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The annual Ropecon VTES tournament on August 8th was also an EC qualifier this year. We had a grand total of 83 players, which is a step down from last year's 88 but still a hell of a lot of people.
Things went very smoothly this year. We were back in the main hall area, so there was (more or less) enough oxygen for everyone though it was crowded, as always. Due to the high number of pre-registrations there was extremely little hassle at startup time, and I mananged to get all the tables going at around 6:15pm, nicely on schedule. A big thanks to all the players, once again, for making this one more very pleasant tournament to run. There was the usual bunch of rules questions, but nothing came up that totally stumped me – of course, having the complete rulings set and list of current card texts available on the laptop helps more than a bit.
As usual, the variety in decks was huge, and I can't claim to have any sort of overview on what people played this year; I saw all kinds of decks while observing the table play. I don't remember seeing too many Anarch decks with the new cards, I guess that tech is still so new that people aren't familiar enough with it to try it out in a big tournament. Most of the decks in the finals were very fast decks, for what it's worth.
The tournament win this year went to Lasse Pöyry, playing a fairly traditional (but very efficient) Lasombra bleed machine. Unlike last year's Great Lasombra Fest, Lasse's deck was the only Lasombra one in the finals. The finals were fun to watch, with the first six rounds going very fast and people dropping left and right… and then Kari and Lasse settling down for a Nephandi vs Lasombra war of attrition. The final round ended in a draw, Lasse took tournament win due to higher preliminary scoring.
21 players received EC qualifications and also a spiffy ECQ t-shirt (thanks to White Wolf), and also thanks to WW we had a nice pile of boosters and some other stuff for the finalists (Fantasiapelit also donated some gift certificates, thanks in that direction also). Everyone in the tournament got a nice pile of promo cards, and in general I got the feeling people were pretty happy with everything.
We had quite a few “oldtimers” returning to the game, and Juho Linna made it to the finals even though he hasn't played much at all for 3-4 years (as far as I know). We also had one of our first international visitors, with Hugh Angseesing trying to lay down the U.K. smackdown on the Finns (with little success). He did get his revenge during the next day's draft tournament, though. :)
See below for full results, finalist deck lists, a transcript of the final round, and some more pictures.
– Petri “Orava” Wessman
The first 21 players (shown in bold type below) got EC qualifications.
Rank | Name | Prelim GWs | Prelim VPs | Final VPs | Deck/comment |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Lasse Pöyry | 2 | 8.5 | 2 | Lasombra Capitalists |
2 | Kari Vieno | 2 | 7 | 2 | Nephandi Rules! |
3 | Juho Linna | 2 | 8 | 1 | Obfuscate + Dominate |
4 | Juhani Puska | 3 | 12 | 0 | Kill Fast or Die Fast |
5 | Antti Tirilä | 2 | 8 | 0 | Loss Bleed |
6 | Miika Karmitsa | 2 | 6 | “Let the Beast Man win” | |
7 | Heikki Palomäki | 1 | 8 | “Madness of Authority” | |
8 | Henri Ketonen | 1 | 6.5 | “Domppa” | |
9 | Tuukka Kallas | 1 | 6 | “Violently Mad” | |
10 | Timo Rekola | 1 | 6 | “Ventrue (something) and S/B” | |
11 | Touko Kästämä | 1 | 6 | “Ninja School” | |
12 | Kari Mäkinen | 1 | 6 | ||
13 | Peter Kaario | 1 | 5.5 | “same as last year” | |
14 | Tomi Parkkonen | 1 | 5.5 | ||
15 | Juha Ivanoff | 1 | 5 | ||
16 | Niko Heinonen | 1 | 5 | ||
