TWD - 3rd Great Symposium, ST. Michel - 03.10.2020, Mikkeli Finland

3rd Great Symposium, St. Michel
Mikkeli, Finland
October 3rd 2020
3R+F
13 players
Lasse Pöyry

Final Rank Name Prelim GWs Prelim VPs Final VPs TPs
1 Lasse Pöyry 1 4 3 132
2 Emma Takkunen 1 5 0 150
2 Tero Aalto 2 6 1 148
2 Petrus Makkonen 3 11 1 180
2 Tom Lindberg 1 6 0 156
6 Timo Tahvanainen 1 3 102
7 Marko Saari 0 2 118
8 Pasi Karjalainen 0 1 84
8 Jyri Puhakka 0 1 84
10 Simo Tiippana 0 0 70
11 Samuel Mäenpää 0 0 60
11 Ari Lensu 0 0 60
11 Anni Rosenius 0 0 60

Congrats to Lasse for winning tournament. Due to personal matters, I could not join the fun, but I was the organizer with Lasse, so the reportting comes through me. However I will ask Lasse to do a little report of his tournament day and post his decklist below, thank you.

Event approved

Congrats to Lasse!

Even if it is in highly dubious circumstances (winning the tournament you organized yourself)...

Lönkka wrote:

Congrats to Lasse!

Even if it is in highly dubious circumstances (winning the tournament you organized yourself)...

Indeed. I never won my own, well not those that I organize fully anyway.. I've won one that I co-organized with Tero(before he became Prince) and one that I co-organized with Lasse.. But never those I truly hosted. Some people just do it better.

Some thoughts from games and decklist.

I wanted to make a deck that a) would not be easily ousted b) would guarantee that games will not go to time. So, Shatter the Gates with MMA gains it was.

First round started quite nicely and I delivered shattered counters early on. Unfortunately Peetu also got his game running fast, gaining with Kaymakli fragment and voting damage. 1vp for me, not a disaster, but less than I was hoping for.

Second round was terrible. Again, I was playing the table to Peetu, who was my prey. I couldn´t defend my shatter the gates and still I was stubbornly trying to play them. 0vp, and another GW for Peetu.

Third round saved the day. If i recall correctly, I didn´t get shatters, but gained enough, bled enough, talked enough to manage a GW and place in the final table. Close call and a bleeding race with Pasi in the end.

In the finals seating was me -> Tero (Malgorzata/Lord Tremere/Mistress Fanchon) -> Peetu (Giotto Verducci/Nos princes) -> Tom (Unnamed) -> Emma (Ventrue). From earlier rounds it was obvious that Peetu was the table threat. Also it seemed that Teros deck was not fast enough to put any pressure and there was very little that Tom could do backwards to Peetu.

I decided to not play shatters at all. Instead, we had a similar understanding of the table with Emma; Tom had to go first, then we would do anything to help Tero oust Peetu. After that, hopefully I could oust Tero and we both would have a chance to win the game (and tournee).

Plan worked like a charm. Close call though and (don´t qiute remember the details, but) coordinating bounces and well timed DI was needed as very often is the case. Great Beast helped a lot. In the end I think I had Cybele, Beastie, Veneficti and legionnaires to bleed and liquidation/Ashurs running nicely and duel with Emma was quite easy at that point.

Here is the deck:

Crypt (12)
Cybele x5
Babalawo Alafin x3
Nana Buruku x2
Ruxandra
Aksinya Daclau

Library (90)
Masters (41)
Ashur tablets x12
Liquidation x5
Zillah´s Valley x6
Golgonda x2
Dummy Corporation
Major Boon
From a Sinking Ship
Barrens
Monastery of Shadows
Secure Haven
Direct Intervention
Villein x5
Wider view x2
Failsafe
Wash

Actions (16)
Shatter the Gate x10
Unleash Hells Fury x3
Entrencement x2
Call the Great Beast

Allies (6)
Mylan Horseed
Veneficti
Emerald Legionnaires x4

Modifiers (11)
I am Legion x2
Spying mission x2
Elder Impersonation x2
Lost in Crowds x2
Cloak the Gathering x2
Faceless night

Reactions (7)
Telepathic Misdirection x2
My enemys enemy x2
Sense the savage way x2
Cats Guidance

Combat (4)
Majesty x2
Flames of the netherworld
Conflagration

Combo (5)
Sense the Sin x3
Swallowed by the night x2

Finals thought of the deck.
It was kinda fun to play for a while. Liquidation/Ashurs are way too strong and i wont be playing those without a really good reason. Babalawo is awesome. And so is the Great Beast. Those I most definetily will be playing a lot more and in different kind of decks. I was mostly worried about combat decks and surviving with direct rushes. I was lucky I guess, since I really don´t recall a tournament in which there was less combat than in this one, (I think Ari´s trap/blight was the only combat deck I saw).

All in all, it was nice to play a tournament and it seemes that we have to wait a while until the next opportunity. I´ll be more than happy to "organize" (host really) tournaments in the same venue.