, I saw a lot of very different decks. Multiple Baali of
course (though nobody was quite crazy enough to bring a Loyalist Baali
deck :) but only two Kiasyd, which has a bit of a surprise for me. My
own (Nagaraja) deck packed a copy of Mistrust but I didn't draw it
once over 3 games -- plain bad luck there. It would have been useful.
The final round consisted of (in seating order):
* Matias Frosterus (Bahari Gargoyle), final total 2 GW, 6.5 VP
* Otso Turunen (Bahari Baali), final total 1 GW, 6.5 VP
* Antero Hakala (Loyalist Daughters), final total 1 GW, 4 VP
* Aleksi Nuora (Bahari True Brujah), final total 2 GW, 8.5 VP
* Marko Saari (Bahari Baali), final total 2 GW, 7 VP
The finals were actually pretty boring and resulted in a timeout...
almost everyone had so much bloat that nothing much seemed to happen.
The two Baali decks were both Great Beast -based, so they were stuck
in contest hell and ended up being a lot less powerful than they
otherwise would have been.
The full clan breakdown for the day was:
4 x Baali (Bahari)
3 x Gargoyle (Bahari)
2 x Daughters (Loyalist)
2 x Kiasyd (Bahari)
2 x Nagaraja (one Bahari, one Loyalist)
2 x Salubri (one Bahari, one Loyalist)
1 x True Brujah (Bahari)
Bahari was obvious a *lot* more popular, for obvious reasons.
It was a fun tournament, especially because ignoring the grouping
rules and some clan disabilities let you build decks you never could
try out normally. It was also very very unbalanced, the Bahari faction
card was miles beyond the Loyalist one in power, and letting Baali
ignore their untap cost let them do nasty things. Still, a fun time
was had.
Aleksi's winning deck:
Description :
Fairly straightforward. Control Villeined minions with Rants and
Tempts, oust when the opportunity presents itself. The deck is based
on the idea that if a stealth vote/bleed deck can cycle cards at a
nearly arbitrary rate it will win.
Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 7 max: 9 average: 8.41667
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4x Nehemiah 9 POT PRE SER TEM obt 2 votes True Bruj:4
3x Dmitra Ilyanova 9 CEL FOR POT PRE obf justicar Brujah:5
2x Synesios 8 POT PRE TEM obf ser 2 votes True Bruj:2
2x Karen Suadela 7 CEL POT obf pre prince Brujah:5
1x Giangaleazzo, The 8 OBT POT PRE dom prince Lasombra:4
Library [90 cards]
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Action [15]
1x Abactor /Excellent card.
4x Clotho's Gift
1x Entrancement
1x Heart of the City
1x Horseshoes /Might even add a second one.
7x Temptation
Action Modifier [39]
4x Bewitching Oration
5x Domain of Evernight
5x Iron Glare /Needs two more of these.
2x Perfect Paragon
6x Pocket Out of Time
4x Recurring Contemplation /Absolute gold.
5x Tangle Atropos' Hand /Absolute... platinum.
8x Voter Captivation
Action Modifier / Combat [2]
2x Force of Personality
Ally [3]
1x Impundulu
1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)
1x Young Bloods
Combat [6]
6x Majesty
Master [10]
1x Creepshow Casino
1x Monastery of Shadows
1x Tabriz Assembly
7x Villein
Political Action [15]
1x Banishment
4x Free States Rant
5x Kine Resources Contested
3x Parity Shift
2x Reckless Agitation
**original announcement:**
* [[https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.vtesstorylines.com/PDFs/Storyline_BL_Story.pdf|Intro]]
* [[https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.vtesstorylines.com/Pdfs/Storyline_BL_Rules.pdf|Rules]]
Please //read// the rules, this is a Bloodlines tournament with some very specialized rules.
We'll be playing in Otaniemi in the 3A gaming room (Jämeräntaival 3A, Espoo), starting at 11:00. Entry fee is 3 euros.
Since we got a fair amount of the promos for this one, //each player will receive two copies of all the new promos//!