TOURNAMENT REPORT: Orgy of Mystery: Ithaca!
Peter D Bakija
New York, vying for the coveted Evil Vampire Barbie trophy. With a
respectable 15 players playing a standard 2R+F tournament, James
Rodriguez won for the second time in a row, playing a version of the
Assamite Anarch Death Star Cannon deck.
Players, scores, and decks:
1. James Rodriguez 2GW/10VP; Assamite Anarch Death Star Cannon
2. Asif Chaudhry 1GW/6VP; Weenie obf bleed
2. Dave Conroy 1GW/5VP; Toreador Grand Balls
2. Alex Koratzanis 1GW/3VP; Tzimisce Smiling Jack wall
2. Chris Berg 1GW/3VP; Stanislava Pro/Dom bleed
6. Nick Hagen 0GW/2VP; Ravnos weenie Week of Nightmares
7. James Wilhelm 0GW/1VP; Cybelle Great Beast
8. Matt Rogers 0GW/1VP; Ravnos Traparition
9. Peter Bakija 0GW/1VP; !Nos weenie obf Black Hand
10. Ben Kalb 0GW/1VP; Pro/Dom Bleedzooka
11. Steve Wampler 0GW/1VP; Tremere Toolbox
12. John Stevens 0GW/1VP; Eze vote
13. Will Moore 0GW/0VP; Settite S+B
14. Dan Adinolfi 0GW/0VP !Malkavian S+B
15. Andrew Sackett 0GW/0VP Tupdog Vote
Going into the finals, Asif was top seed. The seating was:
1. Dave Conroy>
2. Alex Koratzanis>
3. Chris Berg>
4. James Rodriguez>
5. Asif Chaudhry>
Asif started out strong, rapidly bleeding down Dave, but then forgot to
oust him when he had the chance. Dave gets a leg back up, Parity Shifts
5 pool from Asif. Asif gets ousted by James. James powers into Dave, who
Asif left teetering, and James ousts Dave. The game kind of stabilizes
for a while, but eventually James gets an opening and busts through
Alex's defenses, bleeds him down, and ousts him by calling a Patsy to
remove Meshenka's Priscus title (and Alex burn 2 pool). Chris bleeds
into James, but can't stay ahead of James' Con Boon pool gain, and
eventually James wins with a GW/5VP sweep.
Fun tournament with special surprise guests Nick Hagen and Matt Rogers
fro Olean New York.
I'll post James' deck when he sends it to me. But all reports are it
isn't all that different from the NAC winning deck...
Peter D Bakija
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"It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?"
-Gaff
Kevin M.
> Last night we held our 9th Annual Orgy of Mystery tournament in Ithaca
> New York, vying for the coveted Evil Vampire Barbie trophy. With a
> respectable 15 players playing a standard 2R+F tournament, James
> Rodriguez won for the second time in a row, playing a version of the
> Assamite Anarch Death Star Cannon deck.
You're gonna make me pull out my Jackal, Oath of Loyalty, Praxis Seizure:
Istanbul, and Treaty of Tyre Enforced, aren't you!
Wait, did I just classify Revolutionary Council as "broken"? ;)
DAMN YOU MATT MORGAN!! AND BEN PEAL, TOO!!
Kevin M., Prince of Las Vegas
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you shall never be in peril." -- Sun Tzu, *The Art of War*
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personaly love to see :)
The Kaiser
> I'll post James' deck when he sends it to me. But all reports are it
> isn't all that different from the NAC winning deck...
>
> Peter D Bakija
So, he's not going to send you the deck list. In lieu of that, I'm
going to post it in this very thread right here, for all the world to
see. The following is in black and white:
"Deck Name: Your tongues can't repel flavor of that magnitude!
By James Rodriguez
Crypt
1 x Anarch Convert 1
Caitiff:0
1x Amaravati 8 DOM OBF QUI ani chi
Assamite:4
1x Hafsa, The Watcher 6 OBF QUI aus cel Assamite:
5
1x Vardar Vardarian 6 OBF QUI cel pre
Assamite:4
1x Janni 5 cel for obf
qui Assamite:4
1x Layla bint-Nadr 5 CEL OBF qui
Assamite:4
1x Michael diCarlo 5 CEL obf qui
Assamite:4
1x Alu 2
obf Assamite:5
1x Basir 1
qui Assamite:4
Action [16]
4x Embrace, The
2x Fee Stake: Boston (had to double up on this one missing Seattle)
1x Fee Stake: Corte
1x Fee Stake: Los Angeles
1x Fee Stake: New York
1x Fee Stake: Perth
1x Khabar: Glory
5x Web of Knives Recruit
Action Modifier [23]
3x Cloak the Gathering
6x CrimethInc.
