Gyula Erdős is the 2024 champion of Croatia
This event was played in Osijek on November 30. Reported by Denes Kocis, VEKN National Coordinator of Croatia, with comments by Dominik Trupcevic:
First, finally after many, many years, we had a Nationals Tournament organized in Croatia, mainly in Osijek. Goran Damjanic and I organized the tournament.
As it was fairly announced early, I managed to acquire the players coming to the tournament early, so the actual check in was painless. The players came from Croatia – Osijek and Zagreb, Slovenia, Hungary and Serbia, 29 total. And we started on time – success!
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After the first round, we organized a barbeque lunch break for all the players. To practice some social skills and to share stories and laughs.
Top 5 before the final was:
1. Goran Ivanovic 2 GW, 7.5 VP
2. Dusan Kosanovic 2 GW, 6 VP
3. Lovre de Grisogono 1 GW, 7 VP
4. Goran Damjanic 1 GW, 6.5 VP
5. Dominik Trupcevic 1 GW, 6 VP
Now, the report from the view of a finalist – Dominik Trupcevic:
Firstly, a bit about playing the V5 Lasombra - pure, dumb S&B version, but with a bit of a bigger crypt to maybe help me negotiate something/have some table presence with a few votes.
Somehow I managed to find myself as the 5th seed in the finals. The first two rounds I only managed to snag 1 VP in each game - with a huge blunder in the second game that cost me 2 additional VPs and a GW, where I didn't see I had a Bonding in my hand that would have killed my prey who was at 2 pool and instead on his next turn he was the one to get the GW & 3VP instead.
In the 3rd round I had to go all in and somehow managed to just brute force through a Matasuntha, a V5 Gangrel and was looking at Gyula who managed to kill my predator with my 2VPs against his 1VP and around 20 pool. Dominate did what it's made to do and I somehow managed to barely kill him, even with 4 minions out and around 20 pool. He had spent a lot of resources on his V5 Gangrel predator, piloted by Milos Krstic, which in the end, all things considered probably cost him the game and gave me the 5th seed in the finals, and kept him at 6th seed.
As luck would have it, the 2nd final seed had to leave as it was getting late so Gyula got in as the 5th player behind me. After all the positioning decisions and dice rolling for seating order we ended up with (Dusan Kosanovic had to withdraw from the final):
I wasn't really feeling confident about the seating, as my only combat defence is 6 Pass Through Shadow and 2 Arms of Ahriman, and I was the predator to a Nephandus deck that is most certainly packing a bunch of bounce with my grandprey having virtually zero bleed defence outside of just rushing backwards. My "professional" assessment of the situation was that I'm either going to die really quick to my predators rush as his first vampire that came into controlled was Theo Bell, or I'm going to kill my grandprey since pretty much all my deck does is bleed for ridiculous amounts at 2-4 stealth and block fails anyone that actually manages to produce that kind of intercept. At one point in turn 3 I actually thought about not getting a vampire out at all against Theo, but in the end I got Gnaeus out and just hoped for the best. There's only one thing I can do and that's bleed, for a lot, at a lot of stealth and just hope for the best.
The game, unexpectedly, started very good for me - I had Jake Washington out, my prey got FBI Special Affairs Division out, and the first Theos rush after a 4 blood Villein was blocked by Jake, which caused additional 2 damage after resolution to Theo and had my predator just a tiny bit more careful. My prey was going strong with setting up his Nephandus, I had my first few Governs going down to uncontrolled and let the game develop. The !Brujah was, as expected, going forward strong at Gyula but did no real damage to him. In the meantime, V5 Brujah was consistently rushing me, but with no Immortal Grapple on his end and a good draw of Pass Through Shadow on my end, I was avoiding combat and just stackin stealth on my vampires for the future.
