Report: Outside the Hourglass Stockholm 2012

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Place: Stockholm Sweden
Date: 4 august 2012
2 rounds + final
15 players
Winner: Jonas "Donk" Eriksson

Thanks everyone who attended, especially three of you travelling 240 miles and one of you who travelled 400 miles! And also thanks Pio and Viktor who showed up a bit rusty but both got to the final. Impressive!

Round 1:
Table 1:
Seat 1: Viktor J w Kiasyd Blockturn sb (3 vp, 1 gw)
Seat 2: Jens J w AUS-PRE wall w Rebekka & Jost
Seat 3: Robert D ("BobbyDoc") w Asguresh AUS-CEL-wall/rush (1 vp)
Seat 4: Jonas N w Unmada & Lutz vote (1 vp)
Seat 5: David K w Grand Ball AAA

Table 2:
Seat 1: Michael H w Unamda & Lutz vote
Seat 2: Donk w Dem-weenies w lots of Suddens (5 vp, 1 gw)
Seat 3: Andreas W w Bigcap Ventrue vote G4-5
Seat 4: Ober w Dom-weenies w lots of Deflection
Seat 5: Jonas H w Ishtari rush w Bambas & No Secrets

Table 3:
Seat 1: Pio w Bigcap Malk vote w Petra Resonance (0,5 vp)
Seat 2: Randy w Toreador tablet powerbleed (0,5 vp)
Seat 3: Henrik K w Brujah Royalty G4-5 (0,5 vp)
Seat 4: Mathias O w Ulugh & Cardano & Muaziz (1,5 vp)
Seat 5: Masso w Aching Beauty AAA
(Randy was heavely mobed in this game, but managed to stay alive. Mathias took out Masso with only minutes left.)

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Round 2:
Table 1:
Seat 1: Robert D ("BobbyDoc") w Asguresh AUS-CEL-wall/rush (2 vp)
Seat 2: Viktor J w Kiasyd Blockturn sb (1 vp)
Seat 3: Randy w Toreador tablet powerbleed (1 vp)
Seat 4: Jonas H w Ishtari rush w Bambas & No Secrets
Seat 5: Mathias O w Ulugh & Cardano & Muaziz (1 vp)

Table 2:
Seat 1: Andreas W w Bigcap Ventrue vote G4-5
Seat 2: Michael H w Unamda & Lutz vote (3 vp, 1 gw)
Seat 3: Jens J w AUS-PRE wall w Rebekka & Jost (1 vp)
Seat 4: Masso w Aching Beauty AAA
Seat 5: Jonas N w Unmada & Lutz vote (1 vp)

Table 3:
Seat 1: Henrik K w Brujah Royalty G4-5
Seat 2: Pio w Bigcap Malk vote w Petra Resonance (3 vp, 1 gw)
Seat 3: Donk w Dem-weenies w lots of Suddens (1 vp)
Seat 4: David K w Grand Ball AAA
Seat 5: Ober w Dom-weenies w lots of Deflection (1 vp)
(Donk ran over David fast and crippled Ober with an early Narrow Minds. Donk bought his own Uncle George for 13 pool when Pio played Temptation of Greater Power. Dmitra lost her title to Framing of an Ancient Grudge, so Henrik could never gain solid vote advantage. Pio dropped a nice Proctected Resouces when heads up with Obers dom-weenies.)

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 Final standings:1. Donk (1 gw-6 vp-102 tp)
2. Viktor J (1-4-96)
3. Pio Wolff (1-3,5-96)
4. Robert Doktorow (1-3-102)
5. Michael Holmström (1-3-90)

Final table:
1. Viktor J w Kiasyd Blockturn sb
2. Pio w Bigcap Malk vote w Petra Resonance
3. Robert D ("BobbyDoc") w Asguresh AUS-CEL-wall/rush
4. Michael H w Unamda & Lutz vote
5. Donk w Dem-weenies w lots of Suddens (5 vp, 1 gw, tournament victory)

First vampires:
Viktor: Pherydyma + Isanwayen (IIRC)
Pio: Louhi
Robert D: Titi + Asguresh
Michael H: Unmada + Lutz
Donk: Jackie + Midget + Apache Jones

Robert rushed Michael some, and Michael bought Asguresh w .44 Magnum for 15 pool with Temptation of Greater Power. Donk pretty much ran over Viktor and Pio like a bulldozer crushing ants, in spite of Unmasking and Michael doing some Parity Shift-charity work. And then nothing could stop him from the clean sweep (see Donks own comment below).

Congrats Donk for a spectacular tournament victory!

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Tournament winning deck:
Deck Name: DEM bleed
Author: Idea by Donk, corrected by Randyman
Result: Two rounds + finals: First 5 vp+gw, second 1 vp. 5 vp+gw in the final (all 5-player tables).
Description: "The idea is that in our current meta there are many slow decks that relies on Zillah's, and when I always have a Sudden reversal to counter it they are too slow to stop me. It's also very nice to counter the, seemingly, endless pool gain/deck optimization from Ashur Tablets. Any changes would probably be to switch Dreams for another Touch of clarity, if I had it."  

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 1 max: 5 average: 3.41667
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3x Jackie 3 DEM !Malkavian:4
2x Midget 3 DEM obf pre !Malkavian:3
1x Apache Jones 5 DEM aus for obf !Malkavian:4
1x Persia, The Beauti 5 DEM aus obf Malkavian:3
1x Uncle George 5 DEM aus dom obf !Malkavian:3
1x Adelaide Davis 4 aus dem obf Malkavian:3
1x Beauregard Kruelle 4 aus dem obf !Malkavian:4
1x Cassandra Langely, 2 dem Malkavian:4
1x Eddie Gaines 1 dem pot Caitiff:3

Library [60 cards]
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Action [16]
16x Kindred Spirits

Action Modifier [23]
1x Cloak the Gathering
8x Confusion
8x Eyes of Chaos
1x Lost in Crowds
5x Mind Tricks

Action Modifier / Reaction [1]
1x Touch of Clarity

Action Modifier/Combat [7]
7x Deny

Event [2]
1x Bitter and Sweet Story, The
1x Narrow Minds

Master [11]
2x Dementation
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
8x Sudden Reversal

Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. [Sun Aug 05 10:30:21 2012]

Donks comment: "Best round in the tournament was definitely first round on the first table, where I was second player and got to play Sudden on my predator's and prey's Zillah's Valley (with Narrow Minds 1-2 turns later which was essential to my second kill, a defensive Dom-weenie with loads of Deflections).
   Had a Lutz & Unmada-deck as predator all three games (same deck first table and finals) and could handle it pretty good by denying cryptax'. Also Michael Holmström (my predator on the first table and finals) made the mistake of play too good cards (Temptation of Greater Power) and people reacted pretty strong, which cost his game both times.
   Second table was basicly a cross table kill from my grand predator, a Brujah vote deck (9+ pool from Parity shift + some damage from Lutz, who then could just bleed me to death) and me paying too much for Uncle George when that Lutz-deck also played Temptation of Greater Power."