Reported by Sandro Rodrigues, with comment by the champion.
In a GREAT weekend of VTES events, which took place at Versus Gamecenter Lisboa & Algés, we hope that everyone had a good time here! Friday March 14 had a draft with 30 players, Saturday March 15 was the Nacional with 57 players, and Sunday 16 was the GL/PT ligue with 41 players. Rodinei Camargo ended up winning the National (4 VP final) with 57 players from 7 different nationalities, with his deck “The Revenge of Ceoris”.
Standings before the final:
1. Rodinei Camargo
2. Filipe Henriques
3. Rafael Hilario Del Rosal
4. Rafael Rocha
5. Tamás Glied
Rodinei about the final: “I arrived in the finals in first place, and I chose to sit in front of Rafael Hilario's Tzimisce V5 deck to redirect the Govern bleeds to my prey Filipe Macieira, a mono-Dementation, and in the next, Tamas Glied, a True Brujah with Summon History Allies and Vote, because they had little intercept and did not redirect bleeds, and I tried to buy time to defend myself from the True Brujah's police actions.
My prey's Dementia vampires were aggressive, rapidly depleting the True Brujah's pool. Being down to seven pools already, the True Brujah was able to call the Remnant of the Endless Storm to attack my prey, play a Protect Resources, and use a multi-action strategy of Banishment and Voter Captivation to defend himself and increase his pool in a remarkable comeback
With Gregory Winter's blood steal and Muddled Vampire Hunter's rushes, Tamas prey Rafael Santo de Souza applied a lot of pressure to the Tzimisce; however, his Demention bleeds got deflected and eventually reached my prey.
The two Dementation decks were simultaneously destroyed by the True Brujah's explosive turn of Reckless Agitation + Ancilla Empowerment, which left the Tzimisce with two pools.
When it was my turn, I recruited Carlton Van Wyk to defend me against the Remnant rush and saved my predator's Baron from torpor so he could defend himself against the political actions.
As time ran out the True Brujah made the bold decision to go for his second VP. The Tzimisce fought valiantly and kept bleeding, but I was able to win by using bounces, Direct Intervention, and Delaying Tactics, and pressuring with the five Nephandus I was able to achieve victory. The True Brujah deck proved to be very strong and well played by Tamas Glied and was very close to winning.”
Final Score: Rodinei 4 VP, Tamas 1 VP.
Crypt (12)
2x Carna, The Princess Witch 7 AUS DOM THA primogen Tremere:3
1x Ladislas Toth, The Torch 7 AUS DOM THA for archbishop Tremere antitribu:3
2x Selena 6 AUS DOM THA Tremere antitribu:3
5x Antonio d'Erlette 5 THA dom for pot Tremere antitribu:4
1x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:ANY
1x Tupdog 1 POT VIS Gargoyle:3
Library (90 cards)
Master (38; 1 trifle)
12x Ashur Tablets
1x Bleeding the Vine
3x Direct Intervention
1x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
1x Information Highway
2x Jake Washington
1x Life Boon
6x Liquidation
7x Parthenon, The
2x Shard, London, The
1x Wider View
Event (4)
1x Scourge of the Enochians
3x Unmasking, The
Action (2)
1x Dominate Kine
1x Magic of the Smith
Ally (10)
1x Carlton Van Wyk
9x Nephandus
Equipment (2)
1x Bowl of Convergence
1x Heart of Nizchetus
Action Modifier (8.)
1x Conditioning
7x Mirror Walk
Action Modifier/Reaction (2)
2x Murmur of the False Will
Reaction (24)
9x Deflection
2x Delaying Tactics
4x Eyes of Argus
4x On the Qui Vive
2x Redirection
3x Telepathic Misdirection
Thank you to all participants and sponsors (allowed all participants to have the right to one Fifth Edition deck and something more) of this event.
Reported by Nerijus Mikalajunas, VEKN National Coordinator of Lithuania. Photos by Marko Saari.
Vadim Grigorev of Belarus, brilliantly driving the old-school Ravnos Clown Car, wins “Vilnius by night 2025 (In Memoriam Julius Stonis)” and is crowned the Champion of Lithuania! 44 Methuselahs from 8 nations battled it out in Vilnius on Saturday March 3.
