This event took place in Moss on August 9. Report by Ole Andreas Gresholt:

This year’s National Championship unfortunately had a lower player count than expected, as we only ended up with 8 players (6 of them locals from our same city) this year it was quite the different tournament than previous NC in Norway. Despite this we still had a great day of playing VTES matches at Tabletopbattle! I have attached images with the standings after the final, seating for the final and the handover of our wandering trophy witch I signed as this year’s winner. 
 
In the final the following decks were represented:
Top seed: Pander swarm vote (Joachim Randa)
2nd seed: Hecate Aggressive zombies rush (my deck, see below)
3rd seed: V5 Lasombra spectral servitors and bleeds. (Jonas Johnasson, defending champion)
4th seed: Howler toolbox (Frode Løining)
5th seed: V5 Tzimisce with War Ghouls (Asbjørn Holmgren)

The early game was dominated by the Panders repeatedly trying to establish the vote lock, but in total 3 Delaying Tactics and a few combined blocks from both me and from the Howler pilot made the Panders aggressive low stealth voting tactics insufficient. Even with some voting help from his grand pray (Lasombra player) he could not deal me enough damage before the zombies started eating most of his 1 and 2 caps (those who managed to get archbishop titles went down first).

Meanwhile the Lasombra player had been chunking away at the Tzimisce player with some hefty bleeds, preventing him from getting anything going with his expensive war ghouls. After the panders where slowed down sufficiently I was able to deal with both the Lasombra and the weakened Tzimisce player in quick succession.

Howler took out the panders while this was going on, but by that point the zombies had reached critical mass, and I was able to clutch it out. Quite the heavy allies presence in this year’s finals, even our resident bleeder packed quite the few. When the dust settled though, the fast zombies took it home this year. Below is the deck list I used for this year’s NC:
 
The tourament winning deck: “Fast Zombies” by Ole Andreas Gresholt

Crypt (12 cards)
2x Mora, the Death Seer  7 AUS FOR OBL ani  Hecata:6
1x Monica Giovanni   6 AUS FOR OBL   Hecata:6
2x Gebeyehu Abdu    5 AUS OBL for   Hecata:6
2x Holliday "Burgundy" Hall 5 FOR OBL aus   Hecata:6
1x Hiromitsu Asano   4 aus for obl   Hecata:6
2x Alek König     3 OBL     Hecata:6
2x Peter St. John    2 obl     Hecata:6

Library (84 cards)
Master (17; 9 trifle)
1x Biotech Company Hunting Ground
1x Cappadocian Crypt
1x Charisma
1x Fame
9x Family Gathering
1x Line, The
2x Perfectionist
1x Powerbase: Munich

Event (3)
1x Dragonbound
2x Unmasking, The

Action (7)
3x Shroud of Decay
4x Split the Veil

Ally (16)
13x Aggressive Corpse
3x Rotting Behemoth

Equipment (2)
2x Heart of Nizchetus

Action Modifier (18)
2x Paths in Two Worlds
3x Shadow Cast
4x Shadow Cloak
4x Stygian Shroud
5x Where the Veil Thins

Combat (11)
6x Target Vitals
5x Trap

Reaction (10)
2x Delaying Tactics
3x Shadow Sentinel
5x Telepathic Misdirection

Congratulations and thanks for this report, and thanks to all organisers, sponsors and players!