EC 2008 - Rumors and results

Howdy! This is a thread for all of us who are royally screwed and can't attend the EC in Prague. And for those who are in attendance, have access to the Internet and feel pity for us left behind. So, what I want is results (winners / finalists / decks) from the 4 big constructed events held on Thursday, Friday (LCQ), Saturday (EC1) and Sunday (EC2). As well as general rumors and other treats. Make me feel like I'm currently enjoying a Staro in Prague instead of sitting here. All the best! And good luck to everyone who's trying to qualify for and to win the EC. I hate that I can't be there with you... *sob* Regards Alex EK VEKN Prince of Gothenburg, Sweden

[ quoted text not captured ] I agree on that. Come on! Report please. Anybody got a blogg fra EC? May the best Norwegian win!

On Sep 18, 4:04 pm, a...@student.chalmers.se wrote: > This is a thread for all of us who are royally screwed and can't > attend the EC in Prague. And for those who are in attendance, have > access to the Internet and feel pity for us left behind. > > So, what I want is results (winners / finalists / decks) from the 4 > big constructed events held on Thursday, Friday (LCQ), Saturday (EC1) > and Sunday (EC2). As well as general rumors and other treats. I wish I was there too. This link: http://extrala.blogspot.com/ was posted on #vtes. I expect it will be updated over the weekend. Jay

[ quoted text not captured ] Merci Jay! I didn't know Extrala would update the blog during the event. It's awesome that he does. So Khazar's Diary gets the first TW :) Congrats Orian, you're an inspiration to us all! Regards Alex

[ quoted text not captured ] It was quite an enjoyable weekend. Think it was the fastest final in recorded history though. Two !Malks will do that though. On a side note for those who are interested in combat, one deck did manage to burn 37 vampires on the last day during the First Chance Qualifier for Majorca (Mallorca?). A truly impressive numbers of ash piles.

[ quoted text not captured ] So, could you tell us who won the EC, days one and two?

Blooded Sand escribió: > On Sep 20, 3:57 pm, a...@student.chalmers.se wrote: >> On Sep 20, 3:06 pm, jaykrist...@gmail.com wrote: [...] > > On a side note for those who are interested in combat, one deck did > manage to burn 37 vampires on the last day during the First Chance > Qualifier for Majorca (Mallorca?). "Majorca" in English, and "Mallorca" in Spanish. -- Damnans http://www.almadrava.net/damnans http://www.vtes.net http://es.groups.yahoo.com/group/vteshispania/ http://iuturna.sorcery.net (IRC channel: #vtes)

[ quoted text not captured ] > piles.- Zitierten Text ausblenden - > > - Zitierten Text anzeigen - I take it these were not his own vamps :):) What kind of combat deck was it?

[ quoted text not captured ] Atoned Tariq, with one copy of every agg weapon in the game. plus rowan ring, and a flak jacket. Every single table he had at least one breeder, some tables he had 2.... Give that deck 1 pool per minion burnt and one has happyness!

Day one not sure, but day 2 was a guy from Slovakia called Jano with a !Malk. the big cap bastards. Finals has a Arika deck, that from what i could see, was packing mind rapes, baltimores, etc. He was preying on the Slovak !Malk deck, who was preying on turbo Una, who was preying on a !Tor weenie sleaze palla thing played by a French guy (who has the SMOOTHEST table talk. Ever.) who was preying on !Malk 2. Una got hurt early with Pentex, mind numb being used on the support stars. Arika got bled hard and fast by the 1st !malk, and was down very low when she played baltimore, after freaking from a mind rape on one of the !malks preying on her. One of the top plays was the mind rape victim getting torporised on a KS bleed, so Arika receives a torporised minion, and has to send Arika to torpor. He never recovered. Now there where 2 !Malks next to each other, the one who ousted Arika being in a bit of trouble due to the foundation exhibit powered Kines raining down on him. Best table talk line by the french payer was when his Palla Grande had one counter left, and he says to his prey (who i think was wondering if bleeding back would not useful to cripple the !Tor deck) "See how friednly I am? I discard a Palla grande". With a second Palla Grande in hand... Smoooth. The Slovak !Malk quickly killed Una as there as no viable defence there, and the !Tor killed the other !malk. Pentex then gets played by the Jano (slovak) on Carlton, the only untapped minion the !torrie has. He is bled down very low, and ousted the next turn. The final took just under an hour or so i think. Due to a fifteen minute chat at the start, actual play time was about 45 minutes. Big woots to Jano, who I know is an awesome guy, and is gonna be unlivable for a month or so ;) Deservedly so. To everyone I met, my pleasure, and hope to see again. To the Icelandic guys I played the last game at 2AM on sunday, thanks a million for that game :) You know why! PS someone lent me a narrow minds that I did not return,. please be so kind as to email your adrees so I can mail it to you? thanks!

