Obvious but useful thought

In games having exact knowledge of what your strategy is and what resources you have is essential to maximize your play. Therefore knowing exactly what you have in your ash heap, your hand, and your library is too good not practice.

Evolving or mastering this is a very good way of becoming a better player. And if you do currently can't have an exact card count of your library and ash heap, start your training by trying to remember your hand and playing (as in planning your turn, reacting and acting) with your cards put down.

//

Randyman

Playing Steven Bradbury-style

Sometimes you succeed. Sometimes you fail. Sometimes you fail miserably. And sometimes you fail on the edge of success. The latter might just be the worst. Especially if you know what you did wrong.

2012 Swedish Qualifier - Pre-game considerations
As usual I never play particulary cheesy decks. Each large tournament I´m kind of decided on that this time, oboy this time, I´m gonna play cheese and do well. But every single time I then come to think of
1) cheesy decks are boring to play
2) cheesy decks can be hard to play because they require exact focus and
3) cheesy decks are obvious – after 2 vamps good players tend to know exactly how to handle them.

So I tend to go for either something new and exciting or some kind of toolbox. This time I went for a variant of the group 4-5 Ventrue lawfirm/grinder-toolbox which put me into the finals last years NC. I tried it out at the last tournament in Stockholm and made it to the final.

The day of battle
I got up 06.00 and managed to pack everything I need for a weekend in Örebro, the bleed-capitol of the world. Got picked up by Randy. He drove very nice and legal, yet we mysteriously arrived at the venue one hour before we intended to. I ate half a Italian BMT and shook some hands. Several finnish players were present as usual – as a matter of fact the Swedish champion has a tendency to be from Finland. All the finnish players are good – some are _very_ good, like European champion Otso Saariluoma who rode next to me from Stockholm. But they have … some problems.

Game 1
Tremere big cap-vote > Me > Imbued > !Tremere sb > Aus-weenie

This seating is just about the worst I can get. Imbued wall (with chainsaw finish) as prey and 8 votes as my predator. The Aus-weenie-player (Otso S) drop turn one Smiling Jack … interesting. As usual, the discussions go wild about who benefits most/least from removing Smiling. Deal attempts are made and short deals are struck.

So I lean back and do just about nothing. The Imbued player (Adam) let me Govern down two times, which turn out to be just about enough for me to survive the Smiling.

Otso defends the Smiling all game and it´s me and him heads up. I have double Daring the Dawn in hand, but only need to use one of them to oust him. Once again what I have named the Steven Bradbury-style of play triumphs!

Me: 4 vp, Otso: 1 vp

Game 2
Lutz-voter > Weird ani-obt-dom toolbox > G1-2 Ventrue lawfirm > Me

My prey put out Lutz and Gabrielle. My predator (Ivan) choose Democritus and Sir Walter. Jippie, I´m vote locked. But my prey make some wrong choices and I manage to oust him when I draw a lot of bleed cards in a row.

My last minute addition Ericyes Fragment was important in this game – I have no idea why my prey fed me a Mind Rape (+2 bleed!). I really like the Fragment – try it out if you haven´t.

Next prey now is the ani-Lasombras (Marko), which has lost a big cap to a Banishment and is low on pool. I actually thought I had him, but suddenly he flashes out a strong combat hand (Crows+Shadow Strike+Torn+Taste) and torpors my key bouncer Emily Carson.

Me: 1 vp, Ivan: 3 vp

Game 3
Mono-obf sb > Shambling hordes w Dragon Breath Rounds > ME > Turbo-Nergal > Warghouls

This is the game were I screwed up. The warghoul-player (Andreas) got a _very_ strong start with Pentex Subversion on his predators Nergal and the softest of soft obf-weenies as prey. It seemed as he was getting the table, the only problem for him was his bad bleeding ability, just bleeds for 1 or 2.

Also, I was not very fond of letting Nergal out of Pentex, because I know that type of deck is hard to stop when it´s on a roll. But with no Nergal there was absolutely no pressure on the Warghouls, so after a while I had to remove the Pentex.

