DragonCon VTES Event Schedule

DragonCon is two weekends away! (www.dragoncon.com) If you are in the Southeastern United States, you will not want to miss this event! Schedule of VTES Events: Friday 6pm - Sabbat Inquisitor (judged by Lasombra) Standard Constructed, 2 rounds and a final, with a possible postponement of start until 7pm (if requests to do so are received in email prior to the day of the event) Unsanctioned Saturday 10am? - Camarilla Exemplary Draft Event (judged by LSJ) V:TES Camarilla (base set) booster draft. Eight (8) Camarilla boosters per player are included in the ticket price. There will be two preliminary rounds (all players play in both rounds) followed by a final. Each round is two hours long. This is a V:EKN-sanctioned event. Sunday 1pm - Dragon's Breath Rounds (judged by LSJ) V:TES standard constructed tournament. There will be three preliminary rounds (all players play in all three rounds) followed by a final. Each round is two hours long. This is a V:EKN-sanctioned event. Prizes supplies by White Wolf. V:TES standard constructed tournament. There will be three preliminary rounds (all players play in all three rounds) followed by a final. Each round is two hours long. This is a V:EKN-sanctioned event. Prizes supplies by White Wolf. Monday 10am - Command of the Harpies (judged by Lasombra) Standard Constructed, 2 rounds and a final. Unsanctioned. There is also a proposed demo possibly being run Friday afternoon. Please let us know if you will be making it to any of the events, especially the ones on Friday. Carpe noctem. Lasombra http://www.TheLasombra.com

The Lasombra wrote: > > DragonCon is two weekends away! (www.dragoncon.com) > > If you are in the Southeastern United States, you will not want to > miss this event! > > Schedule of VTES Events: Friday 1pm - Evernight (judged by LSJ) $3.00 Standard Constructed 2 rounds and a final. Each round is two hours long. This is a V:EKN-sanctioned event. > Friday 6pm - Sabbat Inquisitor (judged by Lasombra) > > Saturday 10am? - Camarilla Exemplary Draft Event (judged by LSJ) That's Saturday 9am. $20.00 > Sunday 1pm - Dragon's Breath Rounds (judged by LSJ) > > Monday 10am - Command of the Harpies (judged by Lasombra) -- LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc. Links to V:TES news, rules, cards, utilities, and tournament calendar: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/

thela...@hotmail.com (The Lasombra) wrote in message news:<3d5c75d1...@text.giganews.com>... > DragonCon is two weekends away! (www.dragoncon.com) > > Saturday 10am? - Camarilla Exemplary Draft Event (judged by LSJ) > V:TES Camarilla (base set) booster draft. Eight (8) Camarilla boosters > per player are included in the ticket price. There will be two > preliminary rounds (all players play in both rounds) followed by a > final. Each round is two hours long. This is a V:EKN-sanctioned event. I am VERY curious to hear how this works out. With only 16 vampires available, at most, and with the expectation one of those is Sabbat, library construction could prove more difficult than library construction. I worked out some numbers and figured that 9 would be optimal for a pure booster draft. I am curious how you came up with 8 as sufficient. Jeff

jeff...@hotmail.com (Jeff Kuta) wrote in message news:<621dd332.02081...@posting.google.com>... > thela...@hotmail.com (The Lasombra) wrote in message news:<3d5c75d1...@text.giganews.com>... > > DragonCon is two weekends away! (www.dragoncon.com) > > > > Saturday 10am? - Camarilla Exemplary Draft Event (judged by LSJ) > > V:TES Camarilla (base set) booster draft. Eight (8) Camarilla boosters > > per player are included in the ticket price. There will be two > > preliminary rounds (all players play in both rounds) followed by a > > final. Each round is two hours long. This is a V:EKN-sanctioned event. > > I am VERY curious to hear how this works out. So....how did this event go? ;) I am keen to hear about the drafting experience in particular. I have been mulling around in my mind how a booster draft should go considering the issues with crypt selection. Would it be reasonable (and perhaps VEKN legal) to do a modified booster draft? I had this in mind for an 8 booster draft event: 1) As players open each pack, set both vampires aside for later draft. 2) Players draft the remaining 9 cards for the first four packs. 3) After the first four packs, draft 8 vampires. 4) Repeat steps 1-3) for the remaining 4 booster packs. With this method, players can get a basic idea of what their library will look like so they can start getting vampires that would help them. At the halfway mark, they should at least know one discipline and one clan they will be playing and can continue to draft accordingly. Personally, I think it would be a bad idea to draft all 16 vampires at the very end because you might get people counter-drafting which can really mess things up. At least if you get draft your crypt at the mid-point, the expectation is that players will take vampires appropriate to the disciplines they have thus far drafted. Considering that there are 6 Camarilla clans, if only 5 players are in any given drafting pod, things shouldn't be too problematic. However, if each booster pack is drafted without pulling the vampires aside, there will be little cohesion to a player's crypt. Jeff (eager for the tournament reports from this weekend's Cons)

"Jeff Kuta" <jeff...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:621dd332.02090...@posting.google.com... > I am keen to hear about the drafting experience in particular. I have > been mulling around in my mind how a booster draft should go > considering the issues with crypt selection. > > Would it be reasonable (and perhaps VEKN legal) to do a modified > booster draft? I had this in mind for an 8 booster draft event: > 1) As players open each pack, set both vampires aside for later draft. > 2) Players draft the remaining 9 cards for the first four packs. > 3) After the first four packs, draft 8 vampires. > 4) Repeat steps 1-3) for the remaining 4 booster packs. I don't think any draft methods besides the ones described in the VEKN rules are currently "VEKN legal", but it's not impossible that they could be in the future. This one certainly sounds interesting to me... It might be equally workable to draft all the vampires first, and then draft all the library cards (for all 8 packs at once). That's more or less what "Elder Draft" is, if I remember right. The only drawback is that you have to draft cards those vamps can play, instead of getting to pick half your vamps based on library cards you've already seen, but I don't know if that's likely to actually be a problem. > Considering that there are 6 Camarilla clans, if only 5 > players are in any given drafting pod, things shouldn't be too > problematic. However, if each booster pack is drafted without pulling > the vampires aside, there will be little cohesion to a player's crypt. It depends... we did a couple draft games here right when we got our cards from Potomac, and we ended up drafting nine packs a player, library cards and vampires all at the same time, and it worked okay for most of us I think. I know I managed to get an all-Tremere (or pseudo-Tremere that I liked - Helena, Menele) crypt, and the other crypts seemed pretty coherent to me too. We had paused at 7 packs to see if that was enough to make a playable deck, but decided it wasn't (personally I still had only 11 vampires after 7 packs ;-) and went on to do two more packs, which everyone seemed to think was sufficient. I'm also curious to hear about how well eight packs worked, though. Josh freeform