Player's standings before the final:
Vadim Grigorev 2 GW, 8 VP
Alexander Roman 1 GW, 5.5 VP
Tomasz Kloczko 1 GW, 5.0 VP
Marius Žeimantas 1 GW, 5.5 VP
Marcin Zakrzewski 1 GW, 5.5 VP
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Two Polish, two Belarussian and one Lithuanian players made it to the finals. Vadim was top seed – a crucial advantage he did not let go to waste while choosing the seating for the finals. Choosing a spot between a Tzimisce bleed (with very little intercept) and 1 cap bleed, he did not have a hard time being caught on important actions, such as Mozambique Allure and Embrace. The Eldest are Kholo helped the Consanguineous boons to go through and mitigate the Tzimisce bleeds.
Vadim was in no hurry to oust his prey and let Alexander be the first to oust Marius’ voting Lasombra. Marcin’s Tzimisce were the next to go, but Tomasz’s Nephandi were too few to resist the hordes of newly embraced Ravnos, who swarmed both him and Alexander during the week of Nightmares.
Final result: Vadim 3 VP and GW, Alexander Roman 1 VP, Tomasz Kloczko 1 VP.
National Coordinator Nerijus with champion Vadim.
For the Lithuanian VTES Community this is much more than "just a tournament", as it is traditionally organised on the Saturday closest to the birthday of our dear departed friend and Lithuanian VTES legend Julius Stonis.
Tournament winning deck: “Ravnos in Africa” by Vadim Grigorev
Crypt (12)
1x Ghivran Dalaal, The Dead God 5 ani aus chi FOR Ravnos:2
1x Andrei Puxon5 ani cel chi for Ravnos:2
1x Anka, Priestess of Thorns 4 ani chi pro Ravnos:2
1x Khalil Ravana 5 ani for pre CHI Ravnos:2
1x Lazar Dobrescu 3 for Ravnos:2
1x Salbatore Bokkengro 4 for pro CHI Ravnos:2
1x Sasha Miklos2 chi Ravnos:2
1x Sennuwy, The Promoter4 ani chi for Ravnos:2
1x Spleen, Georgio Gutterpunk 2 ani chiRavnos:2
1x Vedel Esbreno 3 chi forRavnos:2
1x Zip2 ani Ravnos:3
1x Ashlesha 3 aus chiRavnos:2
Library: 75 cards:
Master (12)
1x Anarch Troublemaker
3x Life in the City
6x Ravnos Carnival
2x Week of Nightmares
Action (40)
27x Embrace, The
13x Mozambique Allure
Political Action (8)
8x Consanguineous Boon
Action Modifier (4)
4x Change of Target
Action Modifier/Reaction (11)
11x Eldest Are Kholo, The
We would like to thank the Wargamer Club - the hub of the local vampires and our long-time friends who are making the abundance of the playmats come true - DeepCut Studio.
A special thanks goes to Marko Saari for the photos of the event and for an excellent job as a head judge!
See you all next year - 02 28 2026!
This tournament was played in Budapest on January 26 with 65 players from 6 countries. Reported by Máté Vaka, VEKN National Coordinator of Hungary, with comment by the champion:
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Standings after three preliminary rounds:
1. Márk Virsinger 2 GW 10,5 VP
2. Tamás Glied 2 GW 8,5 VP
3. Balázs Sebestyén 2 GW 8,5 VP
4. Gyula Erdős 2 GW 8 VP
5. Goran Damjanic 1 GW 7 VP
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Report by the winner: "Vampires were revealed, and I felt like a goner. I was second seed, so had some wiggle room where to sit. With four combat decks on the table my best shot was with Goran (Warghoul) as my prey, since his combat is weakest against Strike: Combat Ends, and Warghouls costing a pretty penny, probably the easiest for me to oust. I was also happy with Gyula (Banu Haqim) as my predator, as he is probably our best player, and I assumed he didn't want to turn the whole table against himself by killing me too quickly.
I was 3rd, and didn´t draw any ramp in my opening hand, but had a Monastery of Shadows so on my second turn I found Information Highway that lead to a 2nd turn Anson. Márk (Montano) had a opening Zillah's Valley, so I was somewhat happy with my decision to let one retainer arrive in front of me, as I had 2 Second Traditions in my hand, but blocked only Anarch Convert, and my gamble somewhat paid off, as Warghouls first 3-4 attacks was forward.
Mufti (Shalmath) had a slow start, took 6 bleed from Montano before anything happened. My next 2 vampires out was Alexandra and Leandro. I was doing the usual Villein, Ashur and Liquidation that the deck does, as for actions I rescued my vampires that Banu Haqim deemed unworthy.
