Czech ECQ
Blooded Sand
the lot.
Highlights so far:
Lutz sitting down between Carna and on his left and Valerius on his
right. Carna's prey is a PRO SER deck, nasty thing...
Hartmut Stover comes out, gets Villeined and his Methuselah top decks
Festivo dello Estino. With a weenie Dom Nec pred, he needs it
though...
First oust goes to yet another Giovanni Power bleed deck.
2nd oust is a Ventrue Grinder piloted by Michal Hrebejk who ousts his
Nos Prince deck prey hard and fast...
Blooded Sand
Blooded Sand
Blooded Sand
Michal ends with 2, Lukas Rypar gets 3 and the GW...
Blooded Sand
Blooded Sand
getting 1.5, Martin Miller (Hroch) with Valerius getting 1.5 and The
Akunanse of Radek Krotil hanging in there for 0.5 vps, The walls not
able to oust each other in time...
Martin Miller playing Lutz, sitting between Martin Miller with
Valerius and Jakub with Carna found himself between a Hroch and a hard
place....
Blooded Sand
Gargulak piloting Nos weenie Praxis deck taking 4 vps, and Lubomir
Danda's Gio taking 1.
Jan Koci's Gio powerbleed takes 5 vp's, and the third table Falls to
Jakub Rypar with !Malk SB G23 taking 4 vp's...
Blooded Sand
Standings currently are:
Jakub Rypar 2 7
Lubomir Danda 1 6
Jan Koci 1 6
Daniel Gargulak 1 4
Lukas Vrbicky 1 3
Michal Hrebejk 0 4
Tomas Piling 0 2
Martin Miller 0 1,5
Jakub Marek 0 1,5
Michal Bartos 0 1
Ondrej Marek 0 1
David Draslar 0 1
Radek Krotil 0 0,5
Blooded Sand
nearly guaranteeing him a place in the final
Lubomir Gargulka and his Matata Multi Rush gets 2 vps...
Blooded Sand
with a WWS!!!!
Shock, horror. This is after the Nos deck top decks its 3rd WWS in a
row.....
librarian
> 3 tables have Carlton out by the 6th round....
>
Yeah, Carlton needs to be reprinted.
Oh wait...
librarian
> So our third round is underway.
>
> Standings currently are:
> Jakub Rypar 2 7
> Lubomir Danda 1 6
> Jan Koci 1 6
> Daniel Gargulak 1 4
> Lukas Vrbicky 1 3
> Michal Hrebejk 0 4
> Tomas Piling 0 2
> Martin Miller 0 1,5
> Jakub Marek 0 1,5
> Michal Bartos 0 1
> Ondrej Marek 0 1
> David Draslar 0 1
> Radek Krotil 0 0,5
>
>
But, I thought there were 20 Meths?
chris
Blooded Sand
Daniel Gargulka, NOT playing a Gargoyle deck, but piloting a Nos
Royalty with 3rd tards and praxis seizures not only torpors Uchenna
with Nikolas Vermeulen and his trusty stick, but uses that bit of
fantastic luck to propel himself to a 5VP sweep
Wilsoros
This post is fun to see,
Best,
David Wilson
Blooded Sand
Thanks David..
Standings after round 3:
1 1 9 Lubomir Danda 2 9 168
2 2 12 Daniel Gargulak 2 9 144
3 3 14 Jakub Rypar 2 8 162
4 4 2 Jan Koci 1 6 120
5 5 16 Jakub Marek 1 4,5 138
6 6 1 Lukas Vrbicky 1 3 108
6 7 7 Jakub Hrbacek 1 3 108
8 8 11 Michal Hrebejk 0 4 126
8 9 13 Tomas Piling 0 4 126
10 10 5 Lubomir Gargulak 0 2 90
11 11 19 Martin Miller 0 1,5 108
12 12 10 Roman Loffler 0 1 96
13 13 3 Michal Bartos 0 1 90
13 14 4 Ondrej Marek 0 1 90
15 15 20 David Draslar 0 1 84
16 16 18 Radek Krotil 0 0,5 90
17 17 6 Martin Henych 0 0 90
18 18 8 Bogi Arnason 0 0 78
18 19 15 Vit Holoska 0 0 78
20 20 17 Tomas Kubec 0 0 66
Blooded Sand
good Czech Beer!
Results posted later tonight!
Watch this space!