xcver wrote: > I take it these were not his own vamps :):) What kind of combat deck > was it? Tariq Eats World. Played by Peter Ducai from Slovakia. From what I've seen at my table, he was my predator and ate like 6 or so of my minions, he was not using Rowan Ring, just the agg weapons. The rumors said he had 16 Amranths in his deck.

[ quoted text not captured ] No, sorry not. And it was not eat the world. it was more tariq blocks the world. With the amount of 1,2,3,4 and 5 cap decks floating about,a n atoned tariq was a nightmare. And it is not 16. more like 24

[ quoted text not captured ] The Arika deck was played by Erik Torstensson from Sweden. And if there only was 1 French guy in the finals then the !tor Swarm was played by Pierre Tran-Van ("Stone"). At least according to my sources :) Who played the Unsa deck and the second !malk deck? What happened during day 1? Which 40 players played during day 2? TWD's? Regards Alex

[ quoted text not captured ] Wow, playing Tariq with almost every deck out there packing a Carlton. That's a risky move. Did he get any VP's? //Alex

[ quoted text not captured ] Not many, maybe one or two. But he was beyond caring at that point I think. He just wanted to hurt all the weenie breed sleaze... Seriously, every table I sat down had a minimum of 1, usually 2, once 4 breed flippin decks. So I can understand his irritation.

Some preliminary results and photos here http://www.vtes.cz/ec2008/index.php?page=article&id=results Karel

[ quoted text not captured ] Nice event brother. Well done. Please lemme know about the game with the others tomorrow.

On Sep 22, 7:04 am, Blooded Sand <sandm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Una got hurt early with Pentex, mind numb being used on the support stars. He was unable to get any help from crosstable? > Arika got bled hard and fast by the 1st !malk, and was down > very low when she played baltimore, after freaking from a mind rape on > one of the !malks preying on her. One of the top plays was the mind > rape victim getting torporised on a KS bleed, so Arika receives a > torporised minion, and has to send Arika to torpor. How did the victim go to torpor? Blocking a bleed and then Coma or something like that? The minion shouldn't untap as usual given Mind Rape's text, right? Also, Baltimore Purge happens during untap, and Mind Rape control happens during Minion Phase, so it seems like it shouldn't matter anyway... Maybe I'm missing something. Ira

On Sep 22, 8:28 pm, Prince of Slany <karel.zi...@volny.cz> wrote: [ quoted text not captured ] Thanks Karel. I'm very happy to see the good results some of my friends got. Will there be TWD's soon? (and decks for the other finalists of course) I would also love to see a list of the 40 players who made day 2. Regards Alex

[ quoted text not captured ] I was 6th. Again. "That's losertalk."

> Will there be TWD's soon? (and decks for the other finalists of > course) > I would also love to see a list of the 40 players who made day 2. > > Regards > Alex Yes, Karol (EC judge) working on it and should be prepared on Wed. I hope we will have by Wed all finalist's decks too. Cheers Karel

> Nice event brother. Well done. Please lemme know about the game with > the others tomorrow. We are playing today in Skanzen from 18:00. Come and you will see. :-)

[ quoted text not captured ] Think the mind raped was to rescue Arika? not sure, would be better to get the play by play. But Coma was involved, yes.