The game was going pretty well for me, unexpectedly, so it was time to start going left and hope it goes even better. Where the Veil Thins was very strong against 6 Nephandus that were hanging out in my preys controlled region, effectively completely shutting down their blocking capabilities and I managed to even get a few bleeds connect, but my prey ousted the !Brujah which got clogged with rush actions and no red cards to spend. Gyula crosstable saw what my deck could do to him in R3 so he was focused on preparing and bloating, and just doinga few 1 point bleeds here and there to my predator who was still having bad luck with grapple draw so he couldn't really kill me, but we were both below 10 pool and anything could happen at that point. Despite all odds, I managed to catch my prey without bounce and with Where the Veil Thins doing the brunt of the work getting Nephandus out of the equation completely I kill my prey and get 1VP – much more than I expected to accomplish when the seating was decided.
But the situation going forward seemed sketchy at best. I manage to get a 3rd vampire out with the 6 pool I got from ousting my prey, but I'm predator to Gyula with Carfax, Rack, 3 or 4 barons (don't recall correctly) and 6 minions in total out and somewhere around 12 pool - hard, but still within lethal range for 3 vampires with superior dominate and oblivion. I spend some reactions, some deflections before my turn, get a bleeding hand ask my predator if he'd be okay with me tapping 2 of Gyula's barons with my Anarch Troublemaker, as that will mean his two barons will get tapped in Gyula's unlock phase, but he's on 6 pool and we agree that's not a good idea, and we agree for me to bleed and he will trade Bait and Switches with Gyula and just hope he has more than he does.
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I manage to sneak thrugh a bleed for 6 with a Govern + Conditioning, 5 Bait and Switches get spent on that one bleed, but the last one is Gyulas and he gets his VP and 3 pool. I sadly didn't draw anything relevant for the next 2 actions, so I just bleed for (now with Gyula getting 6 extra pool) some irrelevant amounts, my vampires being drained from the blood cost of Govern + Conditining, on Gyulas next turn he gets me down to 3 pool, but with all the blood/pool gain and Gyula having 7 minions out, I just try to cycle some cards and finish my next minion phase without really making a dent into his 7 pretty much full blood vampires and somewhere between 15-20 pool (if not more), we shake hands and Gyula comes out on top with 3 VP and a GW.
Gyula is the new National Champion of Croatia and a huge congratulaions to him, but a final spot and even the 1VP I got in the finals was much more than I expected.
I would like to thank the hosts from Osijek and people that organized the tournament - Denes Kocis and Goran Damjanic - the venue was great, the food was amazing and the prize support/participation trophies were a steal, especially considering everything was included (the amazing grill lunch with a bunch of side dishes as well) for a measly 10€ tournament fee.
I would also like to thank everyone that came, everyone from Serbia, Zagreb, Hungary and our own Slovenian players.
The tournament winning deck: “Baron with anim 1.0” by Gyula Erdős
Crypt (12 cards)
2x Adrino Manauara 8 ANI DOM PRO pot baron Tzimisce: 6
2x Ángel Guerrero 7 ANI DOM PRO baron Tzimisce: 6
2x Massimiliano 7 ANI FOR pro baron Gangrel: 6
1x Branimira 6 ANI dom pre pro baron Tzimisce: 6
1x Kuyén 6 ANI PRO baron Gangrel: 6
1x Neserian 6 ANI DOM cel pro Tzimisce: 6
1x Gathii 5 ANI PRE obf Ravnos: 7
1x Whisper 5 ANI DOM pro Tzimisce: 6
1x Trung Chau Pham 3 ANI Ravnos: 7
Library (90 cards)
Master (19; 7 trifle)
1x Carfax Abbey
3x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Ennoia's Theater
1x Fame
1x Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
1x Giant's Blood
1x Information Highway
1x Papillon
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Rack, The
1x Vessel
5x Villein
1x Wider View
Action (13)
1x Army of Rats
6x Deep Song
6x Govern the Unaligned
Political Action (1)
1x Eat the Rich
Retainer (2)
1x Mr. Winthrop
1x Raven Spy
Action Modifier (1)
1x Conditioning
Action Modifier/Reaction (4)
4x Form of the Bat
Combat (31)
11x Aid from Bats
10x Carrion Crows
1x Donnybrook
3x Groundfighting
1x Target Vitals
3x Taste of Vitae
2x Voracious Vermin
Reaction (19)
4x Bait and Switch
3x Deep Ecology
3x Deflection
2x Delaying Tactics
1x On the Qui Vive
6x Organized Resistance
Fairly without any great need for judging, we managed to complete the tournament in peace. Gyula is a new Croatian National Champion!