Blooded Sand
Jakub Marek -> Lubomir Danda -> Daniel Gargulak -> Jan Koci -> Jakub
Rypar
Lubomir ended the final in about 1 hour and 5 minutes, sweeping all
others before him to end the tournament with a superb 5VP win.
The tournament was considered a roaring success by all. Deck list for
the Winner and finalists to be posted once i get them, i do want to,
but it was late and people were tired.
Thanks to all who attended. Hope everyone had loads of fun, but it did
seem like it...
Qualified players are:
Jakub Marek 1900016
Jan Koci 1003764
Lubomir Danda 4730003
Daniel Gargulak 8430007
Jakub Rypar 5200002
Gerhard Breytenbach 1003707
And myself of course for organising. Thanks to our local game shop,
Cerny Rytir (Black Knight) for hosting and supplying fantastic prize
support
The Lasombra
>Qualified players are:
>Jakub Marek
>Jan Koci
>Lubomir Danda
>Daniel Gargulak
>Jakub Rypar
20 x 25% = 5 players qualified
http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/index.php?line=Championship
"The top 25% of players in constructed Continental Qualifying events
qualify."
Any number of attendees from 5 to 20 = finalists are the only ones
that qualify.
Blooded Sand
And the organiser....
So what exactly is wrong with my maths there? 5 players, one
organiser. makes 6.
Blooded Sand
> So the finals ended up with the following seating:
>
> Jakub Marek -> Lubomir Danda -> Daniel Gargulak -> Jan Koci -> Jakub
> Rypar
>
> Lubomir ended the final in about 1 hour and 5 minutes, sweeping all
> others before him to end the tournament with a superb 5VP win.
>
> The tournament was considered a roaring success by all. Deck list for
> the Winner
Crypt
Francesca Giovanni 1
Le Dinh Tho 2
Gilelespi Giovanni 2
Gloria Giovanni 2
Isabel Giovanni 2
Lia Milliner 2
Andrea Giovanni 1
Library
Reaction:
Deflection 6
Redirection 5
Wake with Evening´s Freshness 3
On the Qui Vive 4
Action:
Govern the Unaligned 9
Modifier:
Conditioning 4
Bonding 6
Foreshadow Destruction 1
Command of the Beast 2
Threats 3
Spectral Divination 5
Seduction 6
Call of the Hungry Dead 6
Combat:
Spiritual Intervention 4
Masters:
Dominate 2
Dis Pater 2
Information Highway 2
Dreams of the Sphinx 2
Blood Doll 3
Life in the City 4
Pentex Subversion 1
Anarch Troublemaker 1
Sudden Reversal 1
Wash 1
From a Sinking Ship 1
Anarch Revolt 1
Direct Intervention 1
Antediluvian Awakening 1
Brainwash 1
The Parthenon 2
The Lasombra
>> So the finals ended up with the following seating:
>>
>> Jakub Marek -> Lubomir Danda -> Daniel Gargulak -> Jan Koci -> Jakub
>> Rypar
>>
>> Lubomir ended the final in about 1 hour and 5 minutes, sweeping all
>> others before him to end the tournament with a superb 5VP win.
>>
>> The tournament was considered a roaring success by all. Deck list for
>> the Winner
Congratulations to Lubomir!
Czech ECQ - Carlak Calls a Clash
Prague, Czech Republic
September 19, 2010
20 players
3R + F
Lubomir Danda's Tournament Winning Deck with 5 VPs in the Finals
Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 7 average: 4.58333
------------------------------------------------------------
2x Gillespi Giovanni 7 DOM NEC POT aus Giovanni:2
2x Le Dinh Tho 5 NEC aus dom Nagaraja:2
2x Gloria Giovanni 4 DOM nec Giovanni:2
2x Isabel de Leon 3 AUS Toreador:2
2x Lia Milliner 3 dom nec Giovanni:3
1x Andrea Giovanni 7 DOM NEC pot vic Giovanni:2
1x Francesca Giovanni 4 dom nec pot Giovanni:2
Library [90 cards]
---------------------------------------
Action [9]
9x Govern the Unaligned
Action Modifier [28]
6x Bonding
6x Call of the Hungry Dead
2x Command of the Beast
4x Conditioning
1x Foreshadowing Destruction
6x Seduction
3x Threats
Action Modifier/Reaction [5]
5x Spectral Divination
Combat [4]
4x Spiritual Intervention
Master [26]
1x Anarch Revolt
1x Anarch Troublemaker
1x Antediluvian Awakening
3x Blood Doll
1x Brainwash
1x Direct Intervention
2x Dis Pater
2x Dominate
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x From a Sinking Ship
2x Information Highway
4x Life in the City
2x Parthenon, The
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Sudden Reversal
1x Wash
Reaction [18]
6x Deflection
4x On the Qui Vive
5x Redirection
3x Wake with Evening's Freshness
The Lasombra
>So what exactly is wrong with my maths there? 5 players, one
>organiser. makes 6.
