Westgota Nidbryggeri - Bonnatwist Bitter, Part 2 - Bottling

Yesterday the yeast had done its work and it was time to start bottling. The brew smelled nice of Amarillo hops when we opened the bucket. First we used a hydrometer to see how much sugar that had turned into alcohol and if our calculations are right Bonnatwist Bitter will have an ABV of 4.1%. We mixed a small amount of the brew with brewing sugar for it to carbonate while on bottle. We then pumped the rest of the brew into the mix in a second bucket. Then we started pumping the brew on bottles sterilised primary in an ordinary oven. We filled 54½ bottle, most of them being 33cl and some 50cl. The bottle cap-tool worked out fine and everything is now stored and should be perfectly enjoyable in about two months. We will gather and open a bottle or two already in about ten days to see what it tastes like. In that amount of time it should be fully carbonated and drinkable. These are exciting beer times!

Beer 100420-100424

Fuller's India Pale Ale

England
ABV: 5.3%
Rating: 1
This is the first beer in a long while that I didn't finish because it simply tasted too bad. Old damp water would have tasted better.












Staropramen
Czech Republic
ABV: 5%
Rating: 3
A good pilsner with more hop bitterness than your average lager.













Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter
USA
ABV: 7.8%
Rating: 4
Pretty strong juniper scent. Pleasant roasted after-taste with heavy notes of coffee. There is a hint of licorice in the foreground. The after-taste grows smokier and my imagination creates a note of bacon. Very good with a sharp sourness not always seen in porters.










Mikkeller The American Dream
Denmark
ABV: 4.6%
Rating: 3
Very bitter and leaves a rough feeling in the mouth. Fruity but those notes drowns in the bitter hops. Very interesting but I would have liked the hops a little more subtle.












Mikkeller Single Hop East Kent Golding IPA
Denmark
ABV: 6.9%
Rating: 2
Bitter in a mild way. A little flowery in its taste but unfortunately it leans more towards perfume than freshness. Hard to drink.

Belgian Dubbel

Alvinne Hop Trilogy Simcoe

Belgium
ABV: 7.1%
Rating: 4
Bitter. Fruity but not sweet. Earthy notes. My memory tells me this is not really as great as the other two in the trilogy but still fully deserves its rating.












Duvel
Belgium
ABV: 8.5%
Rating: 2
Very distinct alcohol taste. A little too carbonated. Fruity without any interesting notes.

Westgota Nidbryggeri - Bonnatwist Bitter, Part 1 - Brewing

So after only drinking for a while its time to enter the world of beermaking. The idea started on our Belgian beer trip and the same bunch who travelled then today gathered for our first experiment.

Left: Lars, pot stirrer.

Right: Me, document-ation.

Left: Erik, brewing host

Right: Jonas, brain

First time we decided to make it simple. We use a Black Rock Bitter homebrew kit, exchanging the yeast, adding spray malt instead of sugar and hopping it up for taste and aroma.

Left: Beer Kit
Right: Spray malt

Right: Granulate and Amarillo hops
Below: Yeast

We cooked about 10 litres of water together with 30g of Amarillo hops and 2x500g spray malt for 15 minutes. We then added the beer kit and 30g more hops for another 5 minutes of cooking.
The time-consuming part was to cool the brew down. We quickly added more than 10 litres of cold water to reach a total of 23 litres. That way we avoided the critical temperatures but the cooling from 38 degrees to room temperature took a long time even though the barrel was surrounded with cool water.
Now it is time to let it ferment for two weeks before bottling and then another two months before it is ready to be consumed. I have a feeling Bonnatwist Bitter will be interesting but probably a little too bitter and we have to keep in mind that this is our first attemt.

Tournament losing deck archive - Spell of Life

This is the deck from my second tournament. Lords of the Night were the latest set and I experimented mostly with decks from the four independent clans at the beginning of my career. What you are about to see is a really hopeless Spell of Life-deck and maybe it is even worse than the Ravnos Toolbox I played at my first tournament.

