Darkling Trickery V:TES Tournament
Washington, D. C.
March 9, 2002
By Joshua Duffin
V:EKN Prince of Washington, D.C.
This tournament was held Saturday, March 9th,
at high noon (and a beautiful day - seemed sad
at the outset that we were going to be indoors
all day playing cards, although it did rain a
bit later which was some consolation...in
Chantilly, Virginia, near Washington DC. (for
some values of "near.")
Eighteen players attended; we used the multi-judge
system so that I could play as well as judge. Not
that it did me much good. I played Inner Circle
stealth-vote/bleed/Hostile Takeover with Arika,
Leandro, and Harrod, but failed to win a single
game, though I had a good shot at it each round.
Not quite good enough, I guess.
The finalists were (scores may be slightly off as
they're from memory, don't have the Archon in front
of me):
Steve Holmer: 2 game wins, !Malkavian stealth-bleed
Emily Lloyd: 2 game wins, Tremere bleed/Theft
Tom Mickle: 1 game win, !Malkavian stealth-bleed
John M (aka sporemage37): 1 game win, pot/for combat (?)
Kurt Reese: 1 game win, Tzimisce intercept combat
In a hotly-contested game (which I have to admit I
only caught the end of as I was off playing another
game for most of it), Emily got 4 VPs to Tom's 1 and
came out the winner. Xian would be proud...and,
of course, so am I, as Emily only started playing
V:TES about three months ago and has now won two of
her first four tournaments (the other being the
storyline tournament in Baltimore).
Here's her deck:
"Please Pass the Edge" by Emily Lloyd
crypt (12):
1x Blythe Candelaria
2x Jing Wei
2x Ignatius
2x Sarah Cobbler
2x Merill Molitor
2x Thomas Thorne
1x Astrid Thomas
library (90):
4x Blood Doll
2x Thaumaturgy
2x Dominate
2x Sudden Reversal
2x The Barrens
1x Chantry
1x The Rumor Mill, Tabloid Newspaper
1x KRCG News Radio
1x The Rack
1x Academic Hunting Ground
1x Mr. Winthrop
10x Govern the Unaligned
7x Cryptic Mission
2x Rutor's Hand
8x Seduction
7x Bonding
7x Conditioning
9x Theft of Vitae
5x Movement of the Mind
3x Blood Fury
7x Wake with Evening's Freshness
7x Deflection
This deck had never been played before the tournament.
Turned out to be quite solid. :-) Congratulations to
Emily, and thanks to everyone else who came out for the
event. If any of the finalists want to post an account
of that game - heck, if anyone who played in the tourney
wants to post a report - please do.
Josh
v:ekn prince of washington dc
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