Your layout did not make clear that your name was in the list.
VEKN numbers don't add anything to the value of your report to the
newsgroup. They only have value when you are entering the report on
the website.
It doesn't appear that the report has been entered.
alf
> 2x Isabel de Leon 3 AUS Toreador:2
That should be Isabel Giovanni ...
-alf
Blooded Sand
very true, deck list was just copied straight over...
also, one of the other finalists sent me this along with his decklist:
Deck Name: The Rock of Gibraltar
Author: Jakub Marek
Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=1 max=7 avg=3.92)
===============================================
1x Aisling Sturbridge
5 dom AUS THA Tremere:2
3x Anarch Convert
1 -none-
Caitiff:ANY
1x Blythe Candeleria
3 aus THA Tremere:2
3x Carna, The Princess Witch
7 AUS DOM THA Tremere:3
1x Hannigan
5 dom AUS THA !Tremere:2
1x Isabel de Leon
3 AUS
Toreador:2
1x Martin Franckel
3 tha AUS
Tremere:3
1x Richard Tauber, Ayelea's Puppet 4 tha AUS !Tremere:2
Library (90 cards)
==================
Master (17)
1x Academic Hunting Ground
2x Anarch Revolt
2x Direct Intervention
1x Erciyes Fragments, The
1x Jake Washington (Hunter)
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Smiling Jack, The Anarch
6x Vessel
2x Wash
Action (8)
8x Magic of the Smith
Equipment (10)
1x .44 Magnum
1x Bowl of Convergence
1x Flak Jacket
1x Heart of Nizchetus
1x Ivory Bow
2x Light Intensifying Goggles
1x Palatial Estate
1x Phased Motion Detector
1x Sniper Rifle
Reaction (37)
7x Eagle's Sight
5x Enhanced Senses
8x Eyes of Argus
4x Forced Awakening
2x My Enemy's Enemy
5x On the Qui Vive
1x Telepathic Counter
5x Telepathic Misdirection
Combat (18)
4x Aura Reading
3x Movement of the Mind
4x Rego Motus
2x Target Vitals
5x Theft of Vitae
Created with Secret Library v0.9.3. (Sep 20, 2010 13:39:53)
Now - though we've all seen it before, here are some comments on
playing the Carna wall:
Deck-building reflections: in Prague, there is a notably combat-heavy
metagame. I expected
a lot of fast bleeders and some combat. Hence my bet on the Carna
deck. I wanted to be fast
on the defense, have good permanents and still a somewhat defensive
combat package. Most of the
aggressive combat decks are manageable with a sniper rifle, yet the
problem is presses. So I
dropped the Apportations and replaced with Movement of the Mind.
The ECQ:
1st Round: this was a classic example of an Eagle’s Sight table
balancing situation - my prey
(PRO SER madness with ca 25 Earth Melds) crushed his prey fast
(Akunanse
rush combat), in the decisive round he launched an offensive with 6
minions, by this time he
had already played about 14 Earth Melds and, upon being blocked by
Uchenna, played another
one. It cost me 1 pool, but the DI let Uchenna kill the guy. Next
bleed was Earth-controlled
and would leave Radek at 2 pool, so Carna eagle sighted it. And she
did the same to the next stealthy
bleed. The results of the round were: one crippled prey, one grandprey
able to rush. In the
end we timed out, the table was down to three players (my predator
ousted, my prey ousted,
Radek's Akunanse and Hroch's Tre/!Tre featuring Valerius Maior, whose
help I greatly
appreciated when we coordinated our efforts against David's Lutz von
Hohenzollern vote
deck). At the time out my prey and predator were both either torpored
or on the way to torpor.
1,5 VP, tie with Hroch.