17 | Tommi Hakomaa | 1 | 4.5 | ||
18 | Seppo Lipponen | 1 | 4.5 | ||
19 | Tuomas Nyberg | 1 | 4.5 | “Malkavian FTW” | |
20 | Arsi Järvinen | 1 | 4 | ||
21 | Jaakko Penttinen | 1 | 4 | ||
22 | Tuomas Vuokko | 1 | 4 | ||
22 | Are Vaskela | 1 | 4 | ||
24 | Juho Vuorikoski | 1 | 4 | “Suicide Kings v2.0” | |
24 | Janne Kilpi | 1 | 4 | “Nosferatu vote” | |
26 | Joni Huumonen | 1 | 4 | ||
27 | Ville Saaristo | 1 | 3.5 | “Pala leipää maksaa 5mk” | |
27 | Lauri Salmi | 1 | 3.5 | ||
29 | Marko Lindroos | 1 | 3.5 | ||
30 | Otto Kukkasniemi | 1 | 3 | “Nephilim on paska bändi” | |
31 | Yann Irissou | 1 | 2.5 | ||
32 | Janne Lönnqvist | 1 | 2.5 | ||
33 | Teemu Sainomaa | 0 | 4 | ||
34 | Taija Sainomaa | 0 | 4 | ||
35 | Jarkko Suvela | 0 | 3.5 | “Paskat Ishtrarrit ry” | |
36 | Ari Lensu | 0 | 3.5 | “As We Die” | |
37 | Jari Mäkikyrö | 0 | 2.5 | ||
38 | Toni Karjalainen | 0 | 2.5 | ||
39 | Pasi Karjalainen | 0 | 2.5 | ||
40 | Otso Turunen | 0 | 2 | ||
41 | Kirmo Lassheikki | 0 | 2 | ||
42 | Johan Wahlström | 0 | 2 | ||
43 | Antti Horelli | 0 | 2 | ||
43 | Jaakko Liemola | 0 | 2 | “No Secrets from the Assamites” | |
45 | Marko Saari | 0 | 2 | ||
46 | Sami Dadu | 0 | 1.5 | “Cripple Force” | |
46 | Heikki Parviainen | 0 | 1.5 | ||
46 | Petteri Moisio | 0 | 1.5 | ||
46 | Kimmo Pekkola | 0 | 1.5 | ||
46 | Aleksi Nuora | 0 | 1.5 | ||
46 | Eemil Lagerspetz | 0 | 1.5 | ||
46 | Ville Kaijasaari | 0 | 1.5 | ||
53 | Harri Hakkarainen | 0 | 1.5 | ||
54 | Jouko Loijas | 0 | 1 | ||
55 | Petteri Teerikangas | 0 | 1 | ||
56 | Jussi Hattara | 0 | 1 | “Power Jacko's Leathers” | |
56 | Johannes Leppä | 0 | 1 | ||
58 | Mikko Moisander | 0 | 1 | “Aggravated Assamites” | |
59 | Jussi Ranta | 0 | 1 | ||
60 | Mikko Hyvärinen | 0 | 0.5 | ||
60 | Lasse Gustafsson | 0 | 0.5 | ||
62 | Matti Palomäki | 0 | 0.5 | “Akvaarion lasi vääristää perspektiivin” | |
62 | Henri Halonen | 0 | 0.5 | “The Vittupäät” | |
62 | Mika Nurmikolu | 0 | 0.5 | ||
62 | Antero Hakala | 0 | 0.5 | “No! Is Elimelech!” | |
62 | Mikko Inkinen | 0 | 0.5 | “Tai sit nolla” | |
62 | Akseli Jalava | 0 | 0.5 | ||
68 | Jukka Lindström | 0 | 0.5 | “Tällä ei voiteta” | |
69 | Otso Saariluoma | 0 | 0.5 | ||
70 | Oskari Rautiainen | 0 | 0 | ||
71 | Antti Iivari | 0 | 0 | ||
72 | Jari Vulli | 0 | 0 | ||
73 | Hugh Angseesing | 0 | 0 | ||
73 | Markus Inkeri | 0 | 0 | ||
75 | Raymond Mäkeläinen | 0 | 0 | “Vintage” | |
75 | Arto Heinonen | 0 | 0 | “The 0 VP deck” | |
75 | Niko Vanhatalo | 0 | 0 | “Triple A” | |
78 | Ari-Pekka Alestalo | 0 | 0 | ||
78 | Aarni Suvitie | 0 | 0 | ||
78 | Tom Lindberg | 0 | 0 | ||
78 | Jukka Karvonen | 0 | 0 | “Hector Multifail” | |
82 | Kalle Cederström | 0 | 0 | ||
DQ | Elias Maliniemi | 0 | 1 | “Kiasyd - TB” |
Below are deck lists for all the finalists.
deck:lasse_lasombra_capitalists
Note: Kari's deck list contains errors according to email I got from him, it will be fixed when I get the updated deck list.
deck:kari_nephandus
deck:juho_obf_dom
deck:juhani_kill_fast_or_die_fast
deck:antti_loss_bleed
This is a record of the final round, it does not include every little thing but should contain all the relevant bits.
The final round started at 1am. We agreed on the standard 2h time limit, since everyone felt that it should be enough to resolve things.
The players were (in seating order):
Juhani
Antti
Kari:
Lasse
Juho
Juhani
Antti
Kari
Lasse
Juho
Juhani
Antti
Kari
Lasse
Juho
Juhani
Antti
Kari
Lasse
Juho
Juhani
Antti
Kari
Lasse
Juho
Antti
Kari
Lasse
Kari
Lasse
Kari
Lasse
Kari
Lasse
Kari
Lasse
Kari
Lasse
Kari
Lasse
Kari
Game ends at 2:29am, having taken 1:29 of game time. The final result is a draw between Lasse and Kari, but Lasse goes on to win the tournament due to higher preliminary round results.