Nergal quickly ousted the Warghouls and the totally crippled obf-weenies. Then zombies with DBR (Jens) rushed Great Beast and a Giovanni Graverobbed him. Not good.

Now the Nergal-player (Ville) hinted that he was going to self-oust, being in a lost position as he was, but I somehow missed the hint, and instead of playing safe and taking my 1 vp (which had taking me into the final!), I influenced out an extra vamp and was smashed by zombies and Great Beast, and ousted.

Me: 0 vp, Jens 3 vp, Ville 2 vp

Finals (which I missed)
G1-2 Ventrue lawfirm > Malk bigcaps sb > Turbo-Nergal > !Tremere sb > Aus-weenie

I think I would have about the same chances as the G1-2 lawfirm if I played in here, and that would have been my place if I´d taken that last vp (Ivan beat me on TP´s). It´s just Steven Bradbury-style, watch the others make bad deals and then heads up with Otsos Aus-weenies I just repeat Game 1 :)

A very memorable final though. Santaleous whopped Nergals butt, some very classy dealmaking from the Malk player Henrik E, nice slowplay by the !Tre-player BobbyDoc and finally aus-weenies running out of wakes. Congrats again BobbyDoc!

Summary
So this was one of those times I failed on the edge of success. All in all I´m quite pleased with the weekend, as I made it to the finals in the draft on Sunday with a super-shitty deck. Also if I can´t win our last Stockholm tournament before the EC, I´ll be going to Budapest without being qualified, and that kind of suck, but it´s not the end of the world.

Swedish National Championships 2012; the Myrdin version

As usual the swedish nationals were held in Örebro and since I like to start at the beginning I'll take you through my preparation jitters all the way through to the finals.

Choosing a deck:

I had a hell of a time choosing a deck; since I'm on paternity leave at the moment I have a hard time building new decks and even tweaking current ones since I can't have any cards around while my daughter is awake - she eats Warghouls for breakfast ;) After the usual lot of angst, slightly diminished since my choices were restricted I finally settled between two decks. It was my Imbued Chainsaw deck, which is a very defensive and reactive deck, it does really well when there is little intercept around, with its quick buildup and strong endgame it's a stable and very good. The problem is that I was unsure of the meta, in a heavy vote meta it does poorly since it gets crosstable ousted more easily than Auspex weenies (my Imbueds are similar to that type of deck but with a more aggressive endgame). It also does poorly against slight intercept meta with a lot of aggression (Stickmen for example).

My other choice was the deck I had won a tournament with two weeks prior, a deck I dubbed "Vita Kränkta Män", a very aggressive multiact lawfirm with a midcap crypt. Now midcaps are bad, but they have been seeing an upswing in the meta with the introduction of the Wash/Zillah-archetype and the increase of anti-crypt acceleration package. It also includes less common vampires such as Democritus and Wilhem Waldburg which lessens the chance of contest as compared to Arika, Lucinde Alastor and Mary Anne Blaire. Again, Democritus is a horrible vampire with a "fun" special, but that just adds to the decks flavor in my opinion - it seems less of a threat when you start off with Democritus rather than Arika or Mary Anne Blaire.

The night before the tournament I slept horribly (of course!), my daughter had nightmares and I had to spend half the night calming her and finally had to sleep with her on the sofa. So it was with some difficulty that I got up at 6 am, showered, got dressed, packed my stuff and met up with Robert Doktorow at the train station. When we finally got to Örebro I still had no idea on what to play, tired and slightly confused I finally asked Isak to chose for me. He suggested we play Rock, Paper, Scissors over the decision, I won and got to play the Lawfirm which was in my hand at that moment.