2nd Round: very nasty game. My prey (Giovanni powerbleed) bled a lot
into yet another
Akunanse deck (this one influencing out Matata), I again had to eagle
sight one of the
nastier bleeds to buy my grandprey some time, yet the real threat
lurked more to the right: it
was Daniel's fast Nosferatu breed/boon/KRC deck. He managed to kill my
predator (Radek's
Akunanse again) and got me to 1 (!) pool (cross table, sneaky bastard)
in 3 rounds. I didn't
survive the next round. 0 VP.
3rd Round: now I was playing more relaxed, having no real expectations
about getting
into the finals. The seating was nasty indeed: I preyed upon Bogi's
DOM OBF PRO !Gangrel,
his prey was a Tre/!Tre G3/4 aggro combat wall and next to this
chokepoint sat Jakub's
well known !Malk bleed. My predator was a Giovanni powerbleed
(Lubomir's I believe).
So I blocked and blocked and blocked, redirected a bit, my prey drew a
single one Deflection,
so he was ousted quite fast, along with the Giovanni bleeder, who gave
me the creeps with
his block denial. Jakub couldn't get through my wall and, perhaps in
an attempt to avoid an
unpleasant déjà vu, sort of forgot to defend himself and helped his
predator to the VP. This
was nasty indeed, as I knew we are about to contest Carna and I, for
the second time in the
tournament bled my prey to get him as low on pool as possible, to
avoid this contest. Still, it
happened, but, me having the edge and an Anarch Revolt, the game was
over soon. 3 VP GW.
Finals: the finalists were - two Giovanni powerbleeds (Lubomir and
Jan) sitting on both
sides of the Nosferatu voter piloted by Daniel, and Jakub’s !Malk
stealthbleed preying on
my Carna wall. Hmm. I had no choice of seating, the other players
tried to sit in front of me,
and so it happened, that Jakub, who was afraid of bleeding me, was my
predator. The game
was furious, my Montreal Suddened, another 2 Suddens following, 2 DIs
as well, my prey,
who won the ECQ, crushed the Nosferatu, Jakub with his !Malks managed
to bleed
me 1 single time, the other, for 1 (Telepathic Counter) I purposefully
allowed – to let him get
the Edge and a pool. Yet Lubomir’s Giovanni were persistent, stole Le
Dinh Tho from the
sinking ship of the other Giovanni, ousted Jakub and, in the end, for
the first time, I had no
wake and got killed by a long forgotten Anarch Troublemaker when I had
to hunt with my
third blocker. Congratulations to Lubomir for truly fine play! Thanks
to our South African
Methuselah, friend and organizer Gerhard Breytenbach, who (alas!)
couldn’t play and so we
were deprived of our favorite sport of ousting him!
Comments on the deck:
Best card: Aura Reading - invaluable, life saver, - you always get to
play it, it doesn’t
jam your hand like thefts after a chain of s:ce's. It let's you cycle
3 cards at the minimum.
Worst card: The Goggles and the Target vitals. It was a last time
"improvement" and a waste
of card slots.
Masters: I would drop 1 Vessel, they tend to be expensive, and the
Powerbase just attracts too
much attention and, as a result, you cannot afford to get it back once
it is stolen. The Revolts
were fine, hitting the table steadily, no one bothered becoming an
anarch, only once it got
burned by the referendum. Works well with the Converts.
With the omission of the goggles, the rest of the equipment package is
OK, the Detector paid
off (the point is: you equip Aisling or Hannigan with the Bowl and
give the Detector to Carna
- in this case any political action needs +stealth and thus triggers
the Detector. You would get
the same result for 1 pool with the Sport Bike.)
I would actually leave the reactions package as it is, it wasn't
ideal, but never really let me
down; even the Tel. Counter had a decent use for which the
Misdirections wouldn't do.
I would drop the Target vitals. I could afford to drop 1 Rego motus
but otherwise the combat
exceeded expectations (Movements of the Mind ALWAYS counterpressing
when I needed
them).
What to include: Conditionings of course. Maybe a couple of Mirror
Walks.
In the whole tournament I got bled for a total 10 pool, of which 6 was
in the finals. The deck
was able to oust, yet the forward momentum was not strong enough. NB:
this wouldn’t
possibly make any difference in the finals, as I hardly could kill my
prey before he got too far.
Aahzmandius
Thanx for organising this event and participants for coming, I had
fun, most of the time :D