Event report: The Draft of change 26-01-2025
27 Jan 2025 15:49 - 04 Feb 2025 07:28 #113612
by Oortje
Have a cold long night,
Jeroen van Oort
Dutch National Coördinator
Event report: The Draft of change 26-01-2025 was created by Oortje
Hi Folks,
Last sunday we had the first draft tournament in the Netherlands since 2004. The tournament used the braftbox by gamepod so we had to limit the amount of players. It was therefor a invitation only event with just 10 players. And it was a blast! Everybody had a fun day and a great new experience.
As a preperation we discussed finances in the weeks before the event. The options being: 1 We buy the gamepod box a a collective, and reuse it so we can have multiple events. this lowers the cost per event, but you can't keep the cards. 2 we draft and keep all the cards. 3 we draft for the games and at the end of the event we redraft the rares, so that the quality of the draft-for-play doesn't suffer from greed. after no consenses was reached I dictated that we draft all cards and everybody keeps their stuff. If we do this again we probebly buy the box as a collective, so we can have multiple small tournaments.
The event:
We planned an hour and 40 minutes for the drafting itself. This time seems to be sufficient. Another 30 minutes for building a deck and then we had a change to test our frankensteins monsters.
I received a lot of questions as a judge about draft rules as for most players this was a new mechanic. Also a lot of small questions on situations that normally don't occur, because players handle cards they normally dont operate. A few misplays here and there, but nothing mayor.
The Final:
The first hour I played the side event: a game of unstable unicorns. Then I decided that the last hour may be worth checking out. Here are some highlights:
Hektor plays brujah, Niek has Tremere. Jozef was obfuscate politics, Thomas controls malkavian and tremere weenies, Maarten has gangrel. Yes you can draft a proper crypt in this format.
After 1 hour
Hector and Jozef are on 3. Jozef plays conboon to give 3 to Hector and 1 to himself with a promise of parity shift to support Jozef. Boon works but Parity Shift is blocked by Thomas with a special report.
Thomas is considering to use his troublemaker. Maarten is a 6 pool with only 2 untapped vampires. He goes for it: troublemaker passes leaving Maarten locked out. Thomas bleeds for 4, no blocks. Bleed 2 first oust. Thomas has 1 VP.
Thomas brings out 4th vampire and passes the turn.
Hector plays Reckless Agitation. Thomas deals for not blocking. Not blocked, Hector devides 3 to Niek, 3 to Thomas. Vote doesn't pass, because Jozef proposed a peacedeal with his predator Maarten.
Hector bleeds for 6, leaves Niek at 3.
Nieks plays Miniontap, back to 7. He borrows the powerbase. The deal for not ousting Jozef was shortly discussed. Niek has intent on keeping it.
Jozef is on 5 pool. Owula-something banu hakim gets robert carter, unlocks with helicopter and bleeds. Bleed for 3 is blocked.
Thomas untaps with 4 vampires. Get a pulse of C to get +2 bleed permanently. Turn passes.
Hector get a pool from the edge. Powerbase Montreal is taken from Jozef with a small promise to get it back. Alina bleeds for 3 at 1 stealth, blocked.
Niek untaps 4 vampires. Gets a chantry and a leather jacket. Turn.
Jozef plays fame. Owula-something fleetness rush famed empty vampire. Blocked by ashlyn with flamethrower with shared intercept from Nieks WRMH talk radio. Owula plays strike combat ends. Next a Fourth tradition is succesfull. Parity shift however is blocked, but Jozef plays change of target.
Turn passes.
Thomas untaps. Thomas questions Niek about the continuous no aggression against Nieks prey Jozef. Nothing changes.
Sully bleeds for 1. Special report on Aline to block. Alina uses a deer rifle to move to long. Ashlyn bleed for 1 with flamethrower is blocked. Atiene blocks plays dodge +additional and hit ashlyn to 0 blood.
Thomas contests Andi Liu with Jozef in a deal with Niek to end the non aggrassion against Jozef.
Hector starts his turn. Hunts with Aline. Transfers out a 4th vampire and end his turn on just 2 pool.
Niek bleeds for 1, and 4, and 2 and 1 more to oust. Niek is on 12 with a VP.
Thomas unlocks with 5 vampires, but ashlyn with flamethrower is in torpor. Not sure when this happened.
Sully torpor saves ashlyn. Turn.
Hector plays anarch revolt. Niek is locked out from the oust. Atiene bleed with flurry of action. Kalinda bleeds and unlocks to banish chrysanthemum with magnum and sports bike. Aline bleeds for 5. Bleed 2, line brawl steals 1 pool, anarch revolt ousts. Hector is now leading with 1 vp and is highest seated.
