(The VEKN is trying a new routine for official Vampire: The Eternal Struggle event reports. The reports will be published as separate articles on VEKN.net – only a short summary with a link to the full article will appear in the newsletter. In this way we lift some stress from the newsletter writing at the end of each month and get more room for other fun stuff in the newsletter. But still, please remember: If you organise a tournament of National Championship level or higher, it is important that you send in the requested event information to the newsletter editor. Do it at the same time that you upload The Archon!)

On Friday October 13, 221 players turned up for this years “Last Chance” tournament in sunny Barcelona, Spain. All the tournaments of the EC weekend took place at the excellent Centro cívico Casino de Hostafrancs close to Estació de Sants.

As qualification no longer is needed for the actual EC, the top five players from this tournament instead are automatically qualified for the Day 2 tournament played on Sunday the same weekend (ie, they can play some funny annoying durdle deck on Day 1!)

Largest deck category: “Bleed” (27 % of the decks, according to the self-classification)
Largest clan: Gangrel (9 % of the decks)
Largest nation: Of course Spain (38 %)
More statistics is at BCNcrisis.com

Standings after three rounds:
1. Teemu Sainomaa 3 gw 10 vp
2. Alain Greiner 2 gw 10.5 vp
3. Otso Saariluoma 2 gw 9.5 vp
4. Milan Matthes 2 gw 9 vp
5. Kristofer Åkesson 2 gw 8.5 vp

Kristofer, Alain, Otso, Teemu and Milan.

Congratulations Milan Matthes of Germany, winning with 1.5 victory points in the final. Kristofer got 1 vp and Teemu and Alain both got 0.5.

A video of this final can be streamed at the BCNcrisis Youtube-channel.

Milan Matthes tournament winning deck:

Crypt:
1x Alan Sovereign
2x Catherine du Boise
1x Edward Vignes
1x Gracis Nostinus
1x Horatio Ballard
1x Katarina Kornfeld
1x Lucinde, Alastor
2x Marcus Vitel
2x Victorine Lafourcade

Library:
3x Blood Doll
1x Creepshow Casino
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Elysium: the Arboretum
2x Obfuscate
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Uptown Hunting Ground
1x Ventrue Headquarters
3x Villein
3x Wider View

5x Enchant Kindred
5x Govern the Unaligned
5x Restoration
6x Scouting Mission

1x Conservative Agitation
4x Kine Resources Contested
1x Parity Shift
1x Reins of Power

3x Bonding
3x Cloak the Gathering
16x Freak Drive
1x Kiss of Ra
3x Spying Mission
2x Voter Captivation

6x Majesty

5x Deflection
3x Second Tradition: Domain

Thanks to all players, sponsors and organisers!