Pre game talks:

We had the usual pregame talks about meta, about decks, about new concepts, about tournaments. The thing that stuck in my head was the Gaussian Game Distribution theory. The thought is of course that over the course of a tournament (3 games) you will have one game that you're in the best situation to win considering meta, seating and game progression. Not losing that game and getting as many VP's on the other games will get you to the finals. It's a fun theory and oddly alluring to me :)

First game:

Stickmen-> Stickmen-> Obf-weenies-> Me -> Obt/dom-lowcaps

My cryptdraw this game was not too bad, I got Democritus, Wilhelm Waldburg, Sir Walter Nash and Heather Florent on the start, with a first turn Sphinx. That meant Democritus in two turns - awesome! Problem was though that I was going to have trouble defending versus the obf-weenies. Since it was the first game I had no prior knowledge to decks and I would have to plan my game "in the dark" so to speak. I took the obvious route and went Democritus first with the Sphinx and planned on Wilhelm Waldburg as my second vampire. My prey started off with Quincy the Trapper, so I thanked my lucky stars that I hadn't picked my Imbued deck :D The game progressed normally except that the lowcap dom-obt deck managed to land some serious bleeds on his prey, which was unusual considering it was a very defensive Stickmen, that left a lot of maneuvering space for the second Stickmen deck. The obf-weenie deck choked on stealth since I declined to block it, but taking bleeds of 1-2-3-4-4 during the first five turns was killing me more quickly than I liked. The problem of not drawing into Parity Shifts was complicating things. I managed to vote an early Neonate Breach though to damage my prey and predator and try to put my predator into the defensive or to let the second Stickmen get an early oust. I did manage to keep my head above the water until the second Stickmen deck ousted the obf-weenie. That was the same turn I got my third vampire, so when it became my turn again I took the lunge and tried to oust. Unfortunatly I failed and died shortly after. Game win went to the second Stickmen I believe - I spent the remaining time scouting the decks to be better prepared for round 2.

Second game:

Lutz/Unmada vote -> Dom/ani highcaps -> Me -> G4/5 ventrues

This was my "win" game, even thought it didn't seem so at the start. Again I had a great cryptdraw with Democritus, Emerson Bridges, 2x Sir Walter Nash and a Sphinx on my starting hand. This time I couldn't get a two turn Democritus, but since I had a fairly defensive deck as a predator I settled for a three turn Democritus instead. Since I had a vote deck crosstable we made a deal to split damage evenly among our preys - even though the Lutz deck got the better part of the deal I was ok with it, since that put the my predator on a backwards trajectory instead of forward. Despite my predators slight intercept package a midgame Banishment from Lutz and my aggressive voting put him in a situation with only 1 vampire fairly early. That gave me the opportunity to push forward and try for the oust, I wasn't afraid of getting bounced since that meant that the Lutz deck would get ousted and I would get into a heads-up or tripple with the votelock, a good situation for me in any case. Worst case scenario was a 2-2 table split which was ok as a second game result, even though I thought I had a good chance of pulling off a win. Lutz died shortly after, then with some blocking from my predator I managed to get a kill on the second votedeck. That meant a sure win when I was chugging along with 3 aggressive vampires vs the 1 of my predator. 1 GW 3 VP for me! =D

Lunchbreak:

We had lunch, it was great, I ate alot of carbs and drank cola to keep awake, but with the good result of the second game I was quite alert again.

Third game:

Lutz/Unmada vote -> Inner Circle cel/dom/obf -> Me -> Lowcap PRE princes -> Imbued with Chainsaw

