Here are the results for the Canadian Championship that took place in Montreal last 2-3 June. There was 56 differents players who competed during the week-end. The 2001 Canadien Champion is Simon Patry from Montreal. There was two tournament and an Overall Finale to determine the Canadien Champion ; a Jyhad-Draft and a Constructed. The players with the most vps in the preliminary rounds of the two tournaments combined, made it to the Overall Finale. Interesting fact : Simon did not made it to any of the tournament's finale ; he just kept a constant amount of vps in the 6 preliminary rounds. ( Marc-André Tremblay made it to the 3 finales... what a surprise... : ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st day : JYHAD DRAFT Everything's went right during this tournament. Some old players have renewed with the game and relearn all the cards with errata in the old Jyhad set. The draft was made from 5 boosters : 95 cards. All the players were able to construct a legal deck. During the construction of the decks, Remi Boucher showed me all the Dominate cards he was able to draft. I knew then that he had a good chance to make it to the finale. Interesting fact : I never saw that much of successful Dramatic Upheaval and Kindred Restructure in a tournament. Just in the first round, 3 players from 3 different tables successfully played a Kindred Restructure ! Finaly, Remi Boucher succeeded in winning the finale over many good players ( like Thomas Kuster and Marc-André Tremblay ). Here are the results : FName, LName, Vps Total, Vps Finale, Tps, Rémi Boucher 11,5 1,5 180 W Thomas Kuster 9 0,5 162 Marc-André Tremblay 7 1,5 108 Frederic Genest 6,5 0 126 Ronald Delanger 6 0 138 Charles Lechasseur 5 150 Marc Kinsville 4,5 138 Dom Beaudoin 4 144 Christian Chénard 4 138 J. David Stevers 3,5 150 Francois Petitclerc 3,5 126 Simon Patry 3,5 120 Sean Harvey 3 120 Dany Hallé 3 108 Samuel Haineault 3 108 Pierre-Hugues Dion 3 102 Michaël Tremblay 2,5 138 Marc Perkins 2,5 102 James Joshi 2,5 96 Michel-Etienne Fortin 2 138 Francois N-Labrecque 2 120 Jean-Francois Caron 2 114 Francois Dion 2 108 Nicolas Savard 2 108 Angela Blasi 2 102 Stéphane Vachon 2 96 Jean-Francois Haineault 2 84 Hugues Bertrand 1,5 102 Frederic Haineault 1,5 90 Mark Landry 1,5 84 Jean-Benoit Maksymjuk 1 108 Frédérick Gingras 1 102 Christian Slatchetka 1 84 Mike Hamilton 0,5 96 Jérome Poulin 0,5 90 Peter Muto 0,5 90 Philippe Richer 0,5 84 Sudama Hebert 0,5 84 Tristan Reichert 0,5 66 Judy Kuster 0 78 David Maheux 0 66 Éric Guidon 0 66 Eric Binette 0 60 Dominique Lewerenz 0 60 Rodney Marks 0 42 The winners for the special events : Best costume : Angela Blasi ( Lisette Visquel ) Best combo : Mike Hamilton ( Life Boon + Dramatic Upheaval ) Biggest Bleed : Christian Chénard ( 6 ) Most slimeball Methuselah : Christian Chénard The first to break a chair : Mark Landry ; ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Constructed Tournament ( N-A Qualifier ) The competition was high in that tournament. The players already knew each other from the draft tournament, but they couldn't do any bad move. The eyes were on the table. The places in the Finale were set only at the last minute of the 3rd preliminary round ( with the 0.5 vp of Hugues ). We saw a lot of decks, with most imagination in one another. From the Ravnos-Dominate of Sudama, to the Weather Control deck of Mike Hamilton, or the Embrace deck of Christian Chenard, or the Protect Thine Own deck of Pierre-Hugues ( he burned a lot of vampires during the day, one of them was Jost Werner ) ; all decks were ready for the tournament. The !Ventrue were more present than usual on the tables. We must say that they have great skills for Deflection, Intercept, anti-vote, anti-combat and bleed. The Finale was a strange but interesting one. The deals specialist ( Marcus, aka Marc-Andre Tremblay ) played his game on a bluff. Here's the situation. Christian Chenard had the most chances of winning the finale and all the players knew it ; with his Embrace deck, he's THE dangerous one. Hugues is the predator of Christian and he has the most efficient deck against him ( with votes ). Marcus is the predator of Hugues. Marcus makes his bluff then : he tells Hugues that he can oust him on his next turn ( not true ), he proposes to Hugues to do nothing against him and he will wait for Hugues to oust Christian. In exchange, Hugues must use his votes to protect Marcus against any vote and, when the time has come, Hugues must call a Kindred Restructure and put himself across the table from Marcus ( Marcus has seen the hand of Hugues with a Revelation. ) Hugues, happy for the occasion of ousting his prey so easily, accepted the deal. Both players were convinced of the good deal they'd just made. A couple of rounds later, Christian was ousted : 1 vp Hugues. After that, the Kindred Restructure placed Richard as the prey of Marcus ( Richard had 3 deflection in his hand at the time ). Marcus then risk it all to bleed with all the juice he had in his hand. The 2 first bleed were deflected to Hugues. The only mistake that Hugues made ( IMHO ) was to redeflect one of the bleed to Richard. Marcus draw his fatal Conditionning after hunting with a vampire and then Freak Drive ton cycle his hand : 1 vp Marcus. Some rounds later, the time limit stopped the game. IMO, 20 more minutes and Hugues could oust Francois. But who really knows ? Results : FName, LName, VPS TOTAL, VPS FINALE, Tps Christian Chénard 10 0 168 Marc-André Tremblay 8,5 1,5 156 G Hugues Bertrand 8 1,5 156 Richard Labrecque 8 0 138 Francois Nadeau-Labrecque 7,5 0,5 144 Michel-Etienne Fortin 6 150 Simon Patry 6 132 Francois Dion 5,5 138 Dominique Lewerenz 5,5 132 Dom Beaudoin 5,5 124 Samuel Haineault 5 126 Pierre-Olivier Duval 4,5 138 Stéphane Vachon 4,5 132 Thomas Kuster 4 120 Mike Hamilton 4 120 Marc Perkins 4 112 Yann Arseneau 4 108 Benoît Lefrancois 4 102 Marie-Pierre Delage 4 60 Tim Gervais 3,5 120 Jean-Francois Haineault 3 138 James Joshi 3 126 Jean Ouellet 3 112 Rodney Marks 2,5 120 Tristan Reichert 2 120 Ronald De Langen 2 96 Peter Muto 1,5 114 Sudama Hebert 1,5 114 Michaël Tremblay 1,5 108 Christian Slatchetka 1 102 Frederic Genest 1 90 Pierre-Hugues Dion 0,5 94 David Stevers 0,5 90 Frederic Haineault 0,5 84 Charles Lechasseur 0,5 78 Dany Hallé 0,5 72 Philippe Richer 0 82 Sébastien Morin 0 82 Mark Landry 0 82 Rémi Boucher 0 82 Judy Kuster 0 78 Dominique Bedard 0 76 Nicolas Savard 0 72 Martine Primeau 0 72 Jean-Francois Caron 0 72 Sean Harvey 0 66 Denis Evrard 0 66 Guindon Eric 0 66 Jérome Poulin 0 48 David Maheux 0 42 Winner of the special events : Most Original Combo : Mike Hamilton ( Haven Uncovered, Anathema, 8 X Weather Control ) Trivia Contest : Christian Chénard Loser's Finale : Philippe Richer Most Slimeball Methuselah : James Joshi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overall Finale : Here are the finalists ( in order of entrance in the finale ) (Only the vps won in the preliminary rounds are registered.) Christian Chénard 14 vps Marc-André Tremblay 12,5 vps Thomas Kuster 12,5 vps Dom Beaudoin 9,5 SImon Patry 9,5 (Rémi Boucher couldn't stay.) This finale was short. Very short. Around 50 minutes. The only player who has changed his deck for that finale is Christian. Possibly a mistake since his predator ( SImon Patry ) played a good-old-stealth-bleeder-malkavian. Christian had some Deflection but not enough. Too many combat cards in his hand and no vampires to attack.Thomas was playing a weenie animalism, Dom a !Malkavian Dementation bleed, and Marc-Andre was playing his Ventrue antritribu. Sitting Order : Simon prédator of Christian prédator of Thomas prédator of Dom prédator of Marcus Marcus was out of bleed cards quickly and Simon swept the table very rapidly. Christian had a hand full of combat, Thomas could do nothing else than bleeding his prey. The only one who could have done something about Simon is Dom, with his Dementation. Dom prefered to try to win a vp in killing Marcus. Soon he saw the Malkavian coming for his last pool. Marcus could do nothing and Simon won the game. Congratulations to the first VTES Canadien Champion : Simon Patry. He won a Daguer, a gift certificate, booster packs, etc. See you all in 2002, Rémy Auclair, Prince VEKN de Québec rafid@videotron.ca http://pages.infinit.net/rafid/