Tournament - Claws of the Dead

Well, due to a quirk of numbers (and having less than 10 players) we decided to turn this from a proper rated tournament into a social tournament.

We had 7 people all up (including myself) so to push the numbers up to 8, we had one player take 'two positions' and then the first ousted player from either table would take over that position.

The final was:

James Bonham (Valerius & Uta Flames of the Netherworld Wall)
Brendan Healy (Guillaume Giovanni Real Estate Powerbleed)
Andrew Chirgwin (!Tremere Ally Wall/Blood Denial Deck)
Paul Azzopardi (Ventrue w/ OBF vote-bleed)
Claudio Gomes (!Tor Cel-Gun's Wall)

I was the first ousted from the final, due to a variety of things including a fairly average library draw (very few allies and no copy of The Unmasking), being in front of the Powerbleeder (and not drawing flicks!!!!) and getting Parity Shifted down to 11 pool by my prey basically because I was the only one who couldn't block the action.

There were a LOT of long negotiations and debates in the game, which contributed to the timeout, but the end result was 2VPs to Brendan Healy and 1VP to Claudio Gomes.


For those interested... the rough outline of the winning deck was a classic Dominate-Necromancy Block Denial and Bleed module built around having a 15-card handsize (or more) due to Guillaume Giovanni's cardtext.

I'll include the results from this in the Spider League results, but because of the 'fake player' I won't be reporting these results to the VEKN.