I am very grateful for all the players that came to Osijek to participate in our event, and hope that they will come back next time. Our event was greatly sponsored by Ultra Pro and Black Chantry Productions!
Andy Smith wins Gulf Coast Roast Grand Prix 2024!
Played on December 6-8 2024, reported by Kelly Lyons, VEKN Prince of Vidor, with additional comments from Andy Smith, Darby Keeney and Marshall Hogue:
The Gulf Coast Roast has finished its 2024 event. It has been a fantastic year. Thanks to Black Chantry for their support. I want to thank everybody who participated. I want to thank all the southern princes for their hard work, time and money making this year long event possible:
• Chris Franklin – Dallas
• Norm Brown – Lafayette
• Dean Garrison – Biloxi
• Devin Villegas – New Orleans
Norm, Dean, Chris, Kelly and Devin.
Thank you to my wife, Michelle, who let me take the time away from her to do something she knows I enjoy.
We had 54 players who competed in the Grand Prix Events. 33 players in the last event in Vidor.
We had players from Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, Oregon, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Denmark. I truly appreciate the support that this event has had from the player community.
We wrapped things up with three events including the last Grand Prix. Your winners for the events were:
• Kelly Lyons - Danse Macabre II: First Danse (29 Players, 2 rounds + final)
• Darby Keeney - Danse Macabre II: Gulf Coast Roast - Vidor (Main Danse) (33 Players)
• Marshall Hogue - Danse Macabre II: Last Danse (25 Players, 2 rounds + final)
The top 5 point makers to be at the Gulf Coast Roast Grand Prix final table were:
1. Kelly Lyons - 93 points
2. Andy Smith – 55 Points
3. Brad Cashdollar – 53 Points
3. Darby Keeney – 53 points
5. Dean Garrison – 43 Points
Your 2024 Gulf Coast Roast Grand Prix winner is Andy Smith. Congratulations Andy!!!
That’s a wrap. See you next year.
Happy Holidays
Kelly Lyons (AKA – Water Dog) Prince of Vidor
Finalists: Kelly, Dean, Andy, Brad and Darby.
Player report: Andy Smith – Grand Prix Final Table
One deck, one game, no time limit, for all the marbles; what do you play?
A question I definitely should’ve asked myself BEFORE driving down to Southeast Texas. I had a feeling it was going to be a bloodbath and I didn’t bring any trump combat/multi-rush type decks. So acting on good advice I pulled an old favorite that I’m super familiar with (brought for pickup play).
OK so my hometown Dallas GP I finished 6th (Darby won). Sadly I wasn’t able to play Lafayette this year (out of the country at the time), Kelly Lyons won it. In Gulfport I finished second to the Water Dog. New Orleans, yep finished second to the Water Dog again (he’s tough y’all!) In Vidor I finished 4th (Darby wins again). So it's a two horse race in my estimation but good enough for 3rd!
But if you saw the crypt circle pics you’ll notice that Kelly pulled 3 trem weenies out of my crypt and no copies of lovely Chalcedony. Un-freaking-believeable luck. So Brad and Kelly decide they don’t want to sit left of a sleazeball weenie dominate deck right? Also Kelly Lyons has what we Texans refer to as, “juevos gigantes” and chooses to sit left of Darby’s Mambo deck.
Of course I get off to a slow start... Dean rips right into Darby with bleeds. Kelly gets busy rushing/bleeding Brad and fighting with Darby. Brad is getting off stealth bleeds but I manage to reduce/bounce enough to get our heroine tooled up with armor, bio-thaum and stone dog and start rushing backwards (she’ll add one razor bat later). To his credit, Dean never lets up but Darby systematically torpors all ravnos. Kelly puts up a great fight and holds his own for quite a while but it’s Mambo FFS... The table collapses, I get a free vp (thank you sir!) and Darby ousts Kelly.