Deck Name : Spell of Life
Author : Stefan Karlsson

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 10 average: 7
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1x Nakhthorheb 10 OBF PRE SER Follower :4
1x Neferu 9 OBF PRE SER THA dom nec 2 votes Follower :4
1x Porphyrion 9 CHI OBF PRE SER for Follower :5
1x Arnulf Jormungandr 8 OBF PRE SER aus cel Follower :5
1x Cagliostro, The Gr 8 OBF PRE SER nec pot Follower :4
1x Sundervere, The De 8 AUS PRE SER THA obf Follower :4
1x Ogwon 7 OBF PRE SER for Follower :5
1x Seren Sukardi 7 OBF SER THA pre Follower :4
1x Ankh-sen-Sutekh 6 PRE SER obf Follower :4
1x Renenet 5 OBF PRE ser Follower :4
1x Marla Kenyon 4 PRE ser Follower :4
1x Reverend Djoser Jo 3 pre ser Follower :4

Library [90 cards]
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Action [30]
2x Form of Corruption
5x Legal Manipulations
3x Mesu Bedshet
5x Social Charm
12x Spell of Life
3x Temptation

Action Modifier [16]
2x Cloak the Gathering
2x Faceless Night
2x Forgotten Labyrinth
6x Lost in Crowds
4x True Love's Face

Action Modifier/Combat [3]
3x Swallowed by the Night

Combat [15]
5x Majesty
5x Staredown
5x Unholy Penance

Master [15]
2x Blood Doll
1x Crocodile Temple, The
2x Dummy Corporation
2x Effective Management
1x Minion Tap
2x Obfuscate
2x Opium Den
1x Temple Hunting Ground
2x Vessel

Reaction [11]
2x Dread Gaze
5x Ecstasy
2x On the Qui Vive
2x Wake with Evening's Freshness

This time I at least managed to get one victory point and that was in the only game where I managed to pull the actual spell off. According to Sten Düring who won that table I would actually have taken a game win if I hadn't kept any minions untapped and instead bled forward with full motion. He was probably right but I was too newborn to make decent calculations back then.
I remember being owned by Seeds of Corruption and bleeds being bounced all way round at a table where I was playing the only deck without Dominate. The third game I don't remember at all othre that that I actually played a Dread Gaze to everyone's surprise and joy. I also remember that people were actually scared of my deck and the Spell of Life and few had seen a deck with it before. That of course I didn't use to my advantage, it instead made me an early table threat. I am bad at manipulating tables now but I was a disaster then. Hopefully I will keep learning.

Beer #100

I was very selective while choosing which beer to be #100 on this blog and fortunately I had one of my old favourites at home.

La Trappe Quadrupel
Netherlands
ABV: 10%
Rating: 4
Estry, fruity and fresh scent. Dark and powerful taste. Sweet licorice. Very well-balanced and thick. It reminds quite much of Abbaye Des Rocs Brune and I have to say that that is a little bit better than this. Not as great as I remembered it but still a fantastic beer.

Last easter beer of the year (and its still silly)

Dugges Påsköl
Sweden
ABV: 6%
Rating: 3
Nice bitterness and interesting porter notes where coffee is the most distinct. A little to strong alcohol-taste.













Sigtuna Easter Ale
Sweden
ABV: 5.6%
Rating: 2
Smells great of fruit and hops. Unfortunately it tastes like a bitter lager. At the end it gets sweeter and nicer but it is still boring.

Swedish ECQ 2010 - Tournament report

If you have read this you know what deck I played and what my goal was. As some of you already know the tournament didn't go that well for me. Here is what happened:

Round 1
Alex Gyhlesten (Euralye & friends) -> Robert Doktorow (Weenie Presence) -> Me -> Ola ? (Blood Brothers Kiev Circle bloat and bleed)
This game I never really had a chance. I was bled heavily, Pentexed and Mind Numbed to death. Alex had a terrible crypt draw (his first 6 vampires were 4xEuralye and 2xKieth Moody) and he didn't get Heidelberg Castle. Ola put some pressure on him as well. Robert had his back free and got an easy table sweep.
Robert Gw 4Vp



Round 2
Daniel ? (Tzimisce toolbox) -> Isak Bjärmark Esbjörnsson (Girls will find..) -> Tomas ? (Giovanni powerbleed) -> Me -> Jonas ? (Some kind of Brujah Celerity combat)
Also a quick game for me but this time some of my destiny was in my own hands. Tomas was early scared of Isak and he tried to deal with me deflecting bleeds to him. This was a really difficult moment for me because I had no Deflections in my hand. Of course I couldn't out that but on the same time pretending to be willing to accept the deal in a near future could be my only rescue of being bled out by his four vampires. I told him I would like to see how the game turned out for a while before making my decision and I got an easy round. I tried desperately to cycle cards because a single deflection would probably have given me my first vp as Jonas didn't do anything and started to go low on pool. However I saw no Deflection and in the following round I was bled out. Tomas then drew very few bleed cards and he couldn't oust Jonas before Isak ousted him and then Isak had an easy drive home.
Isak Gw 4Vp
Tomas 1Vp

