TWD - Fee Stake Helsinki IV, Finland (April 29th 2012)

Fee Stake Helsinki IV
Helsinki, Finland
April 29th, 2012
3R+F
20 players
Otso Turunen (VEKN #3070120)

So, I ran the fourth installment of the Helsinki "Fee Stake"
tournament series a while back; a normal tournament with an extra
side prize for the highest scoring Anarch deck (with the Judge
deciding what's an "Anarch deck", just adding an Anarch Revolt there
doesn't count .

We got 20 players, which is always a nice number since it gave us full
5-person tables.

The finalists were:

• Juha Nyholm (No-disciple !Toreadors), 1GW 7VP
• Ville S. (Toreador Grand Ball votes), 1GW 5.5VP
• Lauri Salmi (Ishtarri Anarchs vote and bleed, see below) 1GW 5VP
• Otso Turunen (Shamblers, see below) 1GW 5VP
• Hannu K. ("Kingdon of Heaven", !Salubri with Daggers toolbox) 1GW 4VP

Many of the finalist decks were somewhat unusual. While Ville's TGB
voter and Otos's Shamblers were known archetypes, we also had Juha's
weird but effective !Tor no-discipline Palla Grande horde, Lauri's
Laibon/Anarch vote+bleed combo, and Hannu's Dagger-equipped !Salubris.

The seating was Juha -> Ville -> Otso -> Hannu -> Lauri. The Palla
Grande horde ousted Ville in about 20 minutes, with lots of !Tor
breed+bloat action going on. Next Lauri ousts Juha at the 1:20 mark,
using an Anarchist Uprising vote. After this, Otso ousts Hannu's
!Salubris with a well-placed Pentex and some bleeds (at around
1:45). This leaves Otso's Shamblers and Lauri's Anarch Laibon on the
table, and the final win goes to Otso and the Shamblers, with 6
minutes left on the clock.

All the finalists got some boosters as prizes, and Lauri got some
choice Anarch cards for having the best Anarch deck in the tournament
(which also came close to winning the whole thing). Down with the Man!


Thanks to everyone, was a fun tournament.

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The winning deck:

Deck Name : The Walking Dead, Season 6, Episode 47
Author : Otso Turunen
Description : I'm on a quest to play each clan in a tournament, in alphabetical order. After making it through Abominations, Blood Brothers and the like I thought, why not drive a Ferrari for a day, and put this classic together for the Giovanni. Both game wins were gotten by Pentexing my prey's untapped blocker at the right time, so another classic right there



Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 1 max: 7 average: 4.33333
3x Andrea Giovanni (7) Giovanni (group 2)
2x Isabel Giovanni (5) Giovanni (group 2)
2x Tupdog (1) Gargoyle (group 3)
1x Le Dinh Tho (5) Nagaraja (group 2)
1x Francesca Giovanni (4) Giovanni (group 2)
1x Gloria Giovanni (4) Giovanni (group 2)
1x Lia Milliner (3) Giovanni (group 3)
1x Rudolfo Giovanni (3) Giovanni (group 2)


Library [80 cards]

Action [9]
1x Dominate Kine
1x Far Mastery
3x Govern the Unaligned
1x Graverobbing
3x Sudario Refraction

Action Modifier [11]
1x Bonding
5x Call of the Hungry Dead
2x Conditioning
1x Foreshadowing Destruction
2x Seduction

Action Modifier/Reaction [5]
5x Spectral Divination

Ally [18]
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter)
1x Ossian
15x Shambling Hordes
1x Tye Cooper

Combat [7]
1x Dead-End Alley
1x Fake Out
2x Target Vitals
3x Trap

Event [2]
1x FBI Special Affairs Division
1x Unmasking, The

Master [18]
1x Acquired Ventrue Assets
1x Charisma
1x Direct Intervention
1x Fame
1x Giant's Blood
1x Jake Washington (Hunter)
1x Lilith's Blessing
5x Liquidation
1x Morgue Hunting Ground
2x Path of Bone, The
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Perfectionist
1x Sudden Reversal

Reaction [10]
3x Deflection
2x Delaying Tactics
3x On the Qui Vive
1x Redirection
1x Wake with Evening's Freshness

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The "highest scoring Anarch deck" side prize winner (by finalist Lauri Salmi):

Deck Name : Ishtarri Anarchs vote and bleed
Author : Lauri Salmi
Description :



Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 1 max: 9 average: 4.16667
5x Anarch Convert (1) Caitiff (group 0)
2x Agru Kabera (6) Ishtarri (group 4)
2x Honorine Ateba (6) Ishtarri (group 4)
1x Undele (9) magaji Ishtarri (group 5)
1x Ganhuru (7) Ishtarri (group 4)
1x Shasa Abu Badr (5) Ishtarri (group 4)


Library [82 cards]

Action [19]
1x Entrancement
1x Fee Stake: Boston
1x Fee Stake: Corte
1x Fee Stake: Los Angeles
1x Fee Stake: New York
1x Fee Stake: Perth
1x Fee Stake: Seattle
3x Gear Up
2x Heart of the City
2x Restoration
5x Undue Influence

Action Modifier [23]
4x Forced March
6x Freak Drive
2x Kiss of Ra, The
3x Power of One
1x Strange Day
1x Trochomancy
3x Uncontrolled Impulse
3x Voter Captivation

Action Modifier/Reaction [3]
3x Scalpel Tongue

Combat [8]
4x Diversion
4x Majesty

Equipment [2]
1x Heart of Nizchetus
1x Ivory Bow

Event [1]
1x Narrow Minds

Master [19]
1x Anarch Railroad
1x Anarch Troublemaker
1x Coven, The
1x Direct Intervention
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
2x Libertas
1x Lilith's Blessing
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
2x Vessel
3x Villein
1x Wash
2x Wider View

Political Action [7]
1x Anarchist Uprising
1x Ancilla Empowerment
1x Banishment
2x Kine Resources Contested
2x Reckless Agitation

Congrats to Otso for the win!

Any chance we could see the !Salubri deck? My cousin is working on one but it isn't that great yet.

Thanks,

Brandon

Congrats to Ode for another win!
Of all the decks I saw, I REALLY dig Juha's non-discipline !Toreadors.

Thanks for everyone that came in; the turnout was pretty solid.


Below you can find some crappy snapshoots by yours truly.

General view:


Clockwise from left: Juha, Niina, Matias and Aleksi and an empty space for me.


Clockwise from left: Otso S (with the white scarf), Kari, Otso T, Tommi and Lauri.


Clockwise from left: Tom, Mikko, Hannu, Akseli and Marko S.


Clockwise from left: Marko L, Jari, Ville, Matti and Petri (the gentleman with distinguished air color).

A couple of pics from the finals.
We had a "shadow finals" going on and when I got to take the pics Ville had already been ousted so no evidence regarding him...



Clockwise from left: Otso "Ode" T, Hannu, Lauri and Juha with Petri overseeing the situation.



Juha's disciplineless !Toreadors.



Ode's Shamblers.



Hannu's !Salubri.



Lauri's Anarchs.

Marko Saari took some real pictures during the event and here's some.



Marko L and Juha.



Otso S and Kari.



Tom, Mikko and Hannu.



Mikko and Hannu



Niina, Matias, somewhat visible Aleksi and yours truly.



Petri, Marko L and Jari.



Otso S, Tommi and Mikko, with Niina and Jari in the background.

brandonsantacruz wrote:

Any chance we could see the !Salubri deck? My cousin is working on one but it isn't that great yet.

Thanks,

Brandon

I forwarded your request to the local player mailing list