Youri, Axel, Martin (the champion), Vincent, Mathias and organizers Christophe and Laurent.

Report by Christophe Baltazar, VEKN National Coordinator of France:

On Saturday November 8th, held the French Championship in Vitrolles, southern France, close to Marseille. 52 players were gathered for this event, coming from many part of France, but also from Swiss, and even one from Dubai. Thanks to all of them for coming!

The big question at this event was: Are players gonna dare to play the new Sabbat content or not? We were something like 2 weeks after official release. And the answer for Saturday was "not really".

In final, we had:
1. 2 GW, 8 VP: Martin Cuchet
2. 2 GW, 7 VP: Axel Huet
3. 2 GW, 6.5 VP: Mathias Skubich
4. 1 GW, 6.5 VP: Vincent Ripoll
5. 1 GW, 5.5 VP: Bujan Youri

Despite the originality of Youri's deck, he was unable to survive to Martin. Khobar Tower on his own vampires and some cross table rescue helps him a little to resist but Martin ousted him.

Mathias did his best to put pressure on Martin, but Martin was quicker to make his VP, and strong enough to resist to Mathias.

Vincent tried to survive, with little help, and logically, Axel managed to oust him.

Even if Mathias was trying to continue to put some pressure on Martin, the finale reached time limit. Final result: Martin 1,5 vp, Axel 1,5 vp and Mathias 0,5 vp. As Martin was better seed, he won the French Championship 2025. Not the usual Martin, this one is french, "laissez-le nous" 😉 He won several prizes, including the book of the Champion, a kind of story book of each French championship since its start 2000.

The winning deck: “Haqim's Law: Peach” by Martin “spigushe” Cuchet

Crypt (12 cards)
1x Kasim Bayar    9 CEL OBF THA aus pot   justicar   Banu Haqim:6
4x Oluwafunmilayo    8 AUS CEL OBF THA     prince     Banu Haqim:6
2x Farah Sarroub     7 CEL THA aus obf    prince     Banu Haqim:6
2x Kassandra Tassaki   6 CEL THA obf    prince     Banu Haqim:6
1x Khadija Al-Kindi    6 CEL OBF THA    primogen   Banu Haqim:6
2x Warmaksan       5 THA cel obf       prince     Banu Haqim:6

Library (90 cards)
Master (19; 8 trifle)
4x Ashur Tablets
3x Haqim's Law: Retribution
1x Market Square
1x Powerbase: Montreal
3x Priority Contract
1x Rack, The
1x Rumor Mill, Tabloid Newspaper, The
5x Villein

Action (8)
4x Fleetness
4x Magic of the Smith

Equipment (4)
2x .44 Magnum
1x Bowl of Convergence
1x Heart of Nizchetus

Action Modifier/Combat (5)
5x Swallowed by the Night

Combat (42)
3x Blur
10x Hunger of Marduk
3x Infernal Pursuit
12x Psyche!
10x Pursuit
4x Rego Motum

Reaction (12)
12x Second Tradition: Domain

The same day, the final of the first French League was played (congratulations Gwen Foret for winning that one with Gargoyle deck) and the following day also the “Le Lendemain” tournament (won by Kamel Senni with a Stanislava deck). See the VEKN forum for reports from those events.

Thanks also to Ultra Pro and The Red Question for their support (sleeves, boxes, portfolio, cards ...) for this weekend! A huge thanks to all players, and congratulations to all winners! See you next year in France guys :)