Round 3
Me -> Ralf Lammert (Legacy of Pander) -> Magnus ? (!Salubri wall) -> Randal Rudstam (Ani/Pro tap&bleed&block) Mikael Grane (War Ghouls)
Ralf got a good start being the only voter on the table. Magnus was low on pool and it was a critical moment where I decided to go all out against Ralf. He played three Telepathic Misdirecions in that round and Magnus was defenately withing ousting range. I played a Delaying Tactics on Ralf's Kine Resources Contested the following turn but he then outed his first Conservative Agitation and the first Victory Point was his. The War Ghouls kept rushing me but my famed Arcadian only went to torpor once because I drew all Fae Contortions at the right moments and he didn't play any manoeuvres. I actually killed two War Ghouls with Earth Swords and Target Vitals to my predator's great surprise and annoyance. Randal played very good and he blocked almost everything Ralf did. Mikael did his best rushing and bleeding my but I survived his rushes and deflected his bleeds to Ralf and when my library got near to the end I managed to oust Ralf. Randal then got Codex of the Edenic Groundskeepers (a card he borrowed from me before the tournament) and with Heidelberg Castle he could easily bleed out both Mikael and me. I made a mistake not destroying the codex with the Anarch Troublemaker while I could but I doubt that it should have had any impact on the results.
Randal Gw 3Vp
Me 1Vp
Ralf 1Vp

Even with a pretty quick and powerful deck that I played I didn't manage to succeed with my goals. There is nothing really wrong about my deck although I'm going to change some minor things in it. The two Taste of Vitae is going to be another Deflection and another Conditioning. I never used the tastes in the tournament and there is room for more bounce and bleed. The real problem is that this deck is not quick enough when facing many other destructive and quicker decks. It also has problems facing wall decks and if it contained more stealth I would maybe have had a chance of a game win in the last game. Perhaps there is room for a Shadow Play or two in the deck. Since I also was almost out of cards in the last game it maybe should go up to around 80. I will modify the deck slightly and keep it and try again.
I feel I learned some during the tournament and hopefully I will be able to bring that knowledge with me and become a better player. In the first round I couldn't do anything but not many first preys of a good weenie presence deck can. In the second round I should probably have been able to talk the table into letting me survive long enough to oust my prey. The third game's mistake together with my library being ousted made it an impossible task at the end.
Even if I was ousted very early in the two first games I had a fun tournament and hopefully I will return stronger next time.

Beer update

Sigtuna Vårweizen

Sweden
ABV: 5%
Rating: 3
Very little wheat taste because the American hops takes over. A little too sweet but odd and still nice.













Mikkeller Jackie Brown
Denmark
ABV: 6%
Rating: 3
Like a rough dark lager with some porter notes of coffee, chocolate and tobacco. Sweetness grows as it gets warmer.













Victory Storm King Imperial Stout
USA
ABV: 9.1%
Rating: 3
Very nice porter smell. A bit acidic and pretty much coffee taste. Licorice and bread notes appears when it grows warmer. It is a little hard to drink mostly due to its sourness but it is still interesting. Soft apple notes are somewhere in the background.











Mikkeller Single Hop Nelson Sauvin IPA
Denmark
ABV: 6.9%
Rating: 4
Very fresh taste. Bitter and sweet. An odd flowery taste from the Nelson hops is really interesting. Notes of passion fruit. A very well balanced IPA.












Ölfabrikken Porter
Denmark
ABV: 7.5%
Rating: 3
A lot of coffee, a bit of licorice and notes of citrus. As it grows there is a taste of high cacao chocolate. Very interesting porter but unfortunately it is a little too sour. It gets a little smoother as it grows warmer.

