Finalists: Norman (winner), Chance, Brad, Dean and BJ.

These events took place on March 6-8, reported by Kelly Lyons, VEKN Prince of Vidor, with comments by Norman Brown:

The Gulf Coast Roast III kicked off in Lafayette, Louisiana on Friday, March 6 with the Vozhd of Szczecin tournament. It also happened to be Darby Keeney’s birthday. The final table was Joey Theriot, Devin Villegas, Justin Shackelford, Darby Keeney, and Dean Garrison. Norm Brown breaks down the action:

“Joey Theriot scored the first victory point on a vote, damaging every Methuselah on the table. He ousted Devin Villegas with a KRC called by Marcos Belegrad.

Darby Keeney ousted Justin Shackelford next with 2 bleeds for 3 powered by Haqim’s Law Retribution.

Darby has 1vp and Joey has 1 vp at the two hour mark in an untimed finals.

Joey Parity Shifts Darby backwards to put him perilously close to being ousted at 4 pool.

Darby survives a deal between Joey’s votes and Dean’s bleeds by torporing all of Joey’s Toreador princes, but is prevented from ousting Joey by Protected Resources which caps his bleeds at 2.

Darby ousts Joey with Camarilla’s Iron Fist sealing his victory in first seed in the finals.  Dean conceded when a tie would not secure the win because of seeding.”

Darby takes it down with his V5 Banu Haqim deck. Happy Birthday Darby!!!

Sunday was the Vozhd of Juiz de Fora Tournament. The table featured Hall of Famers; Brad Cashdollar, Norm Brown, Darby Keeney, and Kelly Lyons. Lafayette standout, Justin Shackelford took the fifth spot. After it was all said and done it was Brad Cashdollar collecting another tournament victory with a v5 Brujah deck.

The main event of course was held on Saturday, May 7. The Gulf Coast Roast III – Lafayette is the first leg of the GCR III Grand Prix circuit. The finalist were:
1. Norman Brown 2 GW 6 VP
2. Chance Thebeau 1 GW 5 VP
3. B J Rice 1 GW 4 VP 138 TP
4. Dean Garrison 1 GW 4 VP 108 TP
5. Brad Cashdollar 1 GW 4 VP 106 TP

Norm Brown breaks down the action:

“After everyone transferred out their initial vampires, Dean Garrison began to bleed into Norman Brown with his Cathari Gangrel Antribu which he had upgraded with laptop computers using Synner-G and Luke Fellows.

B.J. and Brad made a deal to not contest vampires in the Path of Power and Inner Voice crypt.

Chance bled very heavily into Dean.

Norman recruited Spectral Servitors and Aggressive Corpses. He Villeined his large caps and then played Golconda on them when they ran out of blood.

Chance ousted Dean using Shroud of Decay and Spectral Servitors.

Norman, realizing that he couldn’t stand that much pressure, knocked Chance’s vampires into torpor with Aggressive Corpses.

Brad ousted Chance leaving three players on the table.  B.J. and Brad Cashdollar were contesting one then two vampires.

Once Dean and Chance were ousted, it left the 3-way of Norman bleeding into B.J. bleeding into Brad.

Brad called a Ancilla Uprising which did 12 pool damage to Norman and followed up with another point from the Path of Power and Inner Voice Master, Privileged Position for a total of 13 pool damage leaving Norman on one pool.

Norman rushed and torpored Brad's vampire with multiple Aggressive Corpses. Tye Cooper burned the vampire, leaving Brad with only contested vampires.

Norman spent his turn playing Villein and Golconda on his large cap Hecata, Hel-Blá.  He began to influence out another vampire.

B.J. then called a vote, Empires Fall, trying to back oust Norman, who was on 4 pool. Norman had Golconda'd his nine capacity vampire so there wasn’t a good target for the additional pool damage. Norman then ousted B.J.  and Brad to win the finals with 3 VPs.”

Congratulations to Norm Brown, GCR III – Lafayette Grand Prix winner!!!

Here is his winning deck list: "Popping open some Coldgondas GCR Lafayette"

Crypt (14 cards)
2x Hel-Blá     9 AUS FOR OBL POT obf      Hecata:6
2x Marchesa Liliana      9 ANI AUS FOR OBL dom      Hecata:6
2x "Mother" Anja Giovanni   8 AUS FOR OBL dom pot      Hecata:6
2x Huldu, The Desecrator    8 AUS FOR OBL obf tha      Hecata:6
2x Alek König    3 OBL       Hecata:6
2x Nadezhda     3 aus obl      Hecata:6
2x Peter St. John     2 obl     Hecata:6

Library (90 cards)
Master (23; 16 trifle)
7x Family Gathering
7x Golconda: Inner Peace
7x Villein
2x Wash

Event (2)
1x FBI Special Affairs Division
1x Unmasking, The

Action (10)
10x Split the Veil

Ally (23)
10x Aggressive Corpse
1x Ambrosius, The Ferryman
1x Ponticulus
10x Spectral Servitor
1x Tye Cooper

Equipment (1)
1x Talbot's Chainsaw

Action Modifier (22)
6x Freak Drive
4x Paths in Two Worlds
3x Shadow Cast
3x Shadow Cloak
3x Stygian Shroud
3x Where the Veil Thins

Combat (5)
3x Pass Through Shadow
2x Weighted Walking Stick

Reaction (4)
2x Poison Pill
2x Telepathic Misdirection

Next up for the Gulf Coast Roast III is Dallas, Texas, April 10-12.

Thanks Kelly and Norm for this report, and thanks to all participants!