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| **Dec 29 2007, 17 players** | **Dec 29 2007, 17 players** |
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| This tournament started out as discussion between me and Janne Lönnqvist (NC for Finland) about how having bigger prizes for a tournament would affect play (and if it would have any effect). We decided to do a test of sorts, and arranged for this tournament. Entry fee was higher than normal (20e), but the winner would get a full set of //Legacies of Blood// rares, with other prizes (t-shirt, action figure, art prints) for the other finalists. We gave the tournament an appropriate name, and told everyone "bring the best cheese you've got". | This tournament started out as discussion between me and Janne Lönnqvist (NC for Finland) about how having bigger prizes for a tournament would affect play (and if it would have any effect). We decided to do a test of sorts, and arranged for this tournament. Entry fee was higher than normal (20e), but the winner would get a full set of //Legacies of Blood// rares, with other prizes (t-shirt, action figure, art prints) for the other finalists. We gave the tournament an appropriate name, and told everyone "bring the best cheese you've got". |
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| Well, we got it, at least for some definition of "cheese". We also got somewhat fewer players than normal, 17 vs the more usual 25-30 -- obviously, the higher entry fee had some detrimental effect. I was also playing and not judging full-time (we used the multi-judge system, as usual in smaller tournaments), so I didn't see how all the games played out and can only comment on my own games. On the other hand, with only 17 players I did get to see a fair selection of the decks. I didn't see all that much difference to a "normal" tournament, except maybe a somewhat higher number of power bleed decks and perhaps a slight bit more "polish" in decks. There was one Imbued deck, which almost made it to the finals (Otso, the player, placed at #6). I saw a few Inner Circle -powered decks, maybe less than I had expected; after all, this was the last chance to play //Protect Thine Own//. Lots of Dominate-heavy decks, but that's par for the course. | Well, we got it, at least for some definition of "cheese". We also got somewhat fewer players than normal, 17 vs the more usual 25-30 -- obviously, the higher entry fee had some detrimental effect. I was also playing and not judging full-time (we used the multi-judge system, as usual in smaller tournaments), so I didn't see how all the games played out and can only comment on my own games. On the other hand, with only 17 players I did get to see a fair selection of the decks. I didn't see all that much difference to a "normal" tournament, except maybe a somewhat higher number of power bleed decks and perhaps a slight bit more "polish" in decks. There was one Imbued deck, which almost made it to the finals (Otso, the player, placed at #6). I saw a few Inner Circle -powered decks, maybe less than I had expected; after all, this was the last chance to play //Protect Thine Own//. Lots of Dominate-heavy decks, but that's par for the course. |
| (see below for decklists for all of these) | (see below for decklists for all of these) |
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| For some (not so) weird reason, nobody wanted to sit between the two intercept decks, so they were left next to each other. The final table layout was Teemu (intercept), Heikki (intercept), Petri (bleed), Tuomas (bleed), Marko (bleed + politics). I chose to be downstream from an intercept deck, since even though intercept would hurt me (don't have the stealth to cope with a dedicated intercept deck), most of my actions would be downstream. That proved to work, somewhat, and I was a bit careful with my non-(D) actions in order not to get a Tremere "go to torpor" response. However, Tuomas' immense amount of bleed bounce and nice GtU-powered bloat proved to be a problem -- I bled him lots, all the time, but somehow he kept hanging on. I finally did manage to oust him, but only after he had ousted Marko in turn, and Teemu had ousted Heikki. In the end it was me in pretty poor shape vs Teemu's Auspex horde, and it wasn't much of a contest. Teemu ousted me, gaining 3VPs and tournament victory. Grats to Teemu, especially for winning as the only non-Dominate deck on the table. | For some (not so) weird reason, nobody wanted to sit between the two intercept decks, so they were left next to each other. The final table layout was Teemu (intercept), Heikki (intercept), Petri (bleed), Tuomas (bleed), Marko (bleed + politics). I chose to be downstream from an intercept deck, since even though intercept would hurt me (don't have the stealth to cope with a dedicated intercept deck), most of my actions would be downstream. It was a good starting spot for my deck, and as such worked out pretty well. However, Tuomas' immense amount of bleed bounce and nice GtU-powered bloat proved to be a problem -- I bled him lots, all the time, but he kept hanging on since neither me not Marko could block his bloat actions. I finally did manage to oust him, but only after he had ousted Marko in turn, and Teemu had ousted Heikki. In the end it was me in pretty poor shape vs Teemu's Auspex horde and Smiling Jack, and it wasn't much of a contest. Teemu ousted me, gaining 3VPs and tournament victory. Grats to Teemu, especially for winning as the only non-Dominate deck on the table. |
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| The final rankings were: | The final rankings were: |
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| {{page>deck:teemu_power_of_auspex}} | {{page>deck:teemu_power_of_auspex}} |
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| ==== Others ==== | ==== Others ==== |
| {{page>deck:heikki_pure_tremere}} | {{page>deck:heikki_pure_tremere}} |
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| {{deck>deck:markol council of swedish meatballs}} | {{page>deck:markol_council_of_swedish_meatballs}} |
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