ira...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sep 22, 7:04 am, Blooded Sand <sandm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Una got hurt early with Pentex, mind numb being used on the support stars. > > He was unable to get any help from crosstable? True. >> Arika got bled hard and fast by the 1st !malk, and was down >> very low when she played baltimore, after freaking from a mind rape on >> one of the !malks preying on her. One of the top plays was the mind >> rape victim getting torporised on a KS bleed, so Arika receives a >> torporised minion, and has to send Arika to torpor. > > How did the victim go to torpor? Blocking a bleed and then Coma or > something like that? The minion shouldn't untap as usual given Mind > Rape's text, right? Baltimore Purge played by Arika. No Lasombra, so each player chose his or her own victim. This player chose his Mind Raped vampire, naturally. > Also, Baltimore Purge happens during untap, and Mind Rape control > happens during Minion Phase, so it seems like it shouldn't matter > anyway... Maybe I'm missing something. Baltimore Purge and Mind Rape were played on the previous turn and then (on the next turn), Purge goes off during the untap phase (sending Arika and the still-tapped target of the Mind Rape to torpor). Then the Mind Rape goes off.

[ quoted text not captured ] I gotta say that I've been really satisfied by the way you guys handled it all. congratulation guys. Arthur Who got raped on day 2, and will never play Vignes again.

Huruem wrote: > On 23 sep, 08:10, Prince of Slany <karel.zi...@volny.cz> wrote: >> Yes, Karol (EC judge) working on it and should be prepared on Wed. I >> hope we will have by Wed all finalist's decks too. >> > I gotta say that I've been really satisfied by the way you guys > handled it all. congratulation guys. I'll second that. The whole weekend (VTES events, hotel, meals, sightseeing) went very smoothly. Kudos for the efforts of all the organizers. On top of that, let me add, the spectators of all the final rounds I observed (LCQ, EC Day1, EC Day2, and FCQ) were extremely quiet during final round play, which is very appreciated. So thanks to you guys, too.

[ quoted text not captured ] Indeed. Also of note to mention was the VERY nice starting time of 13:00, leaving ample time for more alcohol consuming minded folks to get their groove on in time for the games. So to speak. Everything ran smooth as a clockwork. And the place of the welcoming party, splendid choice. Not a thing to complain. Well done. PS: Arthur, your tears... :) -Otto

[ quoted text not captured ] I'm not sure I want to remember everything from the welcoming party. Atleast I know I was totally wasted with Oko. And I also remember being more wasted later on, and telling LSJ in a completely drunken english, that how good Loss is, and I want to thank the design team for that xD But yes, the place where the party was, was very nice. Nice beer, nice food, and the atmosphere was nice too. If there would be one thing to complain, was that the toilets were upstairs. I'm not used to walk up to get to toilets, and getting down those stairs when drunk was... Interesting :)

[ quoted text not captured ] Exellent :) Keep up the good work. //Alex

[ quoted text not captured ] > 4 breed flippin decks. So I can understand his irritation.- Skrýt citovaný text - > > - Zobrazit citovaný text - That's absolutely true... all those weennie deck madness pissed me off so i have decided at the morning before FCQ to build up anti weennie killing machine. orriginaly i played 20 amaranths. now after the tournament i ahve little bit rebuilded the deck as i didn't have enough cards with me on EC so i have builded it only from "half trash" bought on place when i was missing most of the cards that i will play in normal situation. if there is anybody interested here is rebuiled deck list. it's not as big killing machine but with some improvement (neccesary to replace soem cards and add some bleed cards - tasha, simons, camera phones) it will be able to go forward as well. i'm just preparing another version with masks of thousand faces (you can freak drive after them). tell me juts who will be risking to block if that can be hidden tariq. Deck Name : Tariq the weennie killer version 2 Author : Peter Ducai and Zsolt Varga (pissing me off with constructive comments) Description : block them, shot them down, eat them Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 7 average: 5 ------------------------------------------------------------ 1x Tariq, The Silent Adv 7 AUS FOR OBF QUI cel Assamite:2 4x Tariq, The Silent 7 AUS FOR OBF QUI cel Assamite:2 1x Victoria 5 AUS cel obf Malkavian:2 1x Dorian Strack 4 AUS cel Toreador:1 1x Remilliard, Devout 4 AUS pre !Toreador:2 1x Dollface 3 aus obf Malkavian:1 1x Isabel de Leon 3 AUS Toreador:2 1x Watenda 3 obf Malkavian:2 1x Zöe 3 AUS cel obf Malkavian:2 Library [90 cards] ------------------------------------------------------------ Action [4] 1x Aranthebes, The Immortal 3x Atonement 1x Epiphany Action Modifier [8] 4x Forced March 4x Freak Drive Ally [3] 2x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter) 1x Muddled Vampire Hunter Combat [29] 13x Amaranth 4x Disguised Weapon 2x Hidden Strength 2x Psyche! 2x Pursuit 2x Resilience 2x Rolling with the Punches 2x Telepathic Tracking Equipment [8] 1x Bowl of Convergence 1x Flak Jacket 1x Gran Madre di Dio, Italy 1x IR Goggles 1x Improvised Flamethrower 1x Ivory Bow 1x Rowan Ring 1x Sengir Dagger Master [13] 1x Anarch Troublemaker 1x Celerity 1x Direct Intervention 1x Dominate 1x Guardian Angel 1x Heidelberg Castle, Germany 1x Pentex(TM) Subversion 1x Smiling Jack, The Anarch 1x Vast Wealth 2x Vessel 1x Wash 1x Yoruba Shrine Reaction [23] 5x Eagle's Sight 3x Forced Awakening 2x My Enemy's Enemy 2x Nest of Eagles 2x Telepathic Counter 5x Telepathic Misdirection 4x Wake with Evening's Freshness Retainer [2] 1x Jackie Therman 1x Mr. Winthrop