The Expectation Analysis Experiment - Part 3 - Swedish ECQ 2010

This time the expectation analysis will be a little different. Since the ECQ will be a quite big tournament, at least big for me I have set my goal to that of qualifying instead of winning. Last year I played a !Salubri breed/suicide burn-deck for a total of 1.5vp and an epic failure. The year before that I managed to get 1gw 5vp and that was 0.5vp short of qualifying. Never mind, qualifying is extra interesting this year since there is actually a slight possibility that I will be able to attend the European Championship.
The Swedish ECQ is a quite odd tournament in that you will be facing top decks and top players mixed with odd decks and players that play the game just once a year. In other words you have to be prepared for everything.
So my goal is to get at least 1gw 6vp and I figure a bleed deck that doesn't die just because it sits next to a combat deck will do the trick. Kiasyd seems like the right choice with both great combat avoidance and the ability do deal some casual damage. This deck is not really the most creative I have created and you may even call it boring but I like to play it and even if the stealth/bleed/bruise-archetype have been around for a while I can still surprise some with the tricks up my sleeve.

Deck Name : Stormöte i Pysslingklubben
Author : Stefan Karlsson

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 5 max: 8 average: 6.83333
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2x Arcadian, The 8 DOM MYT OBT chi for Kiasyd:5
2x Pherydima 8 DOM MYT NEC obt pot bishop Kiasyd:4
2x Omme Enberbenight 7 MYT OBT cel dom priscus Kiasyd:4
2x Roderick Phillips 7 DOM MYT cel obt tha Kiasyd:4
2x Isanwayen 6 DOM MYT OBT Kiasyd:4
2x Dame Hollerton 5 DOM OBT myt Kiasyd:4


Library [75 cards]
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Action [13]
9x Govern the Unaligned
4x Gremlins

Action Modifier [16]
2x Bonding
5x Conditioning
2x Seduction
2x Shroud of Absence
5x Stone Travel

Action Modifier/Combat [7]
7x Fae Contortion

Combat [11]
5x Earth Swords
4x Target Vitals
2x Taste of Vitae

Master [13]
1x Anarch Troublemaker
1x Coven, The
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
1x Great Symposium
2x Grooming the Protege
1x Misdirection
2x Pentex(TM) Subversion
2x Vessel

Reaction [12]
6x Deflection
2x Delaying Tactics
2x On the Qui Vive
1x Redirection
1x Wake with Evening's Freshness

Reaction/Action Modifier [3]
3x Aura Absorption

I have tried to make it as tight as possible with no unnecessary or just-for-fun cards. I think the list speaks for itself but the idea is to get some minions in play and then bleed. Some occational damage dealing and maybe a block or two during the way to victory.
A deck like this should be able to take one game win out of three if I play it correctly and don't repeat last years cold and fever. I will probably not be able to make a table sweep so I have to grab some victory points in the other games as well. Play-testing has shown that this deck can do that even if it is bled heavily or beaten down early in the game so I should be able to reach my goal.
Let's have a look at the different parts of the deck:

Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 5 max: 8 average: 6.83333
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2x Arcadian, The 8 DOM MYT OBT chi for Kiasyd:5
2x Pherydima 8 DOM MYT NEC obt pot bishop Kiasyd:4
2x Omme Enberbenight 7 MYT OBT cel dom priscus Kiasyd:4
2x Roderick Phillips 7 DOM MYT cel obt tha Kiasyd:4
2x Isanwayen 6 DOM MYT OBT Kiasyd:4
2x Dame Hollerton 5 DOM OBT myt Kiasyd:4

This is the part where I have not optimized the deck and that is actually a choice I've made. I suspect there will be some contesting risk for Kiasyd group 4 at the tournament and Pherydima will be everyone's star. Therefore I have skipped Quincy the Trapper in favour of brand new Arcadian where the extra copies of Pherydima should have been. He is a good vampire on his own and I don't feel I desperately need Pherydima's special ability to be successful.

Action [13]
9x Govern the Unaligned
4x Gremlins

Maybe one or two Gremlins should be extra copies of GtU but the card is really nice and who knows when you need destroying Talbot's Chainsaw?

Action Modifier [16]
2x Bonding
5x Conditioning
2x Seduction
2x Shroud of Absence
5x Stone Travel

Action Modifier/Combat [7]
7x Fae Contortion

Reaction/Action Modifier [3]
3x Aura Absorption

I instinctively feel 5 Conditioning is too few but I know from experience that they become early game discards if they are too many. Also, with only five I have to think before I use them and that is good and maybe even responsible. The rest is cheap, effective multi-purpose stealth that really makes the Kiasyd shine as a stealth/bleed deck.

