Dissolution - Qualifier Blacktown NSW Australia

Dissolution - Blacktown Qualifier Results.
Final Round Time Taken - 2h10m
Craig Kordiak (!Tor Toolbox) > Michael Tomkins (OBF/PRE Anarch Speed-bleed) > Stephen Harris (Nadima PRO/SER Wall-ish) > James Bonham (Uta & Valerius Wall) > Jon Darbro (Cryptic Mission)

James Bonham was asked to play in the final because the 5th placed James Floate had to leave because of transportation. Although I ranked above James, not playing allowed there to be a Judge who was not playing in the final.

Final Round Game Wrap-up

Michael Tomkins came hard out of the blocks, cycling cards like he was Lance Armstrong on extra illegal substances, bleeding as hard as he could between the two wall-ish decks. The game seemed to kind of grind to a point where something had to give. At almost the point where Michael Tomkins had decked himself, he ousted Stephen Harris.
Fame was put on one of Michael's vampires (before ousting Stephen Harris) and James Bonham started dunking minions, as well as Craig Kordiak, which had basically put Michael into an untenable position where had no deck, barely any minions, very low pool, the Edge and Fame. The critical point for Michael came when Craig let Michael keep the Edge while he also had a Fame Vampire in torpor which would have meant Michael would have been ousted by the Fame. Instead, the Fame ousted James Bonham, giving Michael his 2nd VP (and the 2nd VP awarded in the game).
The end game started to grind along. This gave Jon a giant problem, he needed to take both VPs to win. So he had to obliterate Craig without letting Michael Tomkins die. He hammered hard at Craig and took his VP before quickly taking Michael's in the same turn.

Jon walked away with:
- A set of 12 Heather Kreiter Deck-Backers (signed by the Artist)
- An Osebo Starter (courtesy of Steve Harris)
- A Third Edition Booster
- A Lords of the Night Booster
- A Kindred Most Wanted Booster.

All of the finalist were also given a set of pool counters, custom made for VTES Blacktown.

Everyone who came today also got some promos (contributions were made by Steve to the prize support and I am grateful for that) and also got some of the VTES Counters I have (Floatey seemed to certainly appreciate the Pathos Counters for his Reanimated Corpses during the day).

Final Results (GW, VP, FGW, FVP, TPs)

*James Bonham (Rank #7) played in the final when James Floate had to leave due to transportation. Justin Evans (Rank #6) was also unable to play the final.

Jon Darbro 1 3.5 1 3 186
Craig Kordiak 1 4 0 0 162
Michael Tomkins 1 3 0 2 152
Stephen Harris 1 3 0 0 138
James Floate 1 3 0 0 114
Justin Evans 0 2.5 0 0 108
Andrew Chirgwin 0 1.5 0 0 102
James Bonham 0 1.5 0 0 120
Julian Gatt 0 1 0 0 96
Stephen Cowie 0 0.5 0 0 72

**Note: The Archon for this tournament is currently not self-completing, if anyone would be able to tell me how to 'massage it' to work, I would greatly appreciate it.

This might work:

stackoverflow.com/questions/6622232/excel-cells-not-updating-automatically

Juggernaut1981 wrote:

**Note: The Archon for this tournament is currently not self-completing, if anyone would be able to tell me how to 'massage it' to work, I would greatly appreciate it.

Most likely causes:
1) There is an unresolved tie, on the Methuselah's page.
2) The 5th and 6th place players don't have DQ in the appropriate column on the Methuselah's page.

Here is a link to Jon Darbro's TWD on Secret Library.
It was apparently called "I have to get this cheese to Washington immediately!"

www.secretlibrary.info/index.php?deck=view&id=11845

www.vekn.net/index.php/event-calendar/event/7013

Dissolution
Parramatta, Australia
February 23, 2013
10 players
3R + F

Jon Darbro's Tournament Winning Deck with 3 VPs in the Finals

Deck Name: "I Have to Get This Cheese to Washington Immediately!"
Author: Jon Darbro
Description:
Whittle down prey's vampires with Cryptic Missions, then bleed them out.
Step 5: profit!

Crypt (12 cards; Capacity min=2 max=5 avg=3.33)
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1x Aisling Sturbridge 5 dom AUS THA Tremere:2
1x Hannigan 5 dom AUS THA !Tremere:2
1x Ignatius 4 aus dom tha Tremere:1
1x Richard Tauber, Ayelea's Puppet 4 tha AUS !Tremere:2
1x Sarah Cobbler 4 dom THA Tremere:1
1x Blythe Candeleria 3 aus THA Tremere:2
1x Brooke 3 dom tha !Tremere:2
1x Dr. John Casey 3 aus tha Tremere:1
1x Jing Wei 3 dom tha Tremere:1
1x Heinrick Schlempt 2 tha !Tremere:2
1x Magdelena Schaefer 2 THA Caitiff:2
1x Roreca Quaid 2 tha Tremere:1

Library (85 cards)
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Master (13)
1x Anarch Troublemaker
2x Blood Doll
1x Effective Management
1x Society of Leopold
1x Sudden Reversal
1x Thaumaturgy
1x Tremere Convocation
3x Tribute to the Master
1x Unnatural Disaster
1x Visit from the Capuchin

Action (22)
21x Cryptic Mission
1x Dominate Kine

Action Modifier (11)
5x Conditioning
5x Mirror Walk
1x Perfect Clarity

Ally (2)
1x Gregory Winter
1x Thadius Zho, Mage

Combat (16)
1x Burst of Sunlight
3x Movement of the Mind
6x Theft of Vitae
5x Weather Control
1x Wind Dance

Reaction (21)
4x Deflection
2x Delaying Tactics
2x Forced Awakening
1x My Enemy's Enemy
4x On the Qui Vive
5x Telepathic Counter
3x Wake with Evening's Freshness

Congrats Aussies on getting a 10+ player tournament. Have you brought in some new blood?