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Tournament: | Finnish 2011 ECQ |
Date: | Friday July 29th, 2011 |
Place: | Ropecon 2011 gaming convention, Dipoli, Espoo, Finland |
Players: | 90 |
Format: | Constructed, 3R+F |
Winner: | Otso Saariluoma (see below for deck list) |
Another Ropecon, another big annual VTES tournament and Finnish ECQ (for the European Championships in Warsaw, Nov 11-13).
At least so far, the cancellation of the game doesn't seem to have had any effect on player attendance; in fact, with 90 players we had the third highest attendance ever. Not bad for a “dead” game :). In addition, everything went really smoothly, I actually managed to get the first round started almost at 18:00 which is a new record. Thanks for this goes to the players; everyone registered on time, lots of people helped out with organizing the tables, and in general it was just a very fun tournament to run. Thanks, everyone.
Most of the players were Finnish of course, but we had a nice Scandinavian (Sweden & Denmark) team also present. Most of my own time and energy went into running things and answering rules questions, or course, but my impressions based on watching random tables for random amounts of time was that the quality was pretty high. Lots of nice, well-tuned decks and good play, and also a ton of different deck types – no one type seemed to dominate (pun alert) the game. What I heard from some players seems to confirm this, I was told that the game was tighter and more focused in general this year. There were precious few easy wins to be had, this time. I got the impression that there were fewer vote decks out there than usual, at least I didn't see all that many.
The final round this year was interesting but drawn out, it actually ended in a tie. There is a transcript of the final round at the end of this article, for those interested in the nitty-gritty. The finalist decks were a varied bunch: an Auxpex weenie deck, an ani/pot combat deck, a Lasombra vote deck, a Dmitra-powered vote deck, and a Tre/!Tre dom bleed deck. After a long struggle the game ended in a timeout, with Otso's Auspex weenies and Ville's Ani/Pot hurt machine still left on the table. Otso took the tournament win due to a higher initial seed. This was especially impressive considering he also won last year's 93-player tournament(!).
Ville was awarded an extra “most brutal combat deck” award (judge's discretion), in the form of a Theo Bell action figure (with torn signpost!). Very fitting. All attendees also got a huge pile of promos, thanks to Finnish NC Janne Lönnqvist.
-Petri “Orava” Wessman
The bolded players received EC qualification for 2011.
Rank | Name | Prelim GWs | Prelim VPs | Final VPs | Deck/comment |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Otso Saariluoma | 3 | 12 | 1.5 | |
2 | Adam Esbjörnsson | 2 | 9 | 1 | |
2 | Toni Karjalainen | 2 | 10 | ||
2 | Ville Kaijasaari | 3 | 10 | 1.5 | |
2 | Teemu Sainomaa | 2 | 10.5 | ||
6 | Tuomas Vuokko | 2 | 8 | ||
7 | Arto Heinonen | 2 | 8 | ||
8 | Marko Lindroos | 1 | 6.5 | ||
9 | Jarkko Suvela | 1 | 6.5 | ||
10 | Heikki Palomäki | 1 | 6 | ||
11 | Matias Frosterus | 1 | 5.5 | ||
12 | Kari Mäkinen | 1 | 5.5 | ||
13 | Jari Vulli | 1 | 5 | ||
14 | Raymond Mäkeläinen | 1 | 5 | ||
15 | Jesper Wøldiche | 1 | 5 | ||
16 | Janne Kilpi | 1 | 5 | ||
17 | Anssi Rekola | 1 | 5 | ||
18 | Aleksi Kivilahti | 1 | 5 | ||
19 | Elias Maliniemi | 1 | 4.5 | ||
19 | Ville Kilpi | 1 | 4.5 | ||
21 | Jyri Puhakka | 1 | 4 | ||
22 | Ville Ruuskanen | 1 | 4 | ||
23 | Mikko Berkovits | 1 | 4 | ||
23 | Aleksi Nuora | 1 | 4 | ||
25 | Mikko Hyvärinen | 1 | 4 | ||
26 | Marko Saari | 1 | 3.5 | ||
27 | Lauri Salmi | 1 | 3.5 | ||
28 | Johan Wahlström | 1 | 3 | ||
29 | Kari Vieno | 1 | 3 | ||
30 | Mikko Moisander | 1 | 3 | ||
31 | Petrus Makkonen | 1 | 3 | ||
31 | Otto Kukkasniemi | 1 | 3 | ||
33 | Seppo Lipponen | 1 | 3 | ||
34 | Are Vaskela | 1 | 2 | ||
35 | Ari-Pekka Alestalo | 0 | 4 | ||
35 | Joonas Vaittinen | 0 | 4 | ||
37 | Sauli Samila | 0 | 3.5 | ||
37 | Tom Lindberg | 0 | 3.5 | ||
39 | Teemu Pulkkinen | 0 | 3 | ||
40 | Jari Mäkikyrö | 0 | 2.5 | ||
40 | Kimmo Pekkola | 0 | 2.5 | ||
42 | Juhani Puska | 0 | 2 | ||
43 | Joni Huumonen | 0 | 2 | ||
43 | Michael Holmström | 0 | 2 | ||