Combat [11]
5x Earth Swords
4x Target Vitals
2x Taste of Vitae

I think this is enough to do the damage I need to do at the right moments. Hopefully I will even be able to frighten some with an early heavy hit.

Master [13]
1x Anarch Troublemaker
1x Coven, The
2x Dreams of the Sphinx
1x Giant's Blood
1x Great Symposium
2x Grooming the Protege
1x Misdirection
2x Pentex(TM) Subversion
2x Vessel

Great Symposium is a wonderful card but I don't want to include any extra copies. It works very well late game and is no necessary early draw. The rest of the master module is pretty standard and Dreams of the Sphinx is really really helpful in this deck.

Reaction [12]
6x Deflection
2x Delaying Tactics
2x On the Qui Vive
1x Redirection
1x Wake with Evening's Freshness

I hope 7 bounce cards is enough. The same goes for the 3 wakes. Earlier versions of the deck had more of them but I just ended up discarding.

I really hope and believe I will be able to reach my goal this time. This is a good deck and I hope I am good enough player to handle it right. Don't wish me any luck because when you are reading this the tournament has already happened.

GothCon 2010 Annual Draft - Tournament report

30 players showed up for this event and we drafted 4 boosters of Third Edition and 4 boosters of Keepers of Tradition in 3 pods of 10 players each. The 8 booster draft was actually my work annoying the organizers about having a draft without recursion making it harder to build a good deck. I had decided to build a Malkavian before we started and stuck to that plan even if it probably wasn't the best. I could have drafted an Excellent Lasombra deck from the cards I saw during the drafting of the four first boosters. Here is all the cards I drafted:

Crypt [25 vampires] Capacity min: 3 max: 10 average: 6.56
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2x Ankou, The 10 AUS DEM OBF Malkavian:5
2x Lord Fianna 8 AUS DEM OBF cel pro Malkavian:5
1x Melinda Galbraith 10 AUS CEL DOM POT PRE obt cardinal Lasombra:4
1x Mictlantecuhtli 10 ANI FOR POT THA pre pro Gangrel:5
1x Konrad Fleischer 9 ANI AUS DOM FOR tha !Ventrue:4
1x Ariadne 8 ANI FOR PRO chi Gangrel:5
1x Carlak 8 CEL PRE dom pot prince Brujah:5
1x Conrad Adoula 8 DOM OBT POT ani cel Lasombra:4
1x Stavros 7 AUS OBF PRE dem priscus !Malkavian:4
1x Drusilla Euphemia 6 AUS OBF dem vic !Malkavian:4
1x Frere Marc 6 PRO THA aus for !Gangrel:4
1x Humo 6 ANI POT obf obt !Nosferatu:4
1x Joseph DiGiaccomo 6 PRE aus dom for Ventrue:5
1x Ryszard 6 CEL OBF pre pro bishop !Gangrel:4
1x Tears, The Dark Pi 6 AUS DEM PRE cel !Toreador:4
1x Arthur Denholm 5 AUS DEM obf Malkavian:5
1x Frank Litzpar 5 OBF ani for pot !Nosferatu:4
1x Luc 5 OBF dem vic !Malkavian:4
1x Paul Calderone 4 cel pot pre Brujah:5
1x Portia 4 for pre pro Ventrue:5
1x Andre LeRoux 3 aus Toreador:5
1x Kalila 3 aus obf Malkavian:5
1x Lynn Thompson 3 cel pot Brujah:5


Library [63 cards]
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Action [11]
1x Dark Mirror of the Mind
1x Dive into Madness
2x Kindred Spirits
2x Loki's Gift
1x Political Struggle
1x Revelations
2x Sleep of Reason
1x Total Insanity

Action Modifier [8]
1x Elder Impersonation
1x Faceless Night
1x Mask of a Thousand Faces
1x Perfect Paragon
1x Private Audience
1x Serenading the Kami
1x Telepathic Vote Counting
1x Veil the Legions

Ally [3]
1x Courier
1x Escaped Mental Patient
1x Young Bloods

Combat [12]
1x Acrobatics
1x Blur
1x Chiropteran Marauder
2x Kraken's Kiss
1x Meld with the Land
1x Reality Mirror
1x Rego Motus
1x Resilience
1x Sacrament of Carnage
2x Torrent

Equipment [2]
1x IR Goggles
1x Monocle of Clarity

Event [1]
1x Unmasking, The

Master [12]
1x Anarch Revolt
1x Asylum Hunting Ground
1x Frontal Assault
2x Gangrel Conspiracy
2x Major Boon
2x Rack, The
3x Zillah's Valley

