The U.S. National Championship - New Orleans, LA - September 17

Friday Night

– Midnight run –
– 7:30 PM to 1:30 AM
– Open Games & Duffin Draft
– Duffin Draft consists of building a deck out of a single booster pack and starting with 12 pool and unlimited transfers.
– For new players, it is a great way to focus on specific areas of the game.
– For experienced players, it is great way to take a quick break from the standard game while building your collection.

Saturday
- Cardinal Benediction
- US Championship
- 12:00 Noon – 9 PM
- 3 Rounds with 2 hour limit. Untimed Finals
- Standard Contructed. 90 card limit. VKEN Tournament Rules.

Sunday
- Border Skirmish
- Draft
- 10 AM to 5 PM
- Drafting starts promptly at 10AM. Drafting and deck construction should last no longer than 30-45 minutes
- 2 Rounds & Final. 2 hour time limit
- We will be drafting 7 to 10 packs of boosters.

US National Championship This Weekend!
www.thegrandmasquerade.com/events/vtes-schedule

Will you be joining White Wolf's fans at the US National Championship
tournaments for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle?

Saturday September 17th, starting at noon.
Be there!

Friday Night

– Midnight run –
– 7:30 PM to 1:30 AM
– Open Games & Duffin Draft
– Duffin Draft consists of building a deck out of a single booster
pack and starting with 12 pool and unlimited transfers.
– For new players, it is a great way to focus on specific areas of
he game.
– For experienced players, it is great way to take a quick break
from the standard game while building your collection.

Saturday
- Cardinal Benediction
- US Championship
- 12:00 Noon – 9 PM
- 3 Rounds with 2 hour limit. Untimed Finals
- Standard Constructed. 90 card limit. VKEN Tournament Rules.

Sunday
- Border Skirmish
- Draft
- 10 AM to 5 PM
- Drafting starts promptly at 10AM. Drafting and deck construction should last no longer than 30-45 minutes
- 2 Rounds & Final. 2 hour time limit
- We will be drafting 7 to 10 packs of boosters.

How did this go? Who won?

We had a 15 player turnout.

Finals:
Kym Alishanni (Cock Robin + Friends) preying on
Morgan Tomlinson (Tremere S&B) preying on
Jim Foreman (Saulot nastiness) preying on
Devin Villegas (Weenie Laibon vote) preying on
Tony Munoz (Classical Arika Cheese)

Forgot who went first, but by the third turn Morgan was off to the races. IIRC, First turn info hwy, second turn Arcane Library. He had a ton of minions early, and wasted no time tearing into Jim.

I didn't have too much pressure as a result, so I started churning out minions and laying into Tony. However, once Tony got Arika off the ground Kym felt a lot of pressure.

Eventually Jim fell first, overwhelmed by the little dominate bleeders.

Shortly after Jim went down, Kym retaliated on the Arika, with a Pentex Subversion on the Queen of Sleaze and utterly demolishing her cohort with a rush. Tony was completely hamstrung, but Morgan's minions had grown out of control. I think he was up to around 12 at this point. What followed was a race for me to oust Tony (he had a decent chunk of pool) vs Kym dropping enough of Morgan's minions for me to push Arika off the table.

Unfortunately (for me), Dominate wins games and Morgan showed me why. With Kym not having enough actions to drop enough of Morgan's minions, he tore through myself and Tony in quick succession. Kym being top seed(iirc), with no hope of winning the game (Morgan had 3 vps), he gave it up. Tremere S&B sweeps.

Then we went to the CCP party @ the House of Blues (similar to the one from last year) and great times were had by all.

Winning Deck by Morgan Tomlinson

Deck Name : Weenie Wizards
Author : Morgan Tomlinson
Description :



Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 2 max: 7 average: 4

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1x Muaziz, Archon of 7 THA aus dom for Tremere:2
1x Aisling Sturbridge 5 AUS THA dom Tremere:2
1x Hannigan 5 AUS THA dom !Tremere:2
1x Merrill Molitor 5 THA aus dom Tremere:1
1x Sabine Lafitte 5 aus dom pot tha Tremere:1
1x Ignatius 4 aus dom tha Tremere:1
1x Sarah Cobbler 4 THA dom Tremere:1
1x Blythe Candeleria 3 THA aus Tremere:2
1x Dr. John Casey 3 aus tha Tremere:1
1x Jing Wei 3 dom tha Tremere:1
1x Mustafa Rahman 2 dom Tremere:2
1x Roreca Quaid 2 tha Tremere:1


Library [90 cards]

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Action [17]
10x Cryptic Mission
7x Govern the Unaligned

Action Modifier [14]
8x Conditioning
6x Mirror Walk

Ally [5]
1x Arcane Appraiser
1x Carlton Van Wyk (Hunter)
2x Procurer
1x Thadius Zho, Mage

Combat [18]
8x Apportation
10x Theft of Vitae

Master [15]
1x Academic Hunting Ground
1x Chantry
2x Dominate
3x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Information Highway
1x Pentex(TM) Subversion
1x Sudden Reversal
1x Tremere Convocation
3x Villein
1x Wasserschloss Anif, Austria

Reaction [21]
7x Deflection
2x Eagle's Sight
1x Enhanced Senses
1x Melange
6x On the Qui Vive
2x Precognition
2x Spirit's Touch


Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. [Sat Sep 24 09:27:27 2011]

XZealot wrote:

Ally [5]
1x Arcane Appraiser

It seems unlikely that this card was in the deck. Was it perhaps Arcane Library instead?