My game had 2 big problems (besides the fact that there were four combat decks at the table 😅), one being the fact that my deck usually deal in pool for favors, unfortunatly pools were not much under pressure with combat boys, and the second one is that Gyula's first prince was Oluwafunmilayo, who's with the extra intercept plus Second Tradition was hurting a lot. Turning point of the game came in about an hour, as in one turn my dear Alexandra was torporized and eaten by the collective efforts of Banus and Warghouls, and Montano's good friend Nahir learned the hard way that True Brujahs not only deal you 2 aggravated damage before range, but they can Decapitate you too. From that point on, Shalmath was ready to go forward, picked up Enkil Cog and Eye of Hazimel which torporized some Banus.
My game was about laying low, and letting the combat decks go for each others throat. I was able to assemble Monastery of Shadows, Creepshow Casino and Camarilla Conclave so as far as stealth I was good for one sure vote per turn, but needed either my Anneke up to have the vote lock, or my Perfect Paragons. All of my 6 Perfect Paragons were on the bottom 1/3 of my deck, and having zero shot at getting the Edge my game was about false actions, I had like 3 votes in a row that didn't pass, trying to cycle.
By the time Anneke arrived, Gyula was able to transfer out Kasim Bayar, vote lock was not mine once more, so back to waiting for the Perfect Paragons. Goran was at 6 with a Failsafe in play, so i needed to oust him in one turn. Thankfully he was in a position needing to do something as time was slowly running out on us, so he had another Warghoul come into play.
As per usual if a card is missing for a long time, they arrive in numbers, and I drew like 3 Perfect Paragons in 5 cards. I had Anarchist Uprising on 4 stealth plus the Perfect Paragon for vote, and no Delaying Tactics meant oust. By the time I was able to oust, there was only 5 or so minutes left. Mufti was able to oust Gyula, but I was higher seed and at 18 pool he and Márk offered me the hand.
I got incredibly lucky how the table turned out, and laying low with Inner Circles was a hard task, but the combat decks turned on each other in just the right time for me. Huge grats to the four other finalists, it was a pleasure playing with you guys. Shout out to the Kecskemét community who helped me with testing the deck, Martin Weinmayer for general advice, Zsolt Gonda for staying with me during the finals, Alex Krizsán and Ferenc Kósa for their incredible support, and Máté Vaka for organizing the nationals. In general thanks for everyone who showed up, it's incredible that we had a 65 people national championship and it was a very fun and challenging tourney. Really happy to be Hungarian national champion. Hope to see as many of you in other tournaments throughout the year 🥰🥰"
Final result: Balázs 1.5 VP, Tamás 1.5 VP, Márk 0.5 VP = Tamás won by higher seeding, congratulations!
The tournament winning deck: “Vége van kicsi - it's over little one” by Tamás Glied
Crypt (12)
1x Alexandra 11 ANI AUS CEL PRE dom inner circle Toreador:2
1x Arika 11 DOM FOR OBF PRE aus cel inner circle Ventrue:2
1x Leandro 11 AUS OBF PRE cel dom inner circle Malkavian:2
1x Anneke 10 AUS CEL PRE dom justicar Toreador:1
1x Democritus 10 DOM PRE aus cel for justicar Ventrue:1
1x Don Cruez, The Idealist 10 CEL POT PRE ani dom pro justicar Brujah:1
1x Queen Anne 10 DOM FOR PRE aus obf prince Ventrue:2
4x Anson 8 CEL PRE aus dom prince Toreador:1
1x Emerson Bridges 8 DOM FOR PRE pot prince Ventrue:1
Library (90)
Master (45; 5 trifle)
9x Ashur Tablets
2x Camarilla Conclave
1x Creepshow Casino
2x Direct Intervention
1x Elysium: The Palace of Versailles
1x Giant's Blood
3x Information Highway
4x Liquidation
3x Minion Tap
2x Monastery of Shadows
1x Papillon
1x Parthenon, The
3x Protected Resources
5x Villein
7x Zillah's Valley
Political Action (18)
1x Anarchist Uprising
1x Ancient Influence
4x Banishment
3x Camarilla's Iron Fist
7x Parity Shift
1x Political Stranglehold
1x Reins of Power
Action Modifier (10)
6x Perfect Paragon
4x Voter Captivation
Reaction (11)
4x Redirection
7x Second Tradition: Domain
Combat (6)
6x Majesty
Thanks to all players, organisers and sponsors!
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