Swedish ECQ report and standings
Alex Ek
So, here’s my report from the Swedish ECQ at the GothCon convention in
Gothenburg. GothCon is rather famous for its strange climate. Lots of
vtes players that only play one tournament event in a year usually shows
leading to the quality of decks and play varying from really good to
horribly bad (depending on how many experienced players you get at your
tables). With this in mind (and also being unsure if I would be able to
play or not) I decided to run with a “fun” deck and see what happens.
The treaty of Laibach deck (looking rather similar to this deck list):
http://www.chestud.chalmers.se/~aek/Laibach.html
Round 1:
Me -> ??? (for/obf/pre voter) -> Tore (ani Danielle Diron wall) -> Baron
Larvo von Totensson (Erik) (weenie aus) ->
Erik got a quick start (as you would expect by a weenie aus deck). I and
Tore got a decent start. My prey however got a really slow start. I
focused my energy on Erik and managed to block a few actions with cross
table Rumor Mill help. I also got Erik to block some rather annoying
actions I played backwards (young bloods, temptation, charnas IIRC).
Still I got bled for a few pools (2-4) each turn. My prey got Pascek and
Mukthar but got caught by Tore and suffered some serious damage (lucky
for me, or my prey would have ran rather free). Tore, with his pred
under control, started to move forwards and it got rather clear that
Erik had no chance against ani combat. I also realized that I wouldn’t
have a chance against Tore and wished him his demise.
Tore did however make some rather bold moves (probably he didn’t realize
the nature of his predators’ deck) and got low on pool. This led to my
prey being able to oust him. There was much rejoice… Sadly though my
prey went through Erik too and the GW was gone. A combination of
attrition permanents and temptations crushed my prey at this point. And
even though he had lots of pool he never was a real threat. About 15
minutes later he was dead.
Me - 2 vp, ??? - 2 vp.
Round 2:
Me -> Robert (weenie !brujah voter) -> Mats ? (some kind of voter) ->
Erik C (diversion weenies) -> Mike (weenie pot) ->
Yey, weenie pot predator. I’m dead. Well, at least this will be quick.
Or so I thought. But a situation unfolded where Mats had the Sargon
fragment and a DT. He used this to DT Roberts KRCs but let his Con Boons
go. Mike didn’t have the rush to kill my vampires (or choose not to do
it at that time). I did mention that mats should DT the Con Boons
instead and thus I would be able to oust Robert. But he didn’t want to
take the risk of getting multiple KRCs on him during the same turn. Thus
the table got horribly unbalanced with no one except Mike being able to
oust. Sadly for him he couldn’t do it quickly enough and Robert managed
to get a horde into play.
After about 1 h, 20 min, of this annoying game I finally died.
Apparently it played out in the following way.
Robert - 2 vp (gw), Mats - 1 vp, Erik C - 1 vp, Mike - 1 vp.
Round 3:
Me -> Karl (una twist) -> Henrik E (bima weenie) -> Marko (wallish pro
!tor) -> Martin (IC vote) ->
This is probably one of the most hilarious vtes games I’ve ever played.
Lots of insanity going on at this table. The first focus was Karl who
got out Una and started the twist. A while into this round Henrik played
a DI on a freak drive and Una stalled. The next round several Bima with
the unmasking had him rather locked. In the mean time I had the pleasure
of seeing both Arika and Leandro influenced by my predator. I felt
doomed, but played on and got temptations on both.
At this point Henrik rushed Una with Nephren-Ka and got her into torpor
by using a target vitals and I turned Frederick the Weak into a snake by
use of Sets curse. My prey was dead, only problem was that he had ~12
pool and I had to focus on my friendly pred.
with the help of a temptation steal and a powerbase Montreal controlled
by Marko I managed to get him to beat Arika into torpor and thus the
pressure from my pred decreased a lot. He still had Leandro though and I
feared an Anarchist uprising. I really had to oust quickly, preferably
this round. But I could only bleed for 9, and Karl had 10 pools. I got
an idea! I rescued Arika from Torpor, stole her, and she hunted. I
played a second temptation on her and untapped her. Bleeding with a
conditioning I managed to bleed Karl for exactly 10 and he died.
Marko finally managed to kill Martin but it was only about 5 minutes
left. I desperately tried to cycle for a form of the serpent so I would
be able to sneak a govern / conditioning bleed through the unmasking,
using both mirror walk and form of the serpent for stealth. Sadly I
never got one and the game went to time.
Me - 1,5 vp, Marko - 1,5 vp, Henrik - 0,5 vp.
So, no qualification for me. But I was happy. I had 2/3 fun games and
managed to take 3,5 vp with The Treaty of Laibach deck. Not a completely
bad day :D
The standings from the event can be found here:
http://www.chestud.chalmers.se/~aek/ecq-standings.txt
Which means that the following players qualify:
1 Johannes Walch
2 Erik Torstensson
3 Anders Löf
4 Mathias Olsson
5 Robert Doktorow
6 Per Stening
7 Samuel Ericson
8 Hugh Angseesing
9 Henrik Klippström
10 Eric Cardell
11 Marko Lindroos
and
Head organizer: Sten Düring
That’s all for now!
Regards
Alex Ek
VEKN Prince of Gothenburg
extrala
> So, here's my report from the Swedish ECQ at the GothCon convention in
> Gothenburg. GothCon is rather famous for its strange climate. Lots of
> vtes players that only play one tournament event in a year usually shows
> leading to the quality of decks and play varying from really good to
> horribly bad (depending on how many experienced players you get at your
> tables). With this in mind (and also being unsure if I would be able to
> play or not) I decided to run with a "fun" deck and see what happens.
> The treaty of Laibach deck (looking rather similar to this deck list):
Thanks for the lengthy report and the ranking list, and you even
managed to post the final standings _despite_ the happenings of the
swedish mushroom incident.
Regards, Ralf
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Alex Ek
If the lengthy mushroom wars of Götaland had seen my laptop as one of
its main victims. Well, then we wouldn't have peace in our time. There
would have been bloody Cantharellus missiles heading north at this
point. It is a well known fact that targeting non-combatant laptops is a
crime according to the Fourth Geneva Convention. And any breach of those
rules would be retaliated upon with the deadliest fungi force.
Sir Alex S. Ek
Field Marshal and High Spore-lord of the Principality of Gothenburg