Political Action [5]
1x Dogs of War
1x Political Stranglehold
1x Templar
1x Toreador Justicar
1x Ventrue Justicar

Reaction [8]
1x Delaying Tactics
1x Guard Dogs
1x Legwork
1x Shattered Mirror
2x Telepathic Misdirection
1x Voice of Madness
1x Wrong and Crosswise

Retainer [1]
1x Charnas the Imp

And here is the deck I built:

Deck Name : The Ankou eats the world but is never influenced out
Author : Stefan Karlsson

Crypt [8 vampires] Capacity min: 5 max: 10 average: 7.375
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2x Ankou, The 10 AUS DEM OBF Malkavian:5
2x Lord Fianna 8 AUS DEM OBF cel pro Malkavian:5
1x Stavros 7 AUS OBF PRE dem priscus !Malkavian:4
1x Drusilla Euphemia 6 AUS OBF dem vic !Malkavian:4
1x Arthur Denholm 5 AUS DEM obf Malkavian:5
1x Luc 5 OBF dem vic !Malkavian:4


Library [40 cards]
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Action [8]
1x Dark Mirror of the Mind
1x Dive into Madness
2x Kindred Spirits
1x Revelations
2x Sleep of Reason
1x Total Insanity

Action Modifier [5]
1x Elder Impersonation
1x Faceless Night
1x Mask of a Thousand Faces
1x Telepathic Vote Counting
1x Veil the Legions

Ally [2]
1x Escaped Mental Patient
1x Young Bloods

Combat [4]
1x Acrobatics
1x Chiropteran Marauder
1x Meld with the Land
1x Reality Mirror

Equipment [2]
1x IR Goggles
1x Monocle of Clarity

Master [10]
1x Anarch Revolt
1x Asylum Hunting Ground
1x Frontal Assault
2x Major Boon
2x Rack, The
3x Zillah's Valley

Political Action [1]
1x Political Stranglehold

Reaction [8]
1x Delaying Tactics
1x Guard Dogs
1x Legwork
1x Shattered Mirror
2x Telepathic Misdirection
1x Voice of Madness
1x Wrong and Crosswise

When I built the deck I had 9 useful vampires to chose from so it was all good. Too bad only that I only had 32 usable cards in my library. I had to put in 8 junk or corner case cards to reach the limit of 40. As I always do in draft I didn't expect this deck to do anything good at all but I was wrong (and a little lucky) this time.

Round 1
Caroline Hyll (mixed - lots of minions) -> Me -> Isak Bjärmark Esbjörnsson (ventrue/gangrel something) -> Tom ? (Malkavian with Presence) - > Magnus ? (Lasombra something)
I brought out Arthur Denholm and Stavros. My Anarch Revolt did some damage and my deck survived pretty well until midgame where Caroline grew too strong and it was just a matter of time until I should be ousted. Magnus had a hard time with Tom's stealthed bleeds and was the first to go. Isak went low on pool and with two Telepathic Misdirections on hand I saw my chance of ousting him before being ousted by Caroline but instead I had to use one of them for intercept to block a back ousting vote from Isak. Guess what I replaced it with? Yes, Delaying Tactics. Caroline Bled me out, some deal attempts were made but nothing more happened before time limit was exceeded.
Caroline 1.5vp
Tom 1.5vp
Isak 0.5vp

Round 2
Henrik Ericsson (Malkavian featuring Mary Anne Blaire) -> Me -> Joakim ? (Sha-Ennu) -> Torbjörn ? (Lasombra)
This time I got Lord Fianna in play and soon he performed Dive into Madness for a premanent bleed of 2 at 1 stealth. I also got the Anarch Revolt on the table in my first round doing some damage to the whole table. My prey and grandprey played a little too defensive I think, being short on intercept, and I managed to oust them both pretty easily. Henrik bloated like crazy with Mary Anne and it was not until the duel I started blocking him. He had a Muddled Vampire Hunter in play and it was hard trying to keep all my vampires at 4 or more blood all the time. However Fianna and his dived madness was too good not to succeed and I had intercept at hand at just the right times to block Henrik's attempts at removing Dive into Madness.
Me gw 4vp

I got the 8th place and that was more than I hoped for so for once I am happy with my result.