Again I was happy I didn't play my Imbued deck, this would have been a horrible contestfest. The game was very tight though, I came close to winning it but a missplay by me the last turn cost me the game, but I'm getting ahead of myself. My cryptdraw was less stunning this time, but still good - Wilhem Waldburg, 2x Sir Walter Nash and Ranjan Rishi. I realized of course that I would have no chance getting the votelock this game, so off I went discarding votes first chance I got. First action my prey did was a Mind Numb on my first vampire, a disaster when playing a dominate ladder, but I luckily played Direct Intervention on it. My own first action was a Mind Numb on my own predators first and only vampire which made everyone chuckle something about it being a Stockholm thing (my prey was Tomas, also from Stockholm), I didn't draw into a Freak Drive so I ended my turn and thanked my lucky stars for another turn of breathing room. My grand predator played Villein on Unmada and then Temptation of Greater Power on my predators Mind Numbed Inner Circle. That meant of course I would get a lot of breathing room, but also that it would put my predator in the shitter while my grand predator would be extremely strong and looking for an easy endgame vs me (he also played Protected Resources to defend against my heavy bleeds). I bidded very aggressively and managed to push the bid up to 21 pool. That put my grand predator on the defense since he had to deal with the imbued to be able to pull off a political action and with me or my prey to get the votelock to pass it. He broke his deal with the imbued after no blocks were declared and stole 5 pool from him anyway. This made me chuckle and also hope that the chainsaw wielding imbueds would punish him and leave me in a good position for a tripple or heads-up. After a few more turns I managed to kill my prey who was getting blocked to death by the imbued while getting enough minions into play to be able to push through the blocks thrown by the imbued and manage another oust. Unfortunately my predator had another vampire in play by then and both predator and prey decided to oust me first. After a few turns of me going forward to gain the momentum advantage I did my missplays. First I didn't stay untapped although I drew into a few deflections instead I was too eager for the bleed advantage; Second I mistakenly expected my predator of using his Metro Underground or at least having means of untapping to be able to defend against the eventual backstab from Lutz. When I noticed he couldn't it was too late and we both got ousted the same turn, I was 1 pool away from ousting Lutz the turn before =(.  1 GW 5 VP for me.

Finals:

I had the bottom seed for the finals, I won over Henrik Klippström because of TP's (he was playing the G4/5 ventrues that I ousted game 2). Since I didn't have to worry over the seating I grabbed a seat and enjoyed the seating struggle; it ended with: Auspex-weenie -> Me -> Lutz powerbleed -> Turbo-Nergal -> Dom/tha lowcaps with allies

My first thought was "I got to be fast or this game will not go well for me". My cryptdraw was very good again - Democritus, Wilhelm Waldburg, Sir Walter Nash and Timothy Crowley. The problem was that with a auspex-weenie behind me I couldn't chance picking up Democritus first since he has minor fortitude and can't power through blocks with Freak Drive. That left me with only three vampires in my crypt, I wasn't sure if it was going to be enough. I drew a first turn Sphinx which would give me a turn two Wilhelm, a lucky draw =D Another bout of misfortune for the auspex-weenie was that when he blocked the first action with Victoria from the tha/dom-deck he got clawed by a slaving Tupdog and diablerized with my consent. He influenced up Zoe and passed the turn. Phew, since I had a two turn Wilhelm with the Sphinx that would give me enough time to be able to get settled. I was left alone to do my first actions, it was superior Govern, Freak, superior Scouting mission which let me have Sir Walter Nash quickly and cheaply as a second vampire. I then settled into a very aggressive stance trying to get a quick oust to put pressure on the auspex-weenie (me running away from him with all the VP's) and cutting the game short for the Turbo-Nergal. The auspex-weenie was top seed and he did a beatiful play where he sniped the Nergal VP for my prey to be able to control my VP's. That meant that if I got two kills I would be in a heads-up vs him and still give him the chance of a tournament win. I did not want to get into a heads-up vs an auspex-weenie without proper preparations and going all out offensive had cut down on my buildup actions, such as superior Govern. The next turn I killed off the Lutz powerbleed and started my build-up. Either I would get into a heads-up vs the dom/tha-deck while having the votelock, or I would chance it against the auspex-weenie, but with a table presence and a good hand. So I kept up the actions but not as aggressive towards my prey anymore. Finally I got my fourth vampire out and had a hand of bleeds and my last Daring the Dawn. So I lunged. Unfortunately the dom/tha-deck had saved up on wakes and managed to stop my lunge. While I had the Daring the Dawn to power through I could not use it to get the oust and go into a heads-up against an auspex-weenie without any Darings left in the deck. So I opted to wait for another round. Bad luck again and the auspex-weenie had run out of wakes and got ousted. That left me wide open and I got ousted the same turn - game and tournament win to Doktorow. It was a very close game with a lot of exciting strategic decisions. I might have been able to do a few things differently, but I believe I made no huge mistakes. Overall the tournament was good and I was happy with my deck choice, after it´s performance I can say that I'm quite pleased with it, even though I've been considering a few minor tweaks. Maybe for the next tournament :D

/Myrdin

The Stockholm League - October 17 2012

Helped Randy make the sweep at table 2.