I’ve been told that there were still 4 players at the 2 hour mark in this untimed marathon but I have no idea, it was pretty intense.
Brad’s minions are wrecked *finally* from Kelly, Chalcy and now Mambo and crew. Darby ousts Brad and is OUT. OF. CARDS. I shit you not! And all his vamps are spent from absolutely dominating the table. Our lady of stone is tooled up and able to torpor Mambo and team with rushes and blocks while the dom weenies bleed for one... I drew my first conditioning of the game just as Darby transfers out. I’ve said it before folks, sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.
I genuinely cannot express enough love and gratitude to the greatness that is the Water Dog, Kelly Lyons. He had the idea, he rallied the princes, he organized the grand prix and oh btw he’s also an amazing host. Thank you sir! He also whipped our asses* all summer so we could try to play with the best players on our little chunk of globe (and then some!). Absolute Legend.
*except Darby
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I'd be remiss if I didn't say thank you to Devin Villegas for the sound advice, next round is on me hermano! And of course a huge shoutout to the Dallas road crew; our prince Chris 'Ace' Franklin, the gentleman himself Mark Figuerola, Adrian 'Cereal Killer' Ruiz and Destyn Bowers, aka PopTart; these guys push each other every week to play better (if you see us on Lackey, come get some...) Gents I know I can be frustrating at the table sometimes but you guys are like brothers to me so, you know, thanks for being awesome and tolerating my shenanigans for the past two decades.
Cheers to everybody who participated, the whole series was just an absolute blast. For sure playing the game is fun but getting to hang out with everybody is even better. Great games with great people, I'm humbled and grateful to have met you all and I look forward to the next time our paths cross. It’s hard to fathom what an incredible group of people are attracted to such an insanely difficult game. Much love y’all.
Wow this got pretty verbose, you'd think I won something, my apologies... Without further ado, please prepare to be underwhelmed:
Tournament winning deck: “Chalsy and the gang go out in style” (aka "Bat Country") by Andy Smith
Crypt (12 cards)
5x Chalcedony 7 FOR POT THA VIS Gargoyle:6
1x Chrysanthemum5 AUS THA dom primogen Tremere:6
1x Claus Wegener5 DOM aus for tha Tremere:5
1x Sri Sansa5 DOM aus tha Tremere:6
1x Zane 5 THA aus dom primogen Tremere:5
1x Lauren 4 aus dom tha Tremere:6
1x Tarrence Moore 4 aus dom tha Tremere:5
1x Monica Chang 3 dom tha Tremere:5
Library (89 cards)
Master (12; 2 trifle)
1x Academic Hunting Ground
2x Arcane Library
3x Blood Doll
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Powerbase: Montreal
1x Rack, The
1x Smiling Jack, The Anarch
2x Wider View
Action (12)
1x Armor of Terra
2x Biothaumaturgic Experiment
6x Children of Stone
3x Hatchling
Ally (1)
1x Ponticulus
Retainer (6)
5x Razor Bat
1x Stone Dog
Action Modifier (22)
4x As the Crow
3x Conditioning
5x Freak Drive
3x Mirror Walk
3x Skin of the Chameleon
4x Unleash the Hounds
Combat (15)
3x Bond with the Mountain
3x Crawling Chamber
1x Roll
5x Stonestrength
3x Theft of Vitae
Reaction (21)
5x Deflection
1x Delaying Tactics (thought I’d removed them all/discarded)
4x On the Qui Vive
6x Their Master's Voice
3x Voices of the Castle
2x Wake with Evening's Freshness
Player report: Darby Keeney - Danse Macabre II: Gulf Coast Roast - Vidor (Main Danse) – Grand Prix
The tournament winning deck: “Defy the Edict of Worms V2.1”
Mini-Slava Museum/Manse. Adjusted to 82 cards cards from the previous fatter version - thinner versions could still be built as I never came close to expending my library. I don't foresee my versions changing significantly unless/until we see new cards.
