Troy Espiritu is the 2024 Asian champion!

This event took place at Gamersaurus Rex in Singapore on November 2 with 15 players. Reported by Keith Lee, VEKN National Coordinator of Singapore, with additional comment by the champion:

 

Standings before the final:
1. Joscar Malacaman: 1 GW, 4 VPs
2. Troy Espiritu: 1 GW, 3 VPs
3. Christopher Choy: 1 GW, 3 VPs
4. Raihan Harun: 1 GW, 2.5 VPs
5. Keith Lim: 3.5 VPs

Report on the final by champion Troy Espiritu is attached.I remember thinking I can probably survive the voters better than being in front of the dominate bleed, so I placed myself behind the Tzimisce bleed. Joscar however understood that the best place for him was in front of me, as my midcap mono potence has no answer for Matasuntha.

Pregame: Voters consider Matasuntha as the table threat. Publicly conspire to eliminate Matasuntha first, then midcap POT, then do a three-way with the Tzimisce.

Game: Keith actually went for both his predator and grand predator, hitting multiple KRCS 2-2 on the Tzimisce, and Matasuntha. The Justicars bide their time, slowly influencing out 3 big vampires; negotiating with its midcap pot prey of no forward action until Matasuntha is ousted. Midcap Pot not moving forward, expecting the voters to actually win his first VP for him. Midcap Pot, realizing only the Baali are hitting Matasuntha and the Tzimisce, start back-rushing to remove Justicar's Obediences, and SCEs.

Matasuntha cannot block the cross table votes. She tried rushing but too much SCE, and when the Dog Pack came, got DI-ed. Oust was inevitable.

Votes continue raining down from the Baali and the Justicars. Midcap Pots mostly backrushing to keep the Justicars and the Baali in check. Negotiations still happening on how to handle the pot-deck, and the Tzimisce. It seems, the Baali wants to give the Tzimisce to the weenies again, so that the Justicars can only have 1 VP when it comes down to the 1v1. Baali then calls an Autarkis, killing both the Tzimisce, and the Justicars. We don't know if this was intentional :)

Down to midcap pot (2 VPs), and the Baali vote (1vp). Midcap Pot has no reaction cards, and cannot vote. Baali hits multiple votes. Down to the wire, pot-deck is on it's last turn pool-wise, Baali running out of minions: Baali with 3 minions, midcap Pot with 5. Only chance was to torpor all his minions. 2 rushes, 2 torpored Baali. 3 more rushes to go, 1 target. Baali top decking combat ends. On the last minion rush, midcap pot top decked a disarm to torpor the Baali's last minion. Baali concede.

Exciting down to the last draws. Thank you Keith for the 3 VPs across the tournament :)

Final result: Me with midcap Pot (4 VPs), Keith with Baali Vote (1 VP). Additional Stat: Midcap Pot tournament torpor count: 18.

The tournament winning deck: “Mid-Weenie POT” by Troy Espiritu
Slightly Modified Deck of Serge Cirri's Fists of the Giovanni. wanted to bring a deck that can bring the hurt, without actually minding if my own minions go down. Priority was to torpor other vamps so the players remember me, and would want to go to next year's ACC for payback :)

Crypt (12 cards, min=8 max=19 avg=3.42)
1x Gianmaria Giovanni 5 POT dom nec obtGiovanni:5
1x Horace Radcliffe 5 ANI POT obfNosferatu:6
1x Salvatore Giovanni 5 NEC POT domGiovanni:6
1x Aunt Linda 4 POT obfNosferatu:6
1x Domenic Giovanni 4 POT necGiovanni:6
1x Elen Kamjian 4 CEL POTBrujah:6
1x Volo 4 POT pro sanBlood Brother:5
2x Bez Dunsirn2 POTGiovanni:6
1x Eric Milliner2 potGiovanni:5
1x Nichodemus 2 potNosferatu:5
1x Rayne2 potBrujah:6

Library (90 cards)
Master (15; 3 trifle)
2x Archon Investigation
1x Carver's Meat Packing and Storage
1x Coven, The
1x Direct Intervention
2x Fame
1x Frontal Assault
2x Haven Uncovered
1x Heidelberg Castle, Germany
2x Life in the City
1x Morgue Hunting Ground
1x Powerbase: Montreal

Event (1)
1x Narrow Minds

Action (13)
2x Ambush
9x Bum's Rush
2x Harass

Equipment (3)
3x Camera Phone

Retainer (2)
1x J. S. Simmons, Esq.
1x Tasha Morgan

Combat (55)
2x Disarm
6x Fake Out
10x Immortal Grapple
8x Roundhouse
7x Slam
3x Target Vitals
6x Taste of Vitae
3x Thrown Sewer Lid
10x Torn Signpost

Reaction (1)
1x Delaying Tactics

Thanks to organisers, players and to Gamersaurus Rex, a friendly local game store - we need more of them, so please support them!

Tomasz Kloczko is the 2024 UK champion!

 

Finalists, with the champion Tomasz to the right.

This tournament was played on November 9. Reported by James Freimuller, VEKN UK National Coordinator and Prince of Norwich:

26 methuselahs met at Patriot Games in Leeds to duke it out for the title of national champion.

From the start you could see the selection of decks was an interesting one. Allies, swarms, a surprising splash of politics amongst the combat.

Here are the results pre-finals:
Simon Celine 3 GW 10 VP
Mark Hammond 2 GW 7.5 VP
Mikey Ferguson 1 GW 7.5 VP
Matt Boon 1 GW 6.5 VP (coin toss)
Tomasz Kloczko 1 GW 6.5 VP

Through the rounds we had a clear frontrunner with Simon and his Shambling Hordes he has been evangelising for a while gaining 3GW 10VP pre-final. With two Nephandus decks in the final, he chose to sit between them to hope to benefit from a contest of Antonio. Unfortunately this didn't happen until the second hour of the game and Tomasz got Antonio, AND he didn't see a Shambling horde in his deck after discarding one turn 1.

All five players survived well until ~90 minutes in when Simon was ousted. Tomasz continued to oust Matt while Mikey ousted Mark. The two slugged it out but the timer hit and Tomasz won with 2.5 VP over Mikey´s 1.5 VP. Congrats to Tomasz on the win!

 

The tournament winning deck: “Nephandus 2024” by Tomasz Kloczko (based on a Tomasz Pietkiewicz & Pawel Kukielczynski deck from the past)

Crypt (12 cards)
6x Antonio d'Erlette 5 THA dom for pot Tremere antitribu
1x Ember Wright 3 aus dom Tremere antitribu
1x Keith Moody 3 DOM Tremere antitribu
1x Saiz 3 aus dom Tremere antitribu
3x Tupdog 1 POT VIS Gargoyle

Library (70 cards)
Master (30)
1x Archon Investigation
9x Ashur Tablets
1x Direct Intervention
3x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Frontal Assault
2x Haven Uncovered
1x Jake Washington
4x Liquidation
4x Parthenon, The
2x Secure Haven
2x Shard, London, The

Event (4)
1x FBI Special Affairs Division
3x Unmasking, The

Ally (11)
1x Carlton Van Wyk
10x Nephandus

Action Modifier (4)
4x Mirror Walk

Combat (8)
8x Target Vitals

Reaction (13)
7x Deflection
2x Delaying Tactics
4x On the Qui Vive

Thanks all for coming this weekend, great to see you all, and thank you for bearing with me through technical difficulties!