TWD: Australian National Open Event, 20th April, 2013, Melbourne Australia

Better late than never for reporting

The Australian National Opens were held in Melbourne on April 20, 2013.
16 players showed up initially, including 2 new(ish) players for their first tournament. 2 more players arrived and joined the fray for round 2.
18 players in all.

At the end of the preliminaries we had Matthew Prescott in the lead with 3 GW and 9vp! Unfortunately he had a plane to catch back to Brisbane (he did not think he would so well when booking his flight) and couldn't play the finals.

In the end Ivor Blockley was the winner with 2.5vp on the finals table.

This is a continental qualifier. Qualified players are:
Ivor Blockley
Craig Love
Eli Bateman
Ben Szymkow
Julian Gatt
Tony Wedd
Chris Hammond
Chris Lynch
Ben Milhouse
Stewart MacLeod (organiser)

Here is Ivor's deck list:
Deck Name : Devilish machinations of a wandering mind
Author : Ivor Blockley
Description :
Won the 2008 Australian LCQ with a Saulot deck based on similar principles (but never reported to the TWD). Deck resurrected and updated with new goodies like Eyes of Argus & Enkil Cog.

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 2 max: 11 average: 5.66667

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4x Saulot, The Wander 11 AUS FOR OBE THA VAL dai Salubri:4
1x Neighbor John 5 AUS dom for !Ventrue:4
1x Maldavis 4 AUS for pre Caitiff:3
1x Martin Franckel 3 AUS tha Tremere:3
1x Saiz 3 aus dom !Tremere:3
1x Sister Evelyn 3 aus dom !Ventrue:3
1x Almiro Suarez 2 aus Tremere:3
1x Nicholas Chang 2 aus !Toreador:3
1x Piotr Andreikov 2 aus Tzimisce:3

Library [83 cards]

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Action [11]
1x Aranthebes, The Immortal
1x Biothaumaturgic Experiment
1x Rutor's Hand
8x Spirit Marionette

Action Modifier [8]
1x Enkil Cog
5x Neutral Guard
2x Repulsion

Action Modifier/Combat [1]
1x Penitent Resilience

Action Modifier/Reaction [1]
1x Gift of Sleep

Ally [1]
1x Mylan Horseed (Goblin)

Combat [17]
12x Anesthetic Touch
2x Blissful Agony
3x Unflinching Persistence

Equipment [1]
1x Bowl of Convergence

Master [14]
1x Channel 10
1x Erciyes Fragments, The
1x Fragment of the Book of Nod
1x Giant's Blood
2x Heidelberg Castle, Germany
1x Information Highway
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Perfectionist
1x Society of Leopold
2x Vessel
1x Villein
1x Wider View

Reaction [29]
2x Eagle's Sight
4x Enhanced Senses
7x Eyes of Argus
3x Forced Awakening
2x My Enemy's Enemy
4x On the Qui Vive
1x Precognition
1x Spirit's Touch
5x Telepathic Misdirection


Congratulations Ivor!

Steve Harris
Australian NC

steveharris wrote:

At the end of the preliminaries we had Matthew Prescott in the lead with 3 GW and 9vp! Unfortunately he had a plane to catch back to Brisbane (he did not think he would so well when booking his flight) and couldn't play the finals.

In the end Ivor Blockley was the winner with 2.5vp on the finals table.

This is a continental qualifier. Qualified players are:
Ivor Blockley
Craig Love
Eli Bateman
Ben Szymkow
Julian Gatt
Tony Wedd
Chris Hammond
Chris Lynch
Ben Milhouse
Stewart MacLeod (organiser)

Congratulations Ivor!

Congrats to Ivor, indeed!

It may be worth considering modifying the qualifying rules for the next Continental Championship season to allow the Matthew Prescotts of the world a qualifying spot if they must withdraw before the finals.

Perhaps something like: "If a player ranked in the top 5 of a qualifying event must withdraw from the final table, then they are awarded the 6th qualifying spot, if any. Repeat as necessary if more than one player must withdraw."

So if someone withdraws, they get the automatic qualifying spot of the player who was bumped into the final table and so on if it occurs more than once.

So, we can see event winner which are not qualified, because they were bumped on the final table, and won it. So they are drawback to your proposition.

Anything that would qualify people who didn't play the final will either disqualify somebody at the final table proper or make the tournament have more qualifying spot.

Jeff wrote:

Perhaps something like: "If a player ranked in the top 5 of a qualifying event must withdraw from the final table, then they are awarded the 6th qualifying spot, if any. Repeat as necessary if more than one player must withdraw."

So if someone withdraws, they get the automatic qualifying spot of the player who was bumped into the final table and so on if it occurs more than once.

Many tournaments qualify more people than just the 5 which participate in the finals, particularly in Australia where 50% of those who play do. This situation would only apply when 6 or more qualify.

steveharris wrote:

This is a continental qualifier.

How does Melbourne get 2 qualifier tournaments?

The Australian VTES Open 2013: Melbourne, Australia - April 20, 2013
Ivor Blockley
Craig Love
Eli Bateman
Ben Szymkow
Julian Gatt
Tony Wedd
Chris Hammond
Chris Lynch
Ben Milhouse
Stewart MacLeod (organiser)

and

Victorian Qualifier: Melbourne, Australia - June 22, 2013
Steve Van Nus
Stu Jaques
Keith Lim
David Macara
Alistair MacFadyen
Jim Parker
Eli Bateman
David Stephenson (Event Organiser)

Don't National Championships count as qualifiers?
This is NOT the Continental Championship...