Esa-Matti, Otso, Peitsa, Tommi and Akseli.
Played on November 4 with 33 players. Photos by Marko Saari. (Most) words by Tero Aalto, Prince of Helsinki:
The Finnish National Championship was competed according to tradition in our old reliable library at the center of Espoo. The number of players was lower than the previous two years but still quite decent.
The main news of the event was the introduction of the BCN Crisis tournament management tool into the Finnish large tournament scene. Many players were already familiar with the system thanks to the European Championship, so the timing was quite optimal. Everything ran smoothly, and I hope the experiment left a positive impression.
Largest deck category: Toolbox 27%
Largest clan: Gangrel 18%
Most frequent main discipline: Dominate 18%
Top five playes before finals:
1. Otso Saariluoma 2 GW 7.0 VP
2. Esa-Matti Smolander 2 GW 6.0 VP
3. Akseli Jalava 2 GW 6.0 VP
4. Tommi Hakomaa 1 GW 5.5 VP
5. Peitsa Suominen 1 GW 5.0 VP
Congratulations Akseli Jalava, new champion with 1,5 victory points in the final, the same as Peitsa Suominen but higher seed. Esa-Matti Smolander got 0,5 points.
The tournament winning deck:
Crypt:
6x Shalmath 10 POT PRE TEM True Brujah:6
1x Adisa 3 cel obf Banu Haqim:6
1x Andre LeRoux 3 aus Toreador:5
1x Alu 2 obf Banu Haqim:5
1x New Blood 2 san Blood Brother:ANY
2x Anarch Convert 1 Caitiff:ANY
Library:
3x Archon Investigation
1x Carver's Meat Packing and Storage
1x Direct Intervention
1x Fame
1x Giant's Blood
1x Perfectionist
1x Rack, The
1x Tabriz Assembly
1x Vessel
1x Wider View
1x Ambush
1x Big Game
2x Bum's Rush
1x Clotho's Gift
1x Harass
1x Path of the Scorched Heart, The
7x Summon History
1x Carlton Van Wyk
6x Emerald Legionnaire
1x Tye Cooper
1x Veneficti
1x Book of Going Forth by Night, The
1x Eye of Hazimel
1x Heart of Nizchetus
1x Signet of King Saul, The
9x Domain of Evernight
3x Enkil Cog
2x Tangle Atropos' Hand
2x Rewind Time
3x Decapitate
7x Disarm
8x Majesty
13x Outside the Hourglass
4x Taste of Vitae
All finalists decks and more statistics can be found at bcncrisis.com/tournament/227.
This also happened at this event: The player Pasi Karjalainen was the first to get the card Saku Pihlajamäki into the tourament winning deck archive (at a tournament on October 7th), so he was awarded a copy of the card signed both by the artist Noora Hirvonen and by the "model", former National Coordinator Janne Lönnqvist:
Discuss this tournament at the VEKN.net forum thread.
Thanks to all players, organisers and the sponsor Ultra Pro!
Words by Maciej Jan Broniarz, National Coodinator of Poland:
The Polish Nationals 2023 took place on the 23 of September. The tournament turned out to be quite a large event with 45 players attending. We also had guests from Finland, Belarus and Lithuania. The youngest player was 12 years old, and the oldest – well, a bit older, to put it mildly ;)
The most popular decks were Ministry, Gangrel V5 and Legionnaire (in few flavours).
Standings after the three preliminary rounds:
1. Piotr Wielgosz - 3 GW, 13 VP
2. Nerijus Mikalajunas - 2 GW, 10 VP
3. Michał Rapacz - 2 GW, 9 VP
4. Konrad Rajngruber - 2 GW, 8.5 VP
5. Maciej Jan Broniarz - 1 GW, 6 VP
Congratulations Nerijus Mikalajūnas, with 3 victory points. Piotr got 1 and Konrad 1.
The tournament winning deck: "Giotto Preaches To The Wraiths"
Crypt:
5 Giotto Verducci
3 Egothha
1 Agaitas, The Scholar of Antiquities
1 Idalia, Prophet of Guadalajara
1 Isabel de Leon
1 Zöe
Library:
5 Liquidation
2 Direct Intervention
2 Dreams of the Sphinx
2 Wider View
1 Anarch Troublemaker
1 Barrens, The
1 Fragment of the Book of Nod
1 Pentex(TM) Subversion
2 Unmasking, The
1 FBI Special Affairs Division
4 Clan Impersonation
4 Unleash Hell's Fury
3 Psychic Veil
4 Kaymakli Fragment
12 Emerald Legionnaire
1 Infernal Servitor
1 Veneficti
8 Freak Drive
4 Cloak the Gathering
4 Veil the Legions
3 Forgotten Labyrinth
3 Lost in Crowds
2 Elder Impersonation
2 I am Legion
6 Telepathic Misdirection
5 On the Qui Vive
4 Telepathic Counter
2 Delaying Tactics
Thanks to all players, sponsors and organisers!
The final of the 2022-2023 European Grand Prix circuit took place in Barcelona, Spain, on Saturday October 14.
The invited player was, in seed order:
1. Javier Naranjo Ortiz – Grand Prix Spain winner
2. Bram Van Stappen – Grand Prix Belgium winner
3. Danilo Torrisi – Grand Prix Italy winner
4. Jeroen van Oort – Grand Prix Germany winner
5. Bartosz Kalinczuk – Grand Prix Poland winner
Congratulations Bartosz Kalinczuk of Poland! He took 3 victory points, leaving 2 to Jeroen van Oort.
[Here it would have been supercool to show the tournament winning deck list!]
Thanks to all players, organisers and the sponsor Ultra Pro. The struggle is eternal, so the 2023-2024 European Grand Prix circuit starts in Milan, Italy on December 9!
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