Crypt (12 cards)
3x Adrino Manauara 8 ANI DOM PRO pot baron Tzimisce:6
3x Ángel Guerrero7 ANI DOM PRO baron Tzimisce:6
2x Neserian6 ANI DOM cel pro Tzimisce:6
1x Branimira 6 ANI dom pre pro baron Tzimisce:6
1x Marialena 5 DOM PRO ani Tzimisce:6
1x Prentis Derby 4 ani dom pro Tzimisce:6
1x Whisper 5 ANI DOM pro Tzimisce:6
Library (82 cards)
Master (20; 4 trifle)
1x Anarch Railroad
5x British Museum, London, The
1x Carfax Abbey
1x Club Illusion -- included as more Cam decks appear now
1x Direct Intervention
3x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
1x Jake Washington
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Powerbase: Savannah
3x Villein
1x Wider View
Event (2)
1x NRA PAC
1x Scourge of the Enochians -- meta choice that burned zero vampires in 4 rounds.
Action (13)
2x Dominate Kine -- steal Garibaldi or Papillon
11x Govern the Unaligned
Equipment (12)
1x Blood Tears of Kephran
2x Cooler
2x Heart of Nizchetus
6x Living Manse -- could be 7x
1x Palatial Estate
Action Modifier (4)
4x Earth Control
Action Modifier/Combat (4)
3x Obedient Flesh
1x Rapid Change
Action Modifier/Reaction (6)
3x Form of the Bat
3x Murmur of the False Will -- losing value as meta capacities shift up
Combat (7)
2x Earth Meld
5x Form of Mist
Reaction (14)
2x Deep Ecology
7x Deflection
2x One With the Land
3x Organized Resistance
We're inching past the Phase II V5 Meta (2 parts Anarch bleed & 1 part Baron vote, shaken well and served cold). As this happens, I think Scourge becomes less important and I slotted Club Illusion expecting fewer random copies to appear. Some other minor shifts following regional trends are likely if I play this again.
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Player report: Kelly Lyons - Danse Macabre II: First Danse
1 GW 4 VP in preliminary rounds, 5 VP in final.
Tournament winning deck “Water Dog - Illegal Tactics” by Kelly Lyons
My prince, Norm Brown, won a tournament in Vidor in 2022 with a Brujah Illegalism Deck. He relied on Reckless Agitation as a second action. Here is his deck list.
It was good. I, however, have never been a big fan of Reckless Agitation as Karl Schaefer knows. We’ve had that debate. Instead, I prefer Line Brawl. The ability to bleed with Illegalism unlock then Line Brawl for a pool is just too good. Line Brawl also, gives you an enters combat action and even +1 bleed action. It is the best Brujah action card for anarchs.
I agree with Norm when it comes to Chemistry discipline cards. You get that extra stealth plus it allows you to Dabbler so, if you get blocked with Illegalism you can unlock and still do Line Brawl.
I added a couple of CrimethInc. cards for more unlock. Saku and Valeriya have protean and if you get lucky Brandon Grime has thaumaturgy. That’s why there is 2 of him in the crypt.
Archon Investigation helped me burn a vampire in Round 1.
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Round 1
I added 2 X Patsy in the deck to remove prince titles. It paid off in Round 1 were Norm was playing a Banu Haqim Deck. I knew I was going to get my prey So, I crossed tabled him with Patsy so he couldn’t block me after I ousted my prey. Funny thing is I drew into anther one and got 2 of his princes. I topored the third one. Ousted my prey then Norm and took the table.
Round 2
I lost. Big time.
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Final Table
I was in the 5th position playing first. Seems like I’ve been in the 5th position playing first lately.
Kelly Lyons – Brujah Illegalism (Multi-acting Brujah with Chemistry. Stick a Chemistry skill card and a Dabbler on a Brujah. Illegalism bleed then unlock if not blocked. If blocked, unlock with Dabbler. Line brawl. If TheCrimethINC is on the table unlock. You get the idea.)