Thomas unlocks, plays pentex on 47th street brujah ally. Bleeds for 3 47th street burns to reduce. Bleed 3. Bleed 2. Bleed 1. Powerbase montreal passes.
Discard smiling jake.
Hector:
Kalinda is villeined for 5. Back to 8 pool. Raine recruits arm dealer. Kalinda bleed 1, unlocks, get powerbase. Buys a vampire, to use for powerbase montreal. Ends with 7 pool.
Thomas burns for revolt. Uses 2 hunting grounds. Sully goes anarch.
Andi Liu night moves to bleed for 1 to regain the edge. Bleed 3 at 1 stealth after block attempt. End turn.
Hector plays anarch free press. Raine plays cryptic mission at potence level (awesome card) on sully. Blocked. Alina bleeds for 2 with new cartage. Dummy corp is burned. Transfers down, back on 4.
Thomas uses hunting grounds. 3 minutes left. Plays dummy corp. Malk bleeds for 3 at stealth puts hektor on 1. Thomas bleeds at 1 stealth.
Congratulations thomas.
I hope this is somewhat comprehansible.
Result:
Organizer N/A (3600003)
Venue
@nicks home
Private
leerdam, Utrecht, Netherlands
Rounds
3 + Final
Time Limit 2h
Proxies are NOT allowed
Fee 24
E-Mail
Website none
Pos. Player GW VP TP Final Rating
1
Thomas Kouwenhoven 0 2.0 90 3.0 96
2
Héctor Javier Ordóñez 2 5.0 120 1.0 66
2
Maarten Rijnbeek 0 3.0 114 0.0 38
2
Niek van der Laan 0 2.0 84 1.0 38
2
Jozef Patrnciak 0 1.0 72 0.0 30
6
Jan-Willem Kaagman 0 0.5 54 0.0 7
6
Nick Hofman 0 0.5 54 0.0 7
6
Raúl Ordóñez García 0 0.5 54 0.0 7
9
Eric Godthelp 0 0.0 42 0.0 5
10
Floor Kuylman 0 0.0 36 0.0 5
Final notes:
Thanks Nick Hofman has the hospitality! Thanks all for participating! ANd thanks for the beers! Thanks for the design of the draftcube. It is a nice tight package.
Good night,
Jeroen van Oort
Last sunday we had the first draft tournament in the Netherlands since 2004. The tournament used the braftbox by gamepod so we had to limit the amount of players. It was therefor a invitation only event with just 10 players. And it was a blast! Everybody had a fun day and a great new experience.
As a preperation we discussed finances in the weeks before the event. The options being: 1 We buy the gamepod box a a collective, and reuse it so we can have multiple events. this lowers the cost per event, but you can't keep the cards. 2 we draft and keep all the cards. 3 we draft for the games and at the end of the event we redraft the rares, so that the quality of the draft-for-play doesn't suffer from greed. after no consenses was reached I dictated that we draft all cards and everybody keeps their stuff. If we do this again we probebly buy the box as a collective, so we can have multiple small tournaments.
The event:
We planned an hour and 40 minutes for the drafting itself. This time seems to be sufficient. Another 30 minutes for building a deck and then we had a change to test our frankensteins monsters.
I received a lot of questions as a judge about draft rules as for most players this was a new mechanic. Also a lot of small questions on situations that normally don't occur, because players handle cards they normally dont operate. A few misplays here and there, but nothing mayor.
The Final:
The first hour I played the side event: a game of unstable unicorns. Then I decided that the last hour may be worth checking out. Here are some highlights:
Hektor plays brujah, Niek has Tremere. Jozef was obfuscate politics, Thomas controls malkavian and tremere weenies, Maarten has gangrel. Yes you can draft a proper crypt in this format.
After 1 hour
Hector and Jozef are on 3. Jozef plays conboon to give 3 to Hector and 1 to himself with a promise of parity shift to support Jozef. Boon works but Parity Shift is blocked by Thomas with a special report.
Thomas is considering to use his troublemaker. Maarten is a 6 pool with only 2 untapped vampires. He goes for it: troublemaker passes leaving Maarten locked out. Thomas bleeds for 4, no blocks. Bleed 2 first oust. Thomas has 1 VP.
Thomas brings out 4th vampire and passes the turn.
Hector plays Reckless Agitation. Thomas deals for not blocking. Not blocked, Hector devides 3 to Niek, 3 to Thomas. Vote doesn't pass, because Jozef proposed a peacedeal with his predator Maarten.
Hector bleeds for 6, leaves Niek at 3.
Nieks plays Miniontap, back to 7. He borrows the powerbase. The deal for not ousting Jozef was shortly discussed. Niek has intent on keeping it.
Jozef is on 5 pool. Owula-something banu hakim gets robert carter, unlocks with helicopter and bleeds. Bleed for 3 is blocked.