45 | Jussi Hattara | 0 | 2 | ||
45 | Janne Lönnqvist | 0 | 2 | ||
45 | Johannes Leppä | 0 | 2 | ||
45 | Jussi Ranta | 0 | 2 | ||
49 | Mikko Raimi | 0 | 2 | ||
50 | Matias Hurme | 0 | 1.5 | ||
50 | Joonas Oja | 0 | 1.5 | ||
52 | Taija Sainomaa | 0 | 1.5 | ||
53 | Pauli Kiova | 0 | 1.5 | ||
53 | Tommi Hakomaa | 0 | 1.5 | ||
53 | Tuukka Kallas | 0 | 1.5 | ||
53 | Rami Hänninen | 0 | 1.5 | ||
57 | Tuomas Nyberg | 0 | 1.5 | ||
57 | Ari Lensu | 0 | 1.5 | ||
59 | Henri Ketonen | 0 | 1 | ||
60 | Markku Lumijärvi | 0 | 1 | ||
60 | Akseli Jalava | 0 | 1 | ||
60 | Mika Uusi-Kilponen | 0 | 1 | ||
63 | Timo Rekola | 0 | 1 | ||
63 | Niina Stenberg | 0 | 1 | ||
63 | Antti Martikainen | 0 | 1 | ||
66 | Antti Horelli | 0 | 1 | ||
66 | Randal Rudstam | 0 | 1 | ||
68 | Pekko Kurttio | 0 | 1 | ||
69 | Juri Juskevits | 0 | 0.5 | ||
69 | Juha Nyholm | 0 | 0.5 | ||
71 | Matti Palomäki | 0 | 0.5 | ||
71 | Peter Kaario | 0 | 0.5 | ||
71 | Isak Bjärmark Esbjörnsson | 0 | 0.5 | ||
74 | Lasse Pöyry | 0 | 0.5 | ||
75 | Ari Särkkä | 0 | 0 | ||
76 | Kenneth Peltokangas | 0 | 0 | ||
76 | Pasi Karjalainen | 0 | 0 | ||
78 | Juha Ivanoff | 0 | 0 | ||
78 | V-H Kilpiä | 0 | 0 | ||
78 | Samuel Mäenpää | 0 | 0 | ||
78 | Juho Saari | 0 | 0 | ||
78 | Antero Hakala | 0 | 0 | ||
83 | Kirmo Lassheikki | 0 | 0 | ||
83 | Niko Heinonen | 0 | 0 | ||
83 | Mika Nurmikolu | 0 | 0 | ||
83 | Mikko Laine | 0 | 0 | ||
83 | Karri Rintamaa | 0 | 0 | ||
83 | Hannu Kokkonen | 0 | 0 | ||
89 | Juho Vuorikoski | 0 | 0 | ||
DQ | Tommi Ketonen | 0 | 0 |
Deck Name: Victoria's Secret Author: Otso Saariluoma Description: Weenie auspex with some anarch/madness network tech. This deck owes to Pascal Bertrand for perfecting the deck concept. Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=1 max=5 avg=2.67) =============================================== 1x Aleph 4 dom AUS Malkavian:1 3x Anarch Convert 1 -none- Caitiff:ANY 1x Brazil 2 aus Malkavian:1 1x Dollface 3 aus obf Malkavian:1 1x Franciscus 1 aus Caitiff:2 1x Isabel de Leon 3 AUS Toreador:2 2x Victoria 5 cel obf AUS Malkavian:2 2x Zöe 3 cel obf AUS Malkavian:2 Library (79 cards) ================== Master (15) 2x Anarch Revolt 2x Direct Intervention 2x Madness Network 1x Pentex(TM) Subversion 1x Powerbase: Montreal 1x Rack, The 2x Smiling Jack, The Anarch 3x Vessel 1x Wider View Event (1) 1x Uncoiling, The Action (3) 1x Aranthebes, The Immortal 2x Constant Revolution Equipment (6) 3x .44 Magnum 1x Bowl of Convergence 1x Ivory Bow 1x Sniper Rifle Ally (3) 1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter) 1x Muddled Vampire Hunter 1x Ossian Retainer (1) 1x Mr. Winthrop Reaction (42) 2x Delaying Tactics 7x Eagle's Sight 4x Enhanced Senses 8x Eyes of Argus 4x Forced Awakening 4x My Enemy's Enemy 4x On the Qui Vive 2x Precognition 7x Telepathic Misdirection Combat (8) 2x Aura Reading 3x Disguised Weapon 3x Target Vitals
Deck Name : Gratiano sucks! Author : Toni Karjalainen Description : Typical old-school Lasombra presence vote deck. Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 1 max: 10 average: 7.41667 ------------------------------------------------------------ 3x Ambrosio Luis Monc 10 DOM OBT POT PRE aus for cardinal Lasombra:2 3x Francisco Domingo 9 DOM OBT POT PRE pro archbishop Lasombra:2 2x Gratiano 8 DOM OBT obf pot priscus Lasombra:2 1x Sela Adv 7 POT PRE cel obt archbishop !Brujah:2 1x Dr. Julius Sutphen 5 POT dom obt bishop Lasombra:3 1x Cameron 3 dom pot Lasombra:2 1x Royce 1 dom Pander:2 Library [80 cards] ------------------------------------------------------------ Action [9] 2x Entrancement 7x Govern the Unaligned Action Modifier [31] 1x Awe 3x Bewitching Oration 2x Iron Glare 2x Perfect Paragon 3x Seduction 4x Shadow Play 4x Shroud of Absence 4x Shroud of Night 3x Tenebrous Form 5x Voter Captivation Action Modifier/Reaction [2] 2x Murmur of the False Will Combat [4] 2x Oubliette 2x Shadow Body Equipment [1] 1x Zaire River Ferry Master [12] 1x Direct Intervention 2x Dreams of the Sphinx 1x Elysian Fields 1x Pentex(TM) Subversion 1x Power Structure 1x Secure Haven 5x Villein Political Action [12] 1x Anarchist Uprising 1x Ancilla Empowerment 2x Banishment 7x Kine Resources Contested 1x Reins of Power Reaction [9] 6x Deflection 3x On the Qui Vive
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