Tournament Report: Hungarian National Championship
Daneel
7 October, 2007
40 players
Veszprem, Hungary
40 of the finest Hungarian players attended the finals of the
Hungarian National Championship held in Veszprem. The event
had fierce competition, top tier decks, and a timed-out final. :)
Final standings:
Final Rank Name Prelim GWs Prelim VPs Final VPs TPs
1 Jozsef Kuminka 3 10 0,5 180
2 Balazs Sebestyen 2 9 0,5 174
3 Ferenc Horvath 2 9 0,5 144
4 Ferenc Vasadi 2 8 0,5 168
5 Balazs Pahi 1 6 0,5 138
6 Gyula Erdos 1 4,5 132
7 David Wittman 1 4 132
8 Balazs Kaloczkai 1 4 126
9 Zoltan Komora 1 4 108
10 Zsolt Cziraki 1 4 102
11 Zoltan Ivanyos 1 3 108
11 Attila Ferencz 1 3 108
13 Peter Korsos 1 3 102
14 Peter Talmacsi 1 2,5 102
15 Gergo Gyarmati 0 5 150
16 Oliver Toth 0 3 120
17 Zsolt Gonda 0 3 114
17 Norbert Broda 0 3 114
19 Robert Abonyi 0 3 108
19 Peter Botos 0 3 108
21 Tamas Csepregi 0 2 102
22 Richard Farkas 0 2 96
22 Peter Vadasz 0 2 96
22 Martin Major 0 2 96
22 Marcell Varjasi 0 2 96
26 Laszlo Horvath 0 2 90
27 Ferenc Borbely 0 1,5 96
27 Arnold Farkas 0 1,5 96
29 Attila Timko 0 1 102
30 Robert Kocsis 0 1 96
30 Adam Horvath 0 1 96
30 Balazs Palffy 0 1 96
33 Jozsef Gal 0 1 90
34 Istvan Mecseri 0 1 84
34 Szabolcs Toth 0 1 84
36 Marina Mudrony-Csallo 0 0,5 78
37 Csaba Greguss 0 0 72
38 Istvan Greff 0 0 66
38 Attila Suhajda 0 0 66
40 Paloma Ponce 0 0 48
Finals:
Jozsef Kuminka (playing the netdecked EC2007 winner
deck) -> Ferenc Horvath (War Ghoul) -> Balazs
Sebestyen (weenie Anarch Auspex) -> Ferenc Vasadi
(Nosferatu vote) -> Balazs Pahi (Brujah debate).
Ferenc Horvath started to build up quite early - by
turn 3 he had 2 vampires, a Jake, a Produrer, and
a Mr. Winthrop. Ideal setup for his deck... except
for his prey. Balazs Pahi knew how fragile his
weenies would be against the Ghouls so he blocked
every.single.war.ghoul. This meant blocking
altogether 10 War Ghouls and 1 Ossian, sometimes
at 2-3 stealth, sometimes 3 in one turn. He couldn't
put much pressure on his prey, and Ferenc Vasadi's
only non-titled vampire, Sundown, managed to go
Anarch and thus be immune to the effects of Balazs's
Anarch Revolts.
As there was no vote lock (3 decks with some degree of
political power and fairly balanced distribution of
table votes) the game advanced slowly. There was no
stalling or slow play - it simply took a lot of
back-and-forth to get effect for actions (Balazs
Sebestyen was playing some Eagle's Sights and
Delaying Tactics, often intercepting the more
game-altering actions; Balazs Pahi and Jozsef were
playing Second Traditions; Ferenc Vasadi was playing
some light intercept; etc.).
Ferenc Vasadi was looking strong and almost ousted his
prey, but was stopped short by a block; after a
well-placed Society of Leopold on his Cock Robin, and an
Eagle's Sight block on the action to move it (the action
was intercepted at +7 stealth) Ferenc was left with 1 vote,
weakened significantly. Balazs Sebestyen used Anthelios
+ Parthenon to play Pentex Subversion on one of Ferenc's
vampires each turn, and was wearing him down pool by pool
(his poolgain, as he had no significant predator in the
form a war ghoul deck with no war ghouls, was more than
sufficient to offset the 2 pool cost per turn). It seemed
like that the weenie Auspex would eventually oust him,
however, due to Maldavis' drawback, he couldn't do the
oust in 1 turn. Then the vote decks agreed to help Jozsef
oust his prey, gaining a position in the process, but
another Delaying Tactics and a block made sure that nobody
got ousted in time.
Funny is that two of the EC2007 finalists were at the table
(Jozsef Kuminka and Ferenc Vasadi), although this time Jozsef
won the event (and got declared Hungarian Champion of 2007).
Also funny is that basically the same deck won (except now
it was played by Jozsef):
Author: Jozsef Kuminka
Name: "Netdecking Rulez"
Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 2 max: 11 average: 7.25
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3x Alexandra 11 ANI AUS CEL PRE dom inner circle Toreador:2
2x Madame Guil 10 AUS CEL PRE for pot ser justicar Toreador:3
1x Fleurdumal 8 AUS DEM PRE cel tha prince Toreador:3
1x Francois Villon 10 AUS CEL PRE chi obf pot prince Toreador: 2
1x Antoinette, She Who Watches 6 AUS PRE cel obf primogen Toreador:3
1x Michael Luther 4 aus pre Toreador:3
1x Isabel de Leon 3 AUS Toreador:2
1x Yvette, The Hopeless 3 aus cel Toreador:3
1x Emerson Wilkershire 2 pre Toreador:3
Library [90 cards]
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Action [4]
4x Entrancement
Action Modifier [25]
3x Aire of Elation
2x Approximation of Loyalty
1x Awe
4x Bewitching Oration
5x Change of Target
5x Crocodile's Tongue
5x Voter Captivation
Combat [10]
10x Majesty
Master [18]
5x Aching Beauty
1x Archon Investigation
1x Blood Doll
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
5x Minion Tap
1x Pentex™ Subversion
1x Sudden Reversal
2x Toreador Grand Ball
Political Action [15]
1x Anarchist Uprising
1x Ancilla Empowerment
2x Banishment
1x Domain Challenge
4x Kine Resources Contested
4x Parity Shift
1x Protect Thine Own
1x Reins of Power
Reaction [17]
2x My Enemy's Enemy
5x Second Tradition: Domain
6x Telepathic Misdirection
4x On the Qui Vive
Equipment [1]
1x Heart of Nizchetus
Thanks go to Ferenc Horvath, the prince of Veszprem, for
organizing the event; also to Tibor Morocz, who was
sponsoring the event!
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Regards,
Daneel
Johannes Walch
The deck really *is* good :)
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Johannes Walch