Thomas untaps with 4 vampires. Get a pulse of C to get +2 bleed permanently. Turn passes.
Hector get a pool from the edge. Powerbase Montreal is taken from Jozef with a small promise to get it back. Alina bleeds for 3 at 1 stealth, blocked.
Niek untaps 4 vampires. Gets a chantry and a leather jacket. Turn.
Jozef plays fame. Owula-something fleetness rush famed empty vampire. Blocked by ashlyn with flamethrower with shared intercept from Nieks WRMH talk radio. Owula plays strike combat ends. Next a Fourth tradition is succesfull. Parity shift however is blocked, but Jozef plays change of target.
Turn passes.
Thomas untaps. Thomas questions Niek about the continuous no aggression against Nieks prey Jozef. Nothing changes.
Sully bleeds for 1. Special report on Aline to block. Alina uses a deer rifle to move to long. Ashlyn bleed for 1 with flamethrower is blocked. Atiene blocks plays dodge +additional and hit ashlyn to 0 blood.
Thomas contests Andi Liu with Jozef in a deal with Niek to end the non aggrassion against Jozef.
Hector starts his turn. Hunts with Aline. Transfers out a 4th vampire and end his turn on just 2 pool.
Niek bleeds for 1, and 4, and 2 and 1 more to oust. Niek is on 12 with a VP.
Thomas unlocks with 5 vampires, but ashlyn with flamethrower is in torpor. Not sure when this happened.
Sully torpor saves ashlyn. Turn.
Hector plays anarch revolt. Niek is locked out from the oust. Atiene bleed with flurry of action. Kalinda bleeds and unlocks to banish chrysanthemum with magnum and sports bike. Aline bleeds for 5. Bleed 2, line brawl steals 1 pool, anarch revolt ousts. Hector is now leading with 1 vp and is highest seated.
Thomas unlocks, plays pentex on 47th street brujah ally. Bleeds for 3 47th street burns to reduce. Bleed 3. Bleed 2. Bleed 1. Powerbase montreal passes.
Discard smiling jake.
Hector:
Kalinda is villeined for 5. Back to 8 pool. Raine recruits arm dealer. Kalinda bleed 1, unlocks, get powerbase. Buys a vampire, to use for powerbase montreal. Ends with 7 pool.
Thomas burns for revolt. Uses 2 hunting grounds. Sully goes anarch.
Andi Liu night moves to bleed for 1 to regain the edge. Bleed 3 at 1 stealth after block attempt. End turn.
Hector plays anarch free press. Raine plays cryptic mission at potence level (awesome card) on sully. Blocked. Alina bleeds for 2 with new cartage. Dummy corp is burned. Transfers down, back on 4.
Thomas uses hunting grounds. 3 minutes left. Plays dummy corp. Malk bleeds for 3 at stealth puts hektor on 1. Thomas bleeds at 1 stealth.
Congratulations thomas.
I hope this is somewhat comprehansible.
Result:
Organizer N/A (3600003)
Venue
@nicks home
Private
leerdam, Utrecht, Netherlands
Rounds
3 + Final
Time Limit 2h
Proxies are NOT allowed
Fee 24
Website none
Pos. Player GW VP TP Final Rating
1
Thomas Kouwenhoven 0 2.0 90 3.0 96
2
Héctor Javier Ordóñez 2 5.0 120 1.0 66
2
Maarten Rijnbeek 0 3.0 114 0.0 38
2
Niek van der Laan 0 2.0 84 1.0 38
2
Jozef Patrnciak 0 1.0 72 0.0 30
6
Jan-Willem Kaagman 0 0.5 54 0.0 7
6
Nick Hofman 0 0.5 54 0.0 7
6
Raúl Ordóñez García 0 0.5 54 0.0 7
9
Eric Godthelp 0 0.0 42 0.0 5
10
Floor Kuylman 0 0.0 36 0.0 5
Final notes:
Thanks Nick Hofman has the hospitality! Thanks all for participating! ANd thanks for the beers! Thanks for the design of the draftcube. It is a nice tight package.
Good night,
Jeroen van Oort
Have a cold long night,
Jeroen van Oort
Dutch National Coördinator
Last edit: 04 Feb 2025 07:28 by Ankha.
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28 Jan 2025 11:44 #113623
by Lönkka
Replied by Lönkka on topic Event report: The Draft of change 26-01-2025
Great report and it sounds like the finals was also great being a hair raiser to the last minute!
It would always be nice to get the winning decklist for the drafts too. To see what kind of garbage has been mashed up to get the deck to the minimum size...
It would always be nice to get the winning decklist for the drafts too. To see what kind of garbage has been mashed up to get the deck to the minimum size...

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