Anne Boje – Tzimisce (This is a Darby Keeney deck utilizing Underbridge Stray and Tainted Spring. She beats you up with puppies. When I interviewed Darby a few years ago on my channel and was saying he was beating me up with puppies… this was the deck. Brutal.)
Marshall Hogue – Primogen (Marshall: “Weirich Waldburg making all the other primogen act, primarily bleed, at 1-2 stealth and a mix of reduce and bounce. It's designed to wear out anything but the heaviest of intercept.”)
Chris Franklin – Protean Barons (Chris: “I wanted to be able to defend against stealth bleed while also having votes in case the meta was heavily voting with cam fist and reckless agg. It worked well but only because I didn’t see much combat ends.”)
Oscar Garza III – Lasombra (Oscar: “Straight up new Lasombra bleed. 30 stealth/bleed modifiers 13 governs. Literally copied Malk 94 ratios. I went the path of filthy. Stealth bleed requires no discussion.”)
The table was pretty even. Everyone was doing damage to everyone else. However, Chris was going to be ousted on the next turn. I, being the only one who helped him, was given a reprieve from his last action of “F### You All”. Chris called an “Eat the Rich”. He placed 4 damage on everyone else but me. On my next turn I swept the table.
Side Note: I really liked Marshall’s Deck. Need a deck list from him.
Crypt (12 cards)
1x Saku Pihlajamäki 8 CEL POT PRE for pro baron Brujah:6
2x Aline Gädeke 7 POT PRE cel baron Brujah:6
1x Valeriya Zinovieva 7 POT cel pre pro baron Brujah:6
1x Atiena 6 CEL obf pot pre baron Brujah:6
1x Leumeah 6 PRE cel for pot baron Brujah:6
1x Octane 6 CEL POT PRE Brujah:6
2x Brandon Grime 5 CEL pot pre tha Brujah:6
1x Siarhei Levchenko 5 CEL PRE pot Brujah:6
1x Anita Wainwright 3 cel pre Brujah:6
1x Ariane 3 cel pot pre Brujah:5
Library (90 cards)
Master (24; 9 trifle)
2x Archon Investigation
1x Carfax Abbey
4x Chimerstry
4x Dabbler
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
2x New Carthage
1x Powerbase: Los Angeles
1x Thaumaturgy
5x Villein
1x Warzone Hunting Ground
Action (20)
10x Illegalism
9x Line Brawl
1x Open War
Political Action (2)
2x Patsy
Action Modifier (10)
2x CrimethInc.
6x Power of One
2x Smoke and Mirrors
Combat (23)
3x Bollix
9x Dust Up
3x Immortal Grapple
2x Pursuit
2x Side Strike
4x Taste of Vitae
Reaction (11)
5x Bait and Switch
6x Organized Resistance
Player report: Marshall Hogue - Danse Macabre II: Last Danse
2 GW 7 VP in preliminaries and 2 VP in the final.
Tournament winning deck: “The Gold(man) Standard”
I really wanted to take one of my favorite cards (Undue Influence) and one of my favorite vampires (Laura Goldman) and just build a fun deck that tends to last way longer than you'd expect in combat, way longer than you'd expect on the table and is super fun to play. Build up your play space with the 3 caps, get that first baron out and just play smart. If I were to make any changes to the deck, I'd drop the one Chameleon and put in a second Monkey Wrench, having that available quicker with Garibaldi has always benefited me. Shout out to Dean Garrison for loaning me two Protection Rackets before the tournament to replace the two very mediocre Touch of Pain I had in there initially.
