VTES tournament over, thanks all
Ok, we had an absolutely huge tournament last night, with a record-breaking 95 players in total. Was a lot of fun (yes, even just to watch) and everything went great. The final round stretched till 3am, so when we got home we pretty much collapsed on the bed. I’ll write up a tournament report some time next week, a lot of stuff I want to report from that game in detail. I’m hoping to get deck lists from the players in the finals and maybe to get some photos from the people who were there with cameras. Will have to ask around.
There are still some unclaimed EC-qualifier t-shirts and a (very) small cash runner-up prize for the guy who came 7th. I’ll post the details on the Con intenal TV, and later here if I don’t find the right people at the Con.
Now having a quick cup of tea before heading back towards Dipoli. […]
Ropecon almost here, woot
Ok, Ropecon is almost upon us again. Thanks to the server crash I had lost all my normal printouts and sheets for running a VTES tournament, so I spent most of last night creating them from scratch. I think I now have everything ready, including an “ugly-but-it-works” player randomizer script written in Ruby. Looks to be another big tournament, we already have 56 preregistrations as of this writing. Nice.
I picked up the prize support stuff from White Wolf from Fantsu yesterday, turned out to be a big and heavy box. Mostly that was because this is (for the first time) an EC qualifier, so we have a pile of t-shirts for the people who qualify (top 25% based on total scores for 3 rounds). There’s also 2 new promo cards, and some boosters for the finalists. Thanks to WW for the support, once again. The EC-qualifier t-shirts look pretty cool, they have the anime-style picture from one of the new(ish) Ahrimanes cards on the back (“Ahrimane Protectorate”) . As an additional bonus, I get one too – regional qualifier game organizers automatically qualify themselves, too. Which is nice, since there is no chance in hell of both running a tournament of this size and playing in it.
At the moment my schedule looks somewhat like this:
- Friday 16 - 16:30 - arrive at the Con, set up camp at the registration table upstairs
- Friday 18(ish)- the tournament begins
- Saturday 02(ish) - tournament is over, lots of bleary eyes and people running on pure caffeine
- Saturday - do Stuff(tm) at the con
- Saturday 19- 23 - my turn at the Info desk
- Sunday 07 - 11 - at the Info desk again, after a luxurious 6-hour sleep
- rest of Sunday - play in Rage tournament (if I have time), do some more Stuff(tm).
See you there. […]
Pale people in black, with cards
Looks to be another big Ropecon VTES tournament, the pre-registration page already has 42 entries. Nice.
Haven’t done much about the tournament yet other than to gather those pre-regs, but tomorrow or Thursday I’ll have to gather up the required pile of Stuff(tm) and print out another ton of Stuff(tm). Work work.
The prize support, EC qualifier t-shirts, and other stuff is still at Fantasiapelit, I’ll have to arrange to pick those up, too, before Friday. Janne has (again) done a great job in providing logistics for the tournament and communicating with White Wolf, thanks are due in that direction. […]
VTES page
Moved the VTES page to a Typo-managed page for now. Ideally I’d want a wiki for that stuff, but one thing at a time. The “public” link of http://www.orava.org/orava/vtes should still be used, that will redirect to the correct place.
The big Ropecon 2006 tournament is in a few weeks, and this year it’s also a qualifier for the European Championships. Whee! Please note that, like last year, I’m closing registration at 17:30 on Friday – either be there on time, or pre-register by emailing me. See the VTES page above for details. […]
