The tournament was played at Gamersaurus Rex on September 19. Reported by Keith Lee, VEKN National Coordinator of Singapore:

2026 marks the first time in many years that Singapore has run VTES Nationals. Owing to recent efforts by our community to increase exposure and recruit new players, we are pleased to finally be running Nationals again, and will continue to do so for the coming years. Most notably, we had two players who had only started the game less than two months before the Nationals, and were bold enough to participate. Not only that, but both of them performed admirably well, making it to the final table with tried and tested archetype decks. 

Standings before the final:
1. Stephen Logan 1 GW 3 VP
2. Glenn Ng 1 GW 3 VP
3. Jasper Lei 2.5 VP
4. Kenrick Chia 1.5 VP
5. Louis Emerson Tong 1 VP

The final saw a slew of aggressive decks facing each other. Stephen's Malkavians stuck to their usual strategy of using early Governs to influence out several vampires, while protecting themselves with Secret Passage. 

Meanwhile, Kenrick's Ravnos, concerned about being outrun by his Malkavian predator due to his lack of bounce, bled hard and fast, regardless of the consequences. A bleed for 6 was bounced around the table, landing on Louis and seemingly crippling him early in the game.

Meanwhile, Glenn's combat Lasombra found themselves busy trying to control both the Nephandus population behind him, as well as the table in general. 

In the midst of the chaos, Louis managed to recover with a timely Villein + Giant's Blood combo, and his control of the votes on the table began to tell, punishing Stephen with his multi-acting Path of Power vampires. 

Kenrick had almost bled Jasper's Nephandi deck out with his heavy bleeds, but ultimately could not outrun Stephen, getting bled out by the Malkavians just a turn before he was able to oust Jasper. 

Despite this, Stephen was already so low on pool that even with the oust, he quickly fell to Louis. The rest of the table, by now in a heavily weakened state, fell one after the other to Louis. Talk about a dark horse win! Not only was Louis the last seed going into the final, but he suffered what seemed like a crippling blow from his cross-table ally in the early game, yet still managed to turn things around. 

Final Result: Louis Emerson Tong 4 VP, Stephen Logan 1 VP.

The winning deck list: 

Crypt (12)
2x Aaradhya, The Callous Tyrant
1x Dark Selina
2x Věnceslava, The Implacable
1x Damian
2x Rexton "Savage" Abernathy
2x Üresség
2x Khin Aye

Library (85)
Master (25)
2x Black Forest Base
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Fame
1x Giant's Blood
1x New Carthage
1x Powerbase: Madrid
1x Powerbase: Montreal
2x Privileged Position
1x Regent
1x The Rack
6x Unholy Sacrament
6x Villein
1x Wider View

Action (17)
6x Enchant Kindred
3x Preternatural Strength
6x Show of Force
2x Under Siege

Political Action (6)
2x Cold War
2x Empires Fall
2x War of Ages

Action Modifier (33)
6x Absolute Tyranny
4x Dominant Personality
8x Freak Drive
4x Magnetic Authority
6x Relentlessness
1x Scalpel Tongue
4x Unthinkable Humiliation

Combat (4)
2x Burning Wrath
2x Immortal Grapple

Thank you for this report Keith, and thanks to all players for attending!