Crypt (12 cards)
2x Aline Gädeke 7 POT PRE cel baron Brujah:6
2x Laura Goldman 3 cel pre Brujah:5
1x Anita Wainwright 3 cel pre Brujah:6
1x Ariane 3 cel pot pre Brujah:5
1x Atiena 6 CEL obf pot pre baron Brujah:6
1x Brandon Grime 5 CEL pot pre tha Brujah:6
1x Leumeah 6 PRE cel for pot baron Brujah:6
1x Saku Pihlajamäki 8 CEL POT PRE for pro baron Brujah:6
1x Siarhei Levchenko 5 CEL PRE pot Brujah:6
1x Valeriya Zinovieva 7 POT cel pre pro baron Brujah:6
Library (90 cards)
Master (19)
1x Anarch Free Press, The
1x Anarch Railroad
6x Blood Doll
2x Carfax Abbey
1x Club Illusion
5x Effective Management
1x Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
1x New Carthage
1x Powerbase: Los Angeles
Action (26)
1x Chameleon
1x Entrancement
1x Fee Stake: Los Angeles
1x Fee Stake: Perth
7x Line Brawl
15x Undue Influence
Action Modifier (13)
1x Monkey Wrench
12x Power of One
Action Modifier/Combat (2)
2x Resist Earth's Grasp
Combat (13)
13x Dust Up
Reaction (17)
6x Bait and Switch
2x On the Qui Vive
7x Organized Resistance
2x Protection Racket
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Thanks to Kelly and all other organisers, sponsors and of course all the players who played the Gulf Coast Roast 2024!
Jérôme Goyet is the 2024 champion of Canada!
From left to right: Mathieu Guimond, Martin Servant,
Jonathan "Jo" Long, Christian Chénard and Jérôme Goyet.
This tournament was played with 24 players in L'Abyss, Montréal on November 23 and was reported by Alexandre Bustros and Allan Birkett:
Standings before final:
1. Martin Servant 2 GW, 8 VP
2. Christian Chénard 2 GW, 7,5 VP, 174 TP
3. Jérôme Goyet 2 GW, 7.5 VP, 168 TP
4. Mathieu Guimond 1 GW, 7.5 VP
5. Jonathan Long 1 GW, 7 VP 
Christian Chénard started very aggressively. He got ousted by Mathieu's vote that does 1 pool damage per minion (I don't remember which). That made Jérôme's victory possible. Martin held off the !Toreador Embrace deck and managed to power bleed his prey.
Congratulations to Jérôme Goyet, the new Canadian champion!
The tournament winning deck, by Jerome, inspired by a deck by Vincent Ripoll:
Crypt (12 cards)
1x Joseph Fischer 3 PRO Gangrel antitribe:5
1x Casey Snyder 6 ani cel for PRO Gangrel:6
1x Valeriya Zinovieva 7 goals for POT Brujah:6
1x Indira 3 PRO Gangrel:6
1x Kamile Paukstys 5 ani for PRO Gangrel:6
1x Kuyen 6 ANI PRO Gangrel:6
1x Massimiliano 7 pro ANI FOR Gangrel:6
1x Elisha Tucker 6 goal obf pro PRE Follower of Set:6
1x Vivian VI 7 obf tha PRE PRO Follower of Set:6
1x Adrino Manauara 8 pot OR DOM PRO Tzimisce:6
1x angel Guerrero 7 ANI DOM PRO Team:6
1x Branimira 6 house for pro ANI Tzimice:6
Library: 90 cards
Master (26 cards)
1x Anarch Railroad
2x Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
1x Papillon
1x Poacher's Hunting Ground
1x Powerbase: Los Angeles
6x Protein
1x Scarecrow
2x Tribute to the Master
6x Villein
1x Zoo Hunting Ground
2x Carfax Abbey
2x Club Illusion
Action (10 cards)
8x Childe of the Revolution
2x Constant Revolution
Political Action (1 cards)
1x Revolutionary Council
Equipment (2 cards)
2x Heart of Nizchetus
Modify Action (6 cards)
2x Monkey Wrench
4x Earth Control
Modify/Combat Action (2 cards)
2x Form of the Cobra
Action Modifier/Reaction (4 cards)
4x Form of the Bat
Combat (16 cards)
2x Voracious Vermin
6x Donnybrook
8x Earth Meld
Reaction (23 cards)
2x Protection Racket
6x Bait and Switch
15x Organized Resistance
Thanks to organisers, sponsors and players!
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