On Sep 24, 5:13 pm, tatadl...@gmail.com wrote: [ quoted text not captured ] Would try for more discipline masters so once atoned yu can increase cap more to be able to block everything...

Was a fun EC; the organizers did good, the place (christened "Khobar Towers" by Team Finland early on :) wasn't luxurious in any way but was well suited to the job, and I had a lot of fun in all the games I played -- even in the ones where I got turbo-ousted by !Malks :). No tense tables this year for me, everyone was pleasant and sportsmanlike, very nice. I played Settite + Baali Mute vote in the last chance tournament, a ! Tor + Daughters tap&bleed affair in EC day1, and an Osebo intercept toolbox in the first chance tournament. None of them worked all that well in those environments, only got some spare VPs and no game wins. Oh well. *Tons* of weenie decks this year, as noted by others too. Extra thanks to Karel, Martin & Martina (assuming that's how the names are spelled :) for organizing a very nice city tour for us before the welcome party. Was much appreciated! My only negative for the trip is the fact that I caught a flu+fever combo near the end of the EC; floating around Sunday & Monday with a mix of fever, sleep deprivation and alcohol made for some surreality, especially when trying to play in the Sunday side tournament :/. //Petri

<tata...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:75328ef2-f0d3-43b8...@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... >Deck Name : Tariq the weennie killer version 2 >Author : Peter Ducai and Zsolt Varga (pissing me off with constructive >comments) Description : block them, shot them down, eat them Is this the one I had preying on me on the Sunday where I burnt the Ivory Bow right at the beginning of the game so that it stalled for ages..? ;) Regards, Mike Nudd VEKN Prince of London

Blooded Sand wrote: > ... a !Tor weenie sleaze palla thing played by a French guy > (who has the SMOOTHEST table talk. Ever.) That was Stone. I especially liked the "I'm not interested in having beer so soon" line. :) - Ben Peal

[ quoted text not captured ] Nah, I think the best line was when he told his predator that he was friendly, "See, I discard Palla Grande" while the one in play had one counter left. Obviously he still had one in hand....

Blooded Sand wrote: > Ben Peal wrote: > > Blooded Sand wrote: > > > ... a !Tor weenie sleaze palla thing played by a French guy > > > (who has the SMOOTHEST table talk. Ever.) > > > That was Stone. I especially liked the "I'm not interested in > > having beer so soon" line. :) > > Nah, I think the best line was when he told his predator that he was > friendly, "See, I discard Palla Grande" while the one in play had one > counter left. Obviously he still had one in hand.... Bah. Parthenon + Anthelios if he needed to. I didn't see his hand, but I totally knew that Jan had a Wash when Stone played the Last Stand. :) - Ben Peal

[ quoted text not captured ] we are teasing Stone in France because some turns before he could have made 3 points in a row with that last stand ;-)