LackeyCCG World Championship League 2018 Results

Big thanks to the organisers for putting on such great event. I know a lot of hard work has been put into this and appreciate the efforts here.

Glad I didn't let the Americans down — I would have heard the end of it

Bloodartist wrote:

Grats Ke. I got 2 VP but ran out of deck

Even so, it was fairly difficult to stay calm and not mess anything up / get carried away. I thought I may have missed the window the turn you survived the first blitz of rushes...

Ke. wrote:

Big thanks to the organisers for putting on such great event. I know a lot of hard work has been put into this and appreciate the efforts here.

It's true. I Had to get drunk on 12 mondays for my part. You are welcome.

Online World Championship Finals Report

After 105 days,14 round qualifications+semi finals+finals we get first Online World Champion-Ke Carlton 'Ke' from
New Zealand. Congratulations Ke!!!!

seating,deck typers and GW and VP:

Michal Kazmierczak 'migalart', Poland: HoS,EL wall
Ke Carlton 'Ke', New Zealand: Nana and Guruhi,combat (GW,3 VP)
Martin Weinmayer 'angrynewb', Austria: Cybele and girls,animalism combat
Juha Laukkanen 'Bloodartist', Finland: dem/obs bleed,mid cap (2VP)
Corwin Brindley 'DJHedgehog', USA: Ventrue stickman

Game report:
Start game marked contesting Nana Buruku by Ke and Martin,this situations is best for Juha
who play without predator and can bleed with Govern on stealt.
In 6 turn Juha bleed and oust Corwin,1 VP for Juha.
7 turn: Michal have in play3 vampires+3 EL,Nana is still contested,all except Juha are in danger zone with pool
to be ousted. Ke play Fame on Martin vampire and sent him in torpor,Martin in his turn put Cybele in play
and stay on 3 pool,Nana is still contested. Juha bleed Michal with much stealt,but Michal block and sent Juha vampire
in torpor. Juha bleed again,Michal cannot block but him have bounce-My Enemys Enemy-to Martin,Martin cannot
block,Martin is ousted,Ke gain 1 VP. Juha bleed again,Michal cannot block,but now after wake him draw
Telepathic Misdirection,but Ke play Direct Intervention,cancel bounce and Michal is ousted,2 VP for Juha.
In turn 8 start battle 1vs1 for Online World Champion between Ke and Juha,the situation is as follows:
Ke is safe with pool after Vilein and Liquidation,if him successful atack Juha vampires he won. Combat begins.
Some Juha vampires survive atacks but loow with blood. Juha stay out with library,Ke continue to bloat with Ashur
and atack Juha vampire,also Ke bleed with some bost.
11 turn,Ke put Pentex on only unlocked Juha vampire,and bleed him out. Ke 3 VP Juha 2 VP.
So Finals end after 11 turns and 37 mins remaining(2h,30mins time limit)

Worth noting that I ran out of deck once me and Ke were in heads-up. So the game was unfortunately decided there, to much less dramatic effect. I kept playing due to politeness but there was no chance vs Nana-deck with 5 minions, 20ish pool and 40 cards deck with ashurs.

Here are three things I noticed while playing:

- The two players with no predators went heads up.
- Migalart had 13 wake effects in his first 30 cards.
- Multiple master-phase actions need to be addressed.

Ke I didn't see a way you didn't win that game tbh, it was like the game was designed to be a win for you. Migalart as predator means no pressure, contesting first vamp with prey is always strong, stealth bleed kills me/migalart so you don't have to go heads up with mig, and bloodartist expended all their resources to do so. What you had to do was literally nothing, which was perfect since that's basically what you did. Gain pool and wait.

It's not anyone's fault, but that was probably the least exciting game of VTES all season. The game I was playing was "how many of my 10 deflections can I draw?", which was personally not exciting, but the game as a whole was pretty meh.

Mewcat and I talked about the finals before hand, and he foretold of Migalart as my prey and told me to play combat. I should have listened. Next season I will see you all in the finals again, and I will be bringing some off-the-wall shit so we can get a game going.

GG to all (despite my persistent negativity ), congrats to Ke for the win. Big thanks to Martin and Igor and anyone else who worked to get the league going. It was tons of fun to participate and it's really exciting to have organized play for VTES every week. We all owe you a big "thanks" because we couldn't have had this amazing thing without your effort.

DJHedgehog wrote:

Ke I didn't see a way you didn't win that game tbh, it was like the game was designed to be a win for you. Migalart as predator means no pressure, contesting first vamp with prey is always strong, stealth bleed kills me/migalart so you don't have to go heads up with mig, and bloodartist expended all their resources to do so. What you had to do was literally nothing, which was perfect since that's basically what you did. Gain pool and wait.

It's not anyone's fault, but that was probably the least exciting game of VTES all season. The game I was playing was "how many of my 10 deflections can I draw?", which was personally not exciting, but the game as a whole was pretty meh.

Yes, it was not very exciting, particularly for you.

I correctly predicted there would be walls/combat, unfortunately this didn't influence my last moment deck choice as it should have had. I could've played my combat wall deck that would've won every combat in the table easily (especially animalism/potence), but would've gone forward very slowly if at all. So the game would've been even more static, as now I was the only aggressor in the table pretty much. I don't know if that wouldve been any more exciting..