2x Cryptic Rider
1x Domain of Evernight
3x Faceless Night
3x Lost in Crowds
3x Spying Mission
2x Veil the Legions
Action Modifier/Combat [3]
3x Swallowed by the Night
Master [15]
3x Alamut
1x Archon Investigation
1x Barrens, The
1x Black Throne, The
2x Blood Doll
1x Club Illusion
1x Direct Intervention
1x Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
1x Khabar:The Community
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Seattle Committee
1x Twilight Camp
1x Yoruba Shrine
Political Action [17]
1x Anarch Salon
5x Consanguineous Boon
1x Exclusion Principle
2x Firebrand
4x Kine Resources Contested
1x Patsy
3x Revolutionary Council
Well to win the Vampire Barbie event two years in a row can’t be all
luck but I must confess I think a large part of this win was a result
of good seating and draws. I’ll also point out that the deck itself
is quite possibly horrible despite winning 3 events. I think I only
called the silly vote once the whole day mostly winning on the merits
of lots of bleeds for one or the combo of Khabar: the Community and
Club Illusion. I owe a lot of my success to one man: Andrew Sacket
(this word is French…pronounced properly as "sack eh’ " –The Editor ).
I rode Sacket like a fat hooker to the final table. Sadly I had to
rely on a new ride once I got there. Enter Asif whose noisy deck acted
as a very nice plow for me and a distraction for the rest of the table
who orchestrated his oust giving me plenty of time to set up an army
of vampires. Berg’s usually capable deck was forced to slow down after
Alex showed the ability to block key actions with Eagle Sight. I think
times when he would otherwise bleed for 3 with Slava he stayed home
perhaps with a hand lacking in combat ends. All and all I don’t like
the deck very well preferring similar decks with Amaravati without the
going anarch anchor tied to your leg. Despite being 75 cards it felt
like a lot of them were dead space. I was always sad to find Firebrand
in my hand and not anything else. I was ho-hum on CrimethInc as well,
however I may have liked these cards more had I seen Twilight Camp or
Seattle Committee in any of the games.
If you want to play this deck do the following to win:
(1) Don’t ever enter combat once at any table
(2) Don’t be bleed for more than 3 until you can call Con Boon for 12
(3) And most importantly: sit with Tupdog vote next to you twice
I'd like to give special thanks to James "The Kaiser" Wilhelm, Sean
Harington, and Chris Berg for teaching me how to play this game and by
some miracle not killing each other in the process (it was tough…and
the possibility still exists -The Editor again) Also thanks to the
Yeti ...For teaching me how not to play."
Posted, not written
-The Kaiser
Blooded Sand
> Crypt
> 1 x Anarch Convert 1
> Caitiff:0
> 1x Amaravati 8 DOM OBF QUI ani chi
> Assamite:4
> 1x Hafsa, The Watcher 6 OBF QUI aus cel Assamite:
> 5
> 1x Vardar Vardarian 6 OBF QUI cel pre
> Assamite:4
> 1x Janni 5 cel for obf
> qui Assamite:4
> 1x Layla bint-Nadr 5 CEL OBF qui
> Assamite:4
> 1x Michael diCarlo 5 CEL obf qui
> Assamite:4
> 1x Alu 2
> obf Assamite:5
> 1x Basir 1
> qui Assamite:4
>
Redgab...@aim.com
like the other two death star decks not just one. This was written at
2:30 in the morning and then sent to another person to post on the
groups clearly something was lost in translation along the way. As far
as the cheating phase is concerned i can only assume this is a tongue
in cheek remark made with no offense intended but if i am off base on
that assessment i would love to know where you thought it began.
Blooded Sand
the cheating phase never ends is a long running comment used to point
out most deck description inaccuracies. So yes its tongue in cheek.
Every time I say something tongue in cheek, I do not necessarily use
smileys or something similar to make it more obvious. So yes, in this
case there was a deck error. And yes, I made a sardonic comment to the
fact that the cheating phase never ends. The fact that this comment
was made while my fever of 38.5 (thats celsius for the yanks) has now
been running for about 4 days (woohoo for free weight loss) has
absoltuely no bearing on the humorous nature of this statement.
