Event Report + TWD – 4th Töölö Grand Ball

Tournament: 4th Töölö Grand Ball
Date: Saturday August 26th, 2017
Place: Röhkylä, Helsinki, Finland
Players: 13
Format: Standard Constructed, 2R+F
Organizer: Tero Aalto
Winner: Mikko Hyvärinen (deck list below)

The fourth Töölö Grand Ball tournament attracted players almost up to the venue's maximum capacity. It had been quite some time since the last regular tournament in the capital region, so this wasn't much of a surprise. The location at the very center of Helsinki may also have contributed.

The metagame was varied, leaning towards combat, as is usual in Finnish casual games and (non-big) tournaments. One of the highest common denominators was Dmitra Ilyanova who featured in three decks, although the decks weren't all similar.

3 VPs was the threshold for getting to sit at the final table which read as follows:

1. Aapo Järvelin (Malgorzata big cap vote bleed)
2. Jyri Puhakka (Brujah G4/5 vote combat)
3. Noora Hirvonen (Tzimisce wall)
4. Mikko Hyvärinen (Tremere weenie)
5. Jaakko Nurro (Brujah G4/5 vote combat)

The final timed out after Mikko had ousted Jaakko, granting him a victory with 1,5 points.

Final Rank	Name	Prelim GWs	Prelim VPs	Final VPs	TPs
1	Mikko Hyvärinen	0	3	1,5	102
2	Noora Hirvonen	1	2	0,5	84
2	Aapo Järvelin	1	4	0,5	78
2	Jaakko Nurro	1	3	0	96
2	Jyri Puhakka	1	3,5	0,5	96
6	Otso Saariluoma	0	2,5		96
7	Tero Aalto	0	2		78
8	Juha Laukkanen	0	1		66
9	Simo Tiippana	0	0,5		54
9	Matias Frosterus	0	0,5		54
9	Marko Saari	0	0,5		54
12	Lauri Salmi	0	0		42
13	Ilari Sani	0	0		36

And finally, here we have the winning deck with the author's comments:

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The Tremere War Chantry

Oldschool, balanced fair deck. Slow&steady.
Bored of "villein for 11, giants blood, superior govern,
freak drive, scouting mission, freak, mindrape, freak, Banishment on your deflecter+push+cap+freak, bleed for 5+."-games?

This deck mainly bleeds for 1's, while acting like the Tremeres always do. They must be hiding something really scary,
as they don't seem to be doing much. Truth being, they just don't do much.

Crypt: (12 cards, Min: 10, Max: 24, Avg: 4,16)
1 Mustafa Rahman dom 2 Tremere
1 Roreca Quaid tha 2 Tremere
1 Jing Wei dom tha 3 Tremere
1 Dr. John Casey aus tha 3 Tremere
1 Blythe Candeleria aus THA 3 Tremere
1 Sarah Cobbler dom THA 4 Tremere
1 Ignatius aus dom tha 4 Tremere
2 Aisling Sturbridge AUS dom THA 5 Tremere
1 Merrill Molitor aus dom THA 5 Tremere
2 Muaziz aus dom for THA 7 Tremere

Library: (90 cards)

Master (20 cards)
3 Rotschreck
3 Tribute to the Master
2 Arcane Library
1 Chantry
1 Dreams of the Sphinx
1 Academic Hunting Ground (new, used to be liliths's blessings)
1 Wasserschloss Anif, Austria
1 Tremere Convocation
1 Blood Doll (used to be 2)
1 Powerbase Montreal (new)
1 Dominate
1 Auspex
3 Thaumaturgy

Action (7 cards)
3 Create Gargoyle (used to be 4)
2 Graverobbing (used to be 1 and 1 seeds of corruption)
2 Magic of the Smith (used to be 3, should still be; some were in another deck.)

Action Modifier (8 cards)
6 Conditioning
2 Mirror Walk (new, random add ons)

Reaction (24 cards)
4 Deflection
3 My Enemy`s Enemy
3 Telepathic Misdirection
1 Spirit`s Touch
2 Eagle`s Sight (used to be 1, 2 is far less random)
1 Precognition (used to be 2, maybe should still be)
1 Enhanced Senses (used to be 2, maybe should still be)
2 Forced Awakening (used to be 4, maybe should be more than 2)
3 On the Qui Vive
1 Wake with Evening`s Freshness
3 Eyes of Argus (used to be 0, probably still should be as they are too conditional)

Combat (25 cards)
6 Burst of Sunlight
13 Theft of Vitae (used to be 12)
6 Apportation (used to be 7)

Equipment (6 cards)
1 Codex of the Damned
1 Gran Madre di Dio, Italy
1 Heart of Nizchetus
1 Ivory Bow
1 Kevlar Vest
1 Bowl of Convergence

Event approved