Timeouts in tournaments

Lönkka wrote:

I have a gut feeling that I Helsinki tournaments the time outs might've increased a bit.

The atmosphere is generaly as relaxed as previously; plenty of friendly BSing and banter during the games as well as not necessarily that centered on tier 1 decks.


Might be wrong on this but I feel that the additional bloat afforded by Villein is probably the root of this. Lilith's Blessing hasn't really helped.


Yesterday's tournament had 4 tables and three rounds.
During the prelim rounds there was only six gamewins (did any of those come from timeouted tables). So at least half of the tables timeouted.

The finals timeouted just basrely, but the winner got 3,5 VP so it wasn't that bad...

Bit of offtopic

I feel this is a more metagame thing in Helsinki. Games are very relaxed. I see some tier 1 decks especially slow ones with building up board position with bloating and villeins. Faster bleed and vote decks I see very rare and also I feel attitude towards those decks and some other deck is a bit shunned at (like sayings "s&b or bleed deck, so boring and serious"). This leads to more time outs. Also Helsinki metagame favors slower decks. But this can be changed a bit b/c I haven't been in a tournament for some time.

Surreal wrote:

Lönkka wrote:

I have a gut feeling that I Helsinki tournaments the time outs might've increased a bit.

The atmosphere is generaly as relaxed as previously; plenty of friendly BSing and banter during the games as well as not necessarily that centered on tier 1 decks.


Might be wrong on this but I feel that the additional bloat afforded by Villein is probably the root of this. Lilith's Blessing hasn't really helped.


Yesterday's tournament had 4 tables and three rounds.
During the prelim rounds there was only six gamewins (did any of those come from timeouted tables). So at least half of the tables timeouted.

The finals timeouted just basrely, but the winner got 3,5 VP so it wasn't that bad...

Bit of offtopic

I feel this is a more metagame thing in Helsinki. Games are very relaxed. I see some tier 1 decks especially slow ones with building up board position with bloating and villeins. Faster bleed and vote decks I see very rare and also I feel attitude towards those decks and some other deck is a bit shunned at (like sayings "s&b or bleed deck, so boring and serious"). This leads to more time outs. Also Helsinki metagame favors slower decks. But this can be changed a bit b/c I haven't been in a tournament for some time.

Next time I will play something more aggressive again! The last two tournaments before that I had played DEM weenie and CEL/POT rush, so thought to take a bit more relaxed deck this time, which ended up not working at all so next time, there will be no timeouts in tables I sit!

Klaital wrote:

Next time I will play something more aggressive again! The last two tournaments before that I had played DEM weenie and CEL/POT rush, so thought to take a bit more relaxed deck this time, which ended up not working at all so next time, there will be no timeouts in tables I sit!

Then again, playing an aggressive S&B deck and encountering sometimes prevalent combat will probably mean the S&B deck getting the proverbial crap kicked out of it and the table probably playing out rather slowly

Lönkka wrote:

Klaital wrote:

[Next time I will play something more aggressive again! The last two tournaments before that I had played DEM weenie and CEL/POT rush, so thought to take a bit more relaxed deck this time, which ended up not working at all so next time, there will be no timeouts in tables I sit!

Then again, playing an aggressive S&B deck and encountering sometimes prevalent combat will probably mean the S&B deck getting the proverbial crap kicked out of it and the table probably playing out rather slowly

Well I dunno about that, I won the tournament last time with s&b.

Not that s&b is the only kind of aggressive deck there is. Aggressive combat decks are also option.

There is a simple solution to get faster play:

DONT SAVE YOUR PREDATOR.

The most time consuming aspect in VTES is balancing the table. Every player who dies makes a faster game. My grandpredator getting a VP isnt so bad, if i get time to get 2 VPs. Every action you use to not save someone on the table is an aggressive action that makes the game faster.

And my standard answer to my prey or predator, who wants to discuss, why i am so aggressive against them, is: I want to see you dead. It shortens every discussion absolutely.