Three tables were played in the second round of ten in our October-December league. Standard tournament rules apply + printed proxy is allowed.

Table 1:
1. Aaron (Khazars Diary w Cry Wolf)
2. Henrik K (!Ventrue grinder) 0,5 vp
3. Erik M (Eurobrujah) 0,5 vp
4. Tomas W (G5/6 Daughters w Shattering Cressendo) 0,5 vp
5. Kim (G1/2 IC vote) 1,5 vp

Table 2:
1. Donk (Girls)
2. Jens (Shambling Hordes w DBR)
3. Jan Erik (Dem-weenies)
4. Jonas S (G4/5 PRE-princes)
5. Randy (G1/2 PRE-powerbleed w Tablets) 5 vp, 1 gw

Table 3:
1. Alexander (Rachel Brandywine w Madness Network)
2. Johnny (Daughters w Choir) 1 vp
3. Donk (Lambach wall)
4. Masso (Unnamed wall w Shatter the Gates) 2 vp
5. Marcus (G4/5 Ventrue lawfirm) 2 vp

League standings:
Randy, Marcus 32 rtp
Donk 24 rtp
Henrik K 20 rtp
Masso 10 rtp
Kim 6 rtp
Jens, Johnny 4 rtp
Erik M, Tomas W 2 rtp
(1 gw = 8 ratingpoints, 1 vp = 4 ratingpoints. Note: Players can play more than one game each round if their participation are needed to complete a table where at least one player has not yet played a league game this round, but only the best result each round counts for rating. If more players than 5 want to play such a table, lowest vp-count this round has priority. No league game starts after 20.00.)

The next round of the league is played at Dragon´s Lair, Kungsholmstorg 8 next Wednesday about 1800-ish. Be there!

An epiphany of talons

I had an epiphany when I woke up on the morning of the Swedish Nationals and added one Raking Talons. It helped me win the final.

This is what happened in the tournament. Some details may be wrong, but in whole quite close to the truth.

Round 1
Me (deck below) - Otso (Aus wall) - Randy (Orlando vote) - Henrik.K (Ventrue) - Adam (imbued)

I was the starting player and having both Rock Cat and Carlton on hand I opted for a Tupdog.
Otso put up a aus-weenie, so I misdirected that and played Rock Cat. Otso played DI on the cat. I played Carlton instead and that Adam DI:ed.
     The rest of the game I hit my head against the aus-wall and the whole table struggled because of Otso's Smiling Jack.
     The table collapsed when Smiling hit 5 or 6 and Henrik was able to pick up the remaning pieces.

Henrik ("Ashur") 1 gw + 4 vp, Otso 1 vp

Round 2
Anders (Shamblers) - Daniel (!Ventrue grinder) - Me - Alexi (IC Flurry bleed) - Jens (Shamblers)

Comfortable game for me. The two shambler decks were neutralizing each other, doing the odd rush against Alexi and Daniel.
     Alexi managed (before I should have ousted him) take out Jens thanks to Enkil Cog. I still could oust him and Anders (only at 2) in one turn.
     Daniel was a little crippled due to having previously being rushed, so I could quite easily oust him after a while.
     I was aware of the ousting capabilities of Daniels deck, so I played it safe the whole game.

Me 1 gw + 4 vp, Alexi 1 vp

Round 3
Jonathan (Create gargoyle w dom) - Isak (Kiasyd tablet bleed) - Marko (Nahir) - Me - Stefan (Mistress F Flurry bleed)

Jonathan started out strong and poor Marko was eating both some bleeds from Isak as well as some deflects.
     At one point I played a little reckless and was immediatly rewarded by some Deflections and bleeds from Marko, which almost ousted me.
     The next turn I was able to get Stefan. Jonathan ousted Isak and Marko, but my position was now quite good and I could win the end game.

