Since I haven't seen anything from the organizers, and have only see Steve's comments, I will add my own comments and post David M. Dávila's winning deck. Friday morning 6:00 a.m. I start driving from Austin, TX towards Atlanta. Friday afternoon 3:00 p.m. I leave Lafayette, LA with Norm Brown (X-Zealot). Friday afternoon 7:00 p.m. We leave Mandeville, LA with Chris Boget (Sorrow). Saturady morning 3:00 a.m. We arrive at David Tatu's house in downtown Atlanta, (thanks David for the 5th Tradition). Saturday morning around 11:30 a.m. 21 players arrive for the tournament at the War Room. (Every town should have a War Room, it is in a building that used to be a drug store and has a huge area for card gaming and miniatures gaming.) We played with 4 tables of 4 players and 1 table of 5 players. There was a preponderance of weenie based decks compared to what I have seen in the Texas tournaments and the Praxis Seizure Los Angeles events I went to in February, almost no vote decks, and very little in the way of dedicated intercept (that I saw). 3/4 tables each round were won by sweeps, with Steve Wieck sweeping his first table with a weenie obfuscate deck that took him into the finals where I believe he ended up with second place. I played my Lasombra Commons deck that had won the last Praxis Seizure LA event back in February, and I was crushed in the first game by a swarm of 1-2 point vampires who would Computer Hack, and if blocked they would Fake Out and Dodge, so my Arms of the Abyss were pretty much useless. My prey Mike Perlman ended up winning 3 victory points to take that table after calling an Anarchist Uprising(?) that ousted my predator, took his prey down to 1 or 2, and took me down to one. Justin Lacey took the other 2 victory points that round because of a 19 pool swing that round. Mike had played a Hostile Takeover on one of Zoe who had a Pulse of the Canaille, and my predator took her for 7 pool, which subsequently caused his ousting when Mike played the vote. Justin was then able to stealth past me for the one pool needed to oust me. Rob Grau tried to Life Boon me to keep me in the game, but I played my Sudden Reversal just on general principle as Life Boon was the only reason I had put the Sudden Reversal in the deck anyway. The second round, I was the prey of David M. Dávila's winning obfuscate deck and went down pretty quickly. He got two victory points for ousting me and my original prey, but was ousted by another Anarchist Uprising type of vote (burn one for each minion in play), which Conor Key had cycled furiously to get to. Conor got the other two victory points that round. The third round, Justin Lacey was my prey, and both he and my predator were playing enough intercept to keep me from playing my Govern the Unaligneds for pool gain, so I had to use them to bleed. Justin ended up Telepathic Counter-ing most of my bleeds so that he only took one or two. My predator was playing a Brujah Immortal Grapple deck with Mr. Winthrop, Sport Bikes, and all of the intercept locations in play before the end of the round. Three of my four vampires that I did manage to influence ended up in torpor because I couldn't do anything about the Immortal Grapples, my combat being based on Arms of the Abyss to dodge or dodge with additional strike. There were three stealth bleed decks in the finals, one Steve Wieck's borrowed deck, one David M. Dávila's winning deck, and another one based on Nosferatu / Nosferatu Antitribu. I didn't watch closely enough to say what the other two were, as I played in every pick up game that I could once my part of the tournament was over. Unfortunately, while I did get to meet L. Scott Johnson, Joe Churchill, Steve Wieck, and Todd Banister, I didn't get to play against any of them. I will be back in Atlanta for DragonCon though and hope to bleed them then. Special thanks and praise go to Todd Banister, Scribe of the Assamites, VEKN Prince of Atlanta for hosting/judging the tournament. After David's eventual victory, 13 of us ended up at Taylor's, a bar and grill type of restaurant just around the corner from the War Room where we did indeed have beer and wings as Joe Churchill mentioned in another thread. The three travelers and Mike Perlman went back to David Tatu's place and played two or three pick up games until about midnight. Sunday morning 7:00 a.m. We start the long trip back west. Dropped Chris off around 3, Norm off around 5, and got home right before midnight. All in all, a very well spent weekend. If you organize a tournament yourself in the future, don't forget to post information on this newsgroup about it in advance, and at the VTES Yahoo Club, so that traveling vagabonds like myself can come and be bled by your best players! http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/vtes If you also post the results and winning deck from your tournament, it will be archived with the other great tournament winning decks of the past few years at: http://www.TheLasombra.com/decks/twd.htm And now the contents of David's winning deck: David M. Dávila's Winning Deck for Hostile Takeover: Atlanta May 2000 Deck name: Night Moves, Spying Missions and Little Old Threats Created by: David M. Dávila Description: This deck is Dominate based, using Night Moves to plant Spying Missions and then following up with stealthed Dominate bleeds. Dominate is good for bleed bounce as well. Crypt: (12 cards) [Min: 8, Max: 16, Avg: 3.17] 1 Agrippina (Nosferatu, 4, OB po) 1 Basil (Pander, 1, ob) 1 Dimple (Nosferatu, 2, ob) 1 Duck (Nosferatu, 3, ob po) 1 Gloria Giovanni (Giovanni, 4, DO ne) 1 Ingrid Russo (Ventrue Antitribu, 4, DO fo) 1 Laurent de Valois (Nosferatu, 4, an do ob) 1 Normal (Malkavian, 2, ob) 1 Panagos Levidis (Gangrel, 3, an ob) 1 Regilio, The Seeker of Akhenaten (Nosferatu, 3, au ob) 1 Roland Bishop (Malkavian, 4, au do ob) 1 Tansu Bekir (Assamite, 4, ce OB) Library: (90 cards) Master (19) 1 Archon Investigation 2 Direct Intervention 2 Dominate 1 Elysium: The Arboretum 5 Obfuscate 1 Parthenon, The 2 Secret Library of Alexandria, The 1 Sudden Reversal 4 Tribute to the Master Minion (71) 8 Cloak the Gathering 4 Computer Hacking 3 Conditioning 6 Deflection 1 J. S. Simmons, Esq. 2 Kindred Intelligence 2 Laptop Computer 1 Leather Jacket 3 Lost in Crowds 4 Marked Path 15 Night Moves 9 Spying Mission 3 Swallowed by the Night 1 Tasha Morgan 5 Threats 4 Wake with Evening's Freshness