Oh yeah, forgot something. :)
;)
Kushiel
> "Deck Name: Your tongues can't repel flavor of that magnitude!
That's one hell of a handle, there.
John Eno
Peter D Bakija
wrote:
> Wait, did I just classify Revolutionary Council as "broken"? ;)
To be fair, I think James only played Death Star Cannon once the whole
tournament, not in the final, and when he did play it, it was completely
unecessary and mostly just to show off. And we all really wanted to see
it happen :-)
Peter D Bakija
<dd6e0c2b-f1ac-4d00...@v22g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
a.gyh...@gmail.com wrote:
> Peter, could we get a photo of the evil barbie? Something I'd
> personaly love to see :)
Ya know, if I was really clever, I would have posted one in the past 9
years or so. But I keep forgetting, and now she is out of my hands once
again. Maybe I can get Keiser to send me one...
Peter D Bakija
Tournament Winning Deck
Orgy of Mystery: Ithaca
November 14th, 2008
15 players
Deck Name: "Your tongues can't repel flavor of that magnitude!"
By James Rodriguez
Crypt
4 x Anarch Convert (1) Caitiff:0
1x Amaravati (8) DOM OBF QUI ani chi Assamite:4
1x Hafsa, The Watcher (6) OBF QUI aus cel Assamite: 5
1x Vardar Vardarian (6) OBF QUI cel pre Assamite:4
1x Janni (5) cel for obf qui Assamite:4
1x Layla bint-Nadr (5) CEL OBF qui Assamite:4
1x Michael diCarlo (5) CEL obf qui Assamite:4
1x Alu (2) obf Assamite:5
1x Basir (1) qui Assamite:4
Peter D Bakija
Peter D Bakija
> As far
> as the cheating phase is concerned i can only assume this is a tongue
> in cheek remark made with no offense intended but if i am off base on
> that assessment i would love to know where you thought it began.
(James, "the cheating phase" is standard newsgroup comedy that usually
comes up when people accidentally post illegal decks--you can even get
a cool t-shirt somewhere that has The Cheat in a square diamond, so
you have Superior Cheateristry :-)
-Peter
simcof
Cheating phase is used locally here in Powerbase: Chippendale to refer
to the Heart of Cheating process
simcof
Blooded Sand
I so need this T-Shirt man. Cos the next time I make a post about a
garou getting Leech to smack someone with Blood sweat, I can happily
wear my T-Shirt.....
Maybe Heart of Nizziewhatsis in the background?
Kevin M.
Peter, please STOP taunting the newsgroup newbies with colloquialisms you
assume they know. This isn't the good ol' days where users would lurk and
learn!
And while you're at it, start including more smilies. ;) =) 8-) :)
Kevin M., Prince of Las Vegas
"Know your enemy, and know yourself; in one-thousand battles
you shall never be in peril." -- Sun Tzu, *The Art of War*
"Contentment... Complacency... Catastrophe!" -- Joseph Chevalier
Please visit VTESville daily! http://vtesville.myminicity.com/
Las Vegas NAQ 2009! http://members.cox.net/vtesinlv/
Peter D Bakija
> Peter, please STOP taunting the newsgroup newbies with colloquialisms you
> assume they know.
I didn't taunt anyone with anything. Someone completely different than
me mentioned "The Cheating Phase", and I was just making sure James
knew what was going on. It's like people should read a thread or
something before responding to it :-) (See! Smiley!)
> This isn't the good ol' days where users would lurk and
> learn!
Oh, the irony!
-Peter
Peter D Bakija
Tournament Winning Deck
Orgy of Mystery: Ithaca
Ithaca NY
Peter D Bakija
p...@lightlink.com
The Lasombra
<pd...@lightlink.com> wrote:
>(just floating this up in case it got missed by the TWDA)
>
>Tournament Winning Deck
>Orgy of Mystery: Ithaca
>Ithaca NY
>November 14th, 2008
>15 players
It is in a text file on my desktop.
Will get to it and the other TWDAs today.
Carpe noctem.
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Peter D Bakija
The Lasombra <TheLa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> It is in a text file on my desktop.
> Will get to it and the other TWDAs today.
Thanks! It is always appreciated!
Peter D Bakija
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