Ropecon 2009 Finnish ECQ, July 31

Report

Before the tournament

Even though I've been running annual VTES tournaments at the Ropecon games convention for… lots of years, this year was special, since we actually had LSJ as a Guest of Honor at the con. Since Janne and I had met LSJ before (at the ECs), we volunteered to help the GoH team out and help show LSJ the sights. And the pubs. Let's not forget them.

Wednesday saw a somewhat jetlagged LSJ blinking in the bright nordic sun, being herded via car to first see a few city sights, and then to Zetor to eat & have a few drinks. After that, some more drinks at Kappeli, and we finally split ways sometime a bit before midnight, with Juki taking LSJ to the hotel and also dropping us home (nice).

Thursday… the guys did something, not 100% sure what, but it probably involved food, sun, and some drinks. I joined them for a while later in the evening at Kaisla, where out normal weekly VTES pub game was going strong – had to miss out the day's events due to being at work. Jobs, those boring things that get in the way of VTES and pubs. Anyway, many of the locals did the “oh, that's LSJ” routine, and much beer was consumed.

Friday, again a working day, after which I packed up my stuff and headed for Dipoli, the home of Ropecon, with backpack full of tournament tracking stuff and my trusty (& pink!) netbook. Real men use pink laptops.

Tournament

After

Results

Rank	Name	Prelim GWs	Prelim VPs	Final VPs	Deck/comment
1	Adam Esbjörnsson	3	10	3	Tutte bjuder till fest
2	Pauli Kiova	2	9.5		Mata Hari shifts you!
2	Antti Horelli	2	9		Team !deflection
2	Michael Holmström	2	9	1	Vignes deck
2	Antero Leppänen	2	9	1	The !Ventrue do not sleep. They Wait.
6	Seppo Lipponen	2	8
7	Are Vaskela	2	7
8	Jussi Ranta	2	7		Well, Dog Tired to Bleed (eh?)
9	Erik Torstensson	2	5.5
10	Kari Mäkinen	1	9
11	Mika Nurmikolu	1	7		MC Shamblers & friends from beyong the veil
12	Isak Esbjönsson	1	6.5		<3 Dom
13	Tommi Hakomaa	1	6		Pirates, YARR!
14	Mikko Hyvärinen	1	5.5
15	Tuomas Nyberg	1	5.5		Guruhi
16	Marko Lindroos	1	5.5
17	Marko Saari	1	5		Pahan Markon paluu
18	Veijo Fiskaali	1	5
18	Antero Hakala	1	5
20	Akseli Jalava	1	5		Vittu teitä tulee vituttamaan
21	Matias Hurme	1	5		Malk '94
22	Mika Uusi-Kilponen	1	4.5
23	Romeo Leinbaum	1	4		Backoust GG
23	Ville Saaristo	1	4		obf+DOM
25	Tuukka Kallas	1	4		Eurobrujah
26	Timo Rekola	1	4		Stolisnaja
27	Matias Frosterus	1	4		Big Hand
28	Johan Wahlström	1	3.5
29	Ville Kaijasaari	1	3.5
30	Tom Lindberg	1	3		Spam, spam, spam
31	Otso Saariluoma	1	3		Nu Ventrue
32	Toni Karjalainen	0	4
33	Otso Turunen	0	3.5		Peruspeukku
34	Jussi Hattara	0	3		Hardestadt & co., Mk III
35	Matti Palomäki	0	3		Käykö täällä Visa Electron?
36	Aleksi Nuora	0	3
37	Peter Kaario	0	3		3rd
38	Juri Juskevits	0	2.5		lol
39	Miika Karmitsa	0	2.5		Suuta korviin ja persettä polviin
40	Joonas Sahramaa	0	2
41	Jukka Karvonen	0	2
41	Jussi Koskimäki	0	2
43	Teemu Sainomaa	0	2
43	Juho Vuorikoski	0	2
45	Tommi Ketonen	0	2		Lupus in Tabula
45	Juha Ivanoff	0	2
47	Pasi Karjalainen	0	2
48	Otto Kukkasniemi	0	2		Conglomerate of the People's Republic
49	Kimmo Pekkola	0	1.5
49	Ari-Pekka Alestalo	0	1.5
51	Joni Huumonen	0	1.5
52	Juhani Puska	0	1.5
52	Jyri Puhakka	0	1.5
54	Antti Iivari	0	1.5		If you can't win, you can hurt
55	Janne Lönnqvist	0	1
56	Anssi Herranen	0	1
57	Kirmo Lassheikki	0	1		Back from Hell
57	Juha Nyholm	0	1
59	Lasse Pöyry	0	1
60	Raymond Mäkeläinen	0	1
61	Jaakko Liemola	0	1
62	Jari Vulli	0	0.5		Okon vinot hampaat
63	Touko Kästämä	0	0.5
63	Kalle Cederström	0	0.5
65	Aleksi Kivilahti	0	0.1
66	Kari Vieno	0	0		Vittu joo!
67	Samuel Mäenpää	0	0		Sauli & co.
67	Mikko Laine	0	0
67	Johannes Leppä	0	0		Magic of the Mic
67	Markku Puska	0	0
71	Arsi Järvinen	0	0
71	Tuomas Hallgren	0	0
71	Sami Dadu	0	0		Eyessamites
71	Lauri Keinänen	0	0
71	Taija Kanerva	0	0
71	Niko Heinonen	0	0
77	L.Scott Johnson	0	0		Ravnos
77	Jani Anttila	0	0
77	Arto Heinonen	0	0
77	Jari Mäkikyrö	0	0
77	Heikki Parviainen	0	0
77	Teemu Aro	0	0
77	Ari Lensu	0	0		Deadsong
77	Teppo Aro	0	0
85	Jani Nokkanen	0	0		perinteinen