Me 1 gw + 3 vp, Jonathan 2 vp

Final
Me - Otso (Aus-wall) - Ivan (Ventrue lawfirm multi-act) - Henrik E (Kindred Spirits-bleed w Santalous and Lutz) - Ville (Turbo-Nergal)

I was second seed and ended up having Otso (1st seed) as my prey again. I was prepared for the eternal pain of having an aus-wall in front of me until I saw my opening hand; Raking Talons. I managed to eat Otso's first vampire, Victoria, so it took him a longer time to set up,
giving Ivan more room to do his thing.
     Henrik stopped the Nergal deck quite easily with the master denial of Santalous.
     Ivan ousted Henrik soon after Henrik got Ville.
     Except for my first turn, I did very little during the game, I just tried to opt my hand and hope for the best. Now and then I probed Otso's defenses and after a while he showed all signs of running out of wakes. Ivan had an contested Anarch Troublemaker that would come in play on his next turn. So I deliberately "overextended" my pool by getting up a new vampire (Hannigan), the other three were tapped. I thought this should be enough for Ivan using the AT on me. And I was right. I had 4 On the Qui Vie on hand and could handle his assault quite well. Now Otso had 2 untapped vampires, so I used AT and ousted him and Ivan in one turn.

Me 1 gw + 3 vp, Ivan 1 vp, Henrik E 1 vp

Tournament Winning Deck:
Vamps (12)
1 Bryan Van Duesen (7, aus DOM pre THA, Tremere Antitribu, 2, Sabbat: +1 bleed)
1 Heinrick Schlempt (2, tha, Tremere Antitribu, 2, Sabbat)
1 Brooke (3, dom tha, Tremere Antitribu, 2, Sabbat)
1 Hannigan (5, AUS dom THA, Tremere Antitribu, 2, Sabbat)
1 Kurt Strauss (5, aus DOM tha, Tremere Antitribu, 2, Sabbat)
1 Reverend Blackwood (6, DOM obf THA, Tremere Antitribu, 2, Sabbat Bishop)
1 Selena (6, AUS DOM THA, Tremere Antitribu, 3, Sabbat)
5 Tupdog

Library (61)
Masters (9)
1 Pentex Subversion
1 Anarch Troublemaker
1 Misdirection
2 Direct Intervention
2 Blood Doll
1 PB: Montreal
1 Coven

Actions (8)
8 Govern the Unaligned

Action Modifiers (18)
4 Bonding
4 Conditioning
10 Mirror Walk

Allies (10)
1 Carlton van Wyk
4 Hexaped
4 Nephandus
1 Rock Cat

Combat (1)
1 Raking Talons

Reactions (13)
5 Deflection
6 On the Qui Vie   
2 Delaying Tactics

Events (2)
2 Unmasking

/Robert D ("BobbyDoc")

Meet the Prime Mover

The column The Wyrm´s Turn have a recent interview with the rather reclusive Mark Rein-Hagen, creator of the World of Darkness, Ars Magica and other great stuff. Without him we probably wouldn´t be flipping these odd paper pieces at all, as he both made up Vampire: The Masquerade and co-founded Wizards of the Coast. It wouldn´t surprise me if his new boardgame Democracy is brilliant. Have a nice read!

The Stockholm League - October 10 2012

Cybele - the girliest girl? Art by ~Toxs1n.

Three tables were played in the first round of ten in our October-December league. Standard tournament rules apply + printed proxy is allowed.

Table 1:
1. Erik M (Aus-weenie)
2. Jens (Shamblings w Dragon Breath Rounds)
3. Randy (G1/2 PRE powerbleed w tablets) 1 vp
4. Henrik K (G5/6 lawfirm/grinder)
5. Donk (Girls) 4 vp, 1 gw

Table 2:
1. Marcus (G4/5 lawfirm) 4 vp, 1 gw
2. Tomas (Baali/Setite soulgem-turbo)
3. Jonas H (Setite vote) 1 vp
4. Jonas S (Samedi w Shamblers)
5. Jan Erik (Lawfirm w Arika)

Table 3:
1. Jens (Infernal Anson w guns) 1 vp
2. Robert D (Pre-weenies)
3. Masso (Saulot Lord of Serenity wall) 0,5 vp
4. Henrik K (!Ventrue grinder w Haven Uncovered) 2,5 vp, 1 gw
5. Erik M (!Brujah w guns)

In this game Jens got a fantastic start. In turn 3 he hade two princes in play, plus Anarch Troublemaker, Parthenon, Anthelios, Dreams of the Sphinx and a .44 Magnum on Anson. He also had played Villein for 8 and Giant´s Blood on Anson, and Parity Shifted his prey for 5. But in true Jens fashion he didn´t think it looked so good for him! This time he was kind of right though - his next prey was a bit too rough on him, and after some Haven Uncovered and Wash the !Ventrue grinder could oust him and then get the game win on time.

League standings:
Donk, Marcus 24 rtp
Henrik K 18 rtp
Randy, Jens 4 rtp
Masso 2 rtp
(1 gw = 8 ratingpoints, 1 vp = 4 ratingpoints. Note: Players can play more than one game each round if their participation are needed to complete a table where at least one player has not yet played a league game this round, but only the best result each round counts for rating. If more players than 5 want to play such a table, lowest vp-count this round has priority. No league game starts after 20.00.)

The next round of the league is played at Dragon´s Lair, Kungsholmstorg 8 next Wednesday about 1800-ish. Be there!

The Stockholm League - October 3 2012 - Final result

Nazi-Jesus, currently in the service of Henrik K.

Congratulations to Jens, reigning and defending Stockholm league champion!

Two tables were played in the tenth and final round of ten in our August-October league. Standard tournament rules apply + printed proxy is allowed.

Table 1:
1. Henrik K (G4-5 Ventrue lawfirm-grinder)
2. Jens (Shambling Hordes w Dragon Breath Rounds) 3 vp, 1 gw
3. Donk (Enkidu rush)
4. Marcus (Imbued w dem weenies) 2 vp
5. Tomas W (Anson vote?)

Table 2:
1. Masso (Unnamed w Shatter the Gates)
2. Robert D (AUS+FOR wall) 2 vp
3. Henrik K (!Ven w Mathias and Spirit Marionette) 3 vp, 1 gw
4. Tomas W (!Toreador breed-boon w ani)
5. Alex (G5-6 Baali vote)

Final league standings:
Jens 106 rtp
Jonas H 80 rtp
Robert D, Randy 64 rtp
Henrik K 56 rtp
Ivan 52 rtp
Jan Erik 48
Tomas W 44 rtp

Marcus, Caroline 36 rtp
Masso 32 rtp
Kristofer 30 rtp
Ober 24 rtp
Kim, Donk 20 rtp
Erik M 16 rtp
(1 gw = 8 ratingpoints, 1 vp = 4 ratingpoints. Note: Players can play more than one game each round if their participation are needed to complete a table where at least one player has not yet played a league game this round, but only the best result each round counts for rating. No league game starts after 20.00.)

Our next ten week league begin at Dragon´s Lair, Kungsholmstorg 8 next Wednesday about 1800-ish. Be there!

Tournament reminder!

Wondering why the people on the picture here seem so tense? They are getting ready for 
Protected Resources Stockholm 2012
When? 2012-10-20, 12.00-20.00
Where? Dragon´s Lair, Kungsholmen
Format: Constructed, 2 rounds + final
Fee: 20 SEK
Promos for everone!
Questions? Leave a comment below!
Welcome!

BobbyDoc swedish champion 2012!

 Stockholmjyhad would like to offically congratulate Robert Doktorow (aka "BobbyDoc"), the 2012 Swedish champion. Finally a Stockholm player made it!

Extra cred for playing a deck he threw together just prior to the tournament without any playtesting. And with Hexaped!

Stay tuned for more comments, reports and possibly a deck list here and/or at the VEKN forum.