Report International Tournament, Amsterdam May 1rst 2010

[Smeagollum]

Well here the promised report of our tournament in Amsterdam. Allthough with a lot of prizesupport there were only 6 participants: Menno Kronenberg, André Kleine, Henk Maul (yes that's his real name), Erwin van Velzen, Erik Steen hart and myself (as tournament organizer and judge).

Menno played a Dwarven fellowship based on possesions and discard combined with a Sauron Discard/innitiative/burden with gollum as shadow.
Henk Maul played two decks: Dwarven possesions combined with a twillight Nazgul as shadow; Elven Archery with Sauron exert/archery.
Erik played: Knights/moria (a bit classic moria)
André did Elven telepathy/classic moria (same shadow as Eric)
Erwin had a variant of Kralik's deck Dsodf: Same shadow, but the fellowship contained only 3 cultures: Dwarven. Gondor and Elven with Boromir as rb and more focussed to Archery.
I played an experimental Rohan fellowship (which didn't worked out as I hoped for) with a Sauron/Nazgul Innitiative/burden with Gollum as shadow.

We just did only 3 rounds. André went 3-0 winning (Erik, Erwin and Menno). Second came Menno 2-1 (with wins on me and Erwin). 3rd was Erik (with a win on me). I was 4th (I had a narrow escape on Henk's Nazgul). Erwin 5th (Henk was outrunned) and Henk became 6th with a win on Eric.

Previous to the start of the tournament I wasn't sure which deck I would play; I had also a Dauntless Hunter/smeagol Felloship with Dunlend site control/archery with me. So I said to Erik to throw the dice oneven would be Rohan/burden and even Dh/Dunland. He throwed a five so I had to play Rohan. My first match was against Henk. Against me he played Dwarven Nazgul. My Fellowship didn't work that well, but with this deck I know that if I survive untill seven then I will corrupt on 8 or 9. Luckely for me I got innitiative with Mordor fighter and Gorgoroth Stormer and had also Ulaire Attea, Wraith on Wings and an Ulaire Attea, Wraith on Wings with  some The Ring is Mine! in hand. So I was able to corrupt Henk on site 6 before he corrupted me. After this match Henk switched decks and had a fun moment against Erwin by using Terrible as the Dawn against Erwin's galadriel (a bit unfair, because Henk knew what Erwin would play and he switched his deck just for this trick; but despite that it is fun to kill Galadriel with that tech).
My second match was against Erik. He played knights, but didn't give any poule (he almost didn't play anything even no 5th companion). I wasn't able to give him threats early in the game with Ulaire cantea and I didn't get any captured by the ring. Together with the fact that I didn't get any companions or Simbelmyne made him able to win. I was Overwhelmed by his Moria on site 5 (in the rematch I won by corrupting him on site 5).
My last match was stupid. I played against Menno's discard deck and totally forgot to use the text of Frodo, Courteous Halfling. So Menno was able to use Orc Inquisitor got innitiative used Gorgoroth Stormer and The Ring is Mine! So I lost because of my own stupidity  .

Other menorable fun moment was short after the tournament. André and I had another game. He played his tournament winning deck against my Dh/Smeagol Deck. I controlled 6 sites on site 8 and would played 4 x Southron Archer on site 9  (While his shadow didn't do anything against my fellowship to win he had to walk to site 9 with alreay 2 Dunlend minions on table) and would control (Freca) another site. He gave up.

Can't tell you much about the other matches, because I didn't experienced them. But I had the idea that all of us had a fun time. And I know for sure that Henk's son will be very happy with his father's prizesupport

[Smeagollum]

can somebody make this topic sticky? Thx 

[Smeagollum]

What I forgot to mention is that if you gonna paticipate in this epic event then it might be a nice idea to make it a real big weekend: On the 30th of April we've got Queensday in the Netherlands and then Amsterdam is then one of the places to be with big parties and a market starting on 29th at midnight till 30th of april midnight. And almost all Dutch are then clothed in Orange, which is also an experience an sich (even for some of the dutch themselves)!

[Witchkingx5]

Nice idea, but what about a location to sleep?
2day-tournament sounds good!

[Gil-Estel]

There are youthhostels in the city of course, but that particular weekend is very busy, so probably not cheap as well. We could look in to it. But with reasonable pricing, would you consider coming?

[Witchkingx5]

Of course, the journey could be a bit expensive from Zürich (Switzerland) to Amsterdam and my parents aren't happy at all, but I am planning to!

[Smeagollum]

hi, well hope you'll come! Here is the cheapest flight I could find:

https://lijnvluchten.cheaptickets.nl/transport/BookXpress_Hitchhiker/flights.cfml?parameter=1ziod8238507ff4de.N.1.&Senioren=0&DEP_DATE=2010-04-30&nr_adults=1&Studenten=0&filter_allowAirlines=*&nr_infants=0&DES_APCODE=AMS&DES_APNAME=Amsterdam&Roundtrip=1&ecobusfir=eco&DEP_APCODE=ZRH&DEP_APNAME=Zurich&nr_children=0&DEP2_APCODE=AMS&DEP2_APNAME=Amsterdam&DES2_APCODE=ZRH&DES2_APNAME=Zurich&RET_DATE=2010-05-02

[legolas3333]

uhh ryanair has the cheapest flights, only 1 euro sometimes, and it flies to most major cities

[Smeagollum]

uhh ryanair has the cheapest flights, only 1 euro sometimes, and it flies to most major cities

Does Ryan air fly from Zurich to Amsterdam? And what does it cost?

Can somebody find out what he can do best?

[Witchkingx5]

I actually don't know, If never been in Amsterdam before.

[Gil-Estel]

You should try to commute. If there are others, and I know there are, try to make them come too and travel together. That saves money and is loads of fun.

[Witchkingx5]

Yeah, that would be nice, but I'm actually the only player here in Zürich, so maybe some of München could take the same flight if the airplane lands in München (but it actually should).

[Smeagollum]

But why don't you take the train to munich and go further by car?

[Smeagollum]

Practical question. If I want it to be a legal European tournament shouldn't I need decipher approval to make it official? If so... then who's the person who's in contact with Decipher so that I can contact him to let him contact decipher and ask their approval and some support (maybe warren have some promo's left.. a certain {Rohan} Aragorn for example)?

[TheJord]

I have already asked about that particular card and was told they dont have it