Atlanta Continental Championship Qualifier
The above are sixteen of the competitors and the judge who took place in the Continental Championship qualifying tournament in Atlanta on April 8th, 2001. Thomas left after the first round, Fred sat out the picture, and I took the picture myself.
Top Row (l-r) Charles Loflin, David Tatu, Niki Stewart, Norman Brown, Mike Perlman,
David Cherryholmes, David Anderson-Dávila, Steve Wieck.
Bottom Rows (l-r) Chris Boget, Joe Churchill, L. Scott Johnson, Patrick O'Shea, Conor Key (in hat),
Todd Bannister (Judged), Derek Ray, Chad (?), Robyn Merrill.
As you can see, there was quite a bit of obfuscate in this finals as well.
The above 5 are the finalists, from left to right:
Charles, Niki, David, Norm, Patrick.
The women above are the visitors from farthest away,
Robyn Merrill and Niki Stewart of the famed Los Angeles playgroup.
The results of the second Continental Qualifying Championship are in, and
the Nosferatu have walked away with their first victory.
The place, The War Room, Atlanta, Georgia.
The day, April 7th, 2001.
The host, Todd Bannister, VEKN Prince of Atlanta.
The competitors, nineteen.
The predominant deck type, none that I could identify.
The winning deck type, stealth-vote-bloat-bleed.
David Anderson-Dávila (creator of the Elder Library Deck Builder) won the
tournament with 2 victory points in the finals over Patrick O'Shea (also
with 2) and Niki Stewart (with 1). The event was decided on previous
rounds victory points because of the tie in the finals.
David's tournament winning deck (based on Robyn Merrill's design):
Continental Championship Atlanta Qualifier
Winning deck by David Anderson-Dávila April 2001
Deck Name: Bloat and Vote and Bleed 01
Created by: David Anderson-Dávila
Description: OBF, Minion Tap/5th, Computer Hack.
Thrown Gate for combat defense.
Ancilla Empowerment to whack the weenie decks.
Crypt: (12 cards) [Min: 11, Max: 35, Avg: 6.17]
1 Agrippina (OBF pot, Nosferatu, 4)
2 Carlotta Giovanni (dom NEC obf POT, Giovanni, 7)
1 Dimple (obf, Nosferatu, 2)
1 Duck (obf pot, Nosferatu, 3)
1 Murat (OBF POT ser, Nosferatu, 7, Prince)
1 Nikolaus Vermeulen (ani for obf POT, Nosferatu, 7, Prince)
1 Normal (obf, Malkavian, 2)
1 Selma the Repugnant (ani for OBF POT, Nosferatu, 8, Prince)
2 Sheldon (ANI AUS for OBF POT, Nosferatu, 9, Justicar)
1 Suhailah (FOR OBF pot ser, Ventrue, 9, Prince)
Library: (80 cards)
Master (16 cards)
1 Barrens, The
2 Information Highway
10 Minion Tap
2 Parthenon, The
1 Storage Annex
Action (24 cards)
10 Computer Hacking
8 Fifth Tradition: Hospitality, The
2 Psychic Veil
1 Rampage
3 Third Tradition: Progeny, The
ActionMod (19 cards)
5 Cloak the Gathering
5 Faceless Night
4 Forgotten Labyrinth
5 Lost in Crowds
Political (9 cards)
1 Ancilla Empowerment
7 Kine Resources Contested
1 Rumors of Gehenna
Combat (7 cards)
7 Thrown Gate
Combo (5 cards)
5 Swallowed by the Night
I took two and a half victory points this tournament, to take the tenth spot.
I was one of three people playing Rush decks that I saw. David Cherryholmes
seemed to be doing the standard Brujah Antitribu type rush, Norm Brown played
a Brujah Princes Bloodhunt Guns rush, and I played my Black Metamorphosis Short
Range rush deck. Other items of particular interest, at none of the three tables
at which I sat was there any voting. The voting deck that I played in Seattle
would have done fabulously in the first two rounds, but probably been destroyed
in the third round by Norm's Bloodhunts. In the round that Norm and I played
together, only the rush decks got victory points. All other players had all of
their minions in torpor and were bled for 1-2 at a time until they were out of
the game.
There were still quite a few stealth bleed decks, but there were also very
many other decks that did very different things. Three of the decks in the
finals were stealth bleed, the others were Norm's rush deck and Patrick's Crypt
Machine (which did have stealth/don't block cards, just not obfuscate ones).
Derek Ray played an intercept deck, that helped our first round time out with
only one person being ousted (his predator, my grandprey, Conor's prey).
Joe Churchill played a Ventrue Antitribu deck that bled for 8 unblockably
quite a few times before it was ousted each round. L. Scott Johnson played
some sort of Succubus Club / Anneke / Intercept deck. Conor Key played a
Gangrel Minion Tap/Fifth Tradition Garou deck. Mike Perlman played some sort
of weenie deck. Steve Wieck reportedly played some sort of voting deck.
The following nine people qualified to play at the North American Continental
Championship by performing well at this event:
Niki Stewart
David Davila
Norm Brown
Charles Loflin
Derek Ray
Patrick O'Shea
Mike Perlman
Christoph Boget
Robyn Merrill